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Great Rainy Day Reads

Cold weather and rain make one want to relax with a good book. Here are some ideas.

The weather is perfect for a some R&R with a book. Here are some great ideas to get you going. If these don't strike your fancy, visit us at Bay Books for other suggestions.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley
Nearly broke, Colonel de Luce is forced to rent out his beloved but crumbly estate, Buckshaw, to a film company planning to let the cameras roll over the Christmas holidays. Alas, someone strangles the testy star with a length of filmstrip, and, as a blizzard locks everyone in, young Flavia looks for the murderer. The fourth in a high-flying series whose opener, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, won big awards and big attention. The title here comes from Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott.” This series is enjoyable and younger teens can read it also. 

Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire
OUT OF OZ reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest --- placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the Cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland.  Fans of Wicked will enjoy this latest installment. 

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about — until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world. This is considered a sophisticated novel with stunning psychological and emotional depth.

Zero Day by David Baldacci
Busy Baldacci, already on his third hardcover of the year, here launches a new series starring combat veteran John Puller. Now a top-notch investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division, Puller is asked to look into the murder of an army man and his wife, a Pentagon contractor, in their isolated rural home.  Baldacci is a perennial favorite and an easy read 

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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
In a bookend to The Year of Magical Thinking, her account of the aftermath of her husband’s sudden death, Joan Didion confronts the loss of her daughter, reflecting on the joys and pains of parenthood, the fragility of memory and the process of aging.  This book is not for everyone, but Didion fans will enjoy the latest from her.

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