![The Book Thief [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/51vezPCfRaL._SL500_AA266_PIkin2BottomRight-1834_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "The Book Thief [Kindle Edition]")
I was reading an article about this book over at Publishers Weekly, apparently The Book Thief has been stealing some thunder on the Bestseller lists. For four years now this book has been on the list, it has sold 1.5 million copies. Clearly not only Young Adults are reading but Adults, as well. Death...
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![Never Let Me Go [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/513ofCjFXrL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3BottomRight-1534_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "Never Let Me Go [Kindle Edition]")
Kazuo Ishiguro has written The Unconsoled which I mentioned a bit earlier in this blog that I had read. I did enjoy that book rather profusely because it had a very Strange and Unique tone to it and was very well written. But that was before this Blog of course or it would have...
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![At Swim, Two Boys [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/51Zt+asYCZL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3BottomRight-1734_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "At Swim, Two Boys [Kindle Edition]")
It’s all about The Dublin Boys in Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys. With many a reviewer contrasting O’Neill to Joyce or Dickens. High praise indeed! The sheltered son of a pro-British shopkeeper, 16-year-old Jim develops a doting and eventually homosexual relationship with Doyler, a bright boy from an impoverished family, as the two...
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#29 at Amazon’s Hot 100 Bestselling Kindle Accessories. Etymotic Research ER6i Isolator In-Ear Earphones
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![A Patriot's History of the United States [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/41rdms8brqL._SL500_AA266_PIkin2BottomRight-2234_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "A Patriot's History of the United States [Kindle Edition]")
Here now is the #7 Bestselling Textbook on Textbooks Amazon! For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements...
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![Safe Haven [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/51tjMx4jk1L._SL500_AA266_PIkin2BottomRight-1734_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "Safe Haven [Kindle Edition]")
Nicholas Sparks’ newest book Safe Haven is coming to be Kindled at Amazon on September 14th. You’d best buy and read this book before a movie comes out. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a...
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![When You Reach Me [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/51eaY7kRvnL._SL500_AA266_PIkin2BottomRight-1734_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "When You Reach Me [Kindle Edition]")
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead has won this years Newbury Award. Awarded annually by the American Library Association since 1922 “to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.” There is a medal winner and usually from one to five honor books. The Newbery is the oldest and...
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![The High King of Montival A Novel of the Change [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/51pivtN29cL._SL500_AA266_PIkin2BottomRight-1634_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "The High King of Montival A Novel of the Change [Kindle Edition]")
S.M. Stirling’s highly popular ‘Change’ series of books continues with The High King of Montival. Available on September 7th. The High King of Montival: A Novel of the Change
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![TechCrunch [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/517-kTc5PwL._SL500_AA272_PIkin2BottomRight280_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "TechCrunch [Kindle Edition]")
TECHCRUNCH is at #4 on Amazons Top 100 Blog Subscription List TechCrunch is a group-edited blog that is dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new and existing Internet products and companies that are making a commercial and/or cultural impact. Business Week readers and CNet have voted TechCrunch one of the top tech blogs. Amazon...
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![Chasm City [Kindle Edition]](http://clayscottbrown.biz/kindle/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/51UZJD04qoL._SL500_AA266_PIkin2BottomRight-534_AA300_SH20_OU01_-150x150.jpg "Chasm City [Kindle Edition]")
Well, it’s been awhile since our last Book Review, but know that I haven’t stopped reading! Not at all. I have five books sitting right over there on my desk, so do keep coming back to By The Book. The good thing about Blogs is that you don’t have to be concerned too much...
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