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Idaho Author Spotlight: ‘Precious’ by Kelly Broich

‘Precious’ by Kelly Broich (Boise); Collapse ($10.95)
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BOOK REVIEW: '15 Days Without a Head' is a dark, funny, touching story

Publisher's summary: Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it's far from easy with his little brother who acts like a dog and their depressed alcoholic mother. But one night she doesn't come home from work, and Laurence must face the reality that she might not come back at...
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BOOK REVIEW: Enjoyable novel features mystery, time travel

Samantha is finally away from her overbearing parents and at age 26 is about to do something she has always wanted to do - travel to England to have some fun.
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Girls of Atomic City' goes behind Manhattan Project

Now in their 80s and 90s, the girls of Atomic City are no longer in the dark about the jobs they took during the summer of 1943. But back then, as young employees of the Clinton Engineering Works, they knew only a few things for sure about the place they would call home for the next two years.
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BOOK REVIEW: 'We Need New Names' about a child of two lands, at home in neither

"When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky," NoViolet Bulawayo writes in her deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel. "They flee their own wretched land so their hunger may be pacified in foreign lands, their tears wiped away in strange...
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What's new at your Treasure Valley libraries

Juvenile nonfiction. Using large text and big bright pictures, this book gives lots of good information about the science, history and lives of bees.
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'I Worked Hard for You' is fun to read to pre-schoolers

Ruthilyn Sparks has written a read-aloud book that is a delightful peek into the love a mother has for her child. Using the phrase "I worked hard for you," she answers a host of "Why can't I?" questions that children ask when prevented from attempting something that could be harmful.
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Best-sellers

Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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Best-sellers

Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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Fewer Facebook users take a liking to its new Home software

It may be too soon to call Facebook Home a flop.