Thursday $5 Book Sale

I either have more than one copy of the books below (this is what happens when you don't track the books you buy) or would prefer to give them a better home. No matter the reason, all of the books presented are $5 or less and in good condition. Shipping costs are included. 




Getting To Happy by Terry McMillan (hardcover)
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McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again-at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle, been swindled by her husband number two, and conned herself into thinking that a few pills will help distract her from her pain. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism, while the big dream of her life-to wear a wedding dress- has gone unrealized. And for years, Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another. They've exhaled: now they are learning to breathe.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (paperback)
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The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river...

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (paperback)
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Like the blues--sweet, sad, and full of truth--this masterful work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions.  In it are anger and pain, but above all, love--the affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of the black family.  Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous Tombs.  But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realistic tale...  a powerful indictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (paperback)
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Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.

This book sale is sponsored by Zora-Toni-Maya.

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