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Random House Book Representative Ron Shoop's latest list of hot reads.
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Shoop's Summer Reading List

  • Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
    Call Number: FIC BERG, E.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9781400065110
    A grieving widow becomes increasingly dependent on her daughter, and she worries about being invasive. She also discovers her husband’s shocking secret. And then the unexpected phone call…Berg returns with her first full length novel in four years. The book her many fans have been waiting for.
  • Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
    Call Number: FIC SEE, L.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9781400067114
    See has attained a new level in this novel of two sisters who thrive in pre-war Shanghai, are ejected into the war-torn country side, and then struggle to California, where their lives will be further challenged.
  • The Story of Forgetting - Stefan Merrill Block
    Call Number: FIC BLOCK, S.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780812979824
    An emotionally powerful story told in four narrative strands, each protagonist being distantly related and suffering, directly or indirectly, from early-onset dementia. One of the most satisfying conclusions I’ve read in a long time.
  • The Painter of Battles - Arturo Perez-Reverte
    Call Number: FIC PEREZ-REVERTE, A.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780812977301
    Withdrawn from the world, a retired war photographer lurks in an ancient tower by the sea, painting scenes of carnage on the walls. A subject from his past, and a lost lover join him in a deadly encounter. Shades of Lawrence Durrell and John Fowles.
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
    Call Number: M BRADLEY, C.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780385342308
    Sweetness’ indeed! Fans of Miss Marple and will delight in this new entry to the cozy genre. Just published, and more tales of the incomparable Flavia da Luce to come.
  • America America - Ethan Canin
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780812979893
    A Gatsby-ish coming of age story, set in the recent political past. Watch the protagonist go from nothing to something to much more, to…
  • American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
    Call Number: FIC SITTENFELD, C.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780812975406
    An astonishing tale of a young woman’s entry into the heart of a powerful political family. Regardless of your views, after reading your thinking about the Bush family will not remain the same
  • Franklin and Lucy: Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt's Life - Joseph E. Persico
    Call Number: B ROOSEVELT, F. D.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780812976966
    The power of the alpha male Franklin is much in evidence as many women were drawn to him irresistibly. Persico had access to sources never before tapped by Roosevelt biographers.
  • Gardens of Water - Alan Drew
    Call Number: FIC DREW, A.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780812978445
    In the wake of a catastrophic earthquake, a Kurdish family struggles to survive. American evangelicals come to their aid, and the clash of cultures begins. Deeply tragic, and magnificently realized. A Middle Eastern ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
  • School for Love - Olivia Manning
    Call Number: FIC MANNING, O.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9781590173039
    It’s just after WWII, and a grieving, lonely young man, his beloved mother just deceased, is shipped off to a Jerusalem boarding house to await his father’s return from battle. Another resident is a sad young woman, recently widowed. Need I say more?
  • The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine - Benjamin Wallace
    Call Number: 641.2223 WALLACE
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780307338785
    Tightly focused history at its best. The biography of a single bottle of wine, from 1787. Was it once owned by Thomas Jefferson and a top Nazi? And others? What is its fate after being purchased for a huge sum by a member of the Forbes family?
  • Jack Wakes Up - Seth Harwood
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780307454355
    An actor with one hit and no further prospects makes ends meet while waiting for a casting call, by touring visitors through San Francisco. His latest commission seems to be Russian Mafiosi. Throw in several other competing gangs and you have a lusciously violent rumble through the foggy city. Don’t forget the sun tan lotion!
  • Touchstone - Laurie R. King
    Call Number: FIC KING, L.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780553586664
    A retired British agent with a unique perceptual talent – he can tell when someone is lying – is dragooned back into the trade by an American, to penetrate the world of the callow and disloyal rich. King’s latest (and bestselling) stand alone novel
  • Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
    Call Number: M CHILD, L.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780385340571
    The unstoppable Jack Reacher, star of all of Child’s novels, meets his greatest challenge yet, in New York City, in the form of a determined cell of Afghani terrorists. Unlike the previous books, this one is told from the point of view of Jack.
  • No One You Know - Michelle Richmond
    Call Number: FIC RICHMOND, M.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780385340144
    Her life permanently off the rails since the unsolved murder of her beloved, brilliant sister, our protagonist uncovers a cache of letters and notes pointing to a possible solution to the crime. Set in the Bay Area, from the author of the acclaimed Year of Fog.
  • The guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
    Call Number: FIC SHAFFER, M.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780385341004
    It’s 1946, and a young London woman enters into correspondence with a man on the island of Guernsey. Slowly, others enter the letter-writing circle, and we meet a wonderful array of characters, each with something to say, about their lives during the War, their love of literature, and their efforts to live a decent life. The perfect book for any occasion!
  • Firmin - Sam Savage
    Call Number: FIC SAVAGE, S.
    ISBN/ISSN: 9780385342650
    Firmin, a rat, is born and lives in a run down 2nd hand bookstore. He goes from eating books to reading them, and comes to regret that he’s a rodent, not a man. But because he’s not a man, we the readers are gifted with Firmin’s view of things as an outsider. The author practically channels Kurt Vonnegut. This is what I call a ‘big little book.’ It’s a quick read, but it delivers so much.
 

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    Ron is the Easy Bay District sales manager for a major division of the publisher Random House. He is an avid reader who has been presenting book talks to bookstores, bookclubs, and libraries throughout the bay area for many years.

     
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