+shopthebookworm Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 This book is "The Help" by Kathrynn Stockett which is amongst our many general fiction selections in the store. We have 98% of our general fiction paperbacks on sale Buy ONE get ONE FREEEEEEE today! Yup, it is Twofer Tuesday Our book club meets this Thursday on this book at 7:30pm and it is not too late to RSVP at the store, but if you haven't read it, it is high on my list of favorites! More about the book: Product Description Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t. Link to post Share on other sites
brown*eyed*girl Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 One of my favorite books ever! Link to post Share on other sites
PatriotBandMom Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 One of my favorite books ever! it was a great book! Link to post Share on other sites
Victoria&Noah'sMom Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 I'm going to have to read this one now ... sounds good .... Link to post Share on other sites
+shopthebookworm Posted October 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 I'm going to have to read this one now ... sounds good .... We do have some copies for sale. We miss you at the book club Link to post Share on other sites
Couch Recycling Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 I'm going to have to read this one now ... sounds good .... I know....me too! Link to post Share on other sites
celeste Posted October 20, 2010 Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 Loved that book! Link to post Share on other sites
+shopthebookworm Posted October 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 Loved that book! Come discuss with us tomorrow at 7:30pm. 2 seats open, Just RSVP the store! Link to post Share on other sites
Victoria&Noah'sMom Posted October 20, 2010 Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 We do have some copies for sale. We miss you at the book club Miss you too ... hopefully, I can make the next one as band season should be over Link to post Share on other sites
+shopthebookworm Posted October 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 Miss you too ... hopefully, I can make the next one as band season should be over Goody! Yippee!Mom, too? Link to post Share on other sites
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