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BookMark features weekly book reviews submitted by anyone who likes to read and lives within the WPSU-FM listening area.

New releases and books by Pennsylvania authors are preferred, but classics will be considered if the reviewer is able to shed new light on the book.

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01-20-2010

Rules by Cynthia Lord

This Newbury-award winning novel for young adults captures the life of a family with an autistic child.

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12-23-2009

Fit for Table by Mike Robinson

Pennsylvania publisher Stackpole Books has a new offering for hunters--a book that tells you what to do with wild game.

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12-16-2009

Pine Creek Villages by David Ira Kagan

The “Images of America” series offers concise histories of American towns in picture-postcard format. This installment features the logging towns that grew up along Pine Creek in the late 19th century.

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12-09-2009

Of the Wing by Georgia Anne Butler

This book, set in the Pennsylvania woods, is an action-packed adventure that also helps kids learn about birds.

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12-02-2009

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Like the classic “1984,” this post-apocalyptic tale presents a world where leaders keep the populace pacified--but with television rather than drugs. In a warped version of the TV show “Survivors,” teens must compete to the death.

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11-18-2009

Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Borit

President Abraham Lincoln’s best known speech may also be his most misunderstood. This book cuts through the myths.

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11-11-2009

World War II in Their Own Words by Brian Lockman

Thirity-three Pennsylvania veterans talk about their experiences during World War II in a book that’s a companion volume to a popular TV series on Pennsylvania Cable Network.

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10-28-2009

The Fellowship by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman

Frank Lloyd Wright is celebrated as America’s pre-eminent architect--but his personal life was complicated and stormy. The Fellowship tells the story of the landmark training program Wright created for young apprentices--and the overbearing way in which he directed their professional development.

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