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Me Before You Movie Trailer Release The Me Before You Official Trailer was released last week and people EVERY WH ERE are talki ng about it. As they should be.  Take a look... Trust me when I tell you, you HAVE to read the book before seeing the movie! It's fantastic. Will and Lou will break your heart in the best way, but their story will also challenge you and might even make you see life a little differently. Just mak e sure you have tissues handy.  ~ About the Book ~ Me Before You by Jojo Moyes Published: December 31st 2012  By: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking  Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor kn...

Author: Sue Monk Kidd Publication (Paperback): May 5, 2015 By: Viking Amazon | B&N | Goodreads   Hetty "Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid.We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty-five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the pro...

I rarely read non-fiction, but when I was approached about this one, it sounded too interesting to resist. You can enter to win a copy at the end of this post! GOOD MORNING, MR. MANDELA A Memoir by Zelda la Grange Viking ▪ $28.95 ▪ Strict On-sale date: June 24, 2014 ▪ ISBN: 978-0-525-42828-2   A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world by Mr. Mandela’s side, having grown to respect and cherish the man she would come to call "Khulu," or “grandfather." Good Morning, Mr. Mandela tells the extraordinary story of how a young woman’s life, beliefs, prejudices—everything she once believed—were utterly transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy. It is the incredible j...