Today’s featured Watch It Wednesday book is Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Release Date: 2006-08-31 In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded…
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Watch It Wednesday: Jaws by Peter Benchly
Today’s featured Watch It Wednesday book is Jaws: A Novel by Peter Benchley Jaws: A Novel by Peter Benchley Release Date: 2013-08-06 Here is Peter Benchley’s classic suspense novel of shark versus man, which was made into the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie. The Jaws phenomenon changed popular culture and continues to inspire a growing interest in sharks and the oceans today. When Peter Benchley wrote Jaws in the early 1970s, he meticulously researched all available data about shark behavior. Over the ensuing decades, Benchley was actively engaged with scientists…
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