Purchased Pages

I just received the latest Select Editions from Reader's Digest. It contained the following books - 2 of which were on my TBR list!

Grace by Richard Paul Evans

From the author of The Christmas Box and The Gift comes a touching tale of a young runaway girl and the boy who hides her from a large and frightening world. The time is the early 1960s, during the Cuban missile crisis. As their planet hovers on the brink of self-destruction, can Grace and her junior high school classmate Eric find in each other the safety, and ultimately the love, they so desperately need?

Still Life by Joy Fielding

Beautiful, smart, and successful, Casey Marshall couldn't be more happy with her life- until the day it nearly ends. The victim of a hit-and-run accident, Casey lands comatose in a hospital bed. She can't move or talk, but she hears everything, and what she learns is astounding. Her friends and family are not necessarily the people she thought they were. Even more shocking, the crash might not have been an accident at all.




Hell Bent by William G. Tapply

It's just another day at the office for Boston attorney Brady Coyne, until his ex-flame walks in. Alex Sinclair needs a skilled lawyer for her troubled brother, Gus. Aware that their old spark is still there, Brady agrees to help. But Gus has his own ideas about things, and soon Brady and Alex have more to figure out than whether or not to rekindle their romance. Atmospheric suspense from a best-selling author.




Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas

The sign outside her house says "Prayers for Sale," but Hennie Comfort is happy to pray for you for free. She will also tell you stories stretching back from her childhood in the old South to her settling in this Colorado mining town. As the stories are told, mixing heartache and happiness, they magically fit together, like the pieces in the quilts at which Hennie is an expert artisan. A wonderful story of a remarkable woman.

Purchased Pages: Reader's Digest Select Edition Vol 3, 2009

I am probably one of the few people who still purchase the Reader's Digest Select Editions. I even buy them at garage sales if they are from way back - and my mom just gave me a bunch from the late 1960's early 1970's.

So - the latest one I received contains these books:

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

Logan Thibault is in search of his destiny. Or at least he thinks he is. During three combat tours in Iraq, Logan carried a photograph he had found of a beautiful young woman he had never met. Could the photo be the reason he came home safe and sound? His mission now is to find this "lucky lady" and to see if more than just chance brought her into his life. A haunting tale of love and the search for meaning.









The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

How do we achieve our dreams? When Professor Randy Pausch was asked to deliver a lecture on what mattered to him the most, he was facing terminal cancer. Rather than dwell on his impending death, Pausch focused instead on life. In this upbeat memoir brimming with courage and humor, Pausch challenges readers not only to achieve their dreams but also to enable the dreams of others, while having fun along the way.






Envy the Night by Michael Koryta

Nearly a decade ago Frank Temple III's world was shattered by a connection to the Miami mob. Now, after years of aimlessness, he's coming back home to an isolated lake in the Wisconsin wilderness to confront the man who destroyed his life. But this homecoming is going to be more complex - and deadly - than he ever could have imagined. An explosive novel of suspense from one of America's finest new writers.








A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock

The year is 1837. Queen Victoria is about to ascend the throne, and a spirited young Englishwoman named Liberty Lane has just received the shock of her life: Her beloved father has died fighting a duel in France. Or was it murder? Liberty vows to find out. But to do so she must outfox secret agents, dodge scheming noblemen, and prove that, with a little pluck, a "modern" woman can handle anything - even espionage.

Ok - fess up - who out there still buys these books?