Last-Minute Holiday Book Ideas
Dec. 21, 2009— -- Need a thoughtful, last-minute gift that won't break the bank? A book could be the answer you're looking for.
"Good Morning America" teamed up with Parade magazine's editor-in-chief Janice Kaplan to feature some of the best books of the year. Any of these choices would make a great holiday gift!
Fiction:
"The Help" was a surprise bestseller by a new author who originally struggled to get the book published. The story is about three women in 1960s Jackson, Miss., and deals with race, relationships and the human condition.
It's rare to go through the holiday season without a new Stephen King novel and this year is no different. In his newest work, King chronicles the bizarre happenings in a small Maine town that is entirely covered by an invisible dome. No one can get in or out and things get very scary, very quickly.
Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamulk turned this tale about a romantic obsession -- an engaged man has an affair with a young shop girl who suddenly disappears.
He spends years trying to find her and, along the way, collects everything the girl has touched, from ticket stubs to olive pits.
Books Make Great Holiday Gifts!
Memoir or Biography:
"Open" sent shock waves through the sports world and Hollywood as Agassi revealed that he often hated tennis, had an unhappy marriage and abused drugs. The book is one of the most honest looks at the pressures of international tennis stardom from an early age.
Take a look into the life of one of jazz's greatest artists, Louis Armstrong. in the new biography "Pops" by Terry Teachout.
Completed shortly before his death in August, Ted Kennedy's "True Compass" is a revealing look at the "Liberal Lion" of the Senate's long career and personal life -- from challenges and victories to tragedies and failings.
Mystery or Thrillers:
Bestselling author David Baldacci is back with another thriller about the inner workings of Washington, D.C., law enforcement. The two main characters are sisters, one a police chief and the other a disgraced cop. Pick up a copy to see how the siblings end up on a violent collision course.
Books Make Great Holiday Gifts!
"The Defector" is a sequel to Silva's popular "Moscow Rules" and is all about double-agents, arms dealers and the Russian mob -- ingredients for a fast-paced thriller.
Like most Koontz novels, it would take far more than a few sentences to explain the plot of "Breathless," so just take our word for it that characters from Las Vegas, Seattle and more will collide on a Colorado mountain where the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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