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Robert Morse's excellent (and free) Book Collecting Tips Newsletter recommendsModel Home by Eric Puchner as the February 2010 Collectible Book of the Month. As Robert puts it: "This is Eric Puchner's first novel. He did get a collection of short stories published last year. The US publisher is Scribner Books. It will be released on Feb. 9th. The book is about a family that moves to California in the 1980s and then their lives and fortunes start to deteriorate. Mr. Puchner teaches at Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His award winning short stories have appeared several journals and anthologies. He will be appearing at Powell's Book Store in Portland in mid March to sign books. This will be one place to get a signed copy.
Collectible books recommended by Morse during the course of the past year include:
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Servant of A Dark God by John Brown
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato John The Revelator by Peter Murphy The Sweetness At The Bottom of The Pie by Alan Bradley Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
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