Amazon Vine Offerings

I described the Amazon Vine program recently. The program has started and the following books were on offer. I was frankly a little underwhelmed. And by the time I checked the web site several of the books were already all taken. I picked Bitter Sweets because of my recent reading interest in South Asia.

Bitter SweetsBy: Roopa Farooki With this spellbinding first novel about the destructive lies three immigrant generations of a Pakistani/Bangladeshi family tell each other, Roopa Farooki adds a fresh new voice to the company of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri and Arudhati Roy.Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose wheeler-dealer father never misses a business opportunity and whose sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim is achieved by an audacious network (more)

Moo, You Bloody ChoirBy: Augie March

RunBy: Ann Patchett

Influencer: The Power to Change AnythingBy: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of AdventureBy: Michael Chabon

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as PossibleBy: A. J. Jacobs

Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the FlowBy: Jim Hightower