March's Book Poll

Since this is not a dictatorship, I'm going to put 3 books on the ballot for next month's book. Please vote on you're favorite. The book with the most votes will be March's book. Please vote as soon as possible as I hope to get the fliers announcing the new book out by Sunday, March 7th. You may place your vote as a comment to this post. Thank you :)

Now, the titles and author of the books and what the book's back cover had to say about each one.

1) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and story night: Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and their mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."

A tesseract (in case you don't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would spoil your enjoyment of Madeleine L'Engle's unusual book.

2) Roots: the Saga of An American Family by Alex Haley

Translated into 206 languages and made into a remarkable eight-part-miniseries, this incredible blend of fact and fiction chronicling Alex Haley's ancestral history was on bestseller lists for over two years, selling millions of copies worldwide. Haley received special citations from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award committees, and received the Spingarn Medal for this eloquent story of seven generations, beginning with a birth in 1750 in an African village.

But Alex Haley did more than trace the ancestry of his own family. ROOTS speaks not just to African-Americans, or to whites, but to all peoples and all races everywhere, peoples and races with their own rich cultural heritages, their own tales of courage, their own generations of men and women whose spirit and indomitable will have left footprints in the sands of history. ROOTS: THE SAGA OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY, by Alex Haley, is a timeless work, an extraordinary epic that rightfully takes its place as a Modern Classic-for new readers to discover, old fans to cherish anew.

3) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill a Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. now with over 15 million copies in print and translated into ten languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.