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Paper Cuts Card Game
#UM2912 $25.00
Readers, word wranglers, and anyone else with a saucy sense
of humor will relish this
“party game for the rude and well-
read!”
Here’s how it works: The player designated as Editor
draws a question card, and the remaining players
(the “Writers”) each submit an answer card. The
Editor chooses her favorite answer—be it the
funniest, cleverest, or naughtiest—and awards
the winning Writer a point. For example,
if the question card reads
“Studies show
90% of readers prefer print books to
______________,”
Writers might submit
answer cards that say
“Dorian Gray’s rapidly
aging face,” “‘death of the novel’ think piece,”
or
“adult coloring book.”
Other question cards ask players to use
their answer cards to complete famous literary quotes or provide alternative answers to bookish
facts. Guffaws and giggles are bound to ensue…though if you’re offended by salty language,
Paper Cuts
may not be for you. Gather your book club, open a bottle of wine, and let the games
begin! For 4 to 8 adult players.
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler
by Mark Riebling
#UM2282
Paperback, 375 pages; 2015
$17.99
During the German occupation [of Rome], the SS had arrested 1,007
Roman Jews and sent them to Auschwitz. Fifteen survived. Pius said
nothing publicly about the deportations. Over the same period, 477
Jews had hidden in Vatican City, and 4,238 received sanctuary in
Roman monasteries and convents.
Pope Pius XII’s wartime papacy has long been beset by controversy,
amid accusations that the pope—crowned just six months before Hitler
invaded Poland—didn’t leverage the Vatican’s considerable influence
to stop the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet this eye-opening historical
account paints a different portrait of the Italian-born pontiff, arguing
that Pius’s public neutrality was all a cover: He secretly worked with German plotters—some of
whom were high-ranking Nazis—to murder Adolf Hitler. History buffs will be astounded by just
how deep and varied the plots against Hitler were, and how close many came to succeeding, as
devout Christians from the pews to the pulpit to St. Peter’s Basilica risked (and often gave) their
lives in a covert battle against evil.
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Finding Nouf
by Zo
ë
Ferraris
#UM2482
Paperback, 305 pages; 2009 (2008)
$13.95
When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi is found dead in the desert
outside Jeddah, desert guide Nayir ash-Sharqi is sad but not surprised.
It takes only hours for a grown man to die in the sands; why would a
city-bred girl fare any better? But when Nayir arrives at the medical
examiner’s office to transport Nouf ’s body home, it’s apparent to both
Nayir and Katya Hijazi, the lab technician assigned to handle female
corpses, that Nouf ’s death was no accident. Feeling duty-bound by
his friendship with Nouf ’s brother to unmask the killer, Nayir quietly
begins gathering clues and questioning possible witnesses. There’s just
one catch: Saudi Arabian society is strictly segregated along gender
lines, meaning Nayir is forbidden from questioning most of the women
in Nouf ’s life. Katya, however, is not. And so the pair forms an unusual alliance, their search for
the truth a delicate dance around religious and cultural barriers.
Finding Nouf
is a fascinating
novel, an intriguing whodunit set within a culture and place that even today are mysteries to
most American readers.
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Members’ Price $11.86
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