 We just returned from the National Stationery Show yesterday and are headed back down to the city for BookExpo America next week. While we're traveling around finding the best books and goodies for Oblong, stop by the store and pick up one of these fantastic books. - Dick & Suzanna
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This Week in Rhinebeck...
 Thursday, 5/20, 7:30pm
Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace
More Info..."Diamond Ruby is the exciting tale of a forgotten piece of baseball's heritage.... A real page-turner, based closely on a true story." -- Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row Saturday, 5/22, 7:30pm
Atypical by Jesse Saperstein
More Info..."Jesse Saperstein's wise and compelling memoir lets us know how
frustrating and strange life can be for a bright, resourceful young man
with Asperger's navigating the typical world. Funny, irreverent, and
ultimately forgiving of all the damage we 'well-adjusted' typicals
wreak on those who are a little different from us." -Sigourney Weaver, actress
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Graduation Gift Recommendations
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 I Will Teach You to Be Rich
by Ramit Sethi
(Workman, paperback, $13.95)
This is our top staff pick for college grads. Look past Sethi's frat-boy jargon and you'll find the most excellent personal finance book for the under-35 crowd out there. |
 How to Survive Your Freshman Year
(Hundreds of Heads Books, paperback, $15.95)
Offers incoming college freshmen the experience, advice, and wisdom of
their peers: hundreds of other students who have survived their first
year of college and have something interesting to say about it. Book |
 College Vegetarian Cooking
by Megan Carle & Jill Carle
(Ten Speed Press, paperback, $19.95)
Whether you're sharing Pasta Primavera with your roommates, taking a
Caramelized Onion Tart to a party, grabbing a Roasted Red Pepper and
Avocado Wrap on the run, or buttering up your sweetie with Mushroom
Ravioli, College Vegetarian Cooking will break you out of the ramen rut--without breaking your budget. Book |
 College Grad Seeks Future
by Howard R. Greene & Matthew W. Greene
(St. Martin's Griffin, paperback, $14.99)
In College Grad Seeks Future, Howard and Matthew Greene will help post-collegians to find their true calling, pursue the field that
best fits their talents and passion, and utilize their unique skills to
build a career efficiently and effectively. Book |
 Genesis
by Bernard Beckett
(Mariner, paperback, $10.95)
"Genesis is set in a
not-so-distant future, where issues of human versus artificial
intelligence have turned society upside-down. The story takes place in
a single room over the course of five hours, and I defy you not to read
the entire novel in one sitting. An amazing book."
-Suzanna
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 The Pregnant Widow
by Martin Amis
(Knopf, hardcover, $26.95)
"Martin Amis' new comic novel is sort of a sensationalist decameron of
the 20th century - hilarious, tragic, perceptive, ambitious, and
scandalous (well, dirty, really). I was suprised to find myself loving
every bit of it."
-Noelle |
 The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
by Reif Larsen
(Penguin, paperback, $16.00)
"Open this book. Inside it you will find the amazing story of T.S.
Spivet, twelve-year-old cartographer. This is a stunning debut novel
with a protagonist unlike any other. Larsen's writing begs to be shared
with others. Read this and you will want to tell the world."
-Suzanna |
 South of Broad
by Pat Conroy
(Dial Press, paperback, $16.00)
"This story chronicles the lives and relationships of a most unlikely
group of friends over the span of 20 years. Set in Charleston, the
characters deal with some of the most pervasive issues of the times:
race, religion, homosexuality, and child abuse. Because of the author's
narrative style you can almost smell the jasmine of the gardens in the
South Carolina low country. I couldn't put it down!"
-Nancy
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 One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir
by Paul Guest
(Ecco, hardcover, $21.99)
"When poet Paul Guest was twelve years old, he was thrown from his bicycle and paralyzed. His story is quietly stunning - this is an amazing little book."
-Suzanna
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 Innocent
by Scott Turow
(Grand Central, hardcover, $27.95)
The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent, Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife. Book |
 Popville
by Anouck Boisrobert & Louis Rigaud
(Roaring Brook Press, hardcover, $16.99)
This pop-up book is a fascinating commentary on urban sprawl. Watch as a city grows through the years... Though it's marketed as a children's book, we definitely think it will be better appreciated by adults.
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 The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt & the Crusade for America
by Douglas Brinkley
(Harper, paperback, $19.99)
In this monumental biography, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley examines the life and achievements of Theodore Roosevelt, our "naturalist president," and his tireless crusade for the American wilderness-a legacy now more important than ever. Book |
 Road Dogs
by Elmore Leonard
(Harper, paperback, $13.99)
Jack Foley and Cundo Rey are road dogs: trusted jailhouse comrades watching each other's back. They're so tight, Cundo's using his own money and his shark lady lawyer to get Foley's sentence reduced from thirty years to three months. And when Jack gets out, the wealthy Cuban criminal wants him to stay in Cundo's multimillion dollar Venice Beach house-right across from the one where Cundo's common-law wife, professional psychic Dawn Navarro, resides. There will certainly be some payback expected, though Jack can't figure out what. Sexy Dawn's intentions are a lot clearer. But Cundo's coming home earlier than anticipated, and Jack smells a double-cross cooking-the kind that could turn a road dog into road kill.
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 Tell-All
by Chuck Palahniuk
(Doubleday, hardcover, $24.95)
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-Allis a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette
Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable
Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to
the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit
of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering
from the beyond.
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 The Lonely Polygamist
by Barry Udall
(W.W. Norton, hardcover, $26.95)
Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, "The Lonely Polygamist" is an unforgettable story of an American family--with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy--pushed to its outer limits.
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 The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
(Dial Press, hardcover, $25.00)
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it-and themselves-afloat.
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 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
(Delacorte, hardcover, $28.00)
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
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 Nomad
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Free Press, hardcover, $27.00)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world's attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, more crucially, her emotional journey to freedom-her transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts women's every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values.
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