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Magers & Quinn has a deal for
you. Visit Livingsocial.com
on Tuesday, April 6, and you can purchase a
coupon good
for twenty dollars worth of books for only
ten dollars. The coupon will be available for
only twenty-four hours. You can redeem it at
the store any time in the next six months.
Spread the word. Tell your friends about the
deal, and introduce them to your favorite
bookstore for a bargain price. They'll be
glad you did, and you'll be helping us find
homes for more of our great books. Details
are here.
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"Set on a mysterious time-warped island in Lake Superior, The Tale of Halcyon Crane is a delicious ghost story, by turns chilling and heart-warming. The perfect cozy read."--Mary Sharratt, author of The Vanishing Point A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost story. When a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James's mailbox, her life is upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father, having been told her mother died in a fire decades earlier. But it turns out that her mother, Madlyn, was alive until very recently. Why would Hallie's father have taken her away from Madlyn? What really happened to her family thirty years ago? In search of answers, Hallie travels to the place where her mother lived, a remote island in the middle of the Great Lakes.
Sunday, April 11, 5:00pm--Peter Schilling
will read from his novel The
End of Baseball, and Doug Grow discusses
We're
Gonna Win, Twins!
Baseball fans in Minnesota have a lot to look forward to this spring. Target Field opens April 12, and the night before two great baseball minds will meet to discuss America's pastime.
"The End of Baseball is so engaging and convincing that it accomplishes something truly special: it makes you wish desperately it were true."--Brad Zellar, The Rake
"There will always be people who say that baseball is just a game--until they read this book."--Don Shelby, WCCO-TV Doug Grow covered the Minnesota Twins as a sports columnist from 1979 to 1987, and as a metro columnist he wrote about the 1987 and 1991 World Series as well as the long debates over stadium funding. He is currently a journalist working for the online publication MinnPost. Wednesday, April 21, 7:30pm--Pete Nelson
reads from his comic novel I
Thought You Were Dead
For Paul Gustavson, a hack writer for the wildly popular For Morons series, life is a succession of obstacles. His wife has left him, his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, his girlfriend is dating another man, and his overachieving brother invested his parents' money in stocks that tanked. Still, Paul has his friends at Bay State bar and a steady line of cocktails. And then there's Stella, the one constant in his life, who gives him sage advice, doesn't judge him, and gives him unconditional love. However, Stella won't accompany Paul into his favorite dive bar. "I'll roll on dead carp, I'll even eat cat turds, but that place grosses me out." Stella, you see, is Paul's dog, an aging Lab/shepherd mix, and she knows Paul better than he knows himself. Pete Nelson is the author of several books, including Left for Dead. He is not, however, the Pete Nelson who writes books about tree houses, although he has nothing against them. He grew up in Minnesota and now lives in Westchester County, New York. Wednesday, April 28, 7:30pm--Jonathan
Balcombe discusses Second
Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals. This
event is co-sponsored by the Animal
Humane Society.
A growing number of scientists agree that animals are conscious and capable of experiencing basic emotions, such as happiness, sadness, boredom and depression. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have been deemed fantasy a generation ago. The implications make our troubled relationship to animals one of the most pressing moral issues of our time. "Jonathan Balcombe is a rare being, a scientist who has escaped the narrow orthodoxies of institutional science, an intelligent human being who is more than ready to recognize intelligences of other kinds, an intuitive and empathetic observer who nevertheless does not abandon the highest standards of intellectual inquiry."--from the Foreword by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Disgrace Jonathan Balcombe was born in England, raised in New Zealand and Canada, and has lived in the United States since 1987. He has written many scientific papers and popular articles on animal behavior, humane education, and animal research. He is now an independent consultant based in Germantown, Maryland. For more information, visit www.jonathanbalcombe.com. --------- This event is cosponsored by the Animal Humane Society. As the leading animal welfare organization in the Upper Midwest, the Animal Humane Society is committed to engaging and serving local communities of people and animals and providing comprehensive programs and services to compassionately serve all of the stages of an animal's life. At our campuses in Buffalo, Coon Rapids, Golden Valley, St. Paul and Woodbury, our mission is to engage the hearts, hands and minds of the community to help animals. Last year, Animal Humane Society care for more than 36,000 animals through its programs and services. Our programs at our five campuses include the following:
The Animal Humane Society's training and behavior expert, Paula Zukoff, will be attending this event along with a special canine guest! To keep up with all the latest news on
readings at Magers & Quinn, just visit the events
page on our website.
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The Library Foundation of Hennepin
County--the good people who bring you the Talk
of the Stacks author reading series at
the Minneapolis Central Library--are
expanding their programs to libraries
throughout the seven-county metropolitan
region. "Club Book" is bringing authors such
as Kate DiCamillo, Neil Gaiman, Patricia
Hampl, Francis Mayes, Michael Perry, and Tim
O'Brien to libraries from Stillwater to
Blaine to MInnetonka. And that's just the
lineup through June. They haven't even
announced fall events yet.
Club Book is funded with money from the vote
of the people of Minnesota on November 4,
2008 which dedicated funding to preserve
Minnesota's art and cultural heritage. Events
are free and open to the public. For more
information about the series, visit www.clubbook.org
or call 952-847-8107.
Check out their website for
a full list of events.
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The Big Bang Book Club is a science book club
for non-scientists. Our next meeting will be
7:00pm, Tuesday, April 27, at Grumpy's
Bar, 1111 Washington Ave S, in Minneapolis.
The Big Bang Book Club mixes
arts and science into a heady brew. It is
sponsored by
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The Guardian newspaper recently ran a
series of articles in which writers offered
up their ten cardinal rules for writing
fiction. Gems include:
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We scour the book market for deals, and this
month we've found a great one. We recently
bought a truckload of recent hardcovers.
They're bargain-priced--you can get a
hardcover for the same price as a paperback.
Among the bargains available now are Olive
Kitteridge, Kerouac's The
Dharma Bums, Zadie Smith's collection of
essays Changing
My Mind, and even The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Come in and browse the full range. These
books won't stay in the store for long.
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Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen
fences and overgrown fields surrounding his
rickety Wisconsin farmhouse, and informed by
his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver
their baby at home, Michael Perry plumbs his
unorthodox childhood--his city-bred parents
took in sixty-some foster children while
running a ramshackle dairy farm--for clues to
how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a
father. Coop is filled with humor, but Perry
also writes from the quieter corners of his
heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as
the birth of his child and as devastating as
the death of a dear friend.
"Beneath the flannel surface of this
deer-hunting, truck-loving Badger is the soul
of a poet."--Chicago Tribune
Michael Perry is a humorist and author of the
bestselling memoirs Population
485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a
Time and Truck:
A Love Story, as well as the essay
collection Off
Main Street. Perry has written for
Esquire, The New York Times Magazine,
Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com,
and is a contributing editor to Men's
Health. He lives in northern Wisconsin,
where he remains active with the local
volunteer rescue service. Learn more at www.sneezingcow.com.
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Get up,
get out and
get walking by spending a shopping day in
Uptown. As part of a partnership between the
Uptown Association and the American Heart
Association, Uptown Minneapolis will host a
day of shopping, dining and relaxing on April
10 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. to encourage
everyone to "Start!" living a healthier
lifestyle by walking a little each day.
Nearly 40 Uptown businesses will offer "Start
Up in Uptown Shop and Walk" discounts
ranging from free appetizers and deeply
discounted merchandise, to door prizes and
drawings. Participation is free and everyone
is welcome to attend.
Stop by the "Shop and Walk" check-in located
at Cowboy Slim's Saloon (1312 West Lake
Street) anytime during the event to pick up
your complimentary gift bag, available to the
first 200 visitors, as well as a complete
listing of specials and a map highlighting
each of the participating businesses. The
map will outline different walking routes,
ranging from easy to advanced, that will
allow you to take advantage of the best
discounts while burning off the most calories
according to your desired activity level. Use
your free pedometer, one of many freebies
included in the gift bags, to track your
steps, distance and calories burned. Skip the
hassle of looking for parking by downloading
a free Metro Transit bus pass, valid on April
10. Bus Maps and a complete listing of
participating businesses are available for
download at uptownminneapolis.com.
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Mark your calendars now for a very special
evening.
Two of Minnesota's most compelling
artists--Wing Young Huie and Monica
Haller--will hold a public conversation about
the role of collaboration in their work.
Photographer Wing Young Huie has long
combined interviews and photography in his
artistic process. Installations of his
photographs in unusual urban settings have
involved quite literally hundreds of people
in the production and display of his work.
Monica Haller's latest project is the result
of a collaboration with a college friend,
helping him to make sense of his time as a
medic in Iraq and to present his experience
to the world.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers and the Loft
Literary Center are pleased to present a
unique opportunity to meet two artists who
share an understanding of the value of
cooperative work in making art. Join us in
the Target Performance Hall at Open Book
(1011 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis), 7:30pm,
Friday, May 28, for a fascinating discussion
about the process of making art and the role
of the artist. This event is free and open to
the public. Space is limited, so plan to
arrive early.
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Books &
Bars--the Twin Cities' most unusual and
interesting book club--meets Tuesday, April
13 at Bryant-Lake
Bowl, 810 W Lake Street, in Minneapolis.
Doors open at 6:00pm; the discussion begins
at 7:00pm.
Books &
Bars is not your typical book club. We
provide a unique atmosphere for a lively
discussion of interesting authors, fun
people, good food and drinks. You're welcome
even if you haven't read the book.
Visit booksandbars.com
for details and to talk to fellow members!
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Magers & Quinn is the largest independent bookstore in the Twin Cities. Stop in today or check our inventory on our website any time. We'll be back next month with more great book news.
Until then,
David Enyeart
Magers and Quinn Booksellers
Write us:
[email protected]
Call us:
612/822-4611
Or visit our website:
http://www.magersandquinn.com
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