August 2010 - Vol 5, Issue 1
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Dog days of summer? Not at Magers & Quinn. There's a lot happening in your favorite bookstore this month,

  • Tickets are available now for Sara Gruen (Sept 9) and William Gibson (Sept 16)
  • New fiction from the author of Out Stealing Horses
  • Kao Kalia Yang visits M&Q on August 4
  • Meet foreign policy expert Andrew Bacevich August 18.
There's a lot more. Read on and stay in touch.

Magers & Quinn is pleased to bring you two of the fall's best authors.
  • Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) comes to the Woman's Club of Minneapolis on September 9.
  • William Gibson signs copies of his latest novel Zero History September 16 at M&Q; he'll also be reading and talking with fans at the Minneapolis Central Library that evening.

Tickets for these readings are $5.00 each--redeemable towards the purchase of a new book the night of the reading. Seating is limited, so get your tickets while they last. Tickets are available only at M&Q; we cannot take phone orders for tickets.

In the store: $23.40
Online: $19.50 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.00
Available September 7
The author of the bestselling and beloved Water for Elephants returns with a new novel, Ape House (available September 7). Sara Gruen will read from Ape House at the beautiful Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Q&A and signing will follow. This will be her only Twin Cities appearance.

Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but she gets bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what's really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and "liberating" the apes, John's human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he'll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest phenomenon in the history of modern media. Millions of fans are glued to their screens watching the apes order greasy take-out, have generous amounts of sex, and sign for Isabel to come get them. Now, to save her family of apes from this parody of human life, Isabel must connect with her own kind, including John, a green-haired vegan, and a retired porn star with her own agenda.

"Sara Gruen ... has created a true thriller that is addictive from its opening sentence. Devour it to find out what happens next, but also to learn remarkable and moving things about life on this planet. Very, very few novels can change the way you look at the world around you. This one does."--Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife

In the store: $24.25
Online: $20.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.95
Available September 7
The author of the cult hits Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive returns with a new novel, Zero History (available September 7). Magers & Quinn Booksellers is pleased to announce two appearances by the author. These will be his only events in the Twin Cities.
  • William Gibson will meet fans and sign copies of his new novel--5:00pm, Thursday, September 16 at Magers & Quinn Booksellers
  • William Gibson will read from his new novel Zero History--7:30pm, Thursday, September 16, at the Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Ave S, Minneapolis. Q&A and signing will follow.

Tickets for these events will go quickly, so stop by M&Q soon to be sure you get yours. Once they're gone, they're gone.

Details on all the fall's events at M&Q are here.
Looking for a good book to read on the porch or at the beach? Look no further than M&Q. Here are just a few of the fantastic summer reads waiting for you.

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson

In the store: $20.70
Online: $17.25 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $23.00
Available August 3
I Curse the River of Time is an enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses. It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life while all the established patterns around him are changing at a staggering pace. I Curse the River of Time is an honest, heartbreaking yet humorous portrayal of a complicated mother-son relationship told in Per Petterson's precise and beautiful prose.

Million Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton

In the store: $13.45
Online: $11.24 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $14.99
Available August 10
In Heather McElhatton's second do-over novel, Million Little Mistakes, you win $22 million in the lottery. Given the chance to live like a millionaire, you could realize all your dreams or learn that money only causes more problems. It all depends on the choices you make . . . Should you keep your day job? Stay in your relationship? Save an endangered species? Buy an aristocrat's life on eBay or pay off all your family's debt? Should you climb Mount Everest, trek the remote jungles of China, book passage on a luxury cruise, or become an infamous Voodoo priestess? Is your destiny to become a philanthropist, a pharmaceutical tycoon, a happy homemaker, or a burlesque stripper? Be careful. Your fortune could be lost in a Ponzi scheme; your wildest fantasy may bring you total bliss or lead you to a run-in with extortionists who try to kill you. There are hundreds of possible adventures sown inside Million Little Mistakes. Some lives end fabulously while others in utter disaster, so choose wisely.

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

In the store: $23.35
Online: $19.46 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $25.95
Available Now
David Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, and after thirteen years of marriage he still can't imagine living without her--yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and he's both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. When Pepin is linked to a hit man, the ambiguity enfolding this case begins to resemble the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games he designs for a living. These complex, interlocking dramas brilliantly explore the twinned impulses of love and hate, murder and marriage, each endlessly recycling into the other.


Stop in today for more recommendations for your summer reading list. We'll help you find just the right book.
August's Events
Sunday, August 1 Michelle Hoover reads from The Quickening, 4:00pm

Wednesday, August 4 Ira Sukrungruang reads from Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy; Kao Kalia Yang reads from The Latehomecomer, 7:30pm

Thursday, August 12 Joe Flood discusses The Fires: How a Computer Formula Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of Cities, 7:30pm

Wednesday, August 18 Andrew Bacevich discusses Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, 7:30pm

Sunday, August 22 Jon Lauck discusses Prairie Republic:The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889, 4:00pm

Tuesday, August 24 The Big Bang Book Club discusses Why Does E=mc2? , 7:00pm at duplex, 2516 Hennepin Ave S, Minneapolis, 7:00pm

Tuesday, August 24 Books & Bars discusses Zeitoun at Bryant-Lake Bowl; doors open at 6:00pm, discussion begins at 7:00pm

Sunday, September 5 Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson discuss The Great Typo Hunt, 4:00pm

Visit our events page
for full details.

All events are at Magers & Quinn unless noted otherwise.
Sunday, August 1, 4:00pm--Michelle Hoover reads from The Quickening

In the store: $13.45
Online: $11.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $14.95
Available Now
The Quickening tells the epic story of a bitter feud between two Iowa farming families--a feud lasting forty years, through two World Wars and the Great Depression. It is a story of survival and hardship, violence and betrayal, and the discovery and loss of lifelong love.

"I grew up among Iowa farm women, and Michelle Hoover has perfectly captured their voices and stories with great wisdom, tenderness, and beauty."--Ted Kooser, U. S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006

"Michelle Hoover's fine debut novel recreates for us a way of life and a set of personalities that have vanished from our current scene, and she does so with a solidity of detail that will impress these people and these places forever on your memory."--Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

Wednesday, August 4, 7:30pm--Ira Sukrungruang and Kao Kalia Yang discuss their work

In the store: $22.45
Online: $18.71 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $24.95
Available Now
Two authors discuss their recent work and the larger question of what it means to be Asian in America.

Ira Sukrungruang's book Talk Thai is the story of a first generation Thai-American growing up in a Thai family, and his constant attempts to reconcile cultural and familial expectations. It is a first-generation Asian American story, a mama's boy story, a Chi-town Southsider story, a child of the 80s story, a child of a broken home story. In this book we meet a mother who started packing for her return to Thailand the moment she arrived in this country, whose dreams of a normal Thai son, of a normal Thai family, slowly erode; that mother's best friend, the narrator's second mother, who lives with and cooks for the family; and a wayward father whose dreams never quite come to fruition. Yet despite the cultural conflict that manifests in the home, in the community, and in Sukrungruang's mind, this book is written with humor and playfulness, by a writer not afraid to make a little fun of himself nor to expose the moments of poignancy in his life. A vital addition to Asian American literature, this book is also, quintessentially, American literature--ranging from the X-Men to temple, from "karate" lessons in a friend's back yard to the unique spices of Thai food.

In the store: $13.45
Online: $11.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $14.95
When she was six years old, Kao Kalia Yang's family immigrated to America.Her memoir The Latehomecomer evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by the entire Homng community have finally found a voice. The Latehomecomer won the 2009 Minnesota Book Awards Readers' Choice Award.

Join these two authors for a fascinating discussion about literature and life in these United States.

Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm--Joe Flood discusses The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of Cities

In the store: $24.25
Online: $20.21 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $26.95
Available Now
In the late 1960s, the RAND Corporation--a California-based military think tank--had an alluring proposal for New York City mayor John Lindsay: using their computer modeling techniques, which had been developed for, and successfully implemented in high-level military operations, the city could save millions of desperately-needed dollars by establishing more efficient public services, planned by the new science of "computer modeling." A deal was struck: RAND would begin their first major civilian effort with New York City. The result was the worst fire epidemic in modern urban history.

"Although already familiar with what occurred--not only did I live through it, but I inherited it when I became Mayor--I was enthralled by Flood's spectacular and insightful account."--Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York City

The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City--and Determined the Future of Cities, by journalist Joe Flood, tells the story of how the good intentions of an ambitious, working class fire chief; a charismatic mayor (and his technocratic successor); and a military think-tank, led to disaster and devastation for New York and forever changed the way modern cities work.

Wednesday, August 18, 7:30pm--Andrew Bacevich discusses Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

In the store: $22.50
Online: $18.75 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $25.00
Available August 3
In a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires--whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous.

"The hard-earned insights of this veteran, analyst, insider, and parent will resonate with people across the political spectrum and offer a serious, riveting, and authentically personal critique of U.S. power."--Amy Goodman, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!

Though our politicians deny it, American global might is faltering. This is the moment, Bacevich argues, to reconsider the principles which shape American policy in the world--to acknowledge that fixing Afghanistan should not take precedence over fixing Detroit. Replacing this Washington consensus is crucial to America's future, and may offer the key to the country's salvation.

Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He is the author of The Limits of Power and The New American Militarism. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the recipient of a Lannan Award and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Sunday, August 22, 4:00pm--Jon Lauck reads from Prairie Republic:The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

In the store: $29.65
Publisher's price: $32.95
Available Now
American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative decade. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck aruges that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood. Prairie Republic corrects an overemphasis on class conflict and economic determinism. Lauck finds South Dakota's political founders to be agents of Protestant Christianity and of civic republicanism--an age-old ideology that entrusted the polity to independent, landowning citizens who placed the common interest above private interest.

In rescuing the story of Dakota's settlers from historical obscurity, Prairie Republic corrects darker portrayals of western history and expands our understanding of the American democratic tradition.

Sunday, September 5, 4:00pm--Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson discuss The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

In the store: $26.60
Online: $17.99 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $23.99
Available Now
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforming horor into horror, it's into its, and coconunut into coconut. But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower. The government charged them with defacing federal property and summoned them to court--with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated "criminal statues." Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into "grammar vigilantes," airing errors about their errant errand.


But wait, there's more... We've got lots of great events coming up this summer and fall. Mark your calendars now, so you don't forget.
  • Monday, September 13--Laurie Hertzel
  • Tuesday, September 21--Gary Shteyngart
  • Thursday, September 23--Steve Brezenoff
  • Sunday, September 26--Joshua Ferris
  • Monday, September 27--TR Reid
  • Wednesday, October 6--Peter Eichstaedt
Visit www.magersandquinn.com for more details.
The 2010 Uptown Art Fair will be August 6 to 8. Over 360 professional artists, 40 youth artists, 25 performers, and 20 food vendors will display their wares. Find one-of-a-kind treasures in each of twelve media including sculpture, painting, ceramics, jewelry, and mixed media. Learn more at www.uptownartfair.com.

Stop by the Art Fair Headquarters at 1440 W. Lake St.for a special offer from Magers & Quinn. Pick up two great coupons:
  • Take 25% off any cookbook in the store between August 6 and 15.
  • Take $5.00 off any cookbook in our selection between September 3 and 12.
Coupons are limited, so stop by early to get yours before they're gone.

Here are two of the fantastic foodie books waiting for you at M&Q:

Ripe from Around Here: A Vegan Guide to Local and Sustainable Eating (No Matter Where You Live) by jae steele

In the store: $21.59
Online: $17.96 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $23.95
Available Now
Ripe from Around Here includes chapters on local food and why it's important; finding a balance between various food issues, personal priorities and values; and the benefits of the local food movement that go beyond reducing our carbon footprint. It also helps readers become more informed about where their food comes from. The book's 180 recipes, which encourage the use of fresh, organic ingredients wherever possible (as well as potential alternatives depending on where you live), include Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins, Pear Parsnip Soup, Asparagus and Spring Onion Quiche, Mushroom Asparagus Risotto, and Butternut Chipotle Chocolate Cake.

From the Olive Grove: Mediterranean Cooking With Olive Oil by Helen Koutalianos

In the store: $19.75
Online: $16.45 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $21.95
Available September 1
Helen Koutalianos and her husband run Basil Olive Oil Products in Canada, which sells artisan olive oil produced on a farm in Greece that their family has owned for generations. Her book takes readers through the artisan olive oil-making process, from cultivating and processing the fruit to the production of the oil itself. Helen and her daughter Anastasia have also collected 150 delectable, Mediterranean-inspired recipes (Greek and beyond) in which olive oil is a central ingredient; these include Olive Oil Poached Lamb, Quail with Olives, Turkish Kebab with Garlic, Shrimp and Feta Casserole, Octopus in Wine Sauce, Seared Scallop and Prawn Gazpacho, Artichokes with Lemon, and Kolokithakia Yemista (Stuffed Zucchinis with Lemon Egg Sauce).

The Big Bang Book Club is a science book club for non-scientists. Our next meeting will be 7:00pm, Tuesday, August 24, at a new location--duplex restaurant.bar, 2516 Hennepin Ave S, in Minneapolis.

In the store: $14.35
Online: $11.96 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.95
Available Now
August's pick is Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?). It's an accessible, entertaining, and enlightening explanation of the best-known physics equation in the world, as rendered by two of today's leading scientists.Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein's most famous equation. A collaboration between two of the youngest professors in the UK, Why Does E=mc2?" is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity in recent years.

The Big Bang Book Club mixes arts and science into a heady brew. It is sponsored by

Several recent bestsellers are out now in paperback. They're perfect for reading in a hammock or on the beach.

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

In the store: $14.40
Online: $12.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $16.00
Available Now
"Inherent Vice is the funniest book Pynchon has written. It's also a crazed and majestic summary of everything that makes him a uniquely huge American voice. It has the moral fury that's fueled his work from the start--his ferociously batshit compassion for America and the lost tribes who wander through it." --Rolling Stone

"The new Pynchon: a beach read and a heartstring puller. It's almost surreal. A"--Entertainment Weekly

"How pitch-perfect noir can one get?"--Chicago Tribune

War Dances by Sherman Alexie

In the store: $12.60
Online: $10.50 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $14.00
Available August 3
In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexie's poetic and revolutionary prose, and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our country's finest writers.

"Alexie is at his best in this collection of hilarious and touching stories."--Geeta Sharma-Jensen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

In the store: $15.29
Online: $12.74 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $16.99
Available Now
"Compelling... Kingsolver's descriptions of life in Mexico City burst with sensory detail--thick sweet breads, vividly painted walls, the lovely white feet of an unattainable love."--The New Yorker

"[Kingsolver] hasn't lost her touch...she delivers her signature blend of exotic locale, political backdrop and immediately engaging story line... teems with dark beauty."--People

"Masterful...a reader receives the great gift of entering not one but several worlds.... The final pages haunt me still."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

In the store: $13.50
Online: $11.25 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.00
Available Now
The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously mourning the demise of his father and his marriage, Judd joins his dysfunctional family as they reluctantly sit shiva-and spend seven days and nights under the same roof. The week quickly spins out of control as longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed and old passions are reawakened. Then Jen delivers the clincher: she's pregnant.

"Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking... [Tropper is] a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche." --USA Today

This has been a fantastic year for books. Here are several we want to draw your attention to. And there are thousands more on our shelves right now.

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the store: $26.99
Online: $22.50 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $30.00
Available Now
In this gripping and compelling book, Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly sketches the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, whose charisma and political savvy earned him the position of leader of the Plains Indians, and George Armstrong Custer, one of the Union's greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage. Philbrick reminds readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. Increasingly outraged by the government's Indian policies, the Plains tribes allied themselves and held their ground in southern Montana. Within a few years of Little Bighorn, however, all the major tribal leaders would be confined to Indian reservations.

Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben

In the store: $21.59
Online: $18.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $24.00
Available Now
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back-on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Fundamental change is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.

Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

Now in Paperback
In the store: $14.40
Online: $12.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $16.00
Available Now
Tracy Kidder tells the story of Deo as he arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels with Deo back over his turbulent life.

The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter

In the store: $24.99
Online: $21.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $28.00
Available Now
Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. The Promise is a fast-paced and incisive narrative of a young risk-taking president carving his own path amid sky-high expectations and surging joblessness. Alter reveals that it was Obama alone who insisted on pushing major health care reform over the objections of his vice president and top advisors, including his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who admitted that "I begged him not to do this." This brilliant blend of journalism and history offers the freshest reporting and most acute perspective on the biggest story of our time. It will shape impressions of the Obama presidency and of the man himself for years to come.

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

In the store: $21.59
Online: $18.00 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $24.00
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. Says the author, "The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories." The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author.

Lots of Spots by Lois Ehlert

In the store: $14.40
Online: $13.46 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $17.99
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Acclaimed author and illustrator Lois Ehlert is at her Ogden Nash best in this lively collection of poems about animal camouflage and adornment. Birds and beasts from all walks of the animal kingdom are gathered here, beautifully illustrated in Lois's signature bold and bright collage style. Complete with an author's note about the how-and-why of animal spots-and-stripes.
Books & Bars--the Twin Cities' most unusual and interesting book club--meets Tuesday, August 24 at Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W Lake Street, in Minneapolis. Doors open at 6:00pm; the discussion begins at 7:00pm.

In the store: $14.35
Online: $11.96 (plus S/H)
Publisher's price: $15.95
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August's book is Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. It's the story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun who remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent efforts to help other victims, his disappearance a week later, and the effect of these events on his wife Kathy and their children.

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.

And don't forget next month's meeting:
  • September 14: Blankets by Craig Thompson

Books & Bars is presented by Jeff Kamin and Magers & Quinn Booksellers, sponsored by Bryant-Lake Bowl and Surly Brewing.


Visit booksandbars.com for details and to talk to fellow members!

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

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