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M&Q is unpacking hundreds of books for the holiday season. Here are just a few of them.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka's fate, and that of his father, will be decided. Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages. "Luka and the Fire of Life is a beautiful book. Well-written (obviously), imaginative (astonishingly so) and wonderful in the way it builds heartfelt magical fiction for kids who love video games: It's like a bridge, built between generations, fabulous and strange and from the heart."--Neil Gaiman Decision Points by George W Bush
In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor's Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
We've got the right book for every reader. Stop in today.
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"The prose is polished and evocative, the physicality of rural Texas in the year 1910 shimmers with loving exactitude, and the story of Karel Skala is a gripping American drama of misplaced guilt, familial struggle, and a search for identity. ... What a fine, rich, absorbing book."--Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried From an early age young Karel proves so talented on horseback that his father enlists him to ride a high-stakes race against a powerful Spanish patriarch and his alluring daughters. Hanging in the balance are his father's fortune, his brother's futures, and Karel's own fate. Fourteen years later, with the stake of the race still driven hard between him and his brothers, Karel is finally forced to dress the wounds of his past and to salvage the tattered fabric of his family. The New York Times reviewed Bruce Machart's debut novel The Wake of Forgiveness, and it's a rave. Says author Philip Caputo, "His accounts of the horse races are as thrilling as his depictions of the harsh Texas landscape are loving and precise. He has a good ear for Western speech, and he writes as convincingly about an era he never experienced as he does about such diverse topics as cotton farming, quail hunting and gelding stallions. ... "The Wake of Forgiveness" is a fine debut." The full review is here. Don't miss your chance to catch a rising literary star. Wednesday, November 10, 7:30pm--Gene Stone discusses The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick
The stories make it personal; then comes the science, the authority (with experts' conflicting opinions on if and how it really works), and the nuts and bolts--how to bring each secret into your own life. From probiotics to veganism to a daily dose of garlic, from yoga to cold showers, it's an invaluable list: 25 secrets to health, and how to make each work for you. "Offbeat, informative, and fun, this original book reveals the health secrets of people who never get sick--some right on, some you'd never expect. ... A great read."--Andrew Weil, MD, author of Spontaneous Healing Gene Stone is a writer, journalist, and former Peace Corps volunteer. He's written and/or ghostwritten more than 30 books, most recently the national bestseller The Engine 2 Diet, with Rip Esselstyn; his articles and columns have appeared in New York, Playboy, Esquire, Vogue, Elle, and GQ. He lives in New York City. Thursday, November 18, 7:30pm--Adam Levin reads from The Instructions
Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very different sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity. "One of the buzziest books of the fall."--The Stranger (Seattle) Adam Levin's stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney's, and Esquire. Winner of the 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, he lives in Chicago, where he teaches writing at Columbia College and The School of the Art Institute. Monday, November 22, 7:30pm--Dan Buettner discusses his new book Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
In Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way, New York Times bestselling author and explorer, Dan Buettner, reports on the surprising findings from his five-year global study on the keys to personal happiness. In addition to sharing his extraordinary accounts of the happiest people on the planet, Buettner examines how their unique lifestyles correlate to their extraordinary well-being. Finally--and most importantly--Buettner details how to incorporate these powerful characteristics into our daily routine so that we, too, can thrive. The National Geographic Society sent Buettner on assignment to the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark; the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon; the town of San Luis Obispo in California (arguably the happiest place in America); and perhaps counter-intuitively, the island of Singapore, a region known for its draconian justice system. To unravel the complicated mystery of how each of these four geographic pockets, and specifically their culture, geography, government policies and behavior of their thriving citizens, stack the deck in favor of happiness, Buettner began his research plumbing the most comprehensive databases--tens of millions of data points collected over the past 70 years and representing 95 percent of the world's population--to determine which factors most directly impact happiness. In addition, he gathered valuable insights from social scientists, economists, politicians, writers, demographers, physiologists, anthropologists and even comedians in each location. "Dan Buettner has hit this one out the ballpark. In fact, reading Thrive had the effect of asking myself whether it was worth devoting any more time to the arduous study of well-being. I would like to add the book to our class reading list, but again I am afraid of signaling to our PhD students that they need not bother learn statistics and survey methods... Thrive is really subversive!"--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow and Professor of Psychology Claremont Graduate Dan Buettner is an internationally recognized research, explorer, and author. As a pioneer in exploration and education, he has traveled the world to find the best practices in health, longevity and happiness. Buettner's National Geographic cover story on longevity, "The Secrets of Living Longer" was one of the top-selling issues in history and a made him a finalist for a national magazine award. His 2008 book, The Blue Zones, hit the New York Times bestseller list. Tuesday, November 30, 7:30pm--Michael Nordskog and Aaron W. Hautala discuss The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition
Beginning with the origins of Finnish sauna and arrival of the practice to North America, and continuing all the way to contemporary design, The Opposite of Cold is an exquisite commemoration of the history, culture, and practice of Finnish sauna in the north woods. With stunning photographs of unique and historic saunas of the region--including the oldest sauna in North America, incredible surviving saunas from immigrant farmsteads, and the gorgeous contemporary saunas from noted architects--Michael Nordskog and Aaron W. Hautala unveil the importance and beauty of sauna culture in modern Midwestern life. Richly illuminated by Hautala's photographs of distinctive saunas from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and Finland, The Opposite of Cold is for people who grew up with Wednesday and Saturday evening saunas (or watched their steaming neighbors running toward the lake) and for those who dream of one day having their own. Through this book we see why Finnish sauna tradition is vital and enduring, from the warmest summer evenings to the coldest winter nights. Michael Nordskog grew up in the heart of North American sauna country. He works as an attorney, writer, and editor, and he lives with his wife and three children in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Aaron W. Hautala is the creative director and owner of RedHouseMedia in Brainerd, Minnesota. He has helped launch a variety of magazines and was the founding art director at Lake Country Journal. His photographs have appeared widely throughout Minnesota. To learn more about these and all our readings at Magers & Quinn, please visit our events page at magersandquinn.com.
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 Signed books are one-of-a-kind gifts. No one else can give your dad a copy of Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn dedicated to him by the author. Or a copy of Chris Monroe's wonderful illustrated book Sneaky Sheep with your granddaughter's name written right on the title page.Magers & Quinn Booksellers makes it easy for you to get personalized gifts for everyone on your list. Every Saturday in December, authors will be in the store signing copies of their books. The events are free and open to the public.
       1:00pm, Saturday, December 4--Glorious food books
1:00pm, Saturday, December 11--Books for children of all ages
Bonus signing!--12:00pm, Saturday, December 18
1:00pm, Saturday, December 18--(Minnesota) Nice Books
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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, November 23, at duplex restaurant.bar, 2516 Hennepin Ave S, in Minneapolis.
The Big Bang Book Club mixes
arts and science into a heady brew. It is
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Several recent bestsellers are out now in
paperback. Check out our front table for these and many, many more good books.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Holidays on Ice--With Six New Stories by David Sedaris
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
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 The Edge Life Expo returns to Minneapolis November 13 and 14. Edge Life will be at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis,
1300 Nicollet Mall. General Admission tickets are $9, and can be purchased by calling 1-877/776-5244 or at www.edgelife.net.
Speakers this year include Kathryn Harwig (author of The Return of Intuition: Awakening Psychic Gifts in the Second Half of Life), Carol E Hyder (author of Conversations with Your Home: Guidance and Inspiration beyond Feng Shui), and Helen Reddy.
For more information, visit www.edgelife.net.
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Books & Bars meets twice a month--at Bryant-Lake Bowl in Uptown and at the Aster Cafe in St Anthony Main. Attend either meeting or come to both for a double dose of literary merriment.
6:30pm, Tuesday, November 9, at Bryant-Lake Bowl
November's first book is the classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which has sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. 6:30pm, Tuesday, November 23, at Aster Cafe
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.
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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:
info@magersandquinn.com
Call us:
612/822-4611
Or visit our website:
http://www.magersandquinn.com
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