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Bookends: August 2010
Win your book group copies of The Ghost of Milagro Creek
Book group reading recommendations &
upcoming events
Forthcoming releases you shouldn't miss
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Win your book group copies of:
The Ghost of Milagro Creek
by Melanie Sumner
Publisher Algonquin is so sure that your book club will love this novel,
they've given us a whole set to give away!
How to enter:
Everyone has their own special way of making their book group the best. Send us your best book group tip--something that you feel really helps your group choose the right books and get the most out of reading and discussing them. We'll pick out our favorite tip and that person's group will win copies of The Ghost of Milagro Creek. We'll also send out the winning tip and the runners-up in next month's Bookends email.
Simply reply to this email to send us your entry, and make sure to include both your name and your book group's name. The deadline to enter is Monday, August 30th. Please only submit one entry per person, but multiple entries per book group are just fine.
 The Ghost of Milagro Creek
by Melanie Sumner
The story of Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jacarilla Apache, and the two boys, Mister and Tomas, she raised to adulthood unfolds in a barrio of Taos, New Mexico--a mixed community of Native Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Now deceased, Ignacia, a "curandera"--a medicine woman, though some say a witch--begins this tale of star-crossed lovers.
Mister and Tomas, best friends until their late teens, both fall for Rocky, a "gringa" of some mystery, a girl Tomas takes for himself. But in a moment of despair, a pledge between the young men leads to murder. When Ignacia falls silent, police reports, witness statements, and caseworker interviews draw an electrifying portrait of a troubled community and of the vulnerable players in this mounting tragedy. Set in a terrain that becomes a character in its own right, The Ghost of Milagro Creek brilliantly illuminates this hidden corner of American society.
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Community Book Group Event!
Tuesday, August 24th at 7:30
Special Guests:
Tandy Beal & Julie Boudreau
Book Selection:
Sukie Miller's After Death
Choreographer Tandy Beal is taking on the after-life. In her project "Here After Here," partially inspired by Sukie Miller's book, After Death,
Beal combines a long-term investigation of dance, visual narrative,
circus, text and music to make a rich mosaic of both contemporary and
traditional concepts of the afterlife. Using Suki Miller's text as a starting point, Tandy Beal, Hospice Care Coordinator
Julie Boudreau, and Bookshop Santa Cruz's Community Book Group
facilitator Julie Minnis will be leading a community discussion about our views of the hereafter, our stories of dying, and our opinions of death.
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Reading group recommendations from our booksellers:
 An Equal Music
by Vikram Seth
The versatile Seth seems capable of anything. Novel in sonnet form, Dickensian style sagas about India, and now this beautiful tale about musicians and love. Seth is a musician as well as a writer. Why am I not surprised? --Seana
by Luis Alberto Urrea
This incredibly beautiful & poignant novel opened my mind and heart to the "other side" of immigration while at the same time infecting me (as only Urrea can do) with a long-lasting sense of awe at the beauty and grace that exists both around and within all of us. Five Stars. --Mackai
by Nick Reding
The problem of Meth in the U.S. does not receive nearly enough press. This book tells a story that needs to be heard. Beyond drug abuse, this book is about political corruption, money, and a great American plague. --Alison
 Wild Comfort
by Kathleen Moore
Stunned by the deaths of several close friends, writer Kathleen Moore sought comfort in the wild. This is the kind of book that makes you grateful for the English language, and that makes you think. A stunning book that is sure to spur conversation. --Kat
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Don't miss these recent and forthcoming releases
Fiction:
Ford County by John Grisham available in paperback 8/17
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins available in hardcover 8/24 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen available in hardcover 8/31 (Franzen is the first author to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine in ten years and he'll be coming to Bookshop on January 6th!) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel available in paperback 8/31
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls available in paperback 9/07
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow available in paperback 9/07
The Thorn by Beverly Lewis available in paperback 9/07
And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer available in hardcover 9/14
Nonfiction:
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel available in paperback 8/17
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins available in paperback 8/24
I Drink for a Reason by David Cross now available in paperback
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan available in paperback 9/07
American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood by Marc Eliot available in paperback 9/07
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