May 2006 
 UConn Co-op
 News for Friends and Members
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Greetings!

Mother's Day. Wedding season. In less than a month, parades and picnics and, maybe an afternoon in the hammock. May is a good month for books, as gifts, and for ourselves to enjoy. Browse our shelves or browse our website. We are happy to help you find the perfect book for any occasion.

And by the way, once again there are some extra goodies for you at the bottom of this newsletter. Please take a look.

Happy May Days,

Suzy

 Now You Can Attend THE Book Industry Event Of the Year!
 Via Podcast

Every year the book industry gathers for Book Expo America (BEA). Publishers display their books, take orders from booksellers, buy and sell rights, and otherwise promote their titles. Booksellers peruse all the new books, pick up too many galleys for the health of even the youngest back, listen to authors, attend educational sessions, tallk shop, and conduct the annual meeting of the American Booksellers Association. Authors give talks, meet with agents (appointment only) and otherwise take in the sights. Lately, more and more librarians have been attending.

It’s an exciting (though exhausting for this baby boomer) few days. This year’s BEA will be held in Washington D.C. Now you can attend too, beginning May 22 via podcast. This is a first. In the past, there has been television and newspaper coverage, but now you can listen to many of the talks yourself.

Featured authors include John Updike, Richard Ford, Marc Brown and more (famous and not yet famous). If you like books (of course you do) this will be fun.

To Subscribe to the BEA Podcast 


 Stephen Burt at the Co-op
 Poetry Reading, May 25 at 7 pm

Graywolf, the esteemed literary press from St. Paul brings us Stephen Burt for an evening of poetry. Burt will read from his new work, Parallel Play. “This is a masterly book,” Frank Bidart writes, “by one of the most gifted poets of his generation.” In this, his second collection, Burt looks deep into his own life, taking us from the clubs of New York to a basketball game, probing both the connections he shares with his friends and the separateness of their lives.

Join us for this early summer reading.

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 Tour Connecticut This Summer
 And Save On Gasoline

You could drive to the Grand Canyon (2558 miles from Storrs) this summer and, supposing you get 25 miles per gallon, use 103 gallons of fuel or you could stay close to home, save money and enjoy what Connecticut has to offer.

You can visit historical houses, gardens, swim in a lake or the ocean, hike, ride a trolley, make a dinosaur footprint casting or ride a ferry. Not sure where to go? Let us help.

Click here for books to help you plan your close-to-home summer. 


 Reading the World
 American Publishers, Booksellers, and Readers Celebrate the Second Annual World in Translation Month

reading the world In collaboration with other independent booksellers, we are celebrating literature in translation this month. We think reading books from distant lands helps us to understand the way others live and think; what makes them laugh; what makes them worry; what in their lives is similar to ours, what is different.

Here are a few of our favorites.... 


 Promotions
 Shoot Your Mom and Save!

Shoot a picture of her that is. Bring the picture in and show the cashier and we'll take 20% off your next book purchase (coursebooks not included).

Happy Mothers' Day!

Prices starting as low as $4.98


The UConn Co-op is a member-owned independent bookstore serving the University of Connecticut and the wider academic community. We welcome everyone, young and old, through our doors and to our online bookstore.

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Suzy Staubach
UConn Co-op

 
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Save 25% On Your Next Gardening Book (s)

Friendship Coupon. Print this coupon and bring it with you. Browse our gardening shelves and choose a book (or a whole stack of literary things horticultural) to read when it's too rainy to work outside or to help and inspire you. You'll save 25%. Bring a friend along, and he or she will also save 25% on his or her purchase of gardening books.
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