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WORD February Newsletter
Arthur Nersesian, Forgotten Greenpoint and more...

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New Arrivals
Upcoming Events
WORD January bestsellers
Book Clubs
WORD Book-a-Month Club
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New Arrivals
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides

My Revolutions, by Hari Kunzru

Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolano

The Daily Show and Philosophy, edited by Jason Holt

Diary of a Bad Year, by J. M. Coetzee

Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith

Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra

The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure Writers, edited by Smith Magazine

call me by your name, by Andre Aciman

For kids:
Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper, by Michael Reisman

The Black Tattoo, by Sam Enthoven

The Time Thief, Book Two of the Gideon Trilogy, by Linda Buckley-Archer
 
Upcoming Events
Thursday, February 21, 7:30pm:
Brooklyn and Queens Noir night: Brooklyn-based publisher Akashic Books will present readings by Brooklyn Noir editor Tim McLoughlin and contributor Arthur Nersesian along with Queens Noir editor Robert Knightly and contributor Jillian Abbott.

Friday, February 29, 8:00pm:
WORD Book-to-Movie Night: Running With Scissors

Saturday, March 1, 12:00pm:
WORD Book Club: Cloud Atlas

Wednesday, March 5, 7:30pm:
WORD Book Club:
Cloud Atlas

Thursday, March 6, 7:30pm:
Kevin Walsh, author of Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis, will present a multimedia presentation on "Forgotten Greenpoint."

Tuesday, March 11, 7:30pm:
WORD Book Club:
Cloud Atlas

Wednesday, March 12, 7:30pm:
Reading and signing by Nina Siegal, author of the debut novel A Little Trouble With the Facts

Thursday, March 13, 7:30pm:
WORD Book Club:
Cloud Atlas

Tuesday, March 18th, 7:30pm:
WORD game night

Friday, March 28th, 8:00pm:
WORD Book-to-Movie Night

Sunday, March 30th, 2pm:
Akashic event with Betsy Crane, author of You Must Be This Happy to Enter and Paul Fattaruso, author of the upcoming Hotel St. George release Bicycle


WORD January bestsellers
Here's what everyone was buying in January:

1. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
2. The Missing by Sara Langan
3. Celine Dion's Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3) by Carl Wilson
4. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
5. Gallop! by Rufus Butler Seder
6. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
7. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
8. Brooklyn Was Mine by various
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro    
10. Best Creative Non-Fiction, Vol. 1 edited by Lee Gutkind
Book Clubs
February's book (to be discussed in March) is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Book Club Meetings:
  • 1st Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm
  • 1st Saturday of every month at noon
  • 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm
  • 2nd Thursday of every month at 7:30pm
Call or email to sign up for a book club.
WORD Book-a-Month Club
Enroll the children in your life in the WORD Book-a-Month Club and help them build their library!

Each month, we will mail a new book directly to the child's home.  Choose from three age groups:
  • Newborn - 3 years (board books)
  • 4 - 7 years (beginning readers)
  • 8 - 12 years (classic chapter books)
Half Year $65.00 / Full Year $125.00
 


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