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EVENT TO GO
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Check out this title by Howard Norman, who will be at Phoenix on July 10th. You can click on the cover image for more information, or to buy the book online from Phoenix!
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July at a Glance:
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7/01: Writing Group
7/07: Open Mic Players
7/10: Howard Norman
7/14: Jacob & Rachel
7/15: Writing Group
7/21: Green Mtn. Swing
7/24: Gigi & Joni
7/28: Summer Songwriters' Show
7/29: Writing Group
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TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
Summer Reading Program
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Our young customers are invited to sign up for our Tree of
Knowledge
Summer
Reading Program!
Over
the summer, we invite and encourage participants to visit Phoenix. While visiting, they'll be
given
a "leaf"
on which they'll document their latest read. Leaves will be attached to our in-store Tree of Knowledge.
Readers help
the Tree grow all summer long by reading books
and gaining new
knowledge. At the end of
the summer, we'll have a
celebration!
Our reading program
is designed
to be laid back, fun, and free of competition.
It will run through the end of August.
Suggested age range is (entering)
K-8.
To celebrate this program, we're discounting a hand-picked selection of books at 20% off!
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Can't Make an Event?
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You can still purchase an autographed book! Please call us at 872-7111 to make arrangements.
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SUSTAINABLE SCRIBBLINGS
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Ecojot is a beautiful range of Canadian made 100% post-consumer
recycled paper notebooks & journals.
They use acid-free, processed chlorine free paper & board. All their inks & glues are vegetable based, therefore
bio-degradable. No new trees are used to make their paper, and the paper mill
is powered by bio-gas harnessed from a nearby landfill.
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POCKETFUL OF POSIES
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Posy Pins are beautiful one-of-a-kind hair pins that are locally-made in Underhill, Vermont. Treat someone to a
Posy or show off your own style by tucking a Posy in your hair!
Posy Pins are delicate and durable. They're eye catching, fun, and make great gifts.
Affordable, timeless and fun, Posy
Pins are pretty, collectible and priceless. Each pin is a one of a kind, fresh and unique personal accessory made
from sustainable mulberry paper and reclaimed or vintage buttons.
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FRESH NEW PRODUCT
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VerMints are all-natural breath
mints and pastilles made with organic and natural ingredients, a
refreshing alternative to other "not so natural" mints.
Here are some more great things about Vermints:
No artificial sweeteners, flavoring or
coloring.
No high fructose corn syrup.
Totally Nut-Free & Gluten-Free.
Absolutely no animal products. (Vegans take note).
Plus, Vermints Inc. is based in Burlington!
Our favorite flavors are Chai and classic Peppermint!
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discussion, or tell us about the book you'd like to recommend. We'd love to hear from you!
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Time To Declare
Ready to declare your support for your local,
independent bookstore? Ask us about the Phoenix Fan Club next time
you're at the register!
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Thank you for choosing local and indie!
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Store Hours:
M-F: 9am-8pm
Sat: 10am-8pm
Sun: 11am-6pm
at the Essex
Shoppes & Cinema
21 Essex Way #407
Essex, VT 05452
802.872.7111
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Dear Friends,
For this issue, we've chosen a selection of new fiction titles for everyone in your family. Whether you slip a couple of these books into your beach bag, take some along on a family picnic, or read one with lemonade on your front porch, we hope you enjoy them! We'd also like to invite you to visit our page on Facebook: Click the "like" button, and we'll keep you up to date on our latest events and cafe offerings! If Twitter is more your style, don't be shy: You can follow us on Twitter, too! See you among the (real and virtual) shelves!
Sincerely,
Mike,
Renee, Beth, Colleen, Deb, Heather, Katie, Kristen, Nora, Rachel M.,
Rachel O., and Tod
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HOWARD NORMAN
On Saturday, July 10th, Howard Norman will discuss his new novel, What is Left the Daughter.
"Norman's piquant insights into life's wildness, human eccentricity, and love's maddening persistence are matched by rhapsodic and profound descriptions of everything from perfectly baked scones to pelting rain and the devouring sea, while anguish is tempered with humor, thanks to rapid-fire banter and marvelously spiky characters." - BooklistHoward Norman
is a three-time winner of National
Endowment for the Arts
fellowships. The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist were
nominated for the National Book Award. His books have
been
translated into twelve languages. He lives in Washington, D.C., and
Vermont
with his family. SATURDAY, JULY 10th at 7:00 PM |
The Summer Concert Series at the Essex Shoppes Pavilion Phoenix Books and the Essex Shoppes and Cinema have partnered to bring our community an exciting
month-long music series celebrating our own local musicians! Attendees
are encouraged to bring a blanket and gather 'round the gazebo every
Wednesday in July (and one Saturday) for relaxing musical journeys.Please join us in welcoming:
Open Mic Players: An eclectic concert of talented
musicians, poets, and players from the best of the Open Mic Nights at
Phoenix Books. Wednesday, July 7th, at 7:00 PM
Jacob & Rachel: A program of light,
inspirational
music
featuring a few of their own compositions as
well as a mix of light pop and contemporary Christian hits. Wednesday,
July 14th at 7:00
PM
Green Mountain Swing: A 17-piece big band based featuring hits of the thirties,
forties, and fifties. Wednesday,
July 21st at 7:00 PM
Gigi & Joni: Gigi Weisman and Joni AvRutick
perform original and traditional songs for children and
families; their music is playful and poetic, concerning themes of
friendship, community, and the environment. Saturday, July 24th at
12 Noon
Summer Songwriter's Show: Folk, jazz, blues, and
bluegrass styles with a wry New England sensibility and the smoldering
voices
of Rachel Hamilton, Carol Ann Jones, and Rebecca Padula. Wednesday,
July 28th at 7:00 PM
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STORYTIME
Storybooks You'll Love to Read Aloud
 The Monster Princess,
by D J MacHale
The bestselling author of the Pendragon series makes
his picture book debut. Deep in a cave there's a sweet little monster
with very big dreams. She wishes she was pretty. She wishes she could
dance. She wishes to be special--and this is her chance. Endearing and inventive with full-color illustrations. (Hardcover)
 Dogs Don't Do Ballet, by Anna Kemp
Meet Biff, an adorable little puppy who will stop at
nothing to become a ballet dancer.
Junior News & Mail calls it, "A charmingly hilarious picture book...sure to
be a hit with children and adults alike... A fabulous feel-good story about following your dreams."
(Picture Book, Hardcover)
 Lots of Spots, by Lois Ehlert
Lois Ehlert delights in this lively collection of
poems about animal camouflage and adornment. Birds and beasts from all
walks of the animal kingdom are gathered here, 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. (Hardcover)
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MIDDLE GRADE PICKS
Raising Passionate Readers
 The Shadows, by Jacqueline West
Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian
mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her quirky mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the
place - especially the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But
when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she
discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these
paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily familiar. (Hardcover)
 The Wide-Awake Princess, by E.D. Baker
Princess Annie is the younger
sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. When
Gwennie pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie
is awake, and only Annie--impervious to
magic--can venture out beyond the rose-covered hedge for help. She must
find Gwen's true love to kiss her awake. Kirkus Review says, "The author ably joins the practitioners of the contemporary fairy tale,
suggesting that those fairy tales and their happily-ever-afters are not
always better than reality." (Hardcover)
 Keeper, by Kathi Appelt
To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone
wrong...and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things
right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam away when Keeper
was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar,
and that's exactly where she is headed -- in a small boat, in the
middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and a seagull
named Captain.
(Hardcover)
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YOUNG ADULT PICKS
Hand-Picked Titles Teens Will Love
 Burned (House of Night Novel #7), by P.C. Cast
Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey
Redbird's soul has shattered. With everything she's ever stood for
falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the
Otherworld forever, Zoey's fading fast. It's seeming more and more
doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to
rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living
person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her. But how? (Hardcover)
 It's Not Summer Without You,
by Jenny Han
It used to be
that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins
Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah
got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Now Belly wishes summer would never come. But
when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she
must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the
beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. (Hardcover)
 White Cat, by Holly Black
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers -- people with the
power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, just by the touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're
all mobsters. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got a
magic touch, so he's the outsider in this crooked family.
Cassel begins to suspect he's part
of a huge
con game, and discovers he'll have to out-con the conmen. "[R]ead it," says Kirkus Review. (Hardcover)
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FICTION
Great Summer Reads
 The Good Son, by Michael Gruber
Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a
symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a
deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the
kidnappers' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of
their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian
training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. (Hardcover)
 Ilustrado, by Miguel Syjuco
It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of
Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River--taken from the world
is the controversial lion of Philippine literature. Gone, too, is the
only manuscript of his final book, a work meant to rescue him from
obscurity by exposing the crimes of the Filipino ruling families.
Miguel, his student and only remaining friend, sets out for Manila to
investigate. (Hardcover)
 The Long Song, by Andrea Levy
The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives
with her mother until Mrs. Mortimer, an
English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her
"Marguerite." Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes
indispensable. Together they live through the bloody
Baptist war, followed by the chaotic end of slavery. July remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." The
arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, dramatically changes life for both of them. (Hardcover)
 One Man's Paradise, by Douglas Corleone
Hotshot New York criminal defense lawyer Kevin Corvelli was rolling. Guilty? Innocent? It
didn't matter so long as he won, got in the papers, and got paid. That's
until he loses---and loses big---when a client, who was convicted and
then killed in jail, is later proven innocent. The media has a field day, so Corvelli, disgraced, bolts for Hawaii.
He sets up shop in paradise and swears
to handle only misdemeanors this time around---but his first case is anything but that.
(Hardcover)
 The Tulip Virus, by Danielle Hermans
In 1636 Holland, Wouter Winckel's body
is found in the barroom of his inn, an antireligious pamphlet stuffed in
his mouth. Winckel was a respected tulip-trader and owned the most
beautiful collection of tulips in the United Republic of the Low
Countries. But who wanted him dead?
In 2007 London, Dutchman
Frank Schoeller is found in his home by his nephew, Alec. Severely
wounded, he is holding a 17th-century book about tulips, seemingly a
reference to the reason for his death moments later. (Hardcover)
 Wanna Get Lucky?, by Deborah Coonts
A young woman plunges from a Vegas sightseeing helicopter,
landing in the Pirate's lagoon. Lucky O'Toole smells a rat. She's
head
of Customer Relations at The Babylon, the newest, most opulent
mega-casino and resort on the Strip, so she's got a lot on her plate:
the Adult Film industry's annual awards banquet, a spouse-swapping
convention, sex toy purveyors preying on the pocket-protector crowd
attending ElectroniCon.... Still, Lucky can't resist turning over a few
stones. (Hardcover)
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BOOK CLUB PICK
OF THE MONTH
Look Again, by Lisa Scottoline
 When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in
the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her
look again, and her heart stops: the child in the photo is identical to
her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the
similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful.
But she's a journalist and won't be able to stop thinking about the
photo until she figures out the truth. And she can't shake the question:
if Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give
him up? She investigates, uncovering clues no one was meant to
discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life--and
that of the son she loves.
Did you know? Book clubs are eligible for a
15% discount on books ordered from Phoenix! At least five copies must
be ordered, and all copies must be purchased through your book club's
coordinator, for discount to apply.
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WHO/WHAT/WHERE
| On June 9th at Essex Cinemas, Howard Frank Mosher gave a
talk, slideshow, and reading to benefit the Essex Free Library.
"Transforming
History into
Fiction: The Story of a Born Liar,"
chronicles the "making of" Howard's new novel, Walking to
Gatlinburg, a story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery,
and
love during the Civil War. The event was sponsored by Phoenix, and a great time was had by all!
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LAST MONTH AT PHOENIX...
Michael DeSanto (owner, Phoenix Books), Susan Overfield (Librarian, Essex Free Library), and Howard Frank Mosher (Northeast Kingdom Author Extraordinaire)
Missed Howard but still want a book? We have a limited supply of
autographed copies! Stop by or call 872-7111 to reserve yours.
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