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Week of August 11

Amazon vs the independents; eBooks; Author Events with Rory Stewart, Jennifer Close, and Don Peck

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Thursday, August 11
7 p.m. Larrie D. Ferreiro - Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

Sunday, August 14
5 p.m. eBook Information Session

Monday, August 15
7 p.m. Rory Stewart & Gerald Knaus - Can Intervention Work?


 

Tuesday, August 16
7 p.m. Jennifer Close - Girls in White Dresses

Wednesday, August 17
7 p.m. Don Peck - Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It

Thursday, August 18
7 p.m. Williard Sterne Randall - Ethan Allen: His Life and Times



The Scoop from Brad & Lissa

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Good news for the book industry and an EBook Tutorial

New data released this week shows encouraging signs from the publishing industry: For three years running – 2008, 2009, and 2010 – publishers’ revenues have risen because more people are buying books. The surge in sales cuts across book categories, according to the report released by The Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group. Another hopeful sign: Adult fiction posted among the strongest gains.

One wrinkle, at least for bookstores, is that the steady gains are also due, in part, to rising sales of eBooks, particularly romance novels, mysteries, and thrillers. As of earlier this year, eBooks made up about 10 percent of the market, a figure expected to grow.

The inevitable rise of eBooks is a concern for lovers of physical books, but we are not among those who fear that hardbacks and paperbacks are about to become obsolete. To the contrary, we think that physical books will endure. They offer a reading experience that is tactile and tangible, one still enjoyed by readers of all ages and tastes (and perhaps, especially, by people who spend all day staring at a computer screen at the office).

Call us optimists. (Didn’t we just buy a bookstore?) But we are also realists. And because of that, Politics & Prose will hold its first training session for customers interested in learning how to download eBooks from our website. If you’re interested in a tutorial on downloading from P&P, come to the store on Sunday, August 14 at 5 p.m. and several booksellers will be available to coach you. Bring your eReader if you own one, but it is not necessary in order to participate. (Please RSVP by emailing [email protected].)

Now, the caveat: If you own a Kindle, you’re out of luck. That’s because Amazon owns you. With a Kindle, you can only buy through Amazon; you are not allowed to buy eBooks from any independent bookstore (or any other on-line retailer). Of course, our preferred solution is for you to boldly hurl your Kindle into the trash heap of digital readers and switch to an iPad, Sony Reader, Nook, or virtually any other device, all of which can read eBooks from P&P’s website. Here’s what’s in it for you: The price for most eBooks will be the same as at Amazon, plus you get the added satisfaction of supporting a truly independent, local bookstore with expert booksellers, hundreds of free author events each year, book clubs, courses, and special literary programs that are simply not available on Amazon or through big box stores.

And one more thing: We both pay local taxes and make donations to many area schools in order to support our community . Amazon does not.

Whether you are a physical book devotee, an eBook convert, or a hybrid of the two, we look forward to engaging all of you in our shared cause of good reading, good conversation, and the building of an engaged and literate community.

Thanks, as always, for your support.

- Brad and Lissa


ANNOUNCING TICKETED EVENT

Authors

Thursday, September 8, 7 p.m.
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/ Chinatown
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN & MICHAEL MANDELBAUM
THAT USED TO BE US: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28)

Citing globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and America’s pattern of energy consumption as the main threats to the country’s power and prosperity, the authors look to American history for guidance. Friedman, columnist and author of The World is Flat, and Mandelbaum, professor and director of the American Foreign Policy Program at SAIS, examine key turning points in the nation’s past and focus on the values that have seen us through.  

One free ticket will be provided with each purchase of this book. Additional tickets are $12 (or $15 the day of the event). Prepayment is required to secure reservations. Books and tickets cannot be held without a confirmed payment. Pre-ordered books and tickets will be available for pickup at P&P on September 5, 6, or 7 or at the event at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on September 8.

 


STAFF RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK

 

Girls in White DressesPlease join us on Tuesday, August 16 at 7 p.m. when we welcome our friend and former colleague Jennifer Close for her fiction debut, GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES (Knopf, $24.95). Smart, hilarious, and sincere in a combination both rare and, here, perfectly balanced, this series of interconnected short stories features Isabella, her family, and her group of close friends, as Isabella moves from being a reluctant member of her older sister's bridal party to attending the weddings of numerous friends. However, this is not just a book about getting married; it is a book about growing up, being a girl, being both a friend and a girlfriend, and trying to find one's place in the world. It is also incredibly funny -- laugh out loud, run into the next room to read sections to whoever will listen, spot-on funny! This lovely book should not only be shared among mothers, daughters, and friends, but be passed on to brothers, boyfriends, and dads too! - Sarah Baline

Sarah's recommendation was chosen by the consortium of independent bookstores as one of its Indie Next Picks. Click here to browse more of their reviews, but remember to select P&P as your local bookstore when shopping on their site, so you are directed back to ours!

REMINDER - P&P members save 20% on staff recommended titles from our newsletter through Labor Day.

 

BARBARA'S BYLINE

 

Long NightWilliam Shirer and the Third Reich

This past week I’ve read and mostly enjoyed a new book that will be of interest to many of our customers: THE LONG NIGHT: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, (Palgrave Macmillan, $27) by Newsday senior editor Steve Wick

After graduating from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1925, Shirer’s passion to become a journalist finally landed him a job on the copydesk with the Chicago Tribune, but before long, he was a foreign correspondent based in Paris. In this heady atmosphere of Paris in the '20s, he crossed paths with such then-famous journalists as Dorothy Thompson and H.R. Knickerbocker, as well as Hemingway and Joyce. This assignment was followed by an unproductive one in India, after which Colonel McCormick at the Tribune telegraphed him in 1933 that he was fired. 

Finally after almost of year of being unemployed, Shirer was hired on the copydesk of the Herald Tribune in Paris. (He has described this move as "going from bad to Hearst.") That same year, 1934, he began to make working trips to Berlin.  Fascist groups were rapidly appearing is Paris, but Shirer’s interests became focused on Germany. He soon moved to Berlin when William Randoph Hearst’s new wire service offered him a job in the bureau. Although initially he found life there in 1935 “not so unpleasant as expected,” Shirer’s eyes were rapidly opened by the increasing government pogroms against the Jews, which would steadily multiply until he left Germany at the end of 1939. It was not until 1955, when practically broke, that Shirer began work on his classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Simon & Schuster, $29.99).

Click here to read more.

DAVID'S DELIBERATION

Tax

A CALL TO ACTION
My political mentors taught me that in the U.S., good and bad political news travels from west to east. Tim Rutten, a Los Angeles Times columnist, made me aware of the harm Amazon actively creates in California--a harm that will affect residents in Washington, Maryland, Virginia and all our other states.

Amazon refuses to collect taxes for sales to customers residing in states without a physical facility, a warehouse. This tax shelter comes from a 1992 Supreme Court decision. California facing huge deficits, made more so by our troubled economy, asserted its authority to collect these taxes. In California, $1.9 billion is lost in revenue from Amazon alone. The legislature acted responsibly and said, "Amazon, pay up."

Now, Amazon is gathering signatures on an initiative petition to place the Amazon sales tax exemption on the ballot. A company that at last count is capitalized at $98.45 billion will spend upwards of $20 million to buy itself an exemption in the California referendum. What can we do in the face of such litigiousness?

Click here to read more.

- David Cohen

SIGNED BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Last Werewolf

 

Glen Duncan's THE LAST WEREWOLF (Knopf, $25.95) is a sexy, literary twist on the werewolf genre reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde if we were able to see what Jekyll and Hyde would be like if alive after more than two centuries. Duncan's depressed antihero, Jake, is reconciled to his monstrous nature yet haunted by his first kill, when he discovers he is the last living werewolf. Hunted by a society dedicated to eradicating his kind, he is forced to decide whether he should bother fighting to preserve his species. Then he discovers the most precious thing to both the man and the beast, and suddenly life matters. Get your limited-edition, first-printing, autographed copy with blood-red edges today! - Angela Maria Williams

 

Last Werewolf

 

Our August 8th event with The Washington Post’s book critic Jonathan Yardley was so popular that he offered to come back and sign more books. His new paperback SECOND READING: Notable Neglected Books Revisited (Europa, $16) reminds us that while it’s hard enough to keep up with all the new books coming out, the task is truly daunting when you consider the titles you’ve overlooked through the years. . . but he also provides a solution. From 2003 until January 2010, Yardley has offered an occasional, selective look at books worth going back to. Now some of these essays have been collected—here’s great reading on great reading.

 

Click here to view more books available now from our signed book display.


BOOK NOTES

 

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99 cent sale on 20 Harper Perennial eBooks

Do you enjoy offbeat humor, sharp dialogue and well-crafted prose? If you have enjoyed the insights of David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Diablo Cody and Miranda July, and you find Jean Shepherd and Denis Johnson compelling, then you'll also like discovering these contemporary, young novelists and memoirists who are adept at exposing the tragic, the comic, and the darkly poignant underside of American life. Other authors love to recommend these authors, and Harper Perennial wants you to try downloading eBooks! Here's a sample:

Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour, by Rachel Shukert (Harper Perennial eBook, $0.99)

Traveling from Vienna to Zurich to Amsterdam, Rachel bounces through complicated relationships, drunken mishaps, miscommunication, and the reality-adjusting culture shock that every twentysomething faces when sent off to negotiate "the real world".

Praise for Everything Is Going to Be Great…

“Shukert is a hugely funny, wildly smart, and menacingly original writer. I don’t much care for leaving the house, but if I were ever to travel, I’d want to do it in book form and alongside Rachel, who has one billion crazy stories set in foreign lands, all beautifully told.” - Julie Klausner, author of I Don’t Care About Your Band

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.” - Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Click here to browse more books featured in this limited-time offer from Harper Perennial.

 


EBOOK OF THE WEEK

Goon Squad

 

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (Knopf/Google eBook, $9.99), by Jennifer Egan

Time is the goon squad, and it comes for us all. Characters are revealed in their past, present, and future tenses. What begins in a 1970s San Francisco garage takes us to New York, Naples, Africa, an unnamed third world country. Egan experiments with language, with narrative style, with voice. Egan herself may be the goon squad, and she is coming for the novel. She is forcing it forward, like her characters, into the future.

- Bill Leggett

Click here for more recommended eBooks. (Note that eBooks are also available as print books. Amazing!)

 


PODCAST AND SIGNED BOOK OF THE WEEK

J. Courtney Sullivan

On Wednesday, July 27, J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Commencement, visited Politics & Prose to read from her second novel MAINE (Knopf, $25.95). As the Kelleher clan gathers at the family’s summer home, tradition and change are both in the air. Focusing on four women of the family, the story delves into secrets of the past, domestic frustrations of the present, and surprises in store for the future.

Click here to listen to the reading.

Click here to listen to download more event recordings available from the Politics & Prose archive.

During the month of an author's appearance, an event title is discounted 20% to Politics & Prose members. By registering their commitment to the store, members support us in bringing these fantastic authors to your community.

 


P&P BESTSELLERS

Bestseller

All Politics & Prose Weekly Hardcover Bestsellers are 20% off for Members.

These are our top two titles. Click to see which other fiction and non-fiction books we are discounting this week.

CONQUISTADORA, by Esmeralda Santiago (Knopf, $27.50)
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson (Crown, $26)

 


COMING SOON TO YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE

Events

Click www.politics-prose.com/event for our author events calendar through September.

Thursday, August 11, 7 p.m.

Larrie D. Ferreiro - Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

7 p.m. The eighteenth century saw heated disputes about the planet’s shape, with Newton arguing that Earth was flattened at the poles, while French scientists thought it was elongated. A joint French-Spanish expedition to Peru from 1735 to 1739 settled the question, and Ferreiro’s account brings the period’s theories, discoveries, and adventures vividly to life.

Sunday, August 14, 5 p.m.

eBook Information Session
www.politics-prose.com sells eBooks for most digital reading devices. They're easy to use and, due to contractual agreements with all the major publishers, our prices are the same as through Barnes & Noble, the Mac Store, or Amazon. Learn how to download a Google eBook through Politics & Prose website.

Space is limited. Sign up today by emailing your name (and type of eReader) to [email protected]

Click here to see some of our currently recommended eBooks.

Monday, August 15, 7 p.m.

Rory Stewart & Gerald Knaus - Can Intervention Work?
Combining first-hand experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans, and other regions with a survey of philosophies that have informed state-building, Stewart, author of The Places In Between and King of the Marshes, and co-author Gerald Knaus, founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative, offer a thorough discussion of the challenges and consequences of interventionism.

Tuesday, August 16, 7 p.m.

Jennifer Close - Girls in White Dresses
Close’s debut fiction chronicles the ups and downs, the heartaches and headaches, of three young women. Getting by with a little help from each other, Isabella, Mary, and Lauren work at jobs they feel ambivalent about and fall in love with men they know they shouldn’t. Funny and warm, this book is a fresh and witty take on romance and friendship.

Wednesday, August 17, 7 p.m.

Don Peck - Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Following up and expanding on his article “The Recession’s Long Shadow: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America,” which appeared in The Atlantic last March, Peck argues that although the peak of the financial crisis has passed, its effects will be many and lasting, especially on employment levels.

Thursday, August 18, 7 p.m.

EventsWilliard Sterne Randall - Ethan Allen: His Life and Times
Randall’s life of the Green Mountain Boy cuts through the myths to reveal this American revolutionary as a deeply rebellious, but also self-aggrandizing figure. Born poor, then largely self-educated, Allen embellished his biography but was a truly inspirational figure to his peers and a strong advocate of the separation of church and state.

Sunday, August 21

Reduced hours

Politics & Prose will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to accommodate a staff event.
Modern Times Coffeehouse will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

P&P CUSTOMERS ARE ALSO INVITED TO . . .

 

Politics & Prose sells books at many book signing parties and events. The events below are open to the public; however, reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization. Please contact [email protected] if you are planning an event and would like us to supply the books.

Monday, September 12, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

OffsiteRonald Reagan Building & International Trade Center Amphitheater
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Metro Accessible: Metro Center and Federal Triangle

DR. PAUL FARMER
HAITI AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE (PublicAffairs, $27.99)
On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the profound economic and social injustices that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake--the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster".

Co-founder of Partners In Health, Dr. Farmer, with his colleagues, has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. Click here to listen to Partners In Health Summer Reading Series focused on Haiti After the Earthquake.

Click here for tickets ($50/$30/$22.50) and more information.

 

FROM THE CHILDREN AND TEENS' DEPARTMENT

SUMMER READING DISCOUNTS

Through Labor Day, Politics & Prose offers a 10% discount on books purchased from school summer reading lists. If your school does not provide a summer reading list, check with your public library. All public libraries provide suggested reading lists and we will also honor them with a 10% discount.  Just bring your list; we will be glad to help you make selections for an enjoyable summer of reading.

SHARE YOUR FAVORITES

Share your favorite books with us and each other. Keep track of your reading on our Summer Book Log and submit reviews of your favorites to the Children and Teens’ Department. If your review is posted on our website, you may come in to select a free paperback book! You may submit more than one review; however, we will post no more than one review per person.

Childrens

CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK
(20% off through August 17)
“Today my memory whirls back to my North Carolina past.” When Romare Bearden was three years old, he and his parents left their home in the South and moved to Harlem during the Great Migration. As he grew older and began painting, his deep connection to his early home inspired many of his famous works. Jeanne Walker Harvey retells his journey in blues-inspired verses, drawing on his family’s history to bring Bearden’s childhood to life. The bright collage illustrations are a wonderful tribute to his style, and Elizabeth Zunon includes some of Bearden’s work. Thoughtful yet fun, this creative story sweeps readers along on a train ride that showed Bearden how MY HANDS SING THE BLUES (Marshall Cavendish, $17.99). Ages 6-8 - Amy Kane

 

 

For more recommendations, you can browse our catalog of Children's Department Summer Favorites in .pdf format by clicking here. The printed catalogs are available in the store.

Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here. 

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STORY HOUR
Story hour will resume in the Children and Teens' Department on Monday, September 12 at 10:30 a.m., with BearSong and his guitar. Please join us each week for storytelling and music for children from birth to 5 years old.

We will also host some special guests for story hour.

On September 19, performers from Isabella and Ferdinand Spanish Language Adventures will perform music from their new CD, Olé and Play ($19.99). This event will be held in Spanish.

On October 3, Grammy Award winning artists Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer will entertain us with a variety of musical instruments as they share their new book, Sing to Your Baby (Community Music, $19.95).

Sign up here to receive email updates about the Politics & Prose story hour. We will inform you of special story hours, changes or cancellations.

MARKDOWN BOOKS

 

Remainders

Meet Sabina, the New Jersey-born daughter of Colombian immigrants, and the frank, spirited narrator of her life story in VIDA. This first book by Patricia Engel earned critical acclaim and made Engel a young writer to watch. Riding the line between a collection of linked stories and a novel, this fiction shows what it was like for Sabina growing up in an all-white neighborhood and chronicles her escape to Miami. Through the open, aware, outgoing Sabina we meet a host of other memorable characters as she changes jobs, finds new boyfriends, and expands her horizons. Available in paperback, $5.98.

Tatjana Soli’s THE LOTUS EATERS is a war story, a love story, a history. The result of ten years of research and writing, the novel focuses on three characters—or four, since the setting, the Vietnam war, is as vital a presence as Helen, a photographer whose work blossoms once she finds the war as a subject; Linh, her Vietnamese counterpart, who longs to escape the conflicts that have torn his country and his family apart; and Sam, another American journalist, on whom the violence has deeply unsettling effects. Soli has been praised for her vivid descriptions, strong plot, and realism; her first novel captures a painful and chaotic time, rendering it from multiple perspectives for a rich, complex whole. Available in paperback, $5.98.

A skilled storyteller and satirist, James Hynes specializes in academic satire, as epitomized in his Publish and Perish. But ivory towers don’t exist in a vacuum, and in NEXT Hynes pulls out all the stops to target academia, middle age, May/December romance, ethnicity, air travel in the age of terrorism, and more. His protagonist is a frustrated, lovelorn academic looking for a way to change his life. He flies to Austin for a job interview, becomes smitten with a fellow passenger, and meditates alternately on how things could-have-been and how things-might-be while following his new beloved around town. Hynes is witty and funny—and also dead serious, as readers will find out at the end of this astute and absorbing novel. Available in hardcover, $5.98.

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NEW MUSIC

NEW

Mariza, FADO TRADICIONAL (4 Quarters, $14.98) – Mariza gives her own take on great fado songs from the 1920s to today.

Music

NEW CLASSICAL

Lawrence Zazzo & Shizuko Noiri, LUNARCY (Evil Penguin Records, $17.99) – One of my favorite countertenor albums of the last few years was Lawrence Zazzo’s Byrdland, from 2007, where the traditional viol consort was replaced very effectively by a saxophone quartet in settings of William Byrd’s songs.

Now Mr. Zazzo, accompanied by lutenist Shizuku Noiri, returns in songs old and new centered on themes of madness and the moon,. There are songs by Dowland, Purcell, Campion, Schumann, Mozart, and newer works by Geoffrey Burgon and Rory Boyle.

Music

There are some new titles in the HM Gold series, Harmonia Mundi’s mid-price series of beautifully packaged re-issues:

Jean-Guihen Queyras, KODALY, KURTÁG, VERESS: Sonatas for cello & piano (HM Gold, $13.98) – Queyras is one of the best cellists around, and he plays cello pieces with pianist Alexandre Tharaud by three Hungarian composers.

FALLA: EL AMOR BRUJO (HM Gold, $13.98) – Performed by the Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons conductor; also includes El retablo de Maese Pedro.

Trio Wanderer, SHOSTAKOVICH & COPLAND: Trios (HM Gold, $13.98) – The CD includes Shostakovich’s Piano Trios, Op. 8 & 67, and Copland’s “Vitebsk” Trio.

SCHUTZ: ITALIAN MADRIGALS (HM Gold, $13.98) – Performed by Cantus Cöln, led by Konrad Junghänel.

Click here for more news and reviews.

Please call us at 202-364-1919 or email me at [email protected] to order these CDs.

Andr�s Goldinger



BOOK GROUPS


 

P&P's book groups meet monthly and are free and open to the public.

Thursday, August 11

Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Group

6 p.m. Fantasy: Grendel, by John Gardner
7:30 p.m. Science Fiction: How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu

September 8 selections:

6 p.m. Fantasy: Banewreaker, byJacqueline Carey
7:30 p.m. Science Fiction: Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov

Tuesday, August 16, 7:30 p.m.

Spanish Language Book Group

Gabriela Mistral, publica y secreta, by Volodia Teitelboim

September 20 selection: TBA

Wednesday, August 17, 12:30 p.m.

Daytime Book Group

The Cookbook Collector, by Allegra Goodman

September 21 selection:

The Map of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif

Thursday, August 18, 7:30 p.m.

Veterans Book Group

With the Old Breed, by E.B. Sledge

September 15 selection:

Dispatches, by Michael Herr


Sunday, August 21, 6 p.m.

Spirituality Book Group

Graceful Exits, by Shushila Blackman

September 18 selection: TBA


Click here to learn more about participating in these or other Politics & Prose book groups.


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NEWS FROM THE COFFEEHOUSE


Cafe

Saturday, August 13, 6 p.m.
August Art Show & Reception: Matthew Scott Davis

For this new series of multi-media screen prints, local artist (and beloved MTC employee) Matthew Scott Davis will donate a portion of proceeds from show sales to support Paul Farmer's non-profit organization Partners In Health (PIH). This show is a continuation of his “We’re All Human Beings” series from May and is focused on the simple solutions to “Stupid Deaths” in poor communities and countries. The prints speak to the notion that these countries and communities face major issues with simple solutions— issues such as HIV/AIDS, access to water and food, curable diseases, and the cost of medication.

Up until the reception, a pre-sale will be in effect. Each print will be $40, with a 50% donation to Partners In Health. Any offer of $55 or more will include an 80% donation of that offered amount to PIH. This offer will only last during the pre-sale. The “Stupid Deaths” opening reception is Saturday, August 13th, 6 p.m., at which time all prints will be $40 with 40% donated to PIH.

- Anna Petrillo



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