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FRIDAY AUGUST 14th 5:00-7:00 PM at Cisco Brewers
An All-Star Booktasting
featuring
Elin Hilderbrand, Wendy Rouillard, and Mary Haft
We've had several book events out at the brewery this year, and the way the "Booktasting" idea works is that we just set up a booksigning table & everyone soaks up some music and atmosphere while chatting with the author(s). Very informal. With your purchase you get a coupon for a libation. Simple as that. With the three charming authors this week, it's already going to be a festive little party--do join us!
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"HOLY HOTNESS, THESE BOOKS ARE FLYING!!!"
How glad are we that it finally warmed up this summer?! It was fun to read during chilly June but it's more fun to read on a hot beach. Another nice thing for us is when big releases land during July & August. (Thank you, Harry Potter!) A few biggies are hot off the presses.
Pat Conroy waiting something like 14 years between novels, so people were hungry for "South of Broad," on sale this week:
Stieg Larsson, king of Swedish crime fiction, is the man of the hour... too bad he didn't live to see his popularity. Happily he finished a third novel before his untimely demise. We'll let you know when that's released next year, but in the meantime we have the follow-up to Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:
Lastly here's the book I plugged on Plum TV two weeks ago, spurring a nice little run for literary fiction. It takes as a jumping-off point Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, weaving equally improbable connections through the lives of the disparate main characters. Unique and moving, and a stunning kaleidoscope, if you will, of New York City.
Okay enough already, I want to go read and I hope that by now you do too. But here's one more teaser: the upcoming fall list is one of the most amazing literary line-ups we've seen in eons. Huzzah!
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