Greetings from the staff at Wakefield Books
 With the leaves just beginning to turn color and the first nip in the air, fall is here! Celebrate with a great new book this October! We have lots of new releases by all of your favorite authors! One of those favorite authors, Ann Hood, will be at The Authors On Main event on October 20 to sign copies of her latest book, The Obituary Writer. For the kids, we have fiendishly fun Halloween books, a raffle & books featuring beloved bunnies, Max & Ruby, our children's characters for October.
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 Free Trick or Treat Raffle
Did you know the Wakefield Mall has free trick or treating in all stores on Halloween ?
Kids in costumes can enter our raffle in the bookstore and the winner gets a $25 gift certificate!
Good Luck!
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Great Halloween titles have landed
Check out the great selection of books we've brought in that capture the fun and "spirit" of Halloween!
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Attention Educators!
Did you know that Wakefield Books offers a 20% discount to teachers everyday for classroom items? Anything not in stock takes just a few days to arrive.
We also offer discounts to schools, as well as accepting purchase orders anytime. If you are looking to do some fundraising, we're always willing to help you put together a Bookfair either in store or offsite. Stop by the store or give us a call for more details.
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 2014 Calendars and Planners are Here!
Stop in soon while we have the best selection and get your upcoming year organized in style!
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We are Proud to Feature These selected local interest titles:
A Swim (The Rhode Islander Who Refused To Drown) by John Fulweiller
"True stories often make for the best sea tales. Last summer, 51-year-old Rhode Island angler Joe Gross fell off his 23-foot powerboat without a life jacket and spent the next 11 hours treading water while creating a remarkable account of survival.
"A Swim: The Rhode Islander Who Refused to Drown" by John Fulweiller needs just 75 pages to tell the life-or-death story. Gross had one foot on a rail when a wave hit the boat. He fell overboard and watched the boat motor away. Beyond the survival tale, Fulweiler explores topics such as the science of drowning, the professionalism of Coast Guard rescuers, small boat design and a human's response to stress. The book has a lesson, too: Wear your life jacket."
From a review by Rich Armstrong Soundings Magazine Sept. 2013
 Shucked : Life on a New England Oyster Farm
by Erin Byers Murray
"Shucked tells it like it is: the frigid winter days on the water with hands like popsicles, the backbreaking work, the anxiety of nurturing thousands of dollars' worth of oyster seed, the hard-partying nights. Erin Byers Murray captures the seasonal rhythms of the New England coast and the romance of one exceptional company's efforts to coax great food from the sea."
- Rowan Jacobsen, author of
A Geography of Oysters
 DOC: Revelations of a Reluctant Yank Studying Medicine Among the Irishby E.B McKee Prodded by his formidable Aunt Bertha to become a doctor, college- grad, Gene McKee, agrees to explore Europe in search of a welcoming medical school. Seizing the opportunity will provide relief from the tedium and stench of a temporary job as a fish cutter in Rhode Island. McKee's rite-of-passage travelogue is replete with anecdotes of medical school and Dublin life during the late 1950's and early 60's. Recounted with self-deprecating humor and considerable honesty, we witness McKee's transformation from a reluctant medical student to a competent physician. Enjoyably peppered with historical tidbits, amorous entanglements, and imaginative riffs, reading Doc and seeing Ireland with its rich cast of "characters" through a young Irish-American's eyes, will surely bring smiles to the faces of readers and for some a twinge of recognition. Where Beach Meets Ocean 
What has 188 pages, 130 poems representing 90 poets, including Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Carolyn Forché, Marie Howe, and Naomi Shihab Nye?
Where Beach Meets Ocean,
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Our Featured Children's Characters this month are Max and Ruby!
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These brother and sister bunnies teach lessons in kindness, working together, and respecting and listening to others.
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Recent Staff Reads........
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Truth in Advertising
by John Kenny
Out in paperback today, it's a novel about a middle-age Irish guy from New England trying to make it in the advertising business in New York. The work is hard and he's got other personal and family issues to deal with along the way. This book has a great blend of comedy and drama at just the right times,and does a good job of telling his story as well as portraying the crazy world of Madison Avenue.
-Bob
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
This book is wonderful! Compelling story line about two brothers and how the choices they make affect not only their own lives but the lives of everyone they know. Beautifully told story with much of the action set in Rhode Island.
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--kim
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Defending Jacob by William Landay
Defending Jacob : a great family psychological mystery/drama that makes you ask "How well can you really know another person, even your own child"
-Sue
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Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain
Beauty killer is at it again. Gretchen has set up a series of events to once again capture Detective Archie Sheridan. Her twisted humor, torture, and scalpel skills are at her best. A book you can't let go & I look forward to the next.
-Ann
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Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire is an unconventional love story between cardigan wearing Abby and tattooed fighter Travis. It's not a mushy love story with all hearts and roses, but one with dark mysterious pasts and a few good action scenes. I could never predict what Travis or Abby would do next and that made the story even more appealing. McGuire made it even more interesting by writing Walking Disaster which is the same story written from Travis' point of view. I greatly enjoyed both books and couldn't put either one down!
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Storywalk is Back! October 5th-18th
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Author Events This Month
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Ann Hood
Sunday October 20th @ 6pm.
Authors on Main event at the Contemporary Theater
327 Main St.
Wakefield
The Authors on Main series concludes its season with Bestselling Author Ann Hood. Ann will be on hand to sign and discuss her newest book The Obituary Writer which is now available in paperback.
The event is free and books will be available for purchase. For more information call 401.218.0282 or visit their website: http://www.thecontemporarytheater.com/
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What's coming in October...
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Here's some of the titles we're looking forward to this month:
October 1st
Gone by James Patterson (9-30-13)
David and Goliath by Malcom Gladwell
Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
There's More to Life Than This
by Theresa Caputo
October List by Jeffery Deaver
One Day by Rick Patino
October 8th
My Story by Elizabeth Smart (10-7-13)
Circle by Dave Eggers
Storm Front by John Sanford
Doing Hard Time by Stuart Woods
Rose Kennedy's Family Album
by Caroline Kennedy
Becoming Mr. October by Reggie Jackson
October 15th
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen
Fielding
Identical by Scott Turow
Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin
Police by Jo Nesbo
Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr
October 22nd
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
We are Water by Wally Lamb
Silent Night by Robert B. Parker
Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky
Heart by Dick Cheney
October 29th
Death of Santini by Pat Conroy
Winner by Danielle Steel
Four Doors by Richard Paul Evans
Accused by Lisa Scottoline
Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey by
Emma Rowley
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30% off select Hardcover Best Sellers Everyday
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Here's just a few this week.....
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Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever,The Shining.
It's an instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of
The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
Get it now at 30% off!
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The Lowlands
by Jhumpa Lahiri
 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.
Get it now at 30%off!
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Killing Kennedy
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
The third book in O'Reilly's bestselling history series,
Killing Jesus delivers the story of Jesus's crucifixion as it's never been told before.Millions of readers have thrilled to author Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history.
Get it now at 30% off!
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Carrie
major motion picture release date 10/18/13
A re-imagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
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