Wakefield Books Newsletter for July 2014

Greetings from the staff at Wakefield Books

We hope you are all enjoying Summer 2014. Be sure to drop in this month and get your reading fix. Whether its an explosive new thriller, an intriguing political biography or a hot new release for the beach, we've got something for everyone!

Thanks again to all of our customers who submitted photos for our calendar contest. Our 2015 calendar will be out next month!

Author Event Saturday July 5th from 12-2

Wakefield Books welcomes Sean Fay-Wolfe, author of:

Quest for Justice: A Minecraft Novel

Stan has never played Minecraft before, but he loves the action of building, and finds it exhilarating to battle the monsters alongside his new found friends, Charlie and Kat, on the Minecraft server Elementia. But, the three discover that there is a prejudice against new players on the server, and they witness many hate crimes against new players such as themselves. The trio finds themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly race against the natural perils of Minecraft, and it's tyrannical king. Now Stan and his friends will need to dig deep within the mines and within themselves to discover courage, strength and power that they never knew they had as they play the game through, from the beginning, to The End

16 year old Sean Fay Wolfe has taken South County by storm with his book this year. It has been a best seller in our store and Sean has been making speaking appearances at local schools as well. This book is the first of a trilogy. Sean has been invited to present Quest For Justice at the 2014 Mine-o-Rama convention (over 10,000 registered participants!) July 12 and 13, 2014 in New York City.

Authors on Main

Join the Contemporary Theater Company for This Summer's Authors on Main Series

Sunday July 20th @ 6pm

Contemporary Theater

327 Main St. Wakefield

July's author is Kim Triedman

author of The Other Room

Three years after the sudden, mysterious death of their one-year-old daughter Lily, Josef Coleman, a high-strung New York surgeon, and his editor wife Claudia MacInnes remain mired in anguish and grief. Their mourning has left them reaching out for different things in different ways: Josef for a primal, physical connection that Claudia can no longer bear, and Claudia for a connection of the soul that Josef has never really known how to offer...

The Other Room brims with intensity, focusing a laser beam on the way love, grief, infidelity, suspicion, disappointment, and hope can collide in a close extended family after a child's death. Triedman is a keen observer of the human psyche, and her prose breathes with the rhythms of real life.

Jessica Treadway, author of Please Come Back To Me,

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

S.K. Parks and Recreation Event Thursday July 10th

Summer Reading Alert !!

Wakefield Books is on top of this year's local school summer reading programs. We have copies of all the school's reading lists and all of the titles organized by school, so you can quickly and easily get a jump on your summer reading. Just ask us to show you our summer reading section, and you'll find your titles organized by school and grade level.

Enjoy your vacation!

Great Books by Local authors.....

S is for Seas Glass : A Beach Alphabet

by Richard Michelson and Illustrated by Doris Ettlinger

    The tickle of sand on the bottom of bare feet....the taste of salt from the spray of the water...the rumble-roar as waves come ashore. These are just a few of the many sensory experiences a day at the beach can bring.
    The author uses a variety of peotry forms such as free-verse, haiku, and ode in this celebration of the beach and seaside life. From the walk down the boardwalk to collecting sea glass to imagining the life of a shell's former occupant, poet Michelson reminds beach lovers of all ages of the many reasons we're drawn to the shore.

Salt Pond Sleuths: The Heron Brothers

Encourage Conservation

by Ardith M. Schneider

Heron brothers Hugh and Harry investigate the troubling conditions of Rhode Island's salt ponds. As they fly along the coast-line, they discuss water quality issues and the characteristics of each salt pond, meeting an eagle, an egret and a horseshoe crab along the way. The artistically rendered herons are superimposed on actual location photographs; each page's fun heron verse is followed by a more substantial picture of pollution's problems and conservation's solution. A unique look at healthy ecosystems adults and kids alike. Produced in conjunction with the Salt Ponds Coalition of Rhode Island, this book is filled with facts as well as fun.

Dog Friendly New England
by Tricia Blanchet

Planning to bring your pup with you as you travel around New England? This book will be your seconf most-trusted companion. This completely revised and updated 3rd edition covers dog-friendly attractions, activities, lodgings, restaurants, and more.

Security Through Absurdity Book 1:
Little Yellow Stickies

by Rachael L. McIntosh

Little Yellow Stickies is the first of the SECURITY THROUGH ABSURDITY, series which follows the misadventures and development of the main character, Jocelyn McLaren. McLaren is a beautiful, hard working, yet naive visual artist who, through a twist of fate, ends up working for a major US defense contractor during the lead up to the Iraq war. She unknowingly witnesses and unwittingly participates in crimes that haunt her and are ultimately interlinked with the most nefarious psychopaths on the planet. SECURITY THROUGH ABSURDITY is the story of corporate shenanigans, an unstable home life, and a quixotic presidential campaign. These situations propel Jocelyn through a believably bizarre journey and into dangerous psychological territory. In a matrix of life threatening situations, she is forced to question the very fabric of her GenX American upbringing.

Staff Picks ........

The Bees
by Laline Paull

A great work of imagination. The novel takes place within a hive of bees. It follows Flora 717, a bee born to the lowest class in a society ruled by class distinctions. Yet Flora is a bee to be reckoned with. If you never thought a bee could be heroic, then you need to read this & get yourself straight on that score. Flora 717 is one epic honeybee.

-Kim

Believing the Lie

by Elizabeth George

One of my favorite authors who never disappoints. Her mysteries are as well-written as her characters and settings. This story is set in England and starts off with a wealthy man drowning in the lake next to his estate, but was it an accident or a homicide? There are always many layers to George's mysteries that will keep you guessing and turning the page.

-Sue

A Walk in The Woods

by Bill Bryson

What a great book for the summer! Two friends decide to walk the full length of the Appalachian Trail. Neither one is an expert hiker or camper so hilarity ensues. Along the way the author imparts some great historical and ecological information about the regions they are in as well as the challenges facing the National Park system. Reading it really makes you appreciate a hot shower and soft bed. A fun and informative book you won't soon forget, and will soon be recommending to others.

-Bob

The Kraken Project

by Douglas Preston

Fantastic thriller about "Dorothy" a smart artificial intelligence created for a trip to Saturn's moon Titan to explore the Kraken Sea. A horrific calamity forces Dorothy to escape into the Internet to save herself. Hot on her trail are Melissa Shepard, the brilliant scientist who created her and former CIA agent Wyman Ford. Dorothy is also being chased by a pair of Wall Street traders who want to enslave Dorothy to do their bidding. I could not put this book down! I was amazed and at times frightened of the abilities Dorothy was capable of. A great thriller that will have you up late and maybe into the wee hours of the morning to finish it.

-Lisa

Fear Nothing

by Lisa Gardner

Lisa Gardner does it again with a very disturbed serial killer that collects skin samples from the victims. The story revolves around the detective, a doctor, and a very dangerous prison inmate and their pursuit in taking down the killer. The twist at the end is both surprising and disturbing. A great Thriller!

-Ann

What's coming in July....

Here's some of the titles we're looking forward to this month:

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July 1st

City by Dean Koontz

One Plus One by Jo Jo Moyes

Strangers by Bill Pronzini

For All Time by Jude Deveraux
Fierce Patriot by Robert O'Connell
Joe & Marilyn C. David Heyman
Unruly by Ja Rule

July 8th

Act of War by Brad Thor

Power Play by Catherine Coulter

Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons

Greatest Comeback by Pat Buchanan

Operation Shakespeare by John Shiffman

I said Yes to Everything by Lee Grant

Blood Sport by Tim Elfriwk

July 15th

Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

Heist by Daniel Silva

Wayfaring Stranger y James Lee Burke

Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills

Enchanted Objects by David Rose

Factory Man by Beth Macy

Miracle at Fenway by Saul Wisnia

July 22nd

Perfect Life by Danielle Steel

Hounded by David Rosenfeld

Forsaken by Ace Atkins

Tom Clancy's Support and Defend by Mark

Greaney

Tomlinson Hill by Chris Tomlinson

Michelangelo by Miles Unger

Double Agent by Peter Duffy

July 29th

Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty

Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin

The Wolf by Lorenzo Caraterra

Spy Among Friends by Ben McIntyre

Nixon Tapes by Douglas Brinkley

Nixon Defense by John Dean

Boston Mob by Marc Songini

Operation Sea Lion by Leo McKinstry

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seudonym for J.K. Rowling ,author of the Harry Potter series and

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER hailed by TIME magazine as the best nonfiction book of the year. Unbroken has spent more than 165 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, fourteen at number one, and counting. Only four nonfiction books in history have been on the list longer. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award for Nonfiction.

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