Wakefield Books Newsletter for August 2014 

Summer 2014 at Wakefield Books

Great titles on our shelves just waiting for you to enjoy them!
Be sure to drop in this month and get your reading fix. Whether you're heading for the beach or just coming off the beach and looking forward to a relaxing evening with a great book, we've got you covered. New Releases, Best Sellers, Staff Picks and much more. Don't forget to print out the coupon at the bottom of this newsletter and save 20% off an item this month!            
Authors on Main

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

Sunday August 17th @ 6pm
Contemporary Theater
327 Main St. Wakefield

  August's feature author will be Norb Vonnegut
author of Gods of Greenwich 

Jimmy Cusack is the tough kid from a blue-collar neighborhood who made good on Wall Street. Well, almost. After a sterling start to his career, things have soured. His hedge fund collapsed. The bank is foreclosing on his condominium. And his wife is two months pregnant. That's the good news. When Cusack takes a "must-have" job with LS Capital, a fund impervious to capital market woes, his real troubles begin. Both Cusack and his wife find their lives in jeopardy as they uncover grim secrets that will make you forget Bernie Madoff or Gordon Gekko.

There's a new villain on Wall Street, and his name is.... A thriller for the post-meltdown world of global finance.  

   

"If anybody can turn international finance and hedge funds into a riveting thriller, it's Norb Vonnegut. The Gods of Greenwich is a pure delight, racing relentlessly from the bedrooms of Manhattan to the boardrooms of Connecticut to the banks of Iceland. Bravo!" 
- Jeffery Deaver  




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!  

  

 

Author Event at the Peacedale Public Library 

Tuesday August 12th at 4pm

The Peacedale Public Library Welcomes Professor Joseph Luzzi author of
My Two Italies

Luzzi -a professor of Italian at Bard College - was born in America to Calabrian immigrants. In his elegant, thoughtful new memoir, he writes of watching his father and uncle carve up an entire goat, make wine, and hold a meeting of brothers to determine the fate of an uncle's unfaithful wife. And this was not 19th-century Calabria, but Rhode Island in the 1970s.

Luzzi's book effectively covers lots of ground on Italian identity as a whole: Culture, food and politics. On Americans of Italian descent, he writes "we Italian Americans suffer from a form of cultural schizophrenia, half of our soul nourished by centuries of European arts and letters," while the other half is "contaminated" by The Godfather and The Sopranos.

Wakefield Books will be there with copies available for purchase
Special Feature This Month :

Customer review by Isobel McCullough   
Landline by Rainbow Rowell

What would it be like to have a window into the past? Or, in Georgie McCool's case, a phone?
Rainbow Rowell's latest novel provokes thought on the choices we make in life, and whether or not trying to change the past is a good idea.
Georgie McCool is a realistic and interesting main character. Rowell has also developed the supporting characters just as fully, which adds greater depth to the story. The plot is unique and refreshingly devoid of cliches.

Like Rowell's previous work, "Landline" is written with humor but also a  keen eye for the pain of the human condition. It made me think about right and wrong choices more than any book has in a long time.

"Landline" is a wonderful quick read, but one that leaves the reader with much to think on. It is a singular piece of fiction
 I would highly recommend.
-Isobel

If you'd like to join our guest reviewer program email us at info@wakefieldbooks.com. In some cases we can supply advance reading copies of upcoming books for review.  

Great Books by Local authors.....


This is Our City
by Melinda R. Boroson, Illustrated by Gary R. Phillips
            

   

This 32-page, full-color, hardbound picture book was published to
honor the city of Boston for its resilience and determination in the
wake of the devastation of the Boston Marathon bombings, and to
commemorate that same resilience and determination in the Boston
Red Sox team who went from "worst to first" and become World Champions in the 2013 World Series!



 
   
                                                                                       

 


Providence and Rhode Island Chef's Table
by Linda Beaulieu

The state of Rhode Island is so small, it's more like a city-state with just about everything within easy driving distance. Rhode Island really is like one big city where you can drive thirty minutes in any direction and find a restaurant worthy of your time and money.

 

With 100 recipes for the home cook from the state's most celebrated eateries and showcasing full-color photos featuring mouth-watering dishes, famous chefs, and lots of local flavor, Providence & Rhode Island Chef's Table is a feast for the eyes as well as the palate. The delicious dishes featured here are personal histories--stories of people, place. Each recipe, chef profile, and photo tells its part of the story of Rhode Island.

 
     

Artillary Company of Newport
by Walter Schroeder

The Artillery Company of Newport, Rhode Island's oldest all-volunteer Militia unit was established in 1741 by action of the General Assembly of the British Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Serving under its original Charter, the Company for many years was an active participant and supplier of manpower in military conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries. In modern times the Company, as an active member of the Rhode Island Council of Historic Military Commands, functions as an educational, non-profit organization upholding the traditions of the past. This book provides the reader with a first-hand opportunity to witness the formation of the unit in 1741 via a series of historic documents, as well as the Company's rise to fame and honor by way of an outstanding collection of artifacts that are maintained in its Armory and Museum, and presented here as an integrated pictorial history. 




Women of Great Island
by Dianne Comiske

 A colonial English tavern, situated on an island in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, between the years 1690-1740 provides the setting for The Women of Great Island Tavern. Established to serve as a refuge and lookout station for on-shore whalers who harvest the local pilot whales, the tavern becomes home to six women. All but one new arrival narrates her story in the first person and introduces her initial role in the story. Subsequent and inter-weaving first and third person narratives trace the developing stories and supportive relationships among the women themselves-relationships that mirror the social, matriarchal behavior of the pilot whales that the men hunt.
 
Staff Picks


The Wife,
by Meg Wolitzer

 

This is the story of a marriage of two writers, one famous, one not. The wife, Joan, narrates this story of her relationship with her famous writer husband with such a vivid voice that one feels she is sitting next to you telling you this story. One might assume there is nothing more to say about being married. Not so. Meg Wollitzer has a great story to tell, with a great plot and memorable characters. Give it a chance and you'll find that you have a new writer to enjoy.

 

-Kim  

   

   
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham

 

   John Grisham returns to Ford County Mississippi with the story of a wealthy dying man who just days before his death decides to ignore his previous will and write a new handwritten will that cuts out his family, and leaves nearly all of his money to his black maid. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. He leaves a letter to Attorney Jake Brigance to defend the handwritten will at all costs, as family, legal, and racial tensions mount. A great legal thriller that Grisham writes with confidence.    

      

The hardcover is available now, and the paperback comes out August 19th  

-Bob

         
Iron House
by John Hart

John Hart is just incredible the way he weaves together a suspenseful page-turning mystery with a great family story. This is the story of two orphan brothers and the tracts their lives take when one runs away from the orphanage, iron house, and the other is adopted by a wealthy politically connected family. Lots of different plots and action in this one!  

-Sue



My Wish List
 by Gregoire Delacourt

 

Good story about a middle-aged woman named Jocelyne who lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She begins to wonder what happened to all the dreams and plans she had when she was seventeen. Then something extraordinary happens, on a whim she buys a lottery ticket and wins eighteen million euros (@ $25 million US Dollars). She doesn't tell anyone but starts to make lists of what she could buy/do with the money. Her lists begin to change as her feelings toward what she could buy versus what she really needs change. I felt a connection with Jocelyne as I thought of what I would do with a big lottery win now versus what I would have done when I was seventeen. I applauded Jocelyne's choices and how she come into her own in the end. Although she is a character in a book, I would like to thank Jocelyne for reminding me what is important in life that money can't buy. Perfect for book groups or a quick summer read! (Lisa)

 

 


Reliquary
 by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

 

The mysterious and brilliant FBI agent Pendergast teams up with NYPD Lt. D'Agosta to solve a murder that takes place in the tunnels under the museums and art galleries of New York City. If you like mystery and history, this is for you.

-Ann

  

I am the Messenger

by Marcus Zusak

   

 A story of heroism through the eyes of an "average joe", I am the Messenger is both thrilling and unexpectedly warming. When the protagonist Ed accidently stops a bank robbery, his miserably simplistic life is brought to an unwelcome, yet opportunistic halt. Zusak's writing creates a sharp, realistic tone for the story.  Furthermore, Ed's unconfident, meek personality creates an uncoordinated hero whom is easy to root for. Ultimately, it's a refreshingly sincere novel exploring the abilities of the extraordinarily average.

 

Hannah




What's coming in August....

Here's just the highlights of the titles we're looking forward to this month:
 visit the store for a more complete list or
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August 5th

 

Lost Island by Douglas Preston and Lincoln

    Child

Top Secret by W.E.B. Griffin

Magican's Land by Lev Grossman

Colder War by Charles Cumming
1st Family Detail by Ron Kessler
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein          

     

August 12th        

 

Love Letters by Debbie Macomber  

6th Extinction by James Rollins

Fatal Conceit by Robert Tanenbaum

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

End of Absence by Michael Harris  

Nixon's Secrets by Roger Stone  

Outlaws of the Atlantic by Markus Rediker   

 

August 19th  
  

Adultery by Paulo Coelho

Mean Streak by Sandra Brown  

Haunted by Randy Wayne White

I'll Be Back Right After This by Pat O'brien 

Blood Acres by Doug Swanson

Season of Saturdays Michael Weintraub

   

August 26th  

Long Way Home by Louise Penny

Lisettes List by Susan Vreeland

Broken Eye by Brent Weeks

Doctored by Sandeep Jauhar

Confessions of a Frat Boy by Andrew Lohse

Kitchy Kitchen by Clair Thomas

 

     

Kid's New Releases This Month 

Judy Moody #12    

Gigantisaurus by Jonny Duddle

Foul Trouble by John Feinstein

Mr. Wayne's Masterpiece by Patricia Polacco

Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus by Tom Angleberger

Nerds #5

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan   

Lego Star Wars Dark Side   

 

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The Ecstasy & Agony of being a Red Sox fan.


by Stanley Harris

"  I went to my first Red Sox game in 1942.
 
My story, The Ecstasy & Agony of a Red Sox Fan, describes the highs and lows, the joys and disappointments, and the gratification and frustration of following the Boston Red Sox - as a child, a teenager, an adult, and a senior. Reading it may help explain to some the peculiar paranoia that permeates the psyche of older Red Sox fans, and help newer fans understand why their parents and grandparents are still tense when the Sox have a four-run lead with two outs and none on for their oponents in the ninth inning. "
-Stanley Harris


"GREAT book about Sox. Can't put it down. My son Mike is going to read it and I am encouraging all my Red Sox friends to do the same.

I have laughed cried and nodded my head in agreement on so many parts of the book. Can not thank you enough for writing it."    

A Red Sox fan from South Carolina

 

 

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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.

 

   "STAGGERING ... MESMERIZING ... Any one of the threads in Hillenbrand's monumental new book could be a page-turner all its own... Hillenbrand's writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don't dare take your eyes off the page."-People 


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One of the best aspects of the Blue Lizard sunscreen line is that the bottles of sunscreen turn color when exposed to UV light. It made my children want to learn more about sun safety!

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"I Heard it on NPR"

Here's just a few of the books featured in our NPR wall bay


One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes.

Drawing on original source material, this true story documents the 1810 expedition to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.


After the Underground Railroad brings Dossie Bird to Russell's Knob, New Jersey, she enjoys a new life in a racially diverse and harmonious settlement, until an act of violence leads her to the mayhem of New York City.















The complete Amber series in one volume for the first time follows Corwin, Merlin, and a cast of wizards, magicians and warriors on a series of adventures that carry them from Amber, to Earth, to the Courts of Chaos.
















Even though it's set in the world of pro basketball, the  narrator is not the guy who aspires to be a great player; rather, he's the guy who aspires to be a great suck-up to the great player.














From the author of Waylaid and One Red Bastard comes a big-hearted new mystery series starring Jing-nan, an unlikely sleuth who runs a food stand in the Taipei Night Market.

The U.S Virgin Island are a magical setting for three generations of one family living through the modern history of the territory as it passed from Danish to American hands.















In January 2010, proprietor of a legendary French vineyard received a threat to his livelihood, if not his life: Pay more than 1 million euros in ransom, or his Burgundy vines would be poisoned.
 

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