Summer is nearly upon us so let Wakefield Books help you make the best of it with great new books and gifts for your relaxation and enjoyment. We hope to see you soon!
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Congratulations Class of 2015!
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Books for Dad
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Show your love for Dad with a great gift from Wakefield Books.
We've got great books on all of the subjects dads like and by all of his favorite authors, here's just a few......
Fiction
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Reserve Your Copy Now!
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The Most Anticipated Book of The Year
Releases on July 14th
An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise (Scout) Finch-Scout-struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
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Staff Picks
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The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Tells the tale of two spirited and unconventional women for their time periods. 1964, Vivian Schuyler receives a beat-up suitcase in the mail that she discovers belonged to her Aunt Violet, a family member she has never heard of before. Vivian is determined to find out about Violet's life, the scandal and mystery that surrounded her, and what became of her. As the reader, we learn all about Violet's story set back in Germany on the brink of WW1. We also have fun with the brash and comical Vivian. Beatriz Williams is also the author of "A Hundred Summers", one of my faves.
This book was well written, had great characters and a wonderful, imaginative fairy tale world of wizards, spells, magic and fantastic creatures. It captured my interest immediately and held it until the end. Although this book has been classified separately as romance, literature, action/adventure and fantasy, it has elements of all these genres told in a young adult way. I admit it was the beautiful cover that drew me to this book but it will be Naomi Novik's talented storytelling that will make me check out her other books. -Lisa
When to Rob a Bank...and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants. by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Warped indeed. Following the massive success of their best seller Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner set up a blog on their website to keep the conversation going. This book is a collection of those articles with thoughts on just about every aspect of what they can broadly classify as economics and the world we live in. The writing is a little more casual, and way more offbeat, but it's always thought provoking and quite addictive. You'll find yourself wanting to read just one more...and to discuss their ideas with others as soon as you can. -Bob
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
 While the plot line of Hugo is fairly well known, the thing that always pulls me back to this story is the illustrations. Selznick, who graduated from RISD, does an amazing job of using drawings to portray the adventure and suspenseful mood of the narrative. This is definitely not a book where you can skim over the illustrations. Trust me, appreciating picture books is something you should never grow out of!
-Hannah
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We are featuring locally made candles from Bedrock Tree farm and we now have some great new items with scents for the summer.
  choose from beach rose, lavender, bayberry, or fir. In sizes large and small
Bedrock Tree Farm Fir Needle Products are handcrafted on the farm using fir needles harvested at their farm. All 100% SOY candles, soaps, and body products contain fresh and/or dried fir needle powder lending a unique quality to their products.
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| Author Event Saturday June 6th |
 Wakefield Books Welcomes
Author Marilyn Bellemore
Saturday 6/6 from 12-2
She will be in store signing copies of her new book from the Images of America series:Matunuck
Marilyn Bellemore worked at the Rhode Island Historical Society Library in Providence for a decade. While a journalist for Southern Rhode Island Newspapers, she received a Rhode Island Press Association award for a series of historical articles. Here, she shares the history of Matunuck with photographs and postcards from private collections and local libraries and organizations.
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Author Event Saturday June 20th
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Wakefield Books welcomes
Mike Freeman
Saturday 6/20 from 12-2pm in store.
Mike Freeman is from Jamestown and the author of
Neither Mountain Nor River.
Mike Freeman contemplates the experiences he shared with his father as he navigates the uncharted territory of parenthood
"The sheer beautiful abundance of this memoir is everything, bristling with poetic insight and detail within the effulgent world around him".
Providence Journal 10/12/14
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The Authors on Main Series for 2015 starts up on 6/28
with Author Natalie S. Harnett
Hollow Ground
This event will be at the Contemporary Theater on Sunday night June 28th at 6pm
Admission is free and there will be
books available for purchase.
Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will "grab you by the brisket and not let go." (Gary Shteyngart)
THE HOLLOW GROUND won the John Gardner Fiction Book Prize. It's a Goodreads Book Group Worthy Title, and a LIBRARY JOURNAL's "Debuts with Buzz" Selection to name a few.
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL writes, ". . .best novel of 2014."
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| This Month's Featured Local Interest Titles |
 Providence Noir
Edited by Ann Hood
From the introduction : "Providence has become infamous for all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, including serving as home base for the Patriarca crime family for decades. The writer Geoffrey Wolff told me that once he went to a barber in Princeton, New Jersey and the barber asked him where he was from. 'Providence,' Wolff told him. The barber put down his scissors, raised his hands in the air, and said, 'Providence? Don't shoot!' "I've asked fourteen of my favorite writers to contribute short stories to Providence Noir. We have stories to make you shiver, stories to make you think, stories that will show you my beautiful, noirish city in a way it's never been highlighted before."  Murder at Beechwood by Alyssa MaxwellThe 3rd book in the Gilded Newport Mystery Series For Newport, Rhode Island's high society, the summer of 1896 brings lawn parties, sailboat races...and murder. Praise for The Guilded Newport Mysteries: "an engaging mystery series filled with smart observations." -Library Journal "Brew some Earl Grey and settle down with a scone for this one." -Washington Independent Review of Books
 Fair Westerly
by Thomas A. O'Connell
The Westerly Historical Society has issued another intriguing volume, Fair Westerly, a fine collection of 50 articles about a variety of interesting subjects. In this volume the reader may review the role of The Westerly Sun during World War II, Miss Palmer's eventful trip to Westerly in 1907, social aspects of old downtown Westerly, the history of the local trolley, old buildings of Westerly, construction of the pond in Wilcox Park, the development of Watch Hill, and many other historical narratives.  Scratched: An Algy Temple Mystery by J.J. Partridge The third novel in the Algy Temple series.
From southern Italy to a Rhode Island landfill, from Roman landmarks and Manhattan law offices, to a strip club, from an international pool tournament to a back-room high-stakes, life-and-death pool match, Scratched cracks with excitement.
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New Releases for June
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June 2ndFinders Keepers by Stephen King In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume Fateful Lightning by Jeff Shaara Holocracy by Brian J. Robertson Theft of Memory by Jonathon Kozol Once Upon a Time in Russia by Ben Mezrich Silkworm (PB) by Robert Galbraith June 9thBlueprints by Barbara Delinsky All the Single Ladies by Dorothea Benton Frank Second Life by S.J. Watson End of Discussion by Joe Posnanski More Fool Me by Stephen Fry Nantucket Sisters (PB) by Nancy Thayer June 16th
Country by Danielle Steel Rumor by Elin Hildebrand President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer Encountering Truth by Pope Francis Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow Boneclocks (PB) by David Mitchell June 23rd
Tiny Little Things by Beatriz Williams Truth or Die by James Patterson Melody Lingers On by Mary Higgins Clark Ally by Michael B. Oren Force for Good by Daniel Goleman Black Out by Sarah Hepola Dear Commitee Members (PB) by Julie Schumacher June 30th
English Spy by Daniel Silva Map of Chaos by Felix Palma Inside Threat by Brad Taylor Time for the Truth by Ted Cruz Move Your own Bus by Ron Clark I Am Charlie Wilson by Charlie Wilson Blue Labrynth (PB) by Preston and Child
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30% off select Hardcover Best Sellers Everyday
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Here are just a few of the new additions this week
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2016 Calendar Photo Contest !!
Got a great shot of South County you want to see published?
Be a part of the Wakefield Books South County Photo Contest and get your picture in next year's calendar.
Our 2015 calendar was the best yet
and we hope to top it this year!
Send your photos to info@wakefieldbooks. com.
Maximum resolution is best.
Good Luck!
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2016 Rhode Island
Children's Book
Awards Nominees
Chosen each year by Rhode Island libarians and Educators, the
RICBA has become an important event for children's literatrure in our State. Many schools have used the nominee lists as required summer reading knowing the quality of these titles.
Wakefield Books is proud to feature RICBA titles both past and present. Here are just some of this years nominees....
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans, Molly and Kip, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
|  El Deafo By Cece Bell All the other students at Cece's old school were deaf and didn't care about her Phonic Ear. At her new school, the device she needs seems to be repelling the one thing she really wants: a friend. This graphic novel chronicles the author's experience with hearing loss. | |
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth
Jarrett's life is disrupted when his mom takes in a 12-year-old foster child. Jarrett's summer at the Youth Center is also being ruined by the foster
"brother" who seems to excel in everything. The friction between the boys escalates and threatens both of them as they grow to understand the other's pain.
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Joltin' Joe DiMaggio by Jonah Winter
When he was only nineteen years old, Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., an Italian immigrant from San Francisco, stepped into the retiring shoes of Babe Ruth on the Yankees baseball team. Joe was quiet and shy, yet he fought prejudice and made headlines for his 56-game hitting streak.
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Another Day As Emily
by Eileen Spinelli
Eleven year-old Suzy has been having a run of bad luck and hurt feelings - especially with the attention her little brother is getting for making a heroic 911 call. Suzy decides that she'll be better off becoming a reclusive poet like Emily Dickinson. How hard can it be to spend the summer in her room, writing poetry, with no friends, no visitors and none of the usual summer fun?
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Death by Toilet Paper
by Donna Gephart
Have you ever dreamed of entering a sweepstakes and winning the big cash prize? That's exactly Benjamin's plan to fulfill his promise to his Dad and to save himself and his mom from being evicted. Plans never go smoothly especially when you are being bullied at school and your grandfather with Alzheimer's moves in.
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
by Kathryn Gibbs Davis
This fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
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The Swift Boys and Me
by Kody Keplinger
Nola has been friends with the boys next door her whole life. That is until one night when the boys' father leaves without saying goodbye. Nola just wants things to go back to normal, but will things ever be normal again?
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| School Summer Reading |
We are on top of this year's local school summer reading programs. We will have copies of all the school's reading lists and all of the titles as well, 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.
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Books soon to be films this year....
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Wakefield Books is proud to be partnering with the  South Kingstown Department of Parks and Recreation for the their Storywalk Event from July 9th-31st at Tuckertown park.
The book they'll be featuring will be Happy Birthday Moon by Frank Asch
Check out some of the awesome summer programs being offered this year right here in your town
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New Releases for June
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Check out our large selection of postcards of Rhode Island's best spots!
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