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Dear Friends,
Tonight, 7pm, Valerie Wilson Wesley unveils her new book, written as Savana Welles - a steamy paranormal mystery, When the Night Whispers. We look forward to a great discussion from a seasoned writer - where does she get her ideas? "Keep the lights on while you enjoy the ride!" says one reviewer.
Find us Saturday morning, 8:30-12:30pm at MKA Captivating Conversations
Practical Advice and Meaningful Dialogue for Parents
A parenting symposium covering topics from nutrition, sleep, finances and the college process. Join the conversation.
Saturday a  fternoon, 1-2pm, drop by and meet Tracy Bermeo as she introduces her delightful cookbook, Cook It! Verona. Slow cooker recipes that emerged from a desperate and creative mother, into columns for MyVeronaNJ.com and now published in a lovely collection.  And for our emerging YA Advisory Board, we are hosting a pizza party with Maureen Johnson, Tuesday, Feb 26th, 7pm, for the release of her new book, The Madness Underneath. Haven't read her yet? Come and hear about this new paranormal thriller set in London. You'll be hooked.
Here are some of the more interesting new releases, with a coupon to apply towards purchase. If we get more snow this weekend, you'll be ready. Note, eBooks are listed when available. Haven't started downloading our KOBO eBooks yet? Here's how.
Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela and Liane
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What's New this Month
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February 2013
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Les Leopold
 Twenty-year resident of Montclair, Les Leopold, is out with his third book. Using the format of a 12 step guide to riches, he takes aim at the growing inequality in America. For example he explores how it is possible that a top hedge fund manager can make as much in one hour as the average family makes in 47 years! He hopes that his friends and neighbors who work in high finance will still speak with him after reading about the nefarious ways hedge funds rig the financial system for fame and fortune.
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Herman Koch
 "A high-class meal provides an unlikely window into privilege, violence and madness...Koch's slow revelation of the central crisis is expertly paced, and he's opened up a serious question of what parents owe their children, and how much of their character is passed on to them...a chilling vision of the ugliness of keeping up appearances." - Kirkus
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A debut that has everyone talking. A crime thriller written by a 2011 graduate of Reed College. Ghostman is slick, gritty, intelligent and addictive. Perfect for the Lee Child fans. With a quicksilver plot, gripping prose and masterly expertise, Roger Hobbs has given us a novel that will immediately place him in the company of our most esteemed crime writers.
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Marguerite Holloway
The first biography of an unrecognized, nineteenth-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan's famous city grid.
John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as his bombast and irascibility, Randel created surveying devices, designed an early elevated subway, and laid out a controversial alternative route for the Erie Canal-winning him admirers and enemies. Hardcover and eBook.
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Margot Berwin
 In her best-selling debut, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, Margot Berwin brought us to the rain forests of Mexico-to a land of shamans, spirit animals, and snake charmers-in the search for nine rare and valuable plants. Now, with her hotly anticipated second novel, Berwin takes us somewhere darker: deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs. Scent of Darkness is a magical, seductive story about the power of scent, and about what happens when a perfume renders a young woman irresistible.
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Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthammer
"[A] stunning range of images that 'allow us to contemplate not only the history of slavery and emancipation but also our continued ties to that history and its legacies.' The result is a gem: haunting, touching, troubling, inspiring, and informative....Particularly noteworthy is the attention given to women, especially their role in the Civil War.... Though it does not purport to be a photographic history of African-Americans, one will certainly see the course of history leading to emancipation." -Publishers Weekly
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Cynthia Zarin
"Cynthia Zarin's moving and beautiful memoir,
An Enlarged Heart, accomplishes one of the rarer of literary feats-it locates the profound in the outwardly ordinary. Zarin masterfully reveals those significant emotional, moral, and aesthetic truths that tend to conceal themselves among everyday events, an act of camouflage so effective as to require a truly brilliant writer to show us the beauty and terror of that which has long been hiding, often in plain sight.
An Enlarged Heart is a large book." -Michael Cunningham
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Tanis Rideout
"This vivid, assured, and confident debut novel scales great heights of obsession and desire, both on the face of Mount Everest and in the loving bond between doomed explorer George Mallory and his wife, Ruth.... Rideout offers a gripping account of the expedition. The author's accomplished depiction of the harsh and beautiful Himalayan heights ... pushes the reader forward in a gripping adventure narrative, while Ruth's own longings and fears offer a counterpoint of a more settled but no less intensely sensual interior landscape." -Publishers Weekly, starred review Hardcover and eBook
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The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines-revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won. Far more than a scientific or military biography, Blackett's War is also a finely wrought and well-sourced social history of elite science's wartime mobilization . . .-Michael Schrage, Fortune
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Jose Saramago
First published in 1980, Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau Tempo family-poor landless peasants not unlike Saramago's own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background-the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar's life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers' lives until the first communist stirrings.
Saramago's most deeply personal novel. Hardcover
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February: New Hardcover Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here: How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour, Envisioning Emancipation, The Dinner, An Enlarged Heart, Above All Things, Ghostman, The Measure of Manhattan, Blackett's War, Scents of Darkness and Raised from the Ground. | Offer Expires:
February 28, 2013
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