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February 2013
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Dear Friends,
Carolyn and Margot made it to the annual booksellers Winter Institute in Kansas City last weekend - sandwiched between two major Midwestern snowstorms. 500 booksellers gathered for three days to teach each other best practices, meet authors, get pumped up for spring book releases (dragged home two cartons of galleys to read and share) and just talk nonstop about books and the book business. Carolyn was invited to dine with Other Press author Eduardo Nesi and talk about his upcoming book Story of My People. Margot joined the Perseus Group for dinner with Dave Eggers (!!!) to celebrate his upcoming book Visitants, and also joined Macmillan to meet 21 year-old debut author Samantha Shannon with her new dystopian series, The Bone Season. Keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell inspired all with stories from his new book David and Goliath: The Triumph of the Underdog (we're concentrating on triumph). We're loaded with ideas - just ask us!
 Back at the store, on Tuesday night we had a great time with YA author Maureen Johnson for the launch of her new book The Madness Underneath. Ms. Johnson was hugely entertaining and we had gobs of fans who traveled far and wide to be with us, but most importantly our newly formed YA Advisory Board was here and got to be part of an author event. Be on the lookout for the interview from the members to be posted on our site.
Tonight at 7pm, join us for an
evening of poetry with
Laura Freedgood and Tina Kelley.
 Saturday Storytime, 10:30am. Our stellar Author/Illustrator Storytime Series brings you the dynamic duo of
Adam Rubin and David Salmieri as they share their new book Dragons Love Tacos. This one will have the kids (and their adults) chortling through storytime.
Enjoy! Margot, Nicole, Carolyn, Marina, Marisela, and Liane For pithy comments and musings from your favorite booksellers: 
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There Once Lived a Girl
Who Seduced her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Pick a book for it's cover? Yes we do! Love stories with a twist. By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love. Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer.
Paperback and eBook.
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John Brockman
 What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"- The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work. Paperback and eBook
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Kim Scott
Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers. Heartbreaking and celebratory, the story is told through the life of a young Noongar man, Bobby Wabalanginy - a unique and important contribution to the literature of native experience.
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Jon Gertner
 The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation.
In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, journalist Jon Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science in history.
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What are Book Groups around Town Reading?
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Anouk Markovitz
 "The wonder of this elegant, enthralling novel is the beauty Ms. Markovits unearths in the Hasidic community she takes us into. Ms. Markovits, big-hearted and surprising, tenderly captures the complexities of adulthood for the one who stayed.... I Am Forbidden whips by, its extravagant narrative steadily cast with complicated, thoughtful characters." -Susannah Meadows, The New York Times Paperback and eBook.
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Charles Jackson
Originally published in 1944 and just newly reprinted, The Lost Weekend moves with unstoppable speed, propelled by a heartbreaking but unflinching truth. It catapulted Charles Jackson to fame, and endures as an acute study of the ravages of alcoholism, as well as an unforgettable parable of the condition of the modern man.
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Grace McCleen
"This extraordinary tale of one little girl's End Times grabbed me by the throat. The Land of Decoration is part social observation and part crazy mysticism, held together by a brutally real story of parent-child love."-Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Paperback and eBook.
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Cecille David-Weill
 "A charming peek behind the curtain of French high society as only the ultimate insider can. Cécile David-Weill's novel is a delicious romp and I loved reading it!" -Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa cookbooks and TV
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In-House Book Groups
All are welcome. 7:00pm
No registration required for the book groups If the book appeals to you, and you've read it, come and join us.
Great Writers with Marina Cramer
Fri, Mar. 1, Canada, Richard Ford Beam Me Up Science Fiction with Eileen Duffy Fri, Mar. 8, Redshirts, John Scalzi History Book Club with Joe Paranac. Damas de Letras y Vino (a ladies' spanish book club)... Formerly known as Salon Espanol with Marisela Santiago Friday, Mar 15, Una Misma Noche, Leopoldo Brizuela
Mental Health Book Club with Carol McGough
TBA
Middle School Boys Book Club
Sunday, Mar 3, 4pm, The Eleventh Plague, Jeff Hirsch
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