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Dear Friends,
We're getting ready tonight, 7pm, to chat it up with
Standing room only, but it's worth it! Laughter, champagne and treats. 
Thursday, 7pm.
A conversation to spark imagination and help us find our way to making a difference in the second half of our lives. Marci Alboher, The Encore Career Handbook, interviewed by Julie Burstein, the author of Spark.
 Buy a Kobo eReader, (through May 13) and
get What My Mother Gave Me FREE!
Surprise Mom with this collection of essays from
remarkable women about the gifts from their mothers
that mattered the most.
More about KOBO
Our suggestions this month, with a nod to Mom, are discounted at 20% this week - as a thank you to our loyal readers.
Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne
 For more musing from your booksellers:
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What's New, with a Nod to Moms
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May 2013
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Claire Messud
From the NYT
best-selling author of
The Emperor's Children, a brilliant new novel. The Woman Upstairs is
told with urgency, intimacy and piercing emotion, a novel of passion and artistic fulfillment explores the intensity, thrill - and the devastating cost - of embracing an authentic life.
Hardcover and eBook
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A chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
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"Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.... A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Hardcover and eBook.
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Bill Cheng
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, Bill Cheng's Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Teeming with language that voices both the savage beauty and the complex humanity of the American South, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force of literary imagination that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
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David R. Gillham
It is 1943-the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.
"The writing is a great mix of the literary and commercial, page-turning and suspenseful, with a morally complex, intelligent heroine at its center. If you're a fan of well-written historical novels in the vein of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, this one is for you."--Slate
Paperback and eBook.
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Isabel Allende
 This is Allende's first contemporary novel, inspired by her grandchildren. A riveting story of a teenage girl's descent into hell and rocky rebirth. Allende's writing is enchanting and emotional, dark family secrets transcended by courage and love. |
Janet Malcolm
In Forty-one False Starts, Malcolm brings together essays published over the course of several decades (largely in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books) that reflect her preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Introduction by our very own Ian Frazier.
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Edward Rutherford
 Rutherfurd weaves an extraordinary narrative tapestry that captures all the glory of Paris. More richly detailed, more thrilling, and more romantic then anything Rutherfurd has written before, Paris: The Novel wonderfully illuminates hundreds of years in the City of Light and Love and brings the sights, scents, and tastes of Paris to sumptuous life.
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The provocative international bestseller about two young girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of Italy. Frank, sensual, and evocative of the Academy Award-winning film Cinema Paradiso and the international bestseller The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Swimming to Elba is a harrowing yet redemptive meditation on politics, family, sex, and the lasting power of friendship.
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Suzanne Joinson
In 1923, missionaries Eva English and her sister, Lizzie, travel to the ancient city of Kashgar on the Silk Road. Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, but Eva, with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, is ready for adventure. "An astonishing epic - colonial-era travel combined with a modern meditation on where we belong and how we connect in the world - I could not put it down."-Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Paperback and eBook.
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Save 20% |
May '13: New Hardcover Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here: The Woman Upstairs, Maya's Notebook, Golem and the Jinne, Forty-one False Starts, The Other Typist, Paris: The Novel, Southern Cross the Dog. | Offer Expires:
May 15th, 2013
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