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Dear Friends,
TONIGHT, 7pm. Grass Roots Fiction at It's Best! Local authors share their work. Featuring: Karin Abarnel, Donna Brennan, David Holmberg, Priscilla Mainardi, David Popiel, Nancy Burke-Toomey
Thursday, 7pm
Launch Party for Dagmara Dominczyk. Accomplished actress, Montclair mom, and now published author. Join us and celebrate the publication of Dag's first novel, The Lullaby of Polish Girls. A poignant novel of finding one's place. Polish treats will be served!  Saturday, 2pm discusses his newest book, T he Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies. The consumate insider shares his research and inside stories of the 2012 presidential campaign. If you missed him on Meet the Press, The Colbert Report or Up With Chris Hayes, you can catch him here! Sunday, 4pm. Father's Day Poetry Fest with Martin Golan and Jim Gwyn  Tuesday, 7pm. Alan Furst, the master of the historical spy novel, will be here to discuss his newest paperback, Mission to Paris. When we introduce our readers to Furst, they come back and read every one of his novels. Our suggestions this month, with a nod to Dad, 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 Dads
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June 2013
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Paul Samuel Dolman
A memoir about a broken-hearted, middle-aged man who stumbles upon solace, meaning, and Larry David while hitchhiking his way around Martha's Vineyard. Readers will be simultaneously laughing and crying as they ponder the mystery and spirituality of life.
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Todd McLellan
The inner workings of some of the world's most iconic designs are broken down and can be understood. From SLR camera to mantel clock to espresso machine, from iPad to bicycle to grand piano, every single component of each object is revealed.
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These savior generals often come from outside the established power structure, employ radical strategies, and flame out quickly. Their careers often end in controversy. But their dramatic feats of leadership are vital slices of history--not merely as stirring military narrative, but as lessons on the dynamic nature of consensus, leadership, and destiny.
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Ron Irwin
A stunning novel of boarding school, family secrets, deep and passionate love, and the brutal pain of sports training. As much about the sport of rowing as it is a novel of finding oneself, not once, but again in mid-life; Ron Irwin's Flat Water Tuesday is a testament to the pride and passion of youth, and an ode to the journey of forgiveness.
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Joseph J. Ellis
The summer of 1776, the most dramatic few months in the story of our country's founding. The thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire. At the same time, the British dispatched the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic...
a revelatory portrait of a crescendo moment in American histor
Hardcover and eBook.
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Philipp Meyer
 A Great American Novel from the author of American Rust. Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. |
A brilliant new history of the New Deal and NYC. The ultimate odd couple - La Guardia was the son of immigrants and a hot headed governor. Together, he and FDR re-imagined the role of government in everyday lives. A pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation
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Kent Wascom
 A startling debut taking a nugget of Colonial history 0 the Aaron Burr conspiracy and brings it to life. The Blood of Heaven is a remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. Hardcover and eBook.
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University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler. They showed the world what true grit really meant.
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John Dunn
Destined to become a classic of golf writing,
Loopers is a treasure of a memoir about the uncommon world of the club caddy and the improbable journey it resulted in for one man. It is a perennial account that touches on the animating force of the game itself, reminding us of the reason we continue to tee the ball up, year in and year out.
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June '13: New Hardcover Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here: Hitchhiking with Larry David, The Son, The Boys in the Boat, Things Come Apart, Loopers, The Savior Generals, Flat Water Tuesday, The Blood of Heaven, Revolutionary Summer, and the City of Ambition. | Offer Expires:
June 12th, 2013
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