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Dear Friends,
August is a funny month - vacations are still to be taken and yet preparations for the new school year are starting, we're hanging on to the sense of leisure and at the same time planning our projects for the new year. Ahhh. Here at the bookstore we're still discovering great summer reads while the Big Books of Fall are slowly arriving.
And still, we have a few wonderful opportunities to meet the authors in this wonderful lazy month!
Next week, Wednesday, August 21, meet Hallie Ephron at the Greenbrook Country Club's famous Book Club Review luncheon.
She will talk about
 Calling Young Writers! Are you working on your submission to our Rising Writer's Zine? These last few weeks of summer are a wonderful time to put your thoughts, observations and memories into words. Young writers, entering grades 4-12 are welcome to submit their work. Reading and reception for accepted work will be on September 27th.
And for those planners among you, take a sneak peak into all the incredible events we have coming up in September!
Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne  For more musing from your booksellers:
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Linda Spalding
In this hard-edged, starkly beautiful historical novel set in the early 1800s, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where all their values will be tested by setting up a homestead in the wild and by the moral dilemma of owning a slave.
Hardcover and eBook.
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Alexander Maksik
This is the story of a young Liberian female refugee, Jacqueline, who has come to a Greek island, whose shaky memories are suffused with profound loss and shadowy images: holding the feet of her beloved sister, an orange cat, the Rolex watch on her father's wrist, the clink of ice mixed with gin and lime in her mother's glass, ghost boys with machetes. The novel explores profound themes, both political and existential.
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A romp of a publishing mystery that introduces Jo Donovan, literary agent-cum-detective. A want-to-be writer begins stalking Jo Donovan after his manuscript is rejected by her literary agency. The backstabbing and cutthroat competition we imagine going on behind the scenes in publishing make it the perfect setting for murder. Hardcover and eBook
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Mark Slouka
"Slouka brings a Richard Russo-like compassion and his own powerfully stripped-down prose to this poignant coming-of-age story set in the small blue-collar town of Brewster, New York, in the year 1968.... What Slouka captures so well here is the burning desire of the four teens to leave their hardscrabble town behind and the restricted circumstances that seem to make tragedy an inevitable outcome."
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Michael Paterniti
A tale of love, betrayal, revenge and the world's greatest piece of cheese. Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history, The Telling Room is an astonishing work of literary nonfiction by one of our most accomplished storytellers. Hardcover and eBook.
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Paul Yoon
 Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness, that hope can wash away despair, and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and tenderness. Hardcover and eBook.
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Scott Anderson
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret "great game" to control the Middle East. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.
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Thurston Clark
 The transformation of a man and the emergence of a great President. Clark masterfully writes of the frenetic times in JFK's last three months: Civil Rights, Vietnam. and Berlin were all looming. |
Mathew Brady became the founding father of what is now called photo-journalism during the Civil War. This will be
the biography of an American legend--a businessman, an accomplished and innovative technician, a suave promoter, a celebrated portrait artist, and, perhaps most important, a historian who chronicled America during its finest and gravest moments of the 19th century. Hardcover
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Jessica Brockmole
"A poignant tale of a stubborn love that bridges the lives and wars of two generations,
Letters From Skye gives the reader a story to inhale as well as read, unfolding amid the gripping panorama of a changing world-an absorbing and rewarding saga of loss and discovery."-
Kate Alcott, The Dressmaker
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Save 20% |
August'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 Purchase, Snow Hunters, A Marker to Measure Drift, Lawrence of Arabia, A Dangerous Fiction, JFK's Last Hundred Days, Brewster, Mathew Brady, The Telling Room and Letters from Skye. | Offer Expires:
August 16, 2013
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