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Dear Friends,
The Big Books of the Fall are starting to come in, but we also are noting some hidden gems. As a Member of Watchung Booksellers, we encourage you to use the 20% coupon below (or mention at the desk) for the titles highlighted.
Our September calendar is incredible - with opportunities to meet and talk with all kinds of authors. 
Tonight, Wednesday, September 11, 7pm.
Susan Gregg Gilmore, author of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, returns to the bookstore with her newest book, The Funeral Dress. Gilmore brings us compelling Southern fiction about sisterhood, community, and a young mother's strength. Also tonight, Greenbrook Country Club, one of our author event partners, is hosting Stephen L. Weiss, CNBC Market Commentator and author of Unhedged, a thriller set in the hedge fund world. NOTE: You are invited for dessert at 7:30pm. For reservations, contact Marlene Cohen. 
Tomorrow, Thursday, September 12, 7pm, Lisa Gornick will read from and discuss her new novel, Tinderbox
. Gornick, a psychoanalyst, writer and Columbia University professor, delivers a taut and haunting book about a NYC psychotherapist, her phobic-addled adult son and his child's Peruvian nanny.
Third Sunday Poetry returns on the 15th, 4pm with local poets
The Third Sunday Poets Series presents new work by local poets, while offering a forum for discussion and information exchange in a friendly, social environment.
Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne  For more musing from your booksellers:
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What's New
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September 2013
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Alice McDermott
Has it really been seven years since we have enjoyed the voice and vision of Alice McDermott? McDermott beautifully gives extraordinary voice to an ordinary woman's life in her new novel of linked stories,
Someone.
Hardcover and eBook.
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Dara Horn
Dara Horn again philosophizes about memory and family in her newest novel that explores how technology has changed our lives. Told through 3 stories: contemporary sisters' sibling rivalry, 12th Century Cairo and a 19th Century Rabbi who discovers Maimonides' discarded letters, Horn raises intriguing questions in this page-turner. Hardcover and eBook
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MK Asante
Born in Zimbabwe to American parents, but as life unravelled he was back in Philadelphia as a teenager almost lost to drugs and violence. It's a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us.
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Marisha Pessl
An utterly original, literary mystery from the author of
Special Topics Calamity Physics. The daughter of a reclusive horror film director is found dead, and a disgraced journalist and two sidekicks become obsessed with uncovering the truth of her death.
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Marianne Szedegy-Maszak
 A daughter's memoir of her parent's story reveals the hidden chapter of European, Hungarian and Holocaust history. It is a love story, of money and power, a story of survival against all odds, and a story we will take to our hearts. Hardcover and eBook.
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Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected, yet Mullainathan and Shafir show that they are all are examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.
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Hannah Kent's suspenseful, lyrical, poetically written first novel is inspired by the true story of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person executed in Iceland. It is a brilliant, multifaceted novel that traverses dark psychological terrain while providing pitch-perfect historical detail. Hardcover and eBook
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Shacochis' first novel in 20 years is a murder mystery, spy novel, and father/daughter story which is getting a lot of buzz. It's a riveting story of sex, lies, American foreign policy, 1990s Haiti, Nazi Croatia and the Cold War. Ambitious, yes, and it delivers.
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September'13: New Hardcover Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here:
Someone, I Kiss Your Hand Many Times, A Guide for the Perplexed, Scarcity, Buck, Burial Rites, Night Film, and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul. | Offer Expires:
September 18, 2013
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