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Grass Roots Books and Music — 227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis OR 97339 — 541-754-7668
January 3, 2013
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New in Paperback
Events
News
This Week's Puzzle
Reading Group Selection
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Welcome to 2013!

This week's newsletter is quite brief. Everyone is restarting their systems for 2013, book publishers and us included! The biggest news this week is the announcement of the 2013 Independence Card. The I-Card (as it is affectionately known) is our store's loyalty program, and it helps us to share our passion for reading and love of books with our community, rewarding customers for shopping local. The new cards will be available on Monday, Jan. 10. Here are some of the details of this year's program:

  • $10 enrollment fee. One stamp issued for purchasing the card.
  • Get one stamp for each $10 purchase of regularly priced merchandise. Completed card (12 stamps) is worth $10 off on your next visit.
  • Receive special coupon and promotional emails for I-Card members only.
  • Don’t want to carry another card in your wallet? We can keep it on file for you in our store.
  • If you have 7 or more stamps on a card issued in 2012, all stamps will be transferred to the 2013 card. If you have 6 or fewer stamps on a card issued in 2012, half of the stamps will be transferred to the 2013 card.
  • If you were unable to redeem one full card in 2012 (if card# on the right side of the oval in the middle-right of the card is 1), we want to encourage you to continue visiting our store by issuing you a 2013 card at no cost.
  • Cards issued in 2012 may no longer be stamped. If 2012 cards are full, they may continue to be redeemed for $10 off a purchase.

Keep reading in 2013; see you in the bookstore!

Pamela.

 
New in Paperback

Death Comes to Pemberley

P. D. James

Legendary mystery writer P.D. James writes Jane Austen’s beloved characters into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.

“In the autumn of 1803, six years after the events that closed Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Darcy, the happily married mistress of Pemberley House, is preparing for Lady Anne’s annual ball, ‘regarded by the county as the most important social event of the year.’ Alas, the evening before the ball, Elizabeth’s sister Lydia, who married the feckless Wickham, bursts into the house to announce that Captain Denny, a militia officer, has shot her husband dead in the woodland on the estate. . . .” —Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review

Paperback, $15.00

Publisher: Vintage Books; ISBN: 9780307950659

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Toni Morrison

“In Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winner Morrison’s immaculate new novel (after A Mercy), Frank Money returns from the horrors of the Korean War to an America that’s just as poor and just as racist as the country he fled. Frank’s only remaining connection to home is his troubled younger sister, Cee —the first person he ever took responsibility for —but he doesn’t know where she is. In the opening pages of the book, he receives a letter from a friend of Cee’s stating, ‘Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.’ Thus begins his quest to save his sister, and to find peace in a town he loathed as a child: Lotus, Ga., the ‘worst place in the world, worse than any battlefield.’” —Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review

Paperback $14.00

Publisher: Vintage Books; ISBN: 9780307740915

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Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

Alexander McCall Smith

“McCall Smith excels at creating comic characters. . . . McCall Smith's least well-known series, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, is also filled with comic characters, all academics of a particularly stripe—German philologists who can trace word origins back thousands of years but, many times, cannot parse the simple meaning of what's going on. The hero (to himself, at least) is Professor Dr. von Igelfeld, whose quest for recognition and whose utter haplessness in dealing with the real world form the comic spine of the novels. In the fourth in the series, von Igelfeld's greatest rival has been short-listed for an academic prize that von Igelfeld believes should have gone to him. . . . Academia can be a hoot, and this series proves it.” —Booklist

Paperback, $13.95

Publisher: Anchor Books; ISBN: 9780307279897

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Events

Thursday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m.

Grass Roots Books & Music

227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis

Rob Dietz

Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Corvallis author Rob Dietz will stop by Grass Roots to discuss his book, Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, co-authored by Dan O’Neill. In the book, Dietz and O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth —an economy where the goal is not more but enough.They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more —all with the aim of maximizing long-term well-being instead of short-term profits.

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Community Events

Community Events

Darkside Cinema: Please visit Darkside's website for this week's movies.

Literary Events: Visit our Community Calendar for details on these events and others in the area.

  • Random Reviews: Adam Michaud reviews the works of Ray Bradbury: Wednesday, Jan. 9, Noon to 1 p.m., Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.
  • OSU MFA Program Reading, featuring Sean Crouch, Alyssa Halton, Phillip Brown, Alison Clement: Thursday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m., New Morning Bakery, Corvallis.
  • Literary Northwest Series: David Biespiel & Wendy Willis: Friday, Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m., The Valley Library, OSU, Corvallis.

Opportunities:

  • Poetry Marquee Submissions: The next time you are strolling along the Corvallis downtown waterfront, be sure to take a peek at the Madison Street side of the Great Harvest Bread building – you’ll be treated to periodically-rotating examples of local poetry.Submissions are being considered by The Arts Center of Corvallis for brief poems (a maximum of six lines) to appear on the Midway Theater marquee at the corner of Southwest First Street and Madison Avenue. Visit The Arts Center website for more information.
  • Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poems Call for Submissions: Avocet has a new editor, and guidelines for submission and publication are now available on their website. There are four reading periods through the year: Jan. 1 to Feb. 28, April 1 to May 31, July 1 to Aug. 31, and Oct. 1 to Nov. 30. Please see their website for complete details.
  • Oregon Writers Colony Call for Submissions: The Oregon Writers Colony is seeking submissions from Oregon authors who have books coming out any time between January 1 and March 30 of 2013 for possible selection as our Winter 2013 Oregon Book Club choice. For more information, visit the Oregon Writers Colony website.
  • Phantom Drift Limited Call for Sumbissions: Phantom Drift Limited is pleased to announce they are accepting submissions for the third issue of their annual journal of new fabulism beginning Jan. 1 through Mar. 31.For more information, visit their website.
  • Call for submissions, Honoring Our Rivers: Attn: Oregon Teachers and Students: Are you looking for a dynamic opportunity to have your or your students' writing and artwork published and presented before a statewide audience? Honoring Our Rivers, Oregon’s only statewide student anthology focused on rivers and watersheds is accepting submissions. Deadline: January 31, 2013 (postmark). Visit www.honoringourrivers.org for complete submission guides, teaching aids, and more project details.
  • Fishtrap Fellowships: Fishtrap is excited to announce that it will award three Fellowships in 2013 to bring emerging writers to Summer Fishtrap, July 8-14 2013. Applications for Fellowships will be taken by email through Jan. 4. Visit the Fishtrap website for more information.
  • Inklings, an open critique group, is seeking new members. The group meets on 1st & 3rd Sundays from 11 am to 1 pm in the upstairs meeting room at Market of Choice on 9th Street and Circle Boulevard in Corvallis. Please contact Dinaz Rogers at [email protected] or 541-967-1911 if you have any questions.

Ticket Sales: Grass Roots sells tickets for local music events. Check our Community Calendar for upcoming events that we have available.

 
News

 

Featured in the Store

Resolve to read more books! A new year brings fresh optimism for making positive changes. What are your resolutions for 2013? (I’m going to run a 10K, plan a wedding, and learn to make really wonderful chicken enchiladas with red sauce.) Books are a wonderful inspiration for changing one’s life, and we have a store full of inspiration! Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown will spark your ability to trust and to change. Have a bad habit you want to break? The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed. Change in the world can begin with one small act a day by anybody; One Good Deed a Day provides 365 inspiring actions with space to journal and reflect.

A Good Read

Small bookstores are fighting back against corporate forces, proving there is a place for them in the bookselling environment. Bestselling author Ann Patchett opened Parnassus Books in Nashville two years ago with Karen Hayes when the city’s other in-town bookstores closed. She wrote of the experience and the importance of local bookstores in The Atlantic last month: “Amazon doesn’t get to make all the decisions; the people can make them, by choosing how and where they spend their money. If what a bookstore offers matters to you, then shop at a bookstore. If you feel that the experience of reading a book is valuable, then read a book. This is how we change the world: We grab hold of it. We change ourselves.” Read the rest of the article here; it’s great reading.

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World Book Night 2013

Applications are now being taken for Volunteer Book Givers for the 2013 World Book Night on April 23, 2013. This is a great opportunity to share your love of reading, and to put wonderful books into the hands of light or non-readers in your community. For more information, and to apply to be a 2013 book giver, please fill out the online application on the World Book Night Website. You will be asked what your first, second, and third book choices are, why you wish to share these books, and where you will go to personally hand out the books. Deadline to apply is January 23, 2013.

December Bestsellers

Two books were neck-and-neck for Grass Roots Hardcover Bestsellers in December. Can you guess what they are? See all of our December bestsellers on our website:

 
This Week's Puzzle

It's Back!

Solve this week's jigsaw.
 
Reading Group Selection

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

(Our next meeting is January 8, a week late because of New Year's Day.)


The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

Pamela leads the first book discussion of 2013 with a modern retelling of a Russian fairy tale.

Alaska in 1920 is a brutal place for new homesteaders Jack and Mabel, about to face a harsh winter they’re not certain they can survive. In a moment of levity, the childless couple builds a child of snow during the season’s first snowfall. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running among the trees. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this mysterious child, they learn that not everything is as it appears in this harsh landscape, and become transformed.

Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books

ISBN: 9780316175661

Paperback

Regular price: $14.99

On sale for $12.74 until Jan. 8.

 

 
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