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Grass Roots Books and Music
— 227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis OR 97339 — 541-754-7668 |
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Hearts and chocolates and flowers and books and poetry and LOVE! There is only one week left before the most loveable gift-giving holiday of the year. Books always make wonderful gifts, but we have plenty of other ideas, too. Stop by Grass Roots this weekend–for our poetry reading on Saturday afternoon perhaps? We're also conveniently located near the post office for sending off those last minute cards! There's still time!
See you at the bookstore!
Pamela. |
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| Newest Books |
Frances and Bernard
Carlene Bauer
In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can take over—and change the course of—our lives. From points afar, they find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. Inspired by the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, Frances and Bernard imagines, through new characters with charms entirely their own, what else might have happened.
Hardcover, $23.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; ISBN: 9780547858241 |
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Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs
Ted Kerasote
Following the death of his favorite dog Merle, Ted Kerasote was fortunate to find a puppy named Pukka, and he set out to give his new dog the longest life possible. Wondering why dogs have short life spans, he set out to discover the answer.
“[After] Kerasote was fortunate enough to find Pukka as a puppy, he began studying everything he could get his hands on related to canine health and life span. The result is a moving account of one man's journey to understand man's best friend inside and out. . . Kerasote's latest is heartbreaking, funny, and informative.” –Publishers Weekly
Hardcover, $28.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; ISBN: 9780547236261 |
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Wolves in the Land of Salmon
David Moskowitz
Wolves. We love them, idolize them, and are fascinated by them. We also hate them, fear them, and blame them. The wolf's relationship with humans is complex and can be emotionally wrought, depending on whether one is a hunter, rancher, or animal lover. David Moskowitz—a professional wildlife tracker, photographer, and outdoor educator—uncovers some of the mysteries of wolves in this beautiful book, featuring his own intimate observations of wolves and his daring photography.
Hardcover, $29.95
Publisher: Timber Press; ISBN: 9781604692273 |
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The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
Dana Bate
Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., lives in a swanky apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for an academic career just like her parents, but what Hannah really wants is to cook. When her relationship collapses, Hannah launches an underground supper club out of her new landlord's town house and her delicious dishes become the talk of the town, though the venture is not, technically speaking, legal.
Paperback, $14.99
Publisher: Hyperion Books; ISBN: 9781401311001 |
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The Fate of Mercy Alban
Wendy Webb
The stately mansion where Grace Alban grew up—and has spent the last 20 years avoiding—stands on the shores of Lake Superior. The unexpected death of Grace’s mother brings her back, teenage daughter in tow, and she finds old love letters revealing her mother’s affair with a famous writer who committed suicide during the same summer solstice party in 1956 that Grace’s aunt Mercy disappeared. Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansion's secret passages, and must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims.
Paperback, $15.99
Publisher: Hyperion Books; ISBN: 9781401341930 |
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Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do
Edited by Meredith Maran
Book lovers and aspiring writers will both find something to love in this collection of interviews with 20 bestselling authors, including Jennifer Egan, Jodi Picoult, and Michael Lewis. Writers share their tips, tricks, and secrets for a successful writing life; explain what keeps them going in the face of such a challenging prospect as writing a book; and what they love the most—and the least—about their chosen profession.
"Every story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later." —Isabel Allende
Paperback, $16.00
Publisher: Plume Books; ISBN: 9780452298156 |
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Canada
Richard Ford
When Dell Parsons was a fifteen-year-old boy in Great Falls, Montana, his parents robbed a bank, altering his sense of what passes for normal life forever. His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner, who abandons her brother and flees with her boyfriend. Saved by family friends before the authorities arrive, Dell is whisked across the border to Canada, where he discovers that he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of a border.
Paperback, $15.99
Publisher: Ecco Press; ISBN: 9780061692031 |
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| Featured Books for Young Readers |
Tumtum & Nutmeg: The Rose Cottage Adventures
Emily Bearn
Ages 8 to 12
“Tumtum and Nutmeg, two sweet mice, have ‘adopted’ the children of Rose Cottage. Arthur and Lucy are neglected by their absentminded inventor father, so the mice mend clothes, make home repairs, tidy up, and generally look after their well-being. The three stories in this sequel to Tumtum and Nutmeg follow the mice as they risk their lives to retrieve Christmas gifts for the children from an evil neighboring mouse, attend to them on a seaside holiday replete with treasure maps and more evil mice, and get involved with some nasty circus mice. Their friend General Marchmouse, recently retired, can't resist an adventure, and is always in the thick of both the problems and solutions.” —School Library Journal
Paperback, $7.99
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; ISBN: 9780316085984 |
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Etiquette & Espionage
Gail Carriger
Young Adult
“Finishing school is ever so interesting when you're learning how to poison your dinner guests with the mutton chops. Sophronia, infamous in her family for disassembling dumbwaiters and falling into custard, is horrified when she is sent to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But school isn't the dreadfully boring disaster Sophronia anticipates. In the academy—a collection of interlaced dirigibles—the girls learn music and intelligence gathering, cooking and defense against vampires, dance and rudimentary seduction. Along with her new chum Dimity, Sophronia learns the principles of fundamental espionage, discovering the academy's own secrets along the way.” —Kirkus Reviews Starred Review
Hardcover, $17.99
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; ISBN: 9780316190084 |
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| Music |
Josh Groban
All That Echoes
Genre: Classical
The popular classical crossover artist's sixth album features many songs he wrote or co-wrote. Covers include songs originally by Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Webb, and Glen Hansard. ($18.95) |
Harry Connick, Jr.
Smokey Mary
Genre: Jazz
The Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award winner's new album pays special tribute to New Orleans' Fat Tuesday celebration. Named after a celebrated parade float, Smokey Mary also celebrates the 20th anniversary of Connick's Mardi Gras krewe. ($11.95) |
Heidi Talbot
Angels Without Wings
Genre: Celtic
This Irish singer was a member of Cherish the Ladies until her 2008 solo debut. Her fourth solo album features contributions from Mark Knopfler, Jerry Douglas, Phil Cunningham, and others. ($17.95) |
Night Beds
Country Sleep
Genre: Pop/Folk
From Nashville by way of Colorado, Night Beds is the musical vision of Winston Yellen. The songs on his debut will appeal to fans of the harmonies of Fleet Foxes and the indie folk of Bon Iver. ($14.95) |
Richard Thompson
Electric
Genre: Pop/Folk
The British guitar legend returns with this guitar-heavy album of new material. Produced by Buddy Miller, Thompson is joined by guests including Alison Krauss and fiddle player Stuart Duncan. ($16.95) |
Mary Gauthier
Live at Blue Rock
Genre: Pop/Folk
The alt-country songwriter presents her very first live album. With songs from throughout her career, Live at Blue Rock finds Gauthier backed by her touring fiddle player and percussionist. ($14.95) |
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| Events |
Saturday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis |
Poetry Reading
What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems
Edited by Kathryn Ridall
What the River Brings is a collection of poems celebrating rivers by 56 Oregon poets. This afternoon we will be joined by Charles Goodrich, Donna Henderson, Claudia Lapp, Kathryn Ridall, and Tim Whitsel.
“What the River Brings is a great gift to all of us who love rivers. Carry this gift in your canoe or daypack or the pocket of your raincoat; its sentences will shimmer with reflected sky and dive to depths you had not imagined. There is no greater pleasure than sitting by the water when the cottonwoods are sweet and coming to know the river anew through the minds and hearts of Oregon’s most wonderful poets.” —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Riverwalking and Wild Comfort |
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Saturday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis |
Poetry Reading:
Constance Eggers
Reliquary
Celebrate the release of local poet Constance Eggers' first chapbook, Reliquary, with an afternoon poetry reading at Grass Roots.
“Pilgrim, saint, a sweltering teenage mother, a stubborn teenage daughter, the Blessed Virgin, a fable’s scrub-maid, a fairy tale’s queen: all quicken within these vibrant lyrics. On page after page of Reliquary, Constance Eggers offers us arresting, archetypal females. Her poems are resonant songs for the kind of ‘spiky, sharp women’ she claims as her kin.” —Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate |
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Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.
Main Meeting Room,
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
645 NW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis
*Please note that the Writing Workshop with Kim Stafford is full, but there is a waiting list. Please call the library Adult Reference at 541-766-6793 with questions.. |
Kim Stafford
Reading, conversation, and book signing
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir
Co-Sponsored by Grass Roots Books & Music, Friends of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, and The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.
Kim Stafford joins us to read from and discuss his memoir 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do.
Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. Growing up, there was a code of silence in the family, not to talk about the hard things. Against a backdrop of the 1960s—puritan in the summer of love, pacifist in the Vietnam era—Bret became a casualty of his interior war and took his life in 1988. In this book, through a brother's devotions, the lost saint teaches us about depression, the tender ancestry of violence, the quest for harmonious relations, and finally the trick of joy. |
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Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis |
E. A. Channon
Ballad of a Bagpiper
Ballad of a Bagpiper is a rambling, rollicking recollection of E.A. Channon’s real life adventures as he bagpiped his way around the globe. He’s performed at over 2000 weddings and events in many locales, and he has many more stories to tell. Just pick the category—animal wedding, nudist wedding, vampire wedding—or how about a funny funeral? The book is an amalgam of jolly good times as Channon recounts some of his memories of not so elegant affairs featuring rearing white horses, racing dogs and raining cats; or you could just call it the funny side of bagpipes. |
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Upcoming Events
We have many more events coming up in the next few months! For a complete list of all of our upcoming events, please visit our website. |
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Community Events
Darkside Cinema: Movies showing Feb. 8 to 14, showtimes daily, Darkside Cinema, Corvallis. Visit their website for showtimes.
- Hitchcock –PG-13: Filmed with lots of style and a macabre sense of humor the master himself would have enjoyed. Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson.
- Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts! –NR: Asad, Buzkashi Boys, Curfew, Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw), and Henry.
- Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts! –NR: Fresh Guacamole, Adam and Dog, Head Over Heels, Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, and Paperman.
- Anna Karenina –R: Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. With Keira Knightley, Jude Law.
Literary Events: Visit our Community Calendar for details on these events and others in the area.
- OSU MFA Reading, featuring Afsheen Farhadi, Clare Braun, Michael Wasson, and Sally Parrish: Thursday, Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., New Morning Bakery, Corvallis.
- OSU Visiting Writers Series presents Paisley Rekdal: Friday, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., Memorial Union Journey Room, OSU, Corvallis.
Opportunities:
- William Stafford Writing Contest: In honor of William Stafford’s centennial birthday, Ooligan Press has organized a statewide writing competition for seventh through twelfth grade students. All middle and high school teachers in the state of Oregon are invited to use William Stafford’s writing to inspire students to create and revise their own poems and essays. An assortment of William Stafford’s poems, one of his essays on the writing process, and three sets of lesson plans written by local teachers are all available to contest participants at the William Stafford Writing Contest website. Teachers can mail submissions of their students’ work to Ooligan Press through April 2013. A panel of guest judges will then read students’ submissions and select pieces for publication. Selected student entries will be published in a book titled We Belong In History. The anthology will be released in January 2014 to help launch the yearlong celebration of William Stafford’s birth. Please visit the Contest website for additional information.
- Oregon Poetry Association Adult Contest: The deadline for submissions for the Spring 2013 OPA Adult Contest is Mar. 1. Details and a complete set of rules can be found on the OPA website.
- Nature of Words Rising Star Writing Competition: The Rising Star Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by the University of Oregon, is open to emerging writers age 15 and above living in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The deadline for writing entries is Mar. 10, 2013. All entries must be submitted through The Nature of Words online submission site.
- 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.
- 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 drogersor@msn.com 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. |
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Saturday, Feb. 9,
8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
LaSells Stewart Center, OSU
875 SW 26th Street, Corvallis |
Insights into Gardening
Insights into Gardening is a day-long seminar offering practical, hands-on learning for home gardeners and gardeners-to-be. Whether you are an experienced or novice gardener, new to the area or an Oregon native, you will find plenty of ideas to make your gardening easier, more enjoyable, and more successful. Raffles, exhibits, and a catered lunch will also be available at the event. Grass Roots Books & Music will have books available to purchase at the event. For more information online, visit the Extension Office website or call Pami Opfer at the Benton County OSU Extension Office at 541-766-6750. |
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Sweets for your Sweetie
This Valentine’s Day, please the one you’re with by gifting them the sweet surprise of chocolate. Grass Roots is offering a special selection of chocolate gifts from Burst’s Chocolates. There’s something for every chocolate lover: Red Heart gift boxes, 1 oz. solid chocolate hearts, gift bars specially packaged for Valentine’s Day in dark or milk chocolate, and a box of four vanilla caramels. It’s one stop local shopping at Grass Roots! |
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Oberon Designs
Your book lover will think of you and keep their place with the handcrafted pewter, heart-shaped ribbon bookmark from Oberon. Other designs and pendants are available as well, so you can choose the perfect symbol of your affection. Grass Roots also recently received a fresh stock of Oberon Moleskine covers (large and small), each one artisan crafted in leather. |
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Share a Kobo Mini Love of Reading
Need a last minute Valentine's gift for the reader who has almost everything? The Kobo Mini is a great idea: it’s small and lightweight, easy-to-read, and is capable of storing up to 1,000 books. To sweeten the deal, Kobo Minis are on sale for only $59.99 through Feb. 14, and this special pricing includes a free Snapback Cover. Is your interest sparked? Find out more about the Kobo Mini here. |
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| Reading Group Selection |
Tuesday, Mar. 5, 6:30 to 8 p.m
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund de Waal
Tiffany leads our March discussion of The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance.
Edmund de Waal is a renowned ceramicist and the fifth generation to inherit a collection of Japanese ivory carvings known as netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection. Charles Ephrussi, a cousin of de Waal’s great-grandfather, purchased the collection in Paris in the 1870s. The collection was presented to a Vienna cousin as a wedding present in Vienna, survived Nazi occupation when a loyal maid secretly smuggled it in her mattress, and years later was returned to the family she’d served even in their exile.
“As today's keeper of the storied netsuke, famed artist and curator de Waal tells a spellbinding and perceptive tale of extraordinary accomplishment and loss, beauty and terror, reinvention and survival in an intricately dimensional, profoundly involving first book, a sensitive and astute inquiry into culture and family, inheritance and preservation, and the secret life of objects.” –Booklist Starred Review |
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Publisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 9780312569372
Paperback
Regular price: $16.00
On sale for $13.60 until Mar. 5.
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On Our Nightstands |
 Charneé
Sleep Like a Tiger
Mary Logue
Sleep Like A Tiger (2013 Caldecott Honor book) is a lovely little gem in the world of bedtime books. It features a spirited young girl who insists to her parents that she just isn’t tired enough to go to bed! They then spend the rest of the book convincing her that bed is a warm, safe, wonderland where she can dream alongside a fantastic cast of creatures from the animal kingdom – with tiny swirly snails to great big snoring jungle cats. The text is simple and sweet. The paintings are magical and enchanted; with so much detail and depth they give the impression of mixed-media art journals. This book is the perfect lullaby to help your little ones drift off to sleep.
Hardcover, $16.99
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; ISBN: 9780547641027 |
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Tami
Phantom
Jo Nesbo
This series is set in Sweden. Harry Hole is a great detective, but he always seems to be failing in some respect, whether it’s dealing with alcohol, drugs, relationships or co-workers. He never fails to solve the murders though. The characters are very strong. Not all of the novels in the series have been published in English yet, and while you may feel you are missing some back story, the series is still readable. Other Scandinavian authors you may like are Hakan Nesser, Arnaldur Indridason, Henning Mankell, Peter Hoeg and maybe the TV series Irene Huss and also Varg Veum.
Hardcover, $25.95
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group; ISBN: 9780307960474 |
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Tiffany
Return to the Willows
Jacqueline Kelly
When I gave this book to my best friend’s nine-year-old daughter and they started reading it together as a family with her six-year-old brother, my friend insisted I drop everything else and pick up Return to the Willows immediately. I did. . . to my immense delight. You don’t need to have read Kenneth Grahame’s classic Wind in the Willows to enjoy this sequel (it stands on its own), but you’ll appreciate it all the more if you have. As Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Badger set off on new adventures, the writing sparkles, the footnotes add humor—especially for grownups, and the lovely illustrations round out the reader’s happy experience.
Hardcover, $19.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company; ISBN: 9780805094138 |
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