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Dearest Readers,

It's Halloween time! In honor of this most wonderful, spooky, treat-filled holiday Grass Roots makes way for a sweet promotion. Kids can partake by celebrating All Hallows Read, a movement started by the venerable Neil Gaiman to give a child a book for trick-or-treating, rather than simply candy. You can read all about the Gaiman mission here, but what this means at Grass Roots is during the month of October, kids can get 20% off any one Halloween/pumpkin-themed or traditionally scary, mysterious, and spooky book for kids or teens. Also, in honor of the man himself, ALL Neil Gaiman books are on sale too, regardless of topic!

Adults, you won't miss out, either: you too get 20% off any one traditionally scary, eerie, and macabre title for adults! When picking a book, think murder mysteries, Oregon ghost towns, zombies, and crematories - oh my! And again, ALL Neil Gaiman books! Check out our Store News section for the displays. 

Happy first-week-of-Halloween!

~Jenny

P.S. Many, MaNy, MANY events this month. Be sure to look at the Events sections in this week's newsletter!

New HardcoversNHardcovers

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories
by Hilary Mantel
[Fiction]
 
This collection of short stories investigates marriage, class, family, and sex. As one of the most anticipated books of the fall, Hilary Mantel is at the height of her powers in The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Each story gets at the heart of infidelities, sudden death, and dislocation, while remaining elegant in its prose. The stories are not afraid to shock if need be, and readers will find themselves swept away in the twists and turns.


Hardcover; $27.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company; ISBN: 9781627792103

A Sudden Light
by 
Garth Stein
[Fiction]
 
"There's more than one way to be haunted. In Stein's first novel since his popular The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008), a 14-year-old named Trevor uncovers the dark mysteries surrounding the mansion built by his great-great-grandfather, a timber baron in the Pacific Northwest. While Trevor's father is ostensibly there to sell the property and position himself to save his faltering marriage, Trevor begins to suspect there's a soul at the mansion determined to see it returned to nature. Stuck in the house with his demented grandfather and flirtatious aunt, the perceptive teenager learns about his family's legacy, his forebears' avarice causing damage as it echoes down the generations. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review


Hardcover; $26.95 

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 9781439187036

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson
[Non-Fiction]

". . . [Johnson's] latest work. . . sift[s] through the plethora of mankind's greatest inventions and offer[s] a closer look at six that have made tremendous impacts on modern civilization. Using what he calls the long zoom approach, Johnson takes a broad view of history as he charts the cascading technological innovations that followed from the invention of lenses, refrigeration, recorded sound, water purification, clocks, and artificial light. . . Johnson is in peak form here, weaving a spell with his seasoned prose while providing the riveting backstories of the many devices that make our lives comfortable yet which we all too often take for granted. . ." -Booklist

Hardcover; $30.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books; ISBN: 9781594632969

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
by 
S.C. Gwynne
[Non-Fiction]
 
"Dispensing with a chronological march through the life of Confederate General Thomas Jackson, Gwynne presents Jackson's eccentric personality in biographical episodes that he injects into the arc of Jackson's Civil War campaigns and battles. For example, the book covers the future hero's boyhood and his 1850s tenure at the Virginia Military Institute (a rich source of anecdotes of Jackson's oddities) after the 1861 Battle of Bull Run. Gwynne's technique succeeds, thanks to his spry prose and cogent insight, in revealing Jackson's character. Describing him as shy, serious, determined, and profoundly religious, Gwynne captures the stiff, asocial persona Jackson presented to the world. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review

Hardcover; $35.00

Publisher: Scribner Book Company; ISBN: 9781451673289

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
by 
Nicholas Carr
[Non-Fiction]
 
" [This] latest work looks at the perils of automation and argues that the added convenience provided by mechanization and computerization comes at the risk of weakening our mental and physical dexterity. Carr begins by recounting the experimental success of the computer-operated Google car, which so far has passed every city and highway driving test with flying colors. For Carr, this sci-fi dream-come-true inspires a sober discussion of the degeneration effect, whereby commercial pilots' overuse of autopilot controls has led to such a dangerous erosion of skills. . . Carr brilliantly and scrupulously explores all the psychological and economic angles of our increasingly problematic reliance on machinery. . . to manage almost every aspect of our lives. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review

Hardcover; $26.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 9780393240764

New PaperbacksNPaperbacks

[Fiction]

In a story that is actually about a love affair, Hoffman weaves in her trademark magic throughout by placing it in the midst of a Coney Island freak show. Coralie Sardie plays a mermaid in the Museum of Extraordinary Things, and one night after a show she stumbles upon Eddie Cohen, a photographer run away from the expectation of becoming a tailor's apprentice. Quickly entangled in a newspaper-headlining mystery, Coralie finds herself falling in love with the intriguing young man who wants to find answers behind a missing body.

Paperback; $16.00

Publisher: Scribner Book Company; ISBN: 9781451693577

[Non-Fiction]

". . . Among the many incredible [real] stories transcribed for [this] book are the following: a man who falls five stories from a window as a boy and is caught by a stranger; an ex-soldier haunted by the fate of an Iraqi boy he befriended; and a woman who forgives, adopts, and calls 'son' the man who murdered her only child. The collection features an astonishing range of voices, and the (fact-checked) stories recount exceptional events in the lives of 'noncelebrated' people. As a result of the participants' refreshing lack of cynicism, the book is appealingly down-to-earth and, ultimately, moving. The collection successfully fulfills its mission: to make readers feel 'more connected, awake, and alive.'" -Publishers Weekly
Paperback; $15.00

Publisher: Penguin Books; ISBN: 9780143125969

[Fiction]
 
This is the second volume of T.C. Boyle stories, gathering together work from three previous collections and fourteen previously uncollected stories. From satire to tall tales, from the mythic to the realistic, Boyle is undoubtedly a master of the short story. He tackles any and all topics and themes, and creates characters that feel like real people with timely problems--everything from abortion to giants bred for war. Nothing is off limits, everything is well-written.

Paperback; $25.00

Publisher: Penguin Books; ISBN: 9780143125860

[Non-Fiction]

"After setting a world record by walking the length of the Amazon River, adventurer Stafford's (Walking the Amazon) next challenge strands him on Olorua, a remote Fiji island, for 60 days armed with only cameras to document his stay for the Discovery Channel. Naked, and without tools and weapons, he recounts his epic feat. What could come off as a droning procedural (woke up sore, ate some snails, dislodged a coconut, rinse, repeat) is anything but; Stafford shares his immediate regret once he arrives on the island and the gravity of his situation fully sinks in and he realizes that food, shelter, and hydration will be constant worries. . ." -Publishers Weekly
Paperback; $16.00

Publisher: Plume Books; ISBN: 9780142180969

New For Young ReadersYReaders

 The Book with No Pictures
by B.J. Novak
[Fiction]
Ages 5 to 8

"Best known for his work on TV's The Office, Novak follows his adult short-story collection (One More Thing, 2014) with a picture book--well, sort of. There's, like, no pictures. That's the whole idea. But Novak has isolated a curious truth about picture books: the person reading the book aloud is obligated to say what's on the page. No exceptions. Thus commences what is basically a one-character stand-up routine in which the one reading aloud must struggle against increasingly silly demands. . . You see where this is going: humiliating songs, declarations that the kid listening is the best kid ever, and a two-page spread of rude noises. . . kids will adore adults who commit to the ridiculous performance." -Booklist

Hardcover; $17.99

Publisher: Dial Books; ISBN: 9780803741713

"Shouldn't You Be in School?" (All the Wrong Questions)
by Lemony Snicket
[Fiction]
Ages 8 to 12

In this third book of the New York Times-bestselling series, young apprentice Lemony Snicket investigates a case of arson. He soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Who is setting the fires? What secrets are hidden in the Department of Education? Why are so many schoolchildren in danger? One question leads to yet another in this mysterious little town, making for a real page-turner of a story.

Hardcover; $16.00

Publisher: Little, Brown Books; ISBN: 9780316123068

New MusicNMusic


 Sons of Bill
Love & Logic
Genre: Pop/Folk

This Virginia band is named after their theologian father, Bill. Their music takes a rootsy approach to contemporary rock music, boasting strong musical hooks and sing-along choruses.
($12.95)

Genre: Pop/Folk

Lucinda Williams' new release is a double CD of her trademark dark and brooding alt.country. Many of the tunes lean in a country-soul direction, including a cover of the late JJ Cale's classic "Magnolia."
($16.95)

Pieta Brown
Paradise Outlaw
Genre: Pop/Folk

While she first garnered attention as Greg Brown's daughter, Pieta Brown has earned a right to be considered on her own merits as a strong contemporary folk writer. Her new album is produced by her husband, Bo Ramsey, and her 6th full-length record walks the line between country and folk, including contributions from Ramsey and Mark Knopfler.
($17.95)

Genre: Pop/Folk

On the occasion of 5 decades in music, this collection celebrates the songs of Chris Smither. Contributors include Dave Alvin, Eilen Jewell, Bonnie Raitt, and more.
($16.95)

 Various Artists
Gaelic Scotland
Genre: Irish/Celtic

Backed by fiddles, pipes, whistle, and more, this new collection highlights the beauty of the Gaelic language. Contributors include Maeve MacKinnon, Mary Ann Kennedy, Donnie Macleod, and more.
($18.95)
Events at Grass RootsEventsGRR

Travis Mossotti (Field Study) and Kerry James Evans (Bangalore) 

Saturday, October 11, at 3:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books and Music
227 SW 2nd St.
Corvallis, OR 97333
 
Field Study is a window into Travis Mossotti's fieldwork over the last decade, working with his wife (a carnivore biologist), US government, university, and nonprofit organizations on data collection, animal captures/releases, and lab work for various endangered species recovery efforts all across North America-from processing kill sites with the Yellowstone Wolf Project to tracking red wolves on the eastern edge of the Outer Banks. The book engages the tradition of American naturalist writers and offers a rare in situ examination of the relationship between humans and the environments humans occupy, manipulate, destroy, and share, to greater or lesser extents.


Travis Mossotti won the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award for his first book, About the Dead (USU Press, 2011), and Field Study won the 2013 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize (Bona Fide Books, 2014). Mossotti is Poet-in-Residence at the Endangered Wolf Center and a professor at Lindenwood University Belleville.


Drawing upon Kerry James Evans's experience in the military, Bangalore speaks from the position of a natural class warrior who came of age desperately poor in some of the most hardscrabble parts of our country. Whether highlighting a barracks argument about gays in the military or contemplating pent-up eros, the poems are experientially political in the best sense.

Kerry James Evans is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). He earned a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University and an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His poems have appeared in Agni, Narrative, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals.
Blue Collar Nomad, with Wandering: Blue Collar Nomad Soundtrack

Jake Kaida (author) and Matthew Tavis Johnson (pianist/composer)


Tuesday, Oct 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books and Music
 
Jake Kaida sponsors his way across the land as a farmhand, cook, organic gardener, landscape artist, writing instructor, mentor to at-risk youth and his favorite tasks-picking apples and gleaning grapes in the autumn. Blue Collar Nomad is a selected compendium of his North American travel and place-based pieces, which he composed between 23-35 years of age. These atmospheric poems, travel stories, and spiritual vignettes blend genuine working class ethics with jazzy intuitive language in order to rouse hidden emotions and knead spiritual nerves within the reader's psyche. Blue Collar Nomad explores gritty urban areas and isolated pastoral landscapes; and often presents meaningful dialogues between the author and those citizens who have been misplaced or forgotten by mainstream society.

Matthew Tavis Johnson's musical pieces evoke the emotional fluidity and changing ambiences that a nomad encounters in various locations. Matthew deftly captures the unencumbered rhythm and transitory openness that occurs during the transitional phases of traveling from place to place. This CD is the atmospheric audio accompaniment to the written work.
Pete Fromm 

Sunday, October 19, at 3:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books and Music 
 
In If Not For This, after meeting at a boatman's bash on the Snake River, river runners Maddy and Dalt embark on a lifelong love affair. They marry on the banks of the Buffalo Fork, sure they'll live there the rest of their days. Forced by the economics of tourism to leave Wyoming, they start a new adventure, opening their own river business in Ashland, Oregon: Halfmoon Whitewater. They prosper there, leading rafting trips and guiding fishermen into the wilds of Mongolia and Russia. But when Maddy, laid low by dizzy spells, with a mono that isn't quite mono, both discovers she is pregnant and is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, they realize their adventure is just beginning.

Pete Fromm is a four-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award for the novels As Cool As I Am and How All This Started, a story collection, Dry Rain, and a memoir, Indian Creek Chronicles. A core faculty member at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program, he has a degree in wildlife biology from the University of Montana and worked for years as a river ranger in Grand Teton National Park.
Please Don't Paint Our Planet Pink
Gregg Kleiner (author), Laurel Thompson (illustrator)

Saturday, October 25 at 3:00 p.m. 
Grass Roots Books and Music 
 
In this engaging, funny, and highly timely book, a young boy whose parents named him Wilbur "in honor of that pig in Charlotte's Web" discovers the power of the human imagination and how he can tap that power to see a shade of pink he has never imagined - a pink so astonishing it just might save the Planet. With help from his "geeky dorkasaurus" Dad and a pair of bright green goggles, young Will learns all about carbon and caring, carpooling and climate change, and how learning to see "this particular pink" will help all of us keep our Planet cool.

As a visual thinker, it's no wonder that Laurel Thompson became an artist. She grew up in Oregon, exploring her fascination with art, dance, and nature. This is Laurel's first fully illustrated book, and she feels honored to be helping bring such an important story to life.
The Civil War Rivalry: Oregon vs. Oregon State
Kerry Eggers (author) and Yvenson Bernard (former OSU tailback) 

Tuesday, Oct 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books and Music
 
Since 1894, the Ducks and the Beavers have squared off on the gridiron to do battle for football bragging rights in Oregon. It's a rivalry that pits family members against one another, splitting the allegiance of an entire state. Award-winning sports journalist Kerry Eggers tells the complete story of one of the most historic rivalries in college football. Through firsthand interviews with the key performers in the rivalry and extensive research in both schools' archives, Eggers offers a comprehensive account of the players, coaches and fans who have made the Civil War the state's most anticipated football game. Whether a Beaver or a Duck, this is a book no fan can do without.

Yvenson Bernard played four years in the Canadian Football League after a terrific career at Oregon State. The Boca Raton, Fla., native put together three 1,000-yard seasons as a starting tailback for the Beavers from 2005-07, becoming the No. 2 rusher in OSU history and No. 6 on the Pac-10 career list. He was a first-team All-Pac-10 selection as a junior in 2006.

 
Community EventsCommunityEvents

Darkside Show Times for 10/3-10/9

-Love Is Strange -R Held aloft by remarkable performances from John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, serves as a graceful tribute to the beauty of commitment in the face of adversity. 97% on RT.

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Boyhood -PG-13 The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.

-Trip To Italy -NR Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy.

-A Letter To Momo -NR Sweet, sad, and visually striking, A Letter to Momo is a hand-drawn experience for animation fans to savor.

Literary Events

 -Random Reviews, Corvallis Public Library, Wednesday, October 8 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Mary Oliver's Poetry Reviewer: Robin Havenick

Opportunities

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Plot Planning Party (NaNoWriMo) Corvallis Public Library Main Meeting Room, Saturday, October 18th, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Learn what NaNoWriMo is (and how to say it), create an outline or storyboard for your novel, name your characters, build your world, and bounce ideas off of other local writers. This is the first in a series of events celebrating National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

-Rose Metal Press Ninth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest Online submission deadline: December 1, 2014 Rose Metal Press, an independent nonprofit publisher of works in hybrid genres, seeks submissions to its Ninth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest. Please submit your 25-40 page, double-spaced manuscript of flash fiction or flash nonfiction (each story under 1,000 words) from November 1 to December 1. The winner will have his/her chapbook published in Summer 2015, with an introduction by the contest judge. $10 fee. Judge: Pamela Painter. More details here.

-Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story Online/Postmark Deadline: December 1, 2014 $2,000 and publication will be awarded to the top unpublished story on any theme Novelist David Rhodes, author of Driftless, will judge the contest. One story per entry/multiple entries OK. Maximum 7,000 words. All entrants will be considered for publication. The award may be split at the judge's discretion. Deadline Dec. 1, 2014. Visit the Beloit Fiction Journal here.

Community Events with Grass Roots

Inara Verzemnieks and Nick Dybek 

Friday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.
OSU Valley Library Rotunda

Inara Verzemnieks's essays and journalism have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, The Atlantic, and Creative Nonfiction. The recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award and the Richard J. Margolis Award of the Blue Mountain Center, she holds an MFA from the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. Before receiving her MFA, she spent 13 years as a newspaper reporter, and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Her first book, a memoir, retraces the steps of her grandmother and great-aunt in the wake of World War II, and recounts her own journey back to the remote Latvian village where her family broke apart. The memoir is forthcoming from Norton.

Nick Dybek is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of the novel When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man, winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award. He is also a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a Maytag Fellowship.

Grass Roots will be selling books at this event. 

 

Alison Hawthorne Deming (Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit) and Robert Michael Pyle (Evolution of the Genus Iris)

Thursday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m.  
Corvallis Arts Center

As part of the Spring Creek Project's year-long series on "Humans and Other Wild Animals," Alison Hawthorne Deming and Robert Michael Pyle debut their new books.

Alison Deming is the author of Science and Other Poems, Temporary Homelands, The Edges of the Civilized World, finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real. She edited Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology and coedited with Lauret E. Savoy The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Natural World.

Bob Pyle is the author of Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree, Where Bigfoot Walks, Chasing Monarchs, Walking the High Ridge, Sky Time in Gray's River, and Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year; as well as The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies, The Butterflies of Cascadia.

Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.

Brian Doyle Reading

October 21 at 7:30
Valley Library Tuesday


Grass Roots will  be selling books at this event.

Willamette Writers on the River
"An Evening with Brian Doyle"

Monday, October 20th 6:30-8:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
114 SW 8th Street, (enter Dennis Hall at 9th & Monroe), Corvallis, Oregon

FREE to members of Willamette Writers and full-time students. Guests of Willamette Writers members pay $5. Non-members pay $10 to attend.

The event will consist of "partly a reading of my work and partly some time spent just on starts and ideas and seeds and sourdough starters and notes toward what might be pieces hatched later by members who come home and putter with their fingers in an admirably maniacal way." Please bring something to take notes on.

Doyle is the author of 14 books of essays, poems, stories, nonfiction (The Grail, about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and The Wet Engine, about the "muddles & musics of the heart"), and the sprawling novels Mink River and The Plover (April 2014). His books have seven times been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion, The American Scholar, The Sun, The New York Times, The Times of London, and The Age (in Australia), among other periodicals.

 

Honors include three Pushcart Prizes, the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essays, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008.
 

Grass Roots will be selling books at this event. 

Magic Barrel

Whiteside Theater
Friday, October 24 6:30 p.m.
$9 at the door, or what you can give

This is a literary fundraiser featuring local and regional authors and poets reading from their works to raise money for the Linn-Benton Food Share. Join them to hear stellar writers present tastes of their best work to benefit the community food bank. Readers will include Amanda Coplin, Barbara Drake, Nick Dybek, Peter Sears, and more! Complete information can he found here.

Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.

Store NewsStoreNews

HALLOWEEN!

Halloween displays are up and running like a trusty old haunted house. Both kids and adult sections are well-equipped with creepy-crawly and intriguing reads. 


Fermentin' Out

We had a lot of fun with the 26 people who turned out for the Fermented Vegetables event held at the South Co-op. There, Oregon authors (and former Corvallis residents) Kirsten and Christopher Shockey demonstrated how to ferment various vegetables. Everyone tasted krauts, kimchee, and pickles, and saw how to begin the process of fermenting cabbage. Kirsten and Christopher told stories of how they got started, discussed the amounts of salt in ferments, and gave advice on how to eat fermented vegetables for every meal-including dessert!


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Solve this week's jigsaw!
Reading Group SelectionReadingGroup

by Paula McLain

Join Tiffany as she leads the October Book Group with The Paris Wife.

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness-until she meets Ernest Hemingway. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group-the fabled "Lost Generation"-that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

Regular Price: $15.00
On sale for:$12.75
Until Monday Oct. 6

Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345521316

Night StandsNightStands

Jenny

Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel

This is an end-of-civilization story, beautifully spiraling out of the death of a single man on stage as he plays King Lear during the eve of a pandemic outbreak. Despite this ostensibly grim premise, Mandel keeps the story fresh and vibrant with artful maneuvers through space and time, tracking a handful of characters to show us how they were all affected by washed-up actor Arthur Leander in the days and years leading up to his death. The book is completely engrossing, intelligent, and astounding in its imagination, and reminds readers that in our world, post-apocalyptic or not, simple " 'survival is insufficient.'"

Hardcover; $24.95

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group; ISBN: 9780385353304

Adam

Wolf in White Van
by John Darnielle
[Fiction]
 
The most anticipated book of my reading year has arrived. John Darnielle's National Book Award nominated Wolf in White Van is thin novel that works backward through time to unveil the dark origins of a young man's isolation. The story weaves together elements of fantasy and memory as the main character retreats into his mind. This blurring of reality is part of the genius of the book, as it leaves you sometimes confused and sometimes lost in wonder, much in the same way that the narrator is. The language is poetic and lyrical, even as it is raw and sometimes unsettling, a signature of Darnielle's style that has been honed in twenty years as the singer/song writer head of the band Mountain Goats.

Hardcover; $24.00

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux; ISBN: 9780374292089

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The Haunted Library (Haunted Library #01)
by Dori Hillestad Butler
[Fiction]
Ages 6 to 8

In honor of All Hallows Read, I wanted to kick-off the month with a ghostly chapter book that's just perfect for kids this Halloween. The Haunted Library is full of thrills and chills, but not the kind you'd expect! In this book it's the humans (Solids) that create the mystique and terrify the ghosts (non-Solids). But, an unlikely duo, both outcasts of their own worlds must come together to solve the mystery of the library's haunting. You'll enjoy following Kaz (a young ghost) and Claire Kendall (a young girl) through the winding corridors of the library and this thrilling, original mystery!

Hardcover; $12.99

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap; ISBN: 9780448462431

Linda

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
by Ellen T. Harris
[Non-Fiction]

This wonderful book about Handel is written with such intricate depth and clever design, that it is a delight to read. Approaching through Handel's will and the myriad of friends he bequeathed to, Harris draws us in to Handel's life, the times he lived in, the people who surrounded him, and the music he composed. This "biological fugue" (Harris' description) reads like the beauty of Handel's music, and is refreshing in it's layers and convulsions.

Hardcover; $39.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 9780393088953

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