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Hello, Readers!
This week we have new poems from Mary Oliver, Neil Young's second unconventional memoir, and an exciting addition to the Best American series (Infographics). It's an intriguing week on the new release tables.
Also, here's a little reminder that tonight you can still catch some of the events for the Corvallis Arts Walk taking place in some choice business downtown. Head over to Studio262 for their "Art of the Garden" show featuring 16 local artists, or ShawdowSmith Photographics for an open discussion on art copy (just to name a few). You can also enjoy some of this month's featured dining at Cloud and Kelly's (126 SW 1st St.) or LUC's (134 SW 4th St.).
Although I will miss the sun, I find myself hoping the rain is bringing the real fall--this means there are more opportunities to cozy up with a book. You know where you can go to double-up on the necessities...
Have a good weekend!
~Jenny
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New Hardcovers
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[Poetry]
 "The multiaward-winning Oliver (Dog Songs) gives readers another opportunity to slow down and connect, to see what she sees, and perhaps to find consolation there. In this slim volume, Oliver shares the page with Rumi, Stebbins, Lucretius--and even Shiva. Oliver asks, 'What Can I Do' in the face of technology. She answers 'not much' but adds, 'I can strike a match and make fire.' Indeed she does! In a voice so distinctly hers, Oliver reflects on aging and the nature of art, poetry, and love-the conundrum of culture. . . Perhaps the popularity of Oliver's poems lies in their pastoral quiet, the exactness of her observations, and the comfort of the poet's use of simple language. . ." -Library Journal
Hardcover; $24.95
Publisher: Penguin Press; ISBN: 9781594204791
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by Yotam Ottolenghi
[Cooking]
 "London chef Ottolenghi (Jerusalem), famous for his Mediterranean and Middle Eastern-inspired vegetable dishes, is credited with popularizing previously hard-to-find ingredients and inspiring some of today's hottest culinary trends. When he developed recipes for this book's best-selling predecessor, Plenty, he worked alone. For this sequel, he worked in an official test kitchen with a team of dedicated chefs to create 125 brand-new vegetable dishes, including pink grapefruit and sumac salad, eggplant with black garlic, and coated olives with spicy yogurt. These are organized by cooking method (e.g., tossed, blanched, simmered), and while they require. . . finesse (tomato and pomegranate salad calls for meticulous dicing), they are often revelatory, introducing textures and flavor combinations that readers won't find elsewhere." -Library Journal
Hardcover; $35.00
Publisher: Ten Speed Press; ISBN: 9781607746218
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by Neil Young
[Non-Fiction]
 "Iconic musician Young follows up his well-received Waging Heavy Peace (2012) with another rambling, charmingly unconventional memoir, but this time the rocker-turned-author gives his book a little bit of structure. . . Young uses his love of cars, especially vintage American models, as a launching pad for reminiscences of crisscrossing Canada and America alone or with various bands, stories of his pre-Buffalo Springfield groups struggling to find success in the Toronto and Winnipeg 1960s rock scenes, eulogies to friends and bandmates, and declarations of love for his wife and children, offering personal and professional insight that is sure to delight fans. . ." -Library Journal
Hardcover; $32.00
Publisher: Blue Rider Press; ISBN: 9780399172083
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"A dangerous game begins with players from around the world competing for the future of the human race. Twelve Players, each a descendant of a long line of other, earlier Players, have been activated. They've trained their whole lives in the event that Endgame would begin. The stakes: The winning Player will save his or her bloodline from extinction. The objective: find three keys hidden across the globe and bring them together. The only rule: Find the keys. Everything else is fair game. . ." -Kirkus Reviews
Hardcover; $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins; ISBN: 9780062332585
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by Atul Gawande
[non-Fiction]
"Distressed by how the waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver's chance of benefit, surgeon Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto, 2010) confronts the contemporary experience of aging and dying. Culture and modern medicine encourage an end-of-life approach that focuses on safety and protection but is sadly shallow. . . Gawande suggests that what most of us really want when we are elderly and incapable of taking care of ourselves are simple pleasures and the autonomy to script the final chapter of life. . . [H]e explores some options available when decrepitude sets in or death approaches: palliative care, an assisted living facility, hospice, an elderly housing community, and family caregivers. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review
Hardcover; $26.00
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; ISBN: 9780805095159
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New Paperbacks
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[Non-Fiction]
 A fresh and visually arresting addition to the acclaimed Best American series, showcasing the finest examples of data visualization from the past year, guest edited by Nate Silver. This is a compelling read for those interested in how quick bursts of vivid information is travelling from one person to the next in the form of a tweet, status update, viral video, or "share." How does our artistic nature fit into this new scheme, and what are we creating as a result of it? Find out what we've come up with in the last year in this volume.
Paperback; $20.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; ISBN: 9780547974514
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[Non-Fiction]
 Anjelica Huston's life, once she turned 15 and moved to London, is a who's who of popular culture from the Rolling Stones in late '60s London to the Chelsea Hotel in New York when she was modelling in the early '70s, to Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty in '70s and '80s Los Angeles, to Hunter Thompson in Aspen. She is a force who has won every possible acting award, working with some of the greatest directors of her time, and a friend to many of the greatest artists, writers, actors, and musicians.
Paperback; $16.00
Publisher: Scribner Book Company; ISBN: 9781451656305
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[Fiction]
 ". . . [Vann's] highly acclaimed works have won 15 awards and been translated into 18 languages. Yet perhaps none have drawn more deeply on Vann's own violent family history than this latest novel about an unnamed 11-year-old boy. . . While camping with his grandfather, father, and family friend on their ancestral 640-acre northern California ranch, with Goat Mountain looming above, the foursome stumbles on a poacher whom the boy, on an inexplicable impulse, shoots and kills. Recounting the incident decades later, the boy, now a man, describes the harrowing aftermath of his actions, from his father's decision to hang the corpse in full view of their camp, to a hellish night on the mountain alone after snagging his first buck. . ." -Booklist
Paperback; $14.99
Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN: 9780062121103
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[Non-Fiction]
 With passion and curiosity, Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science. He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature; the possibility that our universe is simply an accident; the manner in which modern technology has separated us from direct experience of the world; and our resistance to the view that our bodies and minds can be explained by scientific logic and laws.
Paperback; $15.00
Publisher: Vintage; ISBN: 9780345805959
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[Fiction]
 ". . . It's 1929, and Stuyvesant, a former federal agent now working as a private detective, is broken-hearted in Berlin-and broke. When the opportunity to work a plush case locating a missing girl in Paris comes his way, he leaps for it. His search leads to a series of encounters with the great cultural figures of the period: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach. As the days drag on and he turns up less and less about the missing girl, his simple, cushy case gradually becomes something much more sinister. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review
Paperback; $16.00
Publisher: Bantam; ISBN: 9780345531780
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New For Young Readers
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 "In his third adventure, Penguin is curious about what autumn looks like, so he and six of his friends decide to go to a farm to find out. Penguin's baby brother, Pumpkin, wants to come too, but the trip is deemed too far for him. Through the long journey across the ocean, comical spot art shows time passing: the iceberg on which the group rides grows smaller and smaller, until the penguins are left swimming to shore. In the farm's pumpkin patch, every pumpkin reminds Penguin of his brother back at home, and so he plans a special surprise. Upon their return, they find that Pumpkin managed to pass the time imagining what fall would be like in outer space. . ." -School Library Journal
Hardcover; $14.99
Publisher: Walker & Company; ISBN: 9780802737328
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 ". . . Gilbert, a nervous blob of a ghost, has trepidations about going haunting because he's on the small side, he's looking for 'a homey house to haunt, a cozy house, a little house!' While roaming an eerie forest, what Gilbert thinks are two glowing windows are actually 'eyes that belong to a big, gobble-me. . . wolf!' Other frightening encounters follow, and eventually Gilbert makes his way to the attic of an ominous castle, where he meets a doll king and queen who rule their own tiny castle just the right size for Gilbert to haunt. . ." -Publishers Weekly
Hardcover; $16.99
Publisher: Disney Press; ISBN: 9781423180395
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 "Forget the notion of traditional princesses. At Pennyroyal Academy, princesses are trained to fight witches and save kingdoms, and, yes, knights learn to slay dragons. Which brings us to Evie's dilemma: she is training to be a princess, yet she was raised by dragons and was brought to the academy by a dragon-slaying knight wannabe. Larson has crafted a dark Grimm-like fairy tale, with teens training to defeat evil, save villages, and find their own identities in the process.. . ." -Booklist
Hardcover; $16.99
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group; ISBN: 9780399163241
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 "Adelina Amouteru is a walking wound. A deadly fever has ravaged her country, killing many and leaving others marked in strange and dangerous ways. Adelina is a survivor who carries two marks: once-black hair has turned silver, and her left eye is gone. Known as malfettos, those scarred by the disease are considered bad luck, even dangerous. There are rumors that some survivors have magical abilities, and after a dark confrontation with her power-hungry father, Adelina discovers that the fever may have left her with more than scars after all. Thrust into a group of rebel malfettos, the Young Elites, Adelina realizes the extent of her latent powers. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review
Hardcover; $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins; ISBN: 9780061561559
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New Music
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Genre: Pop/Folk
Ford was one of the founding mothers of Be Good Tanyas. On her second solo record, she turns her distinctive voice to a strain of folk music infused with soul, backed by Al Green's own traveling band.
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Genre: Pop/Folk
With Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley composed one-third of Pistol Annies. Her first solo record explores "middle america" through country, gospel, and Americana originals.
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Genre: Jazz/Blues
Inspired equally by Billie Holiday and Leonard Cohen, Peyroux learned her craft as a Paris street busker. After a handful of records that ranged from jazz to pop, Peyroux features her favorite pieces on this "best of" collection, as well as a couple new tracks.
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Genre: Jazz/Blues
A renowned guitarist, Frisell has played a range of genres throughout his career, from jazz to blues and folk. His new collection finds him exploring postwar country, blues and rock 'n' roll that inspired him as a youngster.
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Events at Grass Roots
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Community Events
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Darkside Show Times for 10/10-10/16
-Skeleton Twins-R If a movie with suicide as a central theme can be deemed funny, then writer/director Craig Johnson has pulled it off, mixing heartache and humor and giving Wiig, especially, the opportunity to shine.
-Boyhood -PG-13 The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.
-One Chance-PG-13 The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for - and ultimately winning - Britain's Got Talent.
-Notebook-R No, not that movie. In this one twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them. Subtitled Hungarian.
Literary Events
-Word Mob LBCC Benton Center
Friday, October 17 @ 7:00 p.m. Join us for an evening of heartfelt slam and spoken word presented by LBCC Poets at Word MOB V. There is also an open-mic opportunity. Sign-up for open mic begins at 7:00 pm. Event sponsored by LBCC Benton Center, LBCC Student Leadership Council, and LBCC Poetry Club.
-Two Talking Wolves: Conversations about Conservation, the Re-Wilding of the West, and Ted Turner (the original Captain Planet) Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Saturday, October 18 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. How does capitalism need to change to save the world? What is the role of young people and what obligation do companies and business people have to give back to society? Throw in topics like re-wilding the West with wolves and grizzly bears, support for the United Nations, and the dangers posed by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons and you've got a recipe for fascinating discussion. The presentation will be led by Todd Wilkinson, author of Last Stand: Ted Turner
-The Beatles' 'A Hard Day's Night' at the Whiteside Theater
Thursday, October 23 7:30 p.m. Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day's Night, in which the bandmates play wily, exuberant versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever.
Opportunities
-Linn-Benton Community College "Poetry Birdhouses: Building Community."
LBCC invites Oregon poets living in Linn and Benton counties to submit 1-3 poems to be considered for a public art project in the courtyard of the Albany campus, "Poetry Birdhouses: Building Community." Five wooden birdhouses have already been embellished/transformed by visual artists-but the project is not yet complete. Each birdhouse needs a poem to be affixed on the inside door which measures 4" x 8." Poets can write a poem in response to a particular birdhouse or on the general themes of home, shelter, community, birds, nature, or journeys. A small journal will then be placed inside each birdhouse to encourage responses to the birdhouses and poetry. Cash awards of $50 will be allocated to each selected poet. Deadline: Poems RECEIVED by Nov. 17. For complete guidelines about this creative project, please contact Victoria Fridley, Arts & Aesthetics Resource Team Chair at LBCC @ victoria.fridley@linnbenton.edu or 541/917-4708.
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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).
-National Novel Writing Month Kick Off Party
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Saturday, October 25, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. A party to start National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) off right! Take this opportunity to meet other NaNoWriMo goers, get revved up about the challenge ahead, and enjoy an event with your compatriots that does not involve writing frantically for as long as you can. Writers of all ages are welcome to this event.
- 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.
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Community Events with Grass Roots
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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. |
DJ Spooky
The Imaginary App
Friday, October 17 3:00 p.m.
Reser Stadium
660 SW 26th St. Corvallis, Oregon
Corvallis DJ Spooky shares his new book and plays his latest music. Features Noah Jenkins, violin and Mike Gamble, guitar.
Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
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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.
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Brian Doyle Reading 
October 21 at 7:30
Valley Library Tuesday
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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.
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Store News
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Awards
Man Booker Prize  The 2014 Man Booker Prize goes to Tasmanian-born, Australian author Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000 and judges' recognition for writing the best novel of the year. Full info about the prize can be found here!
Grass Roots will be getting a shipment of this lovely book by next week for those following the prize.
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Jigsaw
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Reading Group Selection
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by Deborah E. Harkness
 Join Kendall as she leads the November Book Group with A Discovery of Witches by Deborah E. Harkness.
"Diana Bishop is the last of the Bishops, a powerful family of witches, but she has refused her magic ever since her parents died and, instead, has turned to academia. When a new project takes her to Oxford, she is looking forward to several months in the Bodleian, investigating alchemical manuscripts. Her peace is soon interrupted when one of the books she finds in the library turns out to have been lost for 150 years and is wanted desperately by the witch, daemon, and vampire communitiesso desperately that many are willing to kill for it. But the very first creature to approach her after her discovery is Matthew, a very old vampire and fellow scholar, who seems only to want to protect her. . ." -Booklist, Starred Review
Regular Price: $17.00
On sale for:$14.45
Until Tuesday, November 4
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143119685
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Night Stands
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Linda
Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
by Gabrielle Giffords
[Non-Fiction]
 Gabrielle Gifford was a US Representative when she was shot in the 2011 Tucson shooting. Following her recovery, she and her former astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, started the organization Americans for Responsible Solutions. This thorough book tells of Gifford's ordeal, and the couple's strong actions to help control the immense problem of assault weapon firearms in America today. With a well documented history of the firearms laws, the NRA influence,and a proliferation of statistics, this excellent book is a wealth of gathered information. Every day in America, an average of 31 people are murdered from gun violence.
Hardcover; $25.00
Publisher: Scribner Book Company; ISBN: 9781476750071
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Jenny
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
by Diane Ackerman
[Non-Fiction]
 It may sound like hyperbole when I say that nearly every sentence in this book captivated me, but guess what--each one dazzles. Ackerman reminds us we are living out a new epoch--the Anthropocene, meaning the Human Age--and what this means. While faced with the greatest mass extinction in millions of years, the world has become an unquestionably human domain where the planet's fate rests squarely on our shoulders. And while there are bleak outcomes if we ignore global warming, there are also miraculous futures ahead of us if our species embraces our astounding ingenuity and inextricable connectivity to nature. This book blew me away, leaving me humbled and hopeful.
Hardcover; $27.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 9780393240740
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Neé
Craftfail: When Homemade Goes Horribly Wrong
by Heather Mann
[Non-Fiction]
 Calling all crafters...this book is for you! Are you obsessed with Pinterest? Do you find yourself with boards full of pinned projects you've only dreamed of finishing? Does the worry of failure keep you from completion? Let CraftFail be your motivation to get-your-craft-on! Let it be your solace, that no matter how wonky your project goes - it can't be as bad as those featured in this book! There are so many laugh-out-loud moments on every page that any crafty person will be able to relate too. Pick this book up for the holidays and cross your favorite crafter off your list!
Paperback; $12.95
Publisher: Workman Publishing; ISBN: 9780761179924
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Adam
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings: Deluxe Pocket Boxed Set
by J. R. R. Tolkien
[Fiction]
(Street-Dated for 10/21/14)
 The new leather-bound, pocket edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy is nothing short of gorgeous. I loved these books growing up and seeing them presented in such a cool fashion, one so suited to the stories they contain, makes me want to read them again. Of course that depends on if I can bring myself to risk breaking the spine on any of the volumes and ruin how great they look sitting on my nightstand. Great for any book collector, or Tolkien newbie.
Vinyl-bound; $49.95
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; ISBN: 9780544445789
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