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Hello, Readers,
Happy early Valentine's Day! Stop by to pick up a lovely card before the weekend.
Shiny new gift items have arrived in the store this week, including boxed Graphique ballpoint pens and scented hand and body lotion by The Naked Bee. Nettles jewelry is on sale at 20% off, and it's the last chance for Brigittine Monks fudge and hand-dipped truffles for Valentine's Day.
Bargain books have returned along with new hardcovers and paperbacks. Keep reading to get the scoop on book events, including tonight's with local author Kathleen Dean Moore and the OSU Spring Creek Project. We'll see you there!
~Marissa
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New Hardcovers
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by Randy Henderson (See upcoming author event below!)
In the sequel to Henderson's acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his 25-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. He's fallen in love with a woman from his past, though he worries she may love a version of him that no longer exists. He's operating a mortuary for the Arcane. Unfortunately, trouble always seems to find Finn, and when he agrees to help his friend, the Bigfoot named Sal, they walk right into a Feyblood rebellion against the Arcane Ruling Council. . .
Hardcover; $25.99
Publisher: Tor Books; ISBN: 9780765378101
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by Stephanie Barron
[Fiction]
"A well-crafted narrative with multiple subplots drives Barron's splendid 13th Jane Austen mystery. . .In November 1815, Jane comes to London to attend to her favorite brother, Henry, who has fallen ill and is on the verge of bankruptcy. While she awaits the proofs of Emma, she receives an invitation to Carlton House, the Prince Regent's London mansion, where she finds Col. Ewan McFarland, a hero of Waterloo, horribly sick on the floor of the library. . .Jane joins forces with Raphael West, a painter who's also a government spy, in pursuit of a ruthless killer and the meaning of the colonel's cryptic last words. . ." - Publishers Weekly
Hardcover; $25.95
Publisher: Soho Crime; ISBN: 9781616954253
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by Peter May
[Fiction]
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted 67-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some 50 years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless. What started with five teenagers following a dream five decades before has been transformed over the intervening decades into a waking nightmare that might just consume them all.
Hardcover; $26.99
Publisher: Quercus Books; ISBN: 9781623657895
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| The Arrangement
by Ashley Warlick
[Fiction]
Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is young, restlessly married, and returning from her first sojourn in France. She is hungry, and not just for food: she wants Tim, her husband Al's charming friend, who encourages her writing and seems to understand her better than anyone. After a night's transgression, it s only a matter of time before Mary Frances claims what she truly desires, plunging all three of them into a tangled triangle of affection that will have far-reaching effects on their families, their careers, and their lives. A sparkling, sensual novel that explores the complexities of a marriage and the many different ways in which we love.
Hardcover; $26.00
Publisher: Viking; ISBN: 9780525429661
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by Idra Novey
[Fiction]
Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz's two grown children, flies immediately to Brazil. Emma and her author's children conspire to solve the mystery of Yagoda's curious disappearance and staunch the colorful demands of her various outstanding affairs: the rapacious loan shark with a zeal for severing body parts, and the washed-up and disillusioned editor who launched Yagoda's career years earlier.
Hardcover; $25.00
Publisher: Little Brown and Company; ISBN: 9780316298490
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New Paperbacks
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by Randy Henderson (See upcoming author event below!)
[Fiction]
Finn Gramaraye was framed for the crime of dark necromancy at the age of 15, and exiled to the Other Realm for 25 years. But now that he's free, someone -- probably the same someone -- is trying to get him sent back. Finn has only a few days to discover who is so desperate to keep him out of the mortal world, and find evidence to prove it to the Arcane Enforcers. They are going to be very hard to convince, since he's already been convicted of trying to kill someone with dark magic. But Finn has his family. . .
Paperback; $15.99
Publisher: Tor Books; ISBN: 9780765385659
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by Maggie Nelson (See upcoming author event below!)
[Non-Fiction]
A genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
Paperback; $15.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press; ISBN: 9781555977351
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by Nick Hornby
[Fiction]
"Barbara Parker of 1960s Blackpool is a big fish in a small pond beautiful, astute, and with aspirations of making it in television like her idol Lucille Ball. Upon moving to London, Barbara changes her name to Sophie and gets her big break. She walks in to an audition she's not suited for and leaves with the writers excited to pen a show specifically for her. The majority of Hornby's clever novel follows Sophie and her creative circle of friends through the success of the subsequent program on BBC. . ." - Publishers Weekly
Paperback; $16.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books; ISBN: 9781101983355
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by Charlotte Gordon
[Non-Fiction]
"Gordon infuses literary history with electrifying discoveries in this symbiotic portrait of radical mother-daughter writers who indelibly changed society and the arts. Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of the scandalous and transformative A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), died soon after giving birth to a sickly baby girl. . .[who] wrote the still-reverberating masterpiece, Frankenstein. . .[Gordon] traces each woman's struggle against poverty, viciously abusive sexism, [and] agonizing familial and romantic relationships. . .[and] delivers overdue justice to two heretofore shallowly perceived yet deeply moral thinkers and writers who risked everything to protest in word and deed crimes and discrimination against women." - Booklist, Starred Review
Paperback; $18.00
Publisher: Random House Trade; ISBN: 9780812980479
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by George Hodgman
[Non-Fiction]
"Hodgman's mother, Betty, is fading, physically and mentally (she's in her nineties and lives alone, in the family home in Paris, Missouri). A single freelance book editor in NYC, Hodgman finds it easy to take his work and head home to be a caregiver. Once he arrives, however, he discovers nothing is easy -- not helping his mother navigate dressing, cooking, and a disappearing memory; not facing his past as a gay child and young adult in a small town; not deciphering love, parental and otherwise. . .A tender, resolute look at a place, literal and figurative, baby boomers might find themselves." - Booklist
Paperback; $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Books; ISBN: 9780143107880
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New For Young Readers
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by Pseudonymous Bosch
[Fiction]
Ages 8 to 12
The plot thickens in the brilliant sequel to Bad Magic! At Earth Ranch, things can get a little "magical" (some might say strange). Intrepid readers will discover a runaway boy, fishy cruise ship, strange cave paintings, dragon-like footprints, and other mysteries that Clay and his friends need to solve. Danger, adventure, mischief, mystery, llamas, and a delightfully irreverent and hilarious narrator make bestselling author Pseudonymous Bosch's anticipated new novel irresistible.
Hardcover; $17.00
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; ISBN: 9780316320429
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New Bargain Books
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New Music
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Events at Grass Roots
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Randy Henderson
 Thursday, February 18, at 6:30 p.m. Grass Roots Books & Music 227 SW 2nd St. Corvallis, OR
In this sequel to Randy Henderson's acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his 25-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. He's figured out how to use the Kinfinder device created by his half-mad father to find people's True Love, and he'd like to convert that into an Arcane Dating Service. Unfortunately, trouble always seems to find Finn, and when he agrees to help his friend, the Bigfoot named Sal, they walk right into a Feyblood rebellion against the Arcane Ruling Council, a rebellion being fomented by unknown forces and fueled by the drug created by Finn's own grandfather.
Author Randy Henderson creates a layer of improbable magic and hilarious family drama underneath the veneer of a quiet, charming small town in the American Northwest. Winner of the 2014 Golden Pen grand prize for Writers of the Future and featured in Penumbra, Realms of Fantasy, and on the podcast Escape Pod,Henderson has spun a tale brimming with humor, horror, and dangerous dilemmas.
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Community Events
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Darkside Show Times for 2/12-2/18
-Carol -R 6 OSCAR NOMS! Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in repressed 1950s New York, leading to unanticipated complications. Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara. Todd Haynes directs.
-45 Years -R
-Tumbledown -R A professor (Jason Sudeikis) collaborates with a grieving widow (Rebecca Hall) to write a biography about her husband, a folk singer who attracted a cult following. Filled with tears, laughter, love, and music.
-Spotlight -R SIX OSCAR NOMINATIONS including Best Picture! Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams. 97% on RT!
-Brooklyn -PG-13 THREE OSCAR NOMINATIONS Including Best Picture! Screenplay by Nick Hornby. 98% RT!
Arts/Literary Events
Willamette Writers on the River: Monthly Meeting with Vargus Pike, 9Bridges Chairman
"Running a Critique Group the 9Bridges Way"
Monday, February 15, at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
114 SW 8th St.
Corvallis, OR
You've been asking about critique groups, and we listened. Vargus Pike will give a short presentation explaining the 9Bridges Critique Group method to be followed by an interactive session in which the 9Bridges method will be put into practice. Come and take advantage of this unique opportunity to have professionals and peers provide feedback on your writing.
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Community Events with Grass Roots
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OSU Spring Creek Project presents
Kathleen Dean Moore
Thursday, February 11, at 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The Arts Center
700 SW Madison Ave.
Corvallis, OR
Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise -- a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life.
Kathleen Dean Moore is a distinguished professor emerita of philosophy at OSU and co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. An environmental philosopher, Moore writes about moral, spiritual, and cultural relationships to the natural world. Her previous book was the award-winning edited volume, Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
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Insights Into Gardening at OSU
Saturday, February 13, at 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The LaSells Stewart Center, Austin Auditorium
OSU
875 SW 26th St.
Corvallis, OR
Insights Into Gardening is a day-long, Saturday seminar hosted by Benton County Master Gardeners. This event offers practical, research-based information for 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. 20+ garden-related exhibitors, raffle prizes, and more. Please join us for an educational and fun day! Registration is now open at this link. Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
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OSU Provost's Lecture Series presents
Ruth Reichl
"American Food Now: How We Became a Nation of Foodies"
Wednesday, February 17, at 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The LaSells Stewart Center, Austin Auditorium
OSU
875 SW 26th St.
Corvallis, OR
Ruth Reichl, bestselling author of My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life, food critic, and judge on Bravo's Top Chef Masters, will give a talk followed by book sales and a book signing. Reichl is one of the most recognizable and beloved culinary voices, guiding people around the kitchen, showing them what to eat, how to make it, and where to satisfy their cravings. The Seattle Times called her "one of the nation's most influential figures in the food world."
Most recognizable as a writer and editor, Reichl was the Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet Magazine for 10 years until its closing. Before that she was the restaurant critic of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Her culinary exploits have been featured on the Food Network and PBS. Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
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OSU Visiting Writers Series presents
Friday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m.
OSU Valley Library Rotunda
Corvallis, OR
Maggie Nelson (Ph.D. in English Literature, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York) is the author of five books of nonfiction and four books of poetry. Her most recent book is The Argonauts, a work of "autotheory" about gender, sexuality, sodomitical maternity, queer family, and the limitations and possibilities of language (Graywolf Press).
Her 2011 book of art and cultural criticism, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors' Choice. Her other nonfiction books include the cult hit Bluets and an autobiographical book about sexual violence and media spectacle titled The Red Parts: A Memoir. Her poetry has been widely anthologized, including in the Best American Poetry series. Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
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Phillip Margolin
Thursday, March 17, at 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
645 NW Monroe Ave.
Corvallis, OR
New York Times bestselling author and master of suspense Phillip Margolin knows what his fans want and he delivers with his newest novel Violent Crimes. Join us as Mr. Margolin reads from and discusses his latest novel.This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
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Store News
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Black History Books
Teaching kids about the history of black culture, as well as honoring and celebrating the importance of black achievements and experiences, is a cornerstone of children's literature -- the focus of our picture book display here.
Featuring stunning illustrations and impactful storytelling, many of these selected titles are also bargain-priced. Take a look at them in the store!
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Jigsaw
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The jigsaw will return next week!
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Reading Group Selection
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Tuesday, March 3, at 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Join Marissa as she leads our March reading group with The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Regular Price: $16.00
On sale for: $13.60
Until Tuesday, March 3
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780307455796
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Night Stands
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by Gennady Spirin
Martha is the heartwarming, true story of one family's close encounter with nature's voluble wise guy, the crow. In this book, a kind family stumbles upon an injured bird and nurses it back to health while each family member develops a special bond with the feathered creature. The love that was shared between Martha and her human family, as well as Martha herself, is brought to life by the author's beautiful watercolor illustrations. This is a story that is sure to delight any little ones that seek close encounters with nature and her wondrous critters.
Hardcover; $7.98 bargain price
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group; ISBN: 9780399239809
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by Ted Haigh
Revive the spirits of yore and entertain with style using this pocket-sized mixology encyclopedia! Historian and drink aficionado "Dr. Cocktail" traverses archaic bar culture with pastiche and panache. Fancy a French 75, or perhaps you'd like to shake things up with a Corpse Reviver? The formulas for these and other uncommon concoctions, featuring a few unusual ingredients, are included along with the story behind each. The perfect resource for a vintage-themed party, putting the class in classic and making the old-timey new again.
Hardcover; $6.98 bargain price
Publisher: Quarry; ISBN: 9781592539376
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Linda
by Garth Johnson
Garth Johnson has collected a wonderful collage of ideas for making gifts and useful objects from worn out or no longer used items. Colorful photos splash over each page, accompanied by the artist's name and company title (if available). There are some fantastic works of art in this volume, as well as useful products. Also shown are some great recycled book works of art! This is a fun book to look through, and excellent for gathering ideas for one's own projects.
Paperback; $14.98 bargain price
Publisher: Quarry; ISBN: 9781592535408
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