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June 23, 2016
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Greetings, Readers, 

This week's newsletter is abbreviated as we booksellers are gathering our freshly picked selections for our Summer Reading Lists, soon to be featured! What new books will you dive into this summer?

Along with the latest in books in the store, we also have brand new albums from Neil Young, the Avett Brothers, and more.

Additional in-store author events are coming soon, including books on mindfulness, fine wines, and cooking Portland Farmers Market-style. We'll see you there!

Have a fantastic weekend,

~Marissa
New hardcovers, paperbacks, and young readers books return next week!
New MusicMusic

 
Neil Young
Earth
Pop/Folk

The rock legend's new record is inspired by the sounds and the politics of Mother Earth. Backed by Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, the live collection features songs about the planet as well as occasional nature sounds...and plenty of electric guitar.  
($20.98)
 
Sam Bush
Storyman
Pop/Folk

Bush is a longtime mandolin master whose bluegrass credentials run deep. His new record incorporates country, jazz, and folk sounds, with songs cowritten by Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, the late Guy Clark, and more.
($15.98)
 
The Avett Brothers
True Sadness
Pop/Folk

The popular roots rock act's new album finds the band reaching both back to earlier sounds and forward to new experiments. While the looser Americana instrumentation and gospel spirit shine through, the collection also features more contemporary production and atmospherics. 
($13.99)

The Felice Brothers
Life in the Dark
Pop/Folk

The upstate New York band's earliest records featured ramshackle roots sounds. While the sessions are no longer recorded in a converted chicken shack, this new record continues to honor the act's commitments to heartfelt alternative country rock. 
($16.98)
Events at Grass RootsEventsGRR

Barbara Quinn 
 
Wednesday, June 29 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St. 
Corvallis, OR

Quinn-Essential Nutrition is your trustworthy manual for eating -- and enjoying! -- healthful food as you live your life in the real world. Inspired by her widely distributed newspaper column, Quinn On Nutrition, registered dietitian Barbara Quinn thoughtfully unpacks and delivers reliable answers to over 100 current nutrition topics. From pregnancy to old age, sports to diabetes, Quinn-Essential Nutrition is your user guide to healthful eating -- no matter what your circumstance.

Barbara Quinn, MS, RDN, CDE is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified diabetes educator affiliated with the Diabetes and Nutrition Therapy program at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Quinn is also certified Health and Wellness coach. The author will be reading and signing books at this event.
Maximilian Uriarte
   
Monday, July 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St. 
Corvallis, OR

The White Donkey is the first graphic novel about the war in Iraq written and illustrated by a veteran. Originally funded by a Kickstarter campaign that received major national news coverage and went viral on social media, Uriarte's first printing of 3,000 paperback copies sold out in 36 hours and has been unavailable since then. Little, Brown and Company has now re-released the book in a new, hardcover edition. A vivid and moving look at war and PTSD, The White Donkey follows young Marines as they experience the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. 

Maximilian Uriarte enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2006 at the age of nineteen and served for four years. In 2010 Uriarte created the popular comic strip Terminal Lance while still on active duty. Uriarte has a bachelor's degree from California College of the Arts. The author will be reading and signing books at this event.
Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche
   
Tuesday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St. 
Corvallis, OR

In Our Pristine Mind, a Tibetan Buddhist master shows us how to go beyond mindfulness with meditation and journey deep into ultimate happiness, transforming every area of our lives. Orgyen Chowang empowers us to gradually experience our mind as pure awareness -- free from the feelings, thoughts, and other mental events that obscure its true nature. Using simple language, he provides precise, experiential instructions that make this life-transforming realization attainable for all, whether we are just seeking a happier life or are pursuing the spiritual journey all the way to enlightenment.

Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche, a meditation master in the Nyingma lineage of the Buddhist tradition, has a passion for presenting teachings in a practical and experiential way for modern audiences. His primary teacher was Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of the last century. The author will be reading and signing books at this event.
David Baker
   
Wednesday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St. 
Corvallis, OR

Join us for an entertaining evening with Corvallis author David Baker celebrating the paperback release of Vintage, his humorous and evocative debut novel. Vintage follows a food journalist's desperate attempt to save his career -- and possibly, his marriage -- by tracking an extremely valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis over half a century ago. 

Author David Baker is no stranger to the winemaking process. He has spent time working in commercial vineyards and has been known to make a passable pinot noir in his garage. In addition to sharing readings from the book, he will be talking about the changing wine industry on a global and local scale, as well as his research and writing process for VintageThe author will be reading and signing books at this event.
Ellen Jackson & Trudy Toliver
   
Wednesday, July 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Grass Roots Books & Music
227 SW 2nd St. 
Corvallis, OR

Portland Farmers Market operates seven vibrant farmers markets in Portland, Oregon, including a year-round farmers market consistently named among North America's Top 10. This cookbook is a tribute to the farmers, chefs, and shoppers who embrace their world-class markets like no other. With 100 seasonally organized recipes for every meal of the day, stories of the market's farmers and producers, shopping and cooking tips, and glorious color photography, the Portland Farmers Market Cookbook is a celebration of a place and its people, who are proud to share their bounty with the Portland community and beyond.

Portland Farmers Market former board member (2009-2015) Ellen Jackson is a cookbook author, food writer, food stylist, and recipe developer. Most recently, she is the author of The Lemon Cookbook and Classic Cookies with Modern Twists.
 
Trudy Toliver is a lifelong Oregonian, environmentalist, and leader. She worked in roles focused on sustainability before joining Portland Farmers Market as executive director. Trudy believes that eating healthy food changes peoples' lives. 

This event is co-sponsored by Grass Roots Books and the Corvallis Farmers Market. 
The authors will be reading and signing books at this event.
Community EventsCommunityEvents

Darkside Show Times for 6/24-6/30

-A Bigger Splash -R While vacationing on a Sicilian island with her boyfriend, a rock star receives an unexpected visit from an old flame and his seductive daughter. 
Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson.

-Dark Horse -PG-13 A barmaid in a poor Welsh mining village convinces fellow residents to pool their resources to compete in the "sport of kings" with a racehorse they would breed and raise. Richly layered, unpredictable, deeply affecting.

-The Lobster -R In a dystopian society, single people must find a mate within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choice. The odd kind of movie you love us for. Colin Farrell, John C. Riley, Rachel Weisz. 

-Maggie's Plan -R Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant Georgette. Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore. 

Arts/Literary Events

None this week!

Community Events with Grass Roots CEGR

Dr. Jean Moule
 
Thursday, July 14, at 7:00 p.m.
Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center
128 SW 9th St.
Corvallis, OR

Nurturing Grandchildren: Black, White & In-Between, is Dr. Jean Moule's poignant, cautionary, and heart-warming collection of short essays and magazine columns discussing racial identity, expectations, and relationships within interracial families. The book is a valuable resource that helps adults encourage and support multicultural children to play a positive role in the complicated racial relations in our nation. It also explores racial identity issues that we face during childhood and beyond via the author's personal experiences and academic discussion. Moule's book aims to help the nation's children, including her multi-ethnic grandchildren, live in culturally competent communities and families.

Jean Moule is an emerita faculty member at OSU, whose most popular class is "Racial and Cultural Harmony in the K-12 Classroom." At OSU, she created a unique immersion program for preparing educators to teach in bilingual and highly diverse settings. She and her husband Robbie raised three biracial children in rural Oregon. Grass Roots will be selling books at this event.
Store NewsStoreNews

Find Waldo Local 2016

Where's Waldo? In Corvallis, of course! The famous children's book character in the striped shirt and black-rimmed specs is visiting 20 different local businesses throughout our community this July. Those who spot him can win prizes, including stickers, book coupons, gift certificates, and more. From American Dream Pizza to Tried & True Coffee, from The Inkwell Home Store to Grass Roots Books & Music, Waldo figures will be well hidden in local business establishments. Find Waldo is a great summer vacation activity, and a wonderful way for residents to support local business and the Buy Local First movement. The search for Waldo will be from July 1st -31st (all month long). 

To participate, pick up a "Find Waldo Local in Corvallis!" passport at Grass Roots with the names of all the participating businesses, and then get your passport stamped or signed for each Waldo you spot. The first 100 Waldo seekers to get their passports stamped or signed at 10 or more sites can bring their passports back to Grass Roots to collect prizes. For 18 or more stamps, you'll be entered into a grand prize drawing on August 1, at Grass Roots at 1:30 p.m.

This year, participants can also #ColorWaldoAndWin: when you share a completed coloring sheet of Waldo on Instagram, you'll be entered into a drawing to be one of five lucky winners of a deluxe prize pack. 
 
Full list of participating businesses:

American Dream Pizza 
Animal Crackers
Burst's Chocolates 
Fingerboard Extension
Footwise
Francesco's
Gracewinds Music
Grass Roots Books & Music
The Inkwell Home Store
Irene's Boutique
Kaleidoscope Studios (Day Dreamers) 
Many Hands Trading 
Mod Pod Decor 
New Morning Bakery
Northern Star 
Peak Sports 
Second Glance 
Second Glance: The Annex
Second Glance: The Alley
Sedlak's Shoes
Sibling Revelry 
The Toy Factory
Tried & True Coffee
JigsawJigsaw

Check back next week for our jigsaw!
Reading Group SelectionReadingGroup

Tuesday, August 2, at 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Join our newest bookseller Donovan as she leads our August reading group with The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Please note that due to the length of the book, we will take an extra month to read!

Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love -- and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. 

Regular Price: $20.00
On sale for: $17.00
Until Tuesday, August 2

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316055444
Night StandsNightStands

Mary
by Jessica Valenti
[Non-Fiction] 

"Ignoring men -- whether romantically or rhetorically -- is existential violence to them." Whether you agree with this sentiment or not, Jessica Valenti's viewpoint is provocative, based on firsthand experience, and worthy of discussion. Her memoir, both disturbing and powerful, is one step in the right direction towards squashing the shame that women absorb simply by existing today in our society, especially women with something to say. Although it contains difficult subject matter, it is a surprisingly quick read that is hard to put down. I believe Sex Object: A Memoir is a necessary and important addition to contemporary feminist literature and the ongoing discussion about gender inequality and feminism.

Hardcover; $25.99
Publisher: HarperCollins; ISBN: 9780062435088
Emma
by Mark Kurlansky
[Non-Fiction] 


Mark Kurlansky, the editor of oddities and bestselling author of Salt and Cod, once again draws our attention to the mundane. Delving into the history of paper and the invention of writing, the winding path leads from ancient technique to the modern papermaking process. Though fascinating and teeming with delicious tidbits, Kurlansky always keeps perspective on the big picture. The human capacity to grow and think, and the original need for paper is a touching reality that pulls us closer together as a species. 

Hardcover; $27.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 9780393239614
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