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Laurel Book Store4100 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
510-531-2073
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 An Awesome Wave by Alt-J
Pop/Rock
 Is Your Love Big Enough by Lianne La Havas Pop/Rock
 Anything in Return by Toro Y Moi Pop/Rock  Fade by Yo La Tengo Pop/Rock 
Sing the Delta by Iris DeMent Country/Folk
Chain Letters by Big Harp
Pop/Rock
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Here's something you need! Not only for yourself, but for holiday gifts so that people know just how much you like Oakland. Sturdy canvas bag with handles. Made by a neighborhood artist, Sally Wilbur, and the hottest item in the store right now. One of the first people to see it bought 4.
Get in here and get yours.
$18 each. Now with a choice of natural or black handles! | |
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Events! Click on the blue links for more information
Friday,
February 8 6pm
Pam Consear
(Handygal)
Home Organizing 101
Saturday,
February 9 6pm
J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Sugaree Rising
Valentine's Day with Lesbian Romance authors Karin Kallmaker
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Mary Griggs
local wine and chocolate too!
Feb. 14 6:30
Lunar New Year on the Boulevard with the Lion Dancers!
Saturday, Feb. 16
Sunday, Feb. 17
Reinventing the Chicken Coop
3pm
(no need to bring your chickens)
Saturday, February 23 at the Rockridge Library there will be three authors who write of Paris.
Jacqueline Luckett
Ellen Sussman
Cara Black
Wednesday,
March 6 6pm
Michael Y. Simon and
The Approximate Parent
(how's your relationship with your teen?)
Saturday, April 13 at 6pm
Ruben Llamas and autobiography/history
Eye from the Edge, his rememberance of growing up in West Oakland
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Dear Reader,
Hey! Valentine's Day is next week. Thursday to be exact. Are you thinking of a great gift or card? If it's something that's expected of you, you have been warned.
What about a sketch book? Or poetry? Or a great novel? Or a set of really awesome soap? Or Bananagrams that you can play together? Or a travel book and tickets to the country? Or good armchair travel to get lost in. Or a local guide book and promise of a day trip? Or a favorite children's book? Or a cookbook and your favorites marked- yours or your sweeties? Or heck, get a cookbook and make dinner. For a week. The possibilities are endless.
Then we have some cool events coming up. Need to be more organized but don't know where to start? Come to the store on Friday at 6 to meet Pam Consear and start the process. How about wanting to hear some good fiction? Saturday at 6 we have J.Douglas Allen-Taylor and his new novel Sugaree Rising. The 14th is romance writers for lesbians. The 17th at 3pm is Reinventing the Chicken Coop for your feathered friends.
Never a dull moment at Laurel Book Store.
Come and browse!
Don't forget we have some great used books! Watch for our Used Book Blowout very soon!
Happy Reading,
Luan
PS: Sundays have been pretty slow so we're going to take the day to stay home and read after the 17th. We usually close on Sundays from Memorial Day to Labor day each year, so we're just moving it up a bit. Until then- stroll on in for some nice quiet browsing after brunch at Full House.
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|  Sugaree Rising by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor $24.95 Set in the South Carolina coastal area Lowcountry in the late Depression years, Sugaree Rising is the story of community resistance to a massive community relocation forced by a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)-style dam building and rural electrification project.
Meet the author Saturday, 2/9 at 6pm.
 ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare by Nick J. Tate $19.95 This is the first guide book to help Americans understand the intricacies of ObamaCare. It serves as a valuable resource to those currently insured, those who are not, and the tens of millions of Seniors, youth, business people and others who will be affected by the new law.
 The Silver Lotus by Thomas Steinbeck $15.95 And first off, yes, he's his son. American merchant Captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond is at the forefront of the New World. His trading empire faces pirates, violent storms, and illness as it forges new paths across the Pacific Ocean, opening new markets in Hawaii, Mexico, and China. It is there he meets the beautiful Lady Yee, the Silver Lotus, prized daughter of a wealthy Cantonese merchant family. A great love is born, and their adventures will shape their lives?their love will transcend borders, oceans, and cultures, and their marriage will eventually serve as a foundation for the growth and development of the Northern California coast.
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For the Younger Reader!
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 Lonely Planet- it's not just for grown ups! They have some great kids' books and three of them are on display now! Here are three of their Not-For-Parents series. Extreme Planet ($19.99) offers young readers a whirlwind tour of the globe, seeking out the highest, deepest, widest, narrowest, hottest, scariest, smelliest . . . things on the planet.
How to Be a World Explorer ($17.99)
shows young readers how to venture through all the landscapes on Earth as well as through the air, over the seas, and under the waves-plus how to find food and water in the wild, avoid deadly diseases and fight back against man-eating beasts.
The Travel Book ($19.99) can take the young reader on a dream trip around the world, stopping off at every country along the way--without having to budge from their beanbag. Each country has a dedicated page that's packed with lively snippets, stories, and record-breaking facts and statistics. You probably know a fact based kid who would lovelovelove any or all of these books. I know I do.
Caldecott Medal Winner This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen $15.99
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
I like to think of it as an award given to the book in which the illustrations and words make little sense apart, but together are an amazing thing. This book is exactly that! We have a few first editions for the collectors among you.
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We now offer ebooks on our website through Kobo. They're a company with over 3 million ebooks in their library and growing every day.
We have a display so you can see how they work and we can get you one fairly quickly too! We also have chargers and covers so you can be outfitted nicely.
We are happy to show them off to you.
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We'd love to have more people join our discussion group! Please join up now! Just read a book and show up at 7 on the appointed day.
 February 28 Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Her columns as Dear Sugar are not to be missed. Funny, insightful, smart and awesome.  March 28 Life of Pi by Yann Martel There may be a movie viewing involved too!
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