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Laurel Book Store4100 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
510-531-2073
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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
(we'll activate links in the next couple of days)
Friday, April 5
6pm
Terry Bisson
Saturday, April 13 at 6pm
Ruben Llamas and autobiography/history
Eye from the Edge, his remembrance of growing up in West Oakland
Wed. April 24 6pm
Steph Cha
Follow Her Home
at the Main Library
Sat. April 27
LGBT Night
Our every other month happening
this month:
Writing for GLBTQ Youth with
Annameekee Hesik,
Karin Kallmaker, and Safe and Inclusive Coordinator
Lynn Bravewomon
Friday, May 3
Leonore Weiss
Saturday, May 11
**Double Bill!**
Trystan Cotten, editor of Hung Jury and
Kristen Lyseggen, photographer and author of The Boy Who Was Not a Lesbian
Friday, June 12
Chris Hoffman
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Dear Reader,
Some fun things were released this week! Just take a look below for some details. Also, go to the bottom of the page for the book group's next few choices. Please join us for a discussion, or join the group for the duration. It's always a lively discussion and good company.
This Friday we'll host Terry Bisson, please see the description below. He's one of our beloved local authors and we'd love to see lots of you to hear him.
As always, Happy Reading,
Luan
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson $27.99 The award-winning author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum follows the experiences of a woman who after being born on a snowy night in 1910 repeated dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world.
And so that we may confuse you a bit:  Life After Life by Jill McCorkle $24.95 Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life's most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction.
 Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho $22.00 Set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades, a community of Christians, Arabs and Jews, who have long lived together peacefully, assemble to seek the wise counsel of a Greek Copt after they are warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction.
 Gulp by Mary Roach $26.95 The humor scientist behind Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife takes a tour of the human digestive system, explaining why the stomach doesn't digest itself and whether constipation can kill you.
 Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple $14.99 When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her in this new novel from the author of This One is Mine.  The Last Telegram; A Novel of What Saves Us by Liz Trenow $14.99 Decades ago, as Nazi planes dominated the sky, Lily Verner made a terrible choice. She's tried to forget, but now an unexpected event pulls her back to the 1940s British countryside. She finds herself remembering the brilliant colors of the silk she helped to weave at her family's mill, the relentless pressure of the worsening war, and the kind of heartbreaking loss that stops time.
*****Author Event Friday 6pm*****
 Any Day Now by Terry Bisson $15.95 This tour de force, road movie of a novel is a poignant excursion into the last days of the Beats and the radicalized culture of the 1960s, from Kentucky to New York City and beyond. Written in a voice that is warmhearted and hauntingly original, Any Day Now is the story of Clay, a small-town boy whose future is all mapped out. It travels as far as an isolated New Mexico commune under threat from a national revolution, with Clay battling to find his place in the new America -- and hoping desperately to forget what happened back East with the girl he loved. |
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Younger Readers
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 The Dark by Lemony Snicket and illustrated by Jon Klassen $16.99 Lazlo is afraid of the dark which lives in the same big, creaky house as him, until one night the dark pays him a visit. For the younger set. I'll be interested in parent review on this so get in here.  Mira's Diary; Home Sweet Rome by Marissa Moss $12.99 Mira was prepared to travel the world to find her motherNbut she never expected that she'd have to travel through time as well. When Mira's search transports her to 16th-century Rome, she befriends the famed painter Caravaggio and falls into his group of scientists and fellow artists.9 and up  Information Everywhere; The World Explained in Facts, Stats, and Graphics $17.99 Perfect for the Internet generation, "Infographics" provides readers with a new way of exploring, reading, seeing, and understanding the world around them by combining facts, figures and statistics with illustrations and photographs to present complex information in a simple format. 8 and up
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Are you an e-book reader? Through our website, you can create a Kobo account and download books quickly and efficiently to nearly any device. Wired or wireless. Mobile or stationary.
There are a number of books that are not even in paper version yet, so go find yourself something interesting!
We have a display so you can see how the devices 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.
Hot tip for today, go check out the Tory Bauer mysteries by Kathleen Taylor. They're now out of print but available on Kobo for just $2.99. Cozy mysteries set in South Dakota. Seriously. Just go do it.
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BOOK GROUP
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.
 April 25 Turn Right At Machu Picchu; Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams Adams gives a fascinating and funny account of his journey through some of the world's most majestic, historic, and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: Just what was Machu Picchu?  May 23 The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.  June 27 Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
One of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi to help the couple work things out.
 July 25 Sugaree Rising by J. Douglas Allen Taylor Set in the South Carolina coastal area Lowcountry in the late Depression years, it is the story of community resistance to a massive community relocation forced by a Tennessee Valley Authority-style dam building and rural electrification project. Also details the struggles of a unique group of lowcountry African-American people-commonly known as "the Gullah"-to maintain a religion and culture largely based in their ancestral African homeland.
 August 22 Drift by Rachel MaddowThe #1 "New York Times" bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Maddow argues that the U.S. has drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with war and all the costs it entails.
 September 26 Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Winner of the Bellwether Prize, the novel follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a 10-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions.
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