Laurel Book Store 
4100 MacArthur Blvd.   Oakland, CA 94619

510-531-2073   [email protected]

www.laurelbookstore.com 

 

A little bit of everything and the ability to get the rest.     08/06/13
    

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Laurel Book Store
4100 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. 

CA Bookstore Day
Just announced
- California Bookstore Day on
May 3, 2014! We will be joining more than 150 independent bookstores across the state to celebrate reading and the written word with special events and festivities throughout the day. All participating stores will also be selling a selection of unique, limited edition word-based items that will only be available on May 3 and only in participating bookstores. We'll keep you updated as these special items are announced.

 

 

Sound cool? You can help support California Bookstore Day by donating to our crowd funding campaign through Indiegogo. The money raised will fund the salary of our coordinator; watch the video for all the details. Thanks and mark your calendar now - California Bookstore Day on Saturday, May 3, 2014.

 

 

 



Dear Reader,

   The Laurel Street Fair is coming up this Saturday! We used to take a whole bunch of books to the booth, but who wants to buy and carry books at a street fair? So this year we have some very special guests in the booth for much of the day. Check out the schedule below.

   The Street Fair is a great way to get out and see how cool our neighborhood is. Please plan to come on our and listen to music, take the kids to the play zone, and say hello to our authors. We'll be having drawings and giving goodies away all day. The store will be open as usual too.  

   I hope your week is going well,

   Happy reading,

  Luan 

 


www.laurelbookstore.com is where you can order books, buy and download ebooks, browse for interesting things and see what's new.  

 

 

Laurel Street Fair
We are hosting some wonderful authors in our booth this year. Make a not of the times and come by to say hello. It's a great way to see their work, ask them questions, and buy an autographed book.

We'll have prizes for some lucky visitors for simply stopping by the booth, we'll be signing folks up to get on the newsletter, and you never know what else we'll be getting up to.

Oakland's Laurel Noon to 1pm   Dennis Evanosky, author of Oakland's Laurel District and Mountain View Cemetery


Oakland landmarks 1pm to 2pm    Annalee Allen, author of Oakland, Selections from the Oakland Tribune, and the beautiful Oakland Landmarks.



2pm to 3:30    We have a special treat for you. Three authors from the newly created Creston Books, published by Marissa Moss and based in Berkeley will be here with their new books. Creston is a new children's press and the first books out are great!

Cozy Light Elisa Kleven, author/illustrator of many books will release Cozy Light, Cozy Night in October but we'll have copies on hand. Artists as well as parents will want to chat with her and see her wonderful book.


rotten pumpkin David M. Schwartz, author of great nonfiction books has created Rotten Pumpkin, A Rotten Tale in 15 Voices. What happens to that Halloween pumpkin after the holiday? Kids love this! We have it in stock. 

Lola Marcia Goldman has written Lola Goes to Work, A Nine to Five Therapy Dog. As a Yorkie, Lola was told she was too small to be a therapy dog, but she proved them wrong. Lola will be at the booth too as this is a true story!  Come and learn about therapy dogs and meet the author.  

 

 

 

 
New and Notable


travel holders

These are new and we're trying them out! They're made from recycled rice bags, no two are alike. The company is Stone Circle and owned by one of our neighbors. Journal cover, Travel Document Holder and Passport Holder. She's overseas now picking up more so come see them and give us some feedback!


Stockholm The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann is now in paperback. $14.99 

One man's fortune holds the key to a nation's fate in this sensational debut novel set in 18th-century Sweden.

The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann transports readers to a colorful Scandinavian world of intrigue and magic in a dazzling golden age of high art, music, and opulent fashion.

A masterwork of historical fiction in the vein of Patrick Suskind's classic novel, Perfume, Karen Engelmann's The Stockholm Octavo is mysterious and romantic--as magical and enthralling as The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern--and features a brilliant and unforgettable cast of extraordinary characters.  

 

teach your children Teach Your Children Well, Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes" by Madeline Levine. $15.99  Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.

This is a must-read for parents, educators, and therapists looking for tangible tools to help kids thrive in today's high-stakes, competitive culture.  

 

 

creativity Creativity, the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi $16.99
 

The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow

creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments--be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab--so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "tortured genius" is largely a myth. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.

 




 
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!

There is a Literary journal coming out soon that will only be an ebook and will be available on Kobo in August. Watch for Your Impossible Voice in a future message! 
 

Book Club News   Open to all, drop on in!
 
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.

 
drift
August 22   Drift by Rachel Maddow
The #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. 

 

   

running the rift 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.   

 

sugaree rising October 24   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.

 

Save 20%
We're declaring the month of
August to be

Young Adult / Teen Month! 
 
Print this coupon out, bring it in, and receive 20% off any one book from our Young Adult / Teen section in the month of August. 
(Limited to stock on hand. Sorry, no special orders.)
Offer Expires: August 31, 2013