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A little bit of everything and the ability to get the rest.     01/08/14
    

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Events  
Sunday, Jan. 12
5 to 7 pm

Where is your career heading in the new year?
Join Kristina Bennett and Katie Hymans
to explore your strengths and how to land that job or jump start that career.

$10
Reserve a spot now, limited to 12 people.




2014
Calendars of all sorts!

All calendars in stock are 40% off!


Introducing the
Book Butterfly!

One of the best I've seen and worth your consideration.
The arms adjust easily for the size of your book, the angle of book can change easily, and there are units with lights and without.
We only have five of each so get in here if this sounds like a good gift idea.
With Light $32
Without   $28


 


Yep, it's cute.

Click here to see a video for it. Trevor is the one who came in and introduced us to this ingenious book stand.
He was charming and a very good demonstrator.






Courtesy of Rob Brewer. I find this disturbing. Especially how reading declines after childhood. Do you know someone who could be reading more?

Dear Reader,

   Happy New Year! I hope your holiday season was full of love and light.

   And here we are in 2014 already!

   I'm looking forward to a whole slew of new releases so those will be listed in future emails.

 

   Don't forget that we have a wonderful career building workshop on Sunday at 5. We have two local career professionals who will help you to refocus on your career for the new year.  

   There are still a few seats available and the cost is only $10 so reserve now!

 

   I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who helped with inventory. There were about a dozen volunteers over the two days who did a stellar job of counting and recording everything. I owe you all advance copies of books so just come by and ask where we keep them hidden! Thank you. 

 

Happy reading! 

Luan 

 

     

 

New and Noteworthy
I'm sure you by now that Downton Abbey's 4th season started last weekend. I, for one, love the show and was delighted to make a pot of tea and drink it from the good china while it was on!

If you want to read about the those times and the real inhabitants of that beautiful castle, here are a couple of suggestions!

 

To Marry an EnglishTo Marry a Lord, Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace $15.95   

This is the book that Julian Fellowes read that inspired him to create the show in the first place. American heiresses went to England and found that they could invest their fortune in a husband and property and do very well indeed in the Gilded Age after the Civil War.  The book is filled with a wealth of historical personalities, grand houses, gossipy anecdotes and the finer points of etiquette that ruled Victorian and Edwardian society.

 

Two nonfiction books by The Countess of Carnarvon tell you some of the history of Highclere Castle. $15.99 each.

 

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle    Much like her "Masterpiece Classic" counterpart, Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman.
This rich tale contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the backdrop of the First World War and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the history of Highclere Castle.

 

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story of Catherine Wendell, the beautiful and spirited American woman who married Lady Almina's son, the man who would become the 6th Earl of Carnarvon. The couple presided over Highclere Castle, the grand estate that serves as the setting for the hit PBS show. Following the First World War, many of the great houses of England faded as their owners fortunes declined in the new political and social world of the 1920s and 1930s. As war loomed, Highclere's survival as the family home of the Carnarvons was again in the balance-as was peace between the nations of Europe.

 

Apparently many of you are Dr. Who fans. Here's one for you.

The Doctor's Lives and Times by James Goss and Steve Tribe $19.99 

"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. And I'm the man who's going to save your life."

This is the story of an impossible life--of a man who borrowed a spaceship, travelled through time and continually saved the universe--as told by the Doctor's friends, by his enemies, and by the man himself. Letters, journals, trial records, secret government files and the occasional bit of tabloid journalism reveal the never-before-told story of Gallifrey's last Time Lord.  

 

News From Heaven by Jennifer Haigh $14.99

 

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh-bestselling author of Faith and The Condition-returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.

Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments.  

 

The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon $14.99 

Set in England in 1830, this is an emotionally haunting work of historical fiction -- hailed as "charming, Bronte-esque...and hard to forget" (Marian Keyes) -- about an illiterate farm girl's emotional and intellectual awakening and its devastating consequences.

Mary, the spirited youngest daughter of an angry, violent man, is sent to work for the local vicar and his invalid wife. Her strange new surroundings offer unsettling challenges, including the vicar's lecherous son and a manipulative fellow servant. But life in the vicarage also offers unexpected joys, as the curious young girl learns to read and write -- knowledge that will come at a tragic price.

 

Baby Bear is the latest beautiful picture book by Kadir Nelson $17.99  Baby bear wanders through the forest asking other animals to help him find his way home. It's big and lush and beautiful and will be a lovely night night book. 

 

 

 

 

 
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!  


Are you an Awesome Teacher?
Our  Teacher's Newsletter goes out every two weeks or so with goings on and new books. If you're a teacher and would like to be on the list, please let me know via email.

We still have some posters and things available for your classroom. Just ask.

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.

    
Wednesday, January  22

The Round House by Erdrich
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.




February 26 Alfred & Emily
 
March 26     Graphic the Valley

April  23       Brutal Telling