The Learned Owl Book Shop, April 15, 2014

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Kate's Corner
Lily and Kate
We have been busy bees this month painting our lower level. It is almost finished, and we can't wait to share it with all of you. In the next month we will be moving our mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novel sections downstairs, which will allow us to expand these sections as well as a few more on the main floor.
  

Lilly has been with me and in the store for three weeks now, and she is doing so well. It's hard to believe that anyone could ever give up a girl as sweet as she is. Being a rescue, she does have a few quirks, and we are working with a fantastic trainer from Pet State University to ensure we are all on the same page and moving in the right direction.

 

Thank you so much to everyone for your encouragement and support! Happy reading!

- Kate

Aprl at The Owl
 
Sat., April 19, 1-3 PM (at The Owl)
Meet authors
Mary McClure (Silver Lake Park) and James Pryor (Akron Aviation).
  
Tues., April 22,
5:30 PM (at The Owl)
Reception for World Book Night givers
  
Tues., April 22,
6:30-8 PM (at The GriefCare Place)
Iris Llewellyn Angle reads from her book Tell Your Story Walking.
  
Thurs., April 24, 7 PM (location TBA)
Our Book Club in a Bar discusses Talking to the Dead. Join us!
  
Sat., April 26, 11 AM (at The Owl)
Children's author Mike Hooley with Penelope Skunk Has Junk in Her Trunk.
  
Sun., April 27, 2 PM (at The Owl)
Our History Book Club will meet to discuss James Garfield. Read any book on the topic and join us!

 

Sat., May 3 (The Owl)
Meet illustrator & pop-up book creator Robert Sabuda. Limited-seating breakfast at 9:30, followed by a signing from 10:30 to noon. Call NOW to reserve a place at breakfast: 330-653-2252.
  
Thurs., May 8, 5:30-7 PM (at The Owl)
Informal meet & greet with Gabrielle Zevin, author of new Owl favorite The Storied Life of AJ Fikry!
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Ruin FallsKate recommends:

Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman

[Ballantine Books, $26.00; available April 22]

Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving behind her remote home in the Adirondack Mountains for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old Reid and six-year-old Ally, have met their paternal grandparents only a handful of times. But Liz's husband, Paul, has decided that, despite a strained relationship with his mother and father, they should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood.
On their way to the farm, the family stops at a hotel for the night. In the morning, when Liz goes to check on her sleeping children, all her anxiety comes roaring back: Ally and Reid are nowhere to be found. Frantic worry and helplessness threaten to overtake Liz's mind - but in a sudden, gut-wrenching instant she realizes that it was no stranger who slipped into the hotel room that night. Someone she trusted completely has betrayed her...

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Til the Well Runs Dry'Til the Well Runs Dry

by Lauren Francis-Sharma 

[Henry Holt & Co., $27.00; available April 22]

Kate says: A beautifully written story of one woman ripped at the seams at every turn. It's also a captivating look at a country and culture I'm not familiar with.

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The Silkworm Coming in June - preorder now!
  

The Silkworm

by Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)

[Mulholland Books, $28.00; June 19]

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives, so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.  

And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before...

A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. 

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The TargetThe Target by David Baldacci
[Grand Central Publishing, $28.00; April 22]
The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel.
Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are some in power who don't trust the pair. They doubt their willingness to follow orders. And they will do anything to see that the two assassins succeed, but that they do not survive.
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Chestnut StreetChestnut Street by Maeve Binchy

[Knopf Publishing Group, $26.95; available April 22]

Across town from St. Jarlath's Crescent, featured in Minding Frankie, is Chestnut Street, where neighbors come and go. Behind their closed doors we encounter very different people with different life circumstances, occupations, and sensibilities.

Some of the unforgettable characters lovingly brought to life by Binchy are Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son; Nessa Byrne, whose aunt visits from America every summer and turns the house - and Nessa's world - upside down; Lilian, the generous girl with the big heart and a fiance whom no one approves of; Melly, whose gossip about the neighbors helps Madame Magic, a self-styled fortune-teller, get everyone on the right track; Dolly, who discovers more about her perfect mother than she ever wanted to know; and Molly, who learns the cure for sleeplessness from her pen pal from Chicago.

Chestnut Street is written with the humor and understanding that are earmarks of Maeve Binchy's extraordinary work.

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The PanopticonThe Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

[Hogarth, $15.00; available April 22]

Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember what's happened, but across town a policewoman lies in a coma and Anais is covered in blood.

Anais finds a sense of belonging among the residents of the Panopticon - they form intense bonds, and she soon becomes part of an ad-hoc family. Together, they struggle against the adults that keep them confined. But when she looks up at the watchtower that looms over the residents, Anais realizes her fate: She is an anonymous part of an experiment, and she always was. Now it seems that the experiment is closing in.

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Gone GirlNew York Times - and Learned Owl! - bestseller: 

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

[Broadway Books, $15.00; available April 22]

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?

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The CircleThe Circle by Dave Eggers

[Vintage Books, $15.95; available April 22]

What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
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