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!
Quick Links
Book Club in a Bar: Talking to the Dead
  
Talking to the Dead

Join us on Thursday, April 24 at 7 PM (location TBA) as we discuss Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham.

 

Linda says: Billed as having a protagonist every bit as awesome as Lisbeth Salander and a book that lovers of Tana French will enjoy, and boy are they right! This is a great piece of writing and a great romp! 

 

Book Club in a Bar is The Learned Owl's no-rules, drop-in book club, which meets at a local watering hole every month. All are welcome!

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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New mysteries 
  

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 Reed 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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Louise recommends:

Natchez Burning

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

[William Morrow & Co., $27.99; available April 29]

Raised in the historic southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of honor and duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community has been accused of murdering Viola Turner, the African-American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. Once a crusading prosecutor, Penn is determined to save his father, but Tom, stubbornly invoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to even speak in his own defense.
Penn's quest for the truth sends him deep into his father's past, where a sexually charged secret lies waiting to tear their family apart. More chilling, this long-buried sin is only a single thread in a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. Aided by a dedicated reporter privy to Natchez's oldest secrets and by his fiancee, Penn uncovers a trail of corruption and brutality that places his family squarely in the Double Eagles' crosshairs. With every step costing blood and faith, Penn is forced to confront the most wrenching dilemma of his life: Does a man of honor choose his father or the truth?

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Under a Silent Moon

Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes

[Harper, $25.99]

In the crisp early hours of an autumn morning, the police are called to investigate two deaths. The first is a suspected murder at a farm on the outskirts of a small village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, her cottage drenched with blood. The second is a reported suicide at a nearby quarry. A car with a woman's body inside was found at the bottom of the pit. As DI Louisa Smith and her team gather evidence, they discover a shocking link between the two cases and the two deaths.
Haynes interweaves fictional primary source materials - police reports, phone messages, interviews - and multiple character viewpoints to create an edgy and compulsively readable tale of murder, mystery, and unsettling suspense.

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By Its Cover

By its Cover by Donna Leon

[Atlantic Monthly Press, $26.00]

One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: The culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem: The man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist.

As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent or guilty.

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I've Got You Under My Skin

I've Got You Under My Skin

by Mary Higgins Clark

[Simon & Schuster, $26.99]

Five years after her husband's murder, Laurie Moran, an award-winning TV producer and single mother, starts filming a new "cold case" series in which four women involved in the unsolved murder of a wealthy Westchester matron reunite to recreate the scene of the crime - along with the real killer.

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New in paperback
Leaving Everything Most Loved
The Abomination
Bad Blood
Midnight at Marble Arch
The Black Country
Game for Five
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