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The Learned Owl Book Shop, October 15, 2014
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Kate's Corner




I had a chance to go to the meeting this morning to discuss further plans for the Main Street streetscape project. It is clear that the planners are actually listening to our concerns. Some of the plans have already been revised, and it appears that this will continue to happen throughout the process.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of people at the meeting and I'm reminded how lucky we all are to live and work in a town like this. People are actively involved in the community and take pride in what we have to offer. There are any number of people you can contact if you have input, and I would encourage everyone to do so.

Thank you for your support, and happy reading!

- Kate
Coming up at
The Learned Owl

Thursday, Oct. 16, 5-7 PM
(at The Owl)
Phil Stead (Sebastian and the Balloon) and Erin Stead, the creators of A Sick Day for Amos McGee.

Friday, Oct. 17, 4 PM
(at Laurel Lake)
Author Warren Dix with The Coded Letter

Sunday, Oct. 19, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Book Club Open House! Recommendations, snacks, discounts.

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2 PM
(at The Owl)
Our History Book Club meets to discuss national monuments. Read any book on the subject and join us!

Sunday, Oct. 19, 5-7 PM
(at The Owl)
Writing Workshop: Novel Prep with Hanna Brady. Cost: $45. [read more]

Monday, Oct. 20, 7 PM
(at the Hudson Library)

Tuesday, Oct. 21, 11 AM
(at The Owl)

Friday, Oct. 24, 5-7 PM
(at The Owl)
Cinda Chima with The Sorcerer HeirCome meet the author, get a signed copy of the book and enjoy pizza and conversation with other Chima fans!

Saturday, Oct. 25, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 4 PM
(at The Owl)

Thursday, Oct. 30, 4-6 PM
Peter Rabbit will be helping us hand out treats during the annual Merchants of Hudson Trick or Treat.

Saturday, Nov. 1, 1 PM
(at the Peninsula Library)

Sunday, Nov. 2, 2 PM
(at The Owl)
Peter Rabbit Tea Party! Call us to register:
330-653-2252.
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Mysteries around the world

MaliceMalice by Keigo Higashino
[Minotaur Books, $24.99]
The most acclaimed novel in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.
Acclaimed novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock-solid alibis. Or so it seems.
At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka.
As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers had been anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn't necessarily who or how, but why. In a game of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn't able to prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.
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Deadly TastingNew in paperback:
Deadly Tasting by Jean-Pierre Alaux
[Le French Book, $12.95]
A serial killer is on the loose in Bordeaux. A local chief detective calls wine expert Benjamin Cooker to the crime scene of a brutal murder. The killer has left a strange calling card: twelve wine glasses lined up in a semi-circle with the first one filled with wine. Cooker is charged with the task of identifying the fabulous grand cru and is astonished by what he learns. A second victim is found, with two glasses filled. Is the killer intentionally leaving clues about his victims and his motives? Memories are jogged about the complicated history of Bordeaux during Nazi occupation. It was a dark time: Weinfuhrers ruled the wine trade, while collaborationists and paramilitary organizations spread terror throughout the region. In present-day wine country, time is running out. Will Cooker and his young assistant Virgile solve the mystery before all twelve glasses are full?
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by Marlon James
[Riverhead Books, $28.95]
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.
Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the '70s, to the crack wars in '80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the '90s.
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The Girl Next Door The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
[Scribner Book Company, $26.00]
In the waning months of the Second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944 - until one father forbids it - the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories.
Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?
In The Girl Next Door Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make - and the emotions behind them - remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.
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by Philippe Georget
[Europa Editions, $18.00]
Inspector Sebag is a policeman in the South of France with an unparalleled sixth sense, who excels at slipping into the skin of killers and hunting them down. However, when a retired French Algerian cop is discovered in his apartment with the symbol OAS left near his body and few indications who killed him or why, Sebag's skills are put to the test.
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New in paperback

Legend of Sleepy Harlow
The Life We Bury
Death by Devil's Breath
Dead Simple
Tiger Shrimp Tango
Deadly Heat
Jack Carter's Law
The Bones of Paris
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