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




It's hard to believe the snow is here and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. We are busy elves at The Learned Owl stocking up on wonderful new titles to ensure you can find the perfect gift for everyone on your list.

This year I'm especially thankful to all the people that go out of their way to shop local and ensure the interesting and unique shops around us continue to thrive. We are so fortunate to live in an area that recognizes the importance of conscious shopping. Whether you are buying books, clothes, food, wine, or toys, when you buy locally over 50% of your purchase goes right back into the community. I believe that is something we can all be thankful for.

Wishing you a relaxing Thanksgiving filled with food, family, and fun!

Happy reading,

- Kate
Coming up at
The Learned Owl

Sat., Nov. 15, Noon-2 PM
(at The Owl)
Local author Allan May with The Sly-Fanner Murders.

Sat., Nov. 15, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Akron author Brian Gibson with Extra Innings Book 1: The Diamond Thieves.

Sun., Nov. 16, 2 PM
(at The Owl)
Madeline storytime. Sorry, this event is FULL.

Tues., Nov. 18, 7 PM
(at Hudson High School)
Writer Brad Stone (The Everything Store) presents the keynote speech for Hudson's Global Entrepreneurship Week. For a complete list of the week's events, visit hudsonlibrary.org or explorehudson.com.

Thurs., Nov. 20, 7 PM
(location TBA)
Join our Book Club in a Bar as we discuss You Cannoli Die Once with guest author Shelley Costa.

Sat., Nov. 22, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Mary Ellen Bramwell with The Apple of My Eye

Sun., Nov. 23, 2 PM
(at The Owl)
Our History Book Club will be discussing President Warren G. Harding, with guest author S. Joseph Krause (Harding, His Presidency and Love Life Reappraised).

Fri., Nov. 28, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Meet Nancy Christie, author of Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories. (Rescheduled from Nov. 8.)

Fri., Nov. 28, 2-6 PM
Come to Hudson for the Holidays, presented by the members of The Merchants of Hudson and Hudson League for Service.
At The Learned Owl: Sleep in and shop late! From 1-8 PM on Nov. 28, stop in for refreshments and special deals on featured titles. Enter to win your very own Leg Lamp - details at top right.

Sat., Nov. 29, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Author Garnett Kilberg Cohen with Swarm to Glory, her third collection of short stories.
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Come out to support your neighborhood on November 29 - Small Business Saturday�! Let us and our fellow Hudson merchants take some of the stress out of your holiday shopping.

At The Learned Owl on Nov. 29, enjoy refreshments and special deals on featured titles - AND enter to win your very own Christmas Story Leg Lamp! ("It's a major award.") Raffle will run Nov. 28 through Dec. 13. Tickets are $1 each or 7 for $5, and The Learned Owl will match your contribution dollar for dollar, with proceeds going to the Hudson Food Pantry. 

Thanks for being a big supporter of small business!
New mysteries

by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
[Bantam, $28.00; available Nov. 18]
The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox: Bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has a few tricks up his sleeve to oust this particular Knipschildt chocolate-loving drug lord.
From the streets of Nashville to the back alleys of Lisbon, from the rooftops of Istanbul to the middle of the Thames, Nick and Kate chase their mark. When they find themselves pitted against a psychopathic bodyguard and a Portuguese enforcer who gets advice from a pickled head, they decide it's time to enlist some special talent - talent like a machete-wielding Somali pirate, a self-absorbed actor, an Oscar-winning special effects artist, and Kate's father Jake, a retired Special Forces operative. Together they could help make this Fox and O'Hare's biggest win yet... if they survive.
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The Handsome Man's Deluxe CafeThe Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe
by Alexander McCall Smith
[Pantheon Books, $24.95]
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself - until now. A kindhearted brother and sister have taken in a woman known only as "Mrs." - a woman with no memory of her name or of how she came to Botswana. And so it's up to Precious Ramotswe and her new co-director, Grace Makutsi, to discover the woman's identity.
With sympathy and indefatigable good humor, Mma Ramotswe and her friends see one another through major changes and discover along the way what true friendship really means.
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Hope to Die Hope to Die by James Patterson
[Little Brown & Co., $29.00; available
Nov. 29]
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family - his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children - have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves?
Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says "nobody does it better" than James Patterson.
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BetrayedBetrayed by Lisa Scottoline
[St. Martin's Press, $27.99; available Nov. 25]
With Betrayed, blockbuster author Lisa Scottoline returns to the Rosato & Associates law firm, and maverick lawyer Judy Carrier takes the lead in a case that's more personal than ever. When Iris, the housekeeper and best friend of Judy's beloved Aunt Barb, is found dead of an apparent heart attack, Judy begins to suspect foul play. The circumstances of the death leave Judy with more questions than answers, and never before has murder struck so close to home.
In the meantime, Judy's own life roils with emotional and professional upheaval. She doesn't play well with her boss, Bennie Rosato. Not only that, her best friend Mary DiNunzio is planning a wedding, leaving Judy feeling left behind.
Investigating Iris's murder, Judy discovers a shocking truth that confounds her expectations. She finds herself plunged into a shadowy world of people so desperate that they cannot go to the police, and others so ruthless that they prey on vulnerability. Judy finds strength within herself to try to get justice for Iris and her aunt - but it comes at a terrible price.
by Christopher Fowler
[Bantam, $26.00; available Dec. 2]
London's wiliest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back on the case in this fiendishly clever new mystery. Romain Curtis sneaks into St. George's Gardens one evening with his date, planning to show her the stars. A centuries-old burial ground, the small, quiet park is the perfect place to be alone. Yet the night takes a chilling turn when the two teenagers spy a strange figure rising from among the tombstones: a corpse emerging from the grave.
As the PCU investigates the sighting, a second urgent matter requires their unusual brand of problem-solving. Seven ravens have gone missing from their historic home in the Tower of London, and legend has it that when the ravens disappear, England will fall. Bryant has been tasked with recovering the lost birds; but when Romain is suddenly found dead, the two seemingly separate mysteries start to intertwine and point to a plot more sinister than anyone could imagine. Soon Bryant and May find themselves immersed in London's darkest lore. And as the body count spikes and more coffins are unearthed, they will have to dig deep to catch a killer and finally lay these cases to rest.
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Five Five by Ursula Archer
[Minotaur Books, $25.99; available Dec. 9]
A woman's corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail - a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches. The "owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims' body parts sealed in plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot. Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator's game of cat and mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer's actions.
Five is definitely not a book for the faint-hearted, but it delivers great suspense, unexpected plot twists, and multi-dimensional characters.
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