The Learned Owl Book Shop, September 15, 2015

Kate's Corner

Events, events, events! It's the week we have all been waiting for. You have the opportunity to listen to, interact with, and get books signed by over 40 authors. I guarantee there is something for everyone.

Please take some time to look at all of our author events below and join us whenever you can. Whether it's Star Wars, history, crayons, or mysteries you won't be disappointed.

Thank you for your support, and happy reading!
- Kate
Coming up at
The Learned Owl

Wed., Sept. 16, 7 PM
(at the Hudson Library)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert K. Massie will discuss the great sea battles of World War I. Register online, or call (330) 653-6658 x1010. [read more]

Wed., Sept. 16, 7-8:30 PM
(at the Twinsburg Library)

Wed., Sept. 16, 7 PM
(at Barlow Community Ctr)
Ian Doescher will be signing copies of his new book William Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third, and the Hudson Players will do a dramatic reading. Please call 330-653-2252 to register for this free event.

Sat., Sept. 19, 10 AM-4 PM
(at Hiram College)

Sat., Sept. 19, 1-3 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Joseph Krause, professor emeritus at Kent State University, with his novel Mad Addie.

Sat., Sept. 19, 1-3 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Pat Craig with Gowganda Pilot and Me: Our Survivals, a memoir about her father.

Sun., Sept. 20, 2 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
The Learned Owl History Book Group discusses History of Fashion with guest Nancy Stanforth, Associate Professor at KSU's School of Fashion.

Mon., Sept. 21, 4-5:30 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Meet Drew Daywalt, author of The Day the Crayons Came Home.

Mon., Sept. 21, 7 PM
(at the Hudson Library)
Jessica Neuwirth, founder of the international women's rights organization Equality Now, with her book Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment is Now. Register online or call 330-653-6658 x1010.

Thurs., Sept. 24, 7 PM
(location TBA)
Join us as our Book Club in a Bar discusses
Dead Key, and meet author D. M. Pulley.

Sat., Sept. 26, 11 AM-noon
(Independence Library)
Storytime with author/ illustrator Betsy Snyder. Registration is required: register online, or call 216.447.0160.

Sat., Sept. 26, 1-3 PM
(at The Learned Owl)

Sat., Sept. 26, 1-3 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Author Les Roberts with The Ashtabula Hat Trick, his latest Milan Jacovich mystery.

Sun., Sept. 27, 2-4 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
International Tea Party with guest author Liliana Leone (Les Cinq Eiffels). Please call 330-653-2252 to register.

Wed., Sept. 30, 6:30 PM
(at the Hudson Library)
An Evening with Terry Pluto and Amanda Rabinowitz. Please register for this event at hudsonlibrary.org.
All kinds of
New fiction

Come Rain or Come Shine Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon
[G. P. Putnam's Sons, $27.95; available Sept. 22]
Over the course of the Mitford novels, fans have kept a special place in their hearts for Dooley Kavanagh, first seen in At Home in Mitford as a barefoot, freckle-faced boy in filthy overalls. Now, Father Tim Kavanagh's adopted son has graduated from vet school and opened his own animal clinic. Since money will be tight for a while, maybe he and Lace Harper, his once and future soul mate, should keep their wedding simple. 
So the plan is to eliminate the cost of catering and do potluck. Ought to be fun. An old friend offers to bring his well-known country band. Gratis. And once mucked out, the barn works as a perfect venue for seating family and friends. Piece of cake, right?
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Kate's mom recommends:
After You After You by Jojo Moyes
[Pamela Dorman Books, $26.95; Sept. 29]
When one story ends, another begins... The sequel to Me Before You
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started.
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding the paramedic, whose business is life and death: the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will's past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future.
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Make Me We have signed copies!
Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
[Delacorte Press, $28.99]
Jack Reacher has no place to go and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing private investigator, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people.
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Eve Eve by William Paul Young
[Howard Books, $16.00]
From the author of the bestseller The Shack:
When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside - broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean. No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her "daughter" and invites her to witness the truth about her story - indeed, the truth about us all.
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by Jonathan Evison
[Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $25.95]
With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, 78-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet's past. There, amid the overwhelming buffets and the incessant lounge singers, between the imagined appearances of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is forced to take a long look back, confronting the truth about pivotal events that changed the course of her life. And in the process she discovers that she's been living the better part of that life under entirely false assumptions.
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Bream Gives Me HiccupsBream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
[Grove Press, $26.00]
The whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg. United by Eisenberg's gift for humor and character, and grouped into chapters that open with illustrations by award-winning cartoonist Jean Jullien, the witty pieces collected in Bream Gives Me Hiccups explore the various insanities of the modern world, and mark the arrival of a fantastically funny, self-ironic, and original voice. [read more]
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Kate's dad recommends:
by Faith Sullivan
[Milkweek Editions, $26.00; available Sept. 22]
Throughout her life, Nell Stillman has struggled to find meaning in an increasingly chaotic world. A complicated marriage to a boorish husband; an early widowhood spent longing for her congressman lover; the loss of her child, a shell-shocked WWI hero - her road has not been easy. But somehow she manages to find moments of grace, more often than not through the genial voice of P.G. Wodehouse, the beloved British novelist. Spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse celebrates the power of great novels from Austen to Chekhov to transform, console, and teach us the value of friendship and love.
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Did You Ever Have a FamilyDid You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
[Gallery/Scout Press, $26.00]
A magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.
On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiance, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke - her entire family, all gone in a moment. And June is the only survivor.
Alone and directionless, June drives across the country, away from her small Connecticut town. In her wake, a community emerges, weaving a beautiful and surprising web of connections through shared heartbreak. From the couple running a motel on the Pacific Ocean where June eventually settles into a quiet half-life, to the wedding's caterer whose bill has been forgotten, to Luke's mother, the shattered outcast of the town - everyone touched by the tragedy is changed as truths about their near and far histories finally come to light.
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