The Learned Owl Book Shop, Mid-July 2016

 Kate's Corner


It's hard to believe the last week of July is almost here! The start of school is around the corner, and we are already pulling out some great titles for back to school at any age. We are also well stocked for your summer required reading needs, so don't wait until the last minute. Get in today and receive 10% off your required summer reading that the teachers have notified us about. While you're here, pick up a non-required reading book for a last summer fling, and enter in for a chance to win your 2016 - 2017 required reading list for free!

In other news, the Main Street construction has begun. Thankfully, we have not seen too much of a disruption in our daily activities so far. All Main Street parking is still accessible between 6 AM and 8 PM. Don't let the cones and barrels scare you away. We will continue to keep you updated.

In the meantime, enjoy the beautiful weather, stay cool and happy reading!
- Kate
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Coming up at The Owl

Sat., July 23, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)

Saturday, July 23, 1-3 PM (at The Owl)
Author Serena Burdick with Girl in the Afternoon, an opulent saga set in Paris during la Belle Epoque.

Sun., July 24, 2-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Story time: Wolf Camp! Come prepared to do your best wolf howl and enjoy the story, a snack and a take-home gift. Please call to reserve your spot: 330-653-2252.

Thurs., July 28, 6:45 PM (location TBA)
Our Book Club in a Bar discusses Murder in the Marais. Join us!

Sat., July 30, 1-3 PM
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Sat., July 30, 11 PM
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Join us to celebrate the midnight release (on Sunday, July 31) of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two! Please email or call us (330-653-2252) to reserve your copy, or order at learnedowl.com. You must reserve the book from us to attend the release party.

Sun., July 31, 2 PM
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Join us for refreshments and the awarding of prizes from our Find Waldo in Hudson hunt.
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New nonfiction & history

The House by the Lake
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Elizabeth recommends:
The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History by Thomas Harding
[Picador USA, $28.00]
A groundbreaking and revelatory new history of Germany, told over a tumultuous century through the story of a small wooden house. 
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her soul place, she said, a holiday home for her and her family, but also a refuge until the 1930s, when the Nazis' rise to power forced them to leave.
The trip was his grandmother's chance to remember her childhood sanctuary as it was. But the house had changed; and when Harding returned once again nearly twenty years later, it was about to be demolished. It now belonged to the government. And as Harding began to inquire about whether the house could be saved, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades.

by Jonah Lehrer
[Simon & Schuster, $26.00]
Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites, A Book About Love plumbs the most mysterious, most formative, most important impulse governing our lives.

by William Poundstone
[Little, Brown, $26.00; available July 19]
More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all?
Bestselling author William Poundstone confronts that timely question in Head in the Cloud. Hilarious, humbling, and wildly entertaining, this is a must-read for anyone who doesn't know everything.

New in paperback:
The Fangirl Life
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God
Power
Plunder _ Deceit
The 50s
Vendetta
Crucible of Command
Our Man in Charleston
'Tis the season
Best Grill Recipes Ever
Grill School
Be the BBQ Pitmaster
Smoking Meat
New in biography

Trials of the Earth
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
by Mary Mann Hamilton

[Little Brown, $27.00]
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South - surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers; and running a logging camp in Mississippi that blazed a trail for development in the Mississippi Delta. The extreme hard work and tragedy Hamilton faced are eclipsed only by her emotional and physical strength; her unwavering faith in her husband, Frank, a mysterious Englishman; and her tenacious sense of adventure.

by Bob Kealing
[Crown Archetype, $26.00]
Before Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Joy Mangano, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into a record-breaking sales engine powered by American housewives. In Life of the Party, Bob Kealing offers the definitive portrait of Wise, a plucky businesswoman who divorced her alcoholic husband, started her own successful business, and eventually caught the eye of Tupperware inventor, Earl Tupper, whose plastic containers were collecting dust on store shelves. [read more]

Trying to Float
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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
by Nicolaia Rips
[Scribner Book Company, $25.00]
New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens - Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few - but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar seventeen years. Nicolaia is a perpetual outsider who has struggled to find her place in public schools populated by cliquish girls and loudmouthed boys. But at the Chelsea, Nicolaia need not look far to find her tribe.

New biography in paperback:
The Speechwriter
Gold Fever
A Full Life
Dog Medicine
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