Invest in a 400+ Page Local Book
In the event you are willing to contribute to the publication of Michael Huey's phenomenal book Straight as the Pine, Sturdy as the Oak about the history of Camp Leelanau for Boys, the Leelanau Schools, and The Homestead from their beginnings around 1920 to 1963, you can do so through kickstarter.com:
You can also see some of the outstanding photo- graphs which will be included in the book.
We will be carrying it.
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Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan thought they could return to their regular lives when they found the 39 clues. But the Vespers, powerful enemies, will stop at nothing to get the clues. And with the Vespers rising, the world is in jeopardy.
(Scholastic,2011. hdc.$12.99)
How do dinosaurs learn to play? They romp and stomp the friendly way! With more than 3.5 million copies in print the How Do Dinosaurs series is packed with dino-mite! Now four of these bestselling board books are collected in an engaging gift box, perfect for little hands! This box set contains pocket board book versions of:
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Color? How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends. (Scholastic, 2008. Board $12.99)
Kids will love watching Tiptoe Joe lead a group of his animal friends on an adventure. Joe instructs his buddies to be as quiet as possible. They tiptoe--as well as they can on their hooves, claws, and furry feet--through a field, across a fallen log leading over a stream, through the woods, and up a hill. When they arrive at Joe's, he shows them something very special - his brand-new baby bear cubs, fast asleep! Tiptoe Joe is a great pick for parents who want to acclimate a child to a new baby.(Greenwillow, 2013. hdc $17.99)
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New in Paperback
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir,Wild is the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
(Random, 2013. pap $15.95)
With her signature blend of police procedurals and psychological thriller, French's fourth book of the Dublin murder squad goes full throttle with a heinous crime, creating her most complicated detective character and her best book yet. (Penguin, 2013. pap $16)
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Local Book Clubs
Glen Arbor Book Group
May 17 10:00
Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
(at Cherry Republic)
June 21 10:00
Gold by Chris Cleave
(at the New Yarn Shop in their new Lake Street location)
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Lakeshore Readers' Book Group at Glen Lake Community Library in Empire
May 29 10:15
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
June 26 10:15
To Be Announced
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Happy Spring!
We are very pleased to report that spring has arrived with lots of sun, some needed rain, leafing trees, dazzling forsythia and daffodils everywhere. The Dutchman's Breeches, Spring Beauty, Yellow Trout Lily, Bloodroot ,and wild leeks are in abundance in the woods. We are waiting for the budding Trillium to be in full bloom any day, and are on the lookout for morels.
On Mother's Day we celebrate our 18th year in operation as what began as a mother-daughter team business. Although Barbara's daughter Brita has move on with her life in NYC, she remains in her mother's heart as being apart of CBS. In celebration we offer 20% off The Mothers.
We welcome Bonnie Foley, whom many of you will recognize from the Yarn Shop and Glen Arbor Athletic Club. We bid a fond farewell and wish Lynn Heiser well on her retirement, and thank her and Sue Wood for their many years of service to the CBS. Stop by! The warming days and sunshine have us all smiling and wishing each other a Happy Spring!
Barbara Siepker, Jill Webb, Bonnie Foley and Josephine Arrowood |
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Book of the Month
One good reason to read Love Anthony is to experience the impact autism has on family life. The story takes place on Cape Cod where two women, whose lives have fallen apart, meet. One, a mother of an autistic son who has died at age 5, and the other who turns to writing as her marriage fails. The writer becomes obsessed with capturing the inner experience of an autistic child, giving projected meaning to the repetitive movements associated with autism. It is a beautiful volume, filled with compassion, written by Lisa Genova (Still Alice and Left Neglected). (Simon & Schuster,2013.pap$16) ~Barbara Siepker & Anne Wiesen
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Just Arrived!
Readers have had to wait six years for Khaled
Hosseini to write his next novel. Much anticipated, And the Mountains Echoed, will not disappoint. Indeed, I think it is every bit as gripping and poignant as The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The story begins in Afghanistan in the mid-1940s, with a father telling his son and daughter a cautionary folk tale about the heart-breaking choice a parent has to make to save his family. The next day, the folk tale becomes a reality and sets off a series of events that spread from Kabul to Paris, to the Greek island of Tinos, and to San Francisco. Spanning nearly 70 years, the multi-generational story explores themes of family, identity, betrayal, personal responsibility and sacrifice. Like his previous work, a novel hard to put down and one that stays with you long after the final page. (Riverhead Books, 2013. hdc $28.95)~ Linda Young, our dedicated editor
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Khaled Hosseini talks about his new book. |
Book Signing Saturday, June 8, at 2pm
Priscill  a Cogan, Leelanau County author has written a compassionate, healing, and loving novel, Clinging to the Moon , that brings back our two favorite characters: Dr. Maggie C onners and Hawk from the Winona's Web trilogy. This time, though not the main characters, they provide the "glue" by assisting the healing of two physically damaged central characters. Told through effective alternating chapters in their two voices, we are introduced to the inner lives of Tess and Sonny recent arrivals to Traverse City hospitalized at Munson Medical Center. Tess has just emerged from a 40-day coma following a car accident which has left her disoriented with a brain injury. Teaching English with a Ph.D., she has been brought to Traverse City by her husband, but learns upon consciousness that he is divorcing her. Nineteen-year old Sonny has just arrived in Traverse City with dreams of re-uniting with his mother from whom he was orphaned as a child. On the way he picked up a hitch-hiker but while dropping him off he got caught in cross-fire, paralyzing him from the neck down. They are introduced to one another by hospital volunteer, Cassie McDermett, a compassionate woman who sees them as being able to offer each other comfort, even though they seem an unlikely fit. Cassie is a wise, giving person who is suffering from the loss of her husband. Clinging to the Moon is indeed a significant book, taking us into the inner lives and feelings of people dealing with traumatic injuries and the people who work with and advise them. It is a great, intense story fun references to Leelanau County landmarks.
Priscilla Cogan emailed me the file before the book's release and I began reading it on my computer at home, but was so taken by the story that I could not stop, so continued it in the car during a quick trip to Ann Arbor. This has been my closest attempt to reading a book on a reader. I can see its value and I didn't even get a headache. In Ann Arbor, I also understood the concept and value of the Kobe Readers available for re-sale in independent bookstores. Perhaps I can get it together to sell these and eBooks.
(Two Canoes Press, 2013. hdc $29) ~Barbara Siepker
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