Greetings!
"The life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., permeates...every facet
of our social and political world...[H]is hypnotic voice and unique
vision linger, ghostlike, in the background of every conversation that
touches upon race, the state of black America, and this nation's
multiracial future."
From KING: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Charles Johnson & Bob Adelman (Viking Studio, 2000)
The
January/February 2008 Dear Reader has been mailed and copies are
available in our three stores. You can also check out our calendar and
read the reviews at
Call to order signed copies of John Grisham's latest thriller, THE APPEAL, due out in February.
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EVENTS
It's a double-header at Off Square Books as we welcome Cai Emmons and Kathy Patrick:
Tuesday, January 22, 5PM THE STYLISTby Cai Emmons (HarperPerennial, pb. 13.95) Also set in a beauty salon, two misfits form a tentative bond that
will help them overcome personal crises and pain as they struggle to
discover who they truly are and to find the strength to move on. Buy now!
THE PULPWOOD QUEENS' TIARA WEARING, BOOK-SHARING GUIDE TO LIFE by Kathy L. Patrick (Grand Central, pb. 13.99) Kathy Patrick is the proprietor of Beauty and the Book, the world's
only combination beauty salon/bookstore. An instant hit with customers
who flocked to the store for her dual beauty/book tips, Kathy soon
founded The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas-to eat, drink, and talk
books. Kathy shares her life story on how books have changed her life,
how she chooses selections for the Pulpwood Queens, and how to start a
book group-and keep it going. Buy now! Friday, January 25, 5PM MERMAIDS IN THE BASEMENT by Michael Lee West (HarperCollins, hd. 23.95) Reeling from the loss of her mother and boyfriend and plagued with a
bad case of writer's block, Renata DeChavannes feels as though
everything is wrong. To recoup, Renata heads south to her grandmother's
home on the Gulf Coast, determined to stop feeling like a wilted
gardenia and to emerge as the unstoppable kudzu her beloved grandmother
proudly proclaimed she would be. Tennessean West is the popular author
of CRAZY LADIES and MAD GIRLS IN LOVE. Buy now! |
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SCANNING THE FRONT TALBES
ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. (Algonquin, pb. 18.95) This is
more than a travel guide, it is a map to living history across the
South. The section on Mississippi, "Don't Know How We Were So Brave,"
is moving in its tributes to the men and women who fought for freedom
and equality and intimate in its understanding of the complexities of
race relations in our state. Charles Cobb will visit Square Books on
Monday, February 4. Buy now!
THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Knopf, hd.
27.95) Faust, historian and president of Harvard University, offers
a study of the struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of
death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During
the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent
proportion of today's population would be six million. Buy now! |
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BOOK SENSE PICK
HELPING ME HELP MYSELF: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
by Beth Lisick (William Morrow, hd. 24.95) The author
of EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL is back with her hilarious and poignant
tales of immersion into the million-dollar self-help industry. Buy now!
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"No one expected what the Civil War was to become."
-- From THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING by Drew Gilpin Faust
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