| Super Staff Pick |
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Check out our February Super Staff Pick!
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, by Thomas E. Ricks (Penguin, $16.00)
This searing look at the strategic blindness with which America has conducted the Iraq War draws on the accounts of senior military officers, giving voice to their anger for the first time.
Every month, we pick a title that we believe is deserving of extra attention. The books are available for 10% off at the store, or via email or phone. |
| Trivia Contest |
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February's Question...
This best-seller, by a local Tucson author, imagines what might happen to the Earth if humans were to vanish. Name the title and author for your chance to win.
All correct answers will be included in a drawing at the end of the month for a $15.00 gift certificate.
Good Luck!
To enter, come in or email us your answer.
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| Issue: # 07 |
February, 2008 |
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Greetings! 
We've finally chosen our Favorite Reads
of 2007, so if you've got a craving
for something amazing, check out our
favorite books of last year.
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| Upcoming Events & Readings |
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Friday, February 22, 7 PM: 
Shannon O'Grady and Jim Bowman, as featured in Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region edited by Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman (Traveler's Tales Guides, $17.95). Thirty writers go beyond the usual reporting to reveal the simple and poignant ways that life goes on in the Middle East. These writings bring to life what it's like to be living in the Middle East and offer moving glimpses of lives unfolding behind the headlines.... [more info]
Friday, February 29, 7 PM:
 Jason Brown, author of Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work (Open City Books, $14.00). This beautifully haunting collection of loosely linked stories is set in the densely forested lands of northern New England. In these tales of forbidden love, runaway children, alcohol, class, and survival, Jason Brown's elegant prose emits both quiet despair and a poignant sense of hope and redemption... [more info]
Wednesday, March 5, 7 PM:  Amy Irvine, author of Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (North Point Press, $25.00). A wilderness activist, lapsed Mormon and former development director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Amy sought respite in the desert outback of Utah after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people. Her story is one of learning to live among those who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil, and of how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. This event is co-sponsored by The Arizona Wilderness Coalition... [more info]
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Book Groups |
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Living Your Best Life Book Group
March 2, 12 noon: Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin, $15.00). [more info]
Democracy & Dissent Book Group
March 2, 2PM: End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf (Chelsea Green, $13.95). [more info]
Second Sunday Book Group
March 9, 2 PM: Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage International, $14.95). [more info]
Mystery Book Group
March 30, 12 noon: Mark of the Lion, by Suzanne Arruda (New American Library, $14.00). [more info]
All Book Group books are 10% off the month before they're discussed. | |
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