Greetings!
It's Spring Break week for Ole
Miss, so there will be no Thacker Mountain this Thursday. Only one event is
scheduled, but it should be great fun.
The CakeMix Doctor is coming to Oxford. Anne
Byrn is the award-winning food writer and author of The CakeMix Doctor, The Dinner Doctor, and Cooking in the New South. Her books
have over two million copies in print. Anne started her food career at The
Atlanta Journal Constitution. In 1994, she returned to Nashville, her hometown
(she is a fifth-generation Tennessean), and became a food writer for The
Tennessean. It was there she first wrote a story on how to doctor cake
mixes. The piece generated such huge consumer interest that she developed it
into her best-selling cake mix cookbooks. She will be at Off with her latest,
the What Can I Bring? Cookbook. Tuesday, March 18th, 6:00 P.M., Square Books, Jr.
will host its annual TEACHER APPRECIATION NIGHT ─ Refreshments, Door
Prizes, Giveaways, 20% Discount. We hope all area teachers and education
professionals will join us for this special event.
Square Books has a full schedule of signings for
March. Check out our updated calendar and Dear Reader on-line at www.squarebooks.com.
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EVENTS
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 5:00P
THE CAKE MIX DOCTOR IS COMING TO OXFORD
WHAT CAN I BRING? COOKBOOK
by Anne Byrn
(Workman, pb. 14.95)
Potlucks and picnics, dinner parties, reunions, and
cookouts-it's the busy age of shared meals, which means with every invitation
comes the question, "What can I bring?" Anne Byrn knows exactly how to answer
this question. BUY NOW!
MONDAY, MARCH 17
MUDBOUND by Hillary Jordan (Algonquin, hd. 21.95)
Set
in the Mississippi Delta, Jordan's debut novel is as raw as unrefined cotton
and as haunting as a spiritual sung a cappella. BUY NOW!
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 LUSH LIFEby Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hd. 26.00)
Dennis
Lehane calls Price ( Clockers) "the greatest writer of dialogue, living
or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, profane, hilarious, and tragic,
sometimes in a single line, Lush Life is his masterwork." BUY NOW!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
IDA: A Sword Among Lions
by Paula J. Giddings (Amistad, hd. 35.00)
A
definitive biography of Holly Springs-born Ida B. Wells and her leadership in
the campaign against lynching. BUY NOW!
THURSDAY, MARCH 20 THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO
POOR MAN'S PROVENCE
by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
(NewSouth, hd. 23.95)
Personal
odyssey and good reporting on how this author found her Poor Man's Provence aka
Cajun Louisiana. BUY NOW! |
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FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY
THE DEPORTEES AND OTHER STORIES
by Roddy Doyle
(Viking, hd. 24.95)
The stories center around "someone born in Ireland
[who] meets someone who has come to live there." In the story "57% Irish," a
man tries to tell just how Irish a person is by their reactions to three
things: Riverdance, the song "Danny Boy," and Robbie Keane's goal against
Germany in the 2002 World Cup. DS. BUY NOW!
 U2 BY U2
by U2 and Neil McCormick
(Harper, hd. 39.95)The story of a 30-year journey from the pubs of Dublin to
the stadiums of the world. BUY NOW!
Honoring the green: BEFORE GREEN GABLESby Budge Wilson (Putnam, hd. 22.95)
The story of Anne Shirley's early life and the
journey that led her to Prince Edward Island. BUY NOW!
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BOOK SENSE PICK
 DOG MAN: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
by Martha Sherrill
(Penguin Press, hd. 25.95)
"After World War II and over the course of
decades, Morie Sawataishi bred Japanese Akitas and brought them back from the
brink of extinction. A remarkable story in deceptively simple prose. Morie is
not always a likeable man, but his passion rings true, and, in the end, I
deeply admired him." ─ Lisa Stefanacci, The Book Works, Del Mar, CA. BUY NOW! |
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"The house is hard to see, low and camouflaged by foliage,
encased in green, almost swallowed whole by nature. Across a dark glassy lake
and halfway up a foothill of Mount Kurikoma, a red roof shimmers like an old
sequin dropped long ago among the cedars."
From DOG MAN by Martha Sherrill
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