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Greetings!
Buenos dias, happy Cinco de Mayo!
This week Mississippi author Howard Bahr will
read from PELICAN ROAD, a novel heralded for making the Southern night come
alive. Next week we have an event every day, including
appearances by Richard Bausch, Randall Norris & Jean-Philippe
Cyprés, Ellen Gilchrist, Rick Bragg, Chris
Myers Asch and Martha Hall Foose.
We
have signed copies of the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE
BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Diaz, THE PLAGUE OF DOVES by Louise Erdrich, and SEPULCHRE by Kate Mosse (author of Labyrinth).
It's that time of year again. A few excellent books for graduates are WHAT NOW? by Ann Patchett, JUST WHO WILL YOU BE? by Maria Shriver, and THE LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch.
Don't forget...Mother's Day is
May
11th. Below you will find suggestions for great gifts.
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EVENTS
Friday, May 9,
signing/reception @ 5 p.m., reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Howard Bahr
PELICAN ROAD(MacAdam
Cage, hd. 25.00)
It's Christmas Eve,
1940. Along an isolated stretch of railway between Meridian,
Mississippi, and New Orleans,
Louisiana, two locomotives travel toward one another
through the dark winter landscape. On the southbound freight, engineer A. P.
Dunn reminisces about the last trip he made through the snow. He can remember
every detail about that voyage in 1923, yet he can't recall the events of a few
hours ago. On the northbound Silver Star, brakeman Artemus Kane has his own
memories to contend with: French trenches and German snipers, a failed
marriage, and a too-short layover spent with Anna in the Crescent
City. Through unflinching and incantatory prose,
Bahr returns to his greatest theme - the tragic nobility of those attempting to
overcome difficult situations through love, honor, and sacrifice. BUY NOW!
* Only books purchased at Square Books may be signed.
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GIFT IDEAS FOR MOTHER'S DAY
FEASTING ON ASPHALT
by Alton Brown
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang, hd. 27.50)
For
the mom who enjoys kitchen adventure.
Signed copies available.
BUY NOW!
MID-SOUTH GARDEN GUIDE
by Carolyn Kittle
(Memphis
Garden Club, pb. 25.95)
For
the green-thumbed.
WINTER STUDY
by Nevada Barr
(Putnam, hd. 24.95)
For
the thrill & chill mystery-inclined.
Signed copies available.
BUY NOW!
THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING
by Joshilyn Jackson
(Grand central, hd. 23.99)
For the fiction aficionado.
Signed copies available.
BUY NOW!
SOUTHERN COCKTAILS
by Denise Gee
(Chronicle, hd. 14.95)
For
the imbibing mom who savors her mint julep while lounging on the veranda.
BUY NOW!
AND SQUARE BOOKS, JR. RECOMMENDS:
MADE WITH LOVE FOR MOM
by Jennifer Kalis
(Innovative
Kids, hd. 7.99)
BUY NOW!
Also, make your own gifts with projects from Melissa and
Doug:
BUILD
YOUR OWN BIRDHOUSE (12.00)
or DO YOUR OWN BOOKMARKS (4.99)
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SCANNING THE FRONT TABLES
THE MAYOR'S TONGUE
by Nathaniel Rich
(Riverhead, hd. 24.95)
Ambitious.
Hallucinatory. Bold. This refreshingly original debut novel is a meditation on
the frustrations of love, the madness of mayors, the failings of language, and
the transformative powers of storytelling. BUY NOW!
ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN
by Keith Gessen
(Viking, hd. 24.95)
A
charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the
twenty-first century, this brave novel charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith
as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and
struggle to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary
fame. BUY NOW!
THE FILM CLUB
by David Gilmour
(Twelve, hd. 21.99)
Gilmour offered his son an unconventional deal:
Jesse could drop out of high school, but he must watch three movies a week of
his father's choosing. Through their film club, they discussed girls, music,
work, drugs, money, love, and friendship -- changing their lives in surprising
ways.
BUY NOW!
THE AMERICAN RESTING PLACE
by Marilyn Yalom
(Houghton Mifflin, hd. 30.00)
The
mother-son team of Marilyn and Reid Yalom visited hundreds of cemeteries to
document the ever-shifting aesthetics of death, offering unique windows onto
our religious, ethnic, and deeply human history. What results is a sweeping
history of America, illuminated by an acclaimed historian, as seen through its
gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, stunningly illustrated with
eighty black-and-white photographs.BUY NOW!
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BOOK SENSE PICK
THE GOD OF WAR
by Marisa Silver
(Simon & Schuster, hd. 23.00)
The
year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his
younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton
Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in
the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate, forgotten
place, whose inhabitants thrive amidst seemingly impossible circumstances.
Powerful, stunning, tragic and heartbreakingly beautiful. BUY NOW!
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OPENING LINES
"TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE"
--
a popular American epitaph from the preface
of THE AMERICAN RESTING PLACE
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