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Greetings!
This week we have an event every day, including
appearances by Richard Bausch, Randall Norris & Jean-Philippe
Cyprés, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Grant, Rick Bragg,
Chris Myers Asch and Martha Hall Foose. There is an especially
Southern flair to this week of exciting award-winning authors. Join us for
intriguing evenings filled with superbly rendered tales of war and salvation, family relations,
and the many delights and complexities of the Delta region.
We
have signed copies available 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, THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA by Simon Winchester, and AUDITION by Barbara Walters.
Hooray! 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.
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EVENTS
 Monday, May 12,signing/reception @ 5 p.m.,
reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Richard Bausch
PEACE
(Knopf, hd. 19.95)
From
the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation. Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man, three American soldiers are sent on a
reconnaissance mission up the side of a mountain. The old man's indeterminate
loyalties add to the terror and confusion that engulf them.BUY NOW!
 Tuesday, May 13,
signing/reception @ 5 p.m.,
reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Randall Norris &
Jean-Philippe Cyprés
HIGHWAY 61: Heart of the Delta
(University of Tennessee Press, hd. 36.95)
Highway
61 celebrates the Mississippi Delta in words and
pictures--revealing the living, beating, ever-changing heart of the area. The
book brings together essays by noted Delta writers and scholars, interviews
with Delta residents from all walks of life, and vivid photographs that
document the region. BUY NOW! 
Wednesday, May 14,
signing/reception @ 5 p.m.,
reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Ellen Gilchrist
A DANGEROUS AGE
(Algonquin, hd. 23.95)
A
Dangerous Age tells the story of the women of the Hand
family, three cousins in a Southern dynasty rich with history and tradition. In
her characteristically clear and direct prose, with its wry, no-nonsense
approach to the world and the people who inhabit it, Gilchrist gives voice to
women on a collision course with a distant war that, in truth, is never more
than a breath away. BUY NOW!
Thursday, May 15,
signing 11 a.m.
Richard Grant
GOD'S MIDDLE FINGER
(Free Press, pb. 15.00) Richard Grant, our favorite
Limey journalist, loves trouble, and more than that, loves writing about it.
Jim Harrison calls him a "mad dog" Englishman. Others might call him crazy. Who
else would climb 11,000 feet into Mexico's Sierra Madres to investigate the
cave-dwelling Tarahumara Indians and hang with their neighbors: opium farmers,
cowboys, drug lords, crooked narcotics agents, and other scary men and animals? Grant's writing is always bent and lively (American Nomads), and his signing will be, too, Amigos. LH BUY NOW!
Thursday, May 15,
signing/reception @ 5 p.m.,
reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Rick Bragg
THE PRINCE OF FROGTOWN
(Knopf, hd. 24.00)
In
this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but
the Shoutin', Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an
unforgettable tale inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old
stepson. This book is a brilliant and moving rumination on the lives of boys
and men, a poignant reflection on what it means to be a father and a son. BUY NOW! 
Friday, May 16,
signing/reception @ 5 p.m.,
reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Chris Myers Asch
THE SENATOR & THE SHARECROPPER
(New Press, hd. 27.95)
The
epic struggle for black equality in the twentieth century, told through the
deeply intertwined life histories of staunch segregationist Senator James
O. Eastland and his sharecropper nemesis, Fannie Lou Hamer. Asch combines a
scholar's attention to fact with an insider's love of the area to tell a
maddening but compelling, discouraging yet inspirational story of change and
continuity. BUY NOW!
 Saturday, May 17
signing/reception @ 5 p.m.,
reading @ 5:30 p.m.
Martha Hall Foose
SCREEN DOORS AND SWEET TEA
(Clarkson Potter, hd. 32.50)
Delta native Martha Hall Foose is executive chef of the Viking Cooking School. Foose is also one of the founders of Oxford's Bottletree Bakery and Greenwood's Mockingbird Bakery. In Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, the gifted
chef and storyteller invites you into her kitchen to share recipes that bring alive the landscape,
people, and traditions that make Southern cuisine an American favorite. BUY NOW!
* Only books purchased at Square Books may be signed.
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SCANNING THE FRONT TABLES
MAPS AND LEGENDS
by Michael Chabon
(McSweeney's, hd. 24.00)
Michael
Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 parts - a
series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running
from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. BUY NOW!
GANDHI & CHURCHILL
by Arthur Herman
(Bantam, hd. 30.00)
In
this fascinating and meticulously researched book, Herman sheds new light on
two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century and
reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British
Empire. BUY NOW!
THE WHITE TIGER
by Aravind Adiga
(Free Press, hd. 24.00)
A story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense,
and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly
inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Over the course of seven
nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram Halwai
tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in
life. BUY NOW!
THE LADY ELIZABETH
by Alison Weir
(Ballantine, hd. 25.00)
Following
the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed
historian and bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling
skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become
England's most intriguing and powerful queen. Historical fiction at its most engrossing. BUY NOW!
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BOOK SENSE PICK
THE GIFT OF RAIN
by Tan Twan Eng
(Weinstein, hd. 23.95)
An
epic novel nominated for the Man Booker Prize, this extraordinary debut tells
the story of a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and
into manhood. Written in lush, evocative prose, The Gift of Rain spans
decades as it takes readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the
dying era of the British Empire, and through the mystical temples, bustling
cities, and forbidding rain forests of Malaya. BUY NOW!
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OPENING LINES
"Entertainment has a bad name. Serious people
learn to mistrust and even to revile it. The word wears spandex, pasties,
a
leisure suit studded with blinking lights."
- from MAPS AND LEGENDS by Michael
Chabon |
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