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Recommended especially for book clubs, these titles are compiled from national clubs and publishers listings. Bestsellers will discount your reserved bookclub picks 20% off list price. Drop us an email for your current picks.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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Fuller, Alexandra
In "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, " Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. |
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Book Club,Author Events & Store Happenings! Title of Event: Live Music-Medicine Crow
When: Friday, March 12, 2010 6:00 PM
Description: Singer/Songwriter Michael (Medicine Crow) Iott will give a solo performance of new, unreleased material and familiar original songs from his Illegible Records CD releases, A Much Better Reality, Nahnah's Garden and Logan Street. The performance will also feature selected traditional and cover songs that he has adapted to his unique style.
His original songs feature rhythmically driven folk/rock/acoustic blues, 12 bar finger style blues, some intricate instrumentals and gentle folk ballads. His songs tend toward the topical rather than the romantic and cover all of those political, religious and social issues we are told to avoid when in polite company.
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Michigan Titles. For all ages, on our shelves.
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Michigan. Featured titles listed here are usually in-stock at Bestsellers or just a day or two away with your special order.-Jamie
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Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing
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Bernstein, Arnie
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, "New York Times" best-selling author of "Starvation Heights"
"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine's Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe."
---Mardi Link, author of "When Evil Came to Good Hart""" On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. The next day, on Kehoe's farm, what was left of his wife---burned beyond recognition after Kehoe set his property and buildings ablaze---was found tied to a handcart, her skull crushed. With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, "Bath Massacre" serves as a reminder that terrorism and large-scale murder are nothing new. A native of Chicago, Arnie Bernstein is the author of "The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections "and "Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies." He is the winner of a Puffin Foundation Grant and Midwest Regional History Publishing honors. |
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