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Hampton Sides Ron Farrar Luisa Bosco Arico John Evans In the Midnight (non-author) Event Powerhouse: Inside My & Ken Murphy Kingdom of Ice Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki The Meek School Italian Kitchen Jackson Off Square Books and His Years of Pilgrimage at Ole Miss Off Square Books Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. Square Books Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 12 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Sept. 06 Sept. 08 Sept. 09 Sept. 10 Sept. 10

Curtis Wilkie Peggy Webb (Luncheon) Richard Flanagan Greg Sherl Katy Simpson Smith Assassins, Eccen- The Language of Silence The Narrow Road to The Future for The Story of trics, Politicians & and The Oleander the Deep North Curious People Land and Sea Other Persons Sisters Off Square Books Off Square Books Off Square Books of Interest Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Off Square Books 12:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Sept. 25 Sept. 27 Oct. 02 Oct. 03

Jennifer Hill Booker George Singleton John Darnielle Tracey Jackson & Alan Gratz From Field Peas Between Wrecks Wolf in White Van Paul Williams The League of Seven to Foie Gras Off Square Books Gratitude and Trust Square Books, Jr. Off Square Books Off Square Books 6:00 p.m. TMR 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. TMR

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John Warner June Davis Darcey Steinke Ed King & Trent Watts John Hailman Tough Day for Davidson Sister Golden Hair The Search for Ed King’s Mississippi the Army Country Stores of Off Square Books Off Square Books Good Wine Mississippi Off Square Books Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. TMR ALL SQUARE BOOKS LOCATIONS OPEN DAILY Square Books, Jr. Off Square Books Mon-Thurs. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Square Books Mon-Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. BOOK SIGNING EVENTS

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Michael Pitre Jody Hill Stephen Schottenfield Laird Hunt Malcolm Brooks Fives and 38: The Chucky Bluff City Pawn Neverhome Painted Horses Twenty-Fives Mullins Effect Off Square Books Off Square Books Off Square Books Off Square Books Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. TMR 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. TMR 5:00 p.m.

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Thacker Mountain Radio is broadcast live from Off Square Books on FM 92.1 Thursdays at 6 p.m. and statewide Saturdays at 7 p.m. on Mississippi Public Radio Fiction Before, During, After The Miniaturist Fives and Twenty-Fives Richard Bausch Jessie Burton Michael Pitre Knopf, hd. $26.95 Ecco, hd. $26.99 Bloomsbury, hd. $27.00 When Natasha and Michael meet, Signed Copies Author Event Sept. 11th each seems to recognize a similar yearning in the other, and within In 1686, 18-year-old Nella Oortman Throughout history the horror of war months they are arrives in Amsterdam to be- has ironically created beautiful literature. engaged. In the gin a new life as the wife of The latest entry to that canon is Michael days preceding their Johannes Brandt, a kind yet Pitre’s Fives and Twenty-Fives, a mesmer- wedding, Michael is distant man who presents izing debut set during in New York when, her with an extraordinary Iraq War and its after- on a Tuesday morn- wedding gift: a cabinet- math... This novel will ing, the September sized replica of their home. rightfully take its place 11th attacks occur To furnish her gift, Nella next to Matterhorn and and the trauma that engages the services of a miniaturist whose Yellow Birds in the realm results, both public and private, radi- tiny creations mirror their real-life counter- of modern combat cally alters their relationship. parts in eerie and unexpected ways. literature. BC Pub date: Aug. 26 Pub date: Aug. 12 The Story of Land and Sea Sister Golden Hair The Future for Katy Simpson Smith Darcey Steinke Curious People Harper, hd. $26.99 Tin House, pb. $15.95 Author Event Sept. 9th Gregory Sherl Author Event Oct. 20th Algonquin, pb. $14.95 The Story of Land and Sea serves to illus- Author Event Sept. 8th Jesse is a young, bookish girl becoming trate three deeply emotional relationships: a teenager in 1970s Roanoke, Virginia, a first, the love that John, an ex-soldier/pi- Following her breakup with Adrian, world where Skynyrd plays incessantly on rate whose wife died in childbirth, has for Evelyn isn’t sure what she wants out the radio and broken families live in new, his young daughter, the intrepid Tabitha, of life -- just that she chintzy duplexes, one step away from poor then the deeply commit- doesn’t want what she white trashdom, and chil- ted relationship between sees via new tech- dren are practically feral. the child Helen, John’s nology that allows Her father is a defrocked eventual wife, and her glimpses into the preacher, her mother is a father, Asa. The third sec- future. Godfrey isn’t self-absorbed whiner, her tion focuses on aftermath sure what he wants brother is clueless, and of Tabitha’s death, and either, but a chance Jesse forms a series of rela- the tenuous connection encounter with Evelyn rewrites their tionships with other girls as between John and Asa. futures. AP Pub date: Sept. 2 feral as she is. Jesse, won- Smith treats each relationship with equal The Narrow Road derfully reminiscent of Mick Kelly in The emotional depth, thus crafting a reitera- Heart is a Lonely Hunter, accepts life as a trial, to the Deep North tion of the power we all possess to rise but keeps her odd-ball dreams (to be a Play- from hardship and begin again. KW Richard Flanagan boy bunny, for one) firmly in her sights. This Pub date: Aug. 26 Knopf, hd. $26.95 is a very touching and very funny novel, one

Author Event Sept. 6th I highly recommend. LH Pub date: Oct. 14 The Assassination

of Margaret Thatcher Richard Flanagan, old Square Books There Must Be Some Mistake friend, brings us a novel about the Hilary Mantel Frederick Barthelme Burma railway, built Henry Holt, hd. $27.00 Little Brown, hd. $25.00 Ranging from a ghost story to a vam- by POWs under Wallace Webster’s condo complex neigh- pire tale to a family saga set in miniature the supervision of bors are dying at an alarming rate. While Hilary Mantel’s newest the Japanese during monitoring the curious book is a collection of WWII, delivering an accidents they succumb short stories that take on examination of the to, Webster tries to keep the modern British po- internal struggles that in touch with his ex-wife litical climate, using the are inspired by war, and grown daughter and character of Margaret and how difficult it is navigates the banalities of Thatcher as a keystone. to leave terrible actions, both witnessed everyday life. By one of our Pub date: Sept. 30 and committed, behind, even after the favorite Mississippi writers. fighting stops. Pub date: Aug. 12 Pub date: Oct. 7

Fiction Neverhome The Bone Clocks Mr. Tall Laird Hunt David Mitchell Tony Earley Little Brown, hd. $26.00 Random House, hd. $30.00 Little Brown, hd. $25.00 Author Event Sept. 18th These stories introduce us to ordinary Signed Copies people seeking to live Understanding that her more deli- Following a scalding row with her mother, extraordinary lives. cate husband would fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door Whether it’s Appalachia, never survive the on her old life. But Holly Nashville, the Carolina Civil War, Constance is no typical teenage run- Coast, or a make-believe Thompson takes up away: A sensitive child land of talking dogs, the moniker Ash, once contacted by voices each world Earley cre- disquises herself as she knew only as “the ates is indelible. a man and joins the radio people,” Holly is a Pub date: Aug. 26 Union army in his lightning rod for psychic stead. Inspired by phenomena. Now, as she Somewhere Safe with true stories of women who wore blue wanders deeper into the English country- Somebody Good and gray, readers should not dismiss side, visions and coincidences reorder her Jan Karon Neverhome as one novel among many. reality until they assume the aura of a night- Putnam, hd. $27.95 This story is told by someone who is mare brought to life. Pub date: Sept. 2 Signed Copies dressed as and must act as a man, but The Language of Silence sees through the eyes of a woman. Readers familiar with Karon’s work will Neverhome is an eloquent and potent Peggy Webb recognize Father Tim Kavanaugh, an Gallery Books, pb. $16.00 novel. CFR Episcopal priest who has Author Event Sept. 10th just returned home from Stone Mattress: Nine Tales a long-awaited trip to Margaret Atwood Peggy Webb’s novel is about the family Ireland. He finds himself Nan A. Talese, hd. stories that aren’t passed around the dinner uncomfortable in his re- $25.95 table after holiday meals. tirement. Meanwhile, his Marking her return Ellen’s grandmother, Lola, adopted sons Dooley and to short fiction, these is an unspoken family Sammy struggle with nine stories showcase legend, a woman who ran the difficulties of adoles- Atwood at the top of off to join the circus after cence, and the dramas of other Mitford her darkly humorous allegedly killing her hus- families swirl around them. and seriously play- band. Trapped in her own Pub date: Sept. 7 ful game. Vintage abusive marriage, Ellen de- Atwood creativity, intelligence, and cides to follow her grand- The Fortune Hunter humor: think of her 1996 novel Alias mother’s path, taking up the role of a circus Daisy Goodwin Grace. Pub date: Sept. 16 performer in the hopes of finding liberty St. Martin’s Press, hd. $26.99 from all the ways in which life has made her Empress Elizabeth of Austria, better Some Luck trapped. Pub date: Sept. 9 known as Sisi, is a famously beautiful by Jane Smiley woman who is also terribly bored with her Knopf, hd. $26.95 The Magician’s Land husband, the much older Emperor. She Rosanna and Walter Langdon Lev Grossman channels her frustration into a passion hail from Denby, Iowa, where they Viking, hd. $27.95 farm and struggle to raise their five Signed Copies for horseback riding. When Sisi joins the children. Spanning legendary Grand Nation- a period of 30 years Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land brings al hunt, the renowned beginning in 1920, his trilogy to a marvelous and surprising Captain Bay Middleton this novel offers an close. Alongside friends is commissioned to be intimate look into old and new, Grossman’s her guide. Their shared the harrows of farm protagonist Quentin enthusiasm for riding life, the inheritance Coldwater battles titanic deepens into an infatua- of values, and the forces that threaten Fillo- tion, thus igniting a com- vast historical and cultural changes ry, the magical land of his plicated web of jealousy, that occur between generations. A childhood fantasies, while treachery, and sorrow. Pub date: July 29 wonderful book by the Pulitzer-win- confronting old demons Worried about parking of his own. Grossman’s prose is as sharp ning author of A Thousand Acres. on the Square? and funny as ever, but with new warmth and hope. KL Pub date: Aug. 5 WE DELIVER! Fiction The Last Magazine 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas Tough Day for the Army Michael Hastings Marie-Helene Bertino John Warner Blue Rider Press, hd. $26.95 Crown, hd. $25.00 LSU Press, pb. $22.50 Michael Hastings, the kick-ass young Madeleine is a jazz singer, has an im- Author Event Oct. 30th journalist of the McChrystal affair and pressive command of profane language, is the first to write about Bowe Bergdahl recently motherless, and is nine years old. Warner’s relentlessly inventive stories in Rolling Stone in 2012, Her neighbors care for her, but that doesn’t are reminiscent of the works of Donald died last year in a car fill the vacancy left by her mother and her Barthelme, George wreck. In his file was grieving, reclusive father. Saunders, and Amy the manuscript for this Her teacher, Miss Greene, Hempel. With comic novel, edited by his is going to a dinner party and tender ram- widow, Elise Jordan where she’ll be reunited bunctiousness, his (of Holly Springs, with high school friends satirical voice parries MS). Loosely based on and her prom date. Max and thrusts its way Hastings’ experiences in the magazine Lorca, the owner of the through each narra- world, it is a biting commentary full Cat’s Pajamas, a famous tive, combining a strong wit with a soft of guts, sex, and arrogant or off-kilter jazz club, is trying to come up with cash heart. Pub date: Sept. 15 characters. A great read, realistically to cover fines for a long list of violations. Lila animating the intense and crazy world These and other characters move on their Marilynne Robinson of political journalism. LH improvised and syncopated paths toward FSG, hd. $26.00 Lay It on My Heart the early morning. 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas Lila is a young woman whose past Angela Pneuman is a colorful novel that shimmies, hits the has left her wary and protective of her Mariner, pb. $14.95 blue notes and swings. CFR secrets. John Ames is the minister of a Calvinist Author Event Sept. 3rd Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and church, who’s begun to Thirteen-year-old narrator, Char- His Years of Pilgrimage question the harshness of maine Peake’s Southern voice drives Haruki Murakami the doctrine he espouses. the narrative as we Knopf, hd. $25.95 The novel follows their When Tsukuru leaves his hometown for glimpse into her courtship and eventual college and an engineering career in To- world: her mentally- marriage as the two navi- kyo, left behind are his four high school ill father, her difficult gate their differences both friends, two boys and two mother, and her in personal history and in education. girls, with whom he has struggles with faith. Pub date: Oct. 7 This coming-of-age an intense and special novel delivers a pow- relationship. Through The Mathematician’s Shiva erfully universal story his hopes and, literally, Stuart Rojstaczer of family and heartache. dreams, Tsukuru struggles Penguin, pb. $16.00 to understand whether the After a famous mathematician’s death, Wolf in White Van control of his destiny is up her colleagues and rivals from all over the John Darnielle to others, himself -- or no world gather along with the family to sit FSG, hd. $24.00 one at all. Alongside Tsukuru in his journey shiva and honor her memory. As the nar- Author Event Sept. 25th Murakami steers us effortlessly, and the rator remarks, it is a mistake to think that journey becomes our own. RH math is about numbers, Isolated by a disfiguring injury since and mathematicians are the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips a passionate, conten- crafts “Trace Italian” -- a text-based, To celebrate the release of tious, and ambitious lot. role-playing game played through the *** Colorless Tsukuru Certain that the late Ra- mail. 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Fiction An Italian Wife The Stories We Tell Edge of Eternity Ann Hood Patti Callahan Henry Ken Follett Norton, hd. $25.95 St. Martin’s Press, hd. $25.99 Dutton, hd. $36.00 Spanning generations, Hood’s novel Ken Follet brings his Century Trilogy follows the Rimaldi family beginning Signed Copies to a captivating conclu- with Joesphine, a young Italian woman Eve and Cooper Morrison have the idyllic sion with his newest, Edge immigrating to America to be with life: both are successful entrepreneurs, mar- of Eternity. Opening in her husband. Each ried 21 years, parents of a 1961, Follet navigates the family member has teenaged daughter, Gwen. political climate of a post a story uniquely Everything seems to be WWII America, includ- rich and sometimes going well until Cooper ing the conflicts sur- heartbreaking. An is involved in a car acci- rounding the Kennedy Italian Wife weaves an dent. The circumstances White House. Pub date: Sept. 16 intricate tapestry of surrounding the accident note to follett fans: one family’s hopes, raise painful questions, all We are now taking orders for signed cop- failures, secrets, and successes. AM of which must be faced ies of a newly published boxed set of The Pub date: Sept. 2 by Eve in this powerful new tale about the Century Trilogy, available Nov. 18 -- $200 stories we tell each other and ourselves. Etta Mae’s Worst Station Eleven Bad-Luck Day 10:04 Emily St. John Mandel Ann B. Ross Ben Lerner Knopf, hd. $24.95 Viking, hd. $26.95 Faber & Faber, hd. $25.00 Signed Copies Author Event Aug. 27th Ben Lerner’s unnamed narrator is a writer who has enjoyed surprising literary success Her first three novels have made Emily Etta Mae dreams of a bigger life. over the past year. He has also been diag- St. John Mandel a cult figure in certain cir- When she is hired as the home nurse of nosed with a potentially cles, but her status is about to be elevated the wealthy Howard Connard, Sr., she fatal heart condition, been with this dystopian novel sees her chance and decides to become requisitioned to help his about a traveling group his wife. But Connard’s greedy son and close friend get pregnant, of performers. Shifting daughter-in-law are and begun a flourishing between the past and the determined to keep relationship with a suc- future of a ravaged world, the marriage from cessful visual artist. The she beautifully brings her happening. Devoted complications of his life characters together while readers and newcom- are apparent; Lerner maintaining a plot line ers alike will find handles them with sharp, clear, and often that keeps the reader on hilarity in Ross’ wild witty prose, reminding his readers of what edge. But, more than anything, she has characters and their it’s like to be alive now, and of the influence written a paean to what is joyful and pos- antics. Pub date: Aug.19 that fiction has on us all. Pub date: Sept. 2 sible in the human experience. BC Pub date: Sept. 9 The Dog Charleston The Children Act Joseph O’Neill Margaret Thornton Ian McEwan Pantheon, hd. $25.95 Ecco Press, hd. $25.99 Nan A. Talese, hd. $25.00 Author Event Oct. 14th Signed Copies Signed Copies Set in Dubai, The A debut of one woman’s love -- for both When her husband, Jack, asks her to Dog centers around her a man and her unforgettable city. Living a protagonist known agree to an open marriage, judge Fiona in London, Eliza has a good job and even Maye refuses, and he as “X.” A former better boyfriend but the lawyer who fled New moves out. While Fiona past catches up with her contends with her confu- York City, X is at first when she meets an old grateful to have found sion about her marriage, flame from her hometown she is presented with a his post as “family of Charleston, Henry, at officer” for a wealthy particularly difficult case: a wedding in the English that of a seventeen-year- family. He soon recognizes that his countryside. Unnerved main job requirement is to engage in old boy whose parents from this encounter, her are refusing him a blood blatantly illegal activity despite his ethi- equilibrium is shattered cal concerns. Pub date: Sept. 9 transfusion out of religious objection. when she meets Henry again back in McEwan’s faultless prose will keep you Charleston. Pub date: July 29 enthralled. Pub date: Sept. 9

MYSTERY The Ways of the Dead Perfidia Neely Tucker James Ellroy Viking, hd. $27.99 Knopf, hd. $28.95 Set during the days surrounding Pearl Harbor, Signed Copies Ellroy’s novel follows the case of a murdered Native Mississippian and veteran Washing- Japanese family in an increasingly gritty LA. Like ton Post journalist, Neely Tucker shines in this the LA Quartet he is known for, Ellroy’s voice debut novel. When the teenage daughter of continues to have a strong sense of time and place, a powerful Washington, D.C. judge is found dead, three lo- allowing this story to unspool convincingly and beautifully. The cal black kids are quickly charged with the crime. Reporter tempo stays high, almost staccato, and ceaselessly engaging. PM Sully Carter sees a larger story revolving around three missing Pub date: Sept. 9 women and a dead prostitute, all from the same neighbor- Summer of the Dead hood. Based on the Princeton Place murders that took place Julia Keller in the late 1990s, Tucker delivers a taut thriller with the grit of Minotaur, hd. $25.99 George Pelecanos and the aplomb of Pete Hamill. CM Julia Keller, author of the bestselling Bitter Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel River, returns to Acker’s Gap, WV, in her newest Lee Child novel, Summer of the Dead. As the heat digs into Delacorte, hd. $28.00 the poverty-stricken town, prosecutor Bell Elkins Someone has taken a shot at the president teams up with the local sheriff to catch a murderer of France. How many snipers can shoot from who seems to appear out of the mountain only to kill and disap- three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? pear again. A business card in the pocket of the victim of what Very few, but John Kott -- an American marks- seems to be a lover’s spat ties Elkins’ murderer to Lindy Crabtree, man gone bad -- is one of them. And after a coal miner’s daughter harboring her own secrets. As the mysteri- fifteen years in prison, he’s out and unaccounted for. If anyone ous killings begin to frighten Acker’s Gap residents, Elkins finds can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Reacher. herself racing to catch a killer with seemingly no motive, who Pub date: Sept. 2 makes no mistakes. KW Pub date: Aug. 26 Dry Bones in the Valley Hold the Dark Tom Bouman Norton, hd. $24.95 William Giraldi Although set in northeastern Pennsylvania, Liveright, hd. $24.95 Bouman’s outstanding debut has the feel of In a small Alaskan village, young children are a western. Officer Henry Farrell became the disappearing one by one. The townspeople as- head policeman in Wild Thyme Township sume the cause is wolves, stuck starving in the because he expected it to be an easy job. When harsh Alaskan winter, foraging wherever they can. an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Farrell follows What they begin to discover is even more frightening. Haunting, the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into brilliant, and beautiful in its darkness. This is a highly recom- the depths of his own frayed soul. mended read. AM Pub date: Sept. 8 The Secret Place Wayfaring Stranger Tana French

Viking, hd. $27.95 James Lee Burke Simon & Schuster, hd. $27.99 “The Secret Place,” a board where the girls at St. Kilda’s School can pin up their secrets Signed Copies anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gos- James Lee Burke takes a break from his well sip and covert cruelty, but today someone has known Robicheaux series here, and it’s an excellent used it to reignite the stalled investigation of a interruption.This historical epic tosses Burke’s protagonist through boy who was found murdered a year ago. The caption says I some of the America’s most memorable moments. From Bonnie Know Who Killed Him. Detective Stephen Moran has been wait- and Clyde to the Battle of the Bulge to the cutthroat world of a ing for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin’s Murder fledgling oil industry. A love story, a thriller, and a hell of a ride. Squad and it looks like a sixteen-year-old girl is his way in. PM Pub date: Sept. 2 signed suspense selection Much like our Signed First subscription but dedicated to the mystery reader, we will send you 6 signed first editions a year written by some of the best suspense writers, selected by Cody Morrison. For more info email [email protected] Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of HISTORY Stonewall Jackson S.C. Gwynne Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy Scribner, hd. $35.00 Author Event Oct. 6th Karen Abbott Harper, hd. $27.99 Rebel Yell is written with the swiftly vivid narrative Author Event Sept. 4th that is Gwynne’s hallmark and is rich with battle lore, biographi-

cal detail, and intense conflict between historical figures. Gwynne Crossdressers, sharpshooters, spies, and seduc- tresses. Young girls sneaking encrypted messages delves deep into Jackson’s private life, including the loss of his behind enemy lines in their chignons. I had no young beloved first wife and his regimented personal habits. It idea the vast role women played in the Civil War, not to mention traces Jackson’s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil how rowdy they were! Anyone who’s read Karen Abbott knows War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame she knows how to write about bad girls. She makes history as and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the fun as a tabloid. AM Pub date: Sept. 2 loss of a remarkable American hero. Pub date: Sept. 30 In the Kingdom of Ice Powerhouse: Hampton Sides The Meek School at Ole Miss Doubleday, hd. $28.95 Ron Farrar

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In the late nineteenth century, one of the last Author Event Aug. 13th unmapped places of the globe was the North A history of the journalism department at the Pole. The United States and the world was University of Mississippi from its humble begin- obsessed with news of Arctic exploration. In 1879, American nings in 1946 to the present Meek School of Journalism and New naval officer and explorer George De Long set sail with a crew Media. In these pages we see how a worthy academic and pro- of 32 men on the U.S.S. Jeanette only to disappear in the Arctic fessional program came to be. We meet Gerald Forbes, the man waters of Russia. Their fate was not to be discovered until years who founded it, and the men and women who nurtured it, and later. Hampton Sides vividly reconstructs the time period and Ed Meek, an alumnus and benefactor who did much to propel it the expedition itself. Fascinating narrative history at its best. CM toward the top tier in its field. It’s a remarkable story, told authori- Pub date: Aug. 5 tatively and graced with traces of humor along the way. Pub date: Aug. 13

Empire of Sin Gary Krist Embattled Rebel Crown, hd. $26.00 James M. McPherson Krist re-creates the remarkable story of New Penguin, hd. $32.95 Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself. This Author Event Oct. 15th early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city’s Embattled Rebel by James McPherson isn’t your Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to standard biography of Jefferson Davis because keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Sur- it doesn’t look at every facet of his life, instead rounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusad- McPherson looks at how he performed his duties as President ing moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal of the Confederacy. By drawing extensively on Davis’ personal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for correspondence and contemporary sources, McPherson creates a primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world. readable portrayal of a man fiercely dedicated to his ideals. AP Pub date: Oct. 28 Pub date: Oct. 7

A History of the Twentieth The Wars of the Roses Century in 100 Maps Dan Jones Tim Bryars, Tom Harper Viking, hd. $36.00 Univ. of Chicago Press, hd. $45.00 No, this is not the Chancellor -- it’s the author As Bryars and Harper reveal, maps make of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagen- ideal narrators, and the maps in this book tell ets. This new book chronicles the next chapter the story of the 1900s -- which saw two world in British history—the historical backdrop wars, the Great Depression, the Swinging for Game of Thrones. Jones describes how the Sixties, the Cold War, feminism, leisure, and the Internet. longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was Pub date: Oct. 13 finally replaced by the Tudors. Pub date: Oct. 14

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BATS IN THE BAND THE BEAR’S SEA ESCAPE Brian Lies Benjamin Chaud (HMH, hd. $17.99) (Chronicle, hd. $17.99) Beautiful illustrations detail another Bear Once I had a customer (grandmother adventure when Little Bear gets mistaken and renowned journalist) stand at the for a stuffed animal and snatched up by a front counter and read aloud Bats in child. Papa searches everywhere for Little the Library because my coworker and Bear, and even braves the sea. Chaud recre- I had not yet read it. Customers and children gathered around, ates a naturally colorful equally complex soon we all laughed at every visual and textual morsel in world for this story, providing readers with hours of visual Brian Lies’ wonderful picture book. Now the lovely lyrical bats delight. JM (Ages 2 - 5) have a band. JM (Ages 5 - 8) OTIS AND THE ONCE UPON AN ALPHABET SCARECROW Oliver Jeffers (Philomel, hd. $26.99) Loren Long (Philomel, hd. $17.99) Jeffers, the #1 New York Times -bestsell- ing illustrator of The Day the Crayons Gorgeous and full of heart, Otis and Quit, delivers a creative tour de force the Scarecrow is the perfect book to from A through Z. Jeffers says, “If words warm up a fall storytime. Otis is up to make up the stories and letters make up his usual frolic, and he even meets a very odd character who the words, then stories are made up of let- becomes his friend. Storms come and go, but life in the coun- ters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made try is good when a tractor has good friends. JM (Ages 5 - 8) FOR all the letters.” Ages (3 - 5)

IVAN: THE REMARKABLE THE ONE TRUE STORY OF THE AND ONLY IVAN SHOPPING MALL GORILLA (Middle Grade) (Picture Book) Katherine Applegate Katherine Applegate, G. Brian Karas Patricia Castelao (Clarion, hd. $17.99) (Harper, hd. $16.99) Applegate tells the true story of the gorilla who inspired her Newbery Medal-winning novel The One and Only Ivan. Captured as a baby, Ivan was brought to a Washington mall to attract shoppers. Gradually, public pressure built until a better way of life for Ivan was found at Zoo Atlanta. From the Congo to a national symbol of animal welfare, Ivan the Shopping Mall Gorilla traveled an astonishing distance in miles and in impact. DORY FANTASMAGORY LEROY NINKER SADDLES UP Abby Hanlon Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick, hd. $12.99) (Dial, hd. $14.99) The wonderful toaster-robbing character We have our very own Dory on staff at from the Mercy series returns in his own Square Books, Jr. Dory is deep down defi- chapter book. He dreams of being a cow- nitely the coolest and truest middle grade boy but needs a horse to be the real thing. character I have met in years. JM (Ages 6 - 8) As charming as pig Mercy, Leroy’s pre- cious horse Maybelline becomes the horse BIG NATE 1-2 PUNCH of his heart, as he says. LP (Ages 6 - 9) Lincoln Pierce (HarperCollins, hd. $19.99) Middle Grade Two Big Nate books in one. This 1-2 Punch box set includes Big Nate: In a Class by Himself and Big Nate Strikes Again, as well THE BRILLIANT WORLD OF a special packet of exclu- TOM GATES sive Big Nate activities! Ages (4 - 8) Liz Pichon (Candlewick, hd. $12.99) MR. PANTS: IT’S GO TIME! Laugh-out-loud fun as you hear from Tom by Scott McCormick, R. H. Lazzell Gates himself about his world -- annoying an (Dial, hd. $14.99) older sister, creating crazy excuses for home- So funny. Readers of all ages, pants or no, will work, and being a 5th grade kid who has a laugh out loud. JM (Ages 6 - 8) passion for rock music and doodling. 5 merits! GD (Ages 8 - 12)

MIDDLE GRADE FRANK EINSTEIN AND REVOLUTION THE ANTIMATTER MOTOR Deborah Wiles John Scieszka, (Scholastic, hd. $19.99) Brian Biggs (Amulet, hd. $13.95) Author Event September 5th Author Event August 21st In the second novel of her Sixties trilogy, Wiles takes readers to a small Mississippi town Observation: After reading this story who during 1964’s Freedom Summer. Meanwhile, wouldn’t want to live down the street from Sunny can’t help but feel like her house is being invaded, too. Grandpa Al and Frank Einstein’s laboratory? This is everything She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowd- you want -- sarcasm, loveable robots, an arch nemesis, and ing her life, giving her little room to breathe. As in her ground- an enormous explosion! Hypothesis: Frank Einstein will have breaking documentary novel award-winning author everyone wanting to blow things up in their garage. Begin Countdown, Deborah Wiles uses stories and images to tell the riveting story experiment. GD (Ages 8 - 12) of a certain time and place. (Ages 10 - 13) THE LEAGUE OF SEVEN EYE OF ZOLTAR Alan Gratz Jasper Fforde (Starscape, hd. $16.99) (HMH, hd. $16.99)

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The long-absent Mighty Shandar makes an The first book in an action-packed, steampunk astonishing appearance and commands 16-year- series set in an alternate 1875 America, where old Jennifer Strange to find the Eye of Zoltar, electricity is forbidden, Native Americans and Yankees are proclaiming that if she fails, he will eliminate the only two drag- united, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows. ons left on earth. (Ages 10 - 14) (Ages 10 - 14)

The SBJ Book Society is not your average book club. The group consists of ages 8 through 12 (with some Help bring Guys Read Book Club back. exceptions) and meets the second Friday of every month Guys Read, founded by John Scieszka, is a literacy program at Square Books, Jr., 6-7 p.m. If you are interested in for boys whose mission is to help boys become self-motivat- joining the SBJ Book Society or learning more about us ed, lifelong readers. We encourage all former Guys Readers please email [email protected] or junior@square- and anyone who is interested in joining the group to attend books.com Scieska’s event on August 21 and show your support for the or call us at 662-236-2207. man who made it all possible. PENNYROYAL ACADEMY THE DOLL PEOPLE M. A. Larson Ann M. Martin (Hyperion, pb. $7.99) (Putnam, hd. $16.99) Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their Exciting adventures await you at Pennyroy- families are whisked out to sea when the al Academy! Set in the age of knights and Palmers accidentally place them in a box des- dragons, young women go through train- tined for charity donation. And it turns out ing that demands every bit of strength, they’re not alone -- there are plenty of other endurance, and cunning they have, giving doll people on the ship, too. After traveling a whole new definition of what it means to thousands of miles, will they be able to find be a princess. KN (Ages 10 - 13) their way home? (Ages 8 - 11) BAD MAGIC THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS Pseudonymous Bosch Heroes of Olympus Book 5 (Little Brown, hd. $17.00) Rick Riordan Pseudonymous Bosch returns with yet an- (Disney-Hyperion, hd. $19.99) other quasi-mystical tale of youth and ad- The Greek and Roman crewmembers of the venture. Set in an off kilter camp for misfit Argo II have made progress in their many youths on a volcanic island, our young quests, but they still are no closer to defeat- cutup is a staunch skeptic of all things oth- ing the earth mother, Gaea. How can a hand- erworldly. He is about to discover, through ful of young demigods hope to persevere Bosch’s singularly witty storytelling, that there are things in against Gaea’s powerful giants? (Ages 10 - 13) the world that simply cannot be explained. JPF (Ages 9 - 12) YOUNG ADULT BOOKS THE INFINITE SEA I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN Rick Yancey Jandy Nelson (Putnam, hd. $18.99) (Dial, hd. $17.99) In this riveting sequel to Yancey’s New York The author of The Sky Is Everywhere pres- Times bestseller The 5th Wave, Cassie Sul- ents a story of first love, family, loss, and livan finds herself in a new world. As the 5th betrayal told from different points in time Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her and Ringer are forced to confront the Oth- twin brother Noah. ers’ ultimate goal: human extermination. BETWEEN THE SPARK AND THE DOUBT FACTORY THE BURN Paolo Bacigalupi (Little Brown, April Genevieve Tucholke hd. $18.00) (Dial, hd. $17.99) When a radical band of teen activists claim This sequel to Tucholke’s acclaimed debut that Alix’s powerful father covers up wrong- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea doing by corporations that knowingly allow blends gothic romance, horror, and an eerie innocent victims to die in order to make wintertime setting. enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds. JPF THE ISLANDS AT THE END OF THE WORLD IN A HANDFUL OF DUST Austin Aslan Mindy McGinnis (Wendy Lamb, hd. $17.99) (Katherine Tegen, hd. $17.99) Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud Set ten years after the first novel, Not a causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen- Drop to Drink, a dangerous disease strikes year-old Leilani and her father must make the community where teenage Lucy lives. their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes including her severe epilepsy. Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect her, Lucy struggles to figure out what home EGG AND SPOON means. 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