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Dear Fall 2014 Debut novels... new books from favorite authors... & Richard Ford, Darcey Steinke, Frederick Barthelme, and -- the first time here -- Chris Van Allsburg & Jon Scieszka BOOK SIGNING EVENTS Aug. 09 Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 15 Aug. 18 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 Square Books Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 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 Oct. 18 Oct. 20 Oct. 21 Oct. 22 Oct. 30 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 Aug. 21 Aug. 27 Sept. 03 Sept. 04 Sept. 05 Jon Scieszka Ann B. Ross Angela Pneuman Karon Abbott Deborah Wiles Frank Einstein & Etta Mae’s Worst Lay It On Liar, Temptress, Revolution the Antimatter Motor Bad-Luck Day My Heart Soldier, Spy Square Books, Jr. Off Square Books Square Books, Jr. Off Square Books Off Square Books 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. TMR Nutt Auditorium Sept. 11 Sept. 12 Sept. 15 Sept. 18 Sept. 24 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. Oct. 06 Oct. 09 Oct. 14 Oct. 15 Oct. 16 S.C. Gwynne T. Cooper Margaret Thornton James McPherson Jasper Fforde Rebel Yell Real Man Charleston Embattled Rebel The Eye of Zoltar Off Square Books Adventures Off Square Books Off Square Books Square Books, Jr. 5:00 p.m. Off Square Books 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m TMR 6:00 p.m. TMR Nov. 13 Nov. 17 Dec. 11 Signed First Subscription Each month we will send a first edition signed or personally in- scribed book by one of the many outstanding authors who come Chris Van Allsburg Rick Bragg Richard Ford The Misadventures to Square Books, plus a bonus Jerry Lee Lewis Let Me Be Frank of Sweetie Pie Off Square Books With You book at the end of the year. Square Books, Jr. Off Square Books For more information 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. e-mail Slade at 6:00 p.m. TMR [email protected] 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.