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Spring/Summer 2014 FLYING SHOES LISA HOWORTH
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John Brandon Sarah Frances Hardy Kevin Brockmeier Further Joy Dorothea Benton Frank Paint Me! A Few Seconds of Andre Dubus III The Hurricane Sisters Square Books, Jr. Radiant Filmstrip Dirty Love Off Square Books 10:00 a.m. Off Square Books Off Square Books 5:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. May 14 June 03 June 11 June 24
Laurie Fisher Aaron Gwyn Peter Heller Megan Abbott Where Do They Go Wynne’s War The Painter The Fever On Game Day? Off Square Books Off Square Books Off Square Books Square Books, Jr. 5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m.
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Amy Conner Jenks Farmer Maude Schuyler Clay Katie Clark The Right Thing Deep Rooted Wisdom Delta Dogs River Royals Off Square Books Off Square Books Off Square Books Square Books, Jr. 5:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m.
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Joseph Boyden Michael Pollan Brittani Sonnenberg Lisa Howorth The Orenda Cooked Home Leave Flying Shoes Off Square Books Nutt Auditorium Off Square Books Off Square Books 5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. The Powerhouse, 6 p.m. MISSISSIPPI
FLYING SHOES by Lisa Howorth (Bloomsbury, hd. $26.00) Event June 17 at 4:00 p.m., 6 p.m.
The past determines and haunts the present and future and Lisa Howorth presents a lyrical and powerful exposition of this fact in Flying Shoes. Mary Byrd Thornton is forced to once again confront a thirty-year-old crime that has traumatized her life and family while also dealing with a society that continues to struggle with cataclysmic change from its traditional values. Mary Byrd’s voice is distinctive, acute and perceptive in its observations and joins those who have created such a rich literature about the Mississippi experience. Somewhere, the ghosts of those writers are welcoming a new member to the ranks of the artists who have done so much to inform and bear witness to such a complex culture and landscape. BC (Available June 17)
NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles Event April 30 at 5:30 p.m. (Morrow, hd. $27.99)
It’s been a long wait for the new novel from Greg Iles, but man is it worth it. Natchez Burning is the best thing he’s written yet. Penn Cage is the mayor of Natchez and life is pretty good for him, his fiancée, and daughter when a call from the district attorney sends his world reeling. His father, Tom, a respected and beloved family physician is accused of murdering Violet Davis who was Dr. Cage’s nurse during the turbulent nineteen sixties. As Penn tries to save his father, he is forced to confront the brutal and violent past of his hometown during the fight for Civil Rights. With strong characters and a taut story line that spans forty years, Iles delivers a knockout that will leave readers hungry for the next two installments in what will surely be one of the most epic trilogies in recent memory. C M
A NEW HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI by Dennis J. Mitchell (Univ. Press of Mississippi, hd. $40.00) Event June 25 at 5:00 p.m.
The first comprehensive history of the State since the bicentennial history was published in 1976, condensed into an appealing narrative. The volume incorporates people missing from many previous histories such as American Indians, women, African Americans and many other minority groups. Mississippi’s rich flora and fauna are also central to the story. From the rise and fall of American Indian culture to the advent of Mississippi’s world-renowned literary, artistic, and scientific contributions, Mitchell vividly brings to life the individuals and institutions that have created a fascinating and diverse state. (Available June 30)
DELTA DOGS
Event June 12 at 5:00 p.m. by Maude Schuyler Clay (Univ. Press of Mississippi, hd. $35.00)
In her iconic book Delta Land, Clay introduced the “Dog in the Fog,” the muscular lab standing watch in the mist and trees of Cassidy Bayou. This photo became widely recognized, and Clay wanted to further explore the relationship between the land and the numerous dogs populating its fields, bayous, and abandoned spaces. Writers Brad Watson and Beth Ann Fennelly ponder Clay’s dogs and their connections to the Delta, speculating about their role in the drama of everyday life and about their relationships to the humans who share this landscape with them. (Available June 01) Fiction THE GREAT GLASS SEA FURTHER JOY by Josh Weil by John Brandon (Grove Press, hd. $27.00) (McSweeney’s, hd. $24.00)
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Twins Yarik and Dima have been In eleven expertly crafted stories, inseparable since childhood. Living Brandon gives us a stunning on their uncle’s farm after the death assortment of men and women at of their father, the boys once spent their days the edge of possibility--gamblers and psychics, helping farmers in fields. Years later, they labor wanderers and priests, all of them on the verge of together at the Oranzheria, a sea of glass erected finding out what they can get away with, and what over acres of cropland and lit by space mirrors they can’t. (Available June 10) that ensnare the denizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight. Now the twins have only work DIRTY LOVE in common--stalwart Yarik married with children; by Andre Dubus III dreamer Dima living alone with his mother. But an (Norton, pb. $14.95) encounter with the Oranzerhia’s billionaire owner Event June 10 at 5:00 p.m. changes their lives forever and soon both men find themselves poster boys for opposing ideologies that In these linked novellas in which threaten to destroy not only the lives of those they characters walk out the back door of love but the love that has bonded them since birth. one story and into the next, love is A breathtakingly ambitious novel of love, loss, “dirty” tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, and light, set amid a bold vision of an alternative fear, and fantasy. (Available June 10) present-day Russia. (Available July 17) THE RIGHT THING ACTS OF GOD by Amy Conner by Ellen Gilchrist (Kensington, pb. $15.00) (Algonquin Books of Event June 05 at 5:30 p.m. Chapel Hill, hd. $23.95) Moving, witty, and beautifully told, Gilchrist ponders the human race The Right Thing is a story of love with ten tales of people facing life’s and courage, the powerful impact of constant, unpredictable twists of friendship, and the small acts that can anchor a life--or, fate. And how we, as people, persevere, survive, and with a little luck, steer it in the right direction at last. triumph because of it. Master story teller and winner Mix Fannie Flagg, Rebecca Wells, Kathryn Stockett, of the National Book Award returns with her first then add just a dash of Flannery O’Connor, and you’ll story collection in eight years. wind up with the wholly original voice that is Amy Conner’s. (Available May 27) TO RISE AGAIN AT A LONG TIME GONE EYRIE A DECENT HOUR by Karen White by Tim Winton by Joshua Ferris (NAL, hd. $25.95) (FSG, hd. $27.00)
(Little Brown, hd. $26.00) Tom Keely is a loser Vivian Walker leaves trying to find good in Paul O’Rourke has a the Mississippi Delta a fallen world from his feeling that life could be better. and vows, like so many high-rise apartment. Just when Then, before his eyes, someone has before her, never to return. Nine he is on the brink of disappearing created a Facebook page, a Twitter years later, with ailing family into the fog of pills and sadness page, in his name. He is met with needing her, she finds herself a woman steps back into his life, the horrifying realization that back in Mississippi uncovering child in tow, desperate for her own maybe this virtual “Paul” may be a swamp of family secrets that saving. When you’re fighting to a better version of the real thing in breaks the cycle of loss that keep your head above water how this bizarre tale of identity theft. has haunted her family for do you keep someone else from generations. (Available June 03) (Available May 13) drowning? (Available June 10) EUPHORIA LUCKY US Fiction by Lily King by Amy Bloom (Atlantic Monthly Press, hd. $25.00) (Random House, hd. $26.00)
This brilliant historical novel is Two half-sisters – one’s mother dies, inspired by the life of Margaret Mead the other’s abandons – take flight from and centered upon the nascent field their detached common father in this of anthropology prior to World War novel by Amy Bloom, “one of America’s II in New Guinea, when Westerners made ground- unique and most gifted literary voices,” according breaking studies of unknown native tribes. The to Colum McCann. Iris, the older and more talented, title comes from a description of the feeling an and Eva, who is loyal and wise, take off for 1930s’ anthropologist has when, after studying a peculiar, Hollywood, where Iris quickly finds the fast lane. exotic people for a few months, there is a sudden When Eva’s luck is on the upside and she gets a bit sense of understanding – which later may prove of money, she remarks, “Now I bought college-girl false -- that unusual customs and behavior indeed fit clothes and did my hair the way college girls did and logically within the context of general human nature. I stuffed my bra. I had two pairs of new shoes. The Lily King succeeds in taking us to this fascinating pain in my chest I had had since the day I was left on period while also exploring the anthropologists’ the front porch, eased up. It wasn’t grief. It was being personal lives – their professional zeal and broke and badly dressed, and now I wasn’t.” The fate jealousies, their relationships with those they study, of these girls becomes even less certain as World and their (sometimes polygamous and bisexual) War II arrives. Like Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility, passions for one another. RH (Available June 03) this is a well-conceived historical novel motored ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by dramatic love interests and the sisters’ search for security. With Bloom’s storytelling, Lucky Us is by Anthony Doerr superb. RH (Scribner, hd. $27.00) (Available July 29) OFF COURSE *Signed Copies* by Michelle Huneven Anthony Doerr is one of my favorite (Sarah Crichton, hd. $26.00) writers and while his previous works are excellent, this new novel is far and This novel is the tale to end all tales away the best thing he has written. It is an intricately of obsessive love; I can think of no constructed tale set primarily in France and Germany novel where it’s more strongly, more against the backdrop of World War II and populated heartbreakingly, or more intelligently by unforgettable characters. You’ll find yourself described. Cressida Hartley hunkers down in her so engrossed in the arc of the story that you’ll be parents’ vacation A-frame in the Sierras, planning to inclined to press ahead to finish yet want to slow finish her limp dissertation, far from the distractions down to savor the beautiful writing and then discover of Pasadena. Instead, she finds herself sucked into that somehow you’ve taken time to look up a facet of local life, where she’s attracted to more than one the book such as the town of Saint-Malo because you mountain man, falling terribly in love with one of have to know more about the place. Full of tragedy, them. How this romance drastically affects her life is a hope, menace, joy and ultimately redemption this fast-moving narrative full of quirky characters, small- book will stay with you long after you’ve turned the town goings-on, and deep perception. Prepare to be last page. CM (Available May 06) sucked in as well! LH THE GARDEN OF BURNING SAND WYNNE’S WAR by Corban Addison (Quercus, hd. $26.99) by Aaron Gwyn (HMH, hd. $25.00) Event May 06 at 5:00 p.m. Event June 03 at 5:30 p.m. Lawyer Zoe Fleming is at odds with her father, a presidential candidate, as Set in the mountains of Afghanistan, she and policeman Joseph work on a this is the story of Corporal Elijah child’s rape case in Lusaka, Zambia. Soon she and Russell, recruited to train Arabian Joseph find themselves surrounded by murdered horses for a secret mission from the questionable witnesses and vanishing evidence, all amidst a rocky Captain Wynne, a man with his own agenda. Not for wimps. presidential campaign. (Available May 06) (Available May 20) Fiction AN AUTHENTIC CAPTAIN MARVEL THE ORENDA RING & OTHER STORIES by Joseph Boyden by Alan Cheuse (Knopf, hd. $26.95)
(Santa Fe Writers Project, pb. $15.00) Event July 16 at 5:30 p.m.
Alan Cheuse, for many years “the A big, masterful novel from a prize- book guy” on NPR, has collected winning young writer. Set in the his best stories, some of which have Canadian wilderness four hundred been published in literary magazines. The stories, years ago, at the time of the first contacts between amusingly wry and very engaging, are variegated Native North Americans and Europeans, this is in theme, time and place, taking the reader from the story of Cristophe, a Jesuit missionary who is a dysfunctional sightseeing tour in DC, to Ansel captured by the Huron warrior, Bird, along with a Adams in New Mexico, to Ben Franklin skinny- young Iroquois woman. The Huron believe that the dipping in Perth Amboy, to Melville’s Pip on the two will be useful envoys to their greatest enemies, high seas with Captain Ahab. We’re glad to see the French and the ferocious Iroquois tribe, among more from this imaginative and prolific writer. less noble purposes. Boyden skillfully creates Nary a dull moment. the intrigues that evolve among all concerned: suspicion, brutal warfare, and Cristophe’s and THE QUICK Bird’s enlightenment as they come to understand by Lauren Owen and respect each other’s worlds. Beautifully told, (Random House, hd. $27.00) engrossing, recommended for fans of Native American culture, and readers who enjoy sweeping, This is a novel that I’ll wager is like powerful historical novels. LH (Available May 13) no other you have read before. I don’t even want to tell you too much about I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT it (other than it’s great and full of by Zachary Lazar surprises) because I want you to experience it just (Little Brown & Co., hd. $25.00) as I did by which I mean I went into it not knowing anything about the premise of the book. Suffice *Signed Copies* it to say this is a gothic tale set in late Victorian London as equally indebted to Charles Dickens and Lazar showcases his ability to weave Oscar Wilde as it is to J.K. Rowling and Susanna separate stories involving Meyer Lansky, Clarke. Lauren Owen is a superbly talented young Las Vegas, an investigative reporter and the murder of writer and The Quick will be one of the most talked an Israeli poet into one wonderfully complicated story about books this summer. CM (Available June 17) that reaches across genres and decades. THE PAINTER CAN’T AND WON’T by Peter Heller by Lydia Davis (Knopf, hd. $24.95) (HMH, hd. $26.00) Event June 11 at 5:30 “Now that I have been here for a little One of the staff favorites here over while, I can say with confidence that I the last couple of years was Peter have never been here before,” reads the Heller’s The Dog Stars, a brilliant cleverly short “Bloomington” from Davis’ debut novel that as Junot Diaz put it is “One of fifth collection of stories. those books that makes you happy for literature.” Now Heller is back with his sophomore effort and THE HURRICANE SISTERS it is equally good. Jim Stegner is a noted artist by Dorothea Benton Frank and avid fly-fisherman trying to outrun his violent (William Morrow, hd. $26.99) past and overcome a life filled with loss. Wildly Event June 20 at 5:30 p.m. suspenseful yet beautifully written, The Painter evokes the chutzpah of Jim Harrison, the lyricism New York Times bestselling of Tom McGuane, and the pacing of John D. author Dorothea Benton Frank’s MacDonald to create an unforgettable modern-day enchanting tale of the ties and lies morality tale. CM (Available May 06) between generations. (Available June 03) Fiction THE VACATIONERS IN PARADISE by Emma Straub by Peter Matthiessen (Riverhead, hd. $26.95) (Riverhead Books, hd. $27.95)
Two weeks in Mallorca. Seven people In the final novel by the late Peter who have forgotten how to relate Matthiessen, one of the most to one another. And lots and lots of important American literary figures money. Emma Straub’s quick and of the past century (three National compelling new novel not only shows how the other Book Awards, co-founder of the Paris Review), the half lives, but also how they suffer, how they lie, and writer chose – was compelled, perhaps – to write a how they deal with everyone else’s suffering and lies. novel about a group of a hundred people of mixed Elegantly written and understated, this vacationing religion, nationality, age, ethnicity, and gender family—whether it’s the college freshman daughter who gather for a meditation encounter in Poland, and her desperate, silent quest for love, or the specifically, Auschwitz. Many readers will have the three adult couples who are supposed to be in love same sense about picking up this book that this one with each other—will surprise you every chapter did: been there, done that. Just trust me: never rule and stick with you long after you’ve finished their out Matthiessen, whose endeavor toward Holocaust stories. Straub is a vibrant and legitimate new voice understanding and, thus, our humanity (with in fiction. Throw this book in your suitcase and take Tadeusz Borowski as a guide), is one this reader is it with you this summer. Who knows how much one grateful to have followed. In Paradise is a stunning trip can change things? MML (Available May 29) achievement in an extraordinary career. RH ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING THE SNOW QUEEN by Evie Wyld by Michael Cunningham (Pantheon, hd. $24.95) (FSG, hd. $26.00)
Evie Wylde’s All The Birds, Singing, *Signed Copies* opens on a sheep farm in England, The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s where Jake, the novel’s stalwart new novel follows Barrett and Tyler, female protagonist, has found the two brothers living in New York City mangled body of another ewe at the edge of her with Tyler’s fiancée, Beth, who is slowly succumbing property. As the lambing season approaches and to cancer. The novel separates three different periods Jake struggles to keep her sheep from danger, the in their lives with two pinnacle scenes, giving it a past that shadows her life is revealed. What this structure that reminds us how often small moments novel doesn’t do is paint the story of a victimized cause irrevocable change. Cunningham delivers a woman living out her pains at the edge of the world. summer read rife with heart, whose characters are Instead, when the ultimate source of Jake’s chosen real and unbearable. KW isolation is revealed, we are reminded that even the (Available May 06) smallest of cruelties can set in motion the deepest WONDERLAND destruction. KW by Stacey D’Erasmo
THE ENCHANTED (HMH, hd. $22.00) by Rene Denfeld (Harper, hd. $25.99) Stacey D’Erasmo’s Wonderland follows Anna, the musician-turned- Dark and lyrical, this debut novel carpentry teacher, as she embarks on delves into the sinister consciousness the tour for her first album in seven of death row and the men who years, the self-produced “Wonderland.” Using live there. The story’s narrator poetics, philosophy, and a vignette-based structure, carries the reader into a labyrinthine world he has D’Erasmo seamlessly moves the reader through constructed within the bleak confines of his death Anna’s world, interweaving past with present row cell, where fiery horses stampede below the as the protagonist confronts the individuals and earth and tiny men scamper inside the prison’s events that both inspired and defeated her career. stone walls. Violent as it is tender, The Enchanted is Stunningly gorgeous in both language and content, a story of how people become monsters, and what I dare you to read this novel and come away makes monsters human. CF unchanged. KW (Available May 06) Fiction THE READING CIRCLE KIDS THESE DAYS by Ashton Lee by Drew Perry (Kensington, pb. $15.00) (Algonquin, pb. $14.95)
*Signed Copies* *Signed Copies* If some folks had their way, the “Yes, I told her, yes, which was not quite Cherico library would have shut a lie: I could easily enough see us having down long ago. The Cherry Cola a child, or children.” So goes this comic Book Club, headed by librarian Mary Beth novel about a hesitant father, the loss of a job and what Mayhew, is raising the library’s profile one he must get himself into to provide for his family. mouthwatering meeting at a time. But more THE RISE & FALL OF members mean more opinions. And just when bad luck threatens to finish the library for good, GREAT POWERS the book club may learn that the best stories have by Tom Rachman twists-and heroes-you never expected. (Dial, hd. $27.00) FOURTH OF JULY CREEK by Smith Henderson Tooly Zylberberg was kidnapped as a young girl by book-loving Russian (Ecco, hd. $26.99) Humphreys, sexy Sarah, and mysterious ringleader Venn. As an adult bookstore owner, Tooly When an untamed 11-year-old goes on an around the world search for the answers shows up on the playground of of who were her abductors? Why was she taken? What the local school dirty and reeking, did they really want from her? social worker Pete Snow is (Available June 10) assigned to the case. Thwarted by the boy’s crazy THE LAST KIND survivalist father who lives in the wilderness of WORDS SALOON Montana, Snow soon finds himself in an F.B.I. manhunt no one will emerge from unscathed. by Larry McMurtry (Liveright, hd. $24.95) (Available May 27)
THE GIRL WHO SAVED Larry McMurtry returns us to the THE KING OF SWEDEN nineteenth century cowboy lifestyle by Jonas Jonasson, made so iconic by his classic Lonesome (Ecco, hd. $25.99) Dove. Here, McMurtry draws on history to shape the story of the end of the American Frontier, using two
of its most infamous figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc In the satirical voice that has earned Holliday. The novel follows these two men from the him legions of fans the world over, town of Long Grass to Denver, CO, to Mobetie, TX, and Jonasson gives us another rollicking finally to Tombstone, AZ, where the infamous gunfight tale of how even the smallest of decisions can at the O.K. Corral, takes place. have sweeping--even global--consequences. (Available May 07) SUMMER HOUSE HOME LEAVE WITH SWIMMING POOL by Brittani Sonnenberg by Herman Koch (Grand Central, hd. $25.00) (Hogarth, hd. $24.00)
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When Dr. Marc Schlosser and his Elise wants to escape her hometown family join his patient and famous in Mississippi and gets the chance actor Ralph at a summer house on the when she marries Chris, whose job Mediterranean, Marc considers an affair with Ralph’s takes the two all over the world. Their daughters, stunning wife Judith while Ralph pays a little too on the other hand, long for stability in an ever- much attention to Marc’s underage daughter, Julia. A changing world. When tragedy strikes the family year later, Ralph ends up dead and Marc is implicated must ask themselves what does it mean when and the true story of what happened that summer home is everywhere and nowhere at the same comes to light. (Available June 03) time? (Available June 03) STORE HOURS Mon-Thurs, 9 am-7 pm; Fri & Sat, 9 am-8 pm SQUARE Sun, Noon-5 pm BOOKS, JR. TINY TOTES STORY TIME 10.00 Wednesdays & Saturdays at 10 am
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Oxonian Sarah Frances Hardy follows up her successful “Puzzled By Pink” (Penguin, $16.99) with a book for younger children that teaches colors and encourages creativity. A little girl begins by painting a portrait of her dog and gets carried away by the colors as she goes through her day. Join us for a special storytime on Saturday, May 10 at 10 a.m. when Sarah Frances Hardy will read and sign “PAINT ME!” to celebrate the latest publication of this talented author and illustrator. MAPLE BINOCULARS by Lori Nichols $10.99 (Nancy Paulsen, hd. $16.99) Event May 05 at 10:00 a.m.
Maple frolics carefree outdoors and around the tree her parents planted in honor of her birth. One day a new tree begins to emerge and Maple is presented with a baby sister, Willow. Refreshing to find a “new baby” story in which the older sibling is actually happy, Lori Nichol’s Maple is inquisitive, kind and more than willing to share the shade and solace of her own honorary tree with baby Willow. JM DOG VS. CAT THE PIGEON NEEDS A by Mo Willems BATH (Disney-Hyperion, hd. $17.00) by Mo Willems (Disney-Hyperion, hd. $16.99)
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(Minotaur, hd. $24.99) BOOTY BONES by Carolyn Haines Daniel Friedman’s sequel to the (Minotaur, hd. $24.99) 2012 Don’t Ever Get Old continues the story of Buck Schatz, an elderly Sarah Booth Delaney plans a romantic ex-cop who is coping with dementia. getaway on an island off the Gulf Coast. When an old bank robber nemesis, Elijah, comes She meets local Angela Trotter, who to Buck looking for asylum, Buck agrees to help in confides that her father was murdered exchange for his confession to a series of robberies just as he was closing in on a rumored buried treasure. committed decades before. Elijah’s humility proves Angela believes the wrong man is imprisoned and to be anything but, and this decades-long feud persuades Sarah Booth to take the case, which turns comes to its final conclusion. out to be more than meets the eye. (Available May 20) BLUFF CITY PAWN THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD by Stephen Schottenfeld by Michael Koryta (Bloomsbury, hd. $26.00) (Little Brown, hd. $26.00)
Three grown brothers come together From New York Times best selling author, in this assertive debut about a gun 13-year old Jace witnesses a brutal murder deal--and a family--gone wrong in the and is hidden in a Montana wilderness city of Memphis. skills program through witness (Available August 05) protection. The killers seek him out, slaughtering anyone who gets in their way. (Available June 03) history LIBERTY’S TORCH AMERICAN SPRING by Elizabeth Mitchell by Walter Borneman (Atlantic Monthly, hd. $26.00) (Little Brown, hd. $30.00)
Meet Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Focusing on the colorful heroes John the entrepreneur responsible for Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy constructing the Statute of Liberty. Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, When both American and French and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary governments refused to back him, Bartholdi Americans caught up in the revolution, Walter found funding through other (rather creative) Borneman tells the story of how a decade of means. Mitchell’s text strips away the mythology discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that surrounding the statue and honors a man whose forged our nation. (Available May 06) legacy had been abandoned. (Available July 02) ENDURING COURAGE LORDS OF THE SKY by John F. Ross by Dan Hampton (Atlantic Monthly, hd. $26.00) (William Morrow, hd. $27.99) The sensational true story of Eddie New York Times bestselling author Rickenbacker, the son of poor, of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 German-speaking Swiss immigrants legend Dan Hampton offers the in Columbus, Ohio who overcame the first comprehensive popular history specter of his father’s violent death, a debilitating of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German action-packed look at the aces of the air and their spy, to become the American ace of aces in World War machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in I and a Medal of Honor Recipient. (Available May 13) World War I to today’s technologically expert flying
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In his commencement speech at The bestselling short story writer, Wellesley High School, where he whose Tenth of December was #7 teaches, McCullough told graduating on our top 100 best seller list last students they weren’t special: “even year, gave a convocation speech at if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion Syracuse University that has gone on to be viewed that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like on the NYTimes.com over a million times. Saunders you.” The speech went viral. Here McCullough exquisitely expands on that. This would make a great presents the idea that students should rethink the graduation gift, by the way. standard definition of success. NOBLE HUSTLE CARSICK by Colson Whitehead by John Waters (Doubleday, hd. $24.95) (FSG, hd. $26.00) After receiving $10,000 from Grantland *Signed Copies* to compete in the World Series of John Waters is putting his life on the Poker, Whitehead delves into a world line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin of high-stakes poker composed of skill mustache, and a cardboard sign that mixed with the ever-elusive luck. He leaves us with reads, “I’m Not Psycho,” he hitchhikes across his fatalistic “eventually you will lose it all” and America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving that despite all of Poker’s academia and calculation lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who everything still hangs on the turn of a card. should we be more worried about, the delicate film (Available May 06) director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash? So what TIBETAN PEACH PIE really happens when this cult legend sticks out his by Tom Robbins thumb and faces the open road? His rides include a (Ecco, hd. $27.99) gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the In a memoir likely to be demanded perverse filmmaker’s unexpected hero: a young, by his many fans, Robbins starts sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette. Laced with with his Depression-era beginnings subversive humor and warm intelligence, Carsick in Appalachia as the grandchild of is an unforgettable vacation with a wickedly funny Baptist preachers, then moves through various companion—and a celebration of America’s weird, guides as poet manqué, air force weatherman, astonishing, and generous citizenry. art critic gone psychedelic, beloved novelist, and (Available June 03) countercultural icon. (Available May 27) THINK LIKE A FREAK FLASH BOYS by Steven D. Levitt, by Michael Lewis Stephen J. Dunbar (Norton, hd. $27.95) (William Morrow, hd. $28.99) Four years after his #1 bestseller The From the guys that brought us Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, Street to report on a high-tech predator comes a book that teaches us how stalking the equity markets. Flash Boys to think productively, more creatively, and more is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure rationally, like a freak. (Available May 12) out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, Signed First Subscription the markets have become not more free but less, and Each month we will send a first edition signed or personally inscribed book by one of the many more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. But in outstanding authors who come to Square Books, plus a bonus book at the end of the year. the end, Flash Boys is an uplifting read. For more information e-mail Slade at [email protected] music/art/photographY/POeTRY THERE GOES GRAVITY THE TRUE GOSPEL by Lisa Robinson PREACHED HERE (Riverhead, hd. $27.95) by Bruce West (Univ. Press of MS, hd. $35.00) Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music. She Bruce West’s photographs introduced David Bowie to Lou Reed, document the spiritual and and was with the Rolling Stones on creative work of a self-proclaimed preacher, artist their jet during a frightening storm. A pioneering and architect, the Reverend H. D. Dennis, and his female journalist in an exclusive boys’ club. wife, Margaret, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the CREOLE WORLD elderly couple who devoted more than twenty years converting Margaret’s Grocery store into a one-of- by Richard Sexton a-kind nondenominational church. (The Historic New Orleans Collection, hd. $49.95) LETTERS COMPOSED DURING A LULL IN THE FIGHTING Creole World is a complex, multi- by Kevin Powers layered photo essay linking New (Little Brown, hd. $23.00) Orleans, which is frequently
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Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder BENEFIT OF THE BAND exchanged more than 240 letters from by Lee Friedlander 1973 to 2013, bringing out the best in (Yale Univ. Art Gallery, hd. $60.00) each other as they grappled with faith Over 200 photographs taken and reason and shared the details of the lives they’d between 1957 and 1982 New chosen with their wives and children. Orleans. (Available June 03) NOLA THE UNFATHOMABLE CITY: THE INEVITABLE CITY A New Orleans Atlas by Scott Cowen, by Rebecca Solnit, Betsy Seifter Rebecca Snedeker (Palgrave MacMillan, hd. $27.00) (Univ. of California, pb. $29.95) (Available June 10) New Orleans, long one of America’s most interesting cities, became more so after Katrina, maintaining its unique cultures of food, music, and les bontemps, while reinventing its essential urbanity at the same time, and two new and very different books attest to this fact. Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker (U. California, 29.95), one of our best selling recent paperbacks, has twenty-two essays and an equal number of fascinating maps that serve as both guide and history, such as “Hot and Steamy,” on two of the Crescent City’s biggest industries, seafood and sex; “Of Levees and Prisons: Failures of Containment, Surges of Freedom”; and “Stationary Revelations: Sites of Contemplation and Delight.” The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America (Palgrave Macmillan, $27.00) is by Tulane University president Scott Cowen, who in ten chapters lays out the New Orleans post- Katrina revitalization playbook – how to take a drowning, faltering city and convert it to civic progress, economic growth, and one of America’s hottest destinations for young sociopreneurs – and make it relevant to citizens everywhere. RH biography TAKE THIS MAN THE MOCKINGBIRD NEXT DOOR by Brando Skyhorse by Marja Mills (Simon & Schuster, hd. $26.00) (Penguin, hd. $27.95)
This book belongs on the short list of For the last fifty years, journalists have remarkable memoirs such as those trekked to the town of Monroeville, by Mary Karr, Tobias and Geoffrey Alabama, where Harper Lee, known by Woolf, and Jeanette Walls. Brando her friends as Nelle, has lived with her Skyhorse lived with his mother, grandmother, sister, Alice, for decades, trying and failing to get an and, at one time or another, five of his mother’s interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters husbands, some of whom arrived via her classified opened their door for reporter Marja Mills. It was the ads and none of whom could succeed completely in beginning of a long conversation-and a friendship. In the audition for father to Brando. His birth father 2004, with the Lees’ encouragement, Mills moved into and mother were Mexicans, but the mother thought the house next door to the sisters. She spent the next he should take the name Skyhorse from a husband eighteen months there, talking and sharing stories over she wed while he was in jail for murder. The night meals and daily drives in the countryside. Nelle shared Marlon Brando refused an Oscar award in a protest her love of history, literature, and the quirky Southern sympathetic to Native Americans, she decided to way of life with Mills, as well as her keen sense of how change his legal name to Brando, and this is only a journalism should be practiced. Mills was given a rare beginning of incredible deceits purportedly made opportunity to know Nelle Harper Lee, to be part of on his behalf. This is a simply awesome story, told the Lees’ life in Alabama, and to hear the sisters reflect with breathtaking skill and originality, of a wily on their upbringing, their corner of the Deep South, and courageous boy’s fight to find, and to know, his how To Kill a Mockingbird affected their lives, and why Nelle Harper Lee chose to never write another novel”-- family. RH (Available June 03) UNDER MAGNOLIA (Available July 15) by Frances Mayes A FEW SECONDS OF (Crown, hd. $26.00) RADIANT FRIENDSHIP by Kevin Brockmeier *Signed Copies* (Pantheon, hd. $24.00) The author of three beloved books Event May 22 at 5:00 p.m. about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is revisits the turning points that defined her early ready to become a different person: years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature not the boy he has always been--the one who cries too NOLA style and grace, Mayes explores the power of easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland landscape, the idea of home, and the lasting force of of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes- a chaotic and loving family. -but someone else altogether. Over the course of one STRANGE GLORY school year--seventh grade--he sets out in search of himself. Along the way, he happens into his first kiss by Charles Marsh at a church party, struggles to understand why his old (Knopf, hd. $35.00) friends tease him at the lunch table, becomes the talk Event May 7 at 5:30 p.m. of the entire school thanks to his Halloween costume, and booby-traps his lunch to deter a thief. With the In the decades since his execution by same deep feeling and oddly dreamlike precision that the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, are the hallmarks of his fiction, the acclaimed novelist the German pastor, theologian, and now explores the dream of his own past and recovers anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most the person he used to be. widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, www.squarebooks.com Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns Go to our website for info on upcoming author events, majestic and intimate, of this modern icon. to order books or Square Books merchandise, and to Are you a Speed Reader? check out what’s new on the Square Books blog. 662-236-2262 Sign up for our weekly e-mail of events Orders (800) 648-4001 at www.squarebooks.com THE TOBASCO COOKBOOK by Paul Mcilhenny (Clarkson Potter, hd. $16.99)
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humor CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT THE MINCING MOCKINGBIRD SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? GUIDE TO TROUBLED BIRDS by Roz Chast
by Matt Adrian (Bloomsbury, hd. $28.00) (Blue Rider Press, hd. $15.95) I’ve heard people say that Roz Chast’s cartoons are the first thing they look Guide to quickly identify psychotic, for in the New Yorker, and this book is violent or mentally unstable birds. why. She’s the funniest, most human cartoonist alive, THIS IS RIDICULOUS, poking her pencils into the deepest but most universal corners of everyone’s lives, excavating the crazy psycho- THIS IS AMAZING junk she finds. She doesn’t spare herself or her family, by Jason Good either--this is a graphic memoir about her life with her (Chronicle, hd. $14.95) aging parents. Dark, poignant, and hilarious, this book is A laugh-out-loud reminder that highly recommended to anyone with decrepit parents, everything is easier and more fun or anyone who ever had parents at all. Maybe a great when approached with a sense of book for Mother’s or Father’s Day, but think about it. LH humor--especially parenting. (Available May 06) cooking/gardening THE SOUTHERN BACK HOME WITH THE NEELYS BITE COOKBOOK by Pat and Gina Neely by Stacey Little (Knopf, hd. $27.95) (Thomas Nelson, pb. $24.99) The third cookbook from Food Stacey Little’s easy, delicious Network superstars Pat and Gina recipes and heartfelt stories Neely brings us back to the basics of have brought millions to his good ol’ southern family cooking. blog, SouthernBite.com, since he created it in 2008. A MOUTHFUL OF STARS FOR THE LOVE OF CAKE by Kim Sunée by Southern Living (Andrews McMeel, hd. $27.99) (Oxmoor House, pb. $22.95) Bestselling author of Trail of Crumbs “I love cake.” RH and former food editor Kim Sunée offers up her first cookbook; a curated and personal collection of Kim’s interpretation of 80 cherished recipes and cooking VIRGIL’S BARBECUE discoveries from kitchens across the globe. ROAD TRIP COOKBOOK (Available May 06) by Neal Corman DEEP-ROOTED WISDOM (St. Martin’s Press, hd. $29.99) by Augustus Jenkins Farmer (Timber Press, pb. $24.95) A winning mix of barbecue and Event May 20 at 5:00 p.m. grilling recipes plus perfect summer sides for quick weekday dinners and relaxed Deep-Rooted Wisdom is Farmer’s weekend entertaining. antidote to this corporate-driven CHASING THE ROSE model of gardening. In it he shares the traditional skills and techniques he has learned by Andrea di Robilant over the years from generations of gardeners, like (Knopf, hd. $26.95) gardening with pass-along plants, harnessing the natural power of worms and mushrooms, saving The author of the best-selling heirloom seeds, and making handmade garden A Venetian Affair now gives us a structures out of available materials. charming chronicle of his search for a fabled antique rose--a tale that takes MEET MICHAEL POLLAN us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, and WEDNESDAY, MAY 21 6:30 p.m. CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT looks into the future of this much beloved flower. SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? (Available May 06) AT NUTT AUDITORIUM by Roz Chast CITIZEN FARMERS (Bloomsbury, hd. $28.00) by Daron Joffe I’ve heard people say that Roz Chast’s with Susan Puckett cartoons are the first thing they look (STC, pb. $24.95) for in the New Yorker, and this book is why. She’s the funniest, most human cartoonist alive, poking her pencils into the deepest but most universal In this engaging call to action, corners of everyone’s lives, excavating the crazy psycho- Daron Joffe (Farmer D) teaches junk she finds. She doesn’t spare herself or her family, us to not only create sustainable gardens but also either--this is a graphic memoir about her life with her to develop a more holistic, community-minded aging parents. Dark, poignant, and hilarious, this book is approach to how our food is grown and how we live Tickets are free with purchase of COOKED. highly recommended to anyone with decrepit parents, our lives in balance with nature. Presented in partnership with or anyone who ever had parents at all. Maybe a great More books on Cooking, Gardening, Travel, Art, The Southern Foodways Alliance. book for Mother’s or Father’s Day, but think about it. LH Crafts and Photography at Off Square Books For further information visit www.squarebooks.com (Available May 06) U.S. POSTAGE On the Square in Oxford since 1979. PAID PERMIT #285 OXFORD, MS 38655 STANDARD MAIL
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