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Elizabeth Bishop by Angie Morgan by Megan Marshall Leadership Isn’T About a Job Title—It’S About Action from READ BETWEEN THE LYNES YOUR HOMETOWN BOOKSTORE FEBRUARY / MARCH 2017 Read Between Books to Curl Up With the Lynes the Lynes Norse Mythology The Sleepwalker 111 Van Buren by Neil Gaiman by Chris Bohjalian Woodstock, IL 60098 In Norse Mythology, Neil When Annalee Ahlberg Phone: (815) 206-5967 Gaiman fashions the goes missing, her chil- E-Mail us at: primeval stories of the dren fear the worst. [email protected] Norse pantheon into a Annalee is a sleepwalker novelistic arc that begins whose affliction manifests with the genesis of the nine in ways both bizarre and Shop Locally Online worlds and delves into the devastating. Once, she www.ReadBetweenTheLynes.com exploits of deities, dwarfs, destroyed the hydrangeas in and giants. Take Thor, who front of her Vermont home. Store Hours disguises himself as a woman to recover his hammer. 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Monday, February 27 The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot Dulles’s decade as director of the CIA was a dark time in American politics. Dulles saw himself as above the law, subverting American presidents in the pursuit of personal interests, colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels and German war criminals in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assas- sination and overthrowing governments not in line with his politics, Dulles employed these same tac- tics at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Harper Perennial $19.99. Monday, March 27 STORY TIME Empire of Fear by Andrew Hosken Based on extensive reporting across the Middle East, this vital and timely book charts the rise of the Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10:30 am most threatening strand of radical Islam to occur in the modern era. 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