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And the Mountains The Silver Star Store Hours In her highly acclaimed memoir, Monday thru Saturday Echoed 10 am – 8 pm Khaled Hosseini’s previous novels, The Glass Castle, and previous Sunday 11 am – 4 pm The Kite Runner and A Thousand novel about her grandmother, Half- Splendid Suns, have been embraced Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls writes Shop Locally Online and adored by more than 38 million with an honesty and clarity that is GLIÀFXOWWRUHSOLFDWH1RZ:DOOV www.ReadBetweenTheLynes.com people worldwide. So it’s no wonder that we’re eagerly awaiting the release WXUQVWRRXWULJKWÀFWLRQLQThe Silver of his latest, And the Mountains Echoed Star ($26, Scribner, 978-1-451-66150-7), ($28.95, Riverhead, 978-1-594-63176-4). The story, spanning starting out in a small California town six decades, is again set in Afghanistan, but also tacks on in the 1970s. When their mother runs California, France and Greece. In this tale revolving around not RIIWR´ÀQGKHUVHOIµ\HDUROG%HDQDQGKHUROGHUVLVWHU just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and /L]KDYHOLWWOHFKRLFHEXWWRÀQGWKHLUZD\WR8QFOH7LQVOH\·V caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families GHFD\LQJPDQVLRQLQ9LUJLQLD%HDQVRRQGLVFRYHUVZKRKHU QXUWXUHZRXQGEHWUD\KRQRUDQGVDFULÀFHIRURQHDQRWKHU father was, and hears many stories about why their mother and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest OHIW9LUJLQLDLQWKHÀUVWSODFH:LWKPRQH\WLJKW%HDQDQG to us, at the times that matter most. How we love, how we take /L]VWDUWEDE\VLWWLQJDQGGRLQJRIÀFHZRUNIRU-HUU\0DGGR[ We’re Here to Help! care of one another, and how the choices we make can resonate IRUHPDQRIWKHPLOOLQWRZQ%XW/L]KDVWURXEOHDGMXVWLQJWR You can count on us for … through generations are all themes to which we can relate in their new life, and encounters some serious adult trouble. Ever this uplifting and deeply satisfying novel. alert to abuse of adult power, Walls has written a moving novel Service DERXWWULXPSKRYHUDGYHUVLW\²DERXWSHRSOHZKRÀQGDZD\WR Let us know your needs and we can access millions of titles ORYHHDFKRWKHUDQGWKHZRUOGGHVSLWHLWVÁDZVDQGLQMXVWLFHV beyond the thousands we The Ocean at the End of the Lane Avail. 6/11 have in the store. The Ocean at the End of the Lane Book Knowledge Eight years have passed since Neil Gaiman’s last novel for Ready for something adults, Anansi Boys, was published … all the more reason good to read? Ask us for we’re looking forward to his latest story, The Ocean at the End recommendations! of the Lane ($25.99, Wm. Morrow, 978-0-062-25565-5). The Gift Ideas QDUUDWRUQRZÀIW\VRPHWKLQJUHWXUQVWR Books always make great gifts! his homeland in rural England to attend a For any age and any taste, funeral. Though his childhood home is long we’ve got something that they’ll gone, he is drawn to the Hempstock farm treasure. Remember, books are gifts they can open at the end of the road. The family was odd again and again. even then, with mother, grandmother, and 11-year-old daughter (who claimed that their duckpond was an ocean) seeming to be much older than their apparent ages.

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Summer is here and we love that the season offers a And When She Was Good little break from the intensity of the rest of the year. Heloise Lewis’s life is definitely compartmentalized: It’s time to think about a little get-away, fresh fruits a devoted mother, a lobbyist at the state capitol, and and vegetables grown nearby, and taking time to sip in discreet hotel rooms, the woman of many a man’s a cool drink and watch the clouds in the sky. dreams. Now, after a decade, her life is under siege. Her accountant is asking questions, her employees Years ago at a book industry gathering, mega-bestselling author Stephen can’t be trusted, and another so-called suburban King told the story of his mother and how she would come back from the madam has been found dead, forcing Heloise to library with a sack full of paperbacks. He said she referred to them as her disappear and live long enough to remake her life “quick, cheap vacations”. It’s a delightful thought ... that reading can take once again. And When She Was Good ($14.99, Wm. us anywhere and really is quite an affordable escape. Morrow, 978-0-062-19773-3) is yet another example of why Laura Lippman has won so many prizes in the Available During the coming months, school children will have summer reading mystery genre. 6/4 assignments, but it’s also great to see them devour silly and fun adventures of their own choosing. Our feeling is that if a child loves comic books or graphic novels, silly ditties or activity books, they’re face is in a book ... and A Serpent’s Tooth that’s a good thing! Help the children in your life enjoy time to read this The A&E Channel has made Craig Johnson’s lead summer by offering a “Just Because” gift. There’s nothing better than giv- character, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire, quite A Serpent’s Tooth ing a child the gift of reading, the foundation for success in life. popular. Now, in ($26.95, Viking, 978-0-670-02645-6), Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet. When a homeless boy wanders What will you read this summer? This is actually a busy time for our buy- into town, Longmire and his companions embark on a ers and booksellers as publishers fill the season with some of the year’s best high plains scavenger hunt in hopes of reuniting moth- novels. From favorite writers with new works to debut novelists, adventure er and son. The trail leads them to an interstate and intrigue to beautifully written literary fiction, there is an abundance of polygamy group that’s presiding over a stockpile of good books arriving each week. weapons and harboring a vicious vendetta. Available 6/4 Come into the bookstore, savor what’s on our shelves, and let us introduce you to some things to help you fully enjoy quiet time during the summer Red Sparrow months. We don’t rely on algorithms or statistics based on what other cus- Spies have long relied on the “honey trap,” where vul- tomers have purchased, but want to know what you’ve enjoyed and the kind nerable men and women are intimately compromised of reading that leaves you feeling content and fulfilled. We love to see peo- by “sexpionage.” In modern-day Russia, a state intelli- ple stretch their reading, especially those in book groups, and are ready to gence officer begins a fatal double life, recruited by help you discover some books you otherwise may never have found. the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Making those reading connections is what makes our days so enjoyable! Washington; hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the U.S. military and, against all odds, to return to A bookselling colleague whose store is in a heavy tourist area marveled Moscow as a spy. CIA insider Jason Mathews brings that a visitor commented, “Your town is so lucky to have an independent us an impossible-to-put-down espionage thriller in Red bookstore!” While the corporate stores are moving out of expensive leases Sparrow ($26.99, Scribner, 978-1-476-70612-2). and large storefronts, many are sad to lose the last presence of books in Available their communities. At Read Between the Lynes, we realize that our success 6/4 is based on some very basic principles: love what you do, serve others, give The Silent Wife back, and provide a space that is a welcome retreat from the world outside. Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. There’s a lot at stake, including the affluent life they Thank you for caring about shopping small and putting your money where lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago. your house is. Small, family operated businesses are working smarter to Jodi silently accepts her husband’s adulterous pecca- compete with the online and corporate race to the bottom where faster and dillos, until he announces his intent to leave her. The Silent Wife cheaper trumps values and ethics. We appreciate that you value what we do A.S.A. Harrison’s debut novel, ($16, Penguin, 978-0-143-12323-1) will remind you of Gone and the ways we support our community, and continue to look to us for Girl as you discover just how far one woman will go to ways to enrich your life with great things to read. keep what is rightfully hers. See you soon in the bookstore!

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3 Now THAT’s Mysteries Entertainment! Unraveled Bad Monkey The King’s Deception Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a funny With more than 15 million copies of his previous books in and pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the print, like The Amber Room and The Romanov Prophecy, degraders of pristine land in Florida – and in the Bahamas as well Steve Berry had us following his secret agent-turned- – get their comeuppance. Bad Monkey ($26.95, Knopf, 978-0-307- bookstore owner’s every move. And now, Cotton Malone 27259-1) is just one of the ever-surprising characters to appear is back! In The King’s Deception ($27, Ballantine, 978-0- in the story, as Andrew Yancy, soon-to-be-late of the Key West 345-52654-0), Malone’s son is kidnapped, which leads him Police, tries to prove murder and explain the human arm in his on a deadly chase that bounces back and forth between freezer. Avail. 6/11 1547 and the present day. Like every one of Berry’s novels, fascinating historical material is the perfect backdrop to a Revenge Wears Prada suspenseful adventure. Avail. 6/11 The Devil Wears Prada was quite a story unto itself, but thanks to Lauren Weisberger, there’s now a sequel. Eight years have passed A Place at the Table since Andrea “Andy” Sachs quit the job “a million girls would Three disparate characters – Bobby, a gay Southern boy; die for” – working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine – a Amelia, a wealthy Connecticut woman; and Alice, an dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy is on top of the $IULFDQ$PHULFDQFKHI²ÀQGWKHLUSDWKVFRQYHUJHLQDFKLF world, running a high fashion bridal magazine and about to Manhattan café. Susan Rebecca White shares their stories be married. But she’ll soon come face-to-face with her former in A Place at the Table ($25, Touchstone, 978-1-451-60887-8), tormentor in Revenge Wears Prada ($25.99, Simon & Schuster, as these three seekers come together in the understanding 978-1-439-13663-8), as her efforts to build a bright new life lead that when you embrace the thing that makes you different, GLUHFWO\WRWKHRQHVKHÁHG$YDLO you become whole. Avail. 6/4 Big Girl Panties The 9th Girl Alone at age 32, Holly Brennan used food to comfort herself Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character- through her husband’s illness and death. Personal trainer Logan GULYHQVXVSHQVH7DPL+RDJÀUVWKLWWKHNew York Times Montgomery offers to help her get in shape; as much as Holly bestseller list almost 20 years ago, and each of her dreads the thought of working out, she decides to put on her books since has been a bestseller. In her latest, The 9th Big Girl Panties ($26.99, Wm. Morrow, 978-0-062-22484-2) Girl ($26.95, Dutton, 978-0-525-95297-8), Minneapolis and sweat out some of her grief. Their workouts become more LQYHVWLJDWRUV6DP.RYDFDQG1LNNL/LVNDÀQGWKHLUQLQWK intense – and steamy – but their relationship takes a turn when “Jane Doe” of the year – the victim of a vicious transient other men start to notice. Stephanie Evanovich will make a VHULDONLOOHU$VWKH\EHJLQWRXQFRYHUWKHWUXWKWKH\ÀQG splash when this rollicking, smart and sexy romantic comedy that monsters of the ninth girl’s life may have lived closer is released. Avail. 7/9 to home. Avail. 6/18 The Son It takes some doing to combine the narrative prowess of Larry McMurtry with the knife-edge sharpness of Cormac McCarthy, but Phillip Meyer manages to do just that in The Son ($27.99, Ecco, 978-0-062-12039-7). This multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land follows the rise of the McCullough family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s, to the border raids of the early 1900s, to the oil booms of the 20th century as they become one of the richest powers in Texas. Yet, like all empires, the McCulloughs must eventually face the consequences of their choices.

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5 If You Were a Panda Bear Storytime, My Did you know that pandas are shy and eat bamboo, that black bears love to climb trees, and grizzly bears can grow to be up to ten feet tall? Florence MinorMinor offers delightful poems in If You Were a Panda Bear Favorite Time! ($17.99, Katherine Tegen Books, 978-0-061-95090-2). if you want to see a whale Wendell Minor’s colorful and playful illustrations If you want to see a whale, you will need to know what bring the personality of each bear wonderfully to life not to look at. Pink roses, pelicans, possible pirates... If in this charming storybook. Make sure your teddy bear is with you for this one! you want to see a whale, you have to keep your eyes on Ages 4-8. Avail. 6/25 the sea, and wait...and wait... and wait. Julie Fogliano and Erin E. Stead (creators of the Boston Globe-Horn Linus the Vegetarian T-Rex Book Honor book And Then It’s Spring) offer us a quiet Meet Linus — a Tyrannosaurus Rex who is very brave, and beautiful picture book in if you want to see a whale very tough, and very...vegetarian? ($16.99, Roaring Brook, 978-1-596-43731-9), where a Ruth Ann Mackenzie knows everything about boy learns about patience and its reward. Ages 2-6 dinosaurs. She knows their names. She knows when they lived. And she certainly knows what they ate. The Lost (and Found) Balloon So when she meets Linus, a towering, toothy T. Rex Molly O’Doon ties a note to her red balloon, lets it loose, and who prefers picking vegetables to preying on his off it goes on a buoyant adventure. Who will answer Molly’s herbivorous neighbors, she’s not sure what to think. letter? Someone in a different state or a faraway country? Is something wrong with Linus? Or does Ruth Ann Or maybe, a new friend much closer than she could ever maybe, just maybe, not know everything there is to know about dinosaurs? Dino imagine. Find out where balloons go when you let them lovers young and old will delight in Linus the Vegetarian T-Rex ($16.99, Beach loose in The Lost (and Found) Balloon ($16.99, Aladdin, 978-1-442-46697-5), /DQH ÀOOHGZLWKSUHKLVWRULFSHUVRQDOLW\$JHV$YDLO a whimsical, imaginative tale by Celeste Jenkins that has won the General Mills Spoonful of Stories contest. Ages 5-8. Avail. 6/11 Super Hair-O and the Barber of Doom Every super hero gets his powers from somewhere. Chick ‘n’ Pug Meet the Dude Rocco thinks his abilities come from his shock of red He’s taller than the Chrysler Building. He drools more hair, and the longer it gets, the stronger he becomes. than a baby sucking on a piece of Jello. Dog people He even has a posse of super friends with wild hair of will revere him. Chick and Pug know him only as “The their own. Our hero is unstoppable — until the day Dude”. When the larger-than-life Dude ambles into he’s dragged to the super evil villain’s lair and robbed Pug’s territory and steals Pug’s most favorite chew toy, of his powers. How will he face his friends? Will he Chick is ready to take down the slobbering scoundrel. ever regain his super hero-ness? John Rocco’s Super Will Chick save the day? Will Pug nap through all Hair-O and the Barber of Doom ($16.99, Disney the best parts? One thing’s for sure: The Dude has arrived and he spells BIG 978-1-423-12189-3) is a feel-good and funny book for emergent comic book trouble. Everyone will have fun with the unfolding of events in Jennifer Sattler’s fans and parents who grew up on them. Ages 4-9. Avail. 6/18 Chick ‘n’ Pug Meet the Dude ($16.99, Bloomsbury, 978-1-599-90600-3). Ages 3-6. Avail. 6/25 A Year with Marmalade The Things I Can Do Ella and Maddy are best friends. But one day Maddy says Want to see what Jeff drew? It’s a book about him and all the she is moving away, and she asks Ella to look after her cat, things he can do! He can make his own lunch! He can get his Marmalade. Both Ella and Marmalade shed a tear when own drink. He can take his own bath — pretty cool, don’t Maddy leaves and miss her dearly. Then one morning, Ella you think? Get ready for a riotous time as Jeff explains, in ÀQGV0DUPDODGHFXUOHGXSE\KHUIHHWDQGDVWKH\VSHQG words and self-drawn pictures, all the things he can do — in more and more time together, a unique friendship begins a book he made all by himself! Author and illustrator Jeff to grow. A bestseller in Australia, A Year with Marmalade Mack (Hush Little Polar Bear) returns with The Things I Can ($15.99, Little Simon, 978-1-442-48105-3) by Alison Reynolds and illustrated Do ($16.99, Roaring Brook, 978-1-596-43675-6), a perfect by Heath McKenzie is a beautiful book about change, losing friends, and making rhyming story to read aloud. Ages 5-8. Avail. 6/25 new ones. Ages 8-12. Avail. 7/23

6 One White Dolphin Dive into a :KHQDEDE\DOELQRGROSKLQFDXJKWLQROGÀVKLQJQHWWLQJ washes ashore, Felix and Kara work with vets and specialists to save her and reunite her with her mother, setting off a chain Good Story of events that might just save the reef. You’ll delight in the beauty and concerns of the natural world in One White Dolphin The Truth of Me ($6.99, Atheneum, 978-1-442-41448-8), an eco-adventure by Patricia MacLachlan, Newbery Medal-winning author of Sarah, veterinarian Gill Lewis with refreshing illustrations by Raquel Plain and Tall, returns with The Truth of Me ($14.99, Katherine Aparicio. Ages 9-12. Avail. 6/11 Tegen Books, 978-0-061-99859-1). Robbie loves spending time with his grandmother Maddy. He loves the stories Maddy tells, and also Sure Signs of Crazy how wild animals trust her enough to come right up to her. But You’ve never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah Robbie has always felt as if something is missing in his life — his Nelson. While most of her classmates geek out over Harry parents don’t always act like they love him. Maddy reveals a world Potter, she writes letters to Atticus Finch. Her best friend is a of understanding to Robbie by sharing stories of the past in this plant. And she’s never known her mother, who has lived in a story that celebrates how our unique “small truths” make each of mental institution since Sarah was two. Sarah and her dad have us magical and brave in our own ways. Ages 6-10. Avail. 6/25 spent the past decade moving from one Texas town to another, and she’s never felt truly at home....until now. Sure Signs Kelsey Green, Reading Queen of Crazy ($17, Little Brown, 978-0-316-21058-4), by Karen Kelsey Kline is the best reader in the third grade — well, maybe Harrington, is the story of one extraordinary summer in which tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal 6DUDKJHWVKHUÀUVWUHDOFUXVKQHZIULHQGVDQGWKHDQVZHUV announces a school-wide reading contest, complete with a pizza about her family she’s always been looking for. SDUW\IRUWKHZLQQLQJFODVVDQGDVSHFLDOFHUWLÀFDWHIRUWKHWRS Ages 8-12. Avail. 7/16 readers in each grade, she knows she’s just the person to lead Mrs. Molina’s third graders to victory. But how can they win when Pi in the Sky her classmate Cody Harmon doesn’t want to read anything, and Joss is the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the even Kelsey’s best friends Annika and Izzy don’t live up to her Universe, and all he gets to do is deliver pies. Of course, these expectations? And could Simon possibly be reading all of those pies actually hold the secrets of the universe between their books that he claims he is, or is he lying to steal Kelsey’s rightful buttery crusts, but they’re still pies. Joss comes from a family of spot at the top? Plunge into Kelsey Green, Reading Queen ($15.99, overachievers, and is happy to let his older brothers shine, but )6* WKHYHU\ÀUVWERRNLQ&ODXGLD0LOOV·V when Earth suddenly disappears, Joss is tasked with the not-so- Franklin School Friends series. Ages 7-10. Avail. 6/4 simple job of bringing it back. Joss embarks on the adventure of a lifetime and learns that the universe is an even stranger Invisible Inkling: The Whoopie Pie War place than he’d imagined in Pi in the Sky ($17, Little Brown, A truck selling ice cream whoopie pies sets up right in front of 978-0-316-08916-6), a new action novel by bestselling author the ice cream shop belonging to Hank’s family, and it’s taking Wendy Mass. Ages 8-12. Avail. 6/11 away all the shop’s business. The Whoopie Pie War is on! They’ll do whatever it takes to beat the whoopie pie truck — unicorn Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, costumes, extreme kindness, an army of supervillains. 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8 The End of Big Understanding Our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and Our World expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. It can be good in some cases, but as Nicco Mele reveals in The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath ($25.99, Fighting for Common Ground St. Martin’s, 978-1-250-02185-4), the promise of the Internet comes with a troubling downside with important implications. An outspoken centrist, Senator Olympia Snowe stunned A fascinating (and at times alarming) look at safety, freedom, Washington when she announced she would not seek a fourth privacy, radical thinking, unchecked power and the implications term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the for our future. dispiriting gridlock and polarization. In Fighting for Common Ground ($26, Weinstein, 978-1-602-86217-3), Senator Snowe The Unwinding passionately argues that the government has lost its way, Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country shows how this happened, and proposes ways for the world’s of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while JUHDWHVWGHOLEHUDWLYHERG\WRIXOÀOOLWVPLVVLRQRQFHDJDLQ rending the social contract, driving the political system to the YHUJHRIEUHDNGRZQDQGVHWWLQJFLWL]HQVDGULIWWRÀQGQHZSDWKV Hedge Hogs forward. In The Unwinding ($27, FSG, 978-0-374-10241-8), At its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more George Packer (The Assassins’ Gate) portrays a superpower in than $9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, collapsed. Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street’s its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to Largest Hedge Fund Disaster ($28, Random House, improvise their own schemes for success and salvation — the 978-1-400-06839-5), by Barbara Dreyfuss, takes you behind past three decades in an utterly original way. closed doors into the shadowy world of hedge funds, the XQUHJXODWHGZLOGVLGHRIÀQDQFHZKHUHRYHUWKHWRSSDUWLHV American Gun and lavish perks abound and billions of dollars of other Chris Kyle, fallen hero and author of the bestselling American people’s money are in the hands of a tiny elite. Sniper, reveals how ten legendary guns forever changed U.S. history in American Gun ($29.99, Wm. Morrow, 978-0-062- The Price of Justice 24271-6). Through each gun, he revisits thrilling turning points Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy, ran an industry in American history, including the single sniper shot that turned that provides nearly half of America’s electric power. But WKHWLGHRIWKH5HYROXWLRQDU\:DUWKHÀUHDUPVGHVLJQVWKDW ZHDOWKDQGLQÁXHQFHZHUHQ·WHQRXJKIRU%ODQNHQVKLSDQGKLV proved decisive at Gettysburg, the “gun that won the West,” company, as they set about destroying corporate and personal and the weapons that gave U.S. soldiers an edge in the world rivals, challenging the Constitution, purchasing the West wars and beyond. With an unforgettable cast of characters, Virginia judiciary, and willfully disregarding safety standards Kyle’s work is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, in the company’s mines — in which scores died unnecessarily. DQGVDFULÀFH$YDLO Laurence Leamer’s The Price of Justice ($30, Times, 978-0-805-09471-8) reads like a legal thriller, tracing the The Feud fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most For more than a century, the enduring feud between the powerful coal baron in American history to justice. +DWÀHOGVDQGWKH0F&R\VKDVEHHQ$PHULFDQVKRUWKDQGIRU passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet no RQHKDVHYHUWROGWKHWUXHVWRU\RIWKLVOHJHQGDU\ÀHUFHFODVK in the heart of Appalachia. Filled with bitter quarrels, reckless affairs, treacherous betrayals, relentless mercenaries, and courageous detectives, David King’s 7KH)HXG7KH+DWÀHOGVDQG McCoys /LWWOH%URZQ ÀQDOO\JLYHVXV the full, unvarnished formative American tale. An absorbing account of this mythic tale.

9 Savor the Hand-Stitched Home Attention to simplicity and calm is what makes Caroline Zoob Season one of the most talented and creative designers in embroidery. Her work is utterly distinctive and in Hand-Stitched Home ($19.99, Harper Design, 978-0-062-25004-9), she shares her inspirations Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives: and techniques so you can add the personal items in your home — from embellishing table cloths and dining chair covers to The Funky Finds in Flavortown adding an elegant touch to bed linens and window treatments. The Food Network’s biggest star, Guy Fieri, continues with Rest the mind while creating something beautiful for your home. KLVPRWWR´,ILW·VIXQN\,·OOÀQGLWµZLWKPRUHSURÀOHVRIJUHDW American restaurants, delicious recipes, tons of photos, and The Possibility Dogs hilarious stories from Guy, his crew, and restaurant owners. Susannah Charleson works as an evaluator in shelters, plucking Enjoy armchair travel and dining and if you’re heading off on a unwanted dogs, big and small, training them and matching them road trip, take along Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives: The Funky Finds with people in need. Inspired by her own personal struggle to in Flavortown ($21.99, Wm. Morrow, 978-0-062-24465-9), transcend posttraumatic stress disorder where her search dog had also a great Father’s Day gift! a surprising difference in her own healing, Charleson shares how dogs can be rescued and can rescue in return in The Possibility Twenty-Dollar, Twenty-Minute Meals Dogs: What a Handful of “Unadoptables” Taught Me About Service, Being on a budget doesn’t mean you can’t eat delicious meals Hope, and Healing ($27, HMH, 978-0-547-73493-4). Avail. 6/4 every day. Young food editor and recipe developer Caroline Wright makes a bold and irresistible promise in Twenty-Dollar, In the Body of the World Twenty-Minute Meals ($12.95, Workman, 978-0-761-17493-6) Eve Ensler, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and for all who enjoy eating out and would love to eat and entertain one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Changed the World, at home in the same fashion. A great guide for all millennials, has devoted her life to the female body, yet she spent much young families, and anyone curious about new ideas for of her life disassociated from her own body. While working in stretching the food budget while creating delicious meals. WKH&RQJRVKHLVVKDWWHUHGWRHQFRXQWHUWKHKRUULÀFUDSHDQG YLROHQFHLQÁLFWHGRQWKHZRPHQWKHUHDQGVRRQDIWHUVKHLV Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts for Kids diagnosed with uterine cancer. With her memoir In the Body of the World ($25, Metropolitan, 978-0-805-09518-0), she connects 3DUHQWVDQGJUDQGSDUHQWVÀOOWKHVXPPHUZLWKIXQDFWLYLWLHV her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to with Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts for Kids: 175 Fun Projects to WKHUHVLOLHQFHRIKXPDQLW\VKHLVÀQDOO\IXOO\³DQGJUDWHIXOO\ Create, Build, Design, Explore, and Share ($24.99, Potter Craft, ³MRLQHGWRWKHERG\RIWKHZRUOG+HUZRUNXVXQÁLQFKLQJ 978-0-307-95474-9). Enjoy your time together with the kids and generous, and inspiring. delight in seeing them create items they can wear, decorate, and play with when you’re done. Designed for children ages three The Astronaut Wives Club to twelve, you’re sure to create precious memories and artifacts As America’s Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death- with Martha Stewart as your guide. Avail. 6/18 defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed “…fi nd freedom, aliveness, and power from military spouses into American royalty. As their celebrity rose — and as divorce and tragic death began to touch their not from what contains, locates, or lives — they continued to rally together, and the wives have now protects us, but from what dissolves, EHHQIULHQGVIRUPRUHWKDQÀIW\\HDUV/LO\.RSSHO·VThe Astronaut reveals, and expands us.” Wives Club ($28, Grand Central, 978-1-455-50325-4) is a delicious — Eve Ensler QRVWDOJLFVWRU\RIWHDLQWKH.HQQHG\:KLWH+RXVHPLOHKLJK beehives, and the lives of these unlikely heroes.

10 READ BETWEEN THE LYNES Book Group Book Club Schedules Daytime Book Club Recommendations The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells 2nd Wednesday of each month After the death of her beloved twin brother at 12:30 pm at RBTL and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Wednesday, June 11, 12:30 pm Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds In Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel The Age of Innocence ($11, Penguin, herself repeatedly transported to the lives 978-0-1401-8970-4), the beautiful Countess Ellen Olenska, fleeing her brutish husband, she might have had if she’d been born in dif- returns from Europe to the upper-class world of Old New York in the 1870s. Her rebel- lious independence and impulsive awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of ferent eras. Rapturously romantic, The Newland Archer, already engaged to marry Ellen’s cousin. Wharton’s sharp wit and mas- Impossible Lives of Greta Wells ($26.99, Ecco, tery of form create a disturbingly accurate picture of men and women caught in a socie- 978-0-062-21378-5), by Andrew Sean Greer, ty that denies humanity while desperately defending “civilization”. imagines “what if” and wondrously wrestles with the impossibility of what could be. Available Wednesday, July 10, 12:30 pm 6/25 Life After Life by Jill McCorkle A Girl Like You The residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve- year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discov- With one white parent and one Japanese par- eries. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will transform them ent, Satomi is seen as “other” by both com- all. Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and munities. Life becomes much more difficult memory in Life After Life ($24.95, Shannon Ravenel Books, 978-1-5651-2255-0). after her father is killed when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and Satomi and her mother Evening Book Club are sent to an internment camp. Once free, she heads east and finds several suitors in 3rd Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL New York who would make her life easier. Monday, June17, 7 pm But headstrong Satomi insists on love – and Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks finds it in unexpected places in A Girl Like Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend ($14.99, Griffin, 978-1-2500-3185-3) by Matthew Dicks is You ($16, Bloomsbury, 978-1-608-19265-6), a novel as creative, brave, and pitch-perfect as its narrator, an imaginary friend named Budo, who reminds us that bravery comes in the most unlikely forms. The story touches an engaging coming-of-age story by Maureen on the truths of life, love, and friendship as it races to a heartwarming... and heartbreak- Lindley. Available 6/4 ing conclusion. Astor Place Vintage Monday, July 15, 7 pm The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Steadman The proprietor of a vintage clothing store, After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia Amanda Rosenbloom discovers a journal and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper. Years later, after two miscarriages and one still- sewn into a fur muff. The pages of the jour- birth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries in the wind. A boat has washed up onshore nal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young carrying a dead man and a living baby. Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and woman who had moved to Manhattan in against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, 1907 to pursue a career in an era when Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. M.L. Steadman’s The Light Between Victorian ideas were only beginning to give the Oceans ($16, Scribner, 978-1-4516-8175-8) is a stunning debut novel to prompt a live- way to modern ways of thinking. In Astor ly discussion. Place Vintage ($16, Touchstone, 978-1-451- 68205-2), Stephanie Lehmann shows how Men’s Book Club two women — despite being separated by 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm one hundred years — could be connected in Available ways neither could ever have imagined. 6/11 at Woodstock Public House Monday, June 24, 7 pm Star Attraction Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Alison Sweeney, having starred in “Days of The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was Our Lives” and hosted NBC’s “The Biggest more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Loser,” knows a thing or two about behind- Michael Lewis’s Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World ($16.95, Norton, 978-0-3933- the-scenes Hollywood. Her debut novel, Star 4344-1) turns a merciless eye on the world and the U.S. to expose a financial trap baited Attraction ($14.99, Hyperion, 978-1-401- with humor and reckoning. 31104-9), is about a publicist to the stars who Monday, July 29, 7 pm lets her libido interfere with her work when a Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo steamy make-out session with a client has her From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramat- questioning how much she really wants to ic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first cen- escape from a relationship with her loving tury’s great, unequal cities. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight, Behind the Beautiful Forevers ($27, investment banker boyfriend. 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Available MEET JOELLE CARBONEAU Do you ever think about your first love, the one you MEET PATRICE MAROTTA 6/4 thought you couldn’t live without? Libby Carson does, The Testing and when she receives a marriage proposal she turns to In My Mother’s Kitchen Wednesday, June 12, 7 pm SearchForClassmates.com to reach out to her high- Saturday, July 13, school boyfriend, Patrick … just for fun. But fun soon Joelle Carboneau’s The Testing ($17.99, 11 am - 1 pm HMH, 978-0-5479-5910-8) is an action- turns to flirtation and Libby, startled to feel the same stirrings of passion she felt at seventeen, wonders if Take a break from the Farmer’s packed adventure that will keep you enter- Market to hear Patrice share her tained this summer! she’s having a mid-life crisis. 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