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116 East Woodin Ave. PO Box 686 Chelan WA 98816 “Lake Chelan Valley’s Community Bookstore since 1994” Spring 2011 Phone: 509.682.8901 Secrets in Life & Love The Paris Wife characters, Bent Road ($25.95, Dutton, 978-0-525-95183-4), Lori Paula McLain’s latest novel Roy’s quirky and often creepy tale captures a remarkable period of of a dysfunctional community and time and a love affair between a family that fits right in, will two unforgettable people: keep you guessing right until the Visit us at the foot of Lake Ernest Hemingway and Hadley last page. Chelan, a 55 mile long glacier- Richardson, the quiet twenty-eight- fed lake, surrounded by the year-old who would become his wife The Tiger’s Wife Cascade Mountains and the after a whirlwind courtship. The pair Columbia River. Two hour Tea Obreht, the youngest of The parking is available on city set sail for Paris, where they become New Yorker’s twenty best American streets or, park in one of the the golden couple in a lively and volatile group that three parking lots in town. includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and fiction writers under forty, spins a brilliant novel about Zelda Fitzgerald. Though deeply in love, the Hemingways family legend, loss and love in The Tiger’s Wife ($25, Random Store Hours are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of House, 978-0-385-34383-1). Natalia is a young doctor who MONDAY-SATURDAY 9 TO 6 Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of arrives at an orphanage in a Balkan country (not unlike the BEGINNING MAY 1ST: family and monogamy. Despite their extraordinary bond, author’s native Croatia) on a mission of mercy. 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