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Authors Headed to TKE This Summer

Where They’re Going Next and What Books They’re Taking Along

Terry Tempest Williams Richard Russo Alan Furst This summer, I will be traveling to 12 nation- I’m all over on I will be al parks sharing The Hour of Land with park this tour. It’s reading visitors from Yellowstone to Yosemite to Aca- been a while Agents of dia National Park in Maine. In my bag, I will since I’ve done Empire, be carrying Louise Erdrich’s exquisite novel, a southern by Noel LaRose, filled with hard-edged truths of swing, but Malcolm. It Indian children, boarding schools, and pas- I’ll be visiting is about the sages so beautiful about what mothers teach my pal Ann sixteenth their children that I just keep rereading them Patchett’s store century, the as poetry. Speaking of poetry, I will also be carrying C.D. Wright’s in Nashville and another in Jack- Ottoman Empire, and the Vene- collection of poems published right before her death, The Poet, son, Mississippi. Jackson will be a tian Republic, as seen through a The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, literary thrill, as I’m finishing up the powerful Albanian family. I love The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, correspondence of Ross Macdonald big, broad political histories, and Fire & All. Here is a sentence: “He wanted to get down on his and Eudora Welty. Later on in the this one looks very promising. I knees with the language and dig with both hands.” I so love this as summer my wife and I will tool will also recommend the mag- an image of both the impulse and necessity to write. Alongside around the Cape and Vineyard nificent writer Bill Finnegan, my binoculars and bird book, I will also be taking Gathering and visit some favorite stores there. who won a Pulitzer for his book Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, by Robin Wall I’ll have with me the new Mag- Barbarian Days. This you will Kemmerer, a biologist, lyrical writer, and an enrolled member of gie O’Farrell, which just arrived in not put down. It’s about growing the Potawatomi Nation. “Slowing down and coming close, we see galleys and the last Kate Atkinson, up as a surfer in California and patterns emerge and expand out of the tangled tapestry threads.” which I missed when it came out. Hawaii. Find more authors’ responses on pages 2 and 3! TKE Events This Summer!

Thursday, June 2, 7 p.m. Craig Johnson gallops into Thursday, June 9, 7 p.m.Debut author Liz Kay town with The Highwayman (at the Viridian Events reads from and signs Monsters: A Love Story. Center). Friday, June 10, 7 p.m. Alan Furst Saturday, June 4, 2 p.m. Grillmas- will read from and sign his new ter Steve Raichlen returns with thriller, A Hero of France. Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m. Kate Smoked Food Nirvana. Holbrook and Matt Bowman Tuesday, June 7, 7 p.m. Terry Tem- discuss Women and Mormonism: pest Williams presents The Hour Historical and Contemporary of Land: A Personal Topography Perspectives. of America’s National Parks with Tuesday, June 28, 7 p.m. Judith special guests, The National Parks Freeman will read from and sign band (at the Rose Wagner, call store her memoir, The Latter Days. for details). Find more events on page 2 and 3! Wednesday, June 8, 7 p.m. Indie fave Richard Russo joins us for Everybody’s Fool.

Hardcover Sale! Thursday, June 9 - Sunday, June 12 | Block Party Saturday, June 11!!! Wednesday, August 3, 7 p.m. Ser- Events Continued... ena Burdick debuts her novel, Girl in the Afternoon. Friday, July 15, 7 p.m. Brad Watson will join us to Thursday, August 11, 7 p.m.Put read from and sign Miss Jane. on your aprons and join us for Caroline Wright and Mix + Match Thursday, July 21, 7 p.m. Cathy Cakes. Haruf will help us celebrate the life and work of her late husband, Kent Thursday, August 18, 7 p.m. Rae Haruf, and in particular his last Meadows returns to Utah to read from and sign I book, Our Souls at Night. Will Send Rain.

Where They’re Headed and What Books They’re Taking Along

Cathy Haruf Brad Watson The new Richard Russo,Everybody’s Fool, I’m coming down through Colorado to SLC, sounds like great fun and also a new Sebastian then to Santa Fe before heading to Mississippi, Faulks since I just read Birdsong and loved it. I’ll Alabama, and Florida—then Boston and back stick them in my bag for my trip to Salt Lake—or to Mississippi before going back to Wyoming. buy them at The King’s English when I get there. I plan to have my 1988 Cadillac packed with clothes, boots, books, water, jerky, a bit of strong drink, maybe a shotgun. In case I have to sleep in the Caddy on the side of the road. For read- Serena Burdick ing, when I have the chance: The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen;Euphoria , Lily King; some more of Vladimir I’m driving across the country with the family, Sorokin (just read that strange book, The Blizzard); Spell of the Tiger, so after Salt Lake City we’re headed to Yosemite, Sy Montgomery (her book plus maybe other man-eater tales, for San Francisco, L.A., and then back the south- pleasure and research); and a collection of some new and older Jim ern route to the Grand Canyon, New Mexico, Harrison, in honor of his recent death. Possibly a volume of Czeslaw Nashville and up the East Coast to our home in Milosz poems. New England. Books I’m bringing: Elena Fer- rante’s Neapolitan novels (all 4), The Queen of Judith Freeman the Night, All the Light We Cannot See, Gilead and Middlemarch. In August, when my book tour has finished, my husband Tony and I will visit our friends Louise and Ralph who live in an old stone farmhouse in Liz Kay Kate Provence, near the lovely hilltop village of Bon- Holbrook After nieux. We spent 10 days there last summer, sur- some time What a happy rounded by olive groves, grape vines, and laven- in SLC, question! I der fields, eating from the garden, making meals I’ll be am lucky to together at night, lounging by the pool on the back in share a family really hot summer afternoons, and at the end of my other cabin with my that time we all vowed this was something we should do every year. home- cousins that Perhaps I’ll take Edna O’Brien’s new novel, The Little Red Chairs town of provides a (how great she’s still writing such profoundly interesting novels in Omaha, great setting for luxurious hours her eighties), and maybe a book my friend Rae recommended some and then off to California. of reading. Right now I’m plan- time ago, Mademoiselle: Coco Channel and the Pulse of History, by Two books I’ll definitely be ning to read: Between the World Rhonda K. Garelick—it seems the perfect book, combining interests packing (if I haven’t already and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, in fashion, history, and French culture—and a fascinating woman. devoured them by then) are Through the Valley of the Shad- And since I always take a book of poems on a journey—I’ll pack Ur- Pamela Erens’ Eleven Hours, ows by Samuel Brown, At Home sula K. Le Guin’s most recent book, Late in the Day - a beautiful little and Kristen-Paige Madonia’s with Madame Chic by Jennifer L. volume, with a preface and afterward I can read again, and again. Invisible Fault Lines. Scott, and A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Summer Roadtripping! Berlin. What are you reading?

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Brodi Kiersten Matthew J. Ashton White Kirby I’m going to I’ll be I’ll be travel- the beach heading to ing to Mon- in San Comic-Con, Jessica Day terey to teach Diego, and with the George for a week I’m bring- slim story at the Cal I’m headed ing The collection State Sum- to Alaska, Orphan The Bloody mer Arts away from Queen Chamber by program, the heat! I’ll and The Mirror King by Jodi Angela Carter in my purse just in and then later I’ll be at San Diego be taking Meadows! case I have downtime! Comic Con. Probably some fam- Guy Gavriel ily vacation in there somewhere, Kay’s Christian McKay Heidicker too. Though my back won’t like Children of I’ll be spending a week in Carmel with my me for it, I plan to take The Name Earth and Sky and Maggie Sti- girlfriend, who’s turning twenty-six, and mother, of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss efvater’s complete Raven Cycle who’s turning seventy. Like many writers I don’t to finish reading, and its even with me, and also rereading my do well on vacations, so I’ll be tempering my more massive sequel, The Wise beloved Jonathan Strange & anxiety with Gone with the Wind (on audio- Man’s Fear. Mr. Norrell! book), The Vorrhby Brian Catling (in flippity- book), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Wendy Terrien Prince, which I’ll be reading aloud to my girl- We’re planning a trip to London because I need friend. She’s never read the books or seen the movies! When Hagrid to do some research for Jason’s (my main char- was hauled off to Azkaban inChamber of Secrets, she gasped and acter in The Rampart Guards) next book. Plus, asked if he was going to be the prisoner in the third book! Luckiest I admit it, I love London. So it will be a lovely guy in the world right here. way to work. Because it’s a long flight, and a long trip, I get to pack lots of books. I’ll take Jeffery Sarah Beard Deaver’s new book, The Steel Kiss. He’s so good This summer my family and I will be heading at mystery and twists when you least expect to Zion National Park and then to southern them. I also hope to have Promise of the Scholar, California to enjoy some beach time! I’ll also be soon-to-be-released book two in The Expatriates series by Corinne starting a writing MFA program at Vermont Col- O’Flynn. And I’m taking Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It’s lege of Fine Arts, so I’ll be flying out there for my been on my to-be-read pile for too long, and I’m excited to finally first residency. For both trips, my suitcase will dive into it. I might also throw in A Discovery of Witches by Debo- be stocked with a mixture of YA romance (I’m rah Harkness, and Shift by Hugh Howey, and Lake of Fire by Mark a huge Kasie West fan and her next book P.S. I Stevens…what can I say — there’s so much to read! And I can’t sleep Like You releases in July) and non-fiction writing on airplanes, so I’m always happy to settle in with a good book. books (some on my VCFA reading list include Jack Bickham’s Scene and Structure and Ray Bradbury’s Zen and the Art of Writing. Summer Events for Kids and Teens

Tuesday, June 7, 7 p.m. A trio of teen authors includ- Saturday, June 24, 4 p.m. Becky Wal- ing Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jane Meadows lace returns with The Skylighter. joins us for My Lady Jane. Friday, July 8, 7 p.m. Victoria Saturday, June 11, 11 a.m. Join Schwab will be here with her teen us for a special storytime with novel, This Savage Song. Andrea Zuill and Wolf Camp. Saturday, July 16, 7 p.m. Kiersten Saturday, June 11, 7 p.m. Local White returns to Salt Lake with And author Sarah Beard debuts her teen I Darken. novel, Beyond the Rising Tide. Thursday, August 4, 7 p.m. Wendy Saturday, June 18, 7 p.m. Debut Terrien comes home to read from and author Christian McKay Heidicker sign The Rampart Guards. will read from and sign Cure for the Common Universe.

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Everybody’s Fool, Richard Russo tering in a beautiful tale, told with such precision it has been likened You don’t have to have read and loved to Kent Haruf’s Plainsong. – Sue Fleming, Knopf, 25.95 Nobody’s Fool to love Richard Russo’s The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes long-awaited sequel but it doesn’t hurt, This stunning new novel, Barnes’ first since everyone you loved and hated and since winning the Man Booker prize for loved to hate is still spinning out his or The Sense of an Ending, is set in 1936. her days in their small burdened New Dimitri Shostakovich has written a new York town, the difference being that now opera, and Stalin, who has suddenly taken the threat of mortality looms over them an interest in his music, has denounced all. The book begins with a bang (literally) this latest work. How do you stay true to at a funeral (I defy you not to laugh) and your music and to yourself in an atmo- includes in its snappy narrative adultery, sphere of fear and repression? How do friendship, abuse, death, community, you even survive? Questions addressed the environment, new love, yearning for days gone by—and some of in this fascinating look at a complex the funniest scenes in modern fiction. Russo’s characters—whether and brilliant musician caught up in turbulent times. “What could indelibly etched in our brains or new acquaintances—so roil each be put up against the noise of time? Only that music that is inside other’s lives that his novel, while in a broad sense a tale of everyman ourselves—the music of our being—which is transformed by some (and woman), is at once so sad, so wildly and improbably funny, so into real music. Which, over the decades, if it is strong and true and painfully true on every level that it feels acutely personal. I’m not sure pure enough to drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the how he does it, but I do know that Russo is an American treasure. whisper of history.” – Sally Larkin, Knopf, $25.95 And while I trust he has many novels left to write, for now at least this is his capstone. I couldn’t put it down, and I can’t quit smiling. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Chris Cleave – Betsy Burton, Knopf, $27.95 Editor’s note: Richard Russo will be at In this huge and hugely passionate novel The King’s English on Wednesday, June 8, 7 p.m. set during WWII, Chris Cleave sweeps us LaRose, Louise Erdrich from the London blitz to the Ritz to the tenuous British front in Malta, sweeping At the heart of Louise Erdrich’s new us off our feet in the process. On the day novel are the children: Dusty, acciden- war is declared in England, Mary North tally killed by LaRose’s father, LaRose signs up, imagining glory but winding himself, loaned half-time to Dusty’s up in an abandoned school, teaching mom and dad in a shattering act of the few children left in London follow- atonement, LaRose’s sisters, his new ing the evacuation. She promptly falls in sister Maggie. And then there is the first love with teaching, with one student in LaRose, an 11-year-old child sold by her particular, and with her superintendent, mother and abused by one white man, whom she has alternately charmed and harassed into hiring her. So rescued by another, many generations begins an alternately besotting and horrifying portrayal of war writ before. Erdrich’s fiction hovers between large across the landscape of the world and particularized in the lives the Objebwe and white worlds, flying of those who lived through its horrors—powerful, compelling and across generations—as, in this case, five LaRoses float into and out of unforgettable. - Betsy Burton, Simon & Schuster, $26.99 a tale told as oral history, as family saga, as ancient myth and harsh reality, all twined in ways that lend dimension and magic to both the Barkskins, Annie Proulx past and the present. Erdrich has created, over her lifetime, the single Not for the faint of heart, Annie Proulx’s most comprehensive saga of interrelated families in American fiction 700+ page novel Barkskins has the sweep and LaRose is one of, perhaps the, most brilliant of her creations. and heft—and the density—of the seem- – Betsy Burton, HarperCollins, $27.99 ingly endless forests that once covered Wintering, Peter Geye our continent. It chronicles the fate of those forests along with those who made Eighteen- year-old Gustav Eide joins his timber their lives, beginning in 1693 and father Harry for a “wintering” experience, moving back and forth across centuries, spending months in Minnesota’s harsh following two families over time—one of borderlands during the winter, following Dutch ancestry, the other of American earlier voyagers. The events that unfold Indian/French lineage. Proulx urges us set Gus on a path that troubles him far along dark forest trails into stump-ridden into his future. Years later, his elderly, clearings, along watery trade routes to China and New Zealand and demented father walks away into another South America, telling us tales of traders and timber barons and sea winter scene, not to return. Berit Lovig, captains, of lovers and husbands and wives, of scientists, visionaries who has loved Harry since she was 16, and murderers. Through it all, as cultures are destroyed or changed listens as Gus unfolds the saga of his win- unutterably, lands denuded, whether by axe or by fire, in the end the 4 FICTION earth itself becomes a character, its persona woven of changing sea- The Girls, Emma Cline sons and brutal storms, falling trees and angry oceans and endlessly The basic plot of Cline’s debut novel will striving men and women. This isn’t a novel to keep you up at night be familiar to anyone who knows the but one to remind you who you are and how you came to be—and Charles Manson story: at the close of the where you are, and are not, going. – Betsy Burton, Scribner, $32 ‘60s, wayward youth fall under the spell Zero K, Don DeLillo of a charismatic psychopath with lethal While not a masterpiece like White Noise, consequences. But this is much more than Libra, or Underworld, this is still a ter- a fictional account of that infamous death rific novel that veers close to the sci-fi/ cult; it’s a book that explores deeply why post-apocalyptic genre that dominates a young girl would join a cult in the first today’s popular culture with a story about place, which is to say The Girls is really a a cultlike, top secret cryogenic + nano- book about, well, girls—where they fit in, technology program that promises a new where they belong. Cline’s storytelling is post-death life for people wealthy enough so confident, so well crafted, that it’s hard to believe this is a debut. to buy in. However, it has more to do with – Kenneth Loosli, Random House, $27 the pre-apocalypse than the post-, more My Last Continent, Midge Raymond to do with how families cope with end-of- Deb Gardner is a conservation biologist life decisions. Which makes Zero K some- who studies the various penguin spe- thing of a philosophical novel at heart, so don’t go into it expecting a cies at the bottom of the earth. Keller lot of flash-bang action—be prepared for some emotional heaviness, Sullivan is a Boston attorney who has lost especially on the subject of family. It made a great companion piece his family and is trying to find himself on to Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last. the same continent of ice. Deb’s role as a – Kenneth Loosli, Scribner, $27 biologist and tour guide for passengers Homegoing: A Novel, Yaa Gyasi aboard a small expedition vessel contra- Spanning almost 300 years, Gyasi’s tale dicts her desire for aloneness with the is of two Ghanian half-sisters: Effia “the study of her penguins. Moving backwards Beautiful,” who ends up “married” to and forwards in time, she describes her a white man managing the burgeon- relationship with Keller, with passengers, ing business in the slave trade, and Esi, with the Antarctic, at the same time slowly sharing her experience who is on her way to America as a slave. with the worst disaster aboard an ocean liner in one of the most Both women, ripped from their families remote places on earth. – Sue Fleming, Scribner, $26 and homes, are grappling with fear of The Translation of Love, the unknown and the horrors of slavery. Lynne Kutsukake Gyasi follows their stories through many Canada had its own form of internment generations. The brutality of the tribal camps during WWII. At the end of the wars at home is overshadowed only by war the internees were given the choice of the barbarity of slavery in America, and time does not diminish the moving east of the Rocky Mountains or familial memory of terror. The repercussions reverberate all the way deportation to Japan. Thirteen-year-old into the 20th century. Really we are all living with this inhumanity, Aya Shimamura has to go to a Japan she and this book will stay with readers for a very long time. does not know when her father chooses – Margaret Brennan Neville, Knopf, $26.95 to return there. Her life in post-war Japan City of Secrets, Stewart O’Nan is lonely until her seatmate Fumi asks her In 1945 a Jewish survivor of the German to write a letter in English. She wishes for death camps finds his way to Jerusalem General MacArthur’s help in finding her and is immediately pulled into an under- missing older sister. The General’s staff receives thousands of letters ground cell for resistance fighters against daily from needy but proud men and women, and this particular let- the British Mandate. O’Nan’s concise and ter comes to the attention of two Japanese-American translators. One sparingly stark account of a true event oc- has spent the war on the General’s staff, and one was trapped in Japan curring that year at the King David Hotel at the beginning of the war. Each character sees occupied Tokyo from that has haunted him is a tale fascinating his or her point of view, the surviving Japanese possessed of conflict- for those interested in Israeli history or in ing emotions of humility and anger while the Japanese-American the way a young disenfranchised man or characters are confused as to what their role is in this conquered woman can get caught up in events soon country. By artfully intertwining these viewpoints Kutsukake gives us beyond their control—something as true a new way of seeing WWII Japan and its relationship with America. today as it was then. A remarkable book. – Sue Fleming, Viking, $22 – Wendy Foster Leigh, Doubleday, $25.95

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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topogra- of growing up in that crucible here in the West seem familiar, know- phy of America’s National Parks, Terry able. Not outside or “other.” Freeman’s experience with boys, with Tempest Williams siblings, with elders, with her mother and most of all with her charis- Taking us through American national matic abusive father, are universal. Her coming of age, chaffing under parks and monuments, their history, their the constraints of a religion that on the one hand was comforting, present reality, the rocks and birds and inclusive to believers, and on the other exclusive, shaming, is pretty trees of them, traveling through place, the universal too. The part that isn’t, the characteristics that are particu- memory of place, its history, somehow, larly Mormon, seen through the prism of a tough but vulnerable girl whether through the spectrum of poetry and young woman, her vision now both softened and sharpened by or personal story, natural history, history, the hindsight of age, is—I’ll say it again—revelatory. No longer out of or science, The Hour of Land reveals hurt or a need for revenge but out of a desire to give a true account- the very bones and sinew of our country. A redheaded woodpecker, ing. – Betsy Burton, Pantheon, $28.95 Editor’s note: Judith Freeman Theodore Roosevelt’s grief, Terry’s straight-backed father, a horseback will join us at TKE on Tuesday, June 28, 7 p.m. ride with her husband through the terrain of the Civil War—slowly, The Apache Wars, Paul Andrew Hutton place by place, our country begins to emerge. The South’s Civil War The southern part of what we now know outlook is linked to that of today’s Sagebrush Rebellion here in the as Arizona was an arid and unforgiv- West; a planned wall in Big Bend to the inevitable desecration of ing land. The people who inhabited the nature; fratricidal rage to the glorious indifference of the Arctic; region had to be tough to survive. By the righteous rage to the devastation of oil spills, of the earth; Alcatraz 1860s the tension was greatest between to injustice everywhere. The conflagration of Glacier National Park the Native Americans, Mexicans and sets the pages on fire and yet the monument to Cesar Chavez offers Americans, both Union and Confeder- the possibility of change: The Hour of Land is at hand. Terry Tem- ate. Loyalties were flexible, but, to the pest Williams has literally shown us our country, its physical body, Apaches of the time, revenge was the the bones of its history, the urgent reality of our roles in its future. A strongest emotion, and it was revenge manifesto that everyone must read and then act upon. that started what was to become the – Betsy Burton, Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $27 longest war in American history. Hutton Editor’s note: Terry Tempest Williams will be at the Rose Wagner The- has written a breathtaking history of this war between the Apaches, ater on Tuesday, June 7, 7 p.m. settlers both American and Mexican, and the armies of both nations. The Gene: An Intimate History, Geronimo, Cochise, the Apache Kid, Kit Carson are only a few of the Siddhartha Mukherjee names Hutton brings vividly to life. It is a great read and a wonderful Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of history. – Barbara Hoagland, Crown, $30 All Maladies, explains genetics and its Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans profound influence of heredity on our at War, Mary Roach lives. He weaves the story of his own Coming from the author of Bonk, Spook, family to exemplify how conditions with Packing for Mars etc., you know that uncles, cousins and other family mem- Grunt is going to be a mix of science and bers come to be. In as fascinating a work ‘eww!’ This book isn’t going to tell you as his previous book on the history of how to treat PTSD or build a more lethal cancer, Mukherjee begins with the history weapon. What it will do is give you an of the study of genes, from its mythical insight into what scientists can do to keep beginnings to the solid science of today. I our military personnel healthy—from highly recommend this book for anyone even remotely interested in fabrics that will stop them from bursting nature and science. – Sue Fleming, Scribner, $30 into flames to ear protection that won’t The Latter Days: A Memoir, leave them deaf at the end of their opera- Judith Freeman tional tour. There’s even a quick trip into the attempted development For anyone who grew up in Utah, is a of shark repellent and operational stink bombs. On a more serious child of the ‘50s, or who wants to under- note, Roach highlights an injury that most of us have never heard stand what it means to be Western, female of (warning: it will make grown men cross their legs!), tells us about and Mormon, The Latter Daysby Judith ‘surgeon’ maggots, gets sleep-deprived on a submarine and explains Freeman is revelatory. Not in the sense the sound submariners don’t want to hear at 300 feet below. Above or that it gives away secrets about Mormon- below, she takes us along for the ride, seatbelts and sick bags optional. ism. There’s nothing revealed here that – Paula Longhurst, Norton, $26.95 anyone who’s spent time with Mormons White Sands, Geoff Dyer doesn’t already know. Rather, it puts the This unique travel book takes us on a witty, inquisitive exploration of reader in the heart of a family and a cul- some well-known, as well as not-so-well-known destinations from ture and time and makes the experience the Forbidden City in Beijing to the Watts Towers in Los Angeles to 6 NONFICTION the Spiral Jetty in Utah. Dyer, in elegant To Hell on a Fast Horse, his great story about Billy the Kid, or Shot prose, explores more than just “place,” All to Hell, the narrative of Jesse James and the Northfield Minne- examining the why and what of the places sota raid, you will love this telling of Theodore Roosevelt’s gambit in we choose to explore and forcing us, even the Spanish-American War. Well researched, this is also full of great in those pieces that are laugh-out-loud photos and maps which make the retelling of this chapter in late 19th funny, to look at our own reasons for century American history a pleasure to read. You will come away travel and at what we expect to gain from with a new understanding of the complex personality that was Theo- it. He explains that when we travel we dore Roosevelt and the real dedication his soldiers felt to him. pack with us images and memories that – Patrick Fleming, William Morris, $26.99 we have long had—sometimes for our Elizabeth: the Forgotten Years, John Guy entire lives—in a must-read book, not for the answers it may have about a desired Elizabeth I reigned for 44 years over the destination, but for the questions that we British Isles, and volumes have been writ- should ask before we go. –Jan Sloan, Pantheon Books, $25 ten about her rule. Guy’s toiling through archives of these years has revealed a Paper: Paging Through History, treasure trove of new information and in- Mark Kurlansky sight into her reign, particularly the later Kurlansky is the master of the single-topic years. She could be volatile, spiteful and book. Other authors who write in the autocratic, but she clearly took control of genre aren’t as prolific as Kurlansky with the management of her kingdom despite Salt, Cod, Birdseye, et al., and in Paper, a universal patriarchal attitude that a he combines the topic of paper and our woman could not rule. Guy’s research relationship with writing and the writing lends added texture to a fascinating and medium to tell a short history of human complicated woman and her life. – Barbara Hoagland, Viking, $35 civilization. It is a fascinating read, per- The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Gue- fect to take on vacation and also a great rillas 1939-1945, Max Hastings topic for a casual discourse at a summer cocktail party. Before reading this book, it Probably the definitive book about would never occur to most of us how much paper has shaped who we espionage associated with World War II, are in the modern world. – Patrick Fleming, W.W. Norton, $27.95 Hastings’ new book is a tour-de-force retelling of all of the spying, code break- Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick ing, and guerilla warfare during the six With many books based on history you years of WWII by all of the major players can always learn something new, but a (Germany, Britain, U.S., Russia, and book about the American Revolution and Japan). Could have been a long read if not George Washington—what more can pos- for Hastings’ great writing and the way sibly be written? Well, it turns out, a lot— the book is organized—global, sweeping especially when the story is in the hands strategic/political aims intermingled with of Philbrick. He gets us into the big battles moving personal stories of raw courage and grit. This is a good sum- of the Revolutionary War while also mertime read for the serious history buff. – Patrick Fleming, Harper- letting us in on the small battles mainly Collins, $35 involving the personalities of well-known The Romanovs: 1613-1918, historical figures, British and American Simon Sebag Montefiore alike. This book is a fluid read, has great maps, and explains the Revolution in the context of the 18th century This history of the Romanovs is as vast as in a way that makes you admire George Washington all the more the land they ruled. This storied dynasty even while understanding and sympathiz- was framed by the lives of two fragile ing with Benedict Arnold. A must-read sons— Michael as the original Romanov for the casual or serious historian and and Alexei as the martyred last. In be- those fans of Nathaniel Philbrick. – Pat- tween, there were sometimes brilliant and rick Fleming, Viking Press, $30 sometimes erratic autocratic tsars and tsarinas. During the 18th century there Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His were a series of female rulers, an almost Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal unheard of event among the Western Charge up San Juan Hill, nations, the most famous being Catherine Mark Lee Gardner the Great. At the same time, Russia was ruled in a totally despotic Gardner has become one of my favorite manner, almost medieval in the rights and privileges of the aristoc- Western writers, and this book keeps racy, with the tsars and tsarinas viewed as practically religious icons. him high on my list. If you are a fan of Montefiore has been privileged to have access to documents newly 7 NONFICTION released and has made ample use of them in this thorough and fasci- Nineteen forty-three saw serious differences emerge between FDR nating new look at Russian history. – Barbara Hoagland, Knopf, $35 and Winston Churchill as to where and how Europe should be liber- Joe Gould’s Teeth, Jill Lepore ated from German occupation. There were polite but fiercely argued disputes between the two on whether the Allies should accomplish If you were expecting something like the job of liberation by a direct attack across the English Channel The Secret History of Wonder Woman, or through a Mediterranean-centered strategy centered in Italy and this delightfully weird little book is Eastern Europe. As the year and the war wore on, Roosevelt gradually equally terrific but very different. While prevailed in his disputes with Churchill on Allied military strategy. it’s well-researched (as all Lepore’s work He also firmly restrained and overruled powerful American military is), it’s also a quick and breezy read, with chiefs, General George Marshall and Admiral Ernest King. Readers Lepore employing a less academic, very will come away from this volume feeling that in 1943 Roosevelt was conversational tone. At times, she even a commander in chief of the first rank, as effective as Lincoln dur- inserts herself into the story, recounting ing the Civil War. Hamilton’s work is a major literary and historical trips to libraries and archives and provid- achievement. – Lawrence Leigh, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 ing a glimpse into the working life of a professional historian. And a historian The View from the Cheap Seats, could not ask for a better subject than Joe Neil Gaiman Gould, who declared himself the most Gaiman’s nonfiction is as accomplished important historian of the 20th century as he embarked upon a quix- and fascinating as his stories and graphic otic quest to document history in real-time as expressed in conversa- novels, and here is a collection of the best tions. He called it oral history, and he spent his life working on an speeches (commencement and other- ambitious all-encompassing survey, but the final work never seemed wise), essays, and forewards he has writ- to materialize. It was even suspected he never wrote it at all, and ten to date. Every piece contains Gaiman’s some may have colluded with him to perpetuate the lie, yet Gould unique view of the world—from his days left notebooks for the project all over the country in the course of his as a journalist interviewing an unknown strange and winding life. He is one of those true history mysteries, a Terry Pratchett to the ‘door falls off a real enigma, and Lepore’s book leaves you wondering if someday you plane incident’ while traveling with Diana yourself might find a long-forgotten trunk full of Gould’s notebooks Wynn Jones to why you should never ever in a dusty attic. – Kenneth Loosli, Knopf, $24.95 give your 10-year-old daughter a Stephen King novel. Gaiman’s voice Pinpoint: GPS and the Quest for Perfect echoes in your head as you read, making each piece of advice, each Knowledge, Greg Milner story, each warning seem very personal. – Paula Longhurst, William Morrow, $26.99 GPS may seem cutting-edge to most of us but it turns out that we are putting all our The Way to the Spring, Ben Ehrenreich eggs into a technological basket from the This heartbreaking story about the lives ‘70s, which is when the Global Position of ordinary citizens in Palestine gives us System satellite network was conceived. a glimpse into what it is like to live in the The U.S. Air Force tried its hardest to West Bank under increasingly suffocating strangle the project through lack of fund- rules as well as physical obstacles, includ- ing. Proven by the first Gulf War and used ing fences that separate homes from for such diverse things as turn-by-turn fields, checkpoints and barriers. Ehren- directions, monitoring seismic activ- reich spent the past three years living off ity in earthquake zones, and trading on and on with different Palestinian families the stock market, this is a fascinating look at a technology that has to try to come to an understanding of ex- stealthily invaded every aspect of our lives. – Paula Longhurst, W.W. istence under these conditions. Using his Norton, $27.95 talents as a novelist, he tells their stories Commander in Chief: FDR’s Battle with with power and grace. A must-read, especially in these times. Churchill, 1943, Nigel Hamilton – Jan Sloan, Penguin Press, $28 Hamilton won a National Book Award Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous for his initial volume on the first year of American General, and the Battle to End World War I, William T. America’s entry into World War II, part Walker of a multivolume project on Franklin Goaded by a desire to find out more about an uncle killed in WWI, Roosevelt as commander in chief during Walker stumbles across a story about a heroic American expedition- World War II. In this second volume ary army assault on an almost impregnable German fortress on the Hamilton tells us of Franklin Roosevelt’s Meuse-Argonne Front during the last few months of the war. The performance as commander in chief in Germans had managed to stop and roll back the 1918 summer of- 1943, the year the Allies went on the fensive on the Western Front in which American Forces had been offensive in Europe and in the Pacific. fed piecemeal into the battle. Pershing, fed up and wanting a unified 8 NONFICTION MYSTERY/THRILLER

American Force under his direction, was character, and the pulsing tension that winds through the book, not assigned the Meuse-Argonne sector with to mention Manon herself—irascible, rash, often foolish but as often its defensive position of Montfaucon doggedly smart, and improbably kind—pull this above humdrum (Mountain of the Falcons) held by the so-called genre fiction and into the territory of Kate Atkinson’sCase Germans as a key observation post with History or Derek Miller’s Norwegian by Night. May it be the first of a secret piece of equipment. The dough- many! – Betsy Burton, Random House, $27 boys assaulting the position, despite being Fatal Pursuit, Martin Walker (coming mauled by veteran German defenders, June 30) were about to succeed when they were undermined by one of their own—their Readers who like classic cars, classic commanding general. The Americans did food, and a classic French chief of police prevail but suffered 122,000 casualties, will enjoy Walker’s latest. At the moment making this campaign one of the bloodi- the center of Police Chief Bruno’s life is est in American military history. Military the annual fete in St. Denis, the heart of and history fans will love this book with its terrific pictures and excel- which is a classic car parade containing lent maps plus great background on the key characters involved in The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic which may the war. – Patrick Fleming, Scribner, $28 have been the most beautiful car of its time. There were only four made; any now in existence would be worth millions. MYSTERY/THRILLER And where there’s money, there’s murder. A local scholar is killed as the car parade begins, and Bruno finds The Highwayman, Craig Johnson himself attempting to solve the murder while taking part in a car race It’s hard to wait for the next Walt Long- and meeting with a beautiful Parisienne whose local kin is involved mire mystery but every so often, Johnson in a family feud. Nothing comes easily for Bruno, but he’ll put the gives us the gift of a novella which not pieces together and solve the case while preparing a gourmet dinner only tides us over but also gives us a with the best of the local wines. – Wendy Foster Leigh, Knopf, $25.95 glimpse into other parts and people in The Muse, Jessie Burton, (coming July 16) and around Absaroka County, Wyoming. In The Highwayman we meet Rosey Way- Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean émigré man of the Wyoming Highway Patrol. in London working in the Skelton Art She’s smart and experienced, and she’s Gallery in 1967, becomes involved in afraid she’s losing her mind. A fellow HP, the mystery surrounding a rare paint- Bobby Womack, keeps trying to contact ing by an enigmatic artist from the ‘30s. Rosie during her late night shifts, 12:34 a.m. to be exact. The trouble The scene then shifts to Spain of 1936 is, Womack’s been dead for years. What does he want? And why is he and Olive Schloss, a timid but passionate choosing Rosey? - Anne Holman, Viking, $20 Editor’s note: Join Craig painter and the daughter of a Viennese Johnson on Thursday, June 2, at the Viridian Arts Center at 7 p.m. Jewish art dealer. The family’s entourage in a rented finca on the southern Spanish Missing, Presumed, Susie Steiner (coming coast includes Teresa, a young housekeep- June 28) er, and her half-brother who is fighting in Detective Manon Bradshaw is lonely the Civil War but who dreams of being another Picasso. Moving back when we first meet her. She’s tried inter- and forth between the 1960s and the 1930s, with a woman serving as net dating (with sadly hilarious results), focal point in each era and Odelle the link between past and present, tried throwing herself into her work, Burton explores the mysteries of creation and ambition in the art but is dangerously close to despair. She world as she did in her best-selling novel, The Miniaturist. welcomes the news of a new case: the – Wendy Foster Leigh, Ecco, Harper Collins Publishers, $27.99 disappearance of a young woman whom a The Asset, Shane Kuhn (coming July 12) massive man- or in this case woman-hunt does not turn up; the putting together of Operation Red Carpet just recruited its the pieces—or rather the people—of the new leader, Kennedy, and he’ll tell you puzzle that’s hers to solve; the intriguing that the job interview was terrifying. suspects themselves. The father is a Royal Surgeon, a man of fame This CIA ghost operation is intended to and distinction; the mother’s a frustrated feminist who has sacrificed prevent a terrorist attack which, if the Red for husband and daughter; the boyfriend is improbably good looking; Carpet team can’t stop it, will leave the the best friend appears to be holding something back, the victim U.S. a shattered wreck. The team is des- herself seems increasingly unknowable…. And then there’s Manon’s perate for intelligence; they don’t know personal world—her colleagues for good and ill, her estranged sister, the nature of the attack but have an idea a man she meets. Steiner’s agility with plot, her ability to create of the time frame: they have 63 days to save America. Then worse news reaches 9 MYSTERY/THRILLER them. The terrorist has caught wind of their plans and deployed an her even more curious. What is the truth of her family’s involvement asset of his own. With his team falling around him, it’s up to Ken- in an old rape case? What skeletons will be unearthed as she pursues nedy to prevent catastrophe. But how can he do that when he’s been her search for justice? Lippman acknowledges her homage to Harper declared a fugitive? Fasten your seatbelt, this is one hell of a ride. Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird as Lu’s curiosity awakens her inter- – Paula Longhurst, Simon & Schuster, $26 est in the part family and community secrets play in the search for The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware justice. – Wendy Foster Leigh, William Morrow, no price (coming July 19) Security, Gina Wohlsdorf Another twisty little psychological Manderley is the jewel in the crown of thriller from the author of In a Dark, the Destin Management Group, a private Dark Wood. Laura (Lo) Blackstock’s new resort like no other, boasting unparal- assignment is the trip of a lifetime: a leled luxury, and, on the night before the boutique luxury liner cruising the fjords. opening, a ruthless killer roaming its halls Ten cabins, great food, sparkling con- and picking his targets off with deadly versation and a person overboard whom precision. His orders are to turn the grand no one else seems to miss….Lo’s long opening into a blood bath, and the staff buried investigative reporter instincts are doesn’t even know they’re in any danger. awakened and keep her digging when Only hotel manager Tessa knows what everyone else says she should stop. The goes on on the twentieth floor, and up port of Trondheim and the authorities are a day away, the wifi’s not there two pairs of eyes are watching her: working and another body just went overboard… – Paula Longhurst, the killer and the man who would save her life—if his own weren’t Scout Press, $26 hanging by a thread. – Paula Longhurst, Algonquin, $25.95 Charcoal Joe, Walter Mosley Before the Fall, Noah Hawley Fans of Easy Rawlins will be pleased to The OSPRY 45XR sits on a private run- know that Easy is back in L.A. along with way at Martha’s Vineyard ready to receive his band of friends. L.A. in the late ‘60s, passengers; tonight it’s a media mogul and a haven for hippies and drugs, retains its his family, their private security, a couple racial biases and the underlying cruelty of of their wealthy friends and Scott Bur- its underworld. When tough guy Mouse roughs, a middle-aged artist whose time appears with a request for Easy to aid a might be about to come. And it does, just friend’s son arrested for murder, Easy not in the way he intended. Sixteen min- can’t refuse. The young African-Ameri- utes after takeoff the plane plunges into can, Seymour, top of his class at Stanford the ocean killing all on board except Scott and a bright star, has been found by the and 4-year-old JJ who are both tossed body of a dead white man. Easy, who has into the spin cycle of the 24-hour news learned his “coolness” through experience, will work within a racist stations. The NTSB and the FBI are involved almost immediately society to clear the man even while his own love life is falling apart. and Scott is their only witness. One news channel in particular, ALC, Mosley’s secondary characters are as quirky and appealing as the is presenting speculation as fact, painting Scott not as the humble major ones, and it is exciting to become part of his world once again. hero but as the cause of the crash. Among all the distortion and lies – Wendy Foster Leigh, Doubleday, $26.95 peddled by ALC, a real investigation is progressing, but even the in- Wilde Lake, Laura Lippman vestigators are swayed when they see the subjects of Scott’s paintings. Hawley mixes the backstories of the other passengers and crew on the Luisa (Lu) Brant has been elected to the plane with the consequences of the crash. JJ is now the sole heir to a position of State Attorney of Howard massive fortune, his aunt Ellie wants what’s best for the boy whereas County, Maryland, a position her father her greedy husband thinks they can treat JJ like an ATM, spending held before her. Her brother and his the boy’s inheritance as their own. A great friends had been all-important in the summer read. – Paula Longhurst, Grand newly planned Columbia, Maryland. The Central, $26 family and relationships with the commu- nity are the core of this legal novel as Lu’s Murder on the Quai, Cara Black life moves back and forth from the 1960s In this powerful prequel to the Aimee to 2015. But, how many memories are Leduc mystery series, Aimee is a strug- accurate and how does truth vary accord- gling, working-class medical student ing to the points of view of the characters battling an aristocratic world. It is 1989, and due to distance from the event? Lu’s first case is the battering of and the Berlin Wall has just come down. a woman by a mentally disturbed man who seems to be a drifter un- When Aimee’s father leaves Paris for known to those in the community. However, coincidences and details Berlin on a secret mission asking Aimee come to life as Lu begins to ask questions the answers to which make to help with their family detective agency, 10 MYSTERY/THRILLER SPECULATIVE FICTION she discovers a murder connected to Nazi gold and the execution Smoke, Dan Vyleta of the citizens of a French village during WWII. The investigation In a book possessed of all the qualities of piques her interest in the world of the private detective, and suddenly smoke, the vapor, the landscape is Eng- medicine doesn’t seem as interesting. For avid followers of Aimee, land and the characters represent sharp this book answers puzzles Black has created in the previous 15 books, class divisions. Evil takes on a physical taking readers not only to Paris but also into rural France, the dark property in the form of smoke which world of Berlin, the East German Stasi, and European intrigue, intro- emanates from a human as he or she feels ducing them to characters they have heard about but never met. Mur- anger or lust. It is all well and good for the der on the Quai is a commentary on the power of humans to survive lower classes to be covered in soot from evil through whatever means necessary. – Wendy Foster Leigh, Soho their passionate and lustful thoughts and Press, $27.95 actions, but the aristocracy should be Lost and Gone Forever, Alex Grecian white and clean. When instead they begin Walter Day stepped into Jack the Ripper’s to show gray tinges of soot, revolution is carriage and fell off the face of the earth. in the air. Thomas Argyle and Charlie Cooper attend a prestigious Most of his old colleagues at Scotland boarding school where they meet the cruel Julius Spencer. The three Yard have stopped looking for him, think- come into conflict during Christmas at the home of Thomas’s uncle ing him dead. Walter’s wife Clare and his Baron Naylor, where Lady Naylor is experimenting with the origins ex-colleague Nevil Hammersmith are of smoke. When Thomas and Charlie discover her secrets, they and the only two who believe Walter is still her daughter Livia flee to London, now themselves stained in this alive. One year later Nevil is running a fantastical and disturbing book. – Wendy Foster Leigh, Doubleday, private enquiry agency, Clare his only $27.95 client, when an employee of Plumm’s Stiletto, Daniel O’Malley Department Store goes missing and his Her majesty’s supernatural secret service brother hires Hammersmith and his as- is back. The Checquy and their sworn en- sistant Hatty Pitt to locate the missing man. At the same time a much emies, The Grafters, are moving towards changed Walter Day escapes his prison, and the secret society that an alliance. Peace talks, brokered by Rook Walter’s mentor was involved with hires a pair of foreign assassins to Myfanwy Thomas, are about to take place take care of Jack before he can kill the rest of their members. What at the Checquy’s headquarters in central could possibly go wrong? – Paula Longhurst, Putnam, $27 London. Tensions are high. A single The Strings of Murder, Oscar de Muriel spark could lead to war between the two In a London terrorized by Jack the Ripper, supernatural superpowers with the hap- heads are rolling at Scotland Yard. Inspec- less British public right in the firing lines, tor Ian Frey’s is one of them; in less than and that spark could be created by Pawn a day he has lost his position, his fiancée Felicity and Grafter Odette, two women and his home. He arrives in Edinburgh who absolutely can’t stand each other. in disgrace, attached to a unit that hunts Even in the middle of peace talks, supernatural threats still exist, like ghosts and other supernatural phenom- the strange outbreak of killer crystals countrywide, recent trans- ena. His boss is the eccentric and mercu- plant patients sleepwalking into oblivion, and a burial site in North rial ‘Nine Nails’ McGray. Together the Wales that contains one very pissed-off occupant not to mention the foppish inspector and the ghost-hunting conspiracy theorists noisily picketing the Checquy’s offices.Stiletto is detective must lay to rest rumors of a still a mashup of Monty Python, Dr. Who and Torchwood with all of Ripper copycat in the case of a murdered the horror/humor of the original Rook. The four-year wait between musician, a locked room and a cursed instrument said to have been books has been well worth it. – Paula Longhurst, Little Brown, $26 played by the devil himself. – Paula Longhurst, Pegasus, $25.95

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Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg FICTION (out now) Bill Clegg’s fiction debut is a novel of The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony family extinguished, literally. Deep in the Marra (coming July 19) night a house burns to the ground and The title story of this stunning collec- only June, who couldn’t sleep, escapes the tion begins dead-center in the book’s conflagration. In the house are her daugh- 300+ pages. Which is appropriate since ter and fiancé, her lover, her ex-husband. it connects the book’s disparate pieces All lost. For June, all that’s left is grief into one dazzling whole. Suddenly you that’s unendurable. For Lydia, the mother realize what you’re reading is more novel of June’s lover, only emptiness. June gets than collection, a sweeping tale of Russian in her car and drives. Lydia withdraws history’s cruel ironies in which memory into an empty house. But without inten- is the incandescent heart. In the first tale, tionally reaching out, both women make which takes place in 1937, a failed por- connections that draw them further out into the world and deeper traitist whose job is to expunge the im- into the past—while the reason for the fire ticks away in the reader’s ages of the disloyal from all paintings and photographs replaces the mind. Bill Clegg has a raw talent for shining light on the workings of faces of those he’s supposed to remove with that of his dead brother. people’s hearts and heads, and his skillful weaving of their stories into The next tale, “The Granddaughters,” is a kind of Greek chorus of a skein of family makes a sense at once harsh and kind of all their col- village gossip in which the image that doomed our painter is brought lective, connected pasts. – Betsy Burton, Gallery/Scout Press, $16 to life in the form of a dancer and her progeny, and we are introduced Slade House, David Mitchell (coming to each of the characters whose intersecting lives people this amaz- June 28) ing book from 1937 forward to the era of technology—whether in Kirovsk, high above the Arctic Circle, St. Petersburg, or Chechnya. Mitchell does it again in this compact At its heart are star-crossed lovers whose fates are woven from tale thriller that may or may not be a sequel to tale and into our hearts; the love of brothers; and of mothers and to The Bone Clocks. Companion piece or fathers. If there is betrayal it is that of the state in a story with the spin-off is perhaps a better description. breadth of scope and the depth of feeling of the finest literature. Slade House is tucked away down an alley – Betsy Burton and Anne Holman, Hogarth, $16 behind a pub with a small, mysterious iron door that only appears every nine Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf years. Invited in by a strange brother and Old age is more than the accumulation of sister, the unique and unfortunate souls years and the disintegration of body parts, who enter that door are never heard from more than fond memories and rueful or seen again. Spanning 50 years from regrets. It also implies an accumulation the late ‘70s to the present, this little novel will make you feel as if of wisdom—despite the brain plaque— you have dropped inside an Escher drawing and will keep you up at wisdom that recognizes the comfort of night as you hurtle to the conclusion discovering the secrets of this lying close to someone late at night, the haunted-house story as only Mitchell can reveal them. pleasure of whispered conversations in – Anne Stewart Mark, Random House, $16 the dark. Haruf began Our Souls at Night Best Boy, Eli Gottlieb (out now) with this premise in mind. One evening when Louis Waters, a widower of many I fell in love with the autistic protagonist years, is home alone as usual there’s a Todd Aaron on page one, and on that knock on the door. It’s Addie Moore, a same page felt a stab of empathy for his widow he knows only slightly. She has a proposal for Louis: not mar- mother that nearly felled me. I read on, riage, not even co-habitation, but rather nighttime visits—not with about their moment of parting; about sex in mind but simple companionship. To his own surprise, Louis Todd’s relatively happy life for the ensu- says yes. And so begins their story, one that involves gossip in the ing 41 years in the Payton Living Center; town, tension with children, a needy grandchild, baseball, a border about his brother who came to visit him collie, and all the rural pleasures and pains that mark classic Haruf occasionally; about the new room- territory. If Kent Haruf’s previous novel gave benediction to our final mate, the attractive new “villager,” and act, death, Our Souls at Night provides a haunting and lovely grace worse, the disturbing new employee at note. We mourn his passing but will treasure forever the legacy he the center. Todd’s literal mind and exact left: books rich with truth and graced with a simplicity that only the reporting make for the wryest of commentary, and some scenes are greatest art can achieve. – Betsy Burton, Vintage, $15 Editor’s note: howlingly funny. His own misperceptions can be funny one minute, Cathy Haruf, Kent’s widow, will be at TKE Thursday, July 27, 7 p.m., to shattering the next, and his perceptions can be so acute they startle. talk about Haruf’s last book and his life. The book swings from past to present in tandem with his mind as a scent rekindles memory or sparks fear—or laughter or longing—in

12 FICTION the present. But it’s when past and present begin to merge that the prize-winning photograph from an East- book totally ignites—along with the reader’s heart. I wish everyone ern European war—a photograph of an would read Best Boy. I suspect that in time almost everyone will. explosion and a girl. The explosion atom- – Betsy Burton, Norton, $14.95 izes the girl’s family, her entire world, and This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! yet in this moment she becomes the orga- Jonathan Evison (out now) nizing element of every other character’s life. When the writer falls ill, her coterie Fans of Evison’s Revised Fundamentals of decides to retrieve this girl from Europe Caregiving will delight in this new book and bring her back to America to help the which, like his last, has been built around writer recover. Since the photo was taken, a smaller cast of quirky and unique char- the girl too has grown up to become an acters, many of whom resemble people we artist, a woman who uses every trauma already know, would like to know or wish she has endured—hunger, rape, war—and we didn’t know. Moving through nearly every bodily fluid she can conjure to produce the physical makings 80 years of Harriet Chance’s existence on of her art. Her presence proves to be as destructive as it is restorative. earth, visiting all the pivotal moments The Small Backs of Children is an affirmation of the contradictory that have shaped her, Evison delicately forces of art and the novel concludes with a series of conflicting al- opens up the life of his novel’s namesake ternate endings that comprise a last, convincing statement about the in a poignant homage to the quiet strength of a wife and mother artist’s power to stave off finality, her power over death, her power to whose life has flashed by and who finds herself, of a sudden, in her create. – Kenneth Loosli, Harper Perennial, $14.99 final years. Tragic, funny, and transcendent, Evison’s fourth book is a fine addition to his oeuvre. – Aaron Cance, Algonquin Books, $15.95 The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard (out now) Sweet Caress, William Boyd (out now) As Jews are herded into the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi noose slowly chokes A novel in the form of a memoir, Sweet off all means of survival, we travel on the Caress is William Boyd’s fictional tale heels of a small boy into overcrowded of Amory Clay, a woman who records apartments, along dangerous streets, society, war, fashion, in photographs that through warrens of underground pas- define the ages through which she lives sageways. Aron, never an easy child, is beginning with a blurred snapshot of always in trouble. His friends, a pack of her family in their idyllic country home. wolves, sneak in and out of the ghetto to Her first job is with her uncle, a London find food, bartering with helpless widows society photographer. In an attempt to who are willing to give up the shawls establish herself as an artist in her own on their backs in exchange for food for right, Amory travels to Berlin, and when their families. But our wolf-children have her shocking photographs cause more of families too—families they help support with their ill-gotten goods. a stir in London than she had bargained for, she heads for New York The morality of survival. The ghetto is a complicated place, patrolled to work for a newspaper magnate whose interest in her is more than by the so-called Yellow Police, Jews used by the Nazis to maintain merely professional. Half this fascinating tale is told from the per- control through blackmail and threats which mere children are ill- spective of Amory, age 69, by now a photojournalist for decades. Her equipped to handle. And then there’s internationally known Janusz photographs, scattered throughout the novel, accompany a narrative Korczak who runs the orphanage where it is assumed his charges will that crosses continents and decades, taking the reader from genera- be safe. When Aron finds his way to the side of the compassionate tion to generation, war to war. As in the prize-winning novels Any Korczak and the relative safety of the orphanage, we long for the boy’s Human Heart and Restless, Boyd artfully and engagingly captures survival: I can’t say whether our wish is granted, but I can say that I’ll the historical currents of the ages he portrays, the wars that beset be hearing Aron’s young voice—at once knowing and innocent, full us—and the ceaseless, mysterious need that is in the heart of each of of anger and of yearning, frightening and infinitely touching—for the us. – Betsy Burton, Bloomsbury $17 rest of my life. – Betsy Burton, Vintage, $15.95 The Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch (coming July 28) I Saw a Man, Owen Sheers (coming July 12) Lidia Yuknavitch’s outstanding new novel is only 208 pages long, its A man in search of a borrowed screwdriver enters the open door of prose sleek and spare, but make no mistake—this is a heavy book. It’s his neighbors’ house. He calls out but no one answers. He takes a a lyrical, sexual, and brutal narrative about being an artist, especially step inside, then another. The man of the title is Michael Turner, a a female artist. There are no characters per se, at least not in the successful author of immersive journalism who has recently pub- traditional sense. Nobody has a name; instead there is a proliferation lished a book in New York to rave reviews. But between the publica- of artistic personae: the writer (the protagonist), the poet (an ersatz tion and the present much has happened to Michael. We learn it all lover), the photographer (a different kind of seductress), the film- in flashbacks as, step by step, he makes his way further into the house maker (the writer’s present husband), the playwright (the writer’s and as we the readers make our way further back into his recent his- brother), the painter (the writer’s ex-husband), the performance artist tory. Alone and unable to form a meaningful relationship, he had felt (now the painter’s lover), and so on. At the center of the story is a 13 FICTION incomplete—until he met Caroline, a for- latest choral symphony—the ways in which community, whether in a eign correspondent with her own impres- class or a neighborhood, connects people, the ways we remain alone sive credentials and a taste for danger The however close our connections, the ways the past informs the pres- two fell in love and built a nest in Wales ent, the ways age and infirmity expand and contract our universe, the where they start to build toward a full life ways our profligacy afflicts our world—but most of all the ways our together. A life cut short when she trav- interior lives assimilate and hold, at least in memory, our hurts, our eled to Pakistan on a story. We also learn hopes, our satisfactions, our terrors, our loves. Pure Walbert, purely the backstory of Michael’s neighbors, stunning—as always. – Betsy Burton, Scribner, $15 husband Jason, wife Samantha, daughters Two Years Eight Months and Twenty- 4-year-old Lucy and 7-year-old Rachel, as Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie (coming Michael slowly makes his way deeper into July 12) their house. From the beginning we know something fateful is about to occur, but It may not be immediately apparent to Sheers builds the tension slowly, draw- math-averse book people, but the title of ing us into the lives of all involved—into the tale of how they became Salman Rushdie’s new novel adds up to involved with one another. The writing is mesmerizing, the surprises one thousand and one nights—perhaps explosive—even to the last page. – Betsy Burton, Anchor, $16 the most [in]famous duration of time associated with storytelling. Rushdie’s The Truth According to Us, Annie Bar- riff onThe Arabian Nights tells the story rows (out now) of an exceptional jinna (a female jinn or In the same delightful vein as The Guern- genie) who leaves the world of her kind sey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and falls in love with a series of hu- Annie Barrows takes us to 1938 Mace- man men. Her unlikely offspring live unaware of their supernatural donia, West Virginia, where Layla Beck heritage, but as the slits that allow jinni to travel between their world has been forced by her wealthy father, and ours begin to open up, she seeks out her progeny to alert them to under the auspices of the Federal Writ- their powers. Soon “strangenesses” begin to occur with regularity, the ers’ Project, to write the town’s history. fabric of reasonable society comes apart and the War of the Worlds Upon arrival she is like a fish out of water (between the human world and the jinni world) begins. This book and soon discovers that the family she gives you everything you want from a Rushdie novel—wild wit and boards with carries secrets from and is humor, earthy characters, his unique style of magical realism mixed entangled with the deep past of the town. with almost classical romance, Joycean wordplay, and a truly epic West Virginia charm and southern hospitality abound, and readers storyline that spans millennia. It’s perfect for fans of Rushdie’s earlier will enjoy the light-hearted view of 12-year-old Willa Romeyn, the classics Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh. stuffy attitude of Layla Beck, along with all the other oddly appealing – Kenneth Loosli, Random House, $16 characters Barrows has created in this perfect summer read. – Vivian And West Is West, Ron Childress (out Evans, Dial, $16 now) The Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert (out A hand hovering over a control; a ques- now) tion about what the camera is reveal- In a novel of voices, often inventively, ing; an order from above. And so lives expansively footnoted, Walbert weaves change—just as they do in another part of together a multitude of tales, at first the U.S. where another finger hovers over emanating from a painting class taught another button while a distracted mind by a down-at-the heels artist in a down- calculates odds. Once again a button is at-the-heels New York tenement. The pushed and once again lives change. The one we hear first is that of Helen, who control in the first instance is in the hands paints a world catastrophically immersed of Jessica, a drone pilot in the Nevada in water. But two of her classmates, old desert, who sees innocents enter her friends, long-time New Yorkers, both of target area but is ordered to fire anyway. The button in the second whom survived WWII in Europe and instance is controlled by Ethan, whose specialty is calculating the are long-since widowed, form the heart of the novel. They seem impact of terrorism on the markets of the world and who, with one indomitable despite their age, listening to each other’s tales, propping push of a button, one miscalculation he may or may not have made, each other up, helping each other move forward, however slowly. is cast out like Jessica, adrift in a world with which he is not prepared Until, suddenly, Simone is gone and Marie is left alone. Elizabeth, to cope. Through the eyes of Ethan and Jessica, both on the run, both her upstairs neighbor, provides some comfort, joining the chorus in searching for a way to get at the truth of what has happened, the story full-part harmony in the process. As do Jules, Marie’s son, and others expands, explodes, pulling us into intersecting lives and into the web from the neighborhood, an actor, and an architect, all part of their of technologies the impact of which we’re just beginning to under- community. Walbert gets at some interesting issues as she scores her stand. And West Is West is not just a great read, it’s eye-opening in terrifying ways. – Betsy Burton, Algonquin Books, $15.95 14 FICTION

Numero Zero, Umberto Eco (out now) tions. Paul adores Homer, but he has a Eco’s short but excellent book is more secret love: he worships at the shrine of cautionary tale than suspense novel, the country’s—indeed the world’s—great- and satire is at its center. Set in Milan in est poet, Ida Perkins. Now in her dotage, 1992, it supposes that a failed academic is Ida had run with, written with, the best hired to ghostwrite a memoir based on a of them, loved and been loved by the nascent newspaper that is to be a heroic best of them, including Homer—and her example of journalism at its best. The staff cousin and longtime publisher, Sterling of the paper, when not failing to report Wainwright. The two men, Homer and stories that might negatively impact their Sterling, are furious rivals, yet Paul, besot- patron, brainstorms stories out of vapor ted by the work of— the idea of— Ida, by grouping together unrelated facts until approaches Sterling and soon the two are they are made to seem significant, simply fast friends. The resultant triangle opens because they’re being reported. Until suddenly a reporter stumbles up the publishing world, the world of across what could actually be a story: a theory that Mussolini was poetry and of literature across decades. Part of the pure pleasure of never executed after the war, but was spirited away, until an attempt reading Muse is the witting confabulation of living literati with those could be made to bring him back. Which had happened 20 years who have sprung from the lively imagination of Mr. Galassi. Another before, in a coup attempt that failed because El Duce died before the is the poetry of Ida Perkins. But the deepest pleasure of all is its paean takeover could occur. A whacked-out conspiracy theory or truth? to books—and to those who write them, those who bring them to the A question that becomes more pressing when the reporter is mur- marketplace, those who sell them. Sadly, Galassi sees publishing as a dered. Numero Zero looks at the forces that have battered Italy since dying industry. I disagree, believing that books are here to stay and the war, whether political, journalistic, or religious, with the eye of a so are independent publishers—and bookstores. But agree with his cynic, a caustic tongue, and a scathing sense of humor. final conclusions or not,Muse , written by one of the lions of literary – Betsy Burton, Mariner, $14.95 publishing, is a must-read for anyone who loves books. – Betsy Burton, Vintage, $16 Among the Ten Thousand Things, Julia Pierpont (coming June 14) Circling the Sun, Paula McLain (out now) Among the ten thousand things Julia This novel by bestselling author McLain Pierpont notes in her achingly funny and (The Paris Wife) features Beryl Markham, uncannily accurate novel of a family in aviatrix, horse trainer, and great beauty of trouble are the feelings that drive teenag- the 1920s. Opening with a heart pound- ers, the bewilderment that besets children ing description of her trans-Atlantic, when faced with the puzzling tangle that east-west, solo flight, we are hurtled is the adult world, the sometimes un- back in time to her childhood home of bridgeable spaces between adults. Jack, colonial Kenya. Relocated there by her an artist who’s self-involved but a pleas- horse-trainer father, Charles Clutterbuck, ant enough fellow, has an affair. Wife subsequently abandoned by her mother, Deborah, who’s not the most self-aware Beryl raises herself alongside a tribal person although a good mother, already boy-servant of the household. This wild knows he’s been unfaithful, but finds out more than she can face upbringing colors all her subsequent relationships with both men and when the mistress sends a box of incriminating letters to the family’s women: failed marriages, affairs with the likes of Prince Henry the apartment. Trouble is, it’s the daughter who opens the box, reads the Duke of Gloucester, the adventurer safari guide Denys Finch-Hatton, letters, shows them to her brother who also reads them before show- and even her failure as a mother. McClain’s gorgeous descriptions of ing them to Deborah. Shock waves follow and gradually the tangle Kenya, the art of horse training as Markham becomes the first female of connection that binds families begins to loosen, a process that’s trainer of the time, and the social circles of the British Colonial rac- fascinating to watch even as we suffer with them, feel empathetic ing set make this a wonderful summer read. We are introduced to pain for them all. Pierpont portrays her characters with an ocean of her rival Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), her husband Baron Bror von compassion and an insistent honesty that is disconcerting. No false Blixen-Finecke, Mansfield Markham (the father of her only son), and sentiment here. Reminiscent in a way of early Margaret Atwood in its Tom Campbell-Black who later teaches Beryl what was to become wryness and its complexity, this is a debut that portends great things. her ultimate joy—flying. All of this and McLain brings to life Beryl’s – Betsy Burton, Random House, $16 adopted Kenya. – Anne Stewart Mark, Ballantine, $16 Muse, Jonathan Galassi (out June 28) Our Book-a-Month Club is available in six and twelve- At once poetic, satiric, deliciously dishy, Muse, Jonathan Galassi’s novelistic tell-all, is at once a hymn to and send-up of the publish- month increments and makes a lovely gift for the reader ing industry. It is also a booklover’s dream-come-true. Paul Dukach in your life (or yourself for that matter). Sign up today and works for Homer Stern, an iconic, savvy, narcissistic, book-loving receive a first edition hardcover especially chosen for our pirate known for his foul mouth, his determination, his machina- readers each month. Call the store for details.

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The Mountain Story, Lori Lansens (com- as is his social commentary, The Oregon Trail is often laugh-out-loud ing July 12) funny. A perfect summer read, especially if you are planning a cov- Wilfred ‘Wolf’ truly intends to take his ered wagon ride of any distance. – Anne Holman, Simon & Schuster, own life on his 18th birthday on the $16.99 same mountain that took his best friend, Hold Still, Sally Mann (out now) but a bee sting and three ladies derail all Sally Mann’s memoir Hold Still un- that. Nola, Bridget and Von are initially nerves and captivates the reader in much convinced that search and rescue will the same way her photographs uneasily find them before they run out of food and enthrall the viewer. And while Mann water although the mountain, beautiful does address the period of her family and rugged, is home to a host of natural and artistic life during the making of her predators, including snakes and hypo- images for Immediate Family, as well as thermia. As hours become days Wolf and the controversy over them that catapulted his companions forge a bond that, for the survivors, will last long her to national prominence following its beyond their experiences. – Paula Longhurst, Gallery, $16 publication in 1992, her memoir gives a The Festival of Insignificance, long, rich and disturbing overview of her Milan Kundera (out now) life within its larger context of the South, Milan Kundera’s new book is a very its history, and her and her ancestors’ place within it. The book is as French, very short novella about the navel. much a portrait of her literal place within the world as it is a series That is to say, it is a story that explores the of self-portraits: a wild child raised more by Gee-Gee—her fam- sexual relations between men and women ily’s African-American housekeeper—than by her distant mother or in philosophical terms. In the course of doctor-father; a troublesome, renegade high school beauty discover- just over one hundred pages, the novella ing analog photography with her boyfriend in a darkroom; a rash touches on questions of births, mothers young married woman struggling with money, having children, and and cutting the umbilical cord, whether holding on to her artistic vision. As a photographer, and now in her Eve possessed a navel, not to mention the memoir, Sally Mann bears both artistic and very personal witness to physical location of woman’s seductive privilege, racism, sexism, family, motherhood, and death. power. Characters include a middle-aged – Michelle Macfarlane, Little Brown, $12 bachelor who speaks to a portrait of his mother (and she speaks back), an out-of-work actor working as a waiter who pretends to be MYSTERY/THRILLER Pakistani so he doesn’t have to engage with partygoers, a woman who leaves a party with a stranger to avoid a tryst with a man who A Banquet of Consequences: A Lynley loves her, and a couple of inveterate womanizers with very different Novel, Elizabeth George (coming July 5) methods of seduction. One of these womanizers argues that the best Detective Sargent Barbara Havers has way to seduce a woman is to appear insignificant for “insignificance been forced to sign a transfer request to sets her free.” An interesting idea… Throw in a subplot about Stalin’s Berwick-upon-Tweed which Detective sense of humor (or perhaps lack thereof) and you have a book that Superintendent Isabelle Ardery keeps on only Kundera could have written. It’s the French version of a beach her desk waiting for Havers’ next wrong read. - Kenneth Loosli, Harper Perennial, $13.99 move. Havers, on the other hand, is fran- tic to get back into the game of solving NONFICTION murders and is willing to risk the horrors of a transfer to do so. When a prominent The Oregon Trail, Rinker Buck (out now) feminist dies of an apparent heart attack, When Rinker Buck left journalism and Havers is drawn into examining the decided to follow the original Oregon death, which is more complicated than it appears. Lynley does his Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Baker best to guide her in a prudent direction during the investigation, but, City, Oregon, he didn’t count on two as usual, she goes her own way. In the process, she uncovers more important things—his brother Nick and than enough motives to incriminate a cast of murderers. Once again, Nick’s feisty Jack Russell terrier, Olive George has given us ample opportunity to escape into the world of Oyl. Fortunately for Rinker and for us, Lynley and Havers as well as to delve into murder most vile. Terrific. the trio stayed together over the course – Barbara Hoagland, Penguin, $16 of 2,000 miles, many broken axles, and The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley, Jeremy Massey (out now) terrible weather. The Buck brothers dis- Paddy Buckley is an undertaker in Dublin where he is respected covered, mile by mile, the real history of and beloved by colleagues and the community at large. One fateful the trail and the stories of the people who evening he accidentally runs over and kills the brother of the town’s fought, stole, and died crossing it. Fascinating as that history is, astute most terrible crime lord. Now the fun begins. Literally. Often hilari- 16 MYSTERY/THRILLER ous, Paddy takes us through four days of cal significance. What neither he nor the friendship, love and loyalty. I’d recom- teams of researchers based out of the Tur- mend it to anyone with a love for the ret Cabin area bargained for is a killer in Irish, for a great story, or with curiosity their midst, and that killer might not be about the undertaker’s business. human. – Paula Longhurst, Torrey House – Sue Fleming, Riverhead Books, $16.95 Press, $14.95 Dry Bones, Cold Blood, Craig Hot Sea, Johnson Charlene (out now) D’Avanzo There’s a new (out now) girl in town. Oceanogra- Jen. Who may pher Mara be the largest and most intact dinosaur Tusconi works as a research scientist ever discovered. The problem is, she’s studying climate changes within the found on Danny Lone Elk’s ranch on the ocean and its biologic inhabitants in Cheyenne reservation and Danny turns Maine. The death of a colleague aboard up dead only days later. The High Plains the Intrepid, an ocean-going research Dinosaur Museum would love to have her vessel, has convinced Mara this is no ac- but so would the Feds, the Smithsonian, and just about everyone else. cident. Her efforts to discover the cause of the death take her into the While Walt Longmire is trying to solve the murder and protect the world of wealthy donors to the “doubters” of climate change and the bones, his daughter Cady arrives with 5-month-old Lola for a visit to danger posed by people who are determined that the scientists will Grandpa. What should be a happy reunion turns tragic, and mother not be taken seriously. An excellent subject for Torrey House Press and daughter return to Philly with Deputy Sheriff Victoria Moretti in to cover in its choice of authors who write of sustainability in this tow. There’s never a dull moment in Absaroka County, and this is no ever-changing geopolitical world. – Sue Fleming, Torrey House Press, exception. Fans will love this cliff-hanger and wait anxiously for the $14.95 next book. Save Jen! – Anne Holman, Penguin, $16 Six and a Half Deadly Sins, Colin Cotterill (out now) 15th & 15th Summer Block Party! It is 1979 and Dr. Siri Paiboun is still Join us all day on Saturday, June 11 for a party to philosophizing with his aging cronies celebrate summer and to welcome the Trestle Tav- and his wife, Madame Daeng, concerning ern and Tulie Bakery to the block. Our hardcover the politics of Laos, China, Cambodia, sale will be in full swing and we’ll have discounts on and Vietnam. He cannot resist the urge to explore and solve puzzles; therefore, many other gift items. Andrea Zuill will join us for when he receives an unmarked package our 11 a.m. storytime with Wolf Camp. What hap- containing a hand woven “pha sin” and pens when Homer, the family dog, decides he wants to discovers a human finger in the hem, he become a little wolfish? We will have at least two spe- and Madame Daeng must set out for the cial guests including Jed’s Traveling Barbershop and north on the trail of six and a half sins and a message sewn into the skirts. Getting to the north calls for a the DrumBus Utah. Watch our website for further little ingenuity and a lot of Dr. S’s friends, who march into politi- details; we’d love to see you there! cal chaos on the northern Laos border and become the victims of a personal vendetta. Readers eagerly awaiting another of Cotterill’s Laotian mysteries won’t be disappointed by Six and a Half Deadly Sins. The writing is a mixture of pathos and humor, and Cotterill combines reality and a little magical realism in the portrayal of Dr. Siri. – Wendy Foster Leigh, Soho Press, $15.95 Yellowstone Standoff, Scott Graham (out now) Science and nature collide in the third installment of the National Parks mystery series. Yellowstone’s bears have a people problem. It has been two years since a fatal bear attack on a pair of wolf re- searchers in a part of the park so far from civilization that you need a satellite phone to call for help. Reluctantly, the rangers are letting researchers back in, among them archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family. Chuck has been contracted to survey a find of serious histori- 17 CHILDREN’S CHAPTER BOOKS by Margaret Brennan Neville

hurtful and cruel actions ramp up, and the cost is heartbreaking, es- TRANSITIONAL READERS pecially when they involve homeless WWI vet Toby. Now everyone in her community will have to make a choice. This is a powerful debut, Of Mice and Magic, Ursula Vernon ideal for families to read together. – Dutton, $16.99 (10 and up) Harriet the Invincible was a great Some Kind of Happiness, beginning to another creative, engaging Claire LeGrand transitional series from author Ursula Finley’s parents are struggling, and their Vernon (Dragonbreath series), and book last-ditch attempt to fix their marriage two does not disappoint! Boredom has set means that Finley must spend the sum- in, and Harriet does NOT want to take mer with grandparents whom she has up anything remotely princess-like. Then never met. Finley’s way of dealing with she finds out that 12 mice princesses are problems is to retreat to her fantasy cursed! If anyone can save the day it is world, Everwood, but when she arrives she. Witches, moles, a forest made of sil- at Hart House and discovers the wild ver, a black river that eats princes…read it and smile. I love Harriet! forest behind, she finds even more than – Dial Books, $12.99 (8 and up) her beloved Everwood offered. LeGrand The Princess in Black and the Hungry takes on difficult issues in this finely Bunny Horder, Shannon & Dean Hale, written novel: divorce, estrangement, guilt, cancer and depression. illustrated by LeUyen Pham All are handled with kindness and care. The result is both loving and hopeful. – Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (10 and up) The Hale/Pham team does it again! This time Princess Magnolia has to save the The Ballad of a Broken Nose, kingdom from a very unlikely group of Arne Svingen monsters. In the third book in a series Bart’s life is far from nice. His mom is that resonates with all the things we loved perpetually out-of-work, they live in a in the first two, princesses and monsters very small subsidized apartment, and he are all wrapped up in a great story with often goes hungry. All he wants to do is terrific illustrations. – Candlewick, $14.99 survive the middle-school bullies and (5 and up) sing opera, and he does everything he can to stay under the radar. Until Ada MIDDLE READERS (cute, nice, and can’t keep a secret) finds out that he can sing. All of a sudden the A Dragon’s Guide to Making Your Hu- true nature of Bart’s life is revealed—with man Smarter, Laurence Yep & Joanne some scary consequences—and he must Ryder make decisions about what he really wants to be, do, and who he is. Who knows, maybe Ada has done Bart a favor. Funny, smart, and a Miss Drake is so proud of Winnie who is touch heartbreaking. Opera, which should be playing while reading headed off to the magical Spriggs Acad- this debut novel, is a metaphor for Bart and his life. – Margaret K, emy—until she uncovers a terrible plot McElderry Books, $16.99 (10 and up) to kidnap Winnie and must use all of her dragon talents and magical skills to keep Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes her “pet” safe. But it turns out that Win- It takes a lot of courage to try to explain nie has talents too. This is the second in a an event like 9/11 to kids (5th graders) series, aimed right at new middle readers. who were not born when it happened, but Like the first book, it’s funny and gentle, Rhodes handles it with grace and dignity. jam-packed The story starts with Deja, who lives at with adventure and magic, perfect for the the homeless shelter and is nervous about tender-hearted. – Crown Books for Young her new school. She quickly becomes Readers, $16.99 (8 and up) friends with Ben, another new kid, and Wolf Hollow, Lauren Wolk Sabeen. All three have their own bag- gage, and readers clearly see that history While WWII occupies all the adult atten- is important and that what we know and tion in rural western Pennsylvania, Anna- don’t know make a difference in our decisions. This story literally has belle’s world is changed when Betty moves a view of lower Manhattan, and the new One World Tower. I loved in with her grandmother. At first An- it. – Little Brown, $16.99 (Note: reading level is listed for 8 and up, but nabelle thinks that Betty’s mean behavior I think I would recommend 10 and up) will improve after she gets used to her new home. But quite the opposite: Betty’s

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The Beetle Boy, M. G. Leonard somehow give her that last day, although it takes courage and stub- When Darkus loses his father under bornness to pull this off. Each boy tells his personal story about the mysterious circumstances, his entire life impact that Ms. Bixby has had on him. This will make a great read- is turned upside down. He’s put in foster aloud for teachers! Touching, satisfying, realistic fiction. – Walden care until his bachelor Uncle Max, who Pond Press, $16.99 (10 and up) agrees with Darkus that there is no way Hour of the Bees, Lindsey Eagar that his dad left him, finally shows up. Carolina’s grandpa, whom she has never As unlikely new friends and a rhinoceros met, is not doing very well—selling his beetle join forces with Darkus and Uncle house and moving him into a nursing Max, it turns out that they are fighting a home is going to take all summer. What larger battle than they imagined, one that she’d thought was going to be a summer involves evil scientist/fashion designer of friends and the pool instead becomes Lucretia Cutter. And she is more than the reality of the bone-dry boonies of evil! This novel is fast-paced, highly imaginative, a lot of fun. New Mexico. But Carolina starts to see – Scholastic, $16.99 (9 and up) something else in her grandpa and in the Booked, Kwame Alexander story he weaves about the tree of im- Nick loves soccer, but hates the diction- mortality. The drought is affecting more ary. His life still seems ok—until bullies, than the land, and Carolina must find her his parents’ problems, the crush he can’t way with or without the water! This is a lovely blending of reality and act on, and an injury all change his point magic with an unusual touch of sophistication. I loved it! – Candle- of view. Dealing with “stuff” is hard, and wick, $16.99 (10 and up) Nick needs all sorts of help. Alexander keeps it real, the poems are tight and YOUNG ADULT right to the point. Readers will have only one question: what sport will be next? The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater Another terrific book from Newbery win- Book IV and the final tale inThe Raven ner Kwame Alexander! – HMH Books for Cycle is finally here, and Stiefvater does it Young Readers, $16.99 (10 and up) again! The boys, who have found the an- Raymie Nightingale, Kate DiCamillo cient king, move in and out of Glendower, Raymie, Louisiana, and Beverly are enter- desperate to save Gansey’s life and to save ing the Little Miss Central Florida Tire the world too. This last book is dark, full Competition, all for completely differ- of ominous stories and fears, but is bal- ent reasons. Raymie thinks winning will anced by the presence of light in intrigu- bring her dad back, Louisiana desperately ing places. Stiefvater manages to keep needs the money (literally for food!), and all of the different story lines intact and Beverly, well, she really wants to sabotage still surprise her fans. I am going to miss the pageant. Between doing good deeds Ronan, and Gansey, and Blue. I wonder and learning to twirl a baton, the girls where Stiefvater will take us next. – Scholastic, $18.99 (14 and up) find out that friendship can work in many This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab different ways. They have to deal with los- Kate lives in a split world and is willing ing loved ones, with abandonment, and with each other! DiCamillo to do anything to get home to her father, has once again created a world where readers root for the main char- whether he wants her or not. Setting her acters. Quirky, charming, completely believable, add some laughter latest school on fire has done the trick, and you have another example of the best and she is back in North City. August of children’s fiction. – Candlewick, $16.99 needs to help his family prevent another (10 and up) Editor’s note: signed copies war from starting, and the one way he available! can do that is to get close to Kate, despite Ms. Bixby’s Last Day, the possible consequences. Their fathers, John David Anderson brothers fired up to rip each other’s Three boys, Topher, Brand, and Steve, throats out, live in a world full of mon- are lucky to be in Ms. Bixby’s class. She’s sters—of all kinds. Two cities, one popu- a special teacher, and when she gets sick lated by humans the other by monsters, are in conflict, and readers and can’t even come to the goodbye party, will be surprised by the plot twists in this fast-paced fantasy tinged the boys know they have to do something. with romance. This is part one of a two-book series and is a terrific Among the three of them, they decide to read. – Greenwillow, $17.99 (14 and up) Editor’s note: Victor Schwab will be at TKE on Friday, July 8, 7 p.m. 19 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION

Breath to Breath, Craig Lew Ada’s Violin, Susan Hood A first-person narrative using poetic The slums of Paraguay are the setting for prose, this is a dark story that readers will this unusual biography. Ada and her peers not be able to forget. Lew shows the read- know that staying off the streets might er, with very few words, how devastating save them from working in the landfill. abuse of children can be. Seventeen-year- When her grandma signs her up for mu- old William has been sent to live with his sic lessons, at first she’s excited—until it father, someone he has not seen for years. turns out that teacher Favio Chavez does William’s history of bad behavior follows not have enough instruments. But the him everywhere, as does the unidentified solution is right there in the landfill where handmade instruments dark shadow that overwhelms all of his begin to appear. Ada and her fellow musicians are the start of some- best intentions. When William becomes thing big as creative thinking, courage and support give these kids desperate to save another child’s life, born in poverty a chance. Ada is an inspiration, and strong, meaning- regardless of the consequences, light shines on everyone, and the ful art gives this biography even more power. – Simon & Schuster, shadows are revealed. Although there is hope at the end, readers are $17.99 (5 and up—and anyone who believes in the power of music!) left wondering what will happen to William. Graphic content. – Little Splat! The Most Exciting Artists of All Pickle Press, $19.95 (high school and up) Time, Mary Richards Bone Gap, Laura Ruby Page by page, from cave paintings to Wow, I wish I had read this novel sooner. Andy Warhol, Richards escorts read- This 2015 Printz winner is terrific! Two ers through an impressive list of artists, brothers, abandoned by their mother, are and explains the reasons they are in this doing their best to survive and to get on book. Full-color photos accompany every with their lives. Roza’s appearance in their spread. Art movements, techniques, and lives changes everything. When Finn (the trends all add up to a readable romp younger brother) witnesses her abduc- through the art history of the world. tion, no one believes him. “Bone Gap” is a There is also a dictionary of art terms. place in-between—in-between big cities, Interesting and easy to read. – Thames in-between corn fields, in-between the and Hudson, $19.95 (10 and up) real and the mythic. Ruby’s construction Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skel- of this story is so masterful and compel- etons, Sara Levine ling that readers will be surprised by how quickly they slip into that in-between space and how sorry they are to leave it. I loved it! – Bal- Skeletons and bones are interesting for zer & Bray, $9.99 (14 and up) readers of all ages. Levine presents basic skeleton vocabulary and definition by The Passion of Dolssa, Julie Berry comparing animals and humans; cute In this compelling piece of historical photos and challenges to answer ques- fiction set in medieval France, city-girl tions make this a great text for budding Dolssa watches as the Inquisitors burn scientists! One of the 2016 Beehive Win- her mother at the stake, knowing that ners, this book is only available in “library she is next. But fate intervenes, and days binding,” which means it will last a long time on your shelf. – Lerner, later on an errand for the grand old dame $26.65 (5 and up) of her village, Botille finds Dolssa on the Anything but Ordinary Addie: The True verge of death. Bringing her back to the Story of Adelaide Herrman, Queen of village, Botille and her sisters hide Dolssa, Magic, Mara Rockliff and Iacopo Bruno nursing her back to health although everyone seems to know that this is Addie was born in 1853, and from the dangerous. Their situation requires not start she was a girl who knew her own just courage and loyalty but a shift in their thinking in a novel that mind. She was able to follow her dreams will resonate with historical fiction fans—and their mothers! – Viking by taking risks and staying true to herself. Books for Young Readers, $18.99 (14 and up) When she met famous magician Alex- ander Herrman it was a match made in heaven! Addie’s flair and personality made her an instant asset to her husband’s act, and when he passed away, Addie was able to keep the act going. Unheard of for a woman! Rockliff and Bruno Mesmerized( ) are a ter- rific team! Can’t wait to see what they do next. – Candlewick, $17.99 (6 and up)

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Game Changer: John McLendon from the Dark Ages. She clearly lays out and the Secret Game, John Coy the details of the disease, shows the his- The Civil Rights movement conjures torical impact and then reveals that you up stories of bigotry and violence, can still get the dreaded, life-threatening but there are some positive stories as illness. All of this with illustrations and well. In 1944 two basketball teams photos! Fascinating, startling, sometimes met in an unknown moment in gross—all-told, a terrific read. – Calkins American history. Men from Duke Creek, $18.95 (9 and up) University Medical School, the best Pink basketball players in North Carolina, met secretly to play the best Is for team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. Both teams were Blobfish, breaking the law by playing each other and they went so far as to Jess Keating hang quilts over the windows so no one could look in. It took 22 From the eye-catching, startling cov- more years for this to happen again. Courage comes in many forms. er to the very last page, readers will – Lerner, $17.99 (6 and up) be amazed that there are so many Orangutan Orphanage, Suzi Eszterhas pink animals in nature. Doesn’t their From the cover photo on, readers will color scream “Dinner!” at preda- be drawn into the world of baby orang- tors??? Just the right amount of text and facts make this nonfiction utans. Borneo, one of just two places book a lot of fun to read, and read again! – Knopf Books for Young that orangutans can still be found in the Readers, $16.99 (all ages) wild, is the site of this animal refuge. As many as 300 orangutans are sheltered GRAPHIC NOVELS there; most are orphans and/or injured, and many people are working hard to Hilo Saving the Whole Wide World, save these amazing animals. Eszterhas combines information with Judd Winick draw-you-in photos of the orangutans. Animal lovers will adore this I loved the first Hilo, and the second one book! – OwlKids, $17.99 (6 and up) is great too. Hilo, alien robot boy, has Clara, Emily Arnold McCully clearly found a place to be, and when Captain van de Meer finds Clara (an earth is threatened he knows that with the orphan rhino) in the early part of help of his friends he can save the world. the 18th century and is determined Winnick tells a great story, fun, funny to take her back to Europe where (except for the cliffhanger ending) and a kings, courts and ordinary people great read for all ages. – Random House will be so excited to see this mythi- Books for Young Readers, $13.99 (8 and cal animal. Van de Meer and Clara up) forge a bond as he struggles to move Brothers her and keep her in food. Everywhere they go Clara is greeted with Unite, Justin LaRocca Hansen amazement in a story that is a window into the excitement and awe Tuck and Hudson have a mom who likes that goes with discovering something new and wonderful. McCully to “collect” stuff from yard sales; when does her usual great job! – Schwartz and Wade, $17.99 (all ages) the boys discover through the stuff she’s Miss Mary Reporting, Sue Macy collected from their weird neighbor that Mary Garber was a tomboy; her dad took he has superpowers, they decide that they her to baseball games. She loved sports, can be a force for good. That decision and when she followed her dream of be- takes them ing a sports reporter, she broke ground to places that for countless women. The illustrations readers can- add color and power to a bio worth read- not imagine. ing. Mary Garber is the kind of person I A creative would love to have dinner and a conver- story that will surprise and illustrations sation with. – Simon &Schuster, $17.99 (5 that make the story a bit dark give it and up) added dimension. – Dial Books, $10.99 (9 and up) Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America, Gail Jarrow Red’s Planet, Eddie Pittman Jarrow (Red Madness and Fatal Fever) has a deft touch with diseases, epidemics and death, diving right into the history of the Bubonic Foster child Red longs for a chance to live Plague in the U.S. and showing that it is not just a scary footnote in Paradise. When she is accidentally cap- 21 GRAPHIC NOVELS CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS by Anne Edwards Cannon tured by a UFO she ends up somewhere that is definitely not paradise and definitely not Earth. It turns out that Red is now a stowaway on a spaceship that houses a huge collection of rare creatures from all over the universe. But when the spaceship has its own problems and crashes, things seem to get even worse for Red. Creative, funny, and Girl & Gorilla: Out and full of adventures that add up to a great start for a new series. About, Rick Walton, il- – Amulet, $9.95 (9 and up) lustrated by Joe Berger The Nameless City, Faith Erin Hicks Best friends Girl and Kaidu, on his first trip into the name- Gorilla decide to go to less city, meets Rat at a crossroad that the park. But how will has been conquered so routinely, it does not have a name. Kaidu is in the military they get there? Gorilla’s ideas aren’t al- school and Rat lives on the streets. Their ways practical. Good thing he has Girl. interests and desires are so different they For years local author Rick Walton has are a source of what seems insurmount- beguiled national and local audiences able conflict in what ultimately becomes a alike with his witty picture books, and story of friendship. The art work reflects a careful study of ancient China. Although Walton’s particular gifts are on full dis- aimed at middle readers, I can see older play in this new book: his sense of fun, readers picking this book up too. It is vibrant, fast-paced and chal- his kindness toward his characters, and lenges readers to think differently. Graphic novel fans will be looking his use of language that builds toward a for book two. – First Second, $14.99 (9 and up) satisfying punchline. Berger’s cartoon- infused style feels just right for this story. Harper, $17.99 Hello, Hippo! Goodbye, Bird!, Kristyn Crow, illustrated by Poly Bernatene RETURNS Local author Kristyn Crow scores again You are cordially invited to join us at TKE with her new picture for the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new screenplay from J.K. book about a “pesky Rowling. bird” who just will NOT take no for an The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based answer—especially from the solitary on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, hippo he tries to befriend. Will his per- John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by sistence pay off? Crow gets the voices Jack Thorne,Harry Potter and the Cursed of her characters just right, making Child, is the eighth story in the Harry Potter Hello, Hippo! Goodbye, Bird! a plea- series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in sure to read aloud. (Crow, by the way, London’s West End on July 30, 2016. dedicates the book to Rick Walton, It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn’t much easier who has mentored an entire commu- now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a nity of successful writers for young husband and father of three school-age children. readers.) Knopf, $15.99 While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, The Bear and the Piano, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family David Litchfield legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness “One day in the forest, a young bear comes from unexpected places. cub found something he’d never seen Pre-order your copy now and join us on Saturday, July 30 from 10 before.” So begins the story about a p.m. to midnight. Costume contest! Fortune-telling! Trivia games and more! 22 CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS

baby bear who finds a There Is a Tribe piano and (with enough of Kids, practice, of course!) Lane Smith learns to play it. He “There was a plays so well, in fact, colony of pen- that fame comes call- guins. There was ing. But is fame enough a smack of jellyfish. There was a pod to make a bear happy? of whales.” Lane Smith has fun with An enchanting fantasy. the concept of collective nouns in this Clarion, $16.99 visually arresting picture book about a Flora and the Peacocks, child who’s on a quest to find his own Molly Idle kind. In the simplest language possible, There Is a Tribe of Kids speaks about Oh, Molly Idle! Please the beauty of diversity and the comfort never stop with this of community. Roaring Brook Press, fabulous bird thing $18.99 you’ve got going on! First there was Flora The Pirate Jamboree, and the Flamingo. Then Mark Teague there was Flora and the Penguin. And Well, here’s an interest- now, in what may be the most beauti- ing pirate fact: when ful book of them all, there’s Flora and pirates get together, the Peacocks. In this wordless story, pirates know how to Flora must learn how to turn three into party. Party on, Pirates! a company instead of a crowd. Lovely! The only thing they Chronicle, $17.99 fear is the Mother of all It’s Only Stanley, Pirates, who is liter- Jon Agee ally . . . a mother, the kind that tells you to clean up your The wonderful Jon “Lit- room. Teague’s energetic illustrations tle Santa” Agee never are always a joy to behold, and it’s nice ceases to entertain. In to see a book featuring both girl and his newest picture book, boy pirates. Aaaargh! Orchard Books, the Wimbledon fam- $17.99 ily is repeatedly awak- ened during the night Are We There Yet? by their precocious Dan Santat dog, Stanley, who seems to have some “The car trip to visit strange plan of his own. But what is it? Grandma is always The answer will surprise and delight exciting! But after the young children . . . and their parents, first hour, it can feel like too. It’s Only Stanley, in fact, is a good an eternity. You might example of a picture book that works find yourself saying well for a variety of audiences. Dial, $17.99

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things like, ‘Are we there yet?’ Santat’s new picture book is a witty riff on this familiar question with buoyant art- My Old Pal, Oscar, work that visually demonstrates how Amy Hest, illustrated by loooooong a journey can feel when Amy Bates you’re a kid sitting in the backseat of a car. Any family that has undertaken a It’s impossible not to road trip will appreciate this book’s big read this picture book humor. Little, Brown, $17.99 without getting a little lump in your throat. Or even a big Before We Met, one. The story addresses the grief a Laura Krauss person feels after the loss of a pet and Melmed, illus- the reluctance he or she may feel about trated by Jing Jing loving another animal. Hest once again Tsong demonstrates her talent for writing This lovely new about the bond between children and picture book their pets, while Bates’ watercolor-and- celebrates the pencil illustrations are deeply appeal- affection an expectant mother already ing. Recommended. Abrams, 16.95 feels for her unborn child. The illus- I Won a What? trations—done in subdued tropical Audrey Vernick, shades—match the text’s dreamy mood. illustrated by Rob- Reminiscent of I Loved You Before You ert Neubecker Were Born by Anne Bowen, Before We Met would make an ideal gift for a new What happens mother. Beach Lane Books, $17.99 when your parents promise that you Be Glad Your Dad Is can keep what- Not an Octopus! Mat- ever you win at the carnival’s goldfish thew Logelin and Sara booth—and you just happen to win a Jensen, illustrated by whale? This good-natured picture book Jared Chapman celebrates the curveballs life throws our Be glad your dad is not way. Park City resident Robert Neu- an octopus, because becker’s happy illustrations underscore he would always win the story’s high humor. Knopf, $17.99 at tag. And if he were a snake, he’d Have a Look, Says probably shed his skin in front of your Book, Richard Jackson, friends. And if he were a unicorn, no illustrated by Kevin one would believe you. Considering Hawkes the alternatives, you should just be glad your dad . . . is your dad. This brightly- Richard Jackson, a long- colored, funny new book is especially time children’s book ed- good for reading aloud. Little, Brown, itor, has written a love $16.99 poem to books and how they transport us to

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Let’s Play, Herve Tullet Tullet has constructed other mindscapes when you turn that his richest book yet. first page. As a narrative, the story may Reading it requires at- not make much sense to young listen- tentiveness, flexibility ers, although they will certainly enjoy and a strong ability to its language. Adults will have a greater be silly! Young and old appreciation for the book’s premise, will follow the yellow but both can enjoy Hawkes’ colorful dot all the way to the end of its travels, illustrations. Atheneum, $17.99 and then will start all over. – Margaret Ideas Are All Around, Brennan Neville, Chronicle, $15.99 Philip C. Stead Frank and Lucky Get Writers are frequently Schooled, Lynne Rae asked where they “get Perkins their ideas from.” Stead From the very begin- invites us to take a walk ning, readers under- with him on a day when stand that both Frank he has no ideas. Along and Lucky are the best the way, we see the of friends. Both are world through Stead’s learning all sorts of things. Frank is eyes and understand good at reading, and Lucky is even how artists collect inspiration. This is better at listening. This charming tale one of those picture books that will ap- of a dog and boy gives adults a terrific peal more to an adult than to a child. It opening for showing that you can learn could, however, be used to great effect things in all sorts of ways! A charmer! in a classroom setting. Roaring Brook – Margaret Brennan Neville, Harper, Press, $18.99 $17.99 The Jungle Book, by Bear’s Big Breakfast, Rudyard Kipling and Lynn Rowe Reed and illustrated by Don Brett Helquist Daily Bear just woke up from The release of Disney’s hibernation and he’s new live-action version hungry. In this terrific of “The Jungle Book” read-aloud, a study in reminds us that TKE words that start with carries several different editions of the letter “B,” Bear Kipling’s classic. One of them is a lovely knows he needs to eat picture book version, with illustra- but can’t remember exactly what he tions by the late Don Daily. Applesauce wants. Rollicking text and expressive Press, $18.95 illustrations all add up to a very satisfy- ing story. – Margaret Brennan Neville, Harper, $17.99

25 WHAT OUR BOOK CLUBS ARE READING NOW All are open to the public and meet at the bookshop unless otherwise noted.

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL MYSTERY ROZ READS! 3rd Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m. Last Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday May: The Brotherhood of Book Hunt- of the month at 7 p.m. See www.roz- ers, Raphael Jerusalmy reads.com for details. $10 per evening June: The Mystery of the Lost paid to Roz Cezanne, M.L. Longworth May: H Is for Hawk, July: Pro Bono, Seicho Matsumoto Helen MacDonald August: Murder at Cape Three June: Summer break Points, Kwei Quartey July: The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Berry BRIAN SHORT BOOK CLUB August: Outline, Rachel Cusk 2nd Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m. May: Necessary Lies, SLC LESBIAN BOOK CLUB Diane Chamberlain 1st Wednesday of the month, 7 p.m. June: And West Is West, Contact: Nicki Hill nickihi@gmail. Ron Childress com or 801-362-9665 May: The Last Nude, Ellis Avery INSIGHTS TO CONSERVATION June: Uncovered, Leah Lax BOOK CLUB July: Give It to Me, Ana Castillo 1st Tuesday of the month, 6:30 p.m. May: All the Wild That Remains, SLOW FOOD UTAH BOOK CLUB David Gessner 3rd Wednesday every other month; June: Hour of Land (event) visit slowfoodutah.org for more de- July: Roads in the Wilderness: Con- tails. flict in Canyon Country, Jedediah S. May: The Bees, Laline Paull Rogers July: The Triumph of Seeds, Thor Hansen MARGARET’S BOOK CLUB September: Loving the Earth, Carlo 2nd Monday of the month, 7 p.m.; $5 Petrini May: Dead Wake, Eric Larson June: Nobody’s Fool, YA AND WINE Richard Russo 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7 p.m. July: Florence Gordon, Brian Morton May: Passenger, Alexandra Bracken August: Summer break June: Truthwitch, Susan Dennard July: A Study in Charlotte, NEWMAN CENTER Brittany Cavallaro Meets monthly at the Newman Center at U of Utah; Contact Barbara Ban- non, 801-583-4289 May: Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera *NOTE: Titles are chosen one month prior.

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Jennifer Adams Whitney Berger Anne Brillinger Betsy Burton Off to the Shakespeare Festival I will be spending as many I’ll be on my backyard chaise (no I’d like to see for myself (with and taking Ally Condie’s Sum- evenings at our cabin as I can, interminable TSA security lines luck, later this summer) some of merlost. reading the new Jennifer Niven, there!) with a cold one always the territory from Terry Tempest Holding up the Universe, and within reach and a pile of books Williams’ The Hour of Land, re- Ann Cannon the new Chris Cleave, Everyone on the patio table to last until reading her words in the shadow I’ll be sitting on a beach in Brave is Forgiven. Labor Day, novels and authors of the trees and cliffs and battle- Southern California reading that have been on my must-read fields of the parks and monu- Free Days with George, which Will Eakland list for decades. Middlemarch is ments she wrote about with such is a story about a Newfoundland Rafting down the Salmon River first up; Trollope’s on deck. eloquence. But next week I’m go- (I have one!) that surfs. Good in Idaho offers plenty of reading ing on a busman’s holiday, head- times, people. time, limited only by how many Sue Fleming ing for California with a suit- books you can cram into your case full of books reviewed by We are headed up through fellow-Inkslingers which I’ve not Linda Gurrister ammo can. I will be taking Dark Maine and into the Canadian Matter by Blake Crouch and The yet read along with a couple of While on our early spring vaca- Maritimes. Will be rereading Last Days of New Paris by China Trollopes (I’ve long been work- tion in Arches I read A Little several old favorites and one Mieville, two summer releases I ing my way joyfully through the Life by Hanya Yanagihara and new: Twenty Thousand Leagues am looking forward to. 80+ Trollope novels on the top The Summer Before the War under the Sea by Jules Verne, shelf of my bookcase) and Killer by Helen Simonson. I hope The Shipping News by Annie Angels by Michael Shaara which Rachel Haisley to spend many short summer Proulx, and The Invisible Life of my husband says it’s past time trips reading H is for Hawk by Planning on a long, relaxing Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach. for me to read (he likes books as Helen Macdonald, then The weekend at the cabin with Lab much as I do—one requirement Sympathizer by Vietnam Thanh Girl by Hope Jahren and Ameri- Anne Holman of an ideal marriage). Nguyen, and last but not least can Gods by Neil Gaiman. finish Maggie Stiefvater’s quartet, I started reading Finnegan’s Jamie Ortwein with The Raven King. Wake about 30 years ago and am Margaret Brennan Neville Well, well. I am going to Mu- now on page 30. So I may get in nich and I am still deciding Paula Longhurst We are going camping—Tetons, another page but I’ll most likely on my choices! Obviously this Yellowstone, Dinosaur National re-read Outlander. Seriously, I Flying to the land of tulips and will depend on space inside my Monument—and I’m taking two can’t wait to read The Mothers, a clogs with Thrice the Brinded backpack. I am thinking about highly anticipated sequels, Book fall debut from Brit Bennett and Cat Hath Mewed by Alan Brad- wandering about with A Tramp 2 of the Ember in the Ashes On Trails: An Exploration by ley, Last Days of Night by Gra- Abroad by Mark Twain and per- series, A Torch Against the Night Robert Moor. ham Moore and Surrender, New (can’t wait!!) and the sequel to haps Ripley Underground. York by Caleb Carr, all coming The Six of Crows, Crooked King- Betsy Prouty later this summer. dom. On the adult side, Lab Girl Nathan Spofford by Hope Jahren, The Red Knight Both coasts call. In June we’ll be We are heading for the Oregon DawnAnn Owens by Miles Cameron and hopefully in San Diego and San Francisco and I will be reading Richard coast near Newport. My bag of I’m planning to spend some time the new Ian McEwan, Nutshell. Russo’s Nobody’s Fool. While my books will include: The Wild in Southern Utah, walking and husband is finishing it, I’ll reread Robot by Peter Brown, Draw the reading. First up is Everybody’s Wendy Foster Leigh Everybody’s Fool. For the quick Line by Laurent Linn, Challeng- Fool by Richard Russo. He is Getting ready for the autumn flights to California I am packing er Deep by Neal Shusterman, coming to King’s English on in England. I take a supply of several quick reads including The and Highly Illogical Behavior by June 8, and I’m looking forward Simenon mysteries because they Trouble with Twins, Bittersweet John Corey Whaley. to meeting him. Next up will be are little gems and can be packed & Gucci. The trip to Massachu- Our Kind of Traitor by John le easily. When finished with a setts and Maine is longer so one Jan Sloan Carré, because I’m excited for book, I put a note in it and leave hefty book,Rightful Heritage Mainly traveling in the west the movie coming out in July. My it in the plane or coffee shop...I by Douglas Brinkley. I consider to various National Parks. I’m daughters and I love to read and just hope someone else enjoys it. it my duty to have a hardcover taking A Little Life by Hanya discuss books, our next choice is Simenon wrote over 70 Maigret book when I am on a plane. Yanagihara and some great book The Summer Before the War by novels so I am not running out rep picks from Random House. Helen Simonson. Happy reading of good stories. everyone!

27 Indie Bookstore Day a Success! INKSLINGER’S INKSLINGERS Anne Brillinger Thanks to Caputo’s, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Mazza for helping us Sally Larkin make the second annual Indie Bookstore Day a fabulous celebration! Betsy Burton Wendy Foster Leigh We made new friends and shared exclusive IBD items with people Ann Edwards Cannon Lawrence Leigh from all over the city. Looking forward to an even bigger and better Hilary Dudley Paula Longhurst celebration in 2017! RED (PREFERRED ONE COLOR): CREAM (PREFERRED ON DARK COLOR): Vivian Evans Kenneth Loosli Patrick Fleming Michelle Macfarlane Sue Fleming Anne Stewart Mark Rachel Haisley Margaret Brennan Deon Hilger Neville Barbara Hoagland Jan Sloan Anne Holman

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