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Here John takes on with relish one of his favorite subjects, baseball. The narrator is Paul Tracey, a present-day man looking back on his childhood in 1973, when Joe Castle, from Calico Rock, Arkansas, comes up for his big league debut with the New York Mets and gets a hit in his first at-bat, and his second, then third, then fourth, and next thing you know he’s in pursuit of the major league record, becoming an national sensation, in addition to a hero to young Paul Tracey. Paul could use a hero in his life because his Dad, Warren, is decidedly not one. Warren is a skirt-chaser and drinks too much, and as it turns out, is a major league pitcher himself, but a third-rate one. How Tracey, these many years later, comes to terms with this father—and what became of Calico Joe—makes for the kind of read-without-getting-up-to-pee novel we love for John Grisham to write. Signed copies available of both books at regular list price, and we still have a few signed copies of The Litigators and the previous Theodore Boone book, all at list price. RH TONI Truth Like the Sun MORRISON JIM LYNCH Home (Knopf, hd 24.00) (Knopf, hd. 25.95) Ask about signed copies. Jim Lynch (Bordersongs, which Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison won the Washington State Book extends her profound take on our Award in 2010) writes about the history with a redemptive tale of a city he knows best. Set in Seattle man’s desperate search for self in a during two very different eras, world disfigured by war. the 1962 World’s Fair and in 2001; described as a “classic, hugely entertaining political novel that is a The Chemistry cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue.” of Tears Bring Up the Bodies PETER CAREY HILARY MANTEL (Knopf, hd. 26.00) (Henry Holt, hd. 28.00) An automaton, a man and a woman The sequel to Hilary Mantel’s who can never meet, a secret love 2009 Man Booker Prize-winner, story, and the fate of the warming Wolf Hall, which delves into the world are all brought to life by Peter Carey, two-time heart of Tudor history with the winner of the Man Booker Prize. downfall of Anne Boleyn. 4 Canada RICHARD FORD Author Signing and Reading on Monday, June 11 at 5 p.m. (Ecco, hd. 26.99) Richard Ford’s first book of short stories, Rock Springs, is often cited by his readers as a favorite book. They’ll be happy about Canada, then, as the novel carries much the same tone and similar elements of the prairie West (and prairie Saskatchewan). Dell, the young narrator, is exposed to some harsh aspects of life in the adult world and the story takes on a haunting, noir-ish cloak; there is such as murder and robbery here, and it’s fair to reveal this now as the narrator does so early on in the book, well ahead of the events themselves (and there is plenty else I’m leaving out here). Young Dell and his twin sister, Berner, are undone by their parents’ behavior and learn they had best look after oneself. Told with the calm, elegant, luminous force of Richard Ford’s prose, the tension and suspense of Canada builds with a power that surpasses the expectations of this reader and, I suspect, other Ford fans. In short—a terrific read. RH The Age of Miracles by KAREN THOMPSON WALKER (Random House, hd. 26.00) There are literary names to be dropped with this book, such as Aimee Bender, Nathan Englander, Amy Bloom—and I wholeheartedly agree with their praise for The Age of Miracles. In an unsettling future, the Earth’s rotation has slowed, causing atmospheric, environmental, financial, cultural and personal upheaval and uncertainty. The glowing voice in this surreal landscape is 11 year-old Julia. Given her age, an immediate guarantee for uncertainty, one would expect the focus to be fear and/or anxiety, and surely, there is that, but Julia is a rarity among coming-of- agers. She is a non-whiner, a pragmatic girl who bravely adjusts to the alterations of life as she knows it. In a story that is both disturbing and beautiful—one that stayed in my thoughts for days after reading—there is valiant, insightful, lucid and caring Julia. She’s the kind of person I want with me in a disaster. SLM The Green Shore In One Person NATALIE JOHN IRVING BAKOPOULOS (Simon & Schuster, hd. 28.00) (Simon & Schuster, hd. 25.00) John Irving had published three Author Signing and Reading books before his fourth, The World on Tuesday, June 26 at 5 p.m. According to Garp, garnered a wide readership. That was my Set in Athens and Paris, The Green second year in bookselling, in Shore paints a portrait of a family whose stories of love 1978, and since then John Irving has written fourteen and resistance play out against the backdrop of the late more books, many of them, like A Prayer for Owen 1960s Greek military dictatorship. Sophie, a student of Meany and The Cider House Rules, becoming French literature; her mother Eleni, a widowed doctor; American standards. His latest lives up to the greatest Sophie’s uncle Mihalis, an outspoken poet of some qualities of Irving’s work—an interesting narrative renown; and Anna, Sophie’s younger sister, all search for that is humorous, ironic, and straightforward; plenty of love and fulfillment as they struggle with when to stay drama, of both the plot and the thespian variety; and silent and when to act. A book club recommendation. sex, of many kinds. This is the sort of enjoyable-and- meaningful Irving novel we love, one that Edmund stay up to date, go to White said “makes you proud to be human,” and www.squarebooks.com which Abraham Verghese remarked “...is America and American writing, both at their very best.” RH 5 A Land More The Coldest Night Kind Than Home ROBERT WILEY CASH OLMSTEAD (William Morrow, hd.