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Dear Booklover, READ BETWEEN THE LYNES BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS In a June 7th article in Fortune entitled “Millennials Want to Daytime Book Club Make Reading Cool Again,” we R 2nd Wednesday of each month at 12:30 pm at RBTL hear a heartening statistic: the 22- to-34 age group makes up a whop- Wednesday, August 10th ping 37% of the physical book- Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart buying public, ten percent more than that group When Constance Kopp and her sisters suffer a run-in with a ruthless, powerful crook, Constance accounted for in 2012. The article talks to several mil- leaves her quiet country life to team up with the local sheriff and exact justice. As a war of bricks, lennials who declare their love of physical books and bullets, and threats ensues, Constance realizes that this racketeer’s history may be more damn- their dislike of reading on electronic devices. It goes ing than she thought, but now that she’s on the case, he won’t get away. Mariner $14.95. on to quote a bookseller who says “it is like a hipster movement to get back into reading,” and reports that millennials by and large are bypassing big online Wednesday, September 14th retailers in favor of the brick and mortar bookstore The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton experience. The classic novel by one of America’s classic authors. An incisive portrait of New York high soci- ety and the somber economics of marriage during the late nineteenth century, Edith Wharton’s This is great news, of course. That the younger gener- The House of Mirth tells the story of beguiling socialite Lily Bart’s ill-fated attempt to find hap- ation is embracing reading and bookstores, and that piness. Penguin Books $11. these readers will likely raise a new generation with the same values and interests, reinforces what we here at Read Between the Lynes have always known— bookstores are here to stay as a vital part of our com- Evening Book Club munities. Our obsession with technical gadgets 3rd Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL doesn’t mean people don’t want books, it means they Monday, August 15th seek out bookstores all the more, because holding the physical book “fills a void.” Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It’s No matter which generation you belong to, we want to Shakespeare as you’ve never played him before. In this choose-your-own-path version of help you fill that void. Whether it’s the hottest new “Romeo and Juliet,” you choose where the story goes! What if Romeo never met Juliet? What bestseller (we’re celebrating Harry Potter on page if Juliet got buff instead of moping all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with one!), a book you didn’t know you loved yet, a reading robot suits? Whatever your adventure, you’re guaranteed to find romance, epic fight scenes, by your favorite author, or a community event or and questionable decision-making by very emotional teens. Riverhead $20. book club, we are here to provide the unique experi- Monday, September 19th ence that is your local independent bookstore. There are so many amazing titles packed in these pages, A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman including new installments in exciting series, a quirky, Behind Ove’s cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a particularly fun pick called The Altogether Unexpected chatty young couple with two daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mail- Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman by Mamen box, it is the lead-in to a comical tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient Sanchez, and a new title by the immensely engaging art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations. Washington Square $16. science writer Mary Roach called Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Take a look at what we’ve got in this issue of the newsletter. And then come and see us. Browse around, Men’s Book Club talk with us, fill your void. We can’t wait to see you. 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL Monday, August 22nd H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own STORY TIME goshawk. She buys Mabel on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she Tuesdays and Saturdays fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange at 10:30 am business of trying to train this wildest of animals. Grove $16. Join us as staff members share Monday, September 26th their favorite story books Marvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno with you and In the summer of 1995, a Korean War vet struggling to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson on your children! an Indiana farm receives a mysterious gift—a beautiful quarter horse—that upends their lives. The horse catches the attention of two meth-dealing brothers who steal and sell the animal. Grandfather and grandson pursue the criminals across the heartland, all the while confronting 2 the misperceptions of their own troubled relationship. Akashic $15.95. Provocative New Fiction Modern Lovers All is Not Forgotten by Emma Straub by Wendy Walker Friends and former bandmates Elizabeth, Andrew, and Zoe Everything seems perfect in Jenny’s small, affluent town have watched one another start businesses and families. But until the night she is attacked at a party and is given a con- nothing ages them like passing the torch of sexuality and troversial drug to erase her memory of the assault. In the independence to their offspring. As they near fifty, their months that follow, with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), and struggles with her emotional memory. Her father becomes the adult lives unravel, revealing deeply held secrets. This is obsessed with finding her attacker while her mother seeks a book about neighbors, nosiness, ambition, the excitement denial. Fault lines within their marriage and community of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our pas- emerge, and the relentless quest to find the monster drive sions never go away; they just evolve with us.