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Learn more at www.indiebound.org Contents Midwest Booksellers Choice Award Winners..............2 Midwest Favorites......................3–4 Great Fiction.....................................5–8 The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association is your connection to the Our Fascinating World.......9–10 best locally owned and operated independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. Visit our website to browse a Great Gifts.........................................11–12 map of bookstores and enjoy a collection of exciting regional books through Cooking & Crafts........................13–14 Midwest Connections. [email protected] Children’s Books..........................15–16 MidwestBooksellers.org Twitter.com/MidwestBooks Young Adult & Facebook.com/MidwestBooksellers Middle Reader Books..............17–18 Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards 2014 Winners Adult Fiction Shotgun Lovesongs Nickolas Butler St. Martin’s Press $25.99 hardcover 9781250039811 Adult Nonfiction Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Poetry Milkweed Editions $24.00 hardcover What the Heart 9781571313355 Knows: Chants, Charms, & Blessings Joyce Sidman Illustrated by Children’s Literature Pamela Zagarenski Houghton Mifflin Flora & Ulysses Harcourt Kate DiCamillo $16.99 hardcover Illustrated by 9780544106161 K.G. Campbell Candlewick Press $17.99 hardcover 9780763660406 Children’s Picture Book This Is a Moose Richard T. Morris Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld Little Brown Books for Young Readers $18.00 hardcover 9780316213608 Page 2 Midwest Favorites Boy on Ice: The Life The Heart of and Death of Derek Things: A Boogaard Midwestern John Branch Almanac W. W. Norton & Co. John Hildebrand $26.95 hardcover Wisconsin Historical 9780393239393 Society Press The tragic death of $22.95 hardcover hockey star Derek 9780870206726 Boogaard at In this remarkable twenty-eight helped shatter the silence about book of days, John violence and concussions in professional Hildebrand charts the overlapping rings of sports. Now, acclaimed reporter John Branch life in the Midwest, locating the humor and tells the shocking story of Boogaard’s life and drama in ordinary life. With sharply observed heartbreaking death. essays, the Midwest isn’t “The Land Time Forgot,” but a more complicated and vastly The Road Back more interesting place. to Sweetgrass: A Novel Perimeter: A Linda Legarde Grover Contemporary University of Portrait of Lake Minnesota Press Michigan $24.95 hardcover Kevin J. Miyazaki 9780816692699 Wisconsin Historical Set in northern Society Press Minnesota, a $29.95 hardcover powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and 9780870206764 family bonds on an American Indian Photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki traveled the reservation—from the author of the 1,800-mile perimeter of Lake Michigan to award-winning short story collection The gather this diverse portrait of both people and Dance Boots. place, encapsulating the lake’s significance and those who are drawn to it. Blaze Orange: Whitetail Deer Hunting in Death Stalks Door Wisconsin County Travis Dewitz Patricia Skalka Wisconsin Historical University of Society Press Wisconsin Press $29.95 hardcover $26.95 hardcover 9780870206689 9780299299408 Photographer Travis Dewitz proves that Introducing The Dave “blaze orange” is more than just a color—it’s Cubiak Door County a tradition, lifestyle, and livelihood for the Mysteries: smart, more than 600,000 who hunt deer in hard-edged detective fiction in a setting of Wisconsin each year. Dewitz’s 129 featured stunning natural beauty along the pristine images capture the textures, tones, and shores of Green Bay and Lake Michigan. characters of the hunt. Page 3 Minnesota’s Little Hawk and Own: Preserving the Lone Wolf: Our Grand Homes A Memoir Larry Millett Raymond C. Photography by Kaquatosh Matt Schmitt Wisconsin Historical Minnesota Historical Society Press Society Press $22.95 hardcover $49.95 hardcover 9780870206504 9780873519298 In this rare Larry Millett and photographer Matt Schmitt first-person narrative of a Menominee invite us into twenty-two lovingly preserved Indian’s coming of age, Raymond Kaquatosh Minnesota homes through over two hundred shares a story that is wise, often funny, and color photographs and Millett’s in the end, deeply moving. After his father’s captivating stories of their construction, death, Ray remained a lonely boy in a full original owners, and restoration. house until he met and befriended a lone timber wolf. Chasing the Light: The Cloud Cult Story The Great Sand Mark Allister Fracas of Ames University of County Minnesota Press Jerry Apps $16.95 paperback University of 9780816696536 Wisconsin Press Mark Allister traces $26.95 hardcover the heartbreaking yet 9780299300708 affirming journey of In the sixth novel Cloud Cult, one of indie rock’s most loved and in the Midwest’s spiritual bands. Features rarely-seen beloved Jerry Apps’s photographs and passionate testimonials by “Ames County series,” a proposed frac sand fans. mine in the local community park divides small-town neighbors into factions, offering readers an amazing glimpse into the issues Rhoda’s Rock of a rural town. Hunt Molly Beth Griffin Illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell Minnesota Historical Society Press $16.95 hardcover 9780873519502 Rhoda is on a long hike on the hunt for one thing: ROCKS. She finds them in all shapes and patterns, from hearts and hats to stripes and sparkles. After hours of play and discovery, it’s time to head for home. By now, Rhoda’s pack is too heavy to lift. Will she give up her rocks and return? Page 4 Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy Ken Follett Great Dutton Books $36.00 hardcover 9780525953098 Fiction Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five inter- twined families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they make their way Five Days Left through the twentieth century. In this finale, Julie Lawson Timmer the families are brought together in an unfor- Putnam gettable tale of passion covering the tumultu- $26.95 hardcover ous era of the 1960s through the 1980s. 9780399167348 A heart-wrenching The Good Girl debut about two peo- Mary Kubica ple who must decide Mira Books how much they’re $24.95 hardcover willing to sacrifice for 9780778316558 love, Five Days Left is destined to be a book Born to a Chicago judge club favorite, exploring the power of rela- and his socialite wife, tionships—and how loving someone means Mia Dennett moves both holding on and letting go. against the grain as a young inner-city The Midnight Plan art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar and of the Repo Man unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. W. Bruce Cameron An addictive, suspenseful, and tautly written Forge Books thriller, The Good Girl shows us that even in the $24.99 hardcover perfect family, nothing is as it seems. 9780765377487 With a sweet romance, Flesh and Blood murder mystery, Patricia Cornwell lazy-but-loyal dog, and a William Morrow & Co. town full of cabin-fevered characters you can’t $28.99 hardcover help but love, the author of the 52-week New 9780062325341 York Times bestselling novel A Dog’s Purpose Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds brings us another irresistible read. herself in the unset- tling pursuit of a serial Little Mercies sniper who leaves no Heather Gudenkauf incriminating evi- Mira Books dence. The victims $15.95 paperback appear to have had nothing in common, and 9780778316336 there is no pattern to indicate where the Veteran social worker killer will strike next. Then she comes face to Ellen Moore has seen the face with shocking evidence that implicates worst side of humanity. someone she would least expect, her own She is a fiercely dedicat- flesh and blood. ed children’s advocate and a devoted mother and wife. One blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined. Page 5 The Paying Guests The Slow Regard of Sarah Waters Silent Things Riverhead Books Patrick Rothfuss $28.95 hardcover Daw Books 9781594633119 $18.95 hardcover Short-listed for the 9780756410438 Man Booker Prize A companion novel three times, Sarah to the bestselling Waters has earned Kingkiller Chroni- a reputation as a cles, Patrick Roth- great writer of historical fiction, and here fuss brings us into the world of one of the she has delivered again. A romance, a Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters. Full tension-filled crime story, and a beautifully of secrets and mysteries, The Slow Regard atmospheric portrait of a fascinating time of Silent Things is the story of a broken and place, The Paying Guests is Waters’ girl trying to live in a broken world. finest achievement yet. Somewhere Safe The Children Act with Somebody Ian McEwan Good: The New Nan A. Talese Mitford Novel $25.00 hardcover Jan Karon 9780385539708 Putnam A quietly exhilarat- $27.95 hardcover ing and profound 9780399167447 book from a Booker #1 New York Times– prize–winning bestselling author author, Ian McEwan Jan Karon returns—and invites her mil- shows readers the world of Fiona Maye, a lions of fans to join her again in Mitford.