Its Hilary's birthday! What better was to celebrate than with some Bookish Trivia hosted by the birthday girl herself!
Join us in the store at 6:30 for some literary trivia, friendly competition and a chance to win a special prize!
$5 to play. Get your tickets now!
It's time for another Baby Book Club! We can't wait to have you all back and meet some new friends!
Join us Saturday May 10th at 9am! Come, bring your babies (kids of all ages welcome), meet other parents and kids in the neighborhood and read some fun stories!
We will have 10% off a curated selection of children's books and 10% off for all adults shopping!
Join us to celebrate Holly Jackson’s adult debut novel, NOT QUITE DEAD YET!
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder after being attacked on Halloween.
Join us on July 22nd at to celebrate the release of NOT QUITE DEAD YET with puzzles, games, a scavenger hunt, raffles, your favorite Halloween activities, and more
All tickets include one hardcover copy of NOT QUITE DEAD YET. Signed copies are available as supplies last. Please note the author will not be in attendance.
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/eli-cranor-preview
July 23 at 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Eli Cranor heads back to the football field in his new novel Mississippi Blue 42 which follows FBI Special Agent Rae Johnson as she investigates illicit money flowing into a bustling football program and the death of the star quarterback. Join Eli and host of SEC Network's TrueSouth John T. Edge for a special preview event of the first installment of a big-hearted new crime series.
*No purchase necessary. 18+. Void where prohibited. US only, excluding residents of Rhode Island. 1 prize will be awarded to a randomly selected entrant. Total approximate retail value (ARV) is $800. Complete entry rules and guidelines are available here.
No, not bring your own booze... Its Bring Your Own Book Club! Join us Thursday July 24th at 6pm for BYOB Club!
Did you just read something awesome that you've been dying to tell someone about? Have you always dreamed about giving your own book talk? Do you need to recommendation for your next book club? Come one and come all! Just bring a book with you.
There will be drinks and snacks and lots of book talk. We will have time for those who want to give a quick talk about their latest read, but if thats not your jam just sit back, have a drink, mingle and listen for ideas for your next read!
RSVP to let us know you're coming!
PLEASE NOTE: While this is a free event, RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served.
Can’t make it in person? Watch the Livestream Here!
ABOUT THE BOOK: Spooky Science: Dissecting the Mysteries of Ghosts, Cryptids, Aliens, and Other Oddities. Join the Spooky Science Sisters for an exhilarating journey through the enigmatic realm of the supernatural and the intriguing science that lurks beneath.
Spooky Science introduces you to the whimsical yet meticulously researched investigations of the renowned Spooky Science Sisters, Meagan Ankney and Paige Miller. On their quest to demystify the paranormal world, they examine the science behind mysteries like ghostly apparitions, legendary cryptids, and spine-chilling haunted places. From deciphering the peculiar electromagnetic fields that lead to ghostly apparitions to uncovering the origins of mythical creatures, no enigma is too daunting for these tenacious sisters. Filled with historical anecdotes, scientific research, and a dash of sisterly banter, this rollercoaster of thrills, and scientific enlightenment, will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about the paranormal.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Meagan Ankney is a geologist by training, a chemist by trade, and a lifelong Halloween enthusiast. In 2020, she took her love for all things spooky and her passion for science communication to the podcasting world, when she founded the Spooky Science Sisters podcast with her ride-or-die sister-in-law, Paige Miller. When she isn’t podcasting, making spooky science videos, or writing, Meagan enjoys playing cozy games, reading fantasy novels, and exploring her home state of Wisconsin with her husband and daughter. Spooky Science is her first book.
Paige Miller, a chemist by training, spends her time working as a safety professional and EHS graduate student. A lover of Halloween and horror since childhood, Paige enthusiastically joined her sister-in-law, Meagan Ankney as the cohost of Spooky Science podcast. Paige Miller, first-time coauthor of Spooky Science, works and writes out of Wisconsin. Her free time is spent playing with her dog and exploring the great outdoors with her husband.
It's time for another Baby Book Club! We had so much fun at the last one, we can't wait to have you all back and meet some new friends!
Join us Saturday May 10th at 9am! Come, bring your babies (kids of all ages welcome), meet other parents and kids in the neighborhood and read some fun stories!
We will have 10% off a curated selection of children's books and 10% off for all adults shopping!
PLEASE NOTE: While this is a free event, RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served.
Can’t make it in person? Watch the Livestream Here!
About the Book:
Bobbie and Bill Malone secure the Riders' rightful place in country music history, recounting the story of their remarkable journey, which simultaneously entertained millions of people and revived the venerable American tradition of the singing cowboy."—Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, creators of PBS's Country Music
For almost five decades, the band known as Riders In The Sky ("America's Favorite Cowboys") has entertained and delighted audiences in Nashville and throughout the United States with their mixture of quirky sendups of the silver-screen Western and their "faultless, evocative instrumentation, perfect harmony, fantasy, and humor."
Remarkably, the original Riders—Ranger Doug Green ("The Idol of American Youth"), "Too Slim" (or alternately, "Side Meat"), Fred LaBour, and Woody Paul Chrisman ("The King of Cowboy Fiddlers")—have continued to perform together since their first gig on a cold, rainy night in November 1978. Occasionally described as "the most educated band in country music" because of Woody Paul's PhD in plasma physics from MIT, Doug's MA in literature from Vanderbilt, and Too Slim's degree in environmental studies from the University of Michigan, the group has been a popular fixture at the Grand Ole Opry since 1982. Master accordionist Joey Miskulin, a "road scholar" since age 13, joined the band during its second decade and was with them when they won Grammy awards for their work with Disney-Pixar for the albums that accompanied Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. Their appeal to multigenerational audiences continues unabated.
Riders In The Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor will entertain and inform both the group's legions of dedicated fans and aficionados of country and western music.
About the Author:
BOBBIE MALONE is the author of Lois Lenski: Storycatcher and Striding Lines: The Unique Story Quilts of Rumi O'Brien. She also coauthored with Bill Traveler: The Musical Odyssey of Tim O'Brien and Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story. BILL C. MALONE is the author of Country Music, USA, which served as the narrative framework for Ken Burns's 2019 documentary series, Country Music, Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and The Southern Working Class, and Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers. Since 1997, Bill has hosted Back to the Country on WORT 89.9 FM.
PLEASE NOTE: While this is a free event, RSVPs are encouraged. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served.
Can’t make it in person? Watch the Livestream Here!
About the book:
In The Tracks of My Years: A Music-Based Memoir, the acclaimed co-author of Rolling
Stone’s 2015 music book-of-the-year, We Go@a Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of Vietnam War, tells the story of a life lived with, and in, music. He provides a poignant, someAmes painful, series of portraits of a young man maneuvering the intricacies of family life, love and romance, and a complicated relaAonship with a high school teacher who inspired him but was a constant source of bewilderment. As Bradley discovers who he is and, crucially, who he isn’t, the soundtrack evolves from Sinatra and the Beatles to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
The Tracks of My Years is a book for anyone who grew up in post-World War II America,
and for their children and grandchildren trying to look beyond the haze of myths surrounding Baby Boomers. It opens windows into the echoes of the heart. Cue up Alexa, Siri, or Spotify and curl up for a journey through The Tracks of My Years.
About the Author:
Doug Bradley is an author, educator, and Vietnam veteran. He has blogged for PBS’s Next Avenue and The Huffington Post, taught at UW-Madison, Baldwin-Wallace University, Edgewood College, and Arizona State University, and is the author of three books grounded in the Vietnam experience, including DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle, Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America, and co-author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, named the Best Music Book of 2015 by Rolling Stone magazine.
After graduation from college in 1969, Doug was drafted into the U. S. Army in March 1970. He served at the Army’s Hometown News Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and as a combat correspondent with U. S. Army Republic of Vietnam headquarters at Long Binh, South Vietnam, from November 1970-November 1971. He relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1974 where he helped establish Vets House, a storefront, community-based service center for Vietnam era veterans. He currently serves as chair of the Board of Advisors of the University of Wisconsin’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
Doug’s music-based memoir, The Tracks of My Years, will be released by Legacy Book Press this summer.
About the Book: A twenty-five-year-old murder case awakens violence in the present day, as Cork O’Connor struggles to find answers that have long eluded him.
A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for life for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.
Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.
At the same time, Cork’s seven-year-old grandson has his own theory about the investigation: the Windigo, that mythic cannibal ogre, has come to Tamarack County . . . and it won’t leave until it has sated its hunger for human blood.
In one of his most gripping and intriguing novels, bestselling author William Kent Krueger brings the small town of Aurora, Minnesota to life in all its beauty and complexity, showing that as much as the world changes over time, the essence of what makes us human remains the same.
About the Author:
Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He’s been married for more than fifty years to a marvelous woman who is a retired attorney. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.
