*A Collection of
Antiquarian Curios & Relics*
"I said
maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden
grows
I just want to
fly
Lately did you
ever feel the pain . . ."
--Oasis, Live
Forever
1) WHATEVER . .
. Timothy
Egan, winner of the 2014 PEN/Brad Pitt Book Award, which is presented to
the best looking male author in non-fiction, has just had Short Nights of
the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life & Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (9780544102767)
15.95 released in paperback. How do I know he could be the winner of the
fictional PEN/Brad Pitt Book Award? Timothy Egan once stopped in
here to sign copies of The Worst Hard Time (9780618773473) 14.95, which
normally no one but myself would take much interest in. However, on this
particular visit, I noticed that nearly our entire staff of women had joined us
in the conference room. I fled. Timothy Egan has also won the
Pulitizer Prize. Timothy Egan was one of the nicest people we've ever had
sign for us. I hate Timothy Egan . . .
2) WHISKEY & CIGARETTES . . .
Speaking of Native American photography, Joseph Heywood is back with a
full-length novel to go with his recent collection of short stories, Hard
Ground (9780762781263) 16.95. The novel Killing a Cold One (9780762791279)
26.95 is set in Northern Michigan and revolves around the murder of two Native
American girls. Conservation officer Grady Service of the Michigan DNR is
on the case. He finds strange tracks, and then the body count begins to
mount. Some people say it's the 'dogman' and the governor orders him to
track down the killer whether it's man or beast. (If you're not familiar
with the 'dogman' legend, we also stock Linda Godfrey's The Michigan Dogman
(9780979882265) 15.95.) Along the same lines, we've received Cary
Griffith's new novel Wolves (9781591934363) 12.95. Sam Rivers, a
special agent for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has a predilection for
predators and finds himself in the hinterlands of Minnesota in search of a
wolfpack feeding on the local livestock. That is, until his estranged
father is found dead in his boyhood home of Defiance, MN. and he realizes he
has more to fear than mere wolves . . .
3) BRING
IT ON DOWN . . . Linda Fairstein has returned with a new Alex
Cooper crime caper, Death Angel (9780525953876) 26.95. It goes
like this: (Sung to the tune of Earth Angel by The Penguins)
Oh, Death Angel,
Death Angel,
Please be mine?
My darling dear,
love you all the time.
I'm just a
killer,
A killer in love
with you . . .
Odds
& Sods
It's summer
vacation time in Michigan, and if you'd like to sample the exquisite
cuisine endemic to Northern Michigan but don't have the time to go there, I
have the perfect book for you! The Michigan Bed & Breakfast
Cookbook (9781889593302) 22.95 presents a wonderful sampling of the
delicious recipes used by B&Bs statewide.
Magnifique!
And so it
begins. The first title leading the onslaught of Green Bay Packer books
is Lew Freedman's The Packer Experience (9780760344507) 40.00. I
have to admit that if I were a Packers fan, I would want one.
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