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*A Collection of
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"Sitting in
the stand at the sports arena,
Waiting for the
show to begin . . ."
--Paul
McCartney, Venus and Mars
1) ROCK SHOW . . . I must
admit when I saw the title Rock With Wings, I thought it might be a new
tell-all book by Paul McCartney about his days with his band Wings. For
you youngsters, Wings was the name of the band Paul formed before he began
collaborating with Kanye West and his career officially 'blew up'. But I
wasn't even in the ballpark with that one. Heck, I wasn't even on the
right planet (see: Venus and Mars above). Apparently, Rock With
Wings (9780062270511) 26.99 is actually the title of Anne Hillerman's sort
of sequel to Spider Woman's Daughter (9780062270498) 9.99, which is a
continuation of her late husband's series of books featuring Jim Chee and Joe
Leaphorn. It releases on May 5. By the way, next time we'll talk
about the band that Paul was in before Wings . . .
2) WITH A LITTLE LUCK . .
. The Pulitzer PrizeTM winners
were announced on Monday and to everyone's great surprise, they are solid
bestsellers (well, at least the fiction and non-fiction categories).
Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See (9781476746586) 27.00 won
the fiction award after the Pulitzer jury asked for a fourth nominee to be
submitted to them. Thankfully, we did not have a repeat of 2012 when no award
was given for fiction. Also, the trade edition of this title has been
delayed until December. Elizabeth Kolbert's important book, The Sixth
Extinction (9781250062185) 16.00, which is already in tradepaper, was the
winner in the non-fiction slot. Of course, the history category winner,
Elizabeth Fenn's Encounters At The Heart Of The World (9780374535117)
18.00 and the biography award winner, The Pope And Mussolini (9780812983678)
20.00 by David Kertzer are not quite as well known, but they both have been
recently released in tradepaper editions, too. There also was a poetry
winner . . .
3) CALL ME BACK AGAIN . .
. Our good friend and New York Times bestselling author
Elizabeth Berg stopped by on Monday and signed copies of her latest book, Dream
Lover (9780812993158) 28.00. She was wonderful and has a great sense
of humor. We both agreed that one of our favourite quotes was by Flannery
O'Conner: Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think universities stifle
writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
As usual, it's first come, first served on signed copies . . .
On this day in
Byzantine History (April 22)
During the night
on this day in 1453, the Ottoman Turks moved ships overland and across the
Golden Horn to cut off the last supply line into Constantinople.
Odds
& Sods
Tom Izzo and The
Michigan State Spartans have had another glorious run at the NCAA basketball
championship this year. To commemorate his 20 years as coach of MSU's
wildly successful basketball program, the Lansing State Journal and the Detroit
Free Press are releasing
Mr. March (9781597255714)
34.95 on May 15. This title will only be available on a non-returnable
basis at a 30% discount. Unfortunately, more than half of our stock has
already been backordered, and more than likely, it will not be reprinted.
Order accordingly . . .
Happy Earth Day!
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