October New and Notable
We are beginning to stock those “big and beautiful” titles…perfect for someone’s Christmas gift! 1776 is now illustrated with beautiful, exquisite paper documents to remove from finely crafted envelopes. THE WAR, with carefully selected photos and excellent text, from the current PBS series is also available. Classic children’s titles, new baby board books, and an excellent new selection of Golden books are in stock. Oh…and we will sell wall calendars this year! Let us know some of your favorite themes and we will get them for you.
WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett
An anticipated sequel to The Pillars of the Earth is set two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, where its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.
RUN, by Ann Patchett
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons’ career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities. By the author of Bel Canto.
DOWN RIVER, by John Hart
Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Harston returns to North Carolina and to a hostile family, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of violence, greed, family secrets, and murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in the crimes. By the author of The King of Lies.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA: Movie-tie-in
By, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Set on the Caribbean coat of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years, on the day of her husband’s funeral.
ALMOST MOON, by Alice Sebold
Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation. By the author of The Lovely Bones.
BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
After her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta decides to open a private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself and her colleagues – Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy – confronted by a horrifying series of crimes that may have an underlying link.
THE MARRIAGE GAME, by Fern Michaels
Fern Michaels brings her trademark wit and warmth to an action-packed story featuring a group of diverse women who bond Survivor-style under the most unlikely of circumstances…and find romance along the way.
GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD: A Tale of Adventure, by Michael Chabon
In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains, in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade as swords for hire, until they become embroiled in a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars as bodyguards for a fugitive prince with a mysterious secret.
***An Autographed copy awaits the first buyer…”Lay-down” date
Is October 30th!!
THE MITFORD BEDSIDE COMPANION, by Jan Karon
For all those who love returning to Mitford, this gorgeously packaged companion will be the perfect book to curl up with. What was that Uncle Billy joke about the census taker? Where was that beautiful prayer Father Tim offered: The Mitford Bedside Companion will make it easy to find the greatest of the countless gems that grace each of Karon’s novels.
THE GIFT, by Richard Paul Evans
A new work by the best-selling author of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel is an uplifting tale of hope and faith that celebrates the joy of the season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love.
THE PRAYER CHEST: A Story of Hope, by August Gold
A widowed father of two, living on a failing farm in eighteenth-century Long Island, Joseph Hutchinson is desperate to find a way to save his children and himself, until he stumbles upon a mysterious wooden box, hidden for more than a century in his attic, that contains the Three Secrets of Prayer, secrets that will transform his life forever.
THE PARTING, by Beverly Lewis
Nearly one hundred days have p0assed since the untimely death of Nellie Mae Fisher’s beloved younger sister, Suzy, and Nellie dares again to dream of a future with handsome Caleb Yoder. But with rumors about Suzy still flying among the People, there are those who would keep the young courting couple apart…including Caleb’s own father. With the Old Order community pushed to the breaking point Nellie and Caleb find their families – and themselves – in the midst of what threatens to become an impossible divide.
WHERE ANGELS GO, by Debbie Macomber
Three well-intentioned angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people – an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy who has a special holiday wish.
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