Dear Friends,
Thanks to you, our loyal customers, we had a wonderful 2015. We appreciate your business and look forward to seeing you the next time you get to Glen Arbor!
What a difference a couple of weeks make! When I took this hike on December 23, it was 50 degrees.
Today the temps are in the teens, the wind is blowing and we have had snow squalls all day.
It's a quiet time here in Glen Arbor, time to catch up on our reading. If you see anything here you would like to read, give us a call, if you don't live nearby we are happy to ship books to you.
You can keep up with news of Cottage Book Shop and Glen Arbor by following us on
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Happy January, think snow,
Sue Boucher, Jill Webb and Bonnie Foley
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Glen Lake Book Club
Held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
Friday January 15
at 10:00 a.m.
My Mistake By Daniel Menaker
Mariner $14.95
Friday February 19
at 10:00 a.m.
Station Eleven
By Emily St. John Mandel
Vintage $15.95
Friday March 18
at 10:00 a.m.
The Arsonist
By Sue Miller
Vintage $15.95
The Lakeshore Readers
Held at Glen Lake Community Library
Wednesday January 27
at 10:00 a.m.
God in Ruins By Kate Atkinson
Back Bay $17.99, due 1-12-16
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Fireside Stories:
Tales for a Winter's Eve
By Caitlyn Matthews
Illustrated by Helen Cann
Barefoot Books $19.99
Drawn from countries and cultures of the northern hemisphere, these wonderful wintry folktales express the magnificence of the season. From a group of courageous Russian animals to a legend about a bag of warmth that can keep winter away forever, these cozy stories will keep out the winter chill. (All ages)
Little Snow Plow
By Lora Koehler
Illustrated by Jake Parker
Candlewick $15.99
On the Mighty Mountain Road Crew, the trucks come in one size: BIG. That is, until the little snowplow joins the crew. None of the other trucks think that the little snowplow can handle the big storms, but "he" knows that he can do it and just to be sure, he trains hard, pushing loads of gravel, pulling blocks of concrete, and doing plow lifts to get ready. But when a blizzard arrives, will the little snowplow's training be enough to clear the streets and handle unexpected trouble? (Ages 2 and up)
Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-Loving Rubber Ball
By Emily Jenkins
Illustrated by Paul O. Delinsky
Children who have loved listening to the Toys trilogy, as well as those meeting the toys for the very first time, will be thrilled to see Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic venture outdoors to play in the snow. Together the toys build a snowman, make snow angels, and, when day is done, head back inside their cozy house and wait for the return of the Little Girl. (Ages 3 and up)
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
By Chris Grabenstein
Random House $16.99
Welcome, boys and girls, readers of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympiad! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, is at it again! This time Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS. Will it be fun? Like the commercials say.? But something suspicious is going on . . . books are missing from Mr. Lemoncello's library. Is someone trying to CENSOR what the kids are reading?! In between figuring out mind-boggling challenges, the kids will have to band together to get to the bottom of this mystery. (Ages 8 and up)
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The Cottage Children's
Book Club
The perfect gift for all of the little people in your life. Give the gift of a book a month!
Our knowledgeable staff will personally choose a hardcover book for each child. A passion for reading can begin at a young age and this special gift will foster the love of books and reading!
Here's how it works:
~ each month or bi-monthly the child will receive a recently published, age appropriate hardcover book matched with the child's interests.
(we can also choose classic children's books if requested)
~gifts will be wrapped and arrive with a card from the giver.
~the cost of the book (less a 15% discount) and shipping (USPS) is less than $20.00 per month. The amount will be charged to your credit card monthly or bimonthly.
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January Selection
of the Month
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
By Chris Scotton (Grand Central $14.99)
After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky. Redemptive and emotionally resonant, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth is narrated by an adult Kevin looking back on the summer when he sloughed the coverings of a boy and took his first faltering steps as a man. His story is one with a rich cast of characters and an ambitious effort to reclaim a once great community.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher and Jill Webb
A perfect gift for book lovers, Cottage Books Selection of the Month members receive our monthly paperback selections
at 15% off, plus $3.50 shipping
which will be charged to your credit card.
This can be customized for members if they would prefer another type of book or genre such as
a hardcover or non fiction title.
When ordering any additional books with this selection, you receive 15% off them as well. Should you wish to substitute, let us know within a few days of receiving this email.
Sign up yourself, your loved ones or a friend to receive
a recommended book each month.
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 The Drifter
By Nicholas Petrie
Putnam $26.95
The Drifter is the first time you have heard of Nicholas Petrie, but it surely will not be the last.
A troubled Marine vet hears of his friend's death, and goes to help his widow. While doing chores, Peter Ash finds a suitcase stuffed with explosives and cash- lots of cash.This all leads to one of the best thrillers written about our generation of vets. The lessons of Kabul and Bagdad do transfer to Chicago and Milwaukee, and Peter Ash needs all his skills to get to the heart of his friend's mystery and to save his family and others. An exciting read that will keep you glued to the action every minute.
~Review by Mike Toal
 Expatriates
By Janice Y. K. Lee
Viking $27.00
The New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher returns with a transporting novel about motherhood, marriage, and the elusive nature of happiness, focusing on the lives of three very different American women living in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 My Name is Lucy Barton
By Elizabeth Strout
Random House $26.00
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 One Man's Flag
By David Downing
Soho Press $27.95
"One Man's Flag is Another Man's Shroud"
An old expression that conveys the thought that each side of a war believes they are the right side and with the gods. David Downing's follow-up novel to his best selling Jack of Spies continues the World War I saga of Jack McColl,a secret agent for England, and Caitlin Hanley, an American/Irish journalist. Set in turbulent times of a brutal European war, it is also the time of the Irish and Asian colonies seeking separation from the British Empire. Jack is sent to spy on all sides, while his love, Caitlin, is feeling deeply about the Irish cause and the role women are to play in the world.
The more death and destruction they both see, the more doubts they have. Downing is brilliant in his depiction of a historical time that sees the end of an Empire and the end of the "ruling class".
~Review by Mike Toal
 Sound of Gravel
By Ruth Wariner
Flatiron $27.95
Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity, she and her siblings are carted back and forth between Mexico and the United States, where Ruth's mother collects welfare and her stepfather works a variety of odd jobs. Ruth comes to love the time she spends in the States, realizing that perhaps the community into which she was born is not the right one for her. As she begins to doubt her family's beliefs and question her mother's choices, she struggles to balance her fierce love for her siblings with her determination to forge a better life for herself. Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable memoir of one girl s fight for peace and love. This is an intimate, gripping tale of triumph, courage, and resilience.
~Recommended by Jill Webb
 When Breath Becomes Air
By Paul Kalinithi
Forward by Abraham Verghese
Random House $25.00
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question "What makes a life worth living?"
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student possessed, as he wrote, by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
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