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Cottage Book Shop
August 2015
5989 Lake Street  Glen Arbor, MI 49636 231-334-4223 www.cottagebooks.com Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 - 8 Sunday 11-5 Like us on Facebook |
Upcoming Events
 Meet Artist Charlotte Davis
Wednesday August 12 at 11:00 a.m.
Meet artist, Charlotte Davis as she tells us about her new book.
Leelanau Love Color on Art Book (Dancing Frog Press $10.00) is a unique coloring book for all ages. It is filled with simple and exquisite drawings from nature and scenes in Leelanau Peninsula Michigan. Get out your colored pencils and crayons! We will also have a coloring craft.
Ken Scott signs Back Pages of Leelanau County
Sunda
y September 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
For people who love Leelanau County, a coffee table book coming out this summer seems destined to capture a place in their hearts.
Back Pages of Leelanau County will take readers through a decade of photographs taken by famed outdoor photographer Ken Scott. The book includes every Scott photo published in the Leelanau Enterprise in its cherished position on the back page of Section One. From the first photograph 10 years ago, Scott has every week captured scenes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Leelanau's small villages and most other iconic settings that have given Leelanau the simple nickname of, "The County." Scott's work is both timeless and time setting as readers of the Enterprise are bound to recall many of the photos. The book includes essays about Ken Scott and his work from Susan Ager, award-winning former columnist for the Detroit Free Press and presently a contributing writer for National Geographic, and Leelanau Enterprise co-publisher Alan Campbell.
Plant Walk with Lisa Rose, author of
Midwest Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach
(Timber Press $24.95)
Wednesday September 9 at 11:00 a.m.
From fields to woodlands, riverbeds, and lakesides--and even in our own neighborhoods--the beautiful Midwest is rich in delicious wild edibles. Herbalist, forager, and urban farmer Lisa M. Rose helps you find peppery watercress and delectable nettles at a nearby lake in the spring and nutritious burdock roots from sunny fields in the fall. Try brewing chai from roasted hickory or beech nuts, or capturing the citrus notes of pine needles in a lightly fermented, aromatic ale. Savor the delicate snow-pea flavor of rampant kudzu greens in the southern part of the region, or, in cool-running northern marsh waters, gather nutty wild rice for a foraged feast. With this savvy guide you'll learn what to look for, when and where to look, and how to gather in a responsible way. Lisa will take us on an hour long plant walk leaving from and returning to Cottage Book Shop. There will be a book signing following the plant walk.
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Dear Friends,
Well August started off with a bang! On Saturday August 2, Glen Arbor got hit with an epic wind storm with winds of 90 to 100 mph.
The storm approaching
Photo by Glen Arbor Artisans
The storm hit the area with great force and took out thousands of trees and the power lines came down with the trees.
The entrance to Day Forest Estates on M22
Lake Street
Downtown Glen Arbor
Downtown Glen Arbor
There was no way in or out of Glen Arbor Sunday night. The Township Hall was opened to those who were stranded in town and stayed open round the clock providing food and shelter (and bathrooms) to those in need. Food was provided by local restaurants and businesses.
Trees landed on cars and homes causing so much damage that workers and volunteers are still assessing the damage.
Oh how the town came together! Neighbors helped each other by checking in to see if everyone was alright and the area was abuzz with chainsaws. The smell of cut pine was in the air as well as Art's burgers (they had a generator and kept the town fed). The trucks and workers came to town starting on Monday morning to help with the downed trees and power lines. Volunteers helped clear the roads and trails.
A very happy sight
It was nice to see the lights come on
Many businesses opened by Tuesday and all were open by the end of the week when the power came back on. We were happy to see that we still had customers! Despite the devastating damage of downed trees, miraculously much of the Sleeping Bear Dunes is open. We look forward to your visit to our beautiful area. Glen Arbor was impacted by the Storm of 2015 but has risen to the challenge. We appreciate your support of our small businesses and look forward to seeing you soon!
Be sure to stay in touch with us, you can follow us on Facebook for updates about what's going on in the store and around town.
Sue Boucher, Jill Webb, Bonnie Foley, Anne Wiesen.
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Glen Lake Book Club
held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
Friday August 21
at 10:00 a.m.
My Brilliant Friend
By Elena Ferrante
Europa $17.00
Friday September 18
at 10:00 a.m.
The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
By A. Baime
Mariner $14.95
The Lakeshore Reader
held at Glen Lake Area Library
Wednesday August 26
at 10:15 a.m.
A Man Called Ove
By Fredrik Backman
Washington Square $16.00
Wednesday September 23
at 10:15 a.m.
The Children Act
By Ian McEwan
Anchor $15.00
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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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Order from our website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and we will personally attend to it pronto, shipping to your home or for shop pickup. www.cottagebooks.com 
Our website is hosted by Indiebound, whose mission is to help people across the U.S. find and shop at independently-owned bookstores. Their recommended books fliers are available on our website, but should you prefer the written copy, we will give you one when next in or mail it town.
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The sunset after the storm
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August Book of the Month
Neverhome
by Laird Hunt (Little Brown $16.00)
She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel
throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind. It is also a mystery story: why did Ash leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? What will she have to go through to make it back home? In gorgeous prose, Hunt's rebellious young heroine fights her way through history, and back home to her husband, and finally into our hearts.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
A perfect gift for book lovers, Book of the Month Club 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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Some Recommendations
 Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
By Alex Kershaw
Crown $28.00
The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during the Second World War. The leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high.
~Recommended by Kim Mann
 The Breaking Point
By Jefferson Bass
Harper Collins $26.99
The Breaking Point is the latest in the highly successful Body Farm novels. For those of you who don't know, Jefferson Bass is ready two authors - Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass. Dr Bass is the creator of the real life Body Farm at the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility. Most of the fiction in these novels is based on fact.
This book in the series calls upon the chief forensic anthropologist, Dr Bill Brocton, to identify the charred remains of the occupant of a small jet plane. The identification of a millionaire charitable figure opens up a mystery involving the FBI, DEA as well as those investigating the crash itself. True to life, the investigation stumbles along with its best efforts hampered by the press and politicians. The heck with the facts!Since the charity operates across many borders, suspicions run rampant and every rumor is believable. Only the provable facts can avert disaster.
~Review by Mike Toal
 Circling the Sun
By Paula McLain
Ballantine $28.00
Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships. Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it's the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl's truest self and her fate: to fly
~Recommended by Sue, Jill and Bonnie
 Days of Awe
By Lauren Fox
Knopf $24.95
Only a year ago Isabel Moore was married, was the object of adoration for her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short year her husband moved out and rented his own apartment; her daughter grew into a moody insomniac; and Josie impulsive, funny, secretive Josie was killed behind the wheel in a single-car accident. As the relationships that long defined Isabel wife, mother, daughter, best friend change before her eyes, Isabel must try to understand who she really is. Teeming with longing, grief, and occasional moments of wild, unexpected joy, Days of Awe is a daring, dazzling book a luminous exploration of marriage, motherhood, and the often surprising shape of new love.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 Lightning Stones
By Jack DeBrul
Doubleday $25.95
Thriller readers will recognize Jack Du Brul's name as the co-author of the Oregon series with Clive Cussler. What most won't recognize is that Lightning Stones will be Du Brul's seventh thriller on his own. In typical Cussler/DuBrul style, the novel begins in the past with Amelia Earhart departing on her final known leg of an around-the-world flight. With her is a last minute cargo of newly discovered rare crystals. These are lost with Ms. Earhart, her navigator, and her plane in 1937. A discovery of one of these crystals today (the last known crystal) has ignited a search for the aviatrix that has led to murder and a threat to global stability. DuBruls's character, Philip Mercer, a special skills geologist (read: CIA training) is caught up in the mystery of the plane and the race for the Lighting Stones.
We will certainly hear from Philip Mercer again.
~Review by Mike Toal
 The President's Shadow
By Brad Meltzer
Grand Central $28.00
Brad Meltzer always mixes political mystery along with plenty of thriller action. His tenth novel is no exception.
But, this time it's the president himself who is on the run, and cannot even trust his own Secret Service to for protection. A severed arm is unearthed by the First Lady as she gardens. How on earth did it get there past the best guards in the world? Two secret organizations are struggling to control or save the White House, and only an archivist of the Nation's past may be able to save him. As in the previous best sellers, Meltzer mixes fiction and fact to achieve the thrills the reader wants.
~Review by Mike Toal
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Books for Children
ABC'
s on Wings
By Ramon Olivera
Little Simon $17.99
The alphabet takes flight in this vividly illustrated picture book of aviation from A to Z! From "A is for ace" to "Z is for zeppelin," this high-flying alphabet book presents the ABCs through the amazing world of aviation. Get to know biplanes, carriers, gliders, jets, and many more vehicles of flight in this book filled with bold, graphic illustrations that soar off the pages!
(Ages 2 and up)
 If you Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't!
By Elise Parsley
Little Brown $17.00
Note to self: If your teacher tells you to bring something from nature for show-and-tell, she does "not" want you to bring an alligator! But nothing will stop Magnolia, who's determined to have the best show-and-tell of all--until her reptilian rapscallion starts getting her into some major trouble. Now it's up to Magnolia to find a way to send this troublemaker home--but what could "possibly" scare an alligator away? (Ages 2 and up)
 Night Animals
By Gianna Marino
Viking $16.99
Something's out there in the dark!
First Possum hears it. Then Skunk. Then Wolf comes running.
What could it possibly be? asks Bat.
Night Animals! the animals declare.
But you "are" night animals, Bat informs this not-so-smart crew. Children will love the oh-so-funny animals in this twist on a cozy bedtime book. (Ages 2 and up)
For Older Readers
 Fuzzy Mud
By Louise Sachar
Delacorte $16.99
Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the detour, reluctantly follows. They soon get lost and take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world.
(Ages 8 and up)
 Goodbye Stranger
By Rebecca Stead
Wendy Lamb $16.99
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends--curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend (or more than friend) Sherm--she finds the answer she's been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?" (Ages 10 and up)
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