Glen Lake Book Club
Held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
Friday February 19
at 10:00 a.m.
Station Eleven
By Emily St. John Mandel
Vintage $15.95
At a private home, call the book store for details
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 February 24
at 10:00 a.m.
The Cooked Seed
By Anchee Min
Bloomsbury $17.00
Wednesday March 30
at 10:00 a.m.
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
By Rinker Buck
Simon and Schuster $28.00
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Time for Love
 Chick n Pug: The Love Pug
By Jennifer Sattler
Bloomsbury $16.99
When a new neighbor moves in, Chick can hardly believe his eyes! Daisy is another pug, and she's BEAUTIFUL! Pug, however, doesn't seem to notice. But Daisy sure notices Pug, and she will do anything to win his affection. (Ages 2 and up)
 Hedgehugs
By Steve Wilson
Illustrated by Lucy Tapper
Henry Holt $16.99
Horace and Hattie are hedgehogs, and the very best of friends. Together, they make daisy chains, splash in puddles, and have tea parties. But there is one thing they can't do hug! They are just too spiky. Throughout the seasons, these two hedgehogs will try many different ways of hugging. But will Horace and Hattie find a hug that feels just right?"
(Ages 2 and up)
 Here Comes Valentine Cat
By Deborah Underwood
Illustrated by Claudia Rueda
Dial $16.99
Cat does NOT like Valentine's Day. It's much too mushy, and no way is he making anyone a valentine especially not his new neighbor, Dog. But just as Cat s about to send Dog an angry "valentine" telling him exactly what he can do with his bones, Dog throws a "ball" over the fence. What is Dog playing at? Cat is in for a hilarious and heartwarming surprise in this story about being perhaps too quick to judge. (Ages 2 and up)
 I Love You Already
By John Jori
Illustrated by Benji Davies
HarperCollins $17.99
Another standout hilarious picture book about Bear and Duck. Bear can't wait to spend a pleasant day by himself. His persistent next-door neighbor, Duck, wants to take a morning stroll . . . with Bear. He just wants Bear to like him already. . . .
(Ages 2 and up)
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For Young People
 Anna and the Swallow Man
By Gavriel Savit
Knopf $17.99
Krakow, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up.Anna is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve. And when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they see what he wants them to see. The Swallow Man is not Anna's father she knows that very well but she also knows that, like her father, he's in danger of being taken, and like her father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness. Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. (Ages 12 and up)
 Pax
By Sara Pennypacker
Balzer and Bray $16.99
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. (Ages 8 and up)
 Salt to the Sea
By Ruta Sepetys
Philomel $18.99
Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating yet unknown tragedies.
In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the "Wilhelm Gustloff." Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer toward safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people aboard must fight for the same thing: survival. (Ages 12 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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Dear Friends,
I'm sending you this newsletter from New Orleans where it's sunny and cool and the town is up for grabs. Happy Mardi Gras!
Meanwhile in Glen Arbor, another 5-10 inches of snow is expected!
Yes! We're open all year long. Be sure to stop in when you're up north enjoying the winter! We've had some nice snow the last few weeks and the Heritage Trail is open for skiing and snow shoeing.
The book shop is cozy and warm and full of great books to read on a snowy day. We have been reading like crazy and we have some wonderful books to recommend to you. Remember books make great gifts for Valentine's Day!
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
Facebook.
Sue Boucher, Jill Webb and Bonnie Foley
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February Selection
of the Month
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
By Katarina Bivald
Sourcebooks $16.99
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor--there's not much else to do in a dying small town that's almost beyond repair. You certainly wouldn't open a bookstore. And definitely not with the tourist in change. You'd need a vacant storefront (Main Street is full of them), books (Amy's house is full of them), and...customers. The bookstore might be a little quirky. Then again, so is Sara. But Broken Wheel's own story might be more eccentric and surprising than she thoughts. A heartwarming reminder of why we are booklovers, this is a sweet, smart story about how books find us, change us, and connect us.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
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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New Releases
 Golden Son
By Shilpi Somaya Gowda
William Morrow $26.99
Anil is the first person in his family to leave India, the first to attend college, the first to become a doctor. Half a world away in Dallas, Texas, he is caught up in his new life, experiencing all the freedoms and temptations of American culture: he tastes alcohol for the first time, falls in love, and learns firsthand abut his adopted country's alluring, dangerous contradictions.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 High Mountains of Portugal
By Yann Martel
Spiegel and Grau $27.00
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that if he can find it would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomas's quest.
Recommended by Bonnie Foley
 Real Tigers
By Mike Herron
Soho $26.95
Real Tigers is the most unusual thriller to hit the booksellers in a long time. Multiple award winning author, Mick Herron,introduces the reader to the "slow horses": disgraced MI5 operatives who are sent to a paper-pushing hell of make work of boring, tedious, mind numbing exile. MI5 hopes they quit, but can not fire them because they are well trained and at one time performed key jobs for their country. Someone has the audacity to kidnap one of the "slow horses" to extract valuable information. They think no one cares. But the slow horses care, and they still have the sting when someone kicks their nest.The enemy has strayed into the wrong pasture. ~Review by Mike Toal
 Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
By Bill Bryson
Doubleday $28.95
A loving and hilarious if occasionally spiky valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed and what hasn't. With his matchless instinct for the funniest and quirkiest and his unerring eye for the idiotic, the bewildering, the appealing, and the ridiculous, he offers acute and perceptive insights into all that is best and worst about Britain today. ~Recommended by Kim Mann
 Swans of Fifth Avenue
By Melanie Benjamin
Delacorte $28.00
Babe Paley is adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends the alluring socialite Swans. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband, and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman a woman desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. This diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality explodes onto the scene, setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entree into the enviable lives of Manhattan's elite, along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe's powerful circle. ~Recommended by Bonnie Foley
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