Local Books
Back Pages of Leelanau County:
A decade of weekly images from Ken Scott and the Leelanau Enterprise Enterprise $40.00
For people who love Leelanau County, a coffee table book 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.
Stormstruck: When Supercharged Winds
Slammed Northwest Michigan
By Robert Campbell
Forward by Bob Sutherland
Mission Point Press $21.50
It was a hundred-year storm. Thin trees snapped like matchsticks; thick ones toppled, one atop another, like felled soldiers. The storm's straight-wind blast left houses with gaping holes, thousands of residents with no power for days, a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore that is, said one official, unrecognizable, and a cleanup that could take years.
Vintage Views Along Scenic M-22 including Sleeping Bear Dunes
By M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson
Vintage Views $40.00
This beautiful new book follows a trail of vacationers and travelers along one of Michigan's most scenic roads. M-22 winds through northern Manistee County, along the western side of Benzie County and outlines the Leelanau Peninsula. Vintage postcards, photographs, maps and advertisements illustrate a time when M-22 first beckoned motorists to come north to the land of beautiful beaches and sand dunes, lakes and rivers, forests and woodlands, farms and orchards.
Why We Preserve: The Leelanau Conservancy through the lens of Ken Scott
Working with iconic Leelanau photographer Ken Scott, the Leelanau Conservancy has published a book of photos and essays about the lands that the Leelanau Conservancy has protected over the last 27 years. The 56-page book, features 52 stunning color photographs and seven essays by a cache of writers including renowned chef Mario Batali, CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent Martha Teichner and Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine publisher Deborah Wyatt Fellows.
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Glen Lake Book Club
Held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
Friday December 18
at 10:00 a.m.
A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness and a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
By Ted Gup
Penguin $17.00
Friday January 15
at 10:00 a.m.
My Mistake By Daniel Menaker
Mariner $14.95
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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Focus on Design
 American Rustic
By Chase Reynolds Ewald
Gibbs Smith $50.00
An intimate look at rustic homes, cabins, architecture, and decorating in true American rustic style. Included are fresh takes on traditional log cabins, sustainable projects, artistic abodes, and places for play
 Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere
By Zach Klein
Little Brown $30.00
With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn photographs are an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and feel the beauty and serenity that nature and simple construction can create
 Hide and Seek: The Architecture of Cabins and Hideouts Edited by Sophia Borges
Gestalten $60.00
Our longing for simplicity, clarity, and relaxation often leads us into nature. Hide and Seek showcases the most beautiful places for satisfying this longing.
 Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs
Edited by S. Ehman and Sophia Borges
Gestalten $60.00
From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains, by the sea, or in the woods, this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature. Rock the Shack is a survey of such contemporary refuges from around the world--from basic to luxury. The book features a compelling range of sparingly to intricately furnished cabins, cottages, second homes, tree houses, transformations, shelters, and cocoons.
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Other Gift Ideas
Best of the Back Pages 2016 Calendar
$15.00
Photographs by Ken Scott
Cottage Book Shop Cloisonne Ornaments
$35.00
Cottage Tote Bags
$13.95
Cottage Book Shop Mugs
$17.95
Mary Brodbeck woodcut notecards
$18.95
Michelle Potter Photography
notecards
$18.95
Art's Christmas Cards
$18.00
Solmate Socks
$18.95
Stuffed Toys
under $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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Dear Friends,
The holiday season is upon us we would like to take this opportunity to thank you, our loyal customers, for your support this year. We appreciate your business and it's been a pleasure to be your local or up north book store. When you are in the area please stop by, we would love to help you choose gifts for everyone on your list. If you live far away let us know if we can send you some books. (we wrap!)
You can keep up with news of Cottage Book Shop and Glen Arbor by following us on
Facebook.
Happy December and best wishes for a wonderful holiday season.
Peace,
Sue Boucher, Jill Webb and Bonnie Foley
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December Selection
of the Month
Old Heart By Peter Ferry
Unbridled $17.00
Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few "events", though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands where he was stationed during World War II. And so he slips away, deftly covers his tracks, and begins his search for her in Eindhoven. While his children try to track him down and then have him extradited back home, Tom delves into love and loss and the value of memory. Soon he catches sight of a woman he believes to be Sarah, the love he lost almost a lifetime ago.He will have to fight for her affections and forgiveness, even as he fights for the legal right to stay in the Netherlands in the name of love and family and all the remaining rights of an old man.
~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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Books Make Great Gifts
De
ar Mr. You
By Mary Louise Parker
Scribner $25.00
This book renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former lovers to an homage to a firefighter she encountered to a heartfelt communication with the uncle of the infant daughter she adopted.
~Recommended by Jill Webb
 M Train
By Patti Smith
Knopf $25.00
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multi-platform artists at work today.
~Recommended by Bonnie Foley
Fascinating history
 Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
By Simon Winchester
Harper Collins $28.99
Simon Winchester tackles this oceanic behemoth of eye-watering complexity by focusing on key moments since 1950 that speak to the greater trends and larger truths about the ocean's significance to us today. Calling upon Winchester's many journeys throughout the Pacific and its surrounding areas, his formidable historical understanding, and his singular talent for storytelling, Pacific is a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty and myth that has long captured the imagination.
 The Witches: Salem 1692
By Stacy Schiff
Little Brown $32.00
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.
For travelers
 Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
By Paul Theroux
Houghton Mifflin $29.95
Theroux explores a piece of America the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation s worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler s eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road the plantation. He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without.
Deep South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike.
For people who enjoy a mystery
 A Banquet of Consequences: A Lynley Novel
By Elizabeth George
Viking $28.95
The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George's newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful facade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences could there be a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?
 The Guilty
By David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing $28.00
Will Robie escaped his small Gulf Coast hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi after high school, severing all personal ties, and never looked back. Not once. Not until the unimaginable occurs. His father, Dan Robie, has been arrested and charged with murder. Father and son haven't spoken or seen each other since the day Robie left town. In that time, Dan Robie-a local attorney and pillar of the community-has been elected town judge. Despite this, most of Cantrell is aligned against Dan. His guilt is assumed.
To make matters worse, Dan has refused to do anything to defend himself. When Robie tries to help, his father responds only with anger and defiance. Could Dan really be guilty?
For fans of fiction
 Japanese Lover
By Isabel Allende
Atria $28.00
In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 The Lake House
By Kate Morton
Atria $28.00
Living on her family's ... estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure. One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined. Decades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as an author. Theo's case has never been solved, though Alice still harbors a suspicion as to the culprit. ~Recommended by Sue Boucher
Adventure
 After the Wind: Tragedy on Everest, One Survivor's Story
By Lou Kasischke
Good Hart $14.00
Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there.
After the Wind tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before - including why the climbers were so desperately out of time as the rogue storm struck. His personal story, captured in the title
After the Wind, tells about the intense moments near the top. These moments also revealed the love story that saved his life.
~Recommended by Kim Mann
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Books for Kids
 How to Catch Santa
By Jean Reagan
Illustrated by Lee Wildish
Knopf $17.99
Two sibling narrators give clever tips for catching Santa (be crafty! be clever! be gentle!) on Christmas Eve. Filled with humor and holiday warmth, this is a jolly read-aloud for the whole family to enjoy! (Ages 3 and up)
 Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas
By Laura Murray
Illustrated by Mike Lowery
Putnam $16.99
With all the flavors of the season and generous dashes of kindness and gratitude, the Gingerbread Man's newest adventure makes for a perfect read-aloud throughout the holidays. (Ages 2 and up)
 Jingle Bells: A Magical Cut Paper Edition
By James Lord Pierpont
Illustrated by Niroot Pootapipat
Candlewick $19.99
An elegant cut-paper edition of the classic Christmas song transforms with each turn of the page and offers a spectacular pop-up finale.
(All ages)
 Is it Hanukkah Yet?
By Kris Barash
Illustrated by Alessandra Psacharopulo
Albert Whitman $17.99
From snow on the ground to making applesauce and latkes to lighting the menorah, this sweet, lyrical story shows the seasonal and traditional ways we know Hanukkah is on its way. (Ages 2 and up)
 The Reindeer Wish
By Lori Evart
Illustrated by Per Breiehagen
Random House $17.99
When Anja discovers an abandoned reindeer baby in the woods, she cares for it and raises it as her own. They become dear friends and have many adventures together, but as the reindeer grows he wishes to rejoin his kind. So Anja leads him to join the greatest reindeer of all--those of Santa's sleigh team.
(Ages 3 and up)
 Twelve Days of Christmas
By Alison Jay
Knopf $17.99
As a couple strolls through town on Christmas Eve, the man buys gift after gift for the woman he loves, and after arriving at a Christmas party so magnificent it is overwhelming, they slip back to their own quiet home. (All ages)
Chapter Books
 A Shiloh Christmas
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Atheneum $17.99
A rescued beagle and his boy owner seek love and understanding for their troubled small town in this holiday companion to the Newbery Medal winning
Shiloh.
(Ages 8 and up)
 Revenge of the Angels
By Jennifer Zeigler
Scholastic $16.99
The eleven-year-old Brewster triplets, Dawn, Darby, and Delaney, are afraid this is going to be the worst Christmas ever--they have been cast as angels in their local Christmas pageant just because they are girls, their mother, older sister, and aunt are stuck in Boston because of the snow, someone is stealing outdoor Christmas decorations and baked goods, and their father is just too busy for Christmas. (Ages 10 and up)
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