Cottage Book Shop    
April 2016  

                                         

    5989 Lake St.   

    Glen Arbor, MI 49636

    231-334-4223

    www.cottagebooks.com  

    info@cottagebooks.com 

        

    Monday - Saturday  11 - 4      

    Sunday 12-4  

     Closed April 10 - 15 ish 

 

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Glen Lake Book Club
Held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
 
Friday April 15
at 10:00 a.m.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
By Jeff Hobbs
Scribner  $16.00
 
Spring? 

Abracadabra It's Spring
By Ann Sibley O'Brien 
Illustrated by Susan Gal 
Abrams  $14.95 
Winter turns to spring in this lyrical book that celebrates the magic of nature and the changing seasons. Eleven gatefolds open to recreate the excitement and surprise of spring's arrival.  (Ages 2 and up)

The Sleepy Songbird 
By Suzanne Barton 
Bloomsbury  $16.99 
Peep's feeling sad about not being awake early enough to audition for the lovely Dawn Chorus when he meets a fellow nightingale and learns something important about himself.  (Ages 2 and up)

Spring According to Humphrey 
By Betty G. Birney 
Putnam  $16.99 
To Humphrey and the students at Longfellow School, spring seems impossibly late this year. Fortunately, planning a school Family Fun Night keeps the students (and classroom pets) busy as they look for signs of the changing seasons. 
(Ages 7 and up) 

When Spring Comes 
By Kevin Henkes 
Greenwillow  $17.99 
When it is cold and snowy and bleak and brown, Spring seems very far away. But, if you wait, soon you will see leaves and blossoms. Soon you will feel pussy willows and raindrops. Soon you will smell flowers and mud. Soon you will hear birds and buzzing bees.  (Ages 2 and up) 

Time for Spring 
By Crockett Johnson 
Harper Collins $14.99  
Irene has had quite enough of sledding, skating, and snowball fighting. It's time for spring everyone says so. And then, as it so often does when it's time for spring, it snows. The snowman Irene builds is a little bit funny, a little bit serious, and he plans to stick around until at least the Fourth of July. Will spring ever come if the snowman stays?  (Ages 3 and up)
 
 
Young Adult 
 
 Flawed 
By Cecilia Ahern 
Feiwel and Friends  $18.99 
Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and te achers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED. In her breathtaking young adult debut, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything. (Ages 13 and up) 
~Recommended by Carson Reay

Haters 
By Jesse Andrews 
Amulet  $18.95 
For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. It s pretty much all dudes talking in Jazz Voice. But then they jam with Ash, a charismatic girl with an unusual sound, and the three just click. It s three and a half hours of pure musical magic, and Ash makes a decision: They need to hit the road. Because the road, not summer camp, is where bands get good. Before Wes and Corey know it, they re in Ash s SUV heading south, and The Haters Summer of Hate Tour has begun. (Ages 13 and up)
~Recommended by Carson Reay 
 
Pre-Order Harry Potter
and receive 15% off 


Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production  (Arthur Levine  $29.99) 
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy henever wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
Call 231-334-4223 to pre-order your book. 


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




New notecards
 

 
Dear Friends, 
Just when we thought spring was on its way, old Mother Nature said no! We've had several snow storms and cooler weather but later this week it looks like spring will make a reappearance, thank goodness!
There's some sprucing up going in in town; at Anderson's they are getting their floors polished, a new store (Northwoods Home and Garden) is preparing to open in the spot where Lake Effects was and here at the Cottage we are getting our 96-year-old floors refinished this week. We can't wait to see what they look like when they are done.
Here is what they look like before staining:
 
 
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.
Happy April (spring),   
Sue Boucher, Jill Webb and Bonnie Foley
 
March Selection of the Month

   




The Little Paris Bookshop
By Nina George
Ballantine  $16.00
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country's rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.  ~Recommended by Jill Webb and Bonnie Foley

 
 
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. 
      

New Fiction


At the Edge of the Orchard
By Tracy Chevalier
Viking  $28.00
1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. James loves the apples, while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life. 1853: Their youngest child Robert is wandering through Gold Rush California. Restless and haunted by the broken family he left behind, he has made his way alone across the country. In the redwood and giant sequoia groves he finds some solace, collecting seeds for a naturalist who sells plants from the new world to the gardeners of England. Internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier delivers a  riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier. ~Recommended by Bonnie Foley 

Far From True
By Linwood Barclay
New American  $27.00
After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father s house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it s clear that salacious activities have taken place as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realizes it may not be discs the thief was actually interested in....
~Recommended by Mike Toal 

Last Painting of Sara de Vos
By Dominic Smith
Sarah Crichton  $26.00
Bestselling author, Dominic Smith deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.
~Recommended by Bonnie Foley

Lilac Girls
By Martha Hall Kelly
Ballantine  $26.00
The lives of three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. Martha Hall Kelly has crafted a remarkable novel of unsung women and their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. It is a story that will keep readers bonded with the characters, searching for the truth, until the final pages.  ~Recommended by Sue Boucher

Miller's Valley
By Anna Quindlen
Random House  $28.00
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller's Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers of gossip, the flaws of marriage, the inequalities of friendship and the risks of passion, loyalty, and love. Home, as Mimi begins to realize, can be a place where it's  just as easy to feel lost as it is to feel content. Miller's Valley reminds us that the place where you grew up can disappear, and the people in it too, but all will live on in your heart forever. ~Recommended by Jill Webb 

The Nest
By Cynthia Sweeney
Ecco  $26.99
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, The Nest, which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest's value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems.

The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life
By Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
Simon and Schuster  $24.99
These astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them. Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back. Excellence comes from what we choose to do, not our natural abilities. A good life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments. Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities. ~Recommended by Bonnie Foley 


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