New Local Books
 Historic Cottages of Glen Lake: Revised Second Edition
By Barbara
Siepker
Photos by Dietrich Floeter
Leelanau Press $55.00
Historic Cottages of Glen Lake offers a rare glimpse into the interiors of 60 historic Glen Lake summer cottages and the nostalgia enveloping them. The stories of the families that built on Glen Lake are recounted: where they came from, how they got here, where they stayed. They fell in love with the Glen Lake and the Dunes and sent down deep roots by building these now-historical family retreats. Three hundred and fifty photographs honor cottage lore and memories and take us on a walk back in time. Each cottage's importance in the lives of its owners and to the community is celebrated, revealing the special sense of place and state of mind that only a lake cottage can evoke. In this revised Second Edition, six new cottages have been added, together with updated text.
(Save the date for a book signing on July 10)
 The Long Arc of the Universe - Travels beyond the Pale By Kathleen Stocking $23.97
(due early June)
The Long Arc of the Universe - Travels beyond the Pale completes a trilogy. Kathleen Stocking's first book of essays,
Letters From the Leelanau, is about her village and her second,
Lake Country, is about her state.
The Long Arc of the Universe -Travels beyond the Pale explores other countries and cultures. In 1996, after receiving many writing awards, including a three-year writer-in-residence appointment in her village of Lake Leelanau through the Michigan Council for the Arts, Stocking was awarded a fellowship to the Blue Mountain Center for Artists and Writers. This in turn led to an appointment by the William James Foundation to work in the prisons of California, and led from there to several third world countries, and other countries, usually teaching, sometimes just traveling and living with people.
The Long Arc of the Universe - Travels beyond the Pale is Stocking's attempt to understand the larger world in relationship to Michigan's remote and beautiful Leelanau Peninsula.
(Save the date for a book signing on Sunday June 26)
 The Trails of M-22: 40 of the Most Beautiful Paths Along Michigan's Most Beautiful
Hig
hway
By Jim DuFresne
Michigan Trail Maps $19.95
M-22 highway passes through the heart of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the state's most popular national park with 71,000 acres of public land and 35 miles of beaches. It is also the gateway to more than two-dozen preserves protected by the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy in Benzie County and the Leelanau Conservancy in Leelanau County. The Trails of M-22 is the first guidebook dedicated to leading you away from the pavement and into the dunes, forests and wetlands seen along 40 of Michigan's most beautiful trails, including all the mainland trails in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The paths reward the adventurous with remote beaches, shoreline shipwrecks, outstanding birding opportunities and panoramic views that make you feel like you're on the edge of the world.
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Glen Lake Book Club
Held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
Friday May 20
at 10:00 a.m.
H is for Hawk
By Helen McDonald
Grove $16.00
Friday June 17
at 10:00 a.m.
Secret Wisdom of the Earth By Christopher Scotton
Grand Central $14.99
Friday July 15
at 10:00 a.m.
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
By Bill Bryson
Broadway $15.99
Lakeshore Readers
Held at Glen Lake Community Library
Wednesday May 25
at 10:00 a.m.
Arsenal of Democracy
By A.J. Baime
Mariner $14.95
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For Young People
 Bear and the Piano
By David Litchfield
Clarion $16.99
A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all. (Ages 2 and up)
 If You Want to Bring a Piano to the Beach, Don't!
By Elise Parsley
Little Brown $16.99
Magnolia is a little girl with a big idea, determination, and one very heavy upright piano that she insists on taking with her to the beach, but in a series of mishaps, Magnolia quickly learns that a piano does not mix well with sand, sun, and seagulls. (Ages 2 and up)
 Last Boy and Girl in the World
By Siobahn Vivian
Simon and Schuster $17.99
With their town sliding underwater and everyone being ordered to leave, Keeley and her friends gather to make the most of every minute they have left together, prompting her to take a final chance at winning over a longtime crush. (Ages 13 and up)
 The Hidden Oracle: Trials of Apollo, Book 1
By Rick Riordan
Disney-Hyperion $19.99
After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor. But Apollo has many enemies-gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go . . . an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood. (Ages 8 and up)
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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.
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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,
Finally everything is turning green, it's a glorious explosion of different shades of green!
When the sun shines the lakes are stunning blues.
It's so exciting to see all the colors come back Leelanau County!
We are looking forward to another fun-filled summer season with plenty of new events, watch for our summer newsletter coming in the mail or stop by and pick one up in late May.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
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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April Selection
of the Month
The Medicine Walk by Robert Wagamese
Milkweed Editions $16.00
Growing up in the care of the "old man" he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters that haunt the boy. But when father, coming to the end of his alcohol-ruined life, reaches out to sixteen-year-old son their first and last journey together begins. Hesitantly, Franklin obliges his dying father's wish - to be buried as a warrior - and together they hazard the rugged and dangerous beauty of the backcountry to find an appropriate burial site.Through the fog of pain, Eldon relates to his son the desolate moments in his life, as well as the times of hope - the family history Franklin has never known. As Father tells the tale, the son, and the reader, live for the stories, in the hope that they will shed light on the mysteries of a tortured past.
~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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New Releases
 Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper By Phaedra Patrick
Mira $24.99
In this poignant and curiously charming debut, a lovable widower embarks on a life-changing adventure
Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden.
But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they meta journey that leads him to find hope, healing and self-discovery in the most unexpected places.
~Recommended by Bonnie Foley
 The Defense
By Steve Cavanaugh
Flatiron $25.99
Steve Cavanaugh's first novel is the best legal thriller to hit the street in decades. Eddie Flynn, Attorney at Law, put himself through law school with the funds he scammed and conned from insurance companies and pockets he picked from the execs and lawyers who represented them. The New York head of the Russian mob now wants Eddie to defend him in a murderer case. His fee? The life of his 10 year old daughter. For Eddie to save his girl and survive himself, he must pull the biggest con of his life. The Defense Attorney and con man wrapped in one is equally talented in both professions, but even this is a stretch. From page one, the reader is grabbed by the thrills and action that never lets up. Impossible to put down. ~Review by Mike Toal
 Eligible: A Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
By Curtis Sittenfeld
Random House $28.00
This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master s degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won t discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's fortieth birthday fast approaches.
 Gold of Our Fathers
By Kwei Quarty
Soho Crime $26.95
Most Americans don't know where Ghana is,, let alone name its capital.You will by the time you read Kwei Quartey's,
Gold of Our Fathers. This is the fourth mystery staring Chief Inspector Darko Dawson of the Ghana Police is excellent reading at two levels.
As a mystery, it is exciting and mind exercising. But it is also rich in understanding the country of Ghana and its people.The story is of a murder that takes place in the gold mines of the Ashanti Region, a modern day wild west African version of the "Gold Rush". Legal and illegal wildcat mines are ruled by ruthlessness and bribery.
As Darko unravels the story, authorities of Ghana are selling their country to Chinese miners who don't care about anything but the money to be made quickly and easily.Embattled from both above and below, Inspector Dawson does not give up on justice, not matter the price.
 Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-Boats
By William Geroux
Viking $28.00
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942.
 Wilde Lake
By Laura Lippman
William Morrow $26.99
and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It s not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man's life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Now, Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child?
(Recommended by Bonnie Foley)
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