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Cottage Book Shop
June 2015
5989 Lake Street  Glen Arbor, MI 49636 231-334-4223 www.cottagebooks.com Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 - 5 Mid June ~ Monday - Saturday 10 - 8 Sunday 11-5 Like us on Facebook |
Events in June
 TONIGHT Random House Rep Night
Monday June 8 at 7:00 p.m.
Glen Arbor Town Hall
Our friends Bridget and Laura, representatives from Penguin Random House, will be here to discuss the latest and greatest in the publishing world. Special savings, expert recommendations, giveaways...bring your book group, bring your friends - this is one of those events you will regret missing! Reception and book sales following the program at Cottage Book Shop.
This is an event in partnership with Glen Lake Community Library.
 Up North Book Launch of
Vintage Views Along Scenic M-22 including Sleeping Bear Dunes
Sunday June 21 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Please join us as we welcome Christine M. Byron and Thomas R. Wilson authors of the newly released
Vintage Views Along Scenic M-22 including Sleeping Bear Dunes (Vintage Views Press $40.00). The books 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. Featured are quaint towns and villages, old hotels and resorts, and attractions along the road. You'll visit lighthouses and life saving stations, take a trip in a dunesmobile, fish for Mackinaw trout, and shop for souvenirs. You'll visit state parks and learn how Sleeping Bear Dunes became a National Lakeshore.
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Upcoming Events
in July
Join us for
Summer Storytime in the Pine Patch next to the Cottage Book Shop.
Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays from July 1 to August 21 at 11:00 a.m.
On Wednesday a craft is added to Storytime! Crafts will be messy so please wear old clothes or bring an old t-shirt to put over children's clothes.
Karen Trolenberg, author of
The Flight of Megizzewas
Wednesday July 8
at 11:00 a.m.
Storytime, book signing and craft.
It's Showtime!
Movie and Midnight Release of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
July 13 at 10:00 p.m.
Lake Street Studio
Join us as we show the classic film of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel ,
To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall. We will have popcorn and snacks as we watch the film under the stars. At midnight the much anticipated new book
Go Set a Watchman (Harper $27.99) will be available for sale at Cottage Book Shop. Originally written in the mid-1950s,
Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before
To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. The story features many of the characters from
T
o Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. To reserve your first edition copy of the book call 231-334-4223.
"Up North with Ernest" Short Story Book Club
July 9, 16, 23, 30 at 11:00 a.m.
Recent Notre Dame graduate and Glen Arbor summer resident, Shannon Lewry will lead a discussion group of Ernest Hemingway's
The Nick Adams Stories (Scribner $15.00). You are welcome to come for one or all of the meetings. Shannon loves reading, getting sunburned on pontoon boats, and is most often spotted holding an ice cream cone. Even though she has been everywhere from Moscow to Antarctica, Glen Arbor is her favorite place on earth. She is beyond excited to launch the "Up North with Ernest" summer book club!
 Alison DeCamp, author of
My Near Death Adventures
(99% True)
Wednesday
July 15
at 11:00 a.m.
Storytime, book signing and craft.
Kate Hannigan,
author of
Cupcake Cousins
and
The Detective's Assisstant
Wednesday July 29
at 11:00 a.m.
Storytime, book signing and cupcake decorating.
"Christmas in July" with Jeff Schatzer, author of The Elves in Santa's Workshop and Professor Tuesday's Awesome Adventures in History series
Wednesday July 22
at 11:00 a.m.
Storytime, book signing and craft.
Where's Waldo Local Celebration
Friday July 31 at 11:00 a.m.
Join us for the culmination of the month long search for Waldo in Glen Arbor. We will have activities, snacks and prizes, we might even find Waldo! During the month of July the Cottage Book Shop will join over 250 booksellers around the county in a month long "Where's Waldo" Program. Participants can pick up a "Find Waldo" passport at the Cottage Book Shop during the month of July and search for Waldo at participating shops in Glen Arbor.
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Glen Lake Book Club
held at Glen Arbor Town Hall
Friday June 19
at 10:00 a.m.
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
Harper Perennial $16.95
Friday July 17
at 10:00 a.m.
The Invention of Wings
By Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin $17.00
The Lakeshore Reader
held at Glen Lake Area Library
Wednesday June 24
at 10:15 a.m.
Wonder
By R.J. Palacio
Knopf $16.99
Wednesday July 29
at 10:15 a.m.
Inside the O'Briens
By Lisa Genova
Gallery $26.00
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Picture Books
 Beach House
By Deanna Casswell
Illustrated by Amy June Bates
Chronicle $16.99
In a funny and heartfelt celebration of family, vacations, and the joy of the sea, Deanna Caswell and Amy June Bates capture the essence of summer building sand castles, jumping the waves, and watching the stars come out after a long day at the beach and the love that warms every moment. (Ages 2 and up)
 Duck's Vacation
By Gilad Soffer
Feiwel and Friends $17.99
Duck is finally going on vacation. He has a beach chair, a book, and peace and quiet. Well, almost. When you - yes, YOU - turn the pages of this book, Duck's vacation gets really interesting!
(Ages 2 and up)
 Ice Cream Summer
By Peter Sis
Scholastic $17.99
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream! (Ages 2 and up)
Chapter Books
 Circus Mirandus
By Cassie Beasley
Dial $17.99
When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life. (Ages 8 and up)
 Island of Dr. Libris
By Chris Grabenstein
Random House $16.99
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he's spending the summer is the testing ground of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive. (Ages 8 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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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 to you.
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Dear Friends,
June is here! Summer residents and visitors are beginning to arrive and Glen Arbor is hopping. It's so much fun to see our friends again! The new section of the Heritage Bike Trail opened and it is a fun stretch of trail, the farm vistas are stunning and there are lots of interesting things along the way!
Seen along the bike trail
Don't miss the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce Barbeque and Brew Summer Celebration on Saturday June 20 from 2 to 8 p.m. It's Michigan's annual salute to the beginning of summer, with delicious local fare and the best of Northern Michigan micro-brews.
There are lots of new things at the Cottage, stop by to say hello when you get to town!
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, and pretty soon Anne Wiesen and Brooke Wharton
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June Book of the Month
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman (Washington Square $16.00) is a bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden. Alone after his wife of 40 years dies, Ove - the ultimate curmudgeon - feels life is no longer worth living. He's sad, lonely and feels out of place in a changing world. Enter a quirky family who move in next door and a vagrant cat. Oh so gradually Ove again allows love into his life. This novel is not only moving and thought-provoking, it's also hilarious! ~Recommended by Jill Webb
An interview with the author
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
 Dinner With Buddha
By Roland Merullo
Algonquin $24.95
If life is a journey--with detours, paths from which to choose, and myriad roadblocks to overcome--then Otto Ringling is most certainly on the journey of a lifetime. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher. They embark on a road trip over highways and back roads across the middle of America, hoping to sort out what s troubling them. They encounter a diverse cast of characters along the way as they look for answers to life s mysteries. With its highs and lows, their trip is, of course, a metaphor for life's larger journey. But it is also a lesson in love and gratitude.
~Recommended by Bonnie Foley
 The Enemy Inside
By Steve Martini
William Morrow $27.99
A few years ago, the Treasury Department announced that they were going after off-shore banking tax dodgers. All of a sudden, the zeal seems to have faded on collecting trillions of taxes and penalties. Why? Paul Madriani discovers his young client knows a few of these answers, leading to his life at risk and his attorney's life included. It appears that the tax investigations uncovered politically exposed persons, who immediately shut the door on the program.
Someone, however, kept the names and the facts that could bring down the nation's most powerful. A trail of murders follows Madriani's attempt to get the names and defend his client each time he comes close to discovering the truth.
If you are looking for a riveting summer read that is sure to get your blood boiling, this is the one for you.
~Review by Mike Toal
 In the Unlikely Event
By Judy Blume
Knopf $27.95
In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the "New York Times" # 1 best-selling author of
Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as
Are You There God? It s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events. In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 Letters to the Lost
By Iona Grey
Thomas Dunne $25.99
Late on a frozen February evening, a young woman is running through the streets of London. Having fled from her abusive boyfriend and with nowhere to go, Jess stumbles onto a forgotten lane where a small, clearly unlived in old house offers her best chance of shelter for the night. The next morning, a mysterious letter arrives and when she can't help but open it, she finds herself drawn inexorably into the story of two lovers from another time. Fate is unkind and they are separated by decades and continents. In the present, Jess becomes determined to find out what happened to them. Her hope--inspired by a love so powerful it spans a lifetime--will lead her to find a startling redemption in her own life. ~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 Palace of Treason
By Jason Mathews
Scribner $26.99
Palace of Treason is the long-awaited sequel to Jason Matthews' awward winning
Red Sparrow.The same principals, Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, re-emerge to thrill readers once again. Dominika has become America's deep cover plant inside Russia's intelligence community. In addition, she is a favorite of Vladimir Putin, much to the displeasure of her bosses.With Nash's help, they hope to sabbotage Iran's nuclear program being abetted by Russia, and to further hamper any counterintelligence attempts to root out Dominika. Fast paced and very realistic in todays environs (Matthews is a retired CIA Operations Officer), this book grabs attention from the first page to the last. As an added bonus (not that one was needed),each chapter has a recipe for a dish featured in the story. For instance, Dominika shares sauted mushrooms and greens in a hot mustard sauce with Putin. What a neat dish. ~Review by Mike Toal
 Radiant Angel
By Nelson Demille
Grand Central $28.00
When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late?
 The Rocks
By Peter Nichols
Riverhead $27.95
Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, The Rocks opens with a confrontation and a secret: what was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet-like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Centered around a popular seaside resort club and its community, this is a double love story that begins with a mystery, then moves backward in time, era by era, to unravel what really happened decades earlier.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
 Wonder Garden
By Lauren Acampora
Grove Press $24.00
In her debut collection, Acampora brings to the page the myriad lives of a Connecticut suburban town and lays them bare. These linked stories take a look at the flawed people of Old Cranbury, tales that reveal at each turn the unseen battles we play out behind drawn blinds, the creeping truths from which we distract ourselves, and the massive dreams we haul quietly with us and hold close.
~Recommended by Sue Boucher
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New in Paperback
 Everything I Never Told You
By Celeste Ng
Penguin $16.00
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.
 The Lake Season
By Hannah McKinnon
Atria $16.00
Set in the weeks leading up to an idyllic New England wedding, this enticing and refreshing novel sparkles with wry wit, sweet romance, and long-kept family secrets.
 Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
By Marja Mills
Penguin $17.00
One journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives.
My Salinger Year
By Joanna Smith Rakoff
Vintage $15.95
Keenly observed and irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year is a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing.
 Station Eleven
By Emily St. John Mandel
Vintage $15.95
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of "King Lear."That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians
 Steady Running of the Hour
By Justin Go
Simon and Schuster $15.99
In this mesmerizing debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the elusive truth.
 Vacationers
By Emma Straub
Riverhead $16.00
The delicious, New York Times bestselling book of the summer: an irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family s Mediterranean holiday.
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