New Releases in 
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Author Discussion and Signing 
on  Saturday, June 18th
with H.P. Wood
Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
A hypnotic debut in turn-of-the-century Coney Island, where an abandoned girl collides with a disgruntled menage of circus freaks. With shades of Water For Elephants and The Museum of Extraordinary Things, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet sweeps readers into a mesmerizing world where nothing is as it seems, and where "normal" is the exception to the rule. 
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This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve a signed copy of the book  by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525. For further information about this event please visit  www.hickorystickbookshop.com  or email  [email protected]
Saturday, June 25th at 4pm
Author signing and discussion
with John Leslie and Carey Winfrey
Hail to the Chief
A political thrill ride as current as today's headlines. President-elect Maggie Mathews--the first woman voted into the nation's highest office--is felled by a ruptured brain aneurysm just 10 days before her inauguration. While she lies in a coma, her vice president-elect attempts to conceal his past, and with help from chief of staff Bruce "Skeeter" Jamison, he gambles that he can keep his dark secret from coming to light. But Maggie's husband, the former secretary of state who schemes to seize the reins of power for himself, has other ideas.
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This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve a signed copy of the book  by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525. For further information about this event please visit  www.hickorystickbookshop.com  or email  [email protected]
Sunday, June 26th at 2pm
Author Signing and Discussion with
Mary Simses
The Rules of Love and Grammar
Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come unmoored. A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting other people's errors, she hasn't yet found quite the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes. Desperate to escape the city and her trifecta of problems, Grace hits pause and retreats to her Connecticut hometown. What begins as a short visit with her parents quickly becomes a far more meaningful stay, though, as she discovers that the answers to what her future holds might be found by making peace with-and even embracing-the past.
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This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve a signed copy of the book  by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525. For further information about this event please visit  www.hickorystickbookshop.com  or email  [email protected]
Saturday, July 2nd at 4pm
Author Signing and Discussion with
Philip Delves Broughton
Charlie Whistler's Omnium Gatherum
In the tradition of T he Dangerous Book for Boys, a visually dazzling compendium of practical knowledge, fascinating trivia, and worldly wisdom for young boys designed as a charming and informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one family at their Adirondack summer camp.
On a late summer afternoon, while rustling around in his family's Adirondack cabin, a boy named Charlie Whistler finds a dusty cloth-bound scrapbook. It is the Omnium Gatherum, a colorful, illustrated grab bag of stories, arcana and much more, faithfully collected over generations by Charlie's father, grandfather, and generations of Whistlers before them. Its pages hold a universe of age-old wisdom, from the simple how to tie a slipknot to the esoteric how to find your way in the forest, or predict the tides to the exotic how to understand simple phrases in dozens of languages.
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This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve a signed copy of the book  by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525. For further information about this event please visit  www.hickorystickbookshop.com  or email  [email protected]