Happy Mid-October!
Normally, we would be in the midst of prep for one of our favorite events of the year, Merchants Trick or Treat. Sadly, this year the City of Hudson and Merchants of Hudson Board decided, two days ago, that the construction on Main Street makes it too dangerous to participate in this event. Despite the fact that there is currently no construction north of Clinton Street, Main Street has been asked not to participate. We understand that this is a last-minute decision and knowing people have already been planning costumes, we will still be having our costume contest as advertised in our beginning of the month newsletter. Anyone that comes in on the 27th with a book-related costume will be entered in a drawing to receive a Learned Owl gift card. There will be one prize for adults and one for kids.
As the construction proceeds, I'm sure we will continue to encounter disappointing situations such as this. We will do our best to manage each one with the concerns of the City as well as the best interests of our valued customers in mind. Thank you for your support, and happy reading!
- Kate
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Coming up at
The Learned Owl
Saturday, Oct. 15, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Sunday, Oct. 16, 2-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Early Halloween Story Time. We'll read
Enzo's Very Scary Halloween and enjoy an activity and refreshments. Please call to reserve a spot: 330-653-2252.
Sunday, Oct. 16, 2 PM
(at The Owl)
Our History Book Club discusses Napoleon Bonaparte. Join us!
Sunday, Oct. 16, 7 PM
David Sedaris at the Akron Civic Theater. Read more and purchase tickets at
akroncivic.com. The Learned Owl will provide books for purchase at this event.
Thursday, Oct. 20, 7 PM
(at the Hudson Library)
Friday, Oct. 21, 6-8 PM
(at The Owl)
Saturday, Oct. 22, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Saturday, Oct. 22, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 7 PM
(at the Hudson Library)
Saturday, Oct. 29, 1-2 PM
(at The Owl)
Saturday, Oct. 29, 1-3 PM
(at The Owl)
Cleveland author
Amanda Uhl with her paranormal romance
Mind Waves.
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We especially liked...
by Tana French
[Viking, $27.00]
Linda says: Reading Tana French is one of my greatest pleasures. I am mad for her moody, compelling stories. Her way with the dialect of the area and the vernacular of the Dublin Murder Squad never fails to transport me to the time and place about which she writes. Her characters loom large and realistic in my imagination as I am swept away by her prose.
The Trespasser is another impeccably crafted tale of murder and intrigue. When called to the scene of a dead woman, Detective Antoinette Conway believes it to an open-and-shut case of a domestic argument gone wrong. Disappointed in having to work yet another run-of-the-mill case and tired of being harassed and pranked in the squad, she and her partner, Stephen Moran, approach the case less than enthusiastically. Before long, however, they realize that there is a lot more to the case than meets the eye, and it begins to be hard to discern the good guys from the bad.
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More new & notable mysteries
By Gaslight by Steven Price
[Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28.00]
William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead on the fabled con Edward Shade. William's father died without ever finding Shade, but William is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows.
Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London to find her. What he learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought long-buried.
A fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and seance halls ensues, creating the most unlikely of bonds: between Pinkerton, the great detective, and Foole, the one man who may hold the key to finding Edward Shade.
by Alexander McCall Smith
[Pantheon Books, $25.95]
Changes are afoot at the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, where Mma Makutsi, who has recently been promoted to co-director, has been encouraging Mma Ramotswe to update to more modern office practices. However, an unusual case will require both of them to turn their attention firmly to the past. A young Canadian woman who spent her early childhood in Botswana requests the agency's help in recovering important pieces of her life there. With only a faded photograph and, of course, some good old-fashioned detective skills to guide them, Precious and Grace set out to locate the house that the woman used to live in and the caretaker who looked after her many years ago. But when the journey takes an unexpected turn, they are forced to consider whether some lost things may be better off unfound.
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New mysteries in paperback
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