"I think the difference between going into an indie bookstore and going into a Barnes & Noble is like the difference between going out to dinner with the love of your life versus going on a blind date with someone you met on OkCupid. At indie bookstores there's so much more human thought put into the way books are arranged and presented."
author of
Eileen,
Homesick for Another World, &
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Square Books, Jr.:
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Dear Reader Signed Firsts Staff Picks Gift Cards
160 Courthouse Square Oxford, MS 38655
662-236-2262
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MISSISSIPPI MATH*
Spend $50 with a local indie and keep
$22.50 in Mississippi
Spend $50 at a national chain and keep
$6.50 in Mississippi
Spend $50 online to a remote vendor and keep
not one red cent in Mississippi.
*source:
The Economist,
7/30/2009
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BOOK SIGNINGS THIS WEEK
Unless otherwise indicated, author events begin with an informal reception at 5pm, followed by the author's presentation at 5:30, with a book signing both before and after the reading/talk.
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Tuesday, July 17th at 5 p.m.
Ace Atkins
(in conversation with Jack Pendarvis)
(G.P. Putnam's Sons, $27.00)
In the new novel from
New York Times bestselling crime master Ace Atkins, violence comes in many forms...and this time it may be more than Quinn Colson can handle.
The Pritchards had never been worth a damn -- an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem. Years ago, Colson's late uncle had put the clan's patriarch in prison, but now he's getting out, with revenge, power, and family business on his mind. To make matters worse, a shady trucking firm with possible ties to the Gulf Coast syndicate has moved into Tibbehah, and they have their own methods of intimidation.
With his longtime deputy Lillie Virgil now working up in Memphis, Quinn Colson finds himself having to fall back on some brand-new deputies to help him out, but with Old West-style violence breaking out, and his own wedding on the horizon, this is without a doubt Colson's most trying time as sheriff. Cracks are opening up all over the county, and shadowy figures are crawling out through them -- and they're all heading directly for him.
Ace Atkins is the author of twenty-three books, including eight Quinn Colson novels, the first two of which,
The Ranger and
The Lost Ones, were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (he also has a third Edgar nomination for his short story "Last Fair Deal Gone Down."). In addition, he is the author of seven
New York Times-bestselling novels in the continuation of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series.
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Events are always free and wheelchair accessible.
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