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Hi
First, to reconfirm our opening hours
HOURS:
Mon-Fri 2:00 - 6:00 PM
Sat. 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sun.: 12:00- 5:00 PM Curbside pickup only!
Please come masked. Please do not come if you are feeling unwell but instead choose curbside pickup.
Please use hand sanitizer on arrival. Gloves are available.
Limited to SIX persons at a time. The Pen is not a large retail space.
Please enter through the front door, not the side doors.
No public restroom
With spring coming an inspired video depicts the Rewilding of Europe, mostly in the Danube Delta. Watching it gives a real lift! I especially love the reintroduction of the Ibis to its winter grounds in Italy. Would you fly over the Alps in that machine?
Yesterday we drove north on I-17 to visit Arcosanti where the Frank Lloyd Wright school of architecture has relocated. The community uses earth casting in construction and for casting its Soleri bells. I have one and now have a sparkling rain chain as shown below too.
Thank you as ever for your interest and support. Stay safe, stay well, and keep reading!.
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Thank you for supporting The Poisoned Pen since 1989, frequently named Best Specialty Bookstore by the New Times and by the Arizona Republic, one of 45 Great American Indie Bookstores 2013; Best Locally Owned and Operated Business: Scottsdale and more....
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Donna Leon
Virtual Book Launch
Tuesday March 9
1:00 PM
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We offer two ways to join this exciting event, Donna's first at The Pen
The purchase of the book is required to attend, or a $5.00 fee
TUESDAY MARCH 9 1:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Click on the title to order and you will get a zoom link on March 8
Signed copies while they last
Can it be the 30th for Commissario Guido Brunetti? Yes. And it reflects the Venetian policeman's weariness with his job and his city. The focal point is the culture of the Giudecca, its insularity, and a kind of local boss with an iron grip that may be hard to break. It begins when two young American tourists are dropped off at the hospital's dock, one of them seriously injured. Cameras reveal two young men in a boat (naturally) ferried the women there. They are soon identified as a well-to-do young lawyer and his childhood friend, a boatman.
Patient and persistent inquiry ensues ringing in the coast guard and naval commandos, yet despite the high action finale the pace is a slow burn and in the end, what is accomplished? Leon increasingly goes for ambiguity, reflecting her view I think of a broken city government, maybe of Italy's government. I have to agree with a reviewer who writes, an aging Brunetti, who blames his tightening trousers on the dry cleaners rather than his eating habits, goes about his day: meeting with informants, lunching with colleagues, and dining with his erudite wife and opinionated children.
Brunetti feels disillusioned with his retired friends, who can talk of nothing but grandchildren, and mournfully accepts that tourism will eventually destroy his beloved Venice. But meanwhile he loves his family, and really, his work.
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The March Booknews
Part 1
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And use the share feature with both to reach out to readers you know.
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Our Podcast Library Keeps Growing
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Visit our Podcasts Almost 70,000 downloads show your interest
Easy download links are provided. They are also available on ITunes and Google Music
Enjoy conversations from our storied past:
AND more new conversations:
Russ Thomas with Andrew (Child) Grant
Joe Ide
Alexis Landau
Charlaine Harris
William Kent Krueger
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Buy Audio Books from Libro.fm & Help The Pen
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Your purchase of audio books results in a small income stream to the bookstore so we very much appreciate it.
They do frequent specials and update available audios.
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Tips on our Virtual Events
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The times listed are Mountain Standard Time UNTIL March 14.
When Daylight Savings kicks in March 14, the times we list will be Pacific Daylight Time. It begins with Harlan Coben in our calendar..
We try to start them on time at the hour posted. You can sign it a bit early and wait for it to start. Or join later.
You can watch them in real time and comment if you do belong to FB. And you can watch them later at any time that is convenient.
You can listen to them in a subsequent podcast
The Videos go back for some years. Watch those posted to You Tube on your Smart TV. It's a nice change from a small screen
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What happend to Charles Finch?
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We regret that Mr. Finch was unable to make his event scheduled for Friday February 26.
It's a charmer set in 1878 and mostly in Newport, RI, with a Gilded Age atmosphere....but all is not sparkling.
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CJ Box
Virtual National Book Launch
Tonight at SEVEN PM
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MONDAY MARCH 1 7:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
CJ Box discusses Dark Sky (Putnam $27.99)
Signed books signed by CJ here are shipping even now!
You fans of Nate Romanowski are going to love this thriller. We learn right away when Joe Pickett's daughter Sheridan, who is employed by Nate, rappels down a cliff where falcons nest and uncovers bow traps, indicating that a poacher is at work. Thus we also get to learn a lot more about Nate and his birds than ever.
But the main plot kicks off when the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a geeky tech baron who wants to experience harvesting his own food by bringing down an elk with a bow and arrow, on a hunt.
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Tasha Alexander
Deanna Raybourn
Tuesday 6:00 PM
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TUESDAY MARCH 2 6:00 PM Victorian Crime
Tasha Alexander and Deanna Raybourn in conversation
Signed books available for BOTH authors
Lady Emily and her intelligence agent husband, Colin Hargreaves, travel to Florence to investigate a break-in at the Palazzo di Vieri, the home of Colin's daughter, along with Emily's friend Cécile du Lac, an elegant Parisian with a passion for champagne and bohemian sensibilities. Meanwhile, the body of an informant associated with Darius Benton-Stone, Colin's fellow agent, has been discovered broken and bleeding in the palazzo's courtyard.
While Colin and Darius investigate, Emily and Cécile, kept out of the men's confidence, keep themselves busy visiting the sights and doing some digging of their own into the dead man's background. They also discover that the Palazzo di Vieri is believed to contain a secret treasure. Could the man have been searching for it? The story tick tocks from 1903 to 15th Century Florence when the Medicis reigned and Savonarola rose, linking the quests rooted in the occupants of the palazzo.
"Alexander effortlessly slips an enormous amount of Florentine history into a narrative that offers a loving portrait of the city and just the right amount of dashing derring-do." I'm glad that Alexander is advancing slowly from the Victorian into the Edwardian era.
This is so much fun. How I loved The Prisoner of Zenda when Rudolph Rassendyll nobly takes the place of the King of Ruritania at his coronation while the real king is being drugged by the villain. Anthony Hope wrote this adventure in 1894.*
Now here we have Veronica Speedwell in a similar role. Why is the lepidopterist bored with life in London? After all, she and her lover, the Hon. Revelstoke Templeton-Vane, better known as Stoker, are living on a lovely estate while they work on a vast collection of objects of natural history and help design an exhibit to honor Alice Baker-Greene, an intrepid mountaineer and feminist, who died in a climbing accident in a tiny mountain kingdom. Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald herself comes to open the exhibit.
All goes smoothly until Stoker finds Alice's climbing rope among the exhibition items and notices that it wasn't frayed but cut with a knife, turning her fatal accident into murder. Veronica, who'd met and admired Alice, is keen to investigate, but Stoker's not interested in expanding their case files. Their differences are rendered moot when members of the Alpenwald delegation beg Veronica to pose as the wayward Princess Gisela, who often goes off on little trips on her own, in order to avert the scandal that would surely arise if she did not show up for her engagements. The two women look remarkably alike because both are related through Queen Victoria's large family, Now that she has entree to all the Alpenwalders, Veronica, her boredom decisively ended, sets to work sleuthing with the reluctant Stoker. Their discoveries soon put them at odds with a clever killer.
*FYI the 1937 movie of The Prisoner of Zenda starred Ronald Coleman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Madeleine Carroll with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, and David Niven in supporting roles. The 1952 remake starred Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, and James Mason and was nearly word-for-word in the screenplay.
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Jack Carr hosts Don Bentley
Wednesday 6:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 3 6:00 PM
Don Bentley in conversation with Jack Carr
Signed books available
Join us for a lively chat and a small preview of Carr's next thriller The Devil's Hand which we launch here on April 12 at 6:00 PM PDT.
Bentley pits former Defense Intelligence Agency operative Matt Drake, who's living with his wife in Austin, Tex., against an old nemesis known as the Devil, a ruthless crime lord profiting from the chaos in Syria and Iraq. After an assassination attempt in broad daylight on the streets of Austin, Drake-still suffering from PTSD and struggling to find a sense of normalcy in his life-attempts to locate the Devil to enact vengeance. In his search, he stumbles across a sex trafficking operation run by the Middle Eastern crime boss and vows to kill him and free the enslaved women
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Denise Hamilton
with Ben Winters and Duane Swierczynski
Thursday 7:00 PM
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THURSDAY MARCH 4 7:00 PM
Denise Hamilton in conversation with Ben Winters and Duane Swierczynski
The editor and authors discuss Speculative Los Angeles (Akashic $16.95).
Patrick hosts a book he recommends: The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring 14 all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes-each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad. "Speculative Los Angeles is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Take a place that already defines the future of culture, add fourteen unbound minds, and you get a collection that wows the imagination like no other."--Michael Connelly.
LJ adds, "Many [stories] have a distinctly gritty and postapocalyptic flavor that takes advantage of a uniquely L.A. vibe."
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Our March Books of the Month
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Please remember: we read all the book club books BEFORE we select them for each month. No algorithms are at work here, just dedicated readers and booksellers.
Email Karen@poisonedpen.com to join or with questions. It's never too late to sign up for an exciting mystery box.
OUR MARCH BOOKS OF THE MONTH
International Crime Book of the Month One Unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
SciFi/Fantasy Book of the Month
One hardcover or paperback per month signed when possible
Neuvel, Sylvain.A History of What Comes Next
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Our Full March Calendar
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MONDAY MARCH 1 7:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
CJ Box discusses Dark Sky (Putnam $27.99)
Joe Pickett
Signed books available
TUESDAY MARCH 2 6:00 PM Victorian Crime
Tasha Alexander and Deanna Raybourn in conversation
Lady Emily
Veronica Speedwell
Signed books available for both
WEDNESDAY MARCH 3 6:00 PM
Don Bentley in conversation with Jack Carr
Signed books available
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THURSDAY MARCH 4 7:00 PM
Denise Hamilton in conversation with Ben Winters and Duane Swierczynski
The editor and authors discuss Speculative Los Angeles (Akashic $16.95).
FRIDAY MARCH 5 1:00 PM
A standalone gem, our March British Crime Book of the Month
FRIDAY MARCH 5 6:30 PM
Arkady Martine in conversation with Pat King
Teixcalaan # 2
SATURDAY MARCH 6 1:00 PM Virtual US launch
The UK's Chris Whitaker in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan
SATURDAY MARCH 6 2:15 PM
Lauren Willig in conversation with Karen White and Beatriz Williams
Smith College women go to France in WWI
Signed books available
MONDAY MARCH 8 1:00 PM Virtual US Book Launch
SJ Bennett in conversation with Lesa Holstine
Our March Cozy Crimes Pick of the Month
MONDAY MARCH 8 6:00 PM National Book Launch
Graham Brown discusses Fast Ice (Putnam $29), his last full collaboration with Clive Cussler
Signed books available, short personalization requests due End of Day March 6
TUESDAY MARCH 9 1:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Commissario Guido Brunetti of Venice
The purchase of the book is required to attend, or a $5.00 fee
To join by the $5.00 fee CLICK HERE
TUESDAY MARCH 9 5:00 PM Baseball!
Emily Nemens in conversation with John Shea and Larry Siegel
Shea discusses Willie Mays "24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid" and Rickey Henderson's autobiography "Off Base: Confessions of a Thief
WEDNESDAY MARCH 10 6:00 PM
Phillip Margolin discusses
Robin Lockwood legal thriller
Signed books available
THURSDAY MARCH 11 6:00 PM
Joel Rosenburg in conversation with Kyle Mills
Military fiction
TIME CHANGE MARCH 14: from here all our events are PDT
MONDAY MARCH 15 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Harlan Coben discusses Win (Grand Central $29)
Signed books available
TUESDAY MARCH 16 6:30 PM
Australia's Candice Fox in conversation with Adrian McKinty
WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 1:00 PM
St. Patrick's Day Party
Irish Village Mystery #7
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2:15 PM
The Pen presents debut authors Julie Carrick Dalton, Nancy Johnson, Sarah Penner
Signed books still available
Signed bookplates available
Penner discusses The Lost Apothecary (Park Row $27.99), our March Historical Fiction Book of the Month
Signed books available
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THURSDAY MARCH 18 5:00 PM
Mark De Castrique discusses Fatal Scores (Poisoned Pen $15.99)
Sam Blackman, Asheville, NC, private eye
THURSDAY MARCH 18 7:00 PM
Hardboiled Crime discusses discusses another story in Arnold Han's 3 Steps to Hell (Stark House $23.95)
FRIDAY MARCH 19 7:00 PM
SATURDAY MARCH 20 10:30 AM
SATURDAY MARCH 20 4:00 PM Virtual book launch
Lisa Scottoline' first historical, Eternal (Putnam $28), set in WWII Rome
Signed books available
MONDAY MARCH 22 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Jacqueline Winspear discusses
Maisie Dobbs
Signed books available for both titles
TUESDAY MARCH 23 5:00 PM
Alma Katsu in conversation with Michael Koryta
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY MARCH 24 5:00 PM
Signed bookplates available
WEDNESDAY MARCH 24 Time TBA
Australia's Sulari Gentill and Emma Viskic
Rowland Sinclair
Deaf PI Caleb Zelic
FRIDAY MARCH 26 1:00 PM
Jillian Cantor in conversation with Nuala O'Connor
Our March Fantastic New Fiction Book of the Month
Signed books available
MONDAY MARCH 29 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Allison Brennan in conversation with JT Ellison
Signed books available for both
MONDAY MARCH 29 6:15 PM National Book Launch
Will Staples discusses his fiction debut Animals (Blackstone $27.99)
Signed books available
TUESDAY MARCH 30 4:00 PM
Cara Black in conversation with Rhys Bowen
Signed books in April for Bowen
TUESDAY MARCH 30 5:15 PM
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 5:00 PM
Signed books available
THURSDAY APRIL 1 Virtual Book Launch
Paula Munier in conversation with Margaret Mizushima
Signed books available
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We Will Miss...
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Lawrence Ferlingetti, age 101.
An unapologetic proponent of "poetry as insurgent art," he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.
Margaret Maron, age 82.
Margaret Maron, who believed stories have natural beginnings and endings and who enjoyed the serendipitous turns between them, has tied up her final loose end as an author, writing her own obituary before dying on Tuesday at the age of 82. Maron, who lived with her husband on family land in Johnston County, was a prolific mystery writer who completed two series of fiction books: 10 Sigrid Harald books, about a New York Police lieutenant, and the 20-volume set of Deborah Knott books, about a district court judge in North Carolina. She also authored short stories and magazine pieces.
Margaret won all four major mystery awards with her first for Deborah Knott, The Bootlegger's Daughter. She was a good friend. I was happy to share a table with her at Malice Domestic 2015 when she won another Agatha Award for Best Novel...and teapot. My photo here.
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