The days of summer are quickly coming to a close but don't worry, books are here year round and so are our booksellers eager to share what we're reading with you |
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From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: A diagnosis of America's national trauma, and a way to heal.
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The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal |
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The Reckoning will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration’s corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us. America is suffering from PTSD—a new leader alone cannot fix us.
An enormous amount of healing must be done to rebuild our faith in leadership, and our hope for this nation. It starts with The Reckoning.
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AVAILABLE TUESDAY
Night Music: A Novel
By Jojo Moyes
Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to the Spanish House, a now-dilapidated manor Isabel inherited in the English countryside.
With the house falling down around them, and the last of her savings disappearing fast, Isabel turns to her neighbors for help, not knowing that her mere presence there has stirred up long-standing obsessions.
As she fights to make her house a home, passions and lives collide. Isabel will discover an instinct for survival she never knew she had— and that a heart can play a new song. . . .
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FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MEXICAN GOTHIC
Velvet Was the Night by Sylvia Morena-Garcia
"Mexico City is seething with student unrest and police crackdowns, but Maite has more important things to worry about. Her dead-end job and meddling family send her into the pages of romance comic books for relief. When Maite becomes entangled in a search for missing film that could upend the city’s most powerful institutions, however, her daydreams become all too real. Morena-Garcia’s sunbleached south-of-the-border noir is a delicious stew of love and violence, a frothy page-turner for fans of romance and crime alike." -David Enyeart (Manager)
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AVAILABLE TUESDAY
All In: An Autobiography
In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career—six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women's movement, the assassinations and anti-war protests of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, and, eventually, the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
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Pre-order Louise Penny's new mystery "The Madness of Crowds" |
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Pre order a copy of "The Madness of Crowds" coming out on August 24th and receive two special gifts with your order
A "Vintage Three Pines" key chain and a gorgeous limited edition wooden bookmark.
Supplies are limited so make sure you get yours reserved now!
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Pre-order Shephen Graham Jones's new novel
"My Heart is a Chainsaw"
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Coming out on August 31st |
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Pre order a copy of My Heart is a Chainsaw and get a swag bag of exclusive items including an enamel pin, hotel keychain, a set of postcards, and VHS tape slipcase
Supplies are limited to the first 10 people who pre-order so act fast!
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Pre-order Mary Roach's new novel
"Fuzz"
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Pre order Mary Roach's new science and conservation book Fuzz to get a signed copy and an exclusive embroidery patch.
Limited to the first 30 readers who reserve a copy so act fast!
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Upcoming author events!
Come sport your best looking (and required) mask and grab a ticket to our featured readings with a variety of great books and authors
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"Portraits of Peace: Searching for Hope in a Divided America"
John Noltner
Thursday, September 23, 2021 | 5:30pm-6:30pm CST
*This is a ticketed event
tickets are not available for purchase in store.
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"Funny Thing about Minnesota...: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Twin Cities Comedy Scene"
Patrick Strait
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | 5:30pm-6:30pm CST
*This is a ticketed event
tickets are not available for purchase in store.
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Heather Tosteson, Patricia Barone, Roseann Lloyd, Margaret Hasse, Norita Dittberner-Jax, Patrick Hansel, Deborah Bower & Charissa M. Menefee
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021 | 5:30pm-6:30pm CST
*This is a ticketed event
tickets are not available for purchase in store.
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“Dead Dad Jokes”
Ollie Schminkey
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 | 5:30pm-6:30pm CST
*This is a ticketed event
tickets are not available for purchase in store.
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Upcoming book club meetings |
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Next Chapter Book Club discusses Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri--Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations.
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.
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Outside the Margins: A Speculative Fiction Book Club discusses Axiom's End, by Lindsay Ellis
-Tuesday, September 7, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father.
Even though Cora hasn’t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government—and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father’s leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with him—until she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades.
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1. Come in the store and browse. Talk to a bookseller or peruse the shelves, as you prefer. We love when you wear a mask.
2. Order online or over the phone for instore pickup. We'll let you know when your books are ready, then you can swing by and pick them up at your leisure.
3. Get your books delivered to your home. We can mail your books to you (no charge for orders over $50) or deliver them to your home (to addresses in St Paul only and again for orders over $50).
We're here 10am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and noon to 5pm on Sunday.
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Thanks for reading
all the way to the end.
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--all of us at Next Chapter Booksellers
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