Hello!
Tonight, April 15, Jeff Kinney is hosting a national event with Indie Bookstores for his new book Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories. It's not quite the same as when we hosted Jeff Kinney at OHS Field House, but it will still be a lot of fun. Register for this free event here.
Last year we put together a list of laugh out loud, funny novels to brighten our days during the initial Stay at Home period. It didn't take long before the months were adding to our Stay at Home period faster then we could add funny books to our list.
Katherine Heiny's new book Early Morning Riser is on top of my funny book list as we begin to see a bit of light at the end of this crazy year. Set in a small town outside of Petoskey, MI, it is a joyful reminder of the importance of community, friends, and the winding and sometimes messy paths our lives take. Be warned, bouts of spontaneously laughter will occur - the kind that startles the cat right off the couch and out of the room. I'm looking forward to our conversation with Katherine Heiny on May 6 via Zoom. We have signed copies available now!
Cheers and Happy Reading!
Lisa with Katrina, Ken, Chloe, Genavieve, Kristen, Elisabeth, Beth, Joseph, Maureen, Jewell, Toni, Lynn, and Judy
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Current Store Hours
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 6:00 Saturday- Sunday 9:00 - 5:00
Masks required. Limit of 10 customers
Curbside pick up, local delivery, and shipping available.
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JEFF KINNEY
Thursday, April 15th
6:00 p.m. (central time)
via Crowdcast
This event is free to attend! Thanks to our friends at Abrams Publishing for setting up this Awesome Fun event!
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AMY E. REICHERT
in Conversation with
Daniel Goldin & Lisa Baudoin
Monday, April 19th
7:00 p.m.
Via ZOOM
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Join us for a lovely evening for our April Readings from Oconomowaukee! Local favorite Wisconsinite Amy Reichert will be in conversation with Boswell Books' Daniel Goldin and Books & Company's Lisa Baudoin for Reichert's newest novel, The Kindred Spirits Supper Club!
on sale 4/20/21
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KATHERINE HEINY
in conversation with
Daniel Goldin & Lisa Baudoin
Thursday, May 6th
7:00 p.m.
via Zoom
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Join us for the May Readings From Oconomowaukee featuring Boswell Books' Daniel Goldin and Books & Company's Lisa Baudoin in conversation with Katherine Heiny for her new novel Early Morning Riser- A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family.
(on sale 4/13/21)
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Virtual Author Event
KATHLEEN ERNST
Thursday, May 27th
7:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
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We are very excited to announce our virtual event with author Kathleen Ernst, for the eleventh book in the Chloe Ellefson mystery series, The Weaver's Revenger!
When offered a rare opportunity to help develop a fledgling historic site dedicated to Finnish American history and heritage, curator Chloe Ellefson journeys to the remote Northwoods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But a killer weaves a deadly blend of betrayal and revenge that threatens Chloe’s work and her life...
Signed bookplates will be available!
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MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
in Conversation with
Daniel Goldin & Lisa Baudoin
Tuesday, June 8th
2:00 p.m.
Via ZOOM
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Join us for the June Readings From Oconomowaukee featuring Boswell Books' Daniel Goldin and Books & Company's Lisa Baudoin in conversation with Maggie Shipstead for her new novel Great Circle, an unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost--Great Circle spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles.
on sale 5/4/21
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MIKE GAYLE
in conversation with
Daniel Goldin & Lisa Baudoin
Thursday, July 22nd
2:00 p.m.
via Zoom
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Please join us for our July Readings From Oconomowaukee event, featuring author Mike Gayle in conversation with Boswell Book Store's Daniel Goldin and Books & Company's Lisa Baudoin for Gayle's new novel. All The Lonely People is a warm and funny novel about a widower in Australia who makes it seem as though his retirement is the time of his life, but in reality it is far from it. When his daughter makes plans to come to visit, he has to make his real life resemble his fake life before the truth comes out.
(on sale 7/13/21)
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Wednesday, April 28th
1:00 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by Laura Morelli
Wednesday, May 25th
1:00 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by Rachel Joyce
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Wednesday, April 21st
6:30 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by Maureen Johnson
Wednesday, May 19
6:30 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by Adam Silvera
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Tuesday, April 27th
6:00 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by Teresa Dovalpage
Tuesday, May 24th
6:00 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by S.A. Lelchuk
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Sunday, April 25th
3:00 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
PART TWO
by Joe McGinniss
by Jerry Allen Potter
Sunday May, 30th
3:00 p.m.
ZOOM MEETING
by Miles Harvey
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS - hardcover |
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FICTION
New in Hardcover!
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by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring—the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot. But has their new life been built on lies?
Signed copies available while supplies last!
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by Pip Williams
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
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by Paula McLain
Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her. Yet the day she arrives, she learns that a local teenage girl has gone missing. The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna’s childhood, when the unsolved murder of a young girl touched Mendocino and changed the community forever. As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment.
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NONFICTION
New in Hardcover!
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by Graeme Gibson
Featuring a new foreword by Margaret Atwood!
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson offers an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and
birds. Winged creatures appear in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thoreau, and T. S. Eliot. They've been omens, allegories, and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, and feared. Birds figure tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White and Peter Matthiessen, and are synonymous with the science of Darwin.
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by Judy Batalion
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with wine, whiskey, and home cooking, used their Aryan looks to seduce them, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children.
Yet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown.
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by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother’s tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language.
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS - paperback |
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FICTION
Now in Paperback!
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by Peter Swanson
A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders. Bookseller Judy says it "Combines classic mystery plots to create a seemingly unsolvable crime. I don't read a lot of mystery books, but I loved it and it even supplied more books for me to read!"
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by Claire Beams
At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. When a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But it's not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms... Booksellers Ken and Katrina found this unsettling historical fiction to be such an intriguing read.
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by Claire Lombardo
In this rich, complex family saga full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest. If you missed your chance to read this rich family novel in hardcover, check out the newly released paperback! Books & Company booksellers loved it!
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NONFICTION
Now in Paperback!
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by Gina Nutt
Night Rooms is a poetic, intimate collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, grief, and survival. Whether competing in shopping mall beauty pageants, reflecting on childhood monsters and ballet lessons, or recounting dark cultural ephemera while facing grief and authenticity in the digital age, Gina Nutt's shifting style echoes the sub-genres that Night Rooms highlights. Bookseller Katrina says "I really enjoyed this collection of essays. Gina Nutt explores many dark but important topics with a unique voice."
Signed copies with bookmarks available while supplies last!
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by Sally Coulthard
If you like to eat your fruits and vegetables (and even if you don’t!), you should value our planet’s bees. Yet, because of environmental pollution, loss of green spaces, and a general disregard for the well-being of insects, humans have caused the number of bees to plummet. In the past year, the managed honeybee population of the United States has dropped 40 percent, and there has been a 25 percent decline in wild bees—figures that are alarming at best. Helping the bees is easier than you might imagine, however, as outlined in this charmingly illustrated call to action. Here are 50 easy suggestions, along with an informative introduction, to get you started.
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by Esther Safran Foer
Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther’s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation—that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust—Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived.
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS - kids/teen |
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by Micha Archer
A beautiful book featuring gorgeous, detailed collages that give readers a fresh outlook on the splendors of nature. When two curious kids embark on a "wonder walk," they let their imaginations soar as they look at the world in a whole new light. They have thought-provoking questions for everything they see: Is the sun the world's light bulb? Is dirt the world's skin? Are rivers the earth's veins? Is the wind the world breathing? I wonder... Young readers will wonder too, as they ponder these gorgeous pages and make all kinds of new connections. What a wonderful world indeed!
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by Jon Klassen
Here comes The Rock from the Sky, a hilarious meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there’s something off somewhere, but you just can’t put your finger on it. Merging broad visual suspense with wry wit, celebrated picture book creator Jon Klassen gives us a wholly original comedy for the ages. Booksellers Chloe and Katrina absolutely love this hilarious picture book. The amount of personality and humor Klassen packs into a seemingly simple picture book is astounding. Such fun!
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by Alice B. McGinty
Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family's barrels of water are empty. All dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After dropping them off, she heads to another job: she drives her big yellow tanker truck to the water tower, fills it with three thousand gallons of water, and returns to the reservation, bringing water to Cody's family, and many, many others. Here is the incredible and inspiring true story of a Native American woman who continuously gives back to her community and celebrates her people.
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by Carrie Seim
Wills is a seventh grader who's head-over-hoof for horses, and beyond excited when she gets the chance to start training at the prestigious Oakwood Riding Academy. But Amara--the Queen of the #HorseGirls--and her posse aren't going to let the certifiably dork-tagious Wills trot her way into their club so easily. Between learning the reins of horse riding, dealing with her Air Force pilot mom being stationed thousands of miles from home, and keeping it together in front of (gasp!) Horse Boys, Wills learns that becoming a part of the #HorseGirl world isn't easy. But with her rescue horse, Clyde, at her side, it sure will be fun.
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by Tanya Guerrero
Sometimes you find home where you least expect it. Twelve-year-old Alba doesn't want to live with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona. She wants to stay with her mom, even if that means enduring her dad's cutting comments to them both. But in her new home, Alba forms a close relationship with her grandmother, gains a supportive father figure and new friends, and even discovers a passion and talent for baking. And through getting to know the city her mother used to call home, Alba starts to understand her mother better—and may just be able to make their family whole again.
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by Kevin Henkes
Billy Miller is back! The stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes’ award-winning, acclaimed, and bestselling The Year of Billy Miller, Billy Miller Makes a Wish is a laugh-out-loud funny and accessible story about summer, family, and wishes that (almost) come true. On his birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. But he immediately regrets his wish when an ambulance rushes to his neighbor’s house. Is Billy responsible? A great choice for young middle grade readers.
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by Leigh Bardugo
The Demon King: As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm—and even the monster within—to win this fight. The Stormwitch: Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. The Queen of Mourning: Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
King. General. Spy. Together they must find a way to forge a future in the darkness. Or watch a nation fall.
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by Elizabeth Acevedo
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela.
The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.
Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.
Now in paperback!
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by Alex De Campi
Spending an entire summer on tour as a backup singer for pop star Nika Nitro? What?! That’s the DREAM, right? Especially for Jenni, Lauren, and Maggie, three misfit performing arts students with hopes of making it in the music world. But being twenty feet from fame isn’t easy. Between crushes, constant rehearsals, Nika’s sky-high expectations, and their own insecurities, this dream is starting to feel more like a nightmare. And that’s before they accidentally start a beef with a rival band threatening to reveal a secret that could end Nika’s career. Can this trio of new friends come together to save the tour, or will the Backups be kept out of the spotlight forever?
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