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Dear Friends,
Once again we had a very snowy month in March but are looking forward to the days getting warmer and seeing lots of sun soon. In the meantime we had an aurora last week. Photo by one of our customers, Karen Hackett thank you!
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Happy April!
Jenny, Kim, Anne, Amy, Patti, Kelsey
and Sue
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The April
Selection of the Month is:
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao's Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?
Recommended by Jenny and Sue
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Bouncing Bunnies
By Fiz Osborne
Illustrated by Tim Budgen
Simon and Schuster 12.99
A group of bunnies bounce around, their favorite thing to do, and as they shake from head to toe, they invite you to join in too. (Ages 2 and up)
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Hatch and Match: A Springtime Seek-And-Find Book
By Ruth Paul
Candlewick $17.99
Amid a kaleidoscope of colors, chickens with spots, stripes, and zigzags are scritching and scratching and looking for their eggs. There are eggs in a haystack, under a tree, inside a barn, and even tucked in a shoe. Who can help the hens find the eggs .. (Ages 3 and up)
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Home
By Loren Long
Illustrated by Matt DeLaPena
Putnam. $19.99
A stirring celebration of home in its many forms. For home is an idea more profound than the walls we build up around ourselves. It's the family that shows its love through small gestures every day. It's the community that sees one another through hard times. And it's the wonder of the natural world, a refuge we share with every living thing on Earth. (All ages)
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Just One More Story
By Perry Emerson
Illustrated by Sean Julian
Tiger Tales $18.99
Two bunnies, an avid reader and a reluctant reader, share excitement over an action-packed tale that compels them to read all the books in the library and then proceed to write their own story.
(Ages 2 and up)
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When Spring Comes
By Ekaterina Trukhan
Nosy Crow $12.99
When spring comes . . . the birds are singing, the bees are buzzing, and the sleepy groundhog is waking up. And one little girl is celebrating every magical moment! Experience the wonders of springtime through the eyes of a child interested in discovering the flowers, trees, insects, animals, and weather that make spring a very special time of year. (Ages 2 and up)
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The Cottage
Children's Book Club
The perfect gift for all of the little people in your life. Give the gift of a book a month!
Our knowledgeable staff will personally choose a hardcover book for each child. A passion for reading can begin at a young age and this special gift will foster the love of books and reading!
Here's how it works:
~ each month or bi-monthly the child will receive a recently published, age appropriate hardcover book matched with the child's interests.
(we can also choose classic children's books if requested)
~gifts will be wrapped and arrive with a book plate from the giver.
~the cost of the book (less a 15% discount) and shipping (USPS) is less than $22.00 per month. The amount will be charged to your credit card monthly or bimonthly.
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Glen Lake Book Club
Meet the 3rd Friday of the month at Glen Lake Community Library at 10:00 a.m
April 18
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship
By Alice Munro
Vintage $18.00
May 16
The Women
By Kristen Hannah
St. Martins $30.00
Lakeshore Readers
Meet the last Wednesday of the month at Glen Lake Library at 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday April 20
Little Monsters
By Adrienne Brodeur
Avid Reader $18.99
May 28
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By Nikole Hannah Jones
One World $25.00
Please shop locally!
Books available at Cottage Book Shop
(15% off on book club books)
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Audition
By Katie Kitamura
Riverhead $28.00
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young--young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day - partner, parent, creator, muse - and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately. ~Recommended by Jenny
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Dream Hotel
By Laila Lalami
Pantheon $29.00
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA's algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility, their stay is extended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom. ~Recommended by Jenny
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Jackal’s Mistress
By Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday $29.00
Virginia, 1864--Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the grain they can produce requisitioned by the Confederate Army. It's an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield. And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor's house, the bones of his hand and leg shattered. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy--but he's also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible decision: Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband? ~Recommended by Sue
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Killer Potential
By Hannah Dietch
William Morrow $28.99
A scholarship kid with straight As and big dreams, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone. But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as an SAT tutor for the super-rich of Los Angeles.Everything changes one Sunday, when she arrives for her weekly lesson at the Victors' Beverly Hills estate and, in lieu of a bored teenager, finds the bloody remains of the parents strewn through their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help within a closet. As Evie works to free her, the two are spotted--and within moments, they go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives. Suddenly at the heart of a manhunt and accompanied by a mysterious woman who refuses to speak, Evie knows the only way to clear her name is to find the real killer. But first she'll have to break down the barriers of her companion, who is quickly becoming the most important person in Evie's upside-down life. She's now on the cover of every magazine and newspaper--anointed the new Charles Manson, a bloodthirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war. Evie is finally someone. Recommended by Jenny
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Say You Remember Me
By Abby Jimenez
Forever $28.00
There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes-all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there's nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong... unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date-possibly the best in living history-Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life-and even a love-worth remembering. ~Recommended by Kelsey
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The Story She Left Behind
By Patti Callahan Henry
Atria $29.99
In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington's magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother's lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother's vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson's family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind. ~Recommended by Sue
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Tilt
By Emma Pattee
Simon and Schuster $27.99
Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.
Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there's nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she's determined to change her life. A propulsive debut, Tilt is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love.~Recommended by Jenny and Anne
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Trouble Up North
By Travis Mulhauser
Grand Central $29.00
The Sawbrooks have lived on prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan since before there was prime real estate. A family of smugglers and bootleggers, every man, woman, and child in each generation has been taught to navigate the nooks and crannies of the rivers and highways that flow in and out of Canada. But today, the Sawbrooks are deeply fractured, and the money that's sustained the family is running out. Edward, the Sawbrook patriarch, is dying from cancer, and his wife, Rhoda, is bitterly disappointed in her three adult children.When her daughter, Jewell, is asked to commit a crime for a major insurance payout, she agrees, eager for the cash, but too late, she realizes that that the boat she torched wasn't empty...
~Recommended by Sue
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