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Dear Friends,
It looks like summer is almost here and we are super excited. The trees are leafed out, the grass is green, the lakes are the most amazing blue and we are welcoming lots of new people to our area. We are looking forward to seeing all of our returning summer residents and visitors, it's the best time of the year!
Our big summer newsletter is here so be sure to pick one up when you come in the store. There are so many good books coming this summer!
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Happy June, summer is almost here!
Jenny, Kim, Anne, Amy, Patti, Sue, Kelsey and Kirsten
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June Book of the Month
The Bright Years
By Sarah Damoff
Simon and Schuster $18.0
One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they're unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga. Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn't told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn't told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching their marriage rise and fall. When a shocking blow scatters their fragile trio, Georgette tries to distance herself from reminders of her parents. Years later, Lillian's son comes searching for his birth family, so Georgette must return to her roots, unearth her family's history, and decide whether she can open up to love for them-or herself-while there's still time. Told from three intimate points of view, The Bright Years is a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love.~Recommended By Anne and Sue
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Good night, Escargot
By Dashiki Slater
Illustrated by Sydney Hansen
Farrar Straus and Giroux $18.99
In this perfect bedtime read, a cute French snail hosts a pajama party in this laugh-out-loud fifth picture book in the bestselling Escargot series. (Ages 2 and up)
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Orris and Timble: Star Stories
By Kate Dicamillo
Illustrated by Carmen Mok
Candlewick $16.99
Orris and Timble are friends. Orris is a rat, Timble is an owl, and they meet each night in an old barn to share stories. One night, Timble asks a fateful question: "Why don't you ever leave the barn, Orris?" Strong and brave, the owl offers to carry the rat on his back. Orris will be able to see it all for himself--the rivers and fish, roads and farms, mountains and coyotes. But why would Orris leave the barn when all he needs is there: his books, the moon and stars above, and Timble's nightly tales of high-flying adventure? (Ages 7 and up)
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Otis Knows (How to Be a Bear)
By Liz Garton Scanlon and Martha Brockenbrough
Illustrated by Stephanie Liberia
Beach Lane $19.99
Despite being older, Otis, an Alaskan brown bear, still how to be a bear, and how important it is to fill his belly with salmon in preparation for his winter hibernation. Inspired by the real Alaskan brown bear Otis, who rose to stardom during Katmai National Park's Fat Bear Week. (Ages 3 and up)
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Some Days
By Daniela Sosa
Beach Lane $19.99
There are 365 days in a year. But no two days are the same. Some days go by in a wink, some days bring great surprises--or great disappointments--and some days make you shout: "This is the best day ever!” (Ages 2 and up)
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Sunrise Sail
By Charles Trevino
Illustrated by Maribel Lechuga
Charlesbridge $17.99
Pack up and set sail in this story told through clever language. During a sunrise sail sojourn, a boy and his grandfather find a stowaway! When a sudden squall rolls in during their picnic stop--everything is soggy! When the sailboat slips away, guess who saves the day?(Ages 2 and up)
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Glen Lake Book Club
Meet at Glen Lake Community Library
at 10:00 a.m and Zoom
June 16
I Cheerfully Refuse
by Leif Enger
Grove $18.00
July 21
The Member of the Wedding
By Carson McCullers
Mariner $18.99
August 18
Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese
Restaurant: A Memoir
By Curtis Chin
Little Brown $19.99
Lakeshore Readers
Meet the last Wednesday of the month at Glen Lake Library at 11:00 a.m
June 24
Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi
Atria $20.00
July 29
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By Timothy Egan
Penguin $18.00
August 26
The UnlikelyPilgrimage of Harold Fry
By Rachel Joyce
Random House $19.00
Please shop locally!
Books available at Cottage Book Shop
(15% off on book club books)
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The Burning Side
By Sarah Damoff
Simon $29.00
When April and Leo's house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April's childhood home in Dallas, where her spirited parents and siblings provide both comfort and complication. As the family reckons with the aftermath--grief, guilt, logistics, and memories scorched and intact--the fire exposes the cracks already forming in April and Leo's marriage.
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Caller Unknown
By Gillian McAllister
William Morrow $30.00
There is nothing that Simone won't do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Don't tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a deal… Though Simone's husband urges her to bring in the authorities for help, she knows she can't take any chances. The kidnappers might kill Lucy if she tells anyone. No mother would take that risk. Instead, that night, she drives to the isolated meet-up. What she finds there changes everything. The mysterious kidnapper doesn't want money. They want Simone to do something. The unthinkable.
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The Foursome
By Christina Baker Kline
Mariner $30.0
When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity--they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they're looking for wives--and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge. Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins' fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn't so sure. When the twins' lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything--including race, class, and gender--is rigidly defined.
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Heather
By Caitlin Mullen
Celadon $28.99
1990. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister, Sabrina, has been having an affair with a mysterious older man, and Annabelle is determined to uncover what's going on. Then, inexplicably, both sisters disappear.
In this same town years later, newly instated police chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly resurrects details from a heartbreaking cold case. As she digs deeper, the past and the present collide, challenging everything Callie believes about right and wrong, who she is, and the town she's always called home.A propulsive mystery as incisive as it is forgiving, Heather bears a visceral reminder that the truth of a woman's life is often complicated and unknowable--to those on the outside, and sometimes even to herself.
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Jellyfish Problem
By Tessa Yang
Berkely $30.00
Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. So she spends her days hidden away at an underfunded aquarium with her specimens and a draft of the jellyfish guide she and Aldo had been working on together. His voice is alive in the notes in the margins, and it's enough. Almost. Until she receives a call from Nadia, one of the few other humans she's loved but whom she hasn't heard from in years, asking for her help. Nadia tells her a grand tale of a giant jellyfish terrorizing her tiny island off the coast of Maine and sends a grainy video of the creature. Frankly, the footage looks fake, but Jo drops everything to fly across the country to see Nadia again, and to find this supposed sea beast. She couldn't save Aldo, but perhaps she can help Nadia. But when Jo arrives on Shattering Point, Nadia is nowhere to be found, and the islanders she meets each have something different to say about the creature they've dubbed Clementine . . . a jellyfish who changes all who see it.
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June Baby
Bt Shannon Garvey
Random House $30.00
At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer, and her father, unable to handle his grieving daughter, shipped her off to Block Island with nothing but a name scribbled on the back of a receipt: Diana Beckett. Diana, a renowned photographer, took Ruth in for the summer, and Block Island became Ruth's refuge, a place of beauty and creativity, a place where she could nurture her dreams of being a writer, a place where she could fall in love for the first time--with Diana's nephew, Charlie. Ruth's world is upended by tragedy again. Desperate for an anchor, she reaches for the person she's been pining for since she met him--Charlie--who has his own startling revelation to share. Torn between what to believe about her past, and what her future might hold, Ruth is faced with another choice: does she dare to rewrite her story entirely?
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Villa Coco
By Andrew Sean Greer
Doubleday 30.00
An aspiring archivist determined to begin a "serious" life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, a defiantly youthful and naturally flamboyant woman of ninety-two. Amid a chaotic and colorful milieu of gin-swilling princesses, incomprehensible handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, and other local wildlife, our young man does his best to catalog the villa's extensive collection of art and antiques--although he notices that things seem to go missing from right under his nose. When the Baronessa loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in the acceleration of Coco's great and final plan: to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it's too late. Villa Coco is a dazzling, sun-soaked ode to life itself, a meditation on how seriously we ought to take ourselves, and a bawdy Mediterranean ballad about becoming who we've always wanted to be.
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Whistler
By Ann Patchett
Harper $30.00
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It's a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.
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