Cottage Book Shop Newsletter September 24

Cottage Book Shop - September 2024

Dear Friends,

We're having a super Labor Day weekend and are looking forward to a very colorful fall. A huge thank you to all of our wonderful customers for a fantastic summer season. We are looking forward to some great hikes this fall and you will also find us reading lots of books and listening to them too on Libro.fm. If you need a book to read let us know and we will help you find just the right one!

If you are out of town check out our website.

You can keep up with news of Cottage Book Shop and Glen Arbor by following us on Facebook. and Instagram.

Happy almost Fall,

Jenny, Kim, Anne, Amy, Patti

and Sue

The September

Selection of the Month is:

The Invisible Hour

By Alice Hoffman

Atria $17.99

One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? Through a journey of heartbreak, love, and time, Mia must abandon the rules she was raised with at the Community. As she does, she realizes that reading can transport you to other worlds or bring them to you, and that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways. She learns that time is more fluid than she can imagine, and that love is stronger than any chains that bind you.

As a girl Mia fell in love with a book. Now as a young woman she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time. But what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never wrote The Scarlet Letter? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die?

~Recommended by Anne and Amy

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Countdown to Fall

Countdown to School

By Greg Paprocki

Babylit $12.99

Toddlers learn to count down from 10 to 1 as they mark the days until school begins, and they can practice counting by finding objects hidden throughout these fun back-to-school scenes. (Ages 2 and up)

Fall Parade

By Camelia Kay

Abrams $16.99

Here comes fall! Follow Daddy and Baby Fox as they welcome a festive parade of autumn fun, with falling leaves, shiny red apples, acorns, and all of their beloved friends. (Ages 2 and up)

Have You Seen My Acorn

By Dk Ryland

Flamingo $18.99

Squirrel dug and dug, but he couldn't find it. Which could only mean one thing . . . someone took his acorn! So he asks Deer. And Skunk. And Racoon. And even Fox! But nobody has seen his acorn! And when Owl pipes up with a meandering monologue about a small tree nearby, he is no help at all! Will Squirrel ever find his missing acorn? (Ages 2 and up)

Little Red, Autumn on the Farm

By Will Hillenbrand

Hachette $18.99

The Shady Acre community is getting ready for the harvest festival, and there's lots to do to prepare for it. All the trucks have important jobs--but there are many in need of repair. No worries--just call on Little Red to help, and in the nick of time too! (Ages 2 and up)

The Secret of Fall

By John Coy

Sleeping Bear Press $18.99

Each season has its own qualities that set it apart. Winter, with its stark-white crust of snow, turns even a mundane scene into a sparkling fairyland. Spring, along with her many shades of green, brings a promise of new beginnings. Summer gifts us with long, lazy days of endless blue skies and the scent of freshly mown grass. But fall has a magic, a secret, all its own. It offers a kaleidoscope of textures, smells, and colors.

(Ages 3 and up)

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.

Glen Lake Book Club

Meet the 3rd Friday of the month at Glen Lake Community Library at 10:00 a.m.

September 20

Women of Copper Country

by Mary Doria Russell

Atria $17.99

October 18

Weyward

By Amelia Hart

St. Martins. $19.00

New Releases

By Any Other Name

By Jodi Picoult

Ballantine $30.00

As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England - and rumored to be the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets - but whom some scholars suspect may be the real author of a number of his plays. In 1581, the young orphan Emilia Bassano is being raised in the ways of English aristocracy by the Baron Willoughby and his sister. Like most women of her day, she has no control over her fate, and is ripped from her old life and forced to become a courtesan to Lord Hunsdon, a man knighted by Queen Elizabeth as the Lord Chamberlain in charge of all theater in London. Told in dual intertwining timelines, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. As Emilia alters the course of her life and therefore the course of the world, she blazes a trail. Centuries later, will Melina face the same terrible fate - to have her work celebrated, but only at the price of letting another take credit?--

Here One Moment

By Liane Moriarty

Crown $30.00, due Sept 10

Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future--age 103!--and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all. ... If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? ~Recommended by Sue

The Instrumentalist

By Harriet Constable

Simon $28.99

Anna Maria has only known life inside the Pietà, an orphanage for children born of prostitutes. Despite the strict rules, the girls are given singing and music lessons from an early age. The most promising musicians have the chance to escape the fate of the rest: forced marriage to anyone who will have them.Anna Maria is determined to be the best violinist there is--and whatever Anna Maria sets out to do, she achieves. After all, the stakes for Anna could not be higher. But it is 1704 and she is a girl. The pursuit of her ambition will test everything she holds dear, especially when it becomes clear that her instructor, Antonio Vivaldi, will teach Anna everything he knows--but not without taking something in return.From the opulent palaces of Venice to its mud-licked canals, The Instrumentalist is a portrait of opportunities dangled only to be snatched away. It is the story of one woman's irrepressible ambition and rise to the top. ~Recommended by Sue

The Life Impossible

By Matt Haig

Viking $30.00

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook, and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

~Recommended by Anne

The Night We Lost Him

By Laura Dave

Simon $28,99, due Sept 17

Liame Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant family man who kept his finances flush and his families carefully separated. To Nora, he was a father who often loved her from afar--notably, a cliffside cottage perched on the California coast where he fell to his death. The authorities rule the death accidental, but Nora and her estranged brother Sam have other ideas. As Nora and Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their father's past and uncover a family secret that changes everything. With Laura Dave's trademark blend of soulful suspense and evocative family drama, The Night We Lost Him is a riveting page-turner with a heartbreaking final twist that you will never see coming. ~Recommended by Sue

Sky Full of Elephants

By Cebo Campbell

Simon $27.99, due Sept 10

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he's now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn't even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family. Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly "post-racial" America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor. ~Recommended by Sue

Spirit Crossing

By William Kent Krueger

Atria $28.99

The disappearance of a local politician's teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O'Connor's grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman--but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it's clear that Cork's grandson is in danger of being the killer's next victim.