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If you would like to be added to our Author Events Email List, send your address to info@malaprops.com.Title of Event: Jennifer Lowe-Anker
When: Friday, May 9, 2008 7:00 PM
Location: Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
Description: Meet Jennifer Lowe-Anker as she presents her memoir Forget Me Not. "High in the Himalayas a world-class adventurer dies, leaving a wife, three young sons and a best friend to cope with their grief and, ultimately, start a new family."
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Audition: A Memoir
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Walters, Barbara
Specify on your order that you'd like a SIGNED COPYBarbara Walters has spent a lifetime auditioning: for her bosses at the TV networks, for millions of viewers, for the most famous people in the world, and even for her own daughter, with whom she has had a difficult but ultimately quite wonderful and moving relationship. This book, in some ways, is her final audition, as she fully opens up both her private and public lives. In doing so, she has given us a story that is heartbreaking and honest, surprising and fun, sometimes startling, and always fascinating. |
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Here are our Mother's Day suggestions
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Audition: A Memoir
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Walters, Barbara
We have signed copies! Request a signed copy in the Comments line of your order."Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package."
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And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package," in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. |
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Author Birthday |
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If today is your birthday, you share it with Sir James Barrie.
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Descendents of a lynching; a widow by her own hand; a mother's after-death letters
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The Plague of Doves
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Erdrich, Louise
Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry, their lives intertwine; only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives.
Evelina Harp is a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, who is prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a seductive storyteller, a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. Nobody understands the weight of historical injustice better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, a thoughtful mixed blood who witnesses the lives of those who appear before him, and whose own love life reflects the entire history of the territory. In distinct and winning voices, Erdrich's narrators unravel the stories of different generations and families in this corner of North Dakota. Bound by love, torn by history, the two communities' collective stories finally come together in a wrenching truth revealed in the novel's final pages.
"The Plague of Doves" is one of the major achievements of Louise Erdrich's considerable oeuvre, a quintessentially American story and the most complex and original of her books. |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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The Pirate's Daughter
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Cezair-Thompson, Margaret
"Jamaica will never feel so close as when you're reading this fictionalized tale of Errol Flynn's accidental arrival onto the island and into the hearts of many of its residents -- especially young Ida, who bears his illegitimate daughter, May. A delightful, original treasure that I heartily recommend!" --Dee Robinson, Village Books, Bellingham, WA |
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Quote of the Day |
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"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
- Oprah Winfrey
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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