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Dear Friends,
Change is afoot at the Cottage Book Shop After 28 years in the book business and 10 years here in Glen Arbor Sue has sold the book store to longtime employee Jenny Puvogel. Jenny has a passion for books, the book store and the Glen Arbor community and is imminently qualified to take over the running of Cottage Book Shop. Sue will stay on and be the book buyer and as a mentor to Jenny.
Sue can be reached at sue@cottagebooks.com and Jenny at jenny@cottagebooks.com.
We are thankful for you, our wonderful customers who make this journey an absolute delight. We love sharing books and stories with you and look forward to seeing everyone soon.
We are happy to consult on books over the phone, we ship, offer curbside service and are happy to deliver in the area and we WRAP! 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 April!
Jenny, Sue, Kim, Anne, Bonnie and Amy
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The April
Selection of the Month is:
Mastering the Art of French Murder
By Colleen Cambridge
Kensington $17.95
From fine Bordeaux and freshly baked baguettes to the friendly chatter of the green market, postwar Paris is indulging its appetite for food, and life, once more, as Tabitha Knight, a young American woman, makes friends with chef-in-training Julia Child--and finds herself immersed in a murder most unsavory . . .
As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Paris isn't just the City of Light; it's the city of history, romance, stunning architecture . . . and food. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another expat who's fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpère and her Oncle Rafe. Between tutoring Americans in French, and sampling the results of Julia's studies at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, Tabitha's sojourn is thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia's building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar. Tabitha recognizes the victim from a party given by Julia's sister, Dort, the night before. The murder weapon is recognizable too--a knife from Julia's kitchen.~Recommended by Jenny Puvogel
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Eclipse
By Andy Rash
Scholastic $18.99
After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it. They drive to the perfect campsite, not wanting to miss the couple of minutes when the sun will be completely hidden by the moon. When the moment happens, being together makes it even more special. (Ages 3 and up)
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Escargot and the Search for Spring
By Dashka Slater
Illustrated by Sydney Hansen
Farrar Straus and Giroux $18.99
Bonjour! After a long winter spent indoors, Escargot can't wait to look outside for the first signs of Spring. Will he find a new friend in the fluffy white bunny he meets along the way.(Ages 2 and up)
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A Few Beautiful Minutes
By Kate Allen Fox
Illustrated by Khoa Le
Little Brown $18.99
What happens during a solar eclipse? The sun vanishes. Light becomes dark. Day animals sleep, and night animals wake. The moon takes over the sky. People stop what they're doing and together, they look up. The whole world changes for a few beautiful minutes.
(Ages 3 and up)
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A Field Guide to Spring: Play and Learn in Nature
By Gabby Dawnay, Dorien Brouwers and Louise Black
Thames and Hudson. $14.95
A charming series inspired by the Forest School movement, teaching young children how to engage with nature from season to season.
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My First Earth Day
By Karen Katz
Godwin Books $18.99
There's no better way to spend the day than visiting Nana and learning all about Earth Day. Planting trees and vegetables, visiting the forest and lake, recycling, and supporting local businesses, this book helps little ones to see how to care for our wonderful planet. (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 via Zoom
November through March at 10:00 a.m.
April 19
Tom Lake
By Ann Patchett
Harper. $30.00
May 17
The Personal Librarian
By Marie Benedict
Berkley $17.00
June 21
The Reading List
By Sarah Nisha Adams
William Morrow $19.99
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The Husbands
By Holly Gramazio
Doubleday $29.00
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together for years. As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can't remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living?
~Recommended by Jenny P.
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I Cheerfully Refuse
By Lief Enger
Grove $28.00
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking
under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake. ~Recommended by Sue B
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James
By Percival Everett
Doubleday. $28.00
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
~Recommended by Jenny P
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Kill for Me, Kill for You
By Steve Cavanagh
Atria $27.99
One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her husband, Scott, is invaded. She's attacked by a man with piercing blue eyes, who disappears into the night. Will she ever be able to feel safe again while the blue-eyed stranger is out there?
~Recommended by Jill M
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Lone Wolf
By Greg Hurwitz
Minotaur $29.00
Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission - and this time, the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog. Not his usual mission, and not one Evan embraces with enthusiasm, but this unlikely, tiny job quickly explodes into his biggest mission yet. one that finds him battered between twisted AI technocrat billionaires, a mysterious female assassin who seems a mirror of himself, and personal stakes so gut-wrenching he can scarcely make sense of them. Evan's mission pushes him to his limit - he must find and take down the assassin known only as the Wolf, before she succeeds in completing her mission and killing the people who can identify her - a teenaged daughter of her last target, and Evan himself. Matched skill for skill, instinct for instinct, Evan must outwit an opponent who will literally stop at nothing if he is to survive.~Recommended by Jill M
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What Happened to Nina
By Dervla McTeirnan
William Morrow $30.00
Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign. Soon, facts are lost in a swirl of accusation and counter-accusation. Everyone chooses a side, and the story goes viral, fueled by armchair investigators and wild conspiracy theories and illustrated with pretty pictures taken from Nina's social media accounts. Journalists descend on their small Vermont town, followed by a few obsessive 'fans' family is under siege, but they never lose sight of the only thing that really matters -- finding their daughter. Out-gunned by Simon's wealthy, powerful family, Nina's parents recognize that if playing by the rules won't get them anywhere, it's time to break them. ~Recommended by Jenny P
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Wolf at the Table
By Adam Rapp
Little Brown. $30.00
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning.
~Recommended by Sue B
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Lakeshore Readers
Meet the last Wednesday of the month at Glen Lake Library at 11:00 a.m.
April 24
As Long as I Know You; The Mom Book
By Anne Marie Oomen
University of Georgia. $19.95
May 29
Killers of the Flower Moon
By David Grann
Vintage $17.00
June 26
Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
Penguin $19.00
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Books available at Cottage Book Shop
(15% off on book club books)
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