Happy Valentine’s!
Monday Hearts by Page Hodel $16.95
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."—Oscar Wilde
Making History
On Wednesday, January 20th, 2010, Beagle Books made history in Park Rapids. We were the FIRST ever (to our knowledge) to skype in an author for an event! The Park Rapids Enterprise covered the event and included an article in the Saturday, January 23 newspaper. In case you missed it, below is a link to the online version of the article. You have to press the control key on your keyboard and click on the link for it to work. This link will be active until February 6th. We’ve also posted the article on our website and Facebook page. Check it out!
2nd Annual Night-In
Our second annual Night-In event was a great success! We nearly tripled last year’s attendance. Thanks so much too all of you who attended. Normally we take pictures of our events, but it was too crowded to do so! For those who attended, we’d love to hear your feedback. Also, if your book group is interested in their own personal book talk, let us know, we’d be glad to travel to your next meeting. FYI – next year’s Night-In will be UPSTAIRS!
Park Rapids Library Events
Kent Nerburn will be at the Park Rapids Library on Saturday, February 6th at 11AM. If you can’t make it, check out Nerburn’s library tour schedule at krls.org.
Poetic Creations for Kids: LouAnn Muhm and Tiffany Bessonen will lead a workshop for elementary-aged kids on writing poetry and creating a book to keep it in on Saturday February 13th at 1PM.Saturday, February 27th at 11AM: Local first-time novelist Candace Simar reads and discusses Abercrombie Trail, her fictionalized account of the Sioux uprising of 1862 as seen through the eyes of a Norwegian immigrant. Simar, of Pequot Lakes, drew on her own family history to flesh out the characters.
Midwest Connection February Picks
Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter
by Michael J. White
$24.95Seventeen-year-old George Flynn, an all-around decent guy, has just moved with his family to Des Moines, a place where he knows no one and is pretty much nobody. Despite this inauspicious start to his junior year, he soon finds his niche, falling in with the unique, enchanting Schell sisters. Emily, an aspiring actress and free spirit, becomes the object of George's mostly unrequited yearnings. But it's Katie, with her quirks, her scathing deadpan humor, and her brave battle with multiple sclerosis, who really gets George hooked on the Schells. When an out-of-the-blue tragedy strikes, upsetting the delicate balance of all their lives, George must figure out a way to help Emily in order to save himself.
Cougar Club
by Susan McBride
$13.99Meet three women who aren't about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation: Kat— Her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position—with his computer! Carla— This sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twentysomething blond bimbo. Wasn't it just yesterday that she was the up-and-coming star? Elise— A married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else. Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn't about giving up; it's about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial "Cougar Club" quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today's youth-obsessed society: True friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you're never too old to follow your heart.
Featured Title
A Reliable Wife
by Robert Goolrick
$14.95This was a Midwest Connections Pick in March of 2009, it’s been a bestseller in the Midwest and book groups are eating it up! This is also a title we spoke about at Night-In. In case you missed it, here’s a description of the book:
He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.
What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.
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