Happy St. Patrick’s!
Mary Pope Osborne’s latest Magic Tree House book and nonfiction companion book
Lois Greiman Signing
Author Lois Greiman will be at Beagle Books signing her books on Tuesday, March 23rd from 11:30-12:30. Greiman will also be doing a program with the Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning at Northwoods Bank from 1-2:30 that day, and Beagle will be selling Greiman’s books there. Greiman writes both mysteries and romances.
Featured Title
Born Under a Million Shadows
by Andrea Busfield
$14A moving tale of the triumph of the human spirit amidst heartbreaking tragedy, told through the eyes of a charming, impish, and wickedly observant Afghan boy. The Taliban have withdrawn from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their regime remain. In his short life, eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of parsimonious relatives to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence.
Ever the optimist, Fawad hopes for a better life, and his dream is realized when Mariya finds a position as a housekeeper for a charismatic Western woman, Georgie, and her two foreign friends. The world of aid workers and journalists is a new one for Fawad, and living with the trio offers endless curiosities—including Georgie’s destructive relationship with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan, whose exploits are legendary. Fawad grows resentful and worried, until he comes to learn that love can move a man to act in surprisingly good ways. But life, especially in Kabul, is never without peril, and the next calamity Fawad must face is so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing he thought he could never lose: his love for his country.
Midwest Connection March Picks
Tiny Pilot
CD
by Michael Perry and the Long Beds
$11.99CD?? Yep, that’s right, for the first time ever, one of the Midwest Connections Picks is a CD! Michael Perry is the author of Population 485, Truck: A Love Story, and Coop. Readers of Perry’s books will definitely recognize some bits. Come in to Beagle and take a listen to the CD!
The House of Tomorrow
by Peter Bognanni
$24.95Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschooled him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.
Jared Whitcomb is a chain-smoking sixteen-year-old heart-transplant recipient who befriends Sebastian, and begins to teach him about all the things he has been missing, including grape soda, girls, and Sid Vicious. They form a punk band called The Rash, and it's clear that the upcoming Methodist Church talent show has never seen the likes of them. Wholly original, The House of Tomorrow is the story of a young man's self-discovery, a dying woman's last wish, and a band of misfits trying desperately to be heard.
Lamb Bright Saviors
by Robert Vivian
$22.95Lamb Bright Saviors begins as an apocalyptically inclined itinerant preacher staggers across the Nebraska prairie. With his young assistant, Mady, in tow hauling a wagon
stacked with bibles, it’s not long before the
preacher finds he’s come to the final fulfillment of his self-proclaimed life’s work: to die in front of a group of strangers. Odd as his own end-of-days might be, the lives and struggles of the strangers attending this deathbed scene are even odder. As the dying preacher unleashes a barrage of hallucinatory ramblings and rantings in the hope of imparting wisdom, each ragtag member of this unlikely congregation must reckon with his or her own dark past. And, through it all, the irrepressible Mady lends the preacher’s strange performance a surprising and unforgettable dignity and humor.
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