JUly 2008
Chef John Michael Lerma Last year, we had such a good time raising money for the Park Rapids Library with our pie baking contest, hosted by celebrity chef John Michael Lerma, that we’re doing it again this year! We’ll be accepting pies between 9 and 11 AM on Friday, July 4th. There is a $5 entry fee. We have four divisions for the pie contest, including a junior division for kids 8-12. Judging will be done this year by Chef John Michael Lerma, Chef Tom Geraedts, former Beagle Books owner Jill Johnson, and Library Manager/Children’s Librarian Becky Walpole. The winner in each division will win $25 and a $25 gift certificate to Beagle Books/Sister Wolf Books. One of the four winners will be chosen as “Best in Show” and will win an additional $100, an additional $50 gift certificate to Beagle Books/Sister Wolf Books, and a prize basket of pie accessories worth over $200. At the end of the judging and awards, all the pies entered will be raffled off in front of Beagle Books. All the money from the raffled-off pies, plus the contest entry fees will be donated to the library. Last year we raised over $500. Our prizes this year have generously been donated by: Park Rapids Chrysler Center & Thielens Motors (cash prizes), an anonymous donor, and Chef John Michael Lerma. Come join in the fun!!!
Undiscovered Country |
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Abbeville Until the dot.com bubble burst, George Bailey never gave much thought to why his grandfather seemed so happy. But then George’s wealth vanished, rocking his self-confidence, threatening his family’s security and making his adolescent son’s difficult life even more painful. Returning to the little Central Illinois farm town of Abbeville, where his grandfather had prospered and then fallen into ruin, flattened during the Depression, George seeks out the details of this man’s rise, fall, and spiritual rebirth, hoping he might find a way to recover himself. Abbeville sweeps through the history of late-19th through early-21st century America—among loggers stripping the North Woods bare, at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, with French soldiers at the Battle of Verdun, into the abyss of the Depression, and finally toward the new millennium’s own nightmares. At the same time it examines life at its most intimate. How can one hold onto meaning amidst the brutally indifferent cycles of war and peace, flood and drought, boom and bust, life and death?
The bestselling author of Drowning Ruth returns to small-town Wisconsin. As in Drowning Ruth, Schwarz weaves past and present into a richly textured portrait of the secrets and deceptions that simmer beneath everyday life in a small Midwestern town. In the summer of 1963 a plot for revenge destroys a career, a friendship, and a family. The consequences of the scandalous event continue to reverberate, touching the next generation. Thirty years later, over the course of one day, Jon struggles to decide whether to end his affair or his marriage. His wife, Ginny, moving closer to discovering his adultery, begins working for an older man who is mysteriously connected to their families’ pasts. And Jon’s mistress is being courted by a suitor who may be more menacing than he initially seems. As relationships among the characters ebb and flow on that July day, Christina Schwarz illuminates the ties that bind people together—and the surprising risks they take in the name of love. |
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Second Annual Pie Baking Contest!
This first one is especially dear to us… last summer, a nice man kept coming to the Wolf Den at Sister Wolf Books with his laptop. He was very pleasant, but kept to himself. When Sally did engage him in conversation, she learned the man was author Lin Enger and he was working on what she now knows is a wonderful book called Undiscovered Country!
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