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Friday's Pastery Perk Is....

Dark Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Cookies and Books!

Come on in and grab one of each!

Coming Soon Sunday: Don Winslow

Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true . . .

All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop.

He is “the King of Manhattan North,” a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of “Da Force.” Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest, an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he’s spent on the Job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He’s done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean—including Malone himself.

What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city’s history. Now Malone is caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves, trying to survive, body and soul, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.

This is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write: a haunting story of greed and violence, inequality and race, crime and injustice, retribution and redemption that reveals the seemingly insurmountable tensions between the police and the diverse citizens they serve. A searing portrait of a city on the edge and of a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss, Untitled is a masterpiece of urban realism full of shocking and surprising twists, leavened by flashes of dark humor, a morally complex and utterly riveting dissection of modern American society and the controversial issues confronting us today.

Spring has sprung! And that means a new display!

Last Week For the Book Quotes!

Our outline is filling out nicely...

but we could always use a few more!

Friday's Pastery Perk Is....

Snicker doodles!

So grab a book and a cookie and have a great day!

Coming Soon Sunday: Nero Wolfe...Sorta

Woot! Estleman & Wolfe should be great!

From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained the world with the exploits of Nero Wolfe—the eccentric, organ-breeding detective genius—as related by Archie Goodwin, his irreverent legman. Nearly Nero is an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek homage to Stout’s greatest creation.

Claudius Lyon is a fanatic admirer of Wolfe. He has retrofitted himself and his townhouse after Wolfe’s and has hired a man named Arnie Woodbine to serve as his Archie Goodwin. However, Lyon’s naiveté and Woodbine’s larcenous nature constantly put them in jeopardy—more than Wolfe and Goodwin ever faced.

Somehow the imitator manages to find a solution from every problem. But can he and his assistant keep up this pretense for long?

A Temp bookseller...

And if you get a newzine with some interesting spelling...

Well Amber had help!!!

You will never guess in 100 years....

Rex Stout's daughter Rebecca!

She had some wonderful stories about this great author!

Who she didn't know was famous as a kid!

Friday's Pastry Perk

Samoas!

Definitely home made...

Definitely didn't burn both the original cookies I was going to bring in....

Nope! Nope! Nope!

And no my nose didn't grow.....it was always this big!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

Coming Soon Sunday: Amber & Fran Are Excited!

Amber and Fran cannot believe that this is the last book in the trilogy! They have been so Good!!!

Being a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe…for now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war.

 

The corrupt and powerful PsiCorps is determined to usurp the Hunters as chief defenders of Apex City and Joy is now squarely in their crosshairs. Unused to playing political games, she has very few people she can truly trust—not even Josh, her first friend in Apex City, who broke up with her when it became too dangerous for a Psimon to be dating a Hunter.

 

Then Josh comes to Joy for help. He fears that Abigail Drift, the head of PsiCorps, will soon use him in her twisted experiments designed to empower PsiCorps and render Hunters superfluous--a scheme that’s already killed off dozens of Psimons. Joy manages to smuggle Josh to safety, but he cannot evade Drift forever…

 

As Joy faces ever more powerful Othersiders, she is helped by the most surprising ally imaginable---the same Folk Mage she once met in battle on the train to Apex City. But can Joy trust the most cunning and treacherous of all Othersiders?

 

Sadly the last book in the series! Amber cannot wait to see how Mull wraps everything up!

 

Cole and his friends are pushed to the limit in this finale to the bestselling Five Kingdoms series.

Will they finally be able to restore magic to the world of the Outskirts and find their way back home?

 

(And seriously they need more of a description of the book!)

Friday's Pastery Perk is almost gone!

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies!

Coming Soon Corner: Spencer Quinn

In his kids series!

A bull shark in the swamp? No one in the Louisiana town of St. Roch believes it at first, but when a local boy has a face-to-face encounter with the toothy monster, every big fisherman is called out for the hunt. There's a big cash bounty on the shark.

Sharp-eyed Birdie Gaux and her handsome dog Bowser can't help noticing that shark fever is causing some shady doings in town. For instance, where is Snoozy, the clerk who works at the Gaux family fishing store? He's the town's best fisherman, but suddenly he's missing. Is a rival bounty hunter behind Snoozy's suspicious disappearance? Or perhaps the marine biologist who said he'll do anything to keep the shark alive?

Birdie and Bowser are determined to find Snoozy and bring him home safe, but the job is more dangerous than they know. Bowser better practice his paddling: He and Birdie are heading for deep waters . . .

And stand alone!

LeAnne Hogan went to Afghanistan as a rising star in the military, and came back a much lesser person, mentally and physically. Now missing an eye and with half her face badly scarred, she can barely remember the disastrous desert operation that almost killed her. She is confused, angry, and suspects the fault is hers, even though nobody will come out and say it.

Shattered by one last blow the sudden death of her hospital roommate, Marci LeAnne finds herself on a fateful drive across the country, reflecting on her past and seeing no future. Her native land is now unfamiliar, recast in shadow by her one good eye, her damaged psyche, her weakened body. Arriving in the rain-soaked small town in Washington State that Marci had called home, she makes a troubling discovery: Marci's eight-year-old daughter has vanished. When a stray dog a powerful, dark, unreadable creature, no one's idea of a pet seems to adopt LeAnne, a surprising connection is formed and something shifts inside her.

As she becomes obsessed with finding Marci's daughter, LeAnne and her inscrutable canine companion are drawn into danger as dark and menacing as her last Afghan mission. This time she has a strange but loyal fellow traveler protecting her blind side.

February Trade Paperback Bestsellers

1. Elizabeth Daly - Unexpected Night

2. Lono Waiwaiole - Leon's Legacy - Signed Copies Available

3. Sam Siciliano - Sherlock Holmes and the Moonstone's Curse - Signed Copies Available

4. Elizabeth Daly - Somewhere In The House

Tied For 5.

Richard Kadrey - Sandman Slim - Signed Copies Available

Peter May - The Runaway

Tied For 7.

Daniel O'Malley - The Rook

Lisa Lutz - The Passenger

James W. Ziskin - Heart Of Stone

Three New Collections!

Two displays filled with "new" stuff

and

the regular shelves have even more "new" signed stuff on them!

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FB, Tweet or email us your favorite book quote and book it came from

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February Hard Cover Bestsellers

1. Ian Rankin - Rather Be The Devil

2. Deborah Crombie - Garden Of Lamentation – Signed Copies Available

3. Tim Dorsey - Clownfish Blues – Signed Copies Available

4. M.A. Lawson - K Street – Signed Copies Available

Tied For 5.

Gregg Hurwitz - Nowhere Man

JD Robb - Echoes In Death

Tied For 7.

Rennie Airth - The Death Of Kings

Thomas Perry - The Old Man

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Undesired

 

 

 

Guess What's Ready.....

The Newsletter is up and ready on the website!!!

Alas it will be a couple of days before the print version is available!