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Order Garrison Keillor's 77 Love Sonnets!
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“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.” —GK
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Common Good Books
165 Western Avenue N
Saint Paul, MN 55102
651.225.8989
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All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Title of Event: Mitch Omer -- Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell's Kitchen
When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:30 PM
Location: Common Good Books
Description: Mitch Omer is the founder of Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis and Duluth.
There will be a raffle at the event for a $25.00 Gift Certificate to Hell's Kitchen.
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Eclectic, interesting, challenging--our staff picks will intrigue and entertain. For more opinions check out our blog:
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The Help
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Stockett, Kathryn
The book everyone is falling in love with . . .
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Black maids clean the toilets, but they have their own out back. Everyone stays within the lines. But, suddenly, three women - Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter - find themselves tired of the lines.
Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child. She is a smart, regal woman, but a bitter seed has been planted in Aibileen's chest after the death of her son. Aibileen's best friend, Minny, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi, and goes through jobs like water. And Skeeter is just back from college, a white woman with a degree but, to her mother's chagrin, no ring on her finger. Too tall and too smart for her own good, she now discovers her beloved maid Constantine has disappeared without a trace.
Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put all of them at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another. |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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The Rose Variations
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Chamberlain, Marisha
Marisha Chamberlain's novel tells the story of classical musician Rose MacGregor, who weaves her way through triumphs and tribulations looking for answers, fulfillment, and the possibility of happiness. We cheer Rose as she composes her way through life in this well-written and engaging novel.--Ann Carlson, Harborwalk Books (Georgetown, SC) |
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