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Welcome to the winter reading season. I always do more reading in the winter because I’m not a winter sports person. Curled up with a book is as relaxing as it gets. 

Around the stores, our staff is busy “fluffing” shelves and adding new stock as well as shoveling snow this month. We have gotten several new batches of books and our challenge is to find spaces for them. 

We get excited about new titles and I love doing reviews on the latest releases, but let’s talk about used books. Our stores are full of bargains.

 As I was wandering around our Clarendon store last week I noticed the wonderful vintage section of Science Fiction tucked upstairs. The new Doctor Who television series is all the rage, but we have dozens of novels featuring all the earlier doctors.  And we’re looking forward to the new “John Carter” movie, but also have Edgar Rice Burroughs’ other series (remember Tarzan?), too. We even have Sir H. Rider Haggard sitting around up there. 

If you’re in the mood for mystery, try the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald or the Harry Kemelman series featuring Rabbi Small. The cold war spy novelists are still fun to read and authors like Len Deighton and Ken Follett are great to revisit. Then there are Colin Dexter, Margery Allingham and Marcia Muller, to name a few more. 

We have a whole section of “Men’s Adventure” that has been long overlooked. Remember the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series or Nick Carter? We even have Mack Bolan, Able Team and Stony Man titles. 

In the front room upstairs, there is a large section of classic romance titles that include several shelves of regency titles. Looking for early titles by Heather Graham, Diana Palmer, Jayne Ann Krentz or Bertrice Small? They make great escape reading.

 We keep these wonderful books, but they are not front and center in the store. If you hunt around and explore the far reaches of our stores, who knows what treasures you may find?

 .More of Gloria's Posts

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Meet Kristina Riggle & Maryann Lesert

  

Friday, February 24 at 6:30 pm

Join us at our Parkview store as we welcome novelists Kristina Riggle
and Maryann Lesert. The authors will read from their books and
discuss how they write and their publishing paths.
Kristina’s latest novel is Things We Didn’t Say, featuring a frayed
blended family about to come undone completely when a teen-age son
goes missing.
Maryann’s Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists
fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that
functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a "wife" at home.

Co-sponsored by Kazoo Books and the Portage District Library.

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Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle

     

Despite snowy roads on Thursday, January 19, Wayne Pacelle, the President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, drew a standing-room only crowd at our Parkview store.  Wayne spoke and answered questions for an hour and then signed copies of his book, The Bond

On January 11, WGVU's Shelley Irwin interviewed Wayne on air.  Listen to it here - Wayne Pacelle interview

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Midwest SF&F Authors on "Arts & More"

On WMUK's "Arts & More," Andrea Johnson and John Wenger talk about some of their favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy authors that live here in the Midwest.

Listen to it here

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"Gloria & Friends" on Cable Access

The second Monday of each month, owner Gloria Tiller talks books with "Monday Night Live" host Keith Roe.  Watch it live at 7pm on Monday on Charter Cable channel 19, or it's repeated on channel 20 on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm and on Sunday at 1:30pm.

See the Latest Show....Click here

Watch past shows online here "Gloria and Friends" Past Shows

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Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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It's All Greek To Me by Katie MacAlister

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The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers

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