For great summer reads,
these new, used and discount
titles are in stock now...
The Passage by Justin Cronin (Ballantine, 2010, 784
pp., hbk, new, regularly $27.00,
our sale price $21.60)
"Magnificently
unnerving..." -Entertainment
Weekly
"A literary
richness that rivals Stephen
King's The Stand."-Time
"Every so often a novel-reader's novel comes
along: an enthralling, entertaining
story wedded to simple,
supple prose, both informed
by tremendous imagination.
Summer is the perfect time
for such books, and this
year readers can enjoy the
gift of Justin Cronin's
The Passage.
Read fifteen pages and you
will find yourself captivated;
read thirty and you will
find yourself taken prisoner
and reading late into the
night. It has the vividness
that only epic works of
fantasy and imagination
can achieve. What else can
I say? This: read this book
and the ordinary world disappears."
-Stephen King
With The
Passage, award-winning
author Justin Cronin has written
both a relentlessly suspenseful
adventure and an epic chronicle
of human endurance in the
face of unprecedented catastrophe
and unimaginable danger. Its
inventive storytelling, masterful
prose, and depth of human
insight mark it as a crucial
and transcendent work of modern
fiction.
Crazy for the Storm:
A Memoir of Survival
by Norman Ollestad
(Harper
Collins, 2010,
288 pp., pbk, new $14.99)
Norman
Ollestad's New
York Times bestselling
memoir Crazy
for the Storm is
the story of the harrowing plane
crash the author miraculously survived
at age eleven, framed by the moving
tale of his complicated relationship
with his charismatic, adrenaline-addicted
father.
Destined to stand with other classic
true stories of man against nature,
it
is a literary triumph that novelist
Russell Banks (Affliction)
calls, "A heart-stopping story beautifully
told....Norman Ollestad has written
a book that may well be read for
generations."
Norman
Ollestad studied creative writing
at UCLA and attended the UCLA
Film School. He grew up on Topanga
Beach in Malibu, California, and
now lives in Venice, California.
He is the father of an 8-year-old
son.
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The Position by Meg Wolitzer
(Scribner, 2006, 320 pp.,
pbk., our used
price only $6.95)
Crackling
with intelligence and humor, The
Position
is the masterful story of one
extraordinary family at the hilarious
height of the sexual revolution
-- and through the thirty-year
hangover that followed.
In
1975, Paul and Roz Mellow
write a bestselling Joy
of Sex-type book
that mortifies their four
school-aged children and ultimately
changes the shape of the family
forever. Thirty years later,
as the now dispersed family
members argue over whether
to reissue the book, we follow
the complicated lives of each
of the grown children and
their conflicts in love, work,
marriage, parenting, and,
of course, sex -- all shadowed
by the indelible specter of
their highly sexualized parents.
Insightful, panoramic, and
compulsively readable, The
Position is an American
original.
Nature Girl by
Carl Hiaasen (Grand Central,
2007, 320 pp., pbk., reg. $13.99;
our used price only
$6.95)
Beware! Honey Santana
is off her meds and reacting
rapidly to the bad behavior
of others. This time,
the annoyer is a telemarketer
from Texas. Honey's revenge?
She invites Boyd Shreave on
a paid ecotour of the Everglades,
where a blue-eyed Seminole named
Sammy Tigertail strums an electric
guitar on a woe-begotten clump
of shells, mangroves, and beer
cans called Dismal Key.
Soon Boyd and vengeance-crazed
Honey are joined by a private
eye with a red-hot video camera
and a college girl who just
wants to have fun. And
with a brawling cast of lunatic
men, desperate women, a skateboarding
teen, and even a restless ghost
all going native, who will protect
the Everglades from the wild
humans?
The
Bondwoman's Narrative
by Hannah Crafts,
edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
(Grand Central,
2003, 416 pp., pbk., originally $14.95, our used price only
$7.95)
This remarkable
historic novel tells the story of
Hannah Crafts, a young slave working
on a wealthy North Carolina plantation,
who runs away in a bid for freedom
up North.
When Professor Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., saw a modest auction
catalog listing for an "Unpublished
Original Manuscript," he knew he
could be on the verge of a literary
find. After exhaustive research,
he found that the handwritten manuscript
he had purchased was the only known
novel by a female African American
slave and possibly the first novel
written by a black woman anywhere.
The Bondwoman's Narrative tells
of a self-educated young house slave
who knows all too well slavery's
brutal limitations, but never suspects
that the freedom of her beautiful
new mistress is also at risk - or
that a devastating secret will force
them both to flee the South and
make a desperate bid for freedom.
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Dear
Jeff,
We hope your Fourth of July
holiday was great!
We had time to catch our breath
a little bit, too, which was
nice because July is going
to be a busy!
From the smoldering love poems
of Khalil Gibran to Sister
Schubert's hot rolls, from
the hottest movie ticket in
town (see coupon at bottom),
to the burning of Atlanta
-- July is going to sizzle!
Check out all the great events
and activities in this newsletter,
and mark your calendars for
some summer fun!
We'll see you soon!
-Jeff
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Kahil Gibran Poetry TONIGHT Thursday, July 8, 7:30
PM
A
special tribute to Kahlil
Gibran,a poet, philosopher
and mystic, whose wisdom
has passed the test of
time and who gave poetry
another dimension.
This is an open-mic
event hosted by David
Hirschorn, director
of the Atlanta branch
of the New Acropolis
Cultural Association.
Everyone is welcome
to participate by
either contributing
their impressions
or reading a poem
by the well-known
artist.
Bring your own Kahil
Gibran poems! Wine
and cheese served.
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Graphic Novel Spotlight
Batman R.I.P.
(DC Comics, 2010)
by Grant Morrison, art
by Tony Daniel & Sandu
Florea, cover by Alex
Ross.
Just released!
The death of The Dark
Knight is now in trade
paperback, featuring BATMAN
#676-683! With Bruce Wayne
out of the picture, The
Club of Villains begins
a crime spree through
the streets of Gotham
City, while Batman's allies
attempt to keep order.
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Scandalous
Book Club
Sunday,
July 11th at 3:00 P.M.
The Scandalous Book Club
selection -- Lady
Chatterley's Lover,
by D. H. Lawrence -- is a
lyrical and erotic tale of
a young married woman whose
upper-class husband has been
rendered impotent, and whose
sexual frustration leads to
her affair with the gamekeeper.
One
of the most extraordinary
literary works of the twentieth
century, Lady
Chatterley's Lover
was banned in England and
the United States after
its initial publication
in 1928. The unexpurgated
edition did not appear in
America until 1959, after
one of the most spectacular
legal battles in publishing
history.
Find
out what the controversy
was about, and join the
discussion as we explore
the book, the story, and
the controversy itself at
the Scandalous Book Club,
which is open to everyone.
k club selections
are always 10% off!
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July
Book Club
Meets
Thursday, July 15th, 7:00
PM
The book club selection
for July is Postcards
from a Dead Girl (Harper
Perennial, 2010, 272 pp.,
pbk.) by Kirk Farber.
Sid
is going crazy . . .
A
telemarketer at a travel
agency, Sid is becoming
unhinged and superneurotic.
Lately he's been obsessed
with car washes and mud
baths. His hypochondria
is driving his doctor
sister mad. And it's all
because of his ex-girlfriend,
Zoe, who's sending him
postcards from her European
adventure, one that they
were supposed to take
together. It's all quite
upsetting.
A
long talk with his mother's
spirit in a wine bottle
doesn't help either. What
he really needs is a few
more dates with the
chatty Candyce. Sid needs
to get over Zoe and find
love again--even though
Zoe, apparently, has no
inclination to be gotten
over. Talk about a fatal
attraction!
Wonderfully
poignant, funny, odd,
and more than a bit macabre,
Postcards
from a Dead Girl
marks the emergence of
a truly gifted and original
literary voice.
"Kirk
Farber has
a style very similar to
Chuck Palahniuk, with offbeat
observations, a view of
our world through a slightly
distorted lens, and a tone
that's ... hilarious and
tragic at the same time."
-Garth Stein, author of
The Art of Racing
in the Rain
For
more book club information,
contact us at (404) 522-0877
or jef@boundtobereadbooks.com.
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B*ATL Returns!
July 22nd will mark the
145th Anniversary of the
historic Civil War Battle
of Atlanta.
The battlefield is actually
in the neighborhoods in
Atlanta's 5th Council District
-- including the EAV --
where people live and work
and play today. These
neighborhoods come together
annually to present B*ATL.
Join us July 23rd-25th for
a commemoration that will
not only be an event of
remembrance but also one
with fun for everyone including:
a Gala Dinner and House
Tour, a 5K run, van and
walking tours, a re-creation
of the frontlines with re-enactment
soldiers and artillery,
a Civil War Village with
civilian re-enactors, historic
music concerts and dramatic
performances, shopping and
dining in East Atlanta and
Kirkwood and more!
On Sunday evening, Bound
To Be Read Books will co-host
Russell
Bonds at the Atlanta
Cyclorama. Bonds is
the acclaimed author of
Stealing the General:
The Great Locomotive Chase
and the First Medal of Honor,
and of War Like the Thunderbolt:
The Battle and Burning of
Atlanta. The
author will lecture and
sign his books, which we
will be available for sale.
For more infomation about
B*ATL, please see the complete
schedule of events at www.batlevent.org.
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Meet
Sister Schubert
Saturday,
July 24th 1:00-4:00 PM
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Kona's Korner:
To
Kill a Mockingbird--The
Musical Extravaganza
Kittens, it could have been
beautiful. Jeff put
me in charge of our To
Kill a Mockingbird
50th anniversary celebration,
mostly (I think) after the
fiasco down at the tattoo
parlor, but Jeff's lawyer
says I can't write about that.
Anyway, I decided that with
a juicy title like To Kill a Mockingbird,
we needed to do more than
have some boring human just
read from the book.
At first, it was just going
to be a simple pantomime with
my pal Mr. Twinkle--the little
Siamese who hangs out on the
back deck at Mary's--and me
in black leotards, white gloves,
and grease paint.
But then I started thinking:
Why not turn it into a musical?
After all, not every
bookstore cat has her own
all-feline band. (We
go by the name Kona Kitty
and the Kinky Whiskers.
Purrhaps you've heard our
album, Let
the Yarn Roll, Granny!)
Well, once you've added music,
naturally you'll want some
pyrotechnics and craft services
and a Navy Seal in scuba gear
with a cardboard dorsal fin.
However, Jeff expressed some
surprise when I handed him
my estimate for the budget.
"Forty million dollars?" Jeff
asked, and his mouth went
slack.
"I know, I know ... There
was so much more I wanted
to do, but I felt we should
keep it small and intimate,
especially when the giant
mechanical mockingbird attacks
the city."
Jeff scratched his head.
"What giant mockingbird are
you talking about?"
"You know, the one in the
book," I sighed. "The
mockingbird that mutates after
the Army drops a secret atomic
bomb on its nest, and then
it grows to be like a hundred
times its normal size and
it walks all over the Varsity
and World of Coke."
"Um ..."
"And then a simple but heroic
bookstore cat stalks the beast
back to the Bank of America
building where it has built
its nest and laid giant radioactive
eggs. The little pussy
cat sneaks into the nest and
slays the monster using a
flea comb, a couple of alligator
clips, and a nine volt battery,
and then makes the world's
biggest mockingbird omlette."
Jeff took a deep breath and
ran his fingers through his
hair. "You haven't read
the book, have you?"
I blinked. "Um ... well
..."
"If you had, you'd know that
Harper Lee's beloved novel
is a coming-of-age story set
in the segregated South, which
does not include any radioactive
birds or heroic bookstore
cats." Jeff stared at
me. "Well? What do you
have to say for yourself?"
"If the book had a mutated
mockingbird and a heroic bookstore
cat, maybe more people would
have read it."
And that, Kittens, is how
I was relieved of my responsibilities
as chair of our To Kill a Mockingbird
50th anniversary celebration.
Easy come, easy go, right?
Purrhaps Jeff will be more
pleased with my performance
in my new role as Safety Coordinator.
And I must say that I just
look too cute in my little
yellow safety vest and hard
hat!
Miaow for now!
-Kona
Kona Kitty is the Director
of Public Relations at Bound
To Be Read Books. She
is currently purrfecting
her ballet moves at the
bar--the milk bar, that
is. She can be contacted
at Kona@BoundToBeReadBooks.com.
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East Atlanta Community
Association (EACA) Discount
Card.
We Feature Good Used, New
& Discount Books
Gift cards * Graphic Novels * Children's
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Loyal Customer Program *
Chocolove Premium Chocolate
Bars * Peaceful Jewelry
We're
located just 2 miles from
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DIRECTIONS:
Take I-20 East from downtown.
Take Moreland Avenue (South), Exit
#60-A.
-Turn left on McPherson (1st light)
and right on Flat Shoals
Avenue; OR
- left from Moreland on Glenwood
Avenue (2nd light) and left
on Flat Shoals Avenue.
PARKING:
Plenty of FREE street parking available,
as well as FREE lots behind
the store and across the
street.
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