New Releases — August, 2011

Our members are busy devouring the second paperback original pick, Oil on Water by Helon Habila (W.W. Norton). Set in current day Nigeria, Oil on Water follows two reporters, one seasoned and jaded, but sage, Zaq, and Rufus, a novice who is eager to learn from Zaq as they pursue the kidnapping of a foreign oil company's executive's wife. The story is an old one: the conflicts between development and preservation and, of course, greed, government and powerful companies. One wonders who are the real militants in this story…

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Book Clubs and Single Books

Hardcover Book Club $100.00 Paperback Book Club $65.00 Hardcover Single Books $24.00 Paperback Single Books $14.00

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From the Notable Achievements Corner

Congratulations to Masha Hamilton for her Women's National Book Award for her literary achievements and work in bringing literacy to undeveloped countries. Also, three cheers for Emily St. John Mandel who is shortlisted for the Indie Booksellers Award for Singer's Gun (although it could just as easily been Last Night in Montreal which is also a great book.)

If you wish to congratulate them yourself, we strongly suggest contacting them on their respective FaceBook pages and give them a virtual high-five!

Summer Selections Sneak Peek

A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano (Penguin Press) is our third pick and second hardcover of the year. "Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor was forced to leave New York City and return home to Andalusia, her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. Years later, as Flannery is finishing a novel and tending to her menagerie of peacocks, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend." An so begins the description.

I don't want to give too much away, so suffice to say that my companion reader loved it and thinks that you will, too. 'Nuf said. It will be released in July and we hope to have signed copies of the book for our members.

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Book Buffs selections at Printed Page Bookshop

Stop by Printed Page Bookshop to pick up any of the book club selections you find here. You'll also find the same high quality, hard-to-find titles in literary fiction and fiction in-translation from independent presses that we’re so well known for. Printed Page Bookshop is located at 1416 S. Broadway, Denver, CO. It's in a cozy Victorian home where you’ll find 15 independent booksellers who carry a variety of titles and genres for your enjoyment. Phone for hours 303.777.7653 or visit the web site www.printedpagebookshop.com

Single Copies of Book Club Selections and
Recommended Books are still available!

We continue to order extra copies of our Book Club Selections for individual requests and occasionally, we read wonderful books that don't make it into our Book Club Selections, but we think our customers should read. Both of these options are now available to you.

Great for gifting, you can buy an extra selection $24
for single Hardcover Selelctions and $14 for single Paperback Selections. The prices include applicable sales taxes and the cost of shipping by media mail. With those included costs, the discount is approximately 25%. Of course, you can still join the Book Club and automatically receive our Hardcover or Paperback Original selections as they're released. Please note — to purchase on PayPal, you must have a PayPal account. If you order single books through the PayPal link, you must click the "Add Special Instructions to Merchant" link on the PayPal check out screen to indicate your book selection.