Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery Newletter

	December 2023

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Holiday greetings

Our family sends season’s greetings to you and yours!

We appreciate your business and enjoy your friendship!

Here’s to another year of sharing books, conversation, and laughter.

Holiday shopping No surprise—we think books make the very best gifts for any occasion. As always, there are several ways for you to shop with us.

Instore We love seeing you in person! Our staff is always ready to talk books and make suggestions for everyone on your shopping list. And we’ll be glad to gift wrap everything you purchase. See our December hours below. And when you’re in the store, you can discover our non-book merchandise, much of which is not on our online store. We have greeting cards, earrings, puzzles, games, socks, T-shirts, and toys. The physical copy of our Holiday Catalog, which is available in the store, contains descriptions of each book.			Our suppliers have notified us that they need to receive orders by Friday, December 15 to ensure they will be in the store before Christmas.
Online Our online store is at shopbeagleandwolf.com. In addition, you may purchase digital audio books at libro.fm. We’d appreciate it if you indicate we are your bookstore.
Also… We’re glad to take orders over the phone (218-237-2665) and online (orders@beagleandwolf.com). You may pick up your purchases in the store, we deliver within town, and ship anywhere in the world.

December Hours

Most of this month we’ll be
open our regular hours:

Sunday 10:00 to 4:00
Monday-Friday 9:00 to 5:30
Saturday 9:00 to 5:00

If these times don’t work for you, contact us and we’ll make an after-hours appointment for you to shop.

Here’s our holiday schedule:

December 24, closing at 3:00
December 25, closed
December 31, regular hours
January 1, closed

After Christmas Sale!
December 26 to 30

We'll have an after-Christmas sale, in-store only.
Look for bargains throughout the store!

There’s a new look in the store!

You know how sometimes an idea takes on a life of its own, and the end product is wonderful but completely different from what was initially envisioned? That’s what recently happened at the store with a great idea Jen had, and we couldn’t be happier.


Our resident artist, Brita		Our handymen, Tom and Brian		The view from Bella Caffé

RALLY YOUR COMUNITY: Small Business Saturday Is Nov 25, 2023

Night In News

Mark your calendar for our popular mid-winter event for readers! Night In: Afternoon Edition will be January 21, 2:00.

Jen and Sally will share books they think are particularly suited to book groups or for individual reading.

We ask attendees to make a free reservation. Watch our January newsletter and Facebook page for registration information.

November Bestsellers Book covers are linked to our online store, where you’ll find a description of each book.


Power & Light Will Weaver	Company Amy Thielen	Activate Your Heroic Potential Brian Johnson	Saving Emma Allen Eskens	The River We Remember William Kent Krueger

Screw You Van Gogh Jeff Howard	Winter Tales Dawn Casey	And There He Kept Her Joshua Moehling	West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge	Spirits Dancing Travis Novitsky


Winter’s Song Td Mischke	Forsaken Country Allen Eskens	The Comfort of Crows Margaret Renkl	Sweet Land Will Weaver	If I was a Horse Sophie Blackall

animals in stocking under night sky Paws for Poetry

Any time, any season seems right to me for reading poetry, but winter especially seems the perfect time to snuggle up with it.

Below are five new (October 2023 or later pub dates) that I recommend:

Songs, Blood Deep
Gwen Nell Westerman

Westerman is the poet laureate of Minnesota, and this book is in our holiday catalog! Divided by seasons, the poems in this collection are gentle and accessible and weave Dakota in with English.

The Letters I will Never Send
Isabella Dorta

The title is fairly self-explanatory, but what it doesn’t tell you, dear reader, is this collection is the voice of youth and the exuberance of youth that bursts into our world (thank goodness).

Another Last Call
Poems on Addiction & Deliverance
edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis

This collection, narrowly focused on addiction struggles, has an impressive list of contributors It’s a great way to sample the work of poets you may not be familiar with.

How to Communicate
John Lee Clark

Clark is another amazing Minnesota poet, drawing on life experience as DeafBlind (the author’s description) in pointed and at times very funny prose poems. This is a must read.