Reading Retreat: What is Family?
October 26 to 28

This event is currently full. If you’re interested, call the store (218-237-2665) to be put on the waiting list.

Our next reading retreat will be a day-long event early in April.

Halloween
October 31

Beagle and Wolf will join other downtown businesses in providing Trick or Treating for area children.
The time has not yet been set, but it will be late in the afternoon, after school.

Looking ahead: Leif Enger
December 1

Mark your calendars for December 1 when author Leif Enger will be with us! We’ll have a ticketed lunch at Bella Caffe at 11:30, “Lunch with Leif,” followed by a signing at the store at 1:00. Enger will only be signing coies of Virgil Wander which were purchased at Beagle and Wolf.

See Sally's review of Virgil Wander.

Now In Paperback

Last year, one of the hot books for Christmas giving was Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson  The book is now available in paperback. Here’s Tim’s review of it from last December:

This is one of those landmark books one rarely comes across. We've all heard of Leonardo, maybe even pored over the drawings in his notebooks, and everyone knows the Mona Lisa. This biography changes the way we see these works forever. Perhaps it's the time we live in, that finally Isaacson is able to tell both the story of the artist, but also (and maybe even more interestingly) give a roundness to the personal life of the man, the time he lived in and the astonishing people who made his work possible. Seriously, this book is amazing!

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Sarah Smarsh

With both personal stories from Sarah Smarsh’s own life and deeply researched socioeconomic analysis on class in America, Heartland illuminates the unseen, unheard realities of the American working class—which over the course of the author’s turbulent upbringing in rural Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s became the American working poor.

My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Dutton

A memoir-in-essays from singer and rapper, Dessa. Her stunning literary debut memoir stitches together poignant insights on love, science, and language—a demonstration of just how far the mind can travel while the body is on a six-hour ride to the next gig.​

The Wildlands
Abbby Geni

When a category 5 tornado ravaged the small town of Mercy, Oklahoma, no family lost more than the McClouds: four siblings left orphaned, their home and farm demolished. Three years later, the family is swept up in tragedy again when the local cosmetics factory is bombed, and the lab animals trapped within are released. The acts of escalating violence that follow trap the “saddest family in Mercy” in the tenuous space between wild and tame, human and animal. 

Dream Country
Shannon Gibney