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Shop our holiday catalog!
As always, our holiday catalog is packed with gift ideas for readers of all ages, covering many genres. Many of the books are already in the store, and more are on their way. This year, there are three ways to get a holiday catalog. The digital catalog is now available; copies will be mailed to households in the Park Rapids area early in November and we’ll also have them in the store.
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It’s been 20 years since the founding of Beagle Books, and we’re celebrating all year long! On the 20th of each month, we’ll give away a bag stuffed with books and bookish swag. Enter every time you’re in the store, no purchase necessary. If you can’t get in, email Sally to enter. These are the only two ways to enter the drawing. (Note: prize bags must be picked up as we are unable to mail them. We will hold them, however.) |
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 Heartland LakesCommunity Tree Lighting 6:00 to 6:30 The tree lighting will include a short program, Christmas caroling, the lighting of the tree, and the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus on a fire truck. The event is sponsored by CHI St. Joseph’s Hospice. Part of the program features a family who has benefited from Hospice services in the past year. This year it will be the family of John Schumacher. After the tree lighting, Santa and Mrs. Claus will be at Bella Caffe’ until 8:00 to hear children’s wish lists. |
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Small Business Saturday/Indies First At Beagle and Wolf, we’ll roll out the blue carpet for you! We offer a free book with any purchase and complimentary gift wrapping. We’re planning some fun promotions, we’ll give away great prizes, and authors will be in the store to sign their books. And, we’ll offer a 20% discount on any in-store book listed in our holiday catalog. (May not be combined with other offers.) |
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Celebrating 20 years!
I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Kate Baer
Kate Baer’s new collection of erasure poems will invoke the following from readers: laughter, hope, and tenderness. Baer has morphed (improved) communications she has received on the internet into poems. Some of the communications are hate mail, some love mail, some advertising, some news pieces, and so on. Baer can turn a hateful, ignorant letter into a poem filled with grace and/or wonder and/or hope. Many of the poems lift up and encourage women. Some are just downright funny—ie, turning a few crude lines from Donald J. Trump into the very short poem, “you can go.”
My only disappointment in this collection was that it ended. I’m praying more are to come.
As you might expect, Kate Baer is active on social media. You can follow her on Instagram and/or Twitter: @katejbaer
This book will release in paperback on November 9.
A God at the Door
Tishani Doshi
There is a maxim about the number of “errors” (errors here is used to mean bad writing) a piece of writing can contain. For novels, it’s a paragraph; for short stories and essays, it’s a sentence; for poetry, it’s a word. This speaks to the conciseness, the efficiency of poetry, that there is only room for one “wrong word” (and is possibly daunting to writers.) This conciseness, the distillation of thought, is often what I am drawn towards in reading poetry. In a way, it’s a sort of parallel to a well-acted scene in a play in which zero to few words are uttered. The right gesture or expression can convey volumes more than a soliloquy. And yet, in reading Tishani Doshi’s poems in A God at the Door, I get a feeling that the writer is bursting with words. For example, she ends the poem My Loneliness Is Not the Same as Your Loneliness with this stanza:
There’s a child screaming
in the playground below, a refrain
so shrill it scrapes a layer off the air.
She’s reassuring herself, she’s not alone.
No one tells her, We’re here together,
you’ve been heard.
The author has not broken conventions in her poetry, in terms of conciseness, and yet, I think I might be a little disappointed when our copies of A God at the Door arrive at the bookstore and they aren’t physically bulging!
Much of Doshi’s writing is in response to the news (most of the poems in this collection were written during 2020.) The range of topics and poem titles are wide: both Why the Brazilian Butt Lift Won’t Save Us and Every Unbearable Thing are poem titles in this collection. I expect American readers will be intrigued and interested in the references to the author’s native India. (Ever heard of a Blue Mormon? I hadn’t either.) The author has also paid great attention to the presentation of poems on the page, including some concrete poems (poems that visually appear on the page like the topic of the poem.) If you want to know the shape of the poem Advice for Pliny the Elder, Big Daddy of Mansplainers, you’ll have to see it for yourself ;) Until then, treat yourself to the poet reading one of her poems, They Killed Cows. I Killed Him from A God at the Door collection here.
This book will release in paperback on November 9.
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