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white branches and blue sky January 2024

 



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Winter Hours


We’ll be closed on January 1. The next day, January 2, we start our winter schedule:

Monday through Saturday, 9:00 to 5:00
Sunday, 11:00 to 3:00

Our online store, shop.beagleandwolf.com, is open 24/7.
Libro.fm, our digital audio book outlet, is also open 24/7.

Note: we will be closed Sunday, January 21, for our Afternoon In event. See below for details.




Beagle and Wolf Afternoon In logoNight In: Afternoon Edition
Sunday afternoon, January 21 at 2:00

Our popular winter event for book lovers will be Sunday, January 21 at 2:00 pm. To avoid overcrowding, we ask that you make a reservation (no charge.) Call (218-237-2665) or email sally@beagleandwolf.com to reserve a spot. Ask your friends and book club members to come, too!

Afternoon Edition will have everything you love about the event:

  • Recommendations of great books!
  • The company of other booklovers!
  • Prizes!
  • Goody bags filled with bookish swag!
  • Refreshments!
  • A 10% discount on the books we recommend!
  • A chance to be in the store after hours!

 



Beagle and Wolf Afternoon In logoRegistration is now open for our Spring Retreat

April 6, 10:00 to 4:00

We could be spring cleaning, but we’d much rather hang out for a day, talking about books and eating a meal someone else has prepared. Join us!

Our theme will be Mothers and Daughters and we’ll each have read the same two books ahead of time. Book titles will be announced soon.

Northern Pines Retreat CenterThe cost of the retreat is $50, plus books.

We’ll be at Northern Pines Retreat Center, just north of town at 20033 County 1, Park Rapids, Minnesota 56470.

For complete details and registration materials, call the store, 218-237-2665.




Dates set for Fall Retreats
October 11 to 13 and 25 to 27

Our fall retreats are a chance to get away for a relaxing weekend, talking about books with a great group of women, eating food someone else has prepared, all at a leisurely pace. We’ll all read the same three books (titles and theme to come.) Registration will open at a later date.



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Hot books of 2023

Like everyone else, we have end of the year lists to share!


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




December Bestsellers at Beagle and Wolf

     

           
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Company
Amy Thielen
  Power & Light
Will Weaver
 

The River We
Remember

William Kent Krueger

 

The Comfort of Crows
Margaret Renkl

  West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge
  God’s Promises for Your Every Need
A. Gill
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Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
  Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
  Oath and Honor
Liz Cheney
  I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys
 

Construction Site: Taking Flight, Sherri Rinker

  Best of Wild Rice Recipes
Beatrice Ojakangas
                     



2023 Bestsellers at Beagle and Wolf

     

           
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Company
Amy Thielen
  The River We
Remember

William Kent Krueger
 

Power & Light
Will Weaver

 

The Woman They Could Not Silence
Kate Moore

  When Women Were Dragons
Kelly Barnhill
  Goodnight Loon
Abe Sauer
                     
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The Writer and the Engineer
Niomi Rohn Phillips
  And There He Kept Her
Joshua Moehling
  Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
  It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
  The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
  Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune
                     



Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023

     

       
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
  The Maniac
Benjamin Labatut
 

Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond

 

How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair

  The Wager
David Grann
                 
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Chip War
Chris Miller
  The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff
  Humanly Possible
Sarah Bakewell
  King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
  Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
                 
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The Best Minds
Jonathan Rosen
  All the Sinners Bleed
S.A. Cosby
  The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
Tim Alberts
  Some People Need Killing
Patricia Evangelista
  This Other Eden
Paul Harding
                 


Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2023

photos from the list

See Libro's list of top audiobooks here.



 

 

Paws for Poetry


 
 
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Waiting Rooms
Laura Hansen

In the independent bookstore business, we get to know other indie booksellers and develop friendships with them. One of the friendships we've enjoyed is with Laura Hansen, poet, and owner of Bookin' It in Little Falls, which closed in 2013, after 20 years in business. Laura also is a breast cancer survivor. Her latest collection of poems is titled Waiting Rooms: My Breast Cancer Journey in Poems. There is also a selection of poems at the end of the collection in memory of Laura's brother, Timothy. Laura's poems about her experiences with breast cancer are poignant, honest, and at times humorous and/or mundane (ie: the parade of cancer patients stating name and birthdate, name and birthdate, name and birthdate.......) My two favorite pieces in the collection are Breath Work, a poem about the long view benefits of meditation, and Resurgence, a poem which fits perfectly in a collection about cancer and could also be shared in many other contexts.

RESURGENCE

Watching the whale breach
lifting her full belly

to sky

I come to realize
I could love my whole body.

 
 

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