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Jen in the binderyRe: The Bindery

Beloved Customers, I have decided to halt taking in books to repair. I have not been able to take in, repair, and return books in a timely manner. The reasons for this are varied, but it's unfair to our bindery customers. It causes me great distress knowing I am disappointing our customers and myself. Additionally, I have not been creating items to sell in the bookstore as I had planned. To those who have books at the store waiting to be repaired (and those in the queue waiting to be contacted to bring in books), I will of course honor the commitment I made to you to repair your book(s). If you're tired of waiting for me, and rightfully so, I understand completely if you choose to withdraw your book from the bindery and take it elsewhere. I know it feels like "no one binds books anymore,” but you might be pleasantly surprised to discover that in fact there are a number of book bindery/repair businesses in the U.S. And yes, they have websites and folks have publicly reviewed their work. Thank you for the trust and patience you've extended to me over the past 14 years (yes, really, it's been 14 years!) I have treasured that. Some of my favorite projects have been:

***The poetry book that has been passed down to family members for years—each time it was entrusted to someone new, their name was recorded in the blank pages at the beginning of the book until those pages were filled and more were needed to keep the tradition going.

***The family Bible in which the family had dutifully filled out all the pages for births, baptisms, confirmations, deaths, but the Temperance pages were completely blank.

***The local history book with recordings of township meetings, that included an entry of one member tattling on another for a night of drinking, in beautiful penmanship no less.

Thank you, Jen




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Analog Adventures:
Tune Out the Noise, Turn the Pages


In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and disconnected. Analog Adventures: Tune Out the Noise, Turn the Pages invites us to journey to where the joy of reading and the charm of analog activities take center stage. It’s about taking a step back and immersing oneself in the experience of reading (or listening to) a book. 

There’s something uniquely satisfying about the tactile feel of a book, the sound of turning pages, the calming presence of an audiobook narrator, the nostalgic scent of paper and ink, and hitting do not disturb.

This fall let’s tune out the noise and turn the pages. Unplug, uncover, unwind, and let the magic of reading bring warmth and joy to your autumn days. And of course, we have a wide selection of audiobooks from Libro.fm, perfect for enjoying a good story anytime, anywhere.





Trick or Treat Downtown
Art Leap 2024




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New releases

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We’re particularly looking forward to the release of two novels this month!


The Mighty Red by Louise Erdich releases on October 1.

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny releases on October 29.

 

See Sally's reviews of these books.

 

 




September Bestsellers at Beagle and Wolf

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where you’ll find a description of each book.

     

   
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Attic Child
Lola Jaye

 

Where Wolves Don’t Die
Anton Treuer

 

The River We
Remember

William Kent Krueger

 

Wise Gals
Nathalia Holt

           
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Where They Last Saw Her
Marcie Rendon

 

The River We
Remember

William Kent Krueger

 

How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair

 

The Comfort of Crows
Margaret Renkl

             
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The Women
Kristen Hannah

 

The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan

 

Tailspin
John Armbruster

 

Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Kamala Harris

             
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Understanding Islam 
Thomas Lippman

 

And There He Kept Her
Joshua Moehling

 

Murder on the Red River, Marcie Rendon

 

Bell in the Lake
Lars Mytting


 

 
Paws for Poetry Jen


 

 

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Weijia Pan

This month’s Paws for Poetry article is by our friends at Milkweed Editions.

Chosen by Louise Glück for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.

Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual move to the United States, laying bare cultural and linguistic tensions in both historical and modern settings. He cites Chinese laborers toiling in American factories—an echo of the brutalities endured by those who constructed the Transatlantic Railroad—and speaks to anxieties around belonging, assimilation, and identity. “If I forget one character a day,” he writes. “I will have forgotten Chinese / by the end of 2042.”

In these attentive, imaginative poems, Weijia Pan questions the artist’s duty—his duty—as a chronicler of truth, especially through issues of displacement and global injustice. What can the poet do but observe? And yet, in unpacking ancestral traumas connected to Maoist China and modern-day bigotry exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, he still finds himself turning to art as a way to understand both the self and the world at large. Through elegant juxtapositions, Pan crafts an emotional world that is at once regional and universal—Li Bai and Du Fu sit alongside Glenn Gould and Sviatoslav Richter, pepper used to bless new roads is repurposed in the mace used against protesters, two languages compete on a single tongue. Lyrical and visionary, this collection embodies poetry’s capacity to ground us, teach us, and change us.

 




Cookbook Corner
Tom



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America's Test Kitchen:
25th Anniversary Cookbook

book coverWelcome back to cookbook corner. This month's book is America's test kitchen! 500 recipes that changed the way America cooks, 25th anniversary edition. This book is packed with the recipes we all love and a lot more from all over the world!

You've heard me say Joy of Cooking is my favorite cookbook, but this one is a very close second. With these two and a good bread book, you'll be set! Nutrition facts, conversions and equivalents are included. It's a beautifully large full cookbook. If you love to cook and explore food, this one's for you! Check it out next time you’re in Beagle and Wolf.

 


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