Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery Newletter

Kitchen Hymns
Padraig O Tuama

the space between men
Mia S. Willis

Asian/Other
Vidyan Ravinthiran

Strange Beach
Oluwaseun Olayiwola

	January 2025
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Night In: Afternoon Edition
Sunday afternoon, January 19

Our popular winter event for book lovers will be Sunday, January 19 at 2:00 pm. Jen and Sally have been busy reading and have lots of good books to introduce to you. Please make a reservation (no charge) by calling 218-237-2665 or emailing 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!
A goody bag filled with bookish swag!
Refreshments!
A 10% discount on the books we recommend!
A chance to be in the store after hours!

Accepting Used Books Again!

After a hiatus during December, we are once again accepting used books! We’re most interested in recent paperbacks, particularly fiction and mystery, and in books for children and youth.
Books must be in good to excellent condition (no cracks in the spine, torn or bent pages, writing inside, or smell of cigarettes or mold.)

January is National Puzzle Month!

puzzles If you’re like a lot of people, winter is the time when you hole up and work jigsaw puzzles while the snow flies. In response, January 29 was named National Puzzle Day. Any puzzler knows one day is way too short a time, so it’s been expanded to the whole month.

If you need a new puzzle or two, stop in and check out our stock!

puzzles puzzles puzzles

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 19, for our Afternoon In event. See above for details.

Sale on Calendars

2025 calendars will be on sale, 50% off. Offer limited to calendars and planners in stock.

2025 Reading Retreats Schedule

Registration is now open for our Spring Retreat
April 12, 10:00 to 4:00

Dates set for Fall Retreats
October 24–26 and October 31–November 2

Early spring weather in Minnesota is so unpredictable! Will it rain? snow? will the driveway be frozen or muddy? We like to side-step all the weather unknowns and schedule a day inside, talking about books.

Whether you retreat with us every year or are ready to take the plunge, join us for a fun get away!

Our theme is "Who Am I, Really?” and we’ll each have read the same two book cover books ahead of time.

One book is The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker. It will be available in paperback on February 25, 2025. The title of the second book will be announced soon.

The 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.

Our fall retreats are a gift you give yourself, a chance to get away for a relaxing weekend, talking about books with a great group
of women and eating food someone else has prepared, all at a leisurely pace. Registration will open at a later date.

Our theme will be “What IS It About Sisters?” and we’ll all read these books ahead of time.

The Village Weavers
Myriam J.A. Chancy
Available in paperback April 29, 2025

A Good Life
Virginie Grimaldi
Available in paperback May 20, 2025

Blood Sisters, Vanessa Lillie

December Bestsellers at Beagle and Wolf Book covers are linked to our online store, where you’ll find a description of each book.


Embracing it All Carrie Hitchcock	Serviceberry Robin Kimmerer	An American Sickness Elisa Rosenthal	The Best of Wild Rice Recipes Beatrice Ojakangas	The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Marianne Le Cronin	Jesus Calling Sarah Young


The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters	The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book, Lee Stivek Dean and Rick Nelson	Dog Man: Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey	Alice in a Winter Wonderland Jan Brett	The Mighty Red Louise Erdrich	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin

2024 Best Sellers at Beagle and Wolf Book covers are linked to our online store, where you’ll find a description of each book.


Spirit Crossing William Kent Krueger	Power & Light Will Weaver	The River We Remember William Kent Krueger	Every Time I go on Vacation, Someone Dies Catherine Mack	I Cheerfully Refuse Leif Enger


Embracing it All Carrie Hitchcock	Gunflint Falling Cary J. Griffith	Shady Hollow Juneau Black	The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo	Clean Getaway Nic Stone


The Women Kristin Hannah	The Titanic Survivors Book Club Timothy Schaffert	Company Amy Thielen	The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy	Where Wolves Don’t Die Anton Treuer

Libro.fm Best Sellers in 2024

Here’s a link to the 100 bestselling audio books on libro.fm.
Need help setting up an account? We’re glad to help!

2024 Poetry Best Sellers at Beagle and Wolf


Devotions Mary Oliver	Poetry Unbound Padraig O Tuama	The Wonder of Small Things edited by James Crews	You Are Here Ada Limon	Cat Poems edited by Tynan Kogane


Dog Songs Mary Oliver	The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives Linda Legarde Grover	And here you can see Linda Legarde Grover reading in our shop!	Dog Poems edited by Christopher Wait	Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver

Clearly, we have big Mary Oliver fans!!

In case you’re wondering, here are poems contemporary poets were reading last year.

And here are the poetry collections coming this month that bookstores are the most excited about:

In the French Kitchen with Kids
Mardi Michels

Welcome back to Cookbook Corner!

I often do receiving at the store, which means I get to look at incoming books before anyone else. The other day I came across this little gem.

It’s a cute cookbook with many great French recipes. It's not all desserts and definitely not just for kids. It contains recipes perfect for that late Christmas or New Years dinner party you are throwing or when you’re simply having guests over.

In last month’s newsletter, we each chose three books we wanted to receive and three we would like to give. This cookbook is one I’d put in both categories. It has recipes from green bean almondine to creme brulee to crepes and offers an easy-to-do classic French menu. I'm excited about this book!

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