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Meet Luanne Our staff is complete with the addition of LuAnne White, who will be working at both stores! LuAnne is an author, dowser, master reiki practitioner, and avid book reader, especially mysteries and suspense. She is currently writing a cozy mystery and a novel using her father’s letters to his mother in World War II. She lives on Long Lake near Park Rapids with her two cats, Tuppence and Charles Duncan Nightingale.   great June events   Christina Baker Kline, the author of Orphan Train, will be at both stores on June 12. She’ll meet with a book group at Sister Wolf at 9:00 a.m. The event is open, and anyone who’s read the book and would like to explore it with the author is welcome to join us. We’re sure Kline will be willing to sign books, too.  At noon, she will be at Beagle Books for a signing. Orphan Train has been a hot book at both stores this summer, and we’re looking forward to hosting Kline (and asking questions about the book!) Dorset’s annual Festival of Authors and Artists is scheduled for June 22. Minnesota authors will be at Sister Wolf 11:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.   As added feature of this year’s Festival is that there will be two readings. William Kent Krueger will read from Ordinary Grace at 1:30, and Lorna Landvik will read from Mayor of the Universe at 3:45. Sally promises that as soon as she finishes this newsletter, she’ll be getting the complete schedule on the web page! KOBO update Beagle sells KOBO e-readers and e-books. Did you know that you don’t need a dedicated e-reader for e-books? Your I-pad, laptop, computer, or smart phone will all work. To sign up for an e-book account, ask for help at either store, or download these simple directions. BestSellers for May Beagle Books     Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger       Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline     Trickster’s Point by William Kent Krueger Sister Wolf Books     Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline           No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel     Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger         Notes from Hannah On My Way to BEA This week is Book Expo America (BEA). BEA is the ultimate in book conventions in the United States. It’s a 4 day event in New York that packs all kinds of bookish people and events into one place. If you’re involved with books in any way, it’s pretty much where you want to be. I briefly considered attending last year as a blogger, but with travel, expenses, and buying a pass it got expensive really quickly. This year, I’m lucky enough to be able to attend for work. Well, at least for a half-hour I’ll be there for work. After that, I get to attend in my capacity as YA editor for Riffle and as a book blogger. Looking at the different things I’m hoping to get out of this book convention, I’ve realized that I’ve adopted many roles in the book world. I’m mostly a reader and consumer. But I’m also am a facilitator--making sure books get into the hands of readers. And I work very hard to make sure the books I love get the attention they deserve. I think the only thing I don’t do is actually create the books themselves! Whatever role I’m playing, I’m very excited to just be surrounded by books and authors and readers. Mostly, I’m really looking forward to see what books everyone is excited about this year, and hopefully get my hands on a few of them. Midwest Connections Books or authors of particular interest to our region Jewelweed by David Rhodes Set in an out of the way community, Jewelweed follows the lives of seemingly unremarkable characters involved in everyday activities. In Rhodes’ hands, the book offers a vision in which the ordinary becomes mythical and the seemingly mundane is transformed into revelatory beauty. Theory of Remainders by Scott Dominic Carpenter In this beautifully written psychological thriller, a father seeks the truth about the traumatic past. Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father by John Price After a heart-attack scare, Price attempts to appreciate the good things in his life, particularly parenthood. Through a series of challenges, he finds the second chance he was looking for to save himself and, perhaps, his small corner of an imperfect yet still beautiful world.