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June 2009 Selection Last
Night in Montreal Emily St. John Mandel
“The fast pacing and unusual characters make this a compelling first novel. Highly recommended for all contemporary fiction collections."
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The Odyssey Bookshop is one of five independent
bookstores participating in WAMC's Roundtable on Tuesday mornings,
just after the 10:00 news. People from the Odyssey will be on about once a
month, talking about our favorite books. The Odyssey Bookshop 413-534-7307 email odysseybks@aol.com
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The Odyssey Bookshop Located in the five-college region of western Massachusetts, across the street from Mount Holyoke College, The Odyssey Bookshop is the largest independent, locally owned bookstore in the area. We proudly feature a wide selection of new, used, antiquarian and bargain book and more than 100 author events and book signings annually, more than any other venue in western Massachusetts. We also host a Signed First Edition Club, and a free Frequent Buyer Program.
The Late June/July Calendar is here. Upcoming Events: Brad Kessler Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese Goat Song tells about what it’s like to live intimately with animals who directly feed you. As Kessler begins to live the life of a herder -- learning how to care for and breed and birth goats -- he encounters the pastoral roots of so many aspects of Western culture. Kessler reflects on the history and literature of herding, and how our diet, our alphabet, our religions, poetry, and economy all grew out of a pastoralist milieu among hoofed animals. In the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Goat Song is both a spiritual quest and a compelling and beautiful chronicle of living by nature’s rules. “A hushed, meditative tribute to the nearly forgotten value of living off the land.” – Kirkus Reviews Ju ly 1 • Wednesday • 7:00 pmLisa Hamilton Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agriculture
“The extraordinary farmers . . . in Deeply Rooted embody the future of American agriculture.” — Alice Waters 8 • Wednesday • 7:00 pm Tracy Winn Mrs. Somebody Somebody
“Mrs. Somebody Somebody is rich in surprises and moments of unlikely beauty. A splendid debut.” - Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street 13 • Monday • 7:00 pm The Odyssey Crime Club will discuss Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler. This first novel in a riveting new mystery series introduces two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. This month’s selection is discounted 20% 13 • Monday • 7:00 pm Jim Lynch Border Songs An Odyssey Bookshop Signed First Edition Club Selection
“Jim Lynch’s new novel reads as an antidote to the 21st century: a kind of metaphorical insistence on hope and simplicity and art in the face of a surrounding storm. Border Songs is a quietly ambitious book and it just gets better as it rises to the final satisfying image.” – Kent Haruf 22 • Wednesday • 7:00 pm R. Keith McCormick The Whole Body Approach to Osteoporosis
“…the most updated, advanced, and comprehensive approach to bone health regeneration available today.” -- Susan E. Brown, Ph.D., author of Better Bones, Better Body
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