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November 2009 Selection
Crossers
by
Philip
Caputo

Taking
readers from the turn of the 20th century to the present day, the acclaimed
author of "Acts of Faith" pens an impeccably crafted story about
three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and
loss that have become its inheritance.
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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.
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here to see the list of the books we have talked about.
The Odyssey Bookshop
9 College St.
S. Hadley, MA 01075
413-534-7307
800-540-7307
fax 413-532-3654
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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.
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The February
Calendar is here.
Upcoming Events:
February 8
• Monday • 7:00 pm
The Odyssey Crime Club will discuss The
Jugger by Richard Stark. You probably
haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice “everything.”
That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making
note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards.
Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds.
Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the
racetrack. They’re thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They’re pros, and
Parker is far and away the best of them. If you’re planning a job, you want
him in. Tough, smart, hardworking, and relentlessly focused on his trade, he is
the heister’s heister, the robber’s robber, the heavy’s heavy. You don’t
want to cross him, and you don’t want to get in his way, because he’ll stop
at nothing to get what he’s after. Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard
Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters
in hardboiled noir. This
month’s selection is discounted 20%.
February
13 • Saturday
•
11:00 am
Valentine's Day Story and Craft Hour
Join the Odyssey
Bookshop for a special Valentine’s Day story and craft-time with children’s
manager, Rebecca Fabian and children’s book author and Mount Holyoke College
Professor, Corinne Demas.
February
15 • Monday • 7:00
pm
The Odyssey Open Fiction Book Group will
discuss Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson. Olsson’s first novel,
Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to the author’s extraordinary
understanding of human relationships. With her second work, she once again
charts that terrain in a haunting tale of loss, love, and human connection.
The month’s
selection is discounted 20%.
February 16
• Tuesday
•
7:00
pm
Philipp Meyer
American Rust
Set
in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American
Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as
the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arises from its loss. From
local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to
the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who
dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.
“Philipp Meyer’s American Rust
is written with considerable dramatic intensity and pace. It manages an
emotional accuracy, a deep and detailed conviction in its depiction of
character. It also captures a sense of a menacing society, a wider world in the
throes of decay and self-destruction.” — Colm Tóibín, author of The
Master
February 17
• Wednesday
•
7:00
pm
Steve Yarbrough
Safe from the Neighbors
Luke
May teaches local history—his lifelong obsession—at his old high school in
Loring, Mississippi. Having been mentored by his hometown newspaper’s
publisher, a survivor of the civil rights turmoil, he now passes these stories
along to students far too young to have experienced them. But when a long-lost
friend suddenly returns to Loring, where years ago her family had been consumed
by an act of spectacular violence, Luke begins to realize that his connection
with her runs deeper, both personally and politically, than he ever imagined.
Just children in 1962, they had no sense of what was happening when James
Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss provoked a bloody new battle in the old
civil war, much less its impact on their fathers’ ambiguous friendship. Once
his daughters leave for Ole Miss, Luke’s investigation of this decades-old
trauma spills over into his own life. With his parents unwilling, or unable, to
help him unlock secrets whose existence he had never suspected, this amateur
historian is soon entirely consumed by an obscure past he can neither explain
nor control—a gripping reminder that the past isn’t dead, or even past.
“Once again Steve Yarbrough powerfully
evokes—as David Guterson put it—‘not only historical grief but the grief
of our own time.'" – Random House
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