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Upcoming Free Events

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To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann, Random House $15)

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Winner of the 2009 National Book Award.

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Also in Paperback...THE BELIEVERS (Zoe Heller, HarperCollins $14.99)

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Quail Ridge Books & Music specializes in fine literature for adults and children, with a special focus on the South.

Magic Tree House Event With Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce!

Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce -at Quail Ridge Books One of the biggest series around for young readers is The Magic Tree House and its accompanying Research Guides. Authors Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce are returning to Quail Ridge on Saturday, March 13, at 1 p.m. They bring us Mary Pope Osborne's new Magic Tree House novel #43 LEPRECHAUN IN LATE WINTER and their research guide, LEPRECHAUNS & IRISH FOLKLORE. Great fun for ages 6 and up.

SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT - receive a ticket with the purchase of any of the MTH books. Click here for information on signing line ticket events. The authors will sign/stamp any number of the two new books, and up to 3 other MTH books. Remember your cameras!

We anticipate a large turnout for this event. We highly recommend:

Purchasing your MTH book as early as possible (to get an earlier signing line ticket)
Carpooling or being dropped off for the event
Arriving early

Nancy On The Radio

Did you hear Nancy's book recommendations on Tom Kearney's radio program recently? Not to worry, just click here to find out what she had to say!

Wayne Caldwell With REQUIEM BY FIRE

Requiem By Fire - At Quail Ridge Books Wayne Caldwell brings us REQUIEM BY FIRE, his sequel to the popular CATALOOCHEE, on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Here he spins the stories of Scots-Irish hill folk against the larger backdrop of the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in a rich and thought-provoking read.

Peter Hedges - Film Maker & Author Presents THE HEIGHTS

Peter Hedges - with THE HEIGHTS at Quail Ridge Books How many hats can one man wear? Find out on Thursday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., when Peter Hedges visits with his new novel, THE HEIGHTS. Excellent writing and real characters - but what else would you expect from the Academy Award nominee author/screenwriter/director of numerous films including What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, About a Boy, Pieces of April, and Dan in Real Life.

And for those at the event, you can enter a drawing for free movie passes, courtesy of Colony Theater.

Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

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QuailMail Reader Reviews

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Zachary Mason, FSG $24)

I want to give an unqualified recommendation for Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey. The 45 brief sections are alternatives to the text of the Odyssey that supposedly were found in Egypt (needless to say, that is a fiction). The parts are a joy and the whole is both funny and moving. To enjoy it completely you need to have read the Odyssey or at least know the story.

-- George

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The Postmistress

by Sarah Blake

(Putnam $25.95)

Frances (Frankie) Bard, one of Edward R. Murrow's reporters at the beginning of WWII, writes, "What I knew at the time is pieced together with the parts I couldn't have known, but imagine to be true."The stories of Frankie in London and Iris and Emma in Franklin, MA, come together as the first two are faced with a dilemma that is moral in the first instance and legal in the second. Our present time of war makes this story intensely more meaningful to us. "It gets you thinking about all the parts in a story we never see...the parts around the edges." -- John

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From Jim...

THE BIBLE SALESMAN by Clyde Edgerton (Back Bay $13.99) Weaves together stories of selling Bibles, a car-theft ring, and young love. Interspersed among these, our hero wrestles with his frustrated attempts to understand the Bible. It is touted as comedy, though it didn't strike me that way.