We hope you all have a safe and fun holiday.

Our thanks to everyone who visited us during our Anniversary Celebration.  We had a great time.

We are hosting a book-signing event, August 2. Local Authors Christine Amsden and Jeffrey Leever will be in the store from 12:00 to 2:00 to sign their latest books and chat with customers.         

              http://www.jeffreyleever.com/joomla/        

http://christineamsden.com

Please mark your calendars for this special event.

This Month’s Spotlight

By Mat King

The Plutonium Blond by John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem

Okay… so I was wandering the bookstore, looking for something light to read on a recent trip to NYC, I saw this book and remembered reading a book that was later in this series, called The Radioactive Redhead. I remembered it as a lightweight, kinda fun Sci-Fi novel, closer to “Everybody Poops”, than to “War and Peace”. It’s a double novel (so there is actually a second book bound into this printing called “The Doomsday Brunette”, that I haven’t read yet) so I figured it would fill my free time, so I picked it up.

This isn’t exactly revolutionary literature. As much as I hate to describe an object as “fun”, that’s just what this book is. It’s a quick read, it’s like an 80’s detective flick, tons of one-liners, and lots of gratuitous action. The plot is about as thin as you can get, and the authors tend to take some pretty liberal jumps in order to build in a little twist. To me it seemed like they twisted the plot in order to justify a variety of fight bits.

Overall, it wasn’t a terrible book, as long as you go into this with very little expectations, then you probably won’t be let down. It’s a trash novel.

Here’s part of the publisher’s attempt to seduce you:

I AM THE LAST FREE-LANCE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR ON EARTH.My name is Zachary Nixon Johnson. The year is 2057 and, after a handful of species-altering upheavals, Earth-shattering cataclysms, history-changing extraterrestrial contacts, and pop-culture disasters, the world is now a pretty safe place. But, of course, as in times past, people still run the shades-of-gray gamut from good to evil. There are still cops and robbers, saints and sinners, voters and politicians. And every once in a while some crazy thing happens that threatens all of society, all of humanity, even the entire space-time continuum.

Give it a shot.

Any Volunteers?

We are still looking for volunteers to read for the children.  We can work around your schedule.

Enjoy this beautiful spring weather and don’t forget to read a book or two.

New Books Books On the shelves now

Non Fiction

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

General Fiction and Romance

Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich

Into the Shadow by Christina Dodd

Force of Nature by Susanne Brockmann

Sea Witch by Virginia Kantra

A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action by LuAnn McLane

Fast Track by Fern Michaels

What Matters Most  by Luanne Rice

The Tin Roof Blowdown  by James Lee Burke

The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy  by Greg Cox

The Navigator  by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos  (A Kurt Austin Adventure)

Justice Denied  by J.A. Jance

Killer Weekend  by Ridley Pearson

The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 

Fantasy / Science Fiction Titles

Star Wars: Legacy of the Force  by Aaron Allston

The Lies of Lock Lamora  by William W. Johnstone

Shadows Return  by Lynn Flewelling