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July 2008 Selection The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
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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.
Our Summer 2008
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Summer
Entertainment Returns New: Reserve a seat online. Please take a moment to
reserve your seat for any of these events online. Reserving helps us
better plan for the event, and helps you by assuring that if there are any
changes or cancellations, you will be contacted immediately. The Late September Calendar is here Upcoming highlights: September 10 • Wednesday • 7 pm Louis Bayard The Black Tower
“The Black Tower breathes life into the world’s first police detective, Vidocq, a literary feat that happily waited for this novelist. As the gripping and nuanced story races through the parlor rooms and back alleys of Paris, Bayard shows why he is at the forefront of literary historical fiction today.” – Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club September 11 • Thursday • 7 pm Gamble Auditorium, Side B, Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College Tom Piazza City of Refuge September First Edition Club Selection
“To read City of Refuge is to realize that this is what fiction is for: to take us to places the cameras can’t go. The novel’s characters…are unforgettable, and so is the portrait of New Orleans, the city Tom Piazza clearly loves with all his large, generous heart.” — Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls. Co Sponsored by the Mount Holyoke College English Department
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Vidocq.
The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief
of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of
disguise and surveillance to capture some of France’s most notorious and
elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery—the
fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis
XVI. In The Black Tower, Bayard deftly interweaves political intrigue, epic
treachery, cover-ups, and conspiracies into a gripping portrait of family
redemption—and brings to life an indelible portrait of the mighty and profane
Eugène François Vidocq, history’s first great detective.
In
the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront
a storm that will change the course of their lives. When the news comes of a
gathering hurricane—named Katrina—the two families make their own very
different plans to weather the storm. The Donaldsons join the long evacuation
convoy north, across Lake Pontchartrain and out of the city. SJ Williams boards
up his windows and brings his sister Lucy to his house, where they wait it out
together. But the long night of wind and rain is only the beginning—and when
the levees give way and the flood waters come, the fate of each family changes
forever.