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January 2010

Howdy!

There's a lot going on in the near future. Our first ever Twitter book club is starting soon with the help of BookLadysBlog. That's right. You can now join a book club and feel free to attend in your jammies. Details below.

Introducing the Fountain Bookstore Jingle. Sing along everybody!

Soon to be followed by The Fountain Bookstore Music Video.

(Thanks Chrissie and the Dog-Eared Pages! some of them are members of Black Cash...the excellent, excellent Johnny Cash cover band...check 'em out!)

Meanwhile, you can check out the rest of our recent happenings on our YouTube Channel. Missed an author event? Check out the highlights. Behind the scenes at our staff meeting? You got it.

Coming soon - Fountain Bookstore: The Musical!

Kidding.

Maybe.

Or, you know, you could just drop by. We like that best of all!

Cheers!

Kelly

Bears on Chairs (Hardcover)

$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780763635886
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Candlewick, 8/2009

Bears learn to share. I'll give you three guesses what they learn to share.

Good for you! In one! Chairs!

Seriously, this is a very, very sweet book with a good, simple lesson and darling illustrations.


Shades of Grey (Hardcover)

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670019632
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Viking Adult, 1/2010

A review from Steve!

The Something That Happened has left us with a world where a strictly-ordered Collective is based on color perception and Leapbacks in technology are used to enforce Stasis. Enter Eddie Russet, a young Red who, despite having an above-normal level of curiousity, wishes for nothing more than to marry the wealthy Constance Oxblood and stay as far as possible from rocking the societal boat. All this changes, however, when Eddie and his father are sent to
East Carmine, a small city on the fringes of civilization, where adherence to The Rules isn't quite what they're used to....

Shades of Grey starts of almost whimsically, but as the story progresses, the bureaucracy of Head Office shows its teeth, the unfairness of the Colortacracy becomes apparent, and the differences between the Previous (us, of course) and humans become more pronounced, things take a turn for the serious (while remaining seriously funny). Fforde gives us some great characters, an intriguing setting, and enough bits and pieces of our own future
to make me really anxious to find out what's going on.

Fforde brings so much to the table that it's difficult to summarize, but I can easily say that Shades of Grey is one of the best books I've read in the past year.

(I concur -k.).

 


$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780307460547
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Potter Style, 12/2009
What a pretty dreaming and idea book! As I get ready to move I'm looking at more and more of these kinds of books. I think this one's my favorite at the moment. Loads of suggestions for the kitchen and dining area, mixing vintage items with modern, choosing a color palette, etc.

$12.00
ISBN-13: 9780143117322
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin Books, 12/2009
Don't tweet? Don't worry, it's still funny. Twitter is communications consisting of 140 characters or less. Twitterature is the best thing since Cliffs Notes for the lazy student. Oh, make that the college student. And don't say I didn't warn you about the language. (Excellent Twitter abbreviation primer in the back).

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780307389930
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 1/2010

Also from Steve:

"In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuffled into a new order: all the moments that share a quality are grouped together. You spend two months driving the street in front of your house, seven months having sex. You sleep for thirty years straight without opening your eyes. For five months straight you flip through magazines while sitting on a toilet."

So begins Sum, a collection of 40 compelling views of what we face after our Earthly bodies cease to function. God is a well-meaning but befuddled bureaucrat; God envies our mortality; God's favorite novel is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Often, our creators end up having nothing to do with God at all- we are computers designed by another race to determine the meaning of life; our creators are microorganisms unaware of our unwieldy existence. Some stories are funny, some are quite sad, and most are not recommended for those with a lot of anxiety about life after death, but this book is difficult to put down once opened.

 


$18.95
ISBN-13: 9780399535611
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Perigee Trade, 1/2010

From Tess:

I'm not a vegan (anymore), but my sister is coming out from California to stay with me for a week and I will be charged with feeding her, so I discovered this great new cookbook.

This is the book I wish had been around when I was struggling to be a vegan on a budget. It's filled with creative and simple recipes and ingredients that sound good even if you aren't sans animals in your diet. You can get everything on real store shelves too, not hunting down specialty foods that Kroger has never heard of.

I'm so excited to get started!

 


A Reliable Wife (Paperback)

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129771
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1/2010

From Tess:

In 1907, a man places and add that reads: COUNTRY BUSINESS MAN SEEKS RELIABLE WIFE FOR BUSINESS NOT PLEASURE. From that springs his relationship with a woman who writes that she is "simple and honest" while planning to kill him slowly and painfully after they are married.

This is a slow burning suspense that unravels the story of each persons intentions, along with their reasons and pasts, delicately over the course of the book.

(We're all looking forward to seeing Rob read on February 11 and doing the Twitter Book Club on February 1.)


Through the Heart (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780452295896
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Plume, 12/2009
I like this author. They Did It With Love is also great. Slick, smart suspense with fully-realized characters. For people who like Tana French. Her books are about the nasty underbelly of polite society, secrets, the darker side of human nature. Move along at a nice clip too.

Julia Child The Way To Cook DVD
$24.95
Model: 9780307593900
No. I haven't gotten enough of Julia Child yet. And at this price ($24.95 for 360 minutes!?!), I'm even happier! Complete with recipe booklet. Still haven't cracked open your Mastering the Art of French Cooking? Baby steps...this will help.

Princess Potty (Paperback)

$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780545172967
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Cartwheel Books, 1/2010
Pirate Potty and Princess Potty! "Do you want to hear a secret? Even Princesses (and Pirates) use the potty!" start these two toddler pleasers. Rewards stickers and little hats included. Cute!

Pirate Potty (Paperback)

$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780545172950
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Cartwheel Books, 1/2010

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