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Summer Reading 2010
Happy Summer Reading from your friends at Village Books!! Once again we offer this guide to all the books you'll want to be reading this summer - from the beach to the mountains, or even in your own backyard. Whether its fiction, non-fiction, or mystery you love, we have the latest from your favorite authors, plus a few new ones you won't want to miss. All the reviews are by Katie, unless otherwise noted, so read on and enjoy. You can visit our website, www.palivillagebooks.com, before you leave town, or from wherever you travel this summer, and click on “order a book” when you want to make an online purchase! And don't forget to check out our Summer Reading table and binder to find all of your child’s summer reading books. Have a safe, happy and healthy summer and THANK YOU for supporting Village Books, your neighborhood bookstore, for thirteen (on July 4!) amazing and wonderful years!!
Building a Library?
Need help building or expanding your home library? Want to give a starter library as a wedding or graduation gift that is SURE to be incredibly unique, special, welcome and practical? Village Books is happy to consult with you to meet your individual needs in selecting and/or organizing your books. Do it NOW before e-books take over and the cloth and paper book, as we know it and love it, becomes obsolete!
Palisades Village Books Friends Invite YOU!
What do writers read?
What would the Palisades be like without Village Books,
a local independent bookstore where writers share their ideas?
YOU ARE INVITED TO HEAR
LOCAL WRITERS IN SUPPORT OF VILLAGE BOOKS
* Kenneth Turan (PVBF Board Member, L.A. Times & NPR Film Critic, author of Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told)
* Lisa See (Shanghai Girls, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, On Gold Mountain)
* Denise Hamilton (The Last Embrace, the Eve Diamond novels)
* Maile Meloy (Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, Liars & Saints)
* Randy Young (Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea)
Event to be held in a private home, call store for location. This is a fundraiser, but there is no minimum required to attend. Please come and give what you can. RSVP by phone (310) 459-2021, or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
[*Palisades Village Book Friends is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization formed to promote and support literary events in our community and to help continue the tradition of author readings at Village Books. All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.]
New Books for a New Year and a New Decade
A wealth of exciting and interesting new books have been published in these first few months of 2010. Read on to find out more about the latest in hardcover and paperback fiction. Then give us a call, or stop in and pick up, your new books for the new year!
Prize Winners in Children's Literature
On Monday, January 18 the American Library Association announced the winners of the two most prestigious prizes in children's literature. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead won the Newbery Medal for best children's book and Jerry Pinkney's The Lion and the Mouse won the Caldecott Prize for best picture book. When You Reach Me was inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's timeless classic and previous Newbery winner, A Wrinkle in Time. It is a time-traveling story about a sixth-grader named Miranda, set in New York City in the 1970s. The Lion and the Mouse is a wordless retelling of the classic Aesop fable about a mouse who helps a lion, proving that an underdog can be as mighty as a king.
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