Cultural Legacy Booksellers

Children's Book Week

Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, clubs, private homes-any place where there are children and books. Educators, librarians, booksellers, and families have celebrated children's books and the love of reading with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book related events.

The Titan's Curse
by Riordan, Rick
When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever.

Strengthening a Vibrant Local Economy

Informative titles on the importance of building and strengthening a vibrant local economy.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille
“Tracing the food year, Kingsolver—with her characteristic candor, poetry, and grace—brings us meditations on asparagus, turkeys, tomatoes, and mulch as she and her family try to eat locally as much as they can. This is a distinct hybrid of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Under the Tuscan Sun, and Walden.” —Matt Plies, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR

Book Sense Picks

Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.

The Outlander
by Adamson, Gil
The Outlander is a breathlessly told tale of a murderess widow who flees into the mountain wilderness, pursued by her vengeance-seeking brothers-in-law. As she makes her hapless way, she meets up with an entertainingly odd series of characters who propel her on her journey, their eccentricities mirroring her sometimes faltering mind. A marvelous adventure in the early 1900s North American West.--Kathleen Johnson, Prairie Lights Books (Iowa City, IA)

Feature: National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, so what better time to read poetry than when Spring, love, and lovely words are in the air?

Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present
by Lehman, David
Great American Prose Poems is both a celebration and a chronology of this poetic form, one that employs sentences rather than phrases. Lehman offers a history of the prose poem, which has both French and American origins, and presents a chronological selection of works by everyone from e.e. cummings to Frank O'Hara to Lydia Davis. An enjoyable, readable, interesting collection!

Quote of the Day

"Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul--what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?"

- Salman Rushdie
Imaginary Homelands
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)

Local Authors

Charlene Porter's first novel

Boldfaced Lies
by Porter, Charlene
In the 1920s, Denver, Colorado was Ku Klux Klan territory. Governor Morley, Mayor Stapleton, and 50,000-plus citizens were members. The novel, Boldfaced Lies, by Denver native/resident, Charlene A. Porter, takes place in 1925, and is about the wife of an ambitious Klan leader upon learning she is one-quarter Negro.