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Girl Who Played With Fire Giveaway and Coupon

We have three passes for M-Th screenings of The Girl Who Played With Fire (good for two admissions each) that we're giving away on Facebook.  All you have to do is share the link to this blog post on your wall, leave a comment here (on the related post), and we'll do the drawing Thursday around 2pm - plenty of time to even attend Thursday's showing!  FYI: the film is running at the Century 14 Downtown, and should be running until at least August 5.

Attached is a printable pdf coupon (pictured) good for 25% off a title from our International Fiction or Mystery sections! (Valid until August 10

Inaugural Post: Books That Work (Clever Graphic Forthcoming)

Primarily, you're used to hearing about events & event related information from me, and new books (if you're on our email newsletter) elsewhere - but I read a ton, and I love recommending clever, fresh, unusual books, especially by new writers. 

You - as patrons of indie bookstores - probably realize that you'd never hear about these books on Amazon (and this recent Nation article is fantastic for explaining the core problem I have with the site: forgetting that they don't pay taxes that benefit our community, or bring in authors for events, it's impossible to stumble across fantastic midlist books that aren't heavily marketed.  It's the crux of the issue surrounding e-books as well, because how do you happen to find a really great read without booksellers or shelves peppered with paper recommendations or eye-catching spines?).

Melanie Sumner's Taos Inspiration

On Tuesday, July 27 at 7pm, writer Melanie Sumner will be here to talk about her new novel The Ghost of Milagro Creek, which is set in Taos, and is pretty haunting - she's a great writer, who's contributed short stories to The New Yorker & Harper's, and I know we New Mexicans are bound to compare it (favorably!) to Bless Me, Ultima - maybe this will wind up on some of your picks for best 100 Best New Mexico Books(voting for that is going on now!)... it should definitely show up on a list of the Best NEW Books about New Mexico... I'll work on making a list of those in my spare time ;)

Anyway, I liked so much what Melanie had to say about the writing of this book, that I wanted to share it with you:

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New Releases This Month

Crashers (Hardcover)

$24.99

Haynes's compelling first thriller takes familiar elements—a mysterious airplane crash, a bent FBI agent, a deadly female spy—and mixes them with the world of National Transportation Safety Board aviation disaster investigations. When pathologist Leonard Tommy Tomzak, sees a TV report of a nearby jetliner crash, he rushes to the site via helicopter. As other NTSB personnel make their way to the crash scene from around the country, Tommy and his local crew secure the site. The forensic details fascinate but aren't for the weak of stomach. Haynes nicely integrates several subplots involving terrorism. The slam-bang crash landing of a conclusion will leave readers anxiously awaiting the promised sequel

Indie Next List Great Reads - in eBooks

The Staff Recommends:

The Help (Hardcover)

$24.95

The Help is a glorious first novel, set in Mississippi in the 1960s. An appealing protagonist who yearns to be a writer interviews a dozen black maids who work for the families of her friends. Juxtaposed with King's fateful march, history in the making and the changing South and a changing America are beautifully portrayed. Like the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, which I also highly recommend, the plucky writer and the people she befriends transcends what at first seems like a tough subject for an upbeat charming book.