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News & Upcoming Events
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Other News: The King's English Blog is up and running. Come and visit us and keep up on the booksellers and the store.
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Click on a bookseller to see his or her picks!
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The Plague of Doves
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Erdrich, Louise
From the moment a plague of doves descends on a North Dakota parish in the late 1800s, alternating narrative voices pull the reader willy-nilly through time and into a world of mad preachers, music, and murders (accidental or otherwise), madcap romances, land grabs, and tales tall enough to satisfy the most mythologically minded. Humor abounds, the narrative voices enchant, and if past crimes demand their day of reckoning, still, compassion runs rich in the veins of families related through blood, passion, or the land they share. This is Erdrich at her best—and her best is about as good as fiction gets. |
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Book Groups & Reading Programs
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All books sold for bookgroups are %10 off. To obtain discount when ordering from our website, make sure to select "Pick Up In Store" option and to indicate bookclub discount in the 'Customer Comments' box. Thanks!
For more information, please contact Sue Fleming.
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The Echo Maker
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Powers, Richard
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award
"The Echo Maker" is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" ("Booklist," starred review).
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In "The Echo Maker," Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists. |
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