June 2011
Book Mouse
820 LaSalle St.
Ottawa, IL
(815) 433-7323
Books (and e-books)for All & All for Books!
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"Nana"
Jan Hartman leads our Toddler Time, assisted by Bookseller Rachel
Hettrick. Here's Jan with a few of the children as they show off their
rainbow crafts.
Every
third Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., is Toddler Time at the Book Mouse. All
toddlers and their guardians are invited to join Jan and Rachel for a
half-hour of stories, songs and a snack. From 11:00 to 11:30 the
children are invited to stay for craft half-hour. These activities are
free.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
WILD BILL HICKOK DAY IN TROY GROVE
MAY 29TH FROM 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
James
Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was born May 27, 1837 in Troy Grove, IL. To
celebrate his legendary life and to mark his birthday the people of Troy
Grove are hosting Wild Bill Hickok Day on May 29, 2011. We would like
to invite you to this family event, filled with historic live shootout
reenactments, wagon rides, kids games, food and entertainment! Go to www.wildbillhickok.net for more information.
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Book Mouse favorite and best-selling author, David Youngquist (Ghosts of the Illinois Canal System, Ghosts of Interstate 80,
etc.) has launched his own publishing house Dark Continents
Publishing. To celebrate this big leap, we've invited David and another
wonderful author, Sylvia Shults, to talk about their latest books and
their new company's book offerings. If you like ghost stories,
romance, horror and thrilling writing join us June 4th from 11 to 1 p.m.
for cake and conversation. Bring your own wine.
May
30 - June 5th enjoy Antique Week on Ottawa's Main Street. Things ramp
up on Saturday, June 4th and Sunday, the 5th, downtown Ottawa hosts the
Two Rivers Wine Fest. It's where nearly 30 vintners from across
Illinois, a host of jazz musicians, scheduled cooking and wine
demonstrations, fine antiques, botanicals, crafts and more - all will be
showcased to kick off the summer season. Cheers!
Beau's Boys Book Club meets on the first Monday of the month from 4 to 5 p.m. On June 6 they'll discuss the third book in the Missing series by Margaret Peterson Haddix --
Sabotaged. 
Book
synopsis: After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London,
Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea,
face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of
Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help
Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they
realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong
time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past.
And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotaged their
mission...
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 On Thursday, June 9th, Becca Bornac's Teen Book Club meets at 4 p.m. The book selection is Just Listen by Sarah Dessen.
Synopsis: I'm Annabel. I'm the girl who has it all. Model looks, intelligence, a great social life. I'm one of the lucky ones. Aren't I?
My
'best friend' Sophie is spreading rumours about me. My family is slowly
falling apart. It's turning into a long, lonely summer, full of secrets
and silence. But I've met this guy who won't let me hide away. He's one
of those intense types, obsessed with music and totally unafraid of
confrontation. He's determined to make me listen. Will I ever find the
courage to tell what really happened the night Sophie and I stopped being friends?
Captivating, emotionally turbulent, unputdownable teenage fiction.
The book club is great way to meet people and we enjoy the refreshments, too. I hope to see you there.
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 Toddler Time is June 18 at 10:30 a.m. Join Nana Jan and Miss Rachel for a Froggy-themed story time.
We will enjoy reading Jonathan London's Froggy books, sing a song, and have a little snack. Join us for "crafting" afterwards from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m.
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The
Heritage Waters Poetry Group meets at the store on the last Wednesday
of every month at 6 p.m. All poets and aspiring writers are welcome.
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Tales from the Front Counter
The housing crisis has not effected the
homes in my avian subdivision. I have a small number of houses and many
"buyers" Over the past few weeks I watched a chickadee family and a
wren couple bid and out-bid each other for ownership of a quaint bird house.
The wrens won. All four houses on my less-than-an-acre lot are filled
with happy tenants (now if I can get them to chip in on my property tax
bill...). My favorite book for bird watching is Birds of Illinois.
As a novice bird watcher I like its full-page pictures, non-technical
text and its color index helps me to identify the birds quickly. I am
happy to report I have a rainbow of birds at my feeders including orange
Baltimore Orioles, Indigo Buntings along with the usual Gold Finches,
Blue Jays, Cardinals.
And speaking of the colors of nature,
our April 30th Wildflower Walk and Picnic was a success. Thank you to
Anna Mattes and Jannifer Powelson for teaching us about the spring
wildflowers and Rachel Hettrick for organizing this outing.
On July 9th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. we
will have another field trip/picnic for children ages 5 on up. We will
explore the flowers and plants of the prairie. Call the store to
reserve your place.
One final nature note: the Very Hungry
Caterpillar and, thanks to our friends at Frank's Pet Shop, some of his
creepy crawly friends will be at the Book Mouse on Saturday, June 25th
. Bring the kids between 10:30 and 1 p.m. to meet some of these
multi-legged critters. Check out the calendar on the web site for the
ever expanding list of events. If you have any ideas for events or
activities you'd like to host with the store give us a call. We're
pretty flexible.
Father's Day is on June 19th and below I
have put together a few recommendations for gifts. When in doubt you
can always give Dad a gift certificate.
Congratulations to all the graduates and to the moms and dads and teachers that helped them to succeed.
Read on! Eileen Fesco
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Father's Day Recommendations
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 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough. Simon & Schuster.
The Greater Journey is
the enthralling, inspiring-and until now, untold-story of the
adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects,
and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years
between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
After
risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans
embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. Most had never left
home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of
success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country
profoundly altered American history. As David McCullough writes, "Not
all pioneers went west."
 Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin. St. Martin's
A book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six - the covert squad that killed Osama Bin Laden.
SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue,
and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle,
Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and
Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of
Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)-the toughest and longest
military training in the world. Wasdin's dramatic combat tales combined
with inside details of becoming one of the world's deadliest snipers
make this one of the most explosive military memoirs in years.
The Kingdom by Clive Cussler. Penguin
The
husband and wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for
teeasure, but they aren't used to hunting people - until an investigator
fried of theirs goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What
they find, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined.
All are available in e-book format @ www.bookmouse.org
Previously recommended and worth re-recommending for Father's Day:
Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilence and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. Random House
Lost in Shangri La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of WWII by Mitchell Zuckoff. Harper Collins
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes. Publishers Group West
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogue, Freaks and Giants of the Oceans by Susan Casey. Random House
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Dad has a favorite author and you want to get the latest copy of that
author's book, call the store at 815-433-7323 and we'll take care of you
and get your Dad's favorite read.*********
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The Book Mice (l to r: Rachel Kwit, Becca Bornac, Liz Bandstra, Angie Perretta, Eileen Fesco, Rachel Hettrick and Beau Burke)
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Staff Picks (all staff picks are 20% off)
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Eileen's Picks
 In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. Random House.
This would make a great Father's Day present.
The best-selling author of Devil in the White City comes through again with a story of Hitler's Berlin. Larson focuses on 1933 with the rise of new German Chancellor, Adolph Hitler and the arrival in Berlin of a new US ambassador. In July of 1933 President Roosevelt selects Chicago professor William E. Dodd to be his new Ambassador to German. Using
the Dodd family experiences in Berlin as the platform for the narrative
Larson describes this darkening time by introducing us to the main
players from the SS to the Gestapo to the various international
reporters, politicians and society figures in Berlin. In
chilling detail we watch as the crimes mount up and bury the civility
and civil rights of a nation in the thrall of a powerful and fanatic
dictator. Why did the US stand by and let so many lose their rights and lives as the steps were taken toward WWII? Larson answers this question in this superbly written history.
 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. RH/Quirk.
If you like imaginative, twisted stories with eccentric characters pick up this debut novel by Ransom Riggs. It's quirky fairytale written for children but adults who are quirky will also enjoy it. The cover caught my eye and when I flipped through it was interspersed with odd photos of peculiar characters. I was hooked. I put aside an overly clever "literary" classic that I just could not get into and started reading Miss Peregrine's story. It's a fun read. It
will give you an enjoyable few hours of light reading and you will
likely look forward to more from Mr. Ransom either a prequel, a sequel
or something equally peculiar but entirely new.
Beneath Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
During
WWI prison camps were created in Siberia and the Soviet secret police
rounded up undesirables and thousands were sent to these camps to die. This young adult novel was written so that the world might learn of this horrible chapter in Russia's history. For years (and today, still) people do not discuss what happened because to speak of it was treason and you could be sent away. Both teens and adults can share this book. The main character is 15-year-old Lina and she is taken away along with her younger brother and her mother. They hope to one day be reunited with their father. This is a novel or courage, hope and love. You will be moved by this riveting story
Angie's Pick
 Noah's Compassby Anne Tyler. Random House
Liam
Pennywell set out to be a philosopher, but ended up teaching fifth
grade (something he felt to be below his capabilities). Due to
downsizing at work, Liam retired early, which was no disappointment for
him. After moving into his new apartment and waking up in the hospital
without any memory of how he got there, sends Liam down memory lane
trying to regain his lost memories. It seems, though, that he can't
quite figure things out on his own and needs a little help from someone
who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is something quite
different.
Rachel K's Picks
 Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
You don't have to read Carrie Ryan's other books in the Forest of Hands and Teeth series to enjoy her latest novel, Dark and Hollow Places.
Annah is a strong, quiet fighter living alone in a vast city full of
thieves. She was left there the day the man she loved joined the
Recruiters. A army that protects and defends communities from the living
dead. Annah has learned to keep her presence brief and unseen among the
people she calls neighbors. But when she decides to break out and to
search for the man she loved and the sister she left years ago, her life
is turned upside down. A young girl who looks exactly like her is
ambushed by Recruiters and it is up to her to find the answers. All this
becomes even more complicated when she meets Catcher, a boy immune to
the living dead. Annah's mind will struggle to learn the truth but her
body will always be moments away from death.
 Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. Delacorte
The
making of the movie is what caught my eye to read this book. "Something
Borrowed" was a light read with plenty of drama perfect for vacation.
Two best friends since grade school both grow up to become successful in
the big apple. Rachel is a lawyer who hates her job. While, Darcy, her
best friend, loves her job in PR and wouldn't change it for the world.
Darcy is the type of women who wants it all and has it all. Darcy always
expected Rachel to live in her shadow, but when Darcy announces that
she going to marry Rachel's good-looking college crush all chaos ensues.
Now Rachel must learn to live for herself and make the hardest decision
of her life. Will friendship prevail or will love justify all?
Becca's Pick
 Bumped by Megan McCafferty. Harper Collins
So much of the media
this days glamorizes teen pregnancy, but can you imagine a world where
being pregnant before your seventeenth birthday was your only option? In
Bumped, a virus has drastically changed the world as we know it, and
all women become infertile when they turn eighteen. Adults who want
children pay teenage girls to have babies for them, and teen girls are
no longer considered "cool" if they are not pregnant. Sixteen year old
twins Melody and Harmony have a chance meeting for the first time.
Melody has just signed a conception contract with a nice family while
Harmony has been religious her entire life and thinks being payed for
pregnancy is extremely wrong. For the most part, things are going well
until a case of mistaken identity puts them both in situations they
never thought they would be in. This is a compelling and comical novel
that tells the story of two sisters who think they couldn't be more
different, and how they come to learn how similar they really are.
Rachel H's Staff Picks
 Inconceivable by Carolyn and Sean Savage. Harper Collins
Carolyn
and Sean Savage had been trying to expand their family for years. When
they underwent an IVF transfer in February 2009, they knew it would be
their last chance. If they became pregnant, they would celebrate the
baby as an answer to their prayers. If not, they would be grateful for
the family they had and leave their fertility struggles behind forever.
They
never imagined a third option. The pregnancy test was positive, but the
clinic had transferred the wrong embryos. Carolyn was pregnant with
someone else's baby.
The
Savages faced a series of heartbreaking decisions: terminate the
pregnancy, sue for custody, or hand over the infant to his genetic
parents upon delivery. Knowing that Carolyn was carrying another
couple's hope for a baby, the Savages wanted to do what they prayed the
other family would do for them if the situation was reversed. Sean and
Carolyn Savage decided to give the ultimate gift, the gift of life, to a
family they didn't know, no strings attached.
 Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain. Mira
When
an unfinished letter is the only clue to your best friend's suicide,
what do you do? Especially what happens when the friend had everything
to live for and on the surface, nothing seemed wrong. Tara and Emerson
have to dig beneath the surface to find out that the women they thought
they knew was a stranger with many secrets that affect both their lives.
Beau's Pick
 We All Fall Down by Nic Sheff. Little Brown
This book picks up from Nic's previous bestselling 2008 memoir, Tweak left off. In this earlier book Nic described his battles with meth and heroin addiction. (His Father, David Sheff also wrote Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction). This
new book desribes his relapses. He takes his readers on an emotional
rollarcoaster ride while he explains his addictions of heroin and
crystal meth. He is now clean after a successful, but very difficult rehabilitation process. This book will open your eyes s he tell how hard it is to get off these drugs.
Liz's Picks
 Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes. Harper Collins
Little White Rabbit uses colorful illustrations to tell the story of the imaginings of a small white bunny. As
he hops through, by, over, under, and past many things and creatures,
the little hopper wonders "what it would be like to be..." However, once he is home, there is one thing aboutwhich he doesn't wonder. He knows. I like and recommend this very tender story for young children.
 Ponyella by Laura Numeroff. Disney/Hyperion
I've always loved books by Laura Numeroff and this one, Ponyella,
which she authors with Nate Evans is another great book of hers. As you
may have guessed this story is the pony version of Cinderella and is
purposely predictable. Children will enjoy comparing this narrative to
the traditional tale as they come upon words like "godmare" and think
about the curfew of the stroke of noon. Along with Ponyella's sparkling
diamond horseshoes, there are lots of fun comparisons to be made. I
highly recommend this book for children to read and discuss.
All the staff picks are 20% off.
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 ROOM by Emma Donoghue. Hachette
(Reviewed previously; it is now out in paperback.)
ROOM
is the story of a five-year-old called Jack, who lives in a single room
with his Ma and has never been outside. When he turns five, he starts
to ask questions, and his mother reveals to him that there is a world
outside. Told entirely in Jack's voice, ROOM is no horror story or tearjerker, but a celebration of resilience and the love between parent and child.
This is a must-read-two-thumbs-up-you-must-tell-your-friends-book.
 Discover the Gift by Shajen Joy Aziz and Damien Lichtenstein. Random House
Discover the Gift presents a simple roadmap to a journey of self-discovery that will, undoubtedly, change your life forever. Sharing
their own heartfelt, personal stories of tragedy and redemption, Demian
and Shajen introduce us to eight fundamental steps that will help you
discover the gift within you-and prepare you to share that gift with
others. Along the way you will receive both direction and
support from a wide range of the world's most influential
transformational leaders, people from all walks of life who not only
live their Gift every day, but who have made it their purpose to help
you do the same. Among them: His Holiness the Dalai Lama;
His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar; Mark Victor Hansen; Dr. Sonia Powers;
Mary Manin Morrissey; Dr. Barbara De Angelis, Jack Canfield, and
Michael Bernard Beckwith, to name just a few.
 Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich. Random house
Dead
bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot
of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the
victims have been offed, but what is clearis that Stephanie's name is
on the killer's list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the
killer's identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family
and friends decide that it's time for her to choose between her
longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the
bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie's mom is
encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school
football star who's just returned to town. Stephanie's sidekick, Lula, is encouraging Stephanie to have a red-hot boudoir "bake-off."
And Grandma Bella, Morelli's old-world grandmother, is encouraging
Stephanie to move to a new state when she puts "the eye" on Stephanie.
With
a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture
list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire,
Stephanie's life looks like it's about to go up in smoke.
 State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Harper Collins
Ann Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including The Magician's Assistant and the New York Times bestselling Bel Canto. Now she raises the bar with State of Wonder,
a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle. In a
narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, and a
neighboring tribe of cannibals, State of Wonder is a world
unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss. It
is a tale that leads the reader into the very heart of darkness, and
then shows us what lies on the other side.
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo. St. Martins Press
The
New York Times bestselling series hailed as "gripping" (People
magazine) and "compelling" (USA Today) returns with Police Chief Kate
Burkholder called to the scene of a horrific tragedy on a peaceful Amish
farm.
The
Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking,
with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an
uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome
accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated
cesspit. But in the course of a routine autopsy, the coroner discovers
that one of the victims suffered a head wound before death-clearly, foul
play was involved. But who would want to make orphans of the Slabaughs'
children? And is this murder somehow related to a recent string of
shocking hate crimes against the Amish?
Having
grown up Amish, Kate is determined to bring the killer to justice.
Because the other series of attacks are designated hate crimes, the
state sends in agent John Tomasetti, with whom Kate has a long and
complex relationship. Together, they search for the link between the
crimes-and uncover a dark secret at work beneath the placid surface of
this idyllic Amish community.
 Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister. Penguin Group
At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain with them. To celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her: white-water rafting. But
if she goes, all of them will also do something they always swore
they'd never do-and Kate is going to choose their adventures.
Shimmering with warmth, wit, and insight, Joy for Beginners is a celebration of life: unexpected, lyrical, and deeply satisfying.
Bauermeister's The School of Essential Ingredients was a Book Mouse favorite.
 The Mermaid Garden by Santa Montefiore. Simon & Schuster
The internationally bestselling author of The French Gardener presents a complex and irresistibly compelling novel that confirms the remarkable power of love to heal and transform.
Ten-year-old
Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa
that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy
from the crumbling wall into the gardens and imagine that one day
she'll escape her meager existence and live there surrounded by its
otherworldly splendor. Then one day Dante, the son of the villa's
powerful industrialist owner, invites her inside and shows her the
enchanting Mermaid Garden. From that moment, Floriana knows that the
only destiny for her is there, in that garden, with Dante. But as they
grow up and fall in love, their romance causes a crisis, jeopardizing
the very thing they hold most dear.
Decades
later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country house hotel
on England's Devon coast has fallen on hard times after the financial
crash of 2008. Its owner, Marina, advertises for an artist to stay the
summer and teach the guests how to paint. The man she hires is
charismatic and wise and soon begins to pacify the discord in her family
and transform the fortunes of the hotel. However, he has his own
agenda. Is it to destroy, to seduce, or to heal? Whatever his
intentions, he is certain to change Marina's life forever.
Spanning
four decades and sweeping from the Italian countryside to the English
coast, this new story by Santa Montefiore is a moving and mysterious
tale of love, forgiveness, and the past revealed.
 One Summer by David Baldacci. Grand Central Publishing
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With
only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to
say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then,
unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With
no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each
other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He
rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his
fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after
Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the
oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one
unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and
his children will learn how to become a family once more.
 Growing Up in Heaven: The Eternal Connection Between Parent and Child by James Van Praagh. Harper Collins
In Growing Up in Heaven, New York Times
bestselling author and world-famous medium James Van Praagh brings to
light the amazing journey of children who have passed from earth to
heaven. Growing Up in Heaven follows the path of a child's soul-their time spent in heaven and their connection to the living.
In
this, his most moving work, Van Praagh reveals the reality that love
transcends the physical and material planes of this world. Growing Up in Heaven
lifts our spirits with the knowledge that our departed ones will always
be with us-an extraordinary gift for all of us who yearn to understand
life on the other side.
The
demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates
mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrate mobs - it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.
Demonic by Ann Coulter. Random House
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