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The Bad Kitty Book Club
The Bad Kitties are a group of fun-loving younger Settle-area women with razor wits, a taste for frosty beverages, leopard-skin attire and designer handbags... oh, and they read. Yes, really.
Meet the Bad Kitties.
Their meetings include brief visits to our bookstore, comparison of outfits, discussion of recent reads, consumption of chocolate... followed shortly thereafter by a move to a trendy, nearby establishment where adult beverages are served. Their patron saint is Jen Lancaster, author of Bright Lights, Big Ass.
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE BAD KITTY BOOK CLUB is Thursday, July 31st at 7pm.
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An Arundel Book of the Year
Arundel Books Award, 2008
Best Non-Fiction Debut
Robyn Scott: Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
Robyn Scott's Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is an astonishing debut. Set in Botswana, it is her account of growing up with one of the most wonderfully mad families you are likely to meet, whether in real life or between the covers of a book.
She has a remarkable ear for language, and a descriptive prose style that brings the bush country of Botswana, with all its flora, fauna, and people, to magically madcap life. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle brings to mind such authors as James Herriot and Augusten Burroughs.
This is our pick as the best non-fiction debut for 2008. It is insightful, inspiring, and heartwarming. Her parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors, and the countryside surrounding them, are truly brought to life. Given Miss Scott's parents decidedly non-traditional approach to child rearing, this book will offer sustenance to parents of home schoolers everywhere.
Whether you like to read about travel, foreign cultures and peoples, families, education, natural history, biographies, accounts of coming-of-age, Africa, science, Horatio Algeresque narratives, women's studies, health and medicine, flying... or just like a darned good book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is for you.
If this truly remarkable book is any indication, Miss Scott has an astonishing career ahead of her, and we are looking forward to her future efforts. Make no mistake, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle stands as an equal with the very best non-fiction published by any author in 2008.
We have a limited supply of copies available with a specially printed bookmark, signed by the author. Click to order
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Staff Picks
Each affiliate of Arundel Books is fortunate to have an outstanding staff, who all read, and enjoy talking to people about their all-time favorites and recent discoveries. To meet our staff, please visit our Staff page. To see all of our staff picks, please visit our Staff Picks page.
Our Current Staff Pick:
Russian Roulette / The Sign of the Gun by Todd Moore.
Seattle, Spankstra Press, 2005. Price $9.90
Todd Moore is the author of over a hundred books and chapbooks. His work
has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Drinking with Bukowski
as well as thousands of journals and periodicals. His long poem Dillinger
[estimated at a quarter of a million words and counting] is destined to
become an American classic, once it is finished. He lives in Albuquerque,
NM where he co-edits the quarterly St. Vitus Dance with his son Theron.
Two book-length excerpts (each over 50 pages) from Moore's long poem "Dillinger"; episodic fantasies in short- lined free verse concerning the American bank robber's life and times, set from the manuscript (hand-typed on a 1937 Corona) and printed dos-a-dos on the same pages (with the jacket and wrappers also printed dos-a-dos). The two books, though complementary in nature, can be read independently.
Signed by Moore in black ink on both title pages (front and rear). One of only 74 trade copies signed by author Todd Moore. Unusual and "spanking"-new production of the press, this is a unique and entertaining answer to a vexing issue in book design.
Click here to order a signed copy of this unusual book!
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