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In this issue:
News & Notes
New Fiction Releases
New Nonfiction Releases
Notable Children's Books
Last Month's Bestsellers
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Books & Girl Scout Cookies = Best Idea Ever
On Saturday, February 10, Girl Scout Cookies will be for sale in the store!
Visit between 1-3 p.m. to grab your favorite varieties.
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Have a Little Free Library? Get free books!
Stock your Little Free Library with advance reader copies!
As a bookstore, publishers frequently send us complimentary Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) of books that will be released in the upcoming months. We are lucky to find ourselves with more ARCs than our staff can enjoy, and we are reaching out to every Little Free Library owner in Minneapolis to offer ARC books - free of charge.
On February 17 & 18, we will have boxes of ARCs packaged and ready to be picked up at Magers & Quinn by any local Little Free Library owner between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. The majority of our ARC selection is adult fiction. We occasionally receive children's, young adult, cookbooks, current affairs, business, and sociology. The ARC books will be prepackaged for pick-up and will be available on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. LFL owners may take as many boxes as they wish, but may not look through boxes for specific titles.
Boxes may be picked up at the garage door at the back of our store on the alley. Enter the alley from 31st Street West. A Magers & Quinn sign is to the left of the door. Ring the doorbell (on the left side of the garage door frame) and a staff person will assist you.
Free ARCs for Little Free Libraries!
Sat/Sun February 17-18
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Blind Date with a Book is Back!
Fiction, mystery, fantasy, history, memoir, science, poetry, and more...Is your one true (literary) love in one of these packages? Find out for just $8.99.
Also makes a great Valentine's Day gift!
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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - FIRST US EDITION
$600.00
The Dial Press, 1956
Hardcover
First American edition. No additional printings stated. Quarter-bound in black cloth and green marbled paper, with bright argent/silver titles on spine. DJ is price clipped. Jacket moderately worn, rubbed at the corners and edges. A previous owner has repaired/reinforced some corners with tape, on the inside of the jacket. On the whole, a very attractive copy of this classic.
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The House of Impossible Beauties
$24.29
reg: $26.99
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza.
It’s 1980 in New York City, and seventeen-year-old Angel is new to the drag world. When she falls in love with Hector, a young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But after tragedy strikes, Angel must bear the responsibility of tending to their house alone. As mother of the house, Angel recruits a family of "Xtravaganzas" who rely on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them. All are ambitious, resilient, and determined to control their own fates, even as they hurtle toward devastating consequences.
Told in a voice brimming with wit, rage, tenderness, and yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit.
Available Now
Meet the author! February 28 @ 7pm
In-store event
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An American Marriage
$24.26
reg: $26.95
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But just as they settle into their routine, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.
This stirring love story is a look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward--with hope and pain--into the future.
Available Now
Oprah's Book Club 2018 Pick!
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Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
$13.50
reg: $15.00
From award-winning Minnesota author Kelly Barnhill (The Girl Who Drank the Moon) comes a stunning first collection of short fiction, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original.
When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate. A young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. The World Fantasy Award–winning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead. By an author hailed as “a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.
Available February 20
Meet the author! February 20 @ 7pm
In-store event
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The Sea-Beast Takes a Lover
$24.30
reg: $27.00
Bewitching and playful, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Just because Jenny was born without a head doesn't mean she isn't still annoying to her older brother, and just because the Man of the Future's carefully planned extramarital affair ends in alien abduction and network fame doesn't mean he can't still pine for his absent wife.
Romping through the fantastic with big-hearted ease, these stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing, whether in the form of a lovesick kraken slowly dragging a ship of sailors into the sea, a small town euthanizing its grandfathers in a time-honored ritual, or a third-grade field trip learning that time travel is even more wondrous--and more perilous--than they might imagine.
Available February 27
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Heart Berries
$20.70
reg: $23.00
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The result is Heart Berries: a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist; a story of reconciliation with her father—an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist—who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame.
Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.
Available Now
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The Not-Quite States of America
$14.36
reg: $15.95
Everyone knows that the USA is made up of fifty states and, uh . . . some other stuff. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands are often neglected, but they are filled with American flags and national parks and US post offices and some 4 million people.
In The Not-Quite States of America, Doug Mack ventures 31,000 miles across the globe and deep into American history to reveal the fascinating and forgotten story of how these places became part of the United States, what they’re like today, and how they helped create the nation as we know it. Along the way, Mack meets members of millennia-old indigenous groups, far-flung US government workers, ardent separatists, and tropical-paradise dropouts and dreamers in a quixotic and winning quest to find America all over the globe.
Available February 27
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The Future of Humanity
$26.96
reg: $29.95
Moving human civilization to the stars is becoming a scientific possibility--and necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores the process by which humanity may gradually move away from the planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space.
Kaku reveals how cutting-edge developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars. He then takes us beyond the solar system to nearby stars, which may soon be reached by nanoships traveling on laser beams at near the speed of light. Finally, he brings us beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, to the possibility of immortality, showing us how humans may someday be able to leave our bodies entirely and laser port to new havens in space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its destiny among the stars.
Available February 20
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Children's Literature
Highlights from our monthly book club
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I Hear a Pickle
$16.19
reg: $17.99
Owl has a balloon. Monkey does not. What will happen next? Hint: this is not a book about sharing.
Ages 0-5
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Beatrice Zinker, Upside-Down Thinker
$13.49
reg: $14.99
Beatrice does her best thinking upside down. She was definitely upside down when she and her best friend, Lenny, agreed to wear matching ninja suits on the first day of third grade. But when Beatrice shows up at school dressed in black, Lenny arrives with a cool new outfit and a cool new friend. Even worse, she seems to have forgotten all about the top-secret operation they planned!
Ages 6-8
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The Wonderling
$19.79
reg: $21.99
In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
Ages 9-12
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Last Month's Bestsellers: January 2017
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1. Fire and Fury
$27.00
reg: $30.00
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2. Sing, Unburied, Sing
$25.20
reg: $28.00
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3. Pachinko
$14.39
reg: $15.99
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4. Call Me By Your Name
$15.30
reg: $17.00
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5. Mashmaker
$22.46
reg: $24.95
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6. Homegoing
$14.40
reg: $16.00
Yaa Gyasi
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Store Hours
Store Hours: 10am - 10pm
Pickup hours: 10am - 7pm
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Magers and Quinn Booksellers is an independently owned bookseller of new and used books, located in Minneapolis, MN. For nearly 27 years, we've been a resource where anyone can find a book to love. Over the past months, we have adjusted and reorganized much of our operations due to COVID-19, but we are still selling books online and in-store, and are now hosting virtual author events on our social media.
We are closely following CDC guidelines and recommendations for cleaning, distancing, and health monitoring. We are very excited to welcome our community into our Uptown store, or into our virtual store at magersandquinn.com. Our staff of friendly booksellers loves to help customers find the perfect book. |
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