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You may have seen some of the photos of Barry Moser’s artwork on Facebook and on our blog. On Saturday, December 10 at 11:00 we will be having a signing for Barry Moser on the occasion of his two new books The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale and Franklin and Winston: A [...]

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So far this year we have seen two major new publications on Ernest Hemingway. Most recently we have seen Volume One of Hemingway’s complete letters, and earlier in the year Lemuria had the honor of hosting an event for Dr. Edgar Grissom to honor the publication of his descriptive bibliography for Ernest Hemingway. As if [...]

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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury, September 2011) Watch the National Book Award announcement LIVE at 7pm central TONIGHT: http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html Mark your calendar: Jesmyn will be signing again at Lemuria on Saturday, December 17 at 3:00. I enjoyed the first event we had with her in September, loved her book and am excited see to [...]

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In getting ready for the long-awaited release of 1Q84 on October 25th, I was pleasantly surprised to find evidence of Lemuria-Staff-Past who have also been devoted fans. Enjoy this review by Catherine, Lemuria Class of 2006. -Lisa A Wild Sheep Chase is, in many ways, Haruki Murakami’s break-through book. It was his first novel translated [...]

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Morgan Entrekin, Grove/Atlantic publisher, writes a special message this Veteran’s Day: “This fall we published to great success Karl Marlantes’s What It Is Like to Go to War, which I believe is one of the most important books on war ever written . . . On this Veterans Day I hope you will take the opportunity [...]

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Since the release of John Grisham’s latest novel, The Litigators, I remembered that Grisham readers and collectors often look to fill in any gaps in their Grisham collections. So, I thought about doing a display where all of Grisham’s books would be together, a place where it would be easy to see the year of [...]

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Chances are you or somebody you know is eating vegan. The holidays present quite a challenge if you begin to think about preparing meals and snacks that are free of milk, cheese, eggs, and meat. From New Year’s Eve to Independence Day to Cinco de Mayo to Hanukkah and Christmas, Simpson has outlined simple, no [...]

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In getting ready for the long-awaited release of 1Q84 on October 25th, I was pleasantly surprised to find evidence of Lemuria-Staff-Past who have also been devoted fans. Enjoy this review by Catherine, Lemuria Class of 2006. One of the more preoccupying themes of Japanese literature in this century has been the question of what it [...]

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