October4, 2007
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| | | | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
The Mitford Bedside Companion: New Essays, Family Photographs, Favorite Mitford Scenes, and Much More
Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-2007
| | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness Alice Walker
New in paperback
Walker, best known as a novelist, offers a collection of essays to encourage spirituality and progressive political ideas. Mixing prose with poetry, she discusses Martin Luther King, feminism, meditation, and other subjects on themes of integrity and activism. The most substantial entries are based on live lectures. Paperback, $15.95
Publisher: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9781595582164
| | | | | | The New Kings of Nonfiction edited and introduced by Ira Glass
New in paperback
We're living in an age of great nonfiction writing," says Glass, the host of the radio program This American Life. Here, he selects 14 of his favorite journalistic features from writers who are "entertainers in the best sense of the word," unafraid to insert their personal perspective into the stories they're telling. This is a satisfying greatest-hits collection of nonfiction. Paperback, $15.00
Publisher: Penguin Group, ISBN-13: 9781594482670
| | | | | | Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders Neil Gaiman
New in paperback
Like his previous short story collection Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things is anything but. This diverse assortment of horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy, poetry, and speculative fiction demonstrates Gaiman's versatility. Noteworthy selections include: the Hugo Award–winning "A Study in Emerald;" the Locus Award–winning "October in the Chair;" a tribute to Ray Bradbury that features the months of the year personified; and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," a tale featuring two oversexed teenagers who stumble into a party full of hot chicks who turn out to be alien tourists! Paperback, $14.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; ISBN-13: 9780061252020
| | | | | | The Mitford Bedside Companion: New Essays, Family Photographs, Favorite Mitford Scenes, and Much More Jan Karon, edited by Brenda Furman
New in paperback
For the millions of fans who love the Mitford Years series, this lushly illustrated keepsake will be the perfect book to curl up with. Fans will relish favorite scenes, casts of characters, a Mitford crossword puzzle, and a bevy of original essays by Karon on everything from the life of a writer to her grandmother's secret to good health. Paperback, $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA); ISBN-13: 9780143112419
| | | | | | Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-2007 edited by Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth (Project Censored)
Peter Phillips is the director of Project Censored, which was founded in 1976 to protect First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. The best-selling Censored series highlights the year's twenty-five most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to negligence of corporate media and the resurgence of alternative media. The Los Angeles Times regards the series as "required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens." Paperback, $18.95
Publisher: Seven Stories Press; ISBN-13: 9781583227725
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| | Music
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Bruce Sprinsteen $18.95
Genre: Pop/Folk
Magic finds the once and future Boss firmly on familiar ground, recording with his E Street Band. The result is a satisfying blend of kick-butt Bruce, acknowledging the most personal, political, and rocking aspects of Springsteen’s musical universe. Magic has an intimate and exuberant quality that both longtime fans and new listeners will appreciate.
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Mickey Hart $18.95
Genre: Ethnic/World
The popular Grateful Dead percussionist has created a second career of world-spanning drum experiments. Global Drum Project adds studio effects and electronica, but grounds the sound with guest spots from legends like Zakir Hussain and the late drum master Olatunji.
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John Fogerty $18.95
Genre: Pop/Folk
The album's title echos the days of Creedence Clearwater Revival, perhaps reflecting the attempt to recapture the vibe of his 60's topical songs. With a voice that can cut glass and a band that sounds like it came to tear the roadhouse down, Revival is a great John Fogerty album and a great rock album.
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Gabriela Montero $17.95
Genre: Classical
Pianist Montero is known as both a brilliant interpreter of such composers as Chopin, Bach, Debussy, Granados, and Prokofiev, and as a master of compositional improvisation in which she absorbs a musical idiom to create her own pieces. Last year's album, Bach & Beyond, album was a crossover hit. On this new album, she focuses her improvisation on Baroque pieces by Vivaldi, Handel, Pachelbel, Scarlatti, and more.
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Bob Dylan
Genre: Folk
DYLAN is a career-spanning retrospective of Bob Dylan's music. Expanded Limited Edition $49.95
This 3 CD deluxe version is housed in a red cloth covered box with a magnetic hinged lid. The 40 page bound booklet contains extended liner notes and rare photos. Each box includes 10 limited edition postcard lithograph prints focusing on pivotal moments in Dylan's career. Basic edition $18.95
Contains selections from the expanded edition.
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| Calendar of Events
| | | | | Thursday Oct. 4, 6pm, Old World Deli (2nd Street in downtown Corvallis)First Thursday MFA Reading Series Festivities start with music by Quinn Dmitriev. The readings commence at 7 PM and include Ruben Casas and Clair Carpenter reading selected works of fiction and Melissa Houghton reading from her poetry. Monday Oct. 8th, 7pm, ArtCentric (The Corvallis Arts Center)
A reading cosponsored by Grass Roots, CALYX, and Artcentric. It includes: Ellen Bass reading from her new book The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press); Dorianne Laux reading from her latest work; Margarita Donnelly (CALYX Director) reading from CALYX Books’ new title, Far Beyond Triage by Portland Poet Sarah Lantz. Friday Oct. 19, 7 - 9pm, Majestic Theatre
The Magic Barrel, Cost: $10
This is an annual event that raises money to help feed the hungry in our community. Come here poems, stories, essays and music performed by talented local readers and musicians. And by just listening, you'll be helping ease hunger in our local area because all proceeds go to Linn-Benton Food Share; every dollar pays to purchase and distribute 15 pounds of food. Saturday Oct. 28th, 2pm, Grass Roots
Robert Mason, My Stretch in the Service
Robert served in the American occupation of Japan at the end of the war and recounts the events that transformed him from a nineteen-year-old kid to a twenty-one-year-old adult. He is a professor emeritus at OSU. Sunday Oct. 29th, 7pm, Grass Roots
Seven Vedro, Digital Dharma
Vedro uses the seven chakras - the basic energy centers in the body that link our physical selves to higher levels of consciousness - as a model for achieving Digital Dharma. A nationally renowned telecommunications consultant, Vedro is a popular conference speaker and leads an energy healing practice in Madison, WI. Monday Nov. 12th, 7pm, Grass Roots
Ann Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy Saturday Nov. 17th, 7pm , location TBD
Charles Goodrich, Eleanor Barry and Gary Lark
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