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Fall Christopher U. Light Lecture
Thursday, November 6
7:00 p.m.
Severance Great Hall
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John
Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning
novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting
novel that takes place concurrently
in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s
closest friend. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family
secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death
and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable
embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
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Join editor Kathryn Kysar (our M.C. for
the evening) and authors Heid Erdrich, Sheila
O'Connor, Shannon Olson, Wang Ping and Faith
Sullivan for readings, a question-and-answer
session and book signings.
Friday, November 14
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their
Mothers
edited by Kathryn Kysar
With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge, twenty-one accomplished
authors illuminate the mother-daughter relationship–intimate,
complicated, loving, flawed–with humor and clarity.
Hardcover. $24.95 |
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The Bookstore's annual Holiday Sale will take place on Thursday
and Friday, November 20 and 21. Save 22% on all clothing, gifts,
and general reading books. Two days only - Carleton gear makes great
Holiday gifts! |
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The next used textbook buyback is scheduled for the end of
fall term. The buyback is run by Missouri Book Systems and will take
place just outside the Bookstore in Great Space. Buyback dates and
times are as follows: Friday, November 21: 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 22: 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, November 24:
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
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The Carleton Bookstore will be closed from Thursday, November
27 through Sunday, November 30 for the Thanksgiving Holiday. |
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Monday, October 27
4:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and
Spells
by Marcia Douglas
Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in
the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic
novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and
social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil
in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse,
the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring
them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers'
notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations,
and various other interjections evoking the culture and traditions
of Jamaica.
Paperback. $19.95 |
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Friday, October 24
Booksigning: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Carleton Bookstore
Mayor Helen Boosalis:
My Mother's Life in Politics
by Beth Boosalis Davis, Class of '70
2008. As a 1950’s housewife and League of Women Voters volunteer
who spearheaded the city of Lincoln's switch to a strong mayor
form of government, Helen Boosalis never anticipated that she herself
would one day be the chief executive of Nebraska's capital city.
Told by her daughter, this is the story of a true pioneer of women
in politics.
Hardcover. $34.95 |
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Wednesday, October 22
7:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
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Tuesday, October 28
4:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth
and Evolution
by David Rains Wallace
A reissue of an award-winning classic of literary natural history
and meditation on evolutionary biology. While exploring a still
remote and biologically rich wilderness region of northern California
and southern Oregon, the author ponders the nature and meaning
of evolution and the cultural role of mythology.
Paperback. $17.95 |
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Neptune's Ark:
From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas
by David Rains Wallace
Neptune's Ark illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning
500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast
of western North America. In an engaging narrative that artfully
blends elements of science, history, folklore, and personal observation,
renowned naturalist David Rains Wallace reveals a marvelous diversity
of creatures, not only modern ones, but those from the far prehistoric
past.
Paperback. $18.95 |
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The Bonehunters'
Revenge: Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age
by David Rains Wallace
When the first dinosaurs were discovered in the Wild West, it led
to one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. With
Indian wars swirling around them, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel
Charles Marsh conducted their own personal warfare, staking out territories,
employing scouts, troops, and spies. Opposites in personality, background,
and scientific beliefs, they symbolized the end of one era and the
beginning of another, in politics as well as science.
Paperback. $14.00 |
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Thursday, October 9
4:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Isle of the Singatories
by Marjorie Welish
In her latest collection, Marjorie Welish invents a world of public
inscriptions. From graffiti to scholarly dedication and from historical
placards to words etched in granite, she employs a variety of fonts
to explore the dangers of rhetoric, the mysteries of coded language,
the enigmas of form, the powerful gift of dedication, and the strange
sense and substance of both new and dying literary conventions.
Paperback. $16.00 |
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Common Reading Book Convocation
Thursday, September 11
3:00 p.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy
by Pietra Rivolvi
50 Simple Things, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is
back in a completely revised, updated edition... and it’s
just as innovative and ground-breaking as the original. The authors
have teamed up with 50 of America’s top environmental groups,
including The Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife
Federation, and Rainforest Action Network. Each group has chosen
one issue and provided a simple, step-by-step program that will
empower you and your family to become citizen activists in the
fight to save the Earth. It’s easy to get started. Just pick
one!
Paperback. $16.95 |
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Monday, May 19
4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the
Environment
by John Javna, Sophie Javna, Jesse Javna
50 Simple Things, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is
back in a completely revised, updated edition... and it’s
just as innovative and ground-breaking as the original. The authors
have teamed up with 50 of America’s top environmental groups,
including The Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife
Federation, and Rainforest Action Network. Each group has chosen
one issue and provided a simple, step-by-step program that will
empower you and your family to become citizen activists in the
fight to save the Earth. It’s easy to get started. Just pick
one!
Paperback. $12.95 |
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Wednesday, May 14
7:00 p.m.
ArtOrg Gallery, Downtown Northfield
A Cartload of Scrolls
by Jim Lenfestey
In 1974, author James P. Lenfestey came upon the book Cold Mountain:
100 Poems of the T'ang Dynasty Poet Han-Shan, translated by
Burton Watson, and it cured his warts. It also turned out to be
the voice he had "missed" all his life. For the first
and only time in his writing life, Lenfestey began to "write
back" to another author. The result thirty-three years later
is this collection of one hundred poems, inspired by the form and
sensibility of that 1,200-year-old Chinese hermit, yet brimming
with Lenfestey's own humor, wisdom, insight, and delight in language.
Paperback. $15.95 |
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Friday, May 9
Convocation & Booksigning
Convocation begins at 10:50 a.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
The Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling
In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's
work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the
international politics of threat, or as the current term goes,
of deterrence. In this field, the author's analysis goes beyond
what has been done by earlier writers. It is the best, most incisive,
and most stimulating book on the subject.
Paperback. $23.50 |
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Friday, May 2
Convocation & Booksigning
Convocation begins at 10:50 a.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian
Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
by Vijay Prashad
In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage
the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against
each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority.
Instead, he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical
evidence of cultural and political interaction between Blacks and
Asians around the world, in which they have exchanged cultural
and religious symbols, appropriated personas and lifestyles, and
worked together to achieve political change.
Paperback. $14.95 |
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The Darker
Nations: A People's History of the Third World
by Vijay Prashad
A landmark work from a brilliant young scholar, The Darker Nations chronicles
the rise and fall of the Third World. Its hardcover publication was
hailed by renowned scholar Immanuel Wallerstein as "essential
background for rethinking history." Publishers Weekly recognized
its relevance for global activists today, noting its "vital
assertion of an alternative future, grounded in an anti-imperialist
vision."
Paperback. $19.95 |
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Thursday, May 1
7:00 p.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
So Brave, Young and Handsome
by Leif Enger
A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a
River, Leif Enger’s new work is a rugged and nimble story
about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims
of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes
with him. In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost his
sense of purpose. When he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new
world of opportunity and experience presents itself.
Hardcover. $24.00.
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Monday, April 28
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to
Build Free Societies Throughout the World
by Larry Diamond
In this bold and sweeping vision for advancing freedom around the
world, social scientist Larry Diamond examines how and why democracy
progresses. He demonstrates that the desire for democracy runs
deep, even in very poor countries, and that seemingly entrenched
regimes like Iran and China could become democracies within a generation.
He also dissects the causes of the “democratic recession” in
critical states, including the crime-infested oligarchy in Russia
and the strong-armed populism of Venezuela.
Hardcover. $28.00 |
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Squandered
Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to
Bring Democracy to Iraq
by Larry Diamond
In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a
call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months
in Baghdad as an adviser to the American occupation authorities.
Diamond had not been a supporter of the war in Iraq, but he felt
that the task of building a viable democracy was a worthy goal. But
when he went to Iraq, his experiences proved to be more of an education
than he bargained for. Squandered Victory is Diamond’s
provocative and vivid account of how the American effort to establish
democracy in Iraq was hampered not only by insurgents and terrorists
but also by a long chain of miscalculations, missed opportunities,
and acts of ideological blindness.
Paperback. $15.00 |
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Friday, April 25
Convocation & Booksigning
Convocation begins at 10:50 a.m.
Booksigning will follow Convocation
Skinner Memorial Chapel
The Black Panther
edited by David Hilliard
"We knew from the beginning how critical it was to have our
own publication, to set forth our agenda for freedom...to urge
change, to use the pen alongside the sword," writes David
Hilliard in the preface to this stunning collection of pages from
the original groundbreaking editions of the Black Panther Party's
official news organ and original essays by Hilliard, Elaine Brown,
Dr. Stan Oden, Craig Laurence Rice, Kumasi, and Joshua Bloom.
Paperback. $25.00 |
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Huey: Spirit
of the Panther
by David Hilliard
Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures
of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther
Party for more than twenty years, Newton (1942-1989) was at the forefront
of the radical political activism of the 1960s and '70s. In this
first authorized biography, Newton's former chief of staff David
Hilliard and best-selling authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman team up
to tell the WHOLE story of the man behind the organization that FBI
director J. Edgar Hoover infamously dubbed "the greatest threat
to the internal security of the country."
Paperback. $14.95 |
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The Black Panther
Party: Service to the People Programs
by David Hilliard
The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members'
coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of
city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of
their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service
programs that are now in the mainstream of American life. Published
here for the first time in book form, The Black Panther Party makes
the case that the programs’ methods are viable models for addressing
the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of
today's American cities and suburbs.
Paperback. $19.95 |
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Thursday, April 24
4:30 p.m.
Boliou 104
Isa the Truck Named Isadore
by Amanda Nadelberg
Amanda Nadelberg breaks onto the scene with a book of poems written
in alphabetical order to the various people encountered in one's
life: passersby, lovers, friends, enemies, strangers, the forgotten.
From "A" to "Z," Isa is a wild and surprisingly
novel book.
Paperback. $14.95 |
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Wednesday, April 23
4:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families
made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded
refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history
remains largely unknown. Driven to share her family’s story
after her grandmother’s death, Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir
is a tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all
together.
Paperback. $14.95 |
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Friday, April 11
Convocation & Booksigning
Convocation begins at 10:50 a.m.
Booksigning will follow Convocation
Skinner Memorial Chapel
When Madeline Was Young
by Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A
Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a
non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.
When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers
a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities
of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second
wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they
raise two children of their own. Hamilton offers an honest and
exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes the boundaries
of love.
Paperback. $13.95 |
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Monday, April 7
The Backdoor to Enlightenment: Shortcuts
to Happiness for the Spiritually Challenged
by Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck
For thousands of years, the secret to enlightenment has remained
hidden in the distant reaches of the Himalayas, deep in wisdom
impenetrable to all but the most dedicated seekers. For the first
time in history, The Backdoor to Enlightenment burns the
rules and barriers that have hindered our understanding and reveals
the keys to immediate, profound realization to the rest of the
world. More than just a heartfelt story of mystery and discovery,
this revolutionary work stands out as a smart, clear guide, showing
step-by-step how you can use these astonishing truths to transform
every aspect of your life.
Paperback. $14.00 |
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Friday, April 4
Convocation & Booksigning
Convocation begins at 10:50 a.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Autographed copies of the book will be available after
the Convocation. She will not be able to personalize them.
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's
Call for Reform in Her Faith
by Irshad Manji
In this open letter, Irshad Manji unearths the troubling cornerstones
of mainstream Islam today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism,
and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore
superior, manifesto of God's will. But her message is ultimately
positive. She offers a practical vision of how Islam can undergo
a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious
minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas.
Paperback. $12.95 |
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Thursday, February 28
7:00 p.m.
Olin Hall, Room 149
Einstein on Race and Racism
by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor
Combining the scientist's letters, speeches, and articles with
an engaging narrative that places his public statements in the
context of his life and times, this important collection not only
brings attention to Einstein's antiracist public activities, but
also provides insight into the complexities of antiracist culture
in America. The volume also features a selection of candid interviews
with African Americans who knew Einstein as children.
Paperback. $17.95 |
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Thursday, February 28
4:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
American Music: Poems
by Chris Martin
American Music whirls readers and speaker alike in the froth
of postmodern America, where the constant barrage of stimuli merges
into a loud reverberating hum of confusion, and "America roils."
This is a book of poems that project; everything is moving within
a broad and ranging array of allusions. The reader isn't crushed
by the dystopic world's dispassion, and Martin isn't agitated to
dispondent complacency. His tone may be terse at times but it is
never bitter, and he is always astonished that we are, any of us,
here at all.
Paperback. $15.00 |
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Friday, January 11
Convocation & Booksigning
Convocation begins at 10:50 a.m.
Minnesota Weather Almanac
by Mark W. Seeley
Beloved climatologist and Minnesota Public Radio commentator Mark
Seeley provides all the answers in Minnesota Weather Almanac.
Through charts, maps, and reader-friendly text, Seeley measures
Minnesota's history in terms of high temperatures, significant
rainfall, and devastating blizzards. He defines the character of
our seasons and the climatology of our holidays. He shares stories
from climate stations around the state and biographies of well-known
figures in weather history.
Paperback. $22.95 |
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