At last! We have gift cards. | 05.11.20
As one can expect during the unexpected, our gift card order was a bit delayed. We were so happy when they arrived last week! We know many of you wanted to support Madison Street Books by purchasing gift cards, so if you're needing a graduation gift, a wedding gift, an 'I Miss You' gift, we'll send them to whomever you say. Purchase gift cards through our website here, or give us a call and we'll take care of it over the phone.
We're continuing with curbside service and we still offer $5 shipping and free deliveries in the West Loop. To place an order for curbside pick-up, you can do so at madstreetbooks.com, call us at 312-929-4140, or, if you don't mind waiting at the door for us to walk back and forth across the store, you can place an order curbside.
And if you need help selecting books, we love offering recommendations. We can do so over the phone, we've posted many book recommendations on our 'about us' pages at madstreetbooks.com, and we'll continue with FaceTime appointments. To arrange for one, go ahead and call the store or send us an email directly. Mary or Javier will get back to you.
We continue to schedule virtual events, so check out the line-up below. Especially if you're part of the Mad Street Challenge. Between the 5 authors scheduled in the next two weeks, there are several opportunities to check some books off your list.
Thanks for reading,
Mary & Javier
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 13 @ 10 am - Virtual Toddler Jam! through Facebook Live.
Thursday, May 14 @ 7 pm - Virtual Author Chat.
- Chelsea Bieker, author of Godshot
- Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen
- Lindsay Hunter, author of Eat Only When You're Hungry.
We'll be broadcasting live through the @MadStreetBooks Facebook page.
Looking ahead to next week, on Thursday, May 14 we'll have a special virtual event through our Facebook Live channel with Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers, Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?, and Beth Golay, host of the Marginalia podcast.
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. A Children’s Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide—and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.
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In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. Written with devastating wit that reveals a persistent, perhaps manic optimism about her benighted country, Petri’s essays have become iconic expressions of rage and anger, read and liked and shared by hundreds of thousands of people.
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In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. Typically rich with Ford’s emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.
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Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff.
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Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Every and his crimes to explore the emergence of the East India Company, the British Empire, and the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations. How did this unlikely pirate and his notorious crime end up playing a key role in the birth of multinational capitalism? In the same mode as Johnson’s classic non-fiction historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.
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New Releases in Paperback
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Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion.
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With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.
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Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection of poems that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about many themes, but the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes.
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