Do you follow? | 05.18.20
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The winner of a copy of Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett and a $25 Madison Street Books gift card compliments of Tin House is @raices_press. We asked our Instagram followers to comment with the last book they read that made them laugh for a random chance to win. @raices_press commented with Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby. Congratulations @raices_press!
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Just kidding. We're not on TikTok. But MadStreetBooks is our handle for all of the other platforms, and we'd love it if you'd follow us. Since we use the different platforms for different messages, you might as well go ahead and follow us on all three!
In case you missed last week's news, the gift cards have arrived! We've heard from many of you who want to support Madison Street Books, and gift cards provide a great way to do just that. Purchase gift cards through our website here, or give us a call and we'll take care of everything 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 come and see us at the door.
We hope to "see" you at some of our events below.
And, as always, we're here and ready to match you with your perfect read. Check out some of the new releases which will hit our shelves tomorrow.
Thanks for reading,
Mary & Javier
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 20 @ 10 am - Join Miss Dawn-Marie for a Virtual Toddler Jam! through Facebook Live.
Thursday, May 21 @ 7 pm - Virtual Author Chat.
- Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers
- Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
- Beth Golay, host of the Marginalia podcast
- Javier Ramirez, co-owner of Madison Street Books
We'll be broadcasting live through the @MadStreetBooks Facebook page.
Looking ahead to next week, on Thursday, May 28, we'll have another #MadStreetMixers event through our Facebook Live hosted by Madison Street Books co-owner, Mary Mollman.
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From the author of American Wife and Eligible, this novel imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t married Bill Clinton? Weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men.
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From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival.
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In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now, like all religions, also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.
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Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue, spending long days walking neighborhood streets with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself.
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New Releases in Paperback
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Two generations of an American family come of age—one before 9/11, one after. At once an elegiac takedown of today’s political climate and a touching invocation of humanity’s goodness, Doxology offers daring revelations about America’s past and possible future.
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Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other “shepherds” who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.
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A 52-year-old photographer and a 41-year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but it is only during deliberations that the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens.
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New Releases in Young Adult
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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low.
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