New Shipment of Bargain Books
Posted November 2nd, 2012
Our buyer has just returned from Chicago where he found lots of
great deals on bargain books. These shipments will be coming in the
next few weeks and we will keep you posted on some treasures as they
arrive. The first shipment came yesterday & we received some
terrific cookbooks, kids books
and an
assortment of $5.99 paperbacks .
And while you are browsing watch out for our star books. These are bargain and used books that have been marked down to $1, $2, and $5. The inventory is always changing in our bargain section at Off Square Books, so for the best deals shop early and often!
New Grisham Released
Posted October 23rd, 2012
AVAILABLE TODAY
SIGNED COPIES
Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered.
Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.
Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland.
On paper, Malcolm’s situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied.
What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price—especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. And the Racketeer wasn’t born yesterday . . .
Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.
CAROLINE KENNEDY AT SQUARE BOOKS
Posted October 13th, 2012
A large crowd formed outside Square Books in anticipation of
Caroline Kennedy's book signing October 11th. At 4 p.m. Ms. Kennedy
took her seat behind a table in the back of the store and graciously
greeted everyone in attendance, many of whom related stories about the
influence her family had had on their lives. She asked questions of
many Ole Miss students, and was photographed continuously, shook a lot
of hands, signed all the copies of Listening In, and surprised the crowd
down the street at Off Square Books with an impromptu appearance on
Thacker Mountain Radio. Backstage she met Charlie Mars, who gave her
his new CD, Blackberry Light, along with a brief (and we suspect
partial) tattoo presentation.
Having been urged to come to Oxford by her
daughter, Rose, who visited Oxford this summer, Caroline Kennedy took
the time to acquaint herself with our town, and was noticed by lots of
folks as she walked around the Square, ate in local restaurants, drove
around town and campus, and toured Rowan Oak. She took a special
interest in seeing the home of L. Q. C. Lamar, as Lamar is one of the
subjects of her father's classic book, Profiles In Courage. Her visit
here is unquestionably one of Square Books' prouder and more memorable
moments. RH
The World in a Week
Posted October 6th, 2012
Woooo boy. I'm looking at next week's event schedule and see that it is not only a full week, but a wildly varied one as well. Perhaps it could be seen as a fairly accurate sampling of what we always striving for in connecting up authors with their readers. On Tuesday, Kristen Iversen, will be discussing her book FULL BODY BURDEN: GROWING UP IN THE NUCLEAR SHADOW OF ROCKY FLATS. In this serious piece of investigative journalism, Ms. Iversen writes about Rocky Flats which, at least at one time, had a higher level of plutonium in the soil than Nagasaki. Parallel to her reporting she shares her memories from her childhood and later life there, making this at once a factual account and a close-up view of the human cost.
Wednesday we welcome Chuck Thompson back to Oxford, perhaps for the last time without a passport visa. Mr. Thompson visited us last with a collection of his travel writing SMILE WHEN YOU'RE LYING. Unbeknownst to us, he must have been doing research for his newest book BETTER OFF WITHOUT 'EM: A NORTHERN MANIFESTO FOR SOUTHERN SECESSION, which, depending on your point of view, is caustic humor in the "Modest Proposal" tradition or an inflammatory and vituperative return to yellow journalism. Join the conversation to decide for yourself.
J.R. Moehringer came to Square Books in 2005 when he published his touching memoir THE TENDER BAR, of growing up in a single mother household and how the regulars at his uncle's bar became his father figures. SUTTON is his first novel and by all accounts this story of Willie Sutton, who robbed over 100 banks in his day is every bit as poignant and well written. Mr. Moehringer will be the guest author on Thacker Mountain Radio on Thursday.
That show will begin at 6pm by which time the signing for LISTENING IN: THE SECRET WHITEHOUSE RECORDINGS OF JOHN F. KENNEDY with Caroline Kennedy should be winding down. Ms. Kennedy will be signing at the original Square Books building beginning at 4pm. It is a ticketed signing with a limited number so if you haven't purchased your copy and received your ticket you should do so soon.
Friday we will bring it back home with SWEETNESS FOLLOWS: THE STORY OF SAM AND THE TREAT OF THE WEEK, in which Mississippian Katy Houston shares the desserts she made for and recounts the story of the recovery of Sam Lane after a near fatal bicycle accident. A sweet way to end a roller coaster week filled with radioactivity, bank robbers, yankee secessionists, and a daughter of Camelot.
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John Shelton Reed signs DIXIE BOHEMIA
Posted October 3rd, 2012
MEET THE AUTHOR
OCTOBER 03
RECEPTION AT 5
TALK AT 5:30
In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with low rent, a faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square became the center of a vibrant but short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane, were among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter," In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner's circle of friends ranging from the distinguished Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the jazz age. Reed begins with Faulkner and Spratling's self-published homage to their fellow bohemians, Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles. . A charming and insightful glimpse into an era, Dixie Bohemia describes the writers, artists, poseurs, and hangers-on of the New Orleans art scene in the 1920s and illuminates how this dazzling world faded as quickly as it began.
Henry Gallagher signs JAMES MEREDITH AND THE OLE MISS RIOT
Posted September 28th, 2012
MEET THE AUTHOR
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
RECEPTION AT 5:00, TALK AT 5:30
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
RECEPTION AT 5:00, TALK AT 5:30
In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American
admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil
rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of
three thousand whites from across the South and all but officially
stoked by the state's segregationist authorities.
James Meredith and the Ole
Miss Riot is the memoir of one of the participants, a young army
second lieutenant named Henry Gallagher, born and raised in Minnesota.
His military police battalion from New Jersey deployed, without the
benefit of riot-control practice or advance briefing, into a deadly
civil rights confrontation. He was thereafter assigned as the
officer-in-charge of Meredith's security detail at a time when he faced
very real threats to his life.
Gallagher's first-person
account considers the performance of his fellow soldiers before and
after the riot. He writes of the behavior of the white students, some of
them defiant, others perceiving a Communist-inspired Kennedy conspiracy
in Meredith's entry into Mississippi's "flagship" university. The
author depicts the student, Meredith, a man who at times seemed
disconnected with the violent reality that swirled around him, and who
even aspired to be freed of his protectors so that he could just be
another Ole Miss student.
