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58527 Columbia River Hwy
St. Helens, OR 97051
Tel: 503-397-4917
Fax: 503-397-1840
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Books to Browse Through.....
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These pages show the latest and most noteworthy of the titles we think you'll want to know about. You may have found this section while browsing our site, or you were directed here from our email newsletter that we sent to you. Whether you're at home or work, you can order from here and choose to pick it up at the store or have it mailed to a destination of your choice. Many lists have been gathered here, for your shopping convenience. Questions? Email us or call! Happy to help.
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Free Food for Millionaires
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Lee, Min Jin
"Competence can be a curse." So begins Min Jin Lee's epic novel about class, society, and identity. Casey Han's four years at Princeton have given her many things: "a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend, an agnostic's closeted passion for reading the Bible, and a magna cum laude degree in economics. But no job and a number of bad habits."
Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to hold onto their culture and identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into the upper echelon of rarified American society via scholarships. But after graduation, Casey's trust-fund friends see only opportunity and choices while Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain them. As Casey navigates Manhattan, we see her life and the lives of those around her: her sheltered mother, scarred father, her friend Ella who's always been the good Korean girl, Ella's ambitious Korean husband and his Caucasian mistress, Casey's white fiance, and then her Korean boyfriend, all culminating in a portrait of New York City and its world of haves and have-nots.
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES offers up a fresh exploration of the complex layers we inhabit both in society and within ourselves. Inspired by 19th century novels such as Vanity Fair and Middlemarch, Min Jin Lee examines maintaining identity within changing communities. This is a remarkably assured debut from a writer to watch.
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Literary Happenings in the store & around the community
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Our Do Drop In Reading Group is still having a great time every first Tuesday - everyone is welcome!
Portland author, Molly Gloss, will visit the store in June to discuss her newest novel - Hearts of Horses.Title of Event: Meet Molly Gloss - Portland novelist
When: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 7:00 PM
Location: St. Helens Book Shop
Description: Molly Gloss visits the bookstore the evening of our June's Do Drop In Reading Group, to discuss her latest novel, "The Hearts of Horses," a recent favorite at the St. Helens Book Shop. A reception will precede the discussion and the signing this evening.
Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland.
Her novel "The Jump-Off Creek" was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, and a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. In 1996 Molly was a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award.
"The Dazzle of Day" was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN Center West Fiction Prize.
"Wild Life" won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was chosen as the 2002 selection for "If All Seattle Read the Same Book."
"The Hearts of Horses" is the novel of a young woman breaking horses for several ranchers in Eastern Oregon in the winter of 1917.
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Book Sense Picks
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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