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VIRTUAL EVENT
Tuesday, September 8, 7:00 P.M. PST
August Norman
SINS OF THE MOTHER
$26.99Add to cart
Caitlin Bergman’s mother is dead. That’s what the award-winning journalist has told everyone for the past forty years. Easier to lie than explain how Maya abandoned her only daughter before dropping off the map forever.
But when a rural sheriff invites Caitlin to the woods of coastal Oregon to identify her mother’s remains, Caitlin drops everything to face the woman she’s spent a lifetime hating. Unfortunately, the body–abandoned on the land of a reclusive cult, the Daughters of God–was left faceless. Instead, Caitlin finds the diary of a woman obsessed with the end of the world, one that hints the cult’s spiritual leader knows the identity of Caitlin’s real father. She’s not the only one looking for clues in her mother’s writing. Johnny Larsen, a violent white supremacist whose family runs the county, thinks the Daughters of God kidnapped his teen-aged daughter–and will do anything to get her back.
At the top of a hill, an army of women wait for the end of days. In the town below, the Larsens plot to purify their county. Caught in the middle, Caitlin must decide which is more important–learning the truth about her past, or saving Mama Maya’s chosen daughters from the end of the world.
VIRTUAL EVENT Saturday, September 19, 10:00 A.M. PST
Hallie Ephron
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
$26.99Add to cart
Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she’s married to man who can’t drive past a yard sale without stopping. He’s filled their basement, attic, and garage with his finds.
Like other professionals who make a living decluttering peoples’ lives, Emily has devised a set of ironclad rules. When working with couples, she makes clear that the client is only allowed to declutter his or her own stuff. That stipulation has kept Emily’s own marriage together these past few years. She’d love nothing better than to toss out all her husband’s crap. He says he’s a collector. Emily knows better—he’s a hoarder. The larger his “collection” becomes, the deeper the distance grows between Emily and the man she married.
Luckily, Emily’s got two new clients to distract herself: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a storage unit she didn’t know existed, and a young wife whose husband won’t allow her stuff into their house. Emily’s initial meeting with the young wife takes a detour when, after too much wine, the women end up fantasizing about how much more pleasant life would be without their collecting spouses.
But the next day Emily finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up. Careful what you wish for, the old adage says . . . now Emily might lose her freedom, her marriage . . . and possibly her life.
Ellen Byron
MURDER IN THE BAYOU BONEYARD
$26.99Add to cart
Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October–and Halloween–approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana.
Five local plantation B&Bs host “Pelican’s Spooky Past” packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. But all the witchcraft has inevitably conjured something: her B&B guests are being terrified out of town by sightings of the legendary rougarou, a cross between a werewolf and vampire.
When, in the Dupois cemetery, someone costumed as a rougarou stumbles onstage during the play–and promptly gives up the ghost, the rougarou mask having been poisoned with strychnine, Maggie is on the case. But as more murders stack up, Maggie fears that Pelican’s spooky past has nothing on its bloodcurdling present.
VIRTUAL EVENT
Friday, September 25, 6:00 P.M. PST
Craig Johnson
NEXT TO LAST STAND
$28.00Add to cart
One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946.
Or was it?
When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.
VIRTUAL EVENT
Thursday, October 1, 6:00 P.M. PST
Tori Eldridge in conversation with Jennifer Chow (Mimi Lee Gets a Clue)
THE NINJA’S BLADE
$16.95Add to cart
Lily Wong—a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja—has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking.
As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily knew who to trust. But when victims are villains, villains are victims, and even family is plotting against her, easy is not an option.
All Lily can do is follow the trail wherever it leads: through a high school campus polarized by racial tension or the secret back rooms of a barber/tattoo/brothel or the soul-crushing stretch of Long Beach Boulevard known as The Blade. She relies on her ninja skills to deceive and infiltrate, rescue and kill—whatever is necessary to free the girls from their literal and figurative slavery. If only those same skills could keep Lily’s conniving grandparents from hijacking her future.
VIRTUAL EVENT
Tuesday, October 6, 6:00 P.M. PST
Rachel Howzell Hall
AND NOW SHE’S GONE
$27.99Add to cart
Isabel Lincoln is gone.
But is she missing?
It’s up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want to be found, Gray’s search for Isabel Lincoln becomes more complicated and dangerous with every new revelation about the woman’s secrets and the truth she’s hidden from her friends and family.
Featuring two complicated women in a dangerous cat and mouse game, Rachel Howzell Hall’s And Now She’s Gone explores the nature of secrets — and how violence and fear can lead you to abandon everything in order to survive.
VIRTUAL EVENT Saturday, October 10, 10:00 A.M. PST
Margaret Mizushima
HANGING FALLS
$26.99Add to cart
Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October–and Halloween–approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana.
Five local plantation B&Bs host “Pelican’s Spooky Past” packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. But all the witchcraft has inevitably conjured something: her B&B guests are being terrified out of town by sightings of the legendary rougarou, a cross between a werewolf and vampire.
Scott Graham
MESA VERDE VICTIM
$15.95Add to cart
An absorbing archaeological mystery, rich in historical detail and local atmosphere. With its colorful characters and fast-paced plot, Mesa Verde Victim is a fascinating find.
Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they’re worth killing over.
VIRTUAL EVENT
Tuesday, October 13, 6:00 P.M. PST
David Rosenfelt
SILENT BITE
$25.99Add to cart
Topic: DAVID ROSENFELT brings us SILENT BITE – Andy Carpenter is on the job!!
Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are finding that all is not calm or bright in Silent Bite, the latest Christmas mystery in this heartwarming series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt.
Lawyer Andy Carpenter can finally take a breath; he’s back on dry land after a family Caribbean cruise forced on him by his wife, Laurie, to get into the Christmas spirit. Of course the family’s first stop is to the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization that has always been Andy’s true passion.
But when Andy arrives, his partner, Willie Miller, needs his help. Willie’s old cellmate, Glenn Anson, has been arrested for murder. Andy doesn’t necessarily believe in Glenn, but Willie does. And Andy believes in Willie, which is why Andy decides to take the case.
Once again David Rosenfelt puts readers in the Christmas spirit in a tale that is equal parts mystery and holiday cheer.
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Saturday, October 24, 10:00 A.M. PST
Mary Anna Evens
WRECKED
$18.99Add to cart
A murder mystery with an archaeological twist, Wrecked is:
- Perfect for fans of James Lee Burke and Nevada Barr
- For readers of archaeological mysteries
The suspicious drowning death of Captain Edward Eubank breaks archaeologist Faye Longchamp’s heart. It also confuses her, because he was found in scuba gear and she’s never heard him even mention scuba diving. During their last conversation, he told her that he believed he’d found a storied shipwreck, but when Faye checks it out, she finds nothing there—not a plank, not a single gold coin, nothing. If there’s no treasure, then why is her friend dead?
But the situation quickly escalates beyond a murder mystery. Surrounded by a community struggling in the aftermath of a major hurricane that has changed the very landscape, Faye grapples not only with the loss of her friend, but with her fears for her daughter, who is being romanced by a man who may be very dangerous.
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VIRTUAL EVENT
Saturday, December 5, 10:00 A.M. PST
Matt Coyle
BLIND VIGIL
$26.95Add to cart
Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahil is now sure of only one thing: he has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. He’s still trying to figure out what that life is when his one time partner, Moira MacFarlane, asks for his help on a case she’s taken for Rick’s former best friend. The case is simple and Rick is only needed for one interview, but Rick is wary of waking sleeping demons. Against his better judgment, he takes the case, which quickly turns deadly. Rick’s old compulsion of find the truth no matter the cost-the same compulsion that cost him his eyesight and almost his life-battles against his desire to escape his past. The stakes are raised when Rick’s friend is implicated in murder and needs his help.
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Broken Girls
$15.00Add to cart
The High Tide Club
$10.00Add to cart
BOOK NEWS
Most books that we are receiving while we are in this crisis will not have a signature. On the rare occasion when an author has either signed a tip-in or bookplate, you can be assured we will get copies of those. If you are a purist and want neither, please let me know when ordering.
- Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer – August 8 – signed – received
- Elsewhere by Dean Koontz – October 2020 – signed – please order now
- Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly – November 2020 – signed –
please order now
COLLECTIBLES
- If you are looking for something to finish your collection or a special gift, give us a call and we’ll see if we can help 1-800-963-9266.
COLLECTIONS
I am in the process of adding a very large, exciting, collection of books to the store. Have about half of the collection done, so be sure to stop in and browse. Exciting treasures await you – it just takes a little looking. This has been sidetracked due to shorter hours and working alone.
ONGOING EVENTS:
SHAKESPEARE AT BOOK CARNIVAL NO MEETINGS SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME.
If you love “The Bard”, then join us for Saturday Morning Shakespeare!! On the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month at 10:00 a.m, the Saturday Morning Shakespeare Reading Group meets to read and discuss one of Shakespeare’s plays.
2005 2019 
MONTHLY DRAWING
Each time you shop at Book Carnival, a ticket for each book purchased will be dropped in a little basket on the front counter. There will be ten tickets drawn at the monthly book club meeting (that’s the last Wednesday of each month) and the winners’ names will be listed here. They can then stop by the store and choose which prize they want – first come, first served. The catch is the prizes will be wrapped in heavy brown paper and fastened with colorful patterned sticky tape that I just found! It could be something new, something old, nothing borrowed though!
This program has been set aside until we are able to meet as a group again. We all look forward to that time.
BOOK CONVENTIONS
OCTOBER 15-18, 2020, Bouchercon 2020, Sacramento, CA – CANCELED
GOH: Scott Turow; Exemplary Body of Work: Walter Mosley; Distinguished GOH: Anne Perry;
Local GOH: Cara Black; Toastmaster: Catriona McPherson
APRIL 8-11, 2021, Left Coast Crome 2021, Albuquerque, NM
AUGUST 26-29, 2021, Bouchercon 2021, New Orleans, LA
SEPTEMBER 8-11, 2022, Bouchercon 2022, Minneapolis, MN