Centuries & Sleuths Top Ten Bestselling Authors of 2020

Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore's Bestselling Authors of 2020. These Bestsellers are determined by a variety of factors (e.g. Author Signings, Mystery & History Discussion Groups' choices, Special Programs, Newspaper & Magazine listings, etc,) in addition to customer & staff recommendations.

Death of a Wandering Wolf (A HUNGARIAN TEA HOUSE MYSTERY #2) Cover Image

Death of a Wandering Wolf (A HUNGARIAN TEA HOUSE MYSTERY #2) (Mass Market)

By Julia Buckley

$7.99

ISBN: 9781984804846

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Berkley - June 30th, 2020

Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Cover Image

Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine (Paperback)

By Moira Dolan

$18.95

ISBN: 9781610353502

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Quill Driver Books - March 10th, 2020

Hidden Key (Paperback)

By David E. Grogan

$15.95

ISBN: 9781603815802

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Camel Press - April 14th, 2020

Archie Goes Home (Nero Wolfe Mysteries #15) Cover Image

Archie Goes Home (Nero Wolfe Mysteries #15) (Paperback)

By Robert Goldsborough

$16.99

ISBN: 9781504059886

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road - May 19th, 2020

Murder Knocks Twice: A Mystery (The Speakeasy Murders #1) Cover Image

Murder Knocks Twice: A Mystery (The Speakeasy Murders #1) (Paperback)

By Susanna Calkins

$17.99

ISBN: 9781250190833

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Minotaur Books - April 30th, 2019

Tales of Forgotten Chicago (Paperback)

By Richard C. Lindberg

$24.95

ISBN: 9780809337811

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Southern Illinois University Press - July 28th, 2020

The Black Cage (Hardcover)

By Jack Fredrickson

$28.99

ISBN: 9780727889164

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Severn House Publishers - February 4th, 2020

A Promised Land (Hardcover)

By Barack Obama

$45.00

ISBN: 9781524763169

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Crown - November 17th, 2020

Des Plaines River Anthology (Paperback)

By Historical Society of Forest Park, Emily Victorson (Editor)

Email or call for price.

ISBN: 9780989053518

Availability: Special Order

Published: Allium Press - October 15th, 2013

This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines Cover Image

This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines (Hardcover)

By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi

$28.99

ISBN: 9781641600767

Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Chicago Review Press - May 7th, 2019

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and speaking of books...

G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting

4/10/21 at 2:00 p.m.

Title: St. Thomas Aquinas

by G. K. Chesterton

Mystery Discussion Group

4/17/21
2:00 p.m

Leader: Marsha Boblitz

Title:Lethal Pursuit (Barker & Llewellyn mystery)

Author:Will Thomas

Lethal Pursuit

CLIO'S CHRONICLERS : MEETING

Sun. 4/25/21 2:00 P.M.

Leader: Brenda Rossini

Title: Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

Authors: Ben Blech & Roy Doliner

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C & S 30th Anniversary photos

Special Event

Beginning April 18th, Centuries & Sleuths presents a special salute to William Shakespeare..

Welcome to the Green Man, a 1/12 scale replica of a Tudor Pub and Inn

that will be on display in the window of Centuries and Sleuths during

Shakespeare’s month of April. The house took a year to build. The

structure is built upon actual timbers—very small ones, of course.

The building and all interior parts, from furniture to fire irons, from

beer mugs to kitchen cooking utensils are handmade.

Only the inhabitants have come from elsewhere—of course, from a

shop in England. The Pub houses the owners and their two children,

three servants and two patrons. As you can see a rather posh gentleman

has come into the Pub to visit the pretty serving maid.

The house was made by Mary Kay Ryan, a long term fan and customer of

Centuries and Sleuths and a resident of Oak Park. She has been doing

dollhouses and miniatures since she was 10 when she and her mother

“did up” their first family heirloom dollhouse which is now over 100 years old.

E-mail:cns7419

@sbc.global.net

Staff Picks: Books We've Recently Enjoyed

Non- Fiction

Chicago Socialism by Joseph Rulli

Boneheads & Braniacs by Moira Dolan

Crusaders Dan Jones

The Templars Dan Jones

Custer's Trials T.J.Stiles

The Ghosts of Eden Park Karen Abbott

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome Alberto Angela

Amusement Park Stephen Silverman

How to Hide an Empire Daniel Immerwahr

Leadership in Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin

Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann

The Only Woman in the Room Marie Benedict

Phillipp of Hesse: Unlikely Hero of the Reformation John Helmke

Fiction: International

The Hidden Key Dave Grogan

Pyongyang Option by A.C.Friedan

The Bookseller Mark Pryor

Diver's Paradise by Davin Goodwin

Play of Death Oliver Potzch

GI Bones Martin Limon

Mr. Kill Martin Limon

Shoot the Bastards. Michael Stanley

A Fine Line. Gianrico Carofiglio

Police by Jo Nesbo

The Land of Dreams Vidar Sundstol

The Wolf & The Watchman Niklas Natt och Dag

Unto Us A Son is Given Donna Leon

Insidious Intent by Val McDermid

Fiction: Anglo-American

The Black Cage Jack Fredrickson

Broken Places by Tracy Clark

The Lucky One Lori Rader-Day

Blues in the Dark Raymond Benson

The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols Nicholas Meyer

Searcher of the Dead Nancy Herriman

The ConjurerS Boy by Michael Raleigh

Prince Edward's Warrant. Mel Starr

Death of an Art Collector Robert Goldsborough

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Murder Knocks Twice Susanna Calkins

A Fall of Shadows Nancy Herriman

Legends of the West by Michael A. Black

Shell Game Sara Paretsky

Murder at Astor Place Victoria Thompson

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BINC Foundation

Binc Launches Survive to Thrive Grant Program

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation has announced Survive to Thrive, a grant program designed to

help independent bookstores and comic book shops stabilize and recover during the waning months of the pandemic.

The grant program is being supported by initial gifts of $500,000 from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group,

$250,000 from Bookshop.org, and an additional $250,000 in donations from Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and

Penguin Random House.

Binc executive director Pamela French said the organization hopes to raise an additional $1 million by the end of May,

and $2 million would allow Binc to provide 200 stores with grants of up to $10,000. Donations to the Survive to Thrive

program are open and can be made here.

The grants will be awarded through a juried review process, with the jury comprised of industry leaders "who love book

and comic shops and have the knowledge and expertise to review the grant applications." Applications for the program

will open in mid-April, with the grants distributed in early June.

"We can't thank John Ingram enough for his visionary gift in support of independent bookstores and comic shops and for

his hands-on advocacy in reaching out to other industry leaders," French said. "We are also grateful to the five additional

companies that joined Ingram to kick-off the Survive to Thrive grant program."

"As we all turn our attention toward getting to the other side of the pandemic, I want to be sure local bookstores--gems of

their communities--have a chance to not only survive, but thrive," said John Ingram, chairman of Ingram Industries and

Ingram Content Group. "Bookstores are the lifeblood of local communities--their success is our success."

Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, said, "Bookstores should not be worried about staying in business if they

have one bad season, an unforeseen major expense, or even a global pandemic."

Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch said, "Hachette is a longtime supporter of Binc and the independent booksellers

who are so essential to books, authors, and reading, and we're proud to be part of Binc's Survive to Thrive initiative in this

urgent moment."

Josh Marwell, president of sales at HarperCollins, said, "One of the lessons of the pandemic will be the role that books and

authors played in helping the public get through very difficult times and the aid and comfort local bookstores provided to their

communities in bringing authors and readers together. There are thousands of examples of how the nation's independent

booksellers quickly rallied, developed new ways of doing business and were beacons of hope for better times. Now is a

critical time for independent booksellers and we are so proud to support Binc's Survive to Thrive Initiative which will play a

crucial role in helping Independents to retain a solid footing in their communities, as well as extending and refining the many

innovative ways of bookselling that have arisen out of necessity during the last year."

Don Weisberg, CEO, Macmillan Publishers, said, "The independent bookstores of America are critical to our bookselling

environment, and now more than ever we all need to rely on each other."

Jaci Updike, president of sales, Penguin Random House U.S., said, "In this time when the availability of wide-ranging

information and ideas is more necessary than ever to the future of society, Binc's support of our authors and their books,

by their heroic sustaining of a healthy small-business bookselling ecosystem, is cheering and inspiring."

(from Shelf Awareness)

Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore

Centuries & Sleuths Top Ten Bestselling Authors of 2020

Death of a Wandering Wolf (A HUNGARIAN TEA HOUSE MYSTERY #2) (Mass Market)

Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine (Paperback)

Hidden Key (Paperback)

Archie Goes Home (Nero Wolfe Mysteries #15) (Paperback)

Murder Knocks Twice: A Mystery (The Speakeasy Murders #1) (Paperback)

Tales of Forgotten Chicago (Paperback)

The Black Cage (Hardcover)

A Promised Land (Hardcover)

Des Plaines River Anthology (Paperback)

This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines (Hardcover)

Calendar of Events:

April

and speaking of books...

Leader: Brenda Rossini

Title: Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

Authors: Ben Blech & Roy Doliner

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