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

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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

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Published: Quill Driver Books - March 10th, 2020

The Hidden Key (Steve Stilwell Mystery #3) Cover Image

The Hidden Key (Steve Stilwell Mystery #3) (Paperback)

By David 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)

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ISBN: 9780989053518

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

9/11/21 at 2:00 p.m.

Title: The Secret of Father Brown

by G.K. Chesterton

The Secret of Father Brown

Mystery Discussion Group

9/18/21
2:00 p.m

Leader: Joann Tucker

Title: Murder at Melrose Court: A 1920s Country House Christmas Murder

Author: Karen Baugh Menuhin

CLIO'S CHRONICLERS : MEETING

Sun. 9/26/21 2:00 P.M.

Leader: Brenda Rossini

Title: The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.

Author: Ian Buruma

Scene At Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore

1.Winner of Goldsborough # Strikes you're Dead 2.Robt. Goldsborough 3.Michael A. Black 4.Michael Raleigh

Special Event

Beginning May13th, Centuries & Sleuths presents a special salute to Sherlock & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle..

Welcome to 221B Baker Street, a replica, which will be on display in the window of Centuries and Sleuths

during May, to honor Sir Arthur's 162nd Birthday (5/22). 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..

221B houses Sherlock Holmes & Dr. John Watson, (Mrs. Hudsonn may be out)

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.

On Sun., May 23 at 2 pm Mary Kay will discuss its history and features.

E-mail:cns7419

@sbc.global.net

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Staff Picks: Books We've Recently Enjoyed

Non- Fiction

Oldest Chicago by Dan Witter

Hemingway in Comics by Rob Elder

Sistine Secrets by Blech & Doliner

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

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

Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon

The Book Artist Mark Pryor

The Hidden Key Dave Grogan

Pyongyang Option by A.C.Friedan

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

Insidious Intent by Val McDermid

Fiction: Anglo-American

Lethal Pursuit by Will Thomas

Forever by Peter Hamill

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

Death of an Art Collector Robert Goldsborough

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Murder Knocks Twice Susanna Calkins

Legends of the West by Michael A. Black

Shell Game Sara Paretsky

Murder at Astor Place Victoria Thompson

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BINC Foundation

Editors' Note

Binc at 25: Meeting the Need

With the support of the organization, Shelf Awareness celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and all the amazing work it has done over a quarter century helping bookstores, booksellers, comic shops and comic shop staff, especially its heroic work during the pandemic.

Bookselling News

Binc's Most Challenging Year Ever

First, on behalf of the book and comic industries, we must thank the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation for all it has done to help stores and store staff in need, especially since March 2020.

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With the help of three volunteers, Binc created an online application to further ease the process. Other volunteers pitched in as well, and Binc essentially brought on anyone who had the skills French and her team knew they needed. They also relied on a public health emergency policy that Binc had formulated in the past. As a result of all this, Binc was able to send out the first checks to individual applicants on March 17. At this time, Binc was receiving a new request for assistance every 15 minutes, all day every day.

"It's humbling to know that what we have been working towards for the past eight years, all of the advocacy we did and conversations we had, it paid off," French says. "Folks found us when the need was highest."

(For a full account of how Binc responded in the first few months to the pandemic, see this Shelf Awareness article from May 2020.)

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)

The Hidden Key (Steve Stilwell Mystery #3) (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)

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September

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Leader: Brenda Rossini

Title: The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.

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Title: The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.

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Binc at 25: Meeting the Need

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