New event details for the Tom Brokaw/To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Event:

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SOLD OUT

Wait List Available – Call to inquire

Location change!

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The main event will now be at the Ellen Theatre, just across Main Street from the Country Bookshelf. Full details here.

Same date — Friday, August 6th –  and same time — 7pm; doors open at 6pm.

Book of the Week #12

Book of the Week - A New Feature Updated Every Friday to Highlight a Book We’re Excited About

    

 

    

July 30 – To Kill A Mockingbird

                by Harper Lee

          Book of the Week #12

 

 

(Harper; $25.00 hardcover; 323 pages )  

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This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of Harper Lee’s modern classic, To Kill A Mockingbird.  We are very excited to host Tom Brokaw at the Ellen Theatre next Friday, August 6th, and it seemed only fitting to make this weeks book of the week To Kill A Mockingbird in preparation. For many of us, it has been years since we have enjoyed Lee’s story of justice and timeless characters. For some, it may be a book that has somehow managed to go unread. Either way, this week is a great time to pick up To Kill A Mockingbird and enjoy one of the most cherished books of all time.

 

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“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel–a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man’s struggle for justice–but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

One of the best-loved classics of all time, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has earned many dis-tinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. It was also named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (“Library Journal”). HarperCollins is proud to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication with this special hardcover edition.

— Publisher Marketing

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR  

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Pulitzer Prize, and many other accolades.

REVIEWS & RESOURCES  

To Kill A Mockingbird website

To Kill A Mockingbird Turns 50 (CBS)

New York Times Book Review: 50th Anniversary Celebration

NYT Harper Lee

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