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Maria Semple Signs in Redondo Beach

Start: 09/13/2012 11:30 am

End: 09/13/2012 12:30 pm

Help us begin the one year celebration of our store with a lunch and a laugh! Exactly one year ago today we first opened the doors of the Redondo Beach store. And we cannot think of a better way to celebrate than with Maria Semple. Where’d You Go, Bernadette is Semple’s second novel, but she has also written for television shows like “Arrested Development” and “Mad About You.” Her humor and her humanity both reveal themselves in this family novel centered around a 15-year-old girl, her reclusive Mother, and famous father. Please join us as we celebrate independent bookstores and great writers.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)

By Maria Semple

$25.99

ISBN-13: 9780316204279
Availability: Not in stock, but can usually be shipped within the week.
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 7/2012

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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

This One Is Mine (eBook)

By Maria Semple

$9.99

ISBN-13: 9780316042857
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 12/04/2008

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ebook only!

Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture are David's hilariously high-strung sister, Sally, on the prowl for a successful husband, and Jeremy, the ESPN sportscaster savant who falls into her trap. For all their recklessness, Violet and Sally will discover that David and Jeremy have a few surprises of their own. THIS ONE IS MINE is a compassionate and wickedly funny satire about our need for more--and the often disastrous choices we make in the name of happiness.

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