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today’s focus program is for the reader someone you in those of you who would like to get back

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in reading levels are higher among Folk center mid 60’s and 70’s

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closer survey Ana close what’s good to read

phone I’ll be talking with independent booksellers Mary Beth maple from Peoria heights

from Champaign Public Library whats you but you’re reading this day

self foot club or wherever some phone reading suggestions to dance

program continues after the new welcome to

welcome to focus on Jim meadows in Today Show is for people who love books

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added features people who love books by the special features of the books

talking a little about the book business in the latest on reading habits what is specially what’s new

what’s new and interesting to read these days with me today in the studio is Kelly strong collections

manager at the Champaign Public Library welcome back alley thank you for having me

and Mary Beth Mabel who runs I know you like a book an independent bookstore

are in Peoria heights Mary Beth welcome to the program thank you for having me

and feel free to join us have you read something recently that affected you so

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do you so much you have to tell your friends about it do you belong to a book club in what is your group

group reading now are toll free number is 1 800 2229

9455 that’s 1 800 222 wyll

email us at will dash talk.illinois.edu

edu Maribeth you know I was just looking things on the internet in

2006 there was a documentry the came out of the morning

the decline of the independent bookstore and that’s the year that you open your

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independent bookstore well I tend to go against the tide at cats

I was I was wondering you know I used to live in Peoria and I remember in the 90’s there was an end

is an independent bookstore in downtown Peoria heights where I am I know you like a book

book is located it was a very nice store at last a few years

that it went away how are you how are you keeping your story

your store going as an independent business at a time when I’m gone

a lot of people say book stores are in the climb well I think I have a little

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little bit of a different marketing mix my store sells bells new books

books and used books and about a year and a half after I open

open the store I put in a wine bar add a ball soul increase

Creasy type of sidelined items sold better to Phoenix helps to

to sustain St the book selling business a wine bar mitis

might just work well by itself in a lot of location I’m wondering do wine bar paper

patron stick around browser books are is it the other way around actually I got

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I got the idea from one of my customers with c** in nearly every Friday

Friday by booking say you know I’m going to go to one of the fires in the

in the heights and have a glass of white wine and read my book and I thought well

well if I could open one here for half days longer and his people come in

men have a glass of wine browser books of bookclubs love it

love it to and so it is worked out well I know that a lot of Public

public libraries including Champaign Public Library Kelly not one but a little coffee

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coffee shops in and places to drink coffee there how does that affect of

the patronage of a library hopefully um it bring people

people in Canada make them feel comfortable here to be able to sit down and read a book in

and have a cup of coffee or latte to enjoy the relaxing and taking it

taking everything that Siri has to offer okay um

remind people of a the the phone number to contact us if you have something to say about

about a book that excited you recently are questions for our guests

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are toll free number is 1 800 2229 455 that’s 1 800

800 222 WILL email as it will dash talk

talk dot Illinois .edu are you can I contact me on Facebook or Twitter

Twitter @ focus 580 up Mary Beth

understand you like to show cancelled local authors authors with roots are who write about

write about to downstate Illinois GS redo new releases

the inception of the store stablish what we call our local office

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series and a phony people now because of the

self publishing have books out there and don’t have

a lot of means to get them out into the public so what we do

we do is win level of income sentences I just got this book

started off with the book signing me to at least one per month usually true from

promod okay can you can you tell me some of the local authors

who have been doing well that your fun oh there so many night and I must scream

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distinguished honors with our local office series is meant for anyone who has time

Titus central Illinois some of the authors are published by big publishing

houses of a message said our self published book 3 come out the same

saman and give them the opportunity to showcase books of

pool number of some hear that I really really enjoy

Folsom children’s books as well as history books about Willis novels

the last when you just had is a fantastic novels

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buy a gentleman in Bryan Burrell me the title of the book is on word

Lorde tour  what were going toward

that sounds pretty in ink manic it’s a great day to novels

it is published by id chief publishing which I believe is out of New York

New York and rain told me right now that his publisher is actually a

getting into your penis market

I think it’s going to be an international bestseller it’s just a really well written

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written fiction about us two men that were basically

grew up in central Illinois who have discovered

cover their father committed suicide and its house after affects

live through these are two men who are not Brothers at the dirty war brothers located

all I see two brothers who won who 440 find out um

where did committed suicide Can Am is it goes into effect

left um how do you know is is this could be pretty grandma

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this could be pretty redemptive how does this how to display out or would you be giving too much away

what is where I know it is bolt fits a Bears part center TX

extremely humerus and parts that are quite touching the other thing that

dad I think people in central Illinois what about it isn’t there so many to

how many to descriptive parts Rico I been there I’ve driven down there

you really captures spirit OK area I’m trying to not break

riders spend much time in Indian land in central Illinois

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the one I think of this is the late Philip Jose farmer which is almost a surprising City

what’s the science fiction writer and spend alot of time away from this planet but I know I

I know I’ll suspect also I was Spencer set some of this novel specifically

and some verses of central Illinois Peoria have you ever seen a strong reaction

action from raiders from patrons Georgia George this book we had a

does a really nice signing and up Morton Pumpkin Festival

festival signing out there so I’m just hoping it really takes off

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okay let me go over to Kelly’s from now over the library

you have about you brought upon a box with you what what you want what do you have that you would recommend right now

right now well I have lots of things recommend someone that

one that I was brought in um that I actually in reading right now because of October

like to read scary box to prepare myself for Halloween holiday

and so I am reading one right now called help for the haunted by John Searles

that’s not very twitch TV and a little scary and Ally

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adalat mysterious can you be more specific

it is about it takes place in the 70’s and 80’s

it’s about to girls who grow up in a family were their parents

provide some sort of nebulous service for people who think they are haunted or have family

family members who are haunted by demons and so the parents

Aaron stepmom prays over them constantly in the dad a claim that he sees

seize different beans and and perform exorcisms per se

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but um they work with the person trying to figure out a way to ease their

is there mind and the common life down after

followed by these bean now what do you look for in women

Ninon horror fiction and I don’t I don’t know exactly what’s the meaning of physical affection

do you like somebody keeps you up at 9 does a dozen trace a hair in the back of your neck that certain things

you know my taste very through the years in and I certainly Redbox

things to 54 but when I do it or I like things that basically keep me on the

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on the edge of my seat you know I want to know um I want to find out about

something scary that’s happening in a way that they find out about it and solve the problem

difference in a mystery or suspense novel because they’re often times is something

thing at it to it as it to the horror genre like maybe there’s apparel

paranormal occurrences or um some sort of supernatural

natural bee or  just a mysterious loans

do you know your basic accounting so yeah I like I like to go to read something that’s kept

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factors that okay John Searles if I’m looking at the correct Johns

Searles um is a is the editor at large

Cosmopolitan magazine and the offer to other novels boy still missing and strain

strange but true Mary Beth I’m wondering over at your store is there a particular phone

the following for horror fiction is there anything that hot right now off

there’s always stirs always love

interest in horror fiction in once again when we together

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focus on local office we have a book that really well bye

actually of works at a library in central Illinois

name is Sylvia shoals and the book is called fractured spirits haunt

hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital & Peoria State Hospital for people who

people who want somebody with that was in an old mental hospital that used to

used to a exist in in Bartonville just south of of Peoria

I think some of the buildings are still standing of a hospital itself is long gone

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that’s correct a hand up at the time when it was built considered white

white progressive interms of Mental Health but then

send after a long period of time I think it’s working women to live

and so into its its a good setting for um scare

scary stuff to happen on iOS what is focus

focus on Jim meadows and we are talking about up about books books for phone

fall and my guests this morning ara ara Mary Beth

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best maple with the you like a book no excuse me I know you like a book is

what is the correct is the correct title of the name of your independent bookstore

in Peoria heights and Kelly stroma Collections Manager for the champagne

campaign Public Library and their sharing a sum of their book recommendations for the

the fall we invite you to do the same give a call toll-free at 1 802

3222 94551 800 222 WI

illl R Us send me a question by email it will dash Tongkat Illinois

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illinois.edu are contact me at Twitter or Facebook that focus

focus 580 we were on Kelly I know

we were looking at a report earlier and I think I sent you a copy of a big server

survey that was a put up at the National Endowment for the Arts

about a book reading habits apparently they didn’t even larger survey about

about just about all the all the are all the artistic media that other people Arkansas

consuming these days but we were focusing on the book part and dumb

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there’s there’s there’s a lot of numbers here I stand up

Marybeth we get this is Debbie get this release over to you as well I’m sorry I

sorry I don’t believe I receive it okay so I’m going to talk to Kelly hear about it

one thing I gather is um one thing I saw a sentence

the percentage of people who read for fun that is read books that they do not absolutely

have to read for school or work has held about steady over the years

despite everything despite the Internet to spike short attention span

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spans an extra distractions is is is is that a surprise for yours at something

something that you can just tell by the library traffic is going is happening no its not surprise

surprise I’m supposed to hire a people still use or public

Public Library in our book stores on a regular basis books are just as popular as they ever were

never were and maybe even more so because the access to them its so much easier right now

okay with young couple weather what were the some things you somewhere of a ticket

particular interest in we were talking before the program about what you saw about young people reading

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cat there was a statistic that um Americans age 18 to

224 r reading more now than they were in 2008 and I have Siri on it

Siri yeah okay so this is what I think I think this is the kids to grow up

what Harry Potter  and the whole crazy nights of Harry Potter

Harry Potter in the popularity Gotham even more and more interested in books

books and they kept with that branch off and other things

as they grow older and hat now we have a whole new group of kids

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kids who are orchids are young adults who are reading more than maybe generations before

4 because of this phenomenon and um

the other thing that goes wrong with this is the genre of young adult literature is Drake

gigantic right now just huge you go to bookstore huge arias

area code is single early to teen books for young adult book and

um I think they’re really gunning for that type of population as of Qatar

are are used to have a better bail bond to them they’re going to grow up

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does readers if they’re good readers kids are going to grow up and be great readers and on the other thing 2

thing to actually that want to play on Thursday new genre book stores now you see call new adult

dont that is specifically for people in their 20’s set maybe is a transition between

between young adult books confusing but teen books and adult book

there’s something about the cold noodles that’s interesting Marybeth can you feel a sin on this refers

first of all how are you doing what are you seeing in terms of a just young adults Sales

store with everything thats thats been said im getting alot

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young adults in and what I find fantastic

is that once they’ve gone through the Harry Potter and then I think you graduate the Twilight

white light the Twilight series with big and firm there ICO

a lot of young adults going towards the classics

can I have a hard time keeping my class accept section stock

when you say classics what’s the material are they going 40 everything

Jane Austen to f*** your wife

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yeah yeah its it’s really fun of Hemingway

weight of one of the big things that I want

the new novel for child has a couple years is called the Paris wife

wife and it is a novel face tanners Hemingway

wade in his first wife first year in Paris and when people read

read that special young adult ice age you should pick up Hemingway’s removal

moveable feast which is actually his account of their first

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first year in Paris together makes nice companion book and people just love

just love it like to know if you’re speaking of classics elite weeds are some of the books Eli

she likes in Raleigh 20th century classics East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Steinbeck which I confess I really only nobody James Dean movie but I think there’s more to

more to it than anything in the same backwards and you can’t go home again by Thomas Wolfe

and I think what would I think what what what teams have been released

Billy influential book for the 20th century wine Springfield Ohio Santa at 7

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stories by Sherwood Anderson in which of the home town is near

not fed furred falls at all it’s a list of the

the more of what is septic look at a small town American Life

life is like and I think there’s been a really big for dish in off at the 20th century

anyway in literature thank you very much sleep for those for those tweets Indiana

go ahead and contact us on Facebook and Twitter at focus 580

zero the new adult category berry best you have to do you have that can

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that category as such an ear store no I don’t

young adult mix in with my children section

but the Chive not really familiar with the new adult category

okay um we are talking about books and new book

new books here at the at the on focus with a

Kellys ROM of the Champaign Public Library in Mary Beth middle of a rhino you like a book in PA

in Peoria heights tell if you have a couple books you have one of them hear about college

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how much football is like it looks like a couple of big books just about the whole

holtfield college football which we think about a lot here in Indian in Champaign Urbana

tell me about the 101 have with you will the one I brought to the

do that at that I can put on the list for your listeners and I want to run in today’s come forth

fourth and long the fight for the soul of college football by John you a b****

bacon South like the food bacon and this particular WA

ur1 what is the day of the jackal hard look at 4 program

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Penn State Ohio State Michigan Northwestern what’s a particular interest to a bar

Big Ten with first and obviously you follow the teams around what do the practice

the practices follow them to their lunch into their classes taught

ministration just called to spend time immersing himself in in the world

world college football and wrote about his findings and um there’s 2 things in there as you can

imagine and not the guy is this a brighter huku comes as a football fan

send as a lover of the game yeah but what is Cantonese

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Saint general sense what what do you find sister Big O

the controversies of about the news talk briefly touches on

the sanctions against Ohio State of course the hull Penn State

state map um the ideas of um

off the responsibly the given to the players in

in games and not so much in finding careers for the

search for the outside Field that’s fourth and long the fight for the soul of

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call of college football by John u bacon what is the second book you have about

college football is well and I’m looking at the lakes steer and bull

what’s the title is the system the glory and scandal of big time

college football and is it doesn’t color covers round does going to different address

similar ground but its on nationwide Big Ten internet written by

I am the very well known investigative journalists Jeff benediction Armen Kitaen who I think

390 XP on and yeah it goes outside

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the big 10 and um is maybe in even harder look

at some of the bad things are going on in college football in maybe a way that

what are looking at the possibly that we need to change this around their needs to be some changes made 2

made to the NCAA expectations you know one of the things I

Xipe scene discussed in the news media in among commentators more in in the last

last few years is the idea that maybe after all this time Ave

college football being a purely amateur sport at least in theory that

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because of there so much money going in the game that the college football players in cell

selves should be paid to these books deal with the subjects  I think

think the does the army contain won the system the green skittle Big Ten college for

college football that when does touch on um the economics of it um

that’s how much I think the John bacon book by temperature Benedict

Garmin contain wonderfully does so does dota 2 books 4th and long is the money really Focus

focuses on Big Ten teams and that’s my John u bacon in the system the glory

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glory and scandal big time college football by Benedict in Catan

college football as a whole umm let me go back to let me go back

go back to you marry bath in MN 11 of the check ins on some of the books that you were looking at

looking at right now and then and again some of those and some of those authors with router contacts

Texan Inn in central Illinois and one of them I was struck by was won

that the listeners I believe this American life on weekends in W

wyll what ever heard of that’s the late David Rakoff

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yes you are good to have I work at the station airs in the air

there’s that show b*** up um tell me tell me a little bit more about David Rakoff

how tall is wonderful wonderful writer is he said he was country

contributor For This American Life and he passed away about a year ago

before he did he wrote what I think it’s just of phenomenal bucket

Apple title love it 211 called love

dishonor marry die cherish perish

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most unique thing about this novel

is that it’s written entirely inverse converse

inverse its its poetry but its actual nap after

after all this time narrative vs it’s is it like Longfellow coming back

cars are the different servers where is it sold on my high school

poetry that made of think its called iambic pentameter

ok and Shakespeare

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fix a highwayman okay I’ll remember that

it’s now here’s my blank spot in my high school English classes but I am a zombie

I’m hoping that I hope I’m hoping that a lot of folks listening know what you’re talking about yeah

is it it tells a story totally running poetry and

what is love  Osseo a lot of us don’t

read poetry that much after we get out of high school and college

and this book is so we’ll go so well done that lyrics

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excited to find out what happens next its just I think it’s so

book that is a keeper don’t want to load it out to anyone

want to keep it on yourself you can go back to it languages chest

just beautiful with descriptions are gorgeous that’s love dishonor

honor marry die cherish perish by the late to the light

David Rakoff and then this is this is a book of something now in your store

yes that’s okay we’re going to take a quick break now and come back

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comeback actually Kelly has another book which I think contains passages of iambic pentameter

pentameter um be interesting to find out about this one were here more

more about it in the moment as we continue our discussion of books for fall here on focus

wyll  this is focus on WI

UIL LMG medicine were talking about books for fall

and my guests today are a bookseller and a librarian

very best Naples is with a I know you like a book that’s her book store in Peoria

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REI Heights DMV website R&R Facebook page it best to go to marry off

we have souls probably the Facebook pages Moore update

updated and that would be at you like a book youl IKEA

a pillowcase you like a book and Kelly Strom is the collections manager

manager for the Champaign Public Library and OU Fox have a website is there a Facebook page for the library

library to their shirts you can access that through our website champion.org okay we were talking

talking just a moment ago about a David Rakoff book love dishonor marry die cherish

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cherish perish written in iambic pentameter and jelly

another recent book written in iambic pentameter can you tell me about the

what is a quince in this one is called William Shakespeare’s Star

Star Wars and it by ear and ocean and it is

is of the story of Star Wars written in Shakespearean style iambic

pentameter and I have one party here to read if you would like please do

ways to write its about those in Star Wars fans out there is take place

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pastry the time when Lucas living with his aunt and uncle and wants to take off on his own fart so much

call Mike and they need him back at their place to help with the harvest so just like a soliloquy

aqui no no cat this part sew here to SoCal

sing but harvestime I need the most without here in the desert

where to get dessert to the only one more season this year I shall Macon

making up at harvest time to hire more hands to help in Kansas salgo

next year to the Academy to pilot is a noble trade fibroid

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what family is nobler still I pretty understand I need the loop

Luke  now I did like that little of that that little trailer phrase pairing

desert and dessert I’m on my way

Eminem always a little suspicious of these culture mashup books and there are certainly a bunch of them now

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer

whole lot of one said I don’t know about do you think that they work on

on any staun on any state on on any level Beyond

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the most simple parity popular I can say that

Amita the wanted you mentioned have been on bestseller list have been widely popular with R

champane as well as on a national level um I don’t know that

don’t know that I can speak for um for the veracity of this Shakespeare

Experian take your b*** my job is to get things that are popular with

popular with the people make sure that we have them at the library for everyone to experience on their own

how to make their own decisions so they been great people of them

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I’m wondering um very best of do these BookBook Smoove well with you

your store are us play to in this is interesting

here because we were talking about authors from central Illinois a no Shakespeare

Experian readings we are just a signing with woman name

Lisa Kline Wiesel’s father used to be a columnist

for the Peoria Journal Star Jerry’s archery club yes in German

when was the long time sports columnist does what he was best known for icing for

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revealing movies plays in classical music cetera et cetera Journal Star

that’s what I remember meeting at about Lisa Kline lisa is a form

former professor of English and she writes

young adult novels and most of them are based on Shea

Shakespearean plays really yes to wonderful her first one was off

sofilia and she was just at the store when called

love disguised of one is Lady Macbeth daughter

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so does she keep her narrative with in the world that shakes

Shakespeare created our Chien Ryder vs friends like these two modern setting

what she doesn’t really translates and which doesnt she takes the basic story

index bands on it further than what Shakespeare wrote

who wrote and the saying that I really love about this writing is that she made

what makes female characters much stronger than Shakespeare ever

forever dead  that’s very interesting so its still in the world that includes

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who did the events of the Shakespeare plays but maybe she finds out some other things

things are going on of states that were yes that’s very interesting

CNN in a young and young adult a contact sofilia she I take a cheater

chicos for the younger characters but actually a lesson

lyrics something there to get someone in their hair

love disguise first base de Leon one of

Shakespeare’s comedies rather than tragedy I’m trying to remember the comedy

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I know there’s one word where are women dresses up as a man but I forget which one it is

what is the name of a dice ok

the whole premises water shakespeare’s first used with also his

is true love stanza

okay um hears a female we got from a married who’s right

is Right loser of writing about a local office in Farmer City Kansas know about

how about Stacey Coverstone she is from Farmer City and uh

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the actually listed as a bestselling author and several categories on Amazon

based on the East Coast Ashia specializes in a mug

are the categories contemporary historical western romance is she in

CN Jackson ricin Supima renter books there always entertaining to read

her website is Stacey Coverstone that Stacey with the Wind covers

Bridgestone .com Andaz up Mary rights pharmacy is very proud of her so

so I keep that that that that offer rental East Stacy Coverstone formula

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formally of of Farmer City and Stacey Coverstone .com I’m just

just been fun but I produce at the plate Shakespeare play with trying to remember the name of is 12

elf night okay umm you don’t I wanted to ask a

the both of both of you just a little bit of what’s the role of a

ebooks is is is is is wash your own business do

motor stores sell ebooks is that something you do Mary Beth I

I would have the option to do that through the American Booksellers Association

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sociation but I choose not to of one of the reason

reasons is because I’m not fat technically proficient

and the other thing is it doesn’t really fit with my business model

model my business model is this my story is a destination point

it is placed calm and relax and browse and Reed

real books in fact I have a number of customers

Fathead various types of readers that come in and Bible

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iBooks because they miss the feel of a book famous

miss turning a page they miss looking at a really neat

cover soul of a book sale date fair competition form

for me but I’m comfortable with my brick and mortar store

that’s very interesting now the Champaign Public Library killing understand does

does provide ebooks now I’m wondering how that’s working out we actually do alot an electron

electronic media right now we are part of a large consortium that provide ebooks

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2 people for free and its of overdrive is the name of the company in Ark

dark horses called mymediamall you can get to that your website champagne

.org and then click on downloadable when you do that you’ll see the option for my media mall

which is both ebook for all different kinds of readers we don’t exclude and eReaders

and then I’m also downloadable audiobooks to listen to as well b******

which is equally popular we also have something called video which is a magazine

what you download onto your e readers which is fantastic you could see the cover you turn

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return to flip on your screen to turn the page is just as you would a magazine

we have that we also have preloaded Kindle to check out at the library

library so we have okage maybe 2000 for Kindles anime

the theme for instance is the mystery Kindle it’s pretty loaded with like

like 50 different mystery title if you really a mystery lover you can come in tights

how to cancel trial many books you can check out a mystery Kindle in in have all different story

right there for you to read and then the last going to be getting student something cold

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which is not only downloadable audiobooks what is also movie

movies TV and music now of a lot of this except for

except for the Kindles on loan

really don’t involve going to the library is a place you go to the library website

download from there and Mary Beth I get it if you were to sell ebooks

books that would probably be threw your website my correct there

so that I’m just wondering that does change the experience

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Marybeth you talked about of people with candles come to your

your store because they miss the experience of books but I’m wondering if they also miss the

is the experience of going to the bookstore which is just a little different

different from a from looking at a bunch of book covers on a screen in reading free samples

exactly and in fact it’s the hole

discussion and I’m not talking just about book clubs in talking about customers

customers that come in and start talking to another customer about books reading

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red and what they like in recommendations book reading is very very interactive

active and I just don’t think you get there benefits

All Souls to my knowledge to date you can’t get an eReader

readers signed by an awesome um yeah I’m trying to say

trying to take away that would work but I don’t

okay you know we just dumb of just go with it

tweetIn from um from grace about a house divided

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devour the Ice and Fire series this summer now I’m I’m I’m I’m looking around desperately

my computer screen about the Ice and Fire series can either you tell me anything about

Oris at the fire n ice fire and ice I’m here we are okay

this is a are you there View familiar with a series of the George RR Martin

I do not know race place tweets amor

where SOIC where where where were we’re so blind this one this one area I see several

several things called fire and ice but um and there is off

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is a fire n ice a 2003 novel in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter

but I after that my eye my knowledge about this goes the Warriors series

is a children’s fantasy series written by Erin Hunter about

about warriors of the Thunder clan 104 groups of feral cats living

living in the wilderness tell me grace is that the one I know

it’s not where I am i producing thanks for talking about the George R Martin books

nnnn how does books for losing 4 with special with the TV show

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TV series huge gigantic you yeah TV series will always

Parkmoor interest thank goodness for people wanting to come in and actually read

the books or read a company books that might explain a topic even further

brother 113 Tristan peak now I’m feeling now I’m feeling feeling very

very sorry that I couldn’t make the original connection to a duel George RR Martin

Martin Mary Beth do the book Smoove well at your store I guess they do

think im all out with us and Kelly about the

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television series are the members of Charlene Harris with a vampire 1

yeah yeah yeah

when that was out of the cable stations we couldn’t keep outside

that’s it that’s that’s very very interesting that happens and it happens with

writers that I would have thought from of wood

would have been considered genre riders to go to smaller devoted b*** smaller

smaller reader ships that’s a certain me how I knew of New Deal the name my reputation

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Jason of George RR Martin decades budgies he sees your name

while he’s definitely been around for awhile but now now is quite popular

from Champaign had a comment on on on fire n ice good morning around the air

4000 & A

1000 pages long and there’s a map

kinds of different characters you follow through out and

complex December 21

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kind of stories with the magic fairy similar to

I can’t think of The Hobbit series of a kind of the Lord of the Rings Jr

RR talking on the cob

character killed off

okay don’t don’t don’t don’t fall in love with any of the characters

the characters do in Temple

5008 o’clock help

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okay will Jeff thank you very much for filling me n and you know that’s one thing

dancing im 11 saying I thought of is that there’s something so into

Tyson about a series of books because you’re walking into a whole world after while

well you get to know that world you must Marybeth you must you must you must see

mercy customers coming in who are really who are really in love with a particular Siri

series of books this true and I think that works both of the adult level is well

is well is the Children’s level I get to mention of a book signing

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I’m going to have a week from Saturday to woman

central Illinois Jennifer Paulo and she doesn’t

does a series of children’s books called Rachel

Sammy series rachel is a raccoon and Sami is a skunk

and what Jennifer does is write about it

ecology in Illinois books like Rachel and Sammi

learn about the Prairie Rachel in Sammy’s about forest Rachel

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about trees latest signing is Rachel and Sammi

learn to conserve and I think a scared mortorcycle middle

middle school children start reading the first once they want to read everyone to see

the series learning something about a Recology as well as really enjoying

Siri catching up on I’m catching up on of what we were talking about

about a few minutes ago about ebooks Katrina tweets to I said yes ebooks can

what can be signed by authors there are services that allow for you book signings the bigger

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the biggest right now is called Arthur graph not quite sure how it works but apparently it

it is possible let’s read what’s repeat the name again of The Office coming for you

coming for your signing in thats Jennifer Poulsen um author

author of The Rachel and Sammi Siri yes and I really really looking at

local wildlife native wildlife in Illinois and

and and and have ever have you seen the following for her in your children

Department  are you still getting no she’s gay

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she’s getting know when we have sightings hear the people that have started to return books come back

come back for more self working out well okay we still have

few minutes left I’m enough for you to get a suggestion in on a favorite

favorite book or give a question for our guests Marybeth Maple Ave I know you like

do you like a book in Peoria heights and Kelly strum at the Champaign Public Library

are phone numbers 1 800 222 94551 800 222

wyll the email address will dash talk it Illinois .edu

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are you can reach me at Foca Duff Twitter and Facebook at focus 5

580 and the Kelly I wanted to go back to you with the I’m with

with with the book list actually I just have a KaiKai just have a question coming in one drink

you were already recommending Kelly of a book for Halloween

does the weather you are you Mary Beth have a recommendation for a book for Halloween for kids

kids  stumps my ass

why I supposed to depends on the the age of the earth

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of the child and what sorts of things are interested in um my kids always

kids always like I can’t think of the authors first name um maybe Mary Beth Moses I think I

when is the last name and She Wrote books like which witch is which in

are you familiar with out one know I’m not one sign in

his favorite when he was younger was the group goosebumps Arrow OK

still popular photo spots are still popular  which

which witch is which um quick look in your eyes by Pat Hutchins

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um about identical twins were invited to a Halloween party this address is witches real

which witch is which has the story continues so that’s a

16 gestion for for a Halloween right there you had what is a knot

fiction book what is totally different jelly from a non fiction books in football

talking about earlier tell me about the garden gardening in miniature

well I just wanted to bring in the spectrum of all the things we have available the library

librarian in this particular one I have checked out because I am a gardener and um

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um I thought was the end of the season now maybe we like to look at the bottom pictures free

free the next year or things maybe we could do indoors in this one is called gardening in miniature

nature by Janet Janet with a Niger anit Calva

salvo and I know it goes over the phone I’m on the pill

is happening now with the fairy garden and other things like that were people are are

are using a space if maybe 12 by 12 or so and then there buying

buying miniature plants in the creatine like little world forgetting will prop

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little chairs at the putting by the plants because you’re so tiny they appear to be

BBC like big trees if you put a little too you’re next to them and secreting these these

these awesome little world examples in here off of different things at people

people of John and ideas for different plants you can buy that would meet your qualification

Caitian but they’re making like little lake sexy boathouse Suzanne dance

dads forest path all in this little tiny space and Anna

anime somebody’s like I said are available to do indoors is indoor house plants

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can’t I type of situation in some of them are just maybe ideas for us to do next year

that’s gardening in miniature who is the author of the book Janet kalvo

okay I know with any time I see a DIY book that gets Maya

Maya curiosity a look at thinking well maybe I’ve never done anything from DIY

but but but but the dream is is still there is that

that a category for you by Mary Beth at your store the people coming looking for things on

um yes I would say so we have a smell during off

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everything of souls Church DYI

why I feel tired  popular most of Versailles believer

are used books but that makes them favorable some people that’s

that’s something I was wondering cause you to have a mix of new in used I don’t know if this is a

off of an approaching other stores are going towards now but two people to buy certain

certain books new and certain books used  yeah

yes I believe they do off and it all depends upon

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is there interest in a guy there a collection some people like

what used books but they want them all hardcover by certain officer

if they love the offer but are Nintendo and keeping the books forever

never fails by the used paperbacks so it is very

okay it’s just everybody has everybody has their own strategy I guess as to

as as to which the goal for exactly okay I once had

had a woman come in and all she wanted was Brown books because she was

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she was doing her family room I have her I love her to things like that

like that but I’ve never actually heard directly that this is the book 50

cystic or yes okay I’m glad you can provide service

your running out of time here but I do want to get one last

last mission of a of a both of your places for people who are looking for books of course the public like

Blake library in your community work every you live is a fun place to go to shampoo

Champaign Public Library in Champaign you also have a Facebook page as well

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what is your own website Kelly Strom think you very much for being on the program with

with me today to talk about fall books and Mary Beth maple

best of luck in Indian times like these with your store

I know you like a book and that’s all I guess on Prospect in downtown

downtown Peoria heights that’s true and undefined you online

online where’s the best way to where’s the best place to go  if you go to face

Facebook would you like a book  okay so that’s really that that’s

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that’s really the best way to get connected to do to get connected to you there yet

yes this okay well thanks to the both of you for being on the

the program today and again if you have suggestions in comments about books

books that you’d like to recommend are so just go ahead to our website at will

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