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Happy New Year!

May 2012 bring peace, health, and prosperity to all.

Dan DeWeese starts out a stellar lineup of authors for the year on January 28^th with a presentation on You Don’t Love This Man, his lively book set in Portland Oregon.

Here is a link to his event page:

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/event/dan-deweese-you-dont-love-man

Every year we have great fun compiling out lists for the best books of the year. Year is a look at a few of our picks for the best of 2011.

Our top pick for Mystery in 2011 is Craig Johnson’s Hell is Empty.

Craig Johnson is always the star of our year! This man has star power and talent to burn, he can write like a house afire. He is hugely popular; his publisher even tours him in Europe. His Walt Longmire mystery series is being made into a television movie. Yet he makes time every July to return to Sunriver Books & Music and we are so very grateful. Craig, you rock!

Here is a link to his event page for 2011 with a description of our pick for the #1 mystery of 2011, Hell is Empty.

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/event/craig-johnson-hell-empty

Johnathan Evison's West of Here, is #1 on our Top Ten list for Fiction 2011. He gleefully chews up the scenery in this epic novel that starts on the Olympic Peninsula in the late 1800 when the settlers thought all those majestic mountain peaks, tall trees, clear rivers, and salmon would go on forever. In 2006 their descendants are facing the consequences of all that rampant enthusiasm.

West of Here is a winner of the PNBA Award too!

Here is a link to Jonathan’s event page for 2011.

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/event/jonathan-evison-west-here

People are still talking about his event, he gave a fabulous presentation. Johnathan Evison will be returning June 23, 2012.

Diana Abu-Jaber's Birds of Paradise is #2 on our list for the Top Ten Fiction of 2011. She writes with breathtakingly sensuous, lively prose. Her stories put you right there. Her latest book, Birds of Paradise, explores the anguish of a family when their 13 year old daughter runs away to live on the streets of Miami, surviving in all that hot neon light.

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/event/diana-abu-jaber-birds-paradise

Feathers by Thor Hansons our #1 pick for the Top Ten Nature books of 2011. Tho is a wonderfully nice guy, a talented author, and an experienced biologist. His fascination with the natural world is boundless and catching. Feathers, is full of intriguing stories and facts. Who knew feathers could be so interesting? It sure kept me turning pages.

Feathers is a winner of the PNBA Award too.

Here is a link to his event page for 2011:

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/event/thor-hanson-feathers

Rumor has it Thor will be returning in June 2012.

If you would like to see the full group of Top Ten lists, here are a few links.

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/deons-top-ten-fiction-2011

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/deons-mystery-top-ten-2011

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/flashmans-top-ten-nature-and-animals-2011

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/richs-top-ten-non-fiction-2011

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/richs-top-ten-teenage-2011

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/richs-2011-top-ten-list-children-9-12

It can be interesting to see what your community is reading. We feature the year’s best sellers on the right hand side of our website under upcoming events. Here is a link to the first of the lists for the year 2011. I couldn’t resist showing you that Les Miserable by Victor Hugo is on our Best Seller’s list!

http://www.sunriverbooks.com/2011-best-sellers-fiction-hardback

We hope to see you soon at Sunriver Books & Music.