"You cannot create a place like this; it just sort of happens."

- Victor Herman, Horizon Books' founder, Celebrating the Third Place

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Friday, May 18, 5 to 7PM

Author Signing with Ellen Airgood!

Michigan native Ellen Airgood will be at Horizon Books to promote the paperback release of her sensational debut novel, South of Superior. Come in to talk to her and get your copy signed!

South of Superior is Airgood's debut novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life.

CHECK OUT UP FRONT FRIDAYS!

Every Friday morning Horizon Books is the place for Up Front Fridays, a conversation focused on events in the Grand Traverse region and aired on Up North TV. Always full of interesting guests, Up Front Fridays has its finger on the pulse of Traverse City. Tune in to find out what's happening in your town!

UpNorth TV is available to Charter Cable subscribers on analog Channel 97 and digital Channels 2 and 992 from Manistee to Cheboygan in Michigan's northwest lower peninsula. Shows are also broadcast and archived on upnorthmedia.org. Click the logo to the right to watch right now!

LIVE! LOCAL! and FREE!

Horizon Books is proud to provide a weekly venue for up-and-coming and local musicians. Every Friday and Saturday night from 8:30 to 10:30pm, you can catch great live music (and a full menu!) at the Shine Cafe, located in the River Level of Horizon Books.

Come check it out!

Editor's Corner...

As this is being written, construction equipment is breaking ground to repave the alley behind our bookstore. With any luck, the project will be nearly finished when you read this.

When J.C. Penney's was in the building, the alley was used not only for delivery but also for convenient pick-up of catalog orders. There was also a loading ramp that led down to a garage-size door and large elevator that transported the inventory to the top floor warehouse. The ramp was filled in under our ownership and free parking for downtown customers was allowed for decades. The new pavement will be re-configuring the alley once again.

We'll still have a convenient pick-up and drop-off zone for customers and vendors but the parking, which was coming under considerable pressure in recent years, is gone. Our river level entrance will remain open to provide direct access to our Shine Cafe, magazine department, weekend live music performances and meeting room. Our hope is that you'll still be able to find convenient parking, whether its across the river, at the Hardy Parking Deck, or on Front Street.

UpNorthLive Book Club!

Continuing into our second month in partnership with the new UpNorthLive Book Club, in an effort to inspire community conversation and reading, we are happy to announce this month's pick is Real Life and Liars, by Western Michigan native Kristina Riggle!

UpNorthLive will invite a member of the club to come on UpNorthLive Tonight to discuss the book. Click on the book cover shown here to order your copy today!

Click here to go to our AbeBooks online listing and find the title missing from your collection today!

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