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Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins: Tales and Tips from Growing Up in the '50s and '60s by Sanvidge sisters $18.95 In the fifties, sleek Mixmasters were replacing rusty eggbeaters, and new pressure cookers blew their tops in kitchens all over town. There were kids everywhere, and new ranch-style houses filled vacant lots. … Turquoise Studebakers and dusty-rose Chevy Bel Airs with flamboyant fins and lots of chrome replaced dark pre-war cars. Cameras took color snapshots instead of black-and-white. We wore red canvas tennis shoes and lemon yellow shorts, and bright blue popsicles melted down our chins. —from the Introduction In Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins, the four Sanvidge sisters, whose birthdates span the Baby Boomer period, present a lively chronicle of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in a small Midwestern town. Each sister writes about the facets of her childhood she remembers best, and their lighthearted stories are illustrated with period photos. Sprinkled with mentions of pedal pushers, home permanents, and "two-tone" cars; early TV shows and the first rock and roll; hula hoops, Tiny Tears, and Mr. Potato Head (played with a real potato); and memories of their grandparents who lived nearby, Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins also features "how-tos" for re-creating the fads, foods, crafts, and games the Sanvidge sisters recall in their stories. In their first book, Apple Betty & Sloppy Joe, the Sanvidge sisters gathered food memories and recipes from their Midwestern Baby Boomer childhood. In Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins you'll find out what they were up to - when they weren't eating. Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye $24.95 Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat. When his father for the first time finally tells the story of the horrific disaster he has carried with him so long, it leads the two men to reconsider each other. Meanwhile, Noah’s own struggle to make a life with an absent father has found its real reward in his relationship with his sagacious wife, Natalie, whose complications with infertility issues have marked her husband’s life in ways he only fully realizes as the reconciliation with his father takes shape. Peter Geye has delivered an archetypal story of a father and son, of the tug and pull of family bonds, of Norwegian immigrant culture, of dramatic shipwrecks and the business and adventure of Great Lakes shipping in a setting that simply casts a spell over the characters as well as the reader. Possum Trot by J. Harley McIlrath $16.95 The pieces in this collection form a lament for a way of life mostly gone. “The family farm is dead. Did you know?” says one character within. “E.B. White writes Charlotte’s Web today, it takes place in a hog confinement. Imagine Wilbur living in a concentration camp for pigs.” Still, these pieces are neither nostalgic nor sentimental. Boys bear burdens heavier than is just—they discover truths at too early an age.

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