Garrison Keillor with Alexander McCall Smith ($20.00)

Start: 10/15/2010 8:00 pm

Garrison Keillor in conversation with author Alexander McCall Smith at the Fitzgerald Theater. McCall Smith's latest entry to his detective series is entitled The Charming Quirks of Others.

Tickets are available at the store for $20.00. With the purchase of each ticket you will receive $10.00 off the price of a copy of The Charming Quirks of Others. Just bring your ticket stub on the day of the event to receive your discount. (click HERE for more info)

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In this latest and most felicitous addition to the Isabel Dalhousie series, our inquisitive heroine comes to see that there are very few of us who are not flawed . . . herself included.

Isabel has been asked for her help in a rather tricky situation: A successor is being sought for the headmaster at a local boys' school. The board has three final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Could Isabel discreetly look into it? And so she does. What she discovers about all the candidates is surprising, but what she discovers about herself and about Jamie, the father of her young son, turns out to be equally revealing. Isabel's investigation will have her exploring issues of ambition, as well as of charity, forgiveness, and humility, as she moves nearer and nearer to some of the most hidden precincts of the heart. Here is Isabel Dalhousie at her beguiling best: intelligent, insightful, and with a unique understanding of the quirks of human nature.

“As usual, crisp, often funny prose complements the author’s limitless reserve of good will and understanding of people in general.” --Publisher’s Weekly

“With Isabel’s shrewd and frequently funny assessments of people and McCall Smiths heady quotations from W. H. Auden, among others, the Isabel Dalhousie series continues to instruct and amuse.” --Booklist