McLean & Eakin Booksellers

2004 Haslam Award for Excellence in Bookselling

2000 Lucile Micheels Pannell Award for Excellence in Children's Bookselling

Monday, August 4th from 1:00 to 3:00pm: Book signing of The Waters of Michigan, with David Lubbers and Dave Dempsey

Thursday, August 7th from 1:00 to 3:00pm: Book signing of When Evil Came to Good Hart, with Mardi Link

Monday, August 11th from 1:00 to 3:00pm: Book signing of Eagle Rock, with Raenette Palmer

Wednesday, August 13th from 12:00 to 2:00pm: "Booked for Lunch" with Lesley Kagen

Thursday, August 14th from 4:00 to 6:00pm: Cocktail hour, speaking and signing of The Rise of Barack Obama, with Pete Souza

Monday, August 18th from 6:30 to 8:30pm: Cocktail hour, speaking and signing of Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return, with Mary Ellen Geist

Friday, August 22nd from 4:00 to 6:00pm: Speaking and signing of Saving the Family Cottage, with David S. Fry

Friday, August 29th from 1:00 to 3:00pm: Creativity Workshop and signing of Willow, with Denise Brennan-Nelson

Friday, August 29th from 6:00 to 8:00pm: Cocktail hour, speaking and signing of The Fifth Floor, with Michael Harvey

• is comprised of at least one person born in every decade from the 30s to the 90s.
• has visited 37 of the 50 states in the past year.
• drinks a total of about 28 cups of coffee a day.
• has had 45 haircuts in 2008.
• has received 15 parking tickets so far this year.
• bikes, runs or walks a total of about 132 miles per week.

And on a less personal note, we've . . .

• sold 535 books between our two in-store bookclubs from January thru May of 2008.
• donated about 875 books ($7,871.13) to area schools, libraries and non-profits in April of this year.

Here's a little something to consider as the summer season really takes off (brought to you courtsey of The Andersonville Study and the Civic Economics Group):

For every $100 you spend, local businesses give $68 back to the local economy.  Chain stores give back only $43.

See how many of these questions you can answer correctly:

1.  How many in-store author appearances did Amazon stage in town last year?

2.  How many people from the area did Amazon employ last year?

3. How much did Amazon donate to our local community organizations last year?

4.  How much did Amazon collect in sales tax and pay to support schools, social services and public agencies last year?

(If you answered 0 to each of the questions above, you're right!)

If you are interested in having McLean & Eakin sell your book(s), or would like to have a book signing with us, please download, fill out, and send us the form below.  Thank you in advance for considering your lively Northern Michigan independent bookstore!

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