@ Market Block Books

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A Rocky the Rock Quarry

While on an annual December outing with his father to a local tree farm to cut down the family Christmas tree, a young boy encounters an unusual resident who changes his life forever. “My Very Rocky Christmas” is the heartwarming, “based-on-a-true story” memoir of a very unlikely friendship. Destined to become a new yuletide tradition, adults will want to share this amazing adventure — and the important lessons it teaches — with the young ones in their lives each and every holiday season.

Step into the ethereal world of Maison Dundee, the oldest and most romantic of New Orleans’ hotels. Novelist Roger Priestly checks in to attend a book signing. He has not produced anything of substance for a while. The poolside courtyard draws him in, inviting his search for the artist’s muse. He finds much more as the boundary between the living and dead becomes blurred. Roger encounters ghosts that ignite an extraordinary flame. Together, with the specters, they weave hauntingly vivid stories that bridge the realm of fantasy and reality.

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.

Double your fun: two authors, two book signings at Market Block Books, Saturday September 2nd at noon.

Robert Ottone signs The Vile Thing We Created, while Clash Books author Michael Seidlinger will be promoting Anybody Home?

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A bestiary & coloring book for all ages. This book has something for everyone - silly pictures; scientifically plausible facts; jokes, puns, portmanteaus, and other wordplay; and of course, very real animals like the cowbatross, the smoth, the narwhallaby, the basshopper, and more. Libby  be
bringing pages to color and coloring implements.

This event will be fun, friendly and interactive! 

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Can a woman who never learned to stand up for herself find the courage to speak up for her son?

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The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad.

In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist.

Please join us at Market Block Books as journalist-turned-novelist Phil Bayly signs his latest thriller Witch Window  Saturday January 14 at noon!

Market Block Books will be open 11-5 on Sunday, December, 4th. The Victorian Stroll ornament is available for purchase.

History of the Stroll

Decades of Magic, Tradition, and Family Fun

For 40 years, the Troy Victorian Stroll has been a community holiday tradition that transforms the streets of historic downtown Troy into a bygone Victorian era, complete with visitors in Victorian dress strolling the City.