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~ KATIE G Cinder: Lunar Chronicles #1 by Marissa Meyer “This series is great. Cinder takes a fairy tale and flips it over exposing this amazing underbelly of fantastical possibilities. The story is engaging, the characters are great, and it's just a lot of fun. I'm really excited that Marissa Meyer is focusing on these … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean Reviewed by Steve(n) If every new experience is a bead on a bracelet, then memory is the string that unites these events into the coherent chain of a human life. David Stuart MacLean had the uncanny and horrifying misfortune of having … Continue reading The Delicate String of Memory: THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS ME
HARDCOVER FICTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Guts by Roddy Doyle Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author. The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle’s fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved … Continue reading New Releases – 1/28
Ishmael Beah's book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider soared to the top of bestseller lists (and book club lists) when it was released in 2007. A harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war, Beah's story exposed readers to the fate of child soldiers. Now he has returned with his first novel, Radiance of Tomorrow, an … Continue reading Ishmael Beah Reads From RADIANCE OF TOMORROW
This morning the American Library Association announced the winners of this year's Youth Media Awards. Included in the ALA Awards are the 2014 recipients of the Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal. Congratulations to all of the winners and honorees! Flora and Ulysses was one of our favorite books of 2013 and we're thrilled (and not … Continue reading ALA Youth Media Awards Announced
Birth, School, Metallica, Death: Volume 1 by Paul Brannigan & Ian Winwood Reviewed by Bosco I'm fairly sure that I first saw Metallica in the summer of '86 in Dallas, TX. I remember them being one of the greatest live bands I had seen up to then. Through that show's date until the early 21st Century, … Continue reading Going Home Again: BIRTH, SCHOOL, METALLICA, DEATH, VOLUME 1
All the Book Deals: B.J. Novak is now venturing into the fun world of children's literature. A Book With No Pictures, part of a two book deal from Penguin Young Readers Group, comes on the heels of his debut adult collectipn, One More Thing: Stories & Other Stories coming out on 2/4 that was also part of a two book deal … Continue reading This Week In the World of Books
Last night we had the extreme pleasure of hosting Ann Patchett in our store for a reading & signing of her book This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This is her first dip into the world of memoir, and she was lovely as she told the stories last night that lead to the … Continue reading Ann Patchett Recommends
Good evening, everyone! Welcome to the Nightmare Factory Lecture Series! Please take a seat, as our lesson is about to begin. We were all thrilled to have Robert Bloch join us last month to discuss plagiarism in the Cthulhu mythos, and we couldn't be more excited for Norman Mailer's address on contemporary intoxication in letters … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club MEETS TONIGHT
HARDBACK FICTION ________________________________________________________________ Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan From Nancy Horan, bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. We have SIGNED COPIES available while supplies lasts on our shelves … Continue reading New Releases – 1/21
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