Storm’s a brewin… forecast here is full of nothing but rain clouds and we have some perfect rainy weather craftbooks to introduce you to. Suzanne is an avid knitter and was kind enough to share her Easter bunny/wicked knitting love with us… So any holiday that celebrates candy is my kind of holiday and then [...]
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Check out this absolutely fabulous new accessory for your coffee table or bookshelf…StylelikeU… How to describe such a phenomenon?? Yes, it’s a book, but before it arrived at our quaint little store it was already budding and blooming on that fantastic doodad we commonly refer to as the internet. Click here to check out [...]
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I recently snagged a book from our selection of advanced readers to take with me on my long journey to Iowa and back. Melanie was the first to spot it, in all honesty, but graciously allowed me to read it first. The cover has a fantastic Art Nouveau flare to it … The Truth About [...]
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So, last March I ran into Lauren Oliver at the Book Expo. Love her love her love her, and I told her so… a lot if I recall. And she graciously guided me to the Harper Collins booth so I could get the advanced reader for her, at that time, to-be-released novel Delirium. I had [...]
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I don’t care that I’m almost thirty, I love picture books. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. If you’re like me, you’d be more than stoked to fill your shelves with row after row of books allegedly intended for tiny readers. Why should all those amazing illustrations be wasted on the young? Well, they shouldn’t [...]
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Hardcover Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Paperbacks Something Missing by Matthew Dicks Weeping Underwater Looks A Lot Like Laughter by Michael J. White Audiobooks A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Hardcover Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer Paperbacks Nurture Shock by Po Bronson Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown Just Kids by Patti Smith (This book is so good that everyone at the store is reading it and loving it. Wendy called it “life changing” so I [...]
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Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini is being called “Percy Jackson for teenage girls.” It’s a delicious meld of Greek Mythology and high school romance, but the part we like best is that it’s set on Nantucket! Glory of glories! (The island’s too small to fudge building locations and street names so it’s good that Angelini gets [...]
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Hardcovers Swamplandia by Karen Russell We The Drowned by Carsten Jensen Paperbacks The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Annabel by Kathleen Winter Audiobooks Brief Interveiws with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Young Adult Delirium by Lauren Oliver
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Last night Donald Rumsfeld appeared on The Daily Show (click to watch the interview) to promote his new book, Known and Unknown: a memoir. Although this book has been on the Indie Bestsellers List and is currently sitting at #8, it hasn’t been flying off our bookshelves. I’m not a big fan of Rumsfeld myself, [...]
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