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Adrian, the world's only illiterate bookseller
Most recent staff pick: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Storybook Treasury by Bernard Waber
Christine and Adrian have been reading this a lot lately and it's a great picture book entry into a chapter book style of read aloud. Adrian loves the images and stories and Christine thinks it makes a great gift. |
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Christine, owner
Most recent staff pick: Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier, illustrated by Suzy Lee. A simple yet gorgeous picture book that also highlights the craft of
bookmaking. Keep reading and you'll find a book within a book within a
book within a book...little ones will love the journey. The
illustrations by Suzy Lee are vibrant and charming and the story is a
great reminder of why books are so powerful. I absolutely adore this
one.
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Emily, manager
Most recent staff pick: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman Though similar in some ways, Elizabeth Bisland and Nellie Bly were remarkably different in others: one leaned toward intellect and good writing, the other toward daring and a good story; one was amazed by the British Empire, the other disgusted by it; one was comfortable with fame and hype, and the other shunned it at all costs; and one won, while one did not. Goodman showers us with lavish details -- of the New York where both women launched their careers, of the ships and trains that carried them away and then home, of Nellie Bly's encounter with Jules Verne himself in France, and of the rapidly changing world of journalism |
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Jenn, events manager
Most recent staff pick: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Russell takes a turn for the dark and violent, in addition to the surreal and absurd, in her new short story collection. Her protagonists have grown up, and boy howdy so have her plotlines. From the American frontier, to inner-city schools, to Antarctic tailgaters, to kidnapped Japanese factory girls, there is a huge range of stories here to enjoy. Maybe read with the lights on, though? |
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Jenny, children's specialist
Most recent staff pick: Jepp, Who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh A gripping coming-of-age story about Jepp, a dwarf in the late 1500s who moves from his comfortable home in Holland to become court dwarf for the Spanish Infanta, then faces exile and is sent to the household of famous astronomer Tycho Brahe. You'll be drawn in from the start by Marsh's gorgeous writing. |
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Molly
Most recent staff pick: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor-winning YA is narrated by a young spy who's writing down her story in order to buy herself time with her Nazi captors. Her tale is full of English planes, secret locations, and the details of life in wartime -- but Wein centers this heartbreaking, gorgeous story on the connection between the captive spy and the pilot who is her best friend. Verity is so carefully pieced together, I may have to read it again just to see how precisely Wein sets out each breadcrumb of plot and character. |
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Simone
Most recent staff pick: The Polyglots by William Gerhardie Funny, quirky novel just reissued by Melville House. I am really enjoying the 1925 humor. A young twentysomething gent comes to visit a host of relatives who are down on their luck following the Russian revolution. Hilarity ensues. |
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Stephanie, manager emeritus
All-time favorites:
The Phantom Tollbooth, The Grapes of Wrath, Bombadiers, Vanity Fair, James Agee, E. Lockhart, The Best of Everything, The Westing Game, Louise Erdrich.
Utter fangirl for:
Alan Moore, Mark Bittman, Nigella Lawson, and Jules Feiffer.
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