Category of the Month
All books in our Science section will be 20% off during the month of November.
Start Planning Ahead
Our Holiday Sale will be held on Thursday, November 17, and Friday, November 18. Be sure to bring your shopping lists and we will also be happy to make suggestions and recommendations for your hard-to-please gift recipients. Clothing, gift items, and books from the general book department will be 20% off.
Recommended Reading
There is never enough time to read everything that appeals to us. These titles are at the top of our wish list:
John Banville, The Sea—Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Sea is a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife’s death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his childhood summers. The Sunday Telegraph says “Banville’s prose is sublime” and The Independent maintains “He cannot write an unpolished phrase, so we read him slowly, relishing the stream of pleasures he affords.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln—Goodwin traces Lincoln’s success at the 1860 Republican National Convention to his character, forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. She demonstrates how his capacity to put himself in the place of other men enabled him to bring disgruntled opponents together and to create the most unusual cabinet in history. This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men.
Tracy Kidder, My Detachment—This astonishingly honest account of Kidder’s tour of duty in the Vietnam War gives us war without heroism, while preserving those rare moments of redeeming grace in the midst of lunacy and danger.