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Karen
While living always in our memory, Karen passed away suddenly on Friday, January 11th, 2008. As you can well imagine, all her colleagues here at The Bookloft miss her sorely as do many of the customers she befriended.
Karen has left us a legacy of many intangible things, but her own writing about some of her favorite books is a piquant reminder of her creativity, intellect, and sense of humor.
We have left her reading suggestions online for all to enjoy.
Five Little Gefiltes (Hardcover)
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780399246081Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Putnam Juvenile, 02/01/2007
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: Five Little Gefiltes
Comments:
To all young "mensches"-ages 4 to 8-who want to learn about traditional Jewish food-in Yiddish terms-this book is for you! This story of five little gefiltes introduces you to great and yummy noshes including: Kreplach, knish, matzo balls, lox, a "shmear" of cream cheese, and shmaltz (chicken fat!). Learn the ingredients that will make you shlep to the store-or kvetch to our folks-about how much you want to eat gefilte fish now! (Includes super glossary of Yiddish terms in back of book
Title: Five Little Gefiltes
Comments:
To all young "mensches"-ages 4 to 8-who want to learn about traditional Jewish food-in Yiddish terms-this book is for you! This story of five little gefiltes introduces you to great and yummy noshes including: Kreplach, knish, matzo balls, lox, a "shmear" of cream cheese, and shmaltz (chicken fat!). Learn the ingredients that will make you shlep to the store-or kvetch to our folks-about how much you want to eat gefilte fish now! (Includes super glossary of Yiddish terms in back of book
The Incredible Book-Eating Boy (Hardcover)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780399247491Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Philomel, 05/01/2007
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Comments:
Little Henry LOVED books, but unlike other children, he ATE books! It all started when he ate a few words
Title: The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Comments:
Little Henry LOVED books, but unlike other children, he ATE books! It all started when he ate a few words
The Soul Support Book (Paperback)
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781580172868Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Storey Books, 03/01/2003
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: The Soul Support Book
Comments:
Deb Koffman, a local artist, greeting card guru, studio owner, and open-mike poetry host, is renowned for her bold, colorful, and whimsical cartoons accompanied by simple yet sage and poignant messages. By capturing life's unexpected twists & turns with swirly, zig-zag and zany lines and featuring adorable, endearing characters with ever changing moods, this book makes you feel as if everyone shares the rich & varied roller-coaster ride of life. Interwoven with subtle flavors of Eastern philosophy, this book is a great stress-reducer by making us laugh at and with ourselves. Face your future with Koffman's fresh perspective and hopeful openness!
Title: The Soul Support Book
Comments:
Deb Koffman, a local artist, greeting card guru, studio owner, and open-mike poetry host, is renowned for her bold, colorful, and whimsical cartoons accompanied by simple yet sage and poignant messages. By capturing life's unexpected twists & turns with swirly, zig-zag and zany lines and featuring adorable, endearing characters with ever changing moods, this book makes you feel as if everyone shares the rich & varied roller-coaster ride of life. Interwoven with subtle flavors of Eastern philosophy, this book is a great stress-reducer by making us laugh at and with ourselves. Face your future with Koffman's fresh perspective and hopeful openness!
Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781933937311
Availability: Out of Print - Contact Us for a Quote
Published: Heron Dance Press, 12/01/2006
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: Heron Dance Book of Love & Gratitude
Comments:
An exquisite and heartfelt gift for loved ones-or for yourself-this book of carefully selected poems (both classic & new), sage observations, and delicate, soothing watercolors simultaneously calms your mind and senses. Helpful to anyone going through a difficult time or seeking balance, this book reminds us to extend compassion to others and ourselves on a daily basis. Without sappiness or sugar-coating or too much "new age" fluff, this work embraces the gritty complexity of life while offering levity and grace to help us transcend struggles, find clarity and feel at peace.
Title: Heron Dance Book of Love & Gratitude
Comments:
An exquisite and heartfelt gift for loved ones-or for yourself-this book of carefully selected poems (both classic & new), sage observations, and delicate, soothing watercolors simultaneously calms your mind and senses. Helpful to anyone going through a difficult time or seeking balance, this book reminds us to extend compassion to others and ourselves on a daily basis. Without sappiness or sugar-coating or too much "new age" fluff, this work embraces the gritty complexity of life while offering levity and grace to help us transcend struggles, find clarity and feel at peace.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312282998Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 08/01/2001
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Comments:
Magical!
This dazzling epic
Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Comments:
Paul Auster Collected Poems (Paperback)
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781585679119Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Overlook Press, 06/01/2007
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: Collected Poems--Paul Auster
Comments:
Auster is my favorite novelist, so I was thrilled to read this comprehensive volume of his prose, musings, notes, and translations of philosopy. As with most of his work, mystery and logic interplay with a stark yet remarkably lyrical style. He has a sharp and clear vision of topics, issues, and events with complex, myriad layers of emotion and meaning as if he were a "puzzle master" of the human experience. Auster plays with the theme of chance vs. fate--which pervades his later work--early in this volume, so it was fascinating to see the origins of his obsession--and the genesis of his singular style--unveiled in his early work. Note: Please read introduction first, as it covers key events in the author's life--and the soci-political climate of the 60's--that had a long term and significant impact on his work and the evolution of his career. Reading about his deep knowledge of philosophy also helped me re-examine my own fascination with his work. While many of his poems address haunting issues, images of vast emptiness, inner wards, and inexplicable "disappearances," he also explores deep yearnings for--and questions about--love. If you haven't read his novels, you may want to start with the stunning New York Trilogy, a triptych of 3 novellas that are masterfully inter-related.
Title: Collected Poems--Paul Auster
Comments:
Auster is my favorite novelist, so I was thrilled to read this comprehensive volume of his prose, musings, notes, and translations of philosopy. As with most of his work, mystery and logic interplay with a stark yet remarkably lyrical style. He has a sharp and clear vision of topics, issues, and events with complex, myriad layers of emotion and meaning as if he were a "puzzle master" of the human experience. Auster plays with the theme of chance vs. fate--which pervades his later work--early in this volume, so it was fascinating to see the origins of his obsession--and the genesis of his singular style--unveiled in his early work. Note: Please read introduction first, as it covers key events in the author's life--and the soci-political climate of the 60's--that had a long term and significant impact on his work and the evolution of his career. Reading about his deep knowledge of philosophy also helped me re-examine my own fascination with his work. While many of his poems address haunting issues, images of vast emptiness, inner wards, and inexplicable "disappearances," he also explores deep yearnings for--and questions about--love. If you haven't read his novels, you may want to start with the stunning New York Trilogy, a triptych of 3 novellas that are masterfully inter-related.
The Maytrees (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780061239533
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: HarperCollins, 06/01/2007
Bookseller:
Karen
Title: The Maytrees
Comments:
My favorite new novel of the year!
Title: The Maytrees
Comments:
My favorite new novel of the year!
Rarely does an author allow such vast space for characters to slowly reveal themselves to one another (and to readers). By painting a bustling portrait of post-WWII Provincetown and its endearing and eccentric inhabitants - mostly poets, artists, and fisherman - Dillard maps their deep connections and fierce loyalty to their hometown, without uneccessary "plot clutter" or superflous prose. (However, keep a dictionary on hand for some surprising vocab such as "saurine.") These everday people - some sleeping in shacks, on the dunes, or in stately homes - each have remarkable internal lives. With an ephemeral touch, Dillard explores the love between the Maytrees - as a couple and as a *very atraditional* family - and the ways in which it ebbs, flows, twists, turns, shatters, and somehow rebinds its broken branches. Perhaps Lou Maytree, a mysteriously quiet and independent painter, wife and mother, embodies what Dillard sees as a most noble approach to life: a deep curiousity about philisophy, a sense of oneness with nature, and sage wisom about interpersonal relations gained by developing compassion toward others, discretion in expressing herself, and a fine blanace of retaining one's sense of self while giving so much to others.
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780060521592Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperCollins, 01/01/2007
Bookseller: Karen
Title: In My Blood
Comments:
While "the Sedgwick Pie," his family's infamous spiral cemetery in Stockbridge, propels the author's riveting and "juicy" account of his ancestors' lives forward, it also looms over him as a harrowing reminder of the legacy of mental illness that has afflicted him - and multiple members of his family for generations. With rare access to diaries, letters, oral history, and the original Sedgwick house, the author humanely exposes each member's disposition and the burden of internal, familial, and societal pressures that both inspired their monumental achievements and inevitably predicted their suffering and tragedies. Finding himself at the center of "the pie," the author identifies with these ghosts and accepts his destiny, pain, and gifts along the way.
Title: In My Blood
Comments:
While "the Sedgwick Pie," his family's infamous spiral cemetery in Stockbridge, propels the author's riveting and "juicy" account of his ancestors' lives forward, it also looms over him as a harrowing reminder of the legacy of mental illness that has afflicted him - and multiple members of his family for generations. With rare access to diaries, letters, oral history, and the original Sedgwick house, the author humanely exposes each member's disposition and the burden of internal, familial, and societal pressures that both inspired their monumental achievements and inevitably predicted their suffering and tragedies. Finding himself at the center of "the pie," the author identifies with these ghosts and accepts his destiny, pain, and gifts along the way.
While the renowned achievements of his family had been documented in the past, In My Blood> takes readers inside the Sedgwick mystiques and conveys what it feels like to be a member of this prominent brood, at times resting on its historic laurels
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156030731Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 04/01/2006
Bookseller: Karen
Title: The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems
Comments:
In 2007, Simic was named the Poet Laureate of the US, so I thought it was finally time to explore his work. Until recently, Rilke had been my favorite poet for decades. Now, however, it's a tie! This volume of Simic's later work
Title: The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems
Comments:
In 2007, Simic was named the Poet Laureate of the US, so I thought it was finally time to explore his work. Until recently, Rilke had been my favorite poet for decades. Now, however, it's a tie! This volume of Simic's later work
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780060584344Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Rayo, 10/01/2007
Bookseller: Karen
Title: Merry Navidad!
Authors: Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy
English version by: Rosalma Zubizarreta
Illustrated by: Vivi Escriva
Ages 5-10
Comments:
Feliz Christmas! This charming and beautifully illustrated, bilingual book of holiday songs from the Spanish-speaking world -- known as "villancicos" -- introduce the rich flavor of indigenous traditions to children around the world. Unlike other bilingual holiday books, the unique songs presented herein are not simply translations of American/Western songs, but are truly of Latin American and Spanish origin. With playful and vibrant drawings -- and the special, unique talents of a spirited mother/daughter author/translator team -- give the gift of song, folklore, oral history, ritual, and tradition to children you adore this season! BONUS: Special section in back includes full musical scores to select songs.
Title: Merry Navidad!
Authors: Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy
English version by: Rosalma Zubizarreta
Illustrated by: Vivi Escriva
Ages 5-10
Comments:
Feliz Christmas! This charming and beautifully illustrated, bilingual book of holiday songs from the Spanish-speaking world -- known as "villancicos" -- introduce the rich flavor of indigenous traditions to children around the world. Unlike other bilingual holiday books, the unique songs presented herein are not simply translations of American/Western songs, but are truly of Latin American and Spanish origin. With playful and vibrant drawings -- and the special, unique talents of a spirited mother/daughter author/translator team -- give the gift of song, folklore, oral history, ritual, and tradition to children you adore this season! BONUS: Special section in back includes full musical scores to select songs.
Merry Navidad! Esta alegre colecci
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781568985237Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Princeton Architectural Press, 10/01/2005
Bookseller: Karen
Title: More Than Words
Comments:
This fascinating collection of letters - from writers to artists, artists to artists, writer/artists to writer/artists, and so on - offers a rare glimpse into their lives, echanges, uniting styles, doodles, and personal drawings. In addition, the book sheds light on what connect these talented people and demonstrates their subtle and sometimes major impact.
Title: More Than Words
Comments:
This fascinating collection of letters - from writers to artists, artists to artists, writer/artists to writer/artists, and so on - offers a rare glimpse into their lives, echanges, uniting styles, doodles, and personal drawings. In addition, the book sheds light on what connect these talented people and demonstrates their subtle and sometimes major impact.
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