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Eric, reader of good nature books and head maple syrup maker, started the Bookloft in 1974.
And Then There's This (Hardcover)
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670020843Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 06/01/2009
Bookseller: Eric
Title: And Then There's This
Comments:
SO I GT 140 CHARCTRS 2 TTY BOUT THIS BK.
Title: And Then There's This
Comments:
SO I GT 140 CHARCTRS 2 TTY BOUT THIS BK.
SEZ IT AL RE: OUR OBSESON W/MICROMINIMAL-FAST INTERCONECTIVNES. WASIK'S BRILIANT & FUNY.
I GET IT NOW! DO YOU? I'V MUCH TO SA BUT M OUT... TTYL
A Reliable Wife (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129771Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 01/01/2010
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: A Reliable Wife
Comments:
Don't be fooled by the chaste cover or the simple title. This book, while simply told, isn't just hot, as one reviewer raved, "it's in heat." Told with an almost biblical austerity, this is Wendell Berry on Viagra. Sex and the cold, stark Wisconsin landscape could almost be called characters in this riveting first novel. All is not as it appears - treachery and subterfuge abound - but "these things happen," author Goolrick constantly reminds us. Well worthy of all the fine reviews it has received. I loved it.
Title: A Reliable Wife
Comments:
Don't be fooled by the chaste cover or the simple title. This book, while simply told, isn't just hot, as one reviewer raved, "it's in heat." Told with an almost biblical austerity, this is Wendell Berry on Viagra. Sex and the cold, stark Wisconsin landscape could almost be called characters in this riveting first novel. All is not as it appears - treachery and subterfuge abound - but "these things happen," author Goolrick constantly reminds us. Well worthy of all the fine reviews it has received. I loved it.
Await Your Reply (Hardcover)
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780345476029Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 08/01/2009
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Await Your Reply
Comments:
Henry James meets Stephen King meets Ian McEwan meets Kate Atkinson in this mesmerizing tale of identity theft.
Title: Await Your Reply
Comments:
Henry James meets Stephen King meets Ian McEwan meets Kate Atkinson in this mesmerizing tale of identity theft.
(Toss in some Quentin Tarantino into the mixing bowl as well.) In the hands of a lesser writer this "who is who," "what is what," "when is when" story could come across as cliched or hackneyed but Dan Chaon is so deft a writer and so familiar with the perils of the cyber world that he pulls it off beautifully.
I found myself rereading the final chapter to understand better how the myriad clues tossed effortlessly came together for such a seamless - if mystifying - ending.
Tons of great reviews.
The Last Canyon (Paperback)
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780618257744Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 09/01/2002
I'll tell you, this ain't no tubing down the Housatonic. A gripping, historically accurate fictionalized account of John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Grand Canyon. Like Michael Sharra's The Killer Angels, you can smell the campfires in this one; it seems so real. Great characters and a deftly crafted story make this a book you'll be passing on to friends.
Peace (Paperback)
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780307388582Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 04/01/2009
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Peace
Comments:
Hands down, my favorite book of the year by a writer most readers have never heard of. A writers' writer, Richard Bausch's publisher is hoping this will (finally) be his break-out book. I have no doubt about it.
Title: Peace
Comments:
Hands down, my favorite book of the year by a writer most readers have never heard of. A writers' writer, Richard Bausch's publisher is hoping this will (finally) be his break-out book. I have no doubt about it.
A consumate stylist who makes you feel as though you can smell the smoke, feel the cold.
Peace is justifiably receiving rave reveiws. Give it a look, you won't be disappointed.
$18.00
Model: 9780978908911
Bookseller: Eric
Title: The Lenox School of Jazz
Comments:
I suspect like many, including myself, the amazing saga of the Lenox School of Jazz, totally escaped you. Started by impressarios Stephanie & Philip Barber first as The Music Inn in 1950, The Lenox School of Jazz component quickly became on of the pre-eminent venues both for jazz performance and jazz instruction.
In 1957, African American teachers simply were not teaching white students in the U.S., let alone Berkshire County. The Lenox School of Jazz did much to change that (see page 33) regardless of race, the creme de la creme of jazzmen played and taught here (see page 39!). Berkshire resident Jeremy Yudkin brings the L.O.S.J story alive in this crisply written & fascinating book.
Title: The Lenox School of Jazz
Comments:
I suspect like many, including myself, the amazing saga of the Lenox School of Jazz, totally escaped you. Started by impressarios Stephanie & Philip Barber first as The Music Inn in 1950, The Lenox School of Jazz component quickly became on of the pre-eminent venues both for jazz performance and jazz instruction.
In 1957, African American teachers simply were not teaching white students in the U.S., let alone Berkshire County. The Lenox School of Jazz did much to change that (see page 33) regardless of race, the creme de la creme of jazzmen played and taught here (see page 39!). Berkshire resident Jeremy Yudkin brings the L.O.S.J story alive in this crisply written & fascinating book.
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780609610732Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Crown, 04/01/2005
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Wandering Home
Comments:
If you're partial to the Champlain Valley/Adiorndack region, as I am, this slight but thoughtful and entertaining book by Bill McKibben is a great choice.
Title: Wandering Home
Comments:
If you're partial to the Champlain Valley/Adiorndack region, as I am, this slight but thoughtful and entertaining book by Bill McKibben is a great choice.
Part of the crown journey series, (see back cover) McKibben's personal walking odyssey from one home to another is the armchair traveller's answer to all those hikes you've long watned to take into the Adirondacks. Though McKibben is sucha a fine writer-and with a poets eye- that you'll soon be packing your pack for the real thing.
A great read!
The Road (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307387899Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 03/01/2007
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: The Road
Comments:
My dilemma is, why would I possibly suggest reading this book to anyone?(Easily the grimiest, darkest book I've every read.) And I'll say right here, it's not for everyone. It's not for most, in fact.
Title: The Road
Comments:
My dilemma is, why would I possibly suggest reading this book to anyone?(Easily the grimiest, darkest book I've every read.) And I'll say right here, it's not for everyone. It's not for most, in fact.
But it is brilliant. A masterpiece of post-apocalyptic vision told with biblical simplicity like some old testament prophecy. N. Korea, Iran, weapons of mass destruction. But the Cold War is over, we say to ourselvs. It won't happen, will it? It can't...can it?
A great writer, writing great literature.
In Search of the Old Ones (Paperback)
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ISBN-13: 9780684832128Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 04/01/1997
Author Roberts hiking boots are well worn, to be sure. A fascinating mystery, still unsolved. If you've ever been to the Southwest this book will particularly speak to you. Author Jon Krakauer appears briefly for an intense chapter or two.
Summer Gone (Paperback)
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780385720755Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 08/01/2001
Joe College (Paperback)
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780312283278Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 10/01/2001
If you need a respite from the heavy news of late, this is the perfect antidote. Sort of a Bridget Jones for guys. A very fun-and funny-book to read. I must admit, I didn't expect it to be so good, but it is!
Tom Perrotta has a sharp memory of what the angst of college years is all about and brings it to life with great wit and poignancy.
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780061231728Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: HarperCollins, 07/01/2007
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Shadow of the Silk Road
Comments:
Simply the best travel book I've read in years. Perhaps ever. And I love good travel writing. Insightful, lyrical, articulate. You'll find yourself reading a line or paragraph over again for sheer pleasure of it.
Title: Shadow of the Silk Road
Comments:
Simply the best travel book I've read in years. Perhaps ever. And I love good travel writing. Insightful, lyrical, articulate. You'll find yourself reading a line or paragraph over again for sheer pleasure of it.
Basically, an 8 month (solo) walk, camel, bus, truck, train ride across a near-mythic path. The clash of cultures permeates this journey and Thubron's mastery of his subject(s) is astounding and informs his writing throughout. Did I mention that he speaks Mandarin? Oh, and Russian. And Farsi. And Spanish.
Thubron can squeeze more insight out of an overheard conversation at a tea shop than you or I could get studying this terrain for years. He writes with a scholar's breath of knowledge, (without being scholarly) and a poet's eye.
If you enjoyed Rory Stewart's The places In Between, you'll love this- it's also a far better book, I think.
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316159357Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Back Bay Books, 04/01/2005
Bookseller: ERIC
Title: Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
Comments:
These guys make the Essex whalehips survivors look like a bunch of wimps! I loved this book. The life of an early 19th century seaman, desert Arab life and culture, natural history, it's all here.
Title: Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
Comments:
These guys make the Essex whalehips survivors look like a bunch of wimps! I loved this book. The life of an early 19th century seaman, desert Arab life and culture, natural history, it's all here.
So well written (based on extensive first person documentation) and evocative. I'll never complain about being thirsty again. Ever.
Straight Man (Paperback)
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375701900Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 06/01/1998
Have you ever been in a serious conversation with someone and noticed that they have a poppy seed caught in their teeth?
As much as you want to point it out, convention dictates that you remain silent, lest the serious tone of the conversation be lost
The protagonist of Russo's new novel, one William Henry Devereaux Jr., not only points out the poppy seed, but willingly suffers the social consequences for his own candor as well.
Like Sully in Russo's Nobody's Fool, Devereaux is his own worst enemy. Self-deprecating, highly intelligent, wickedly funny, he is also mired in the quicksand of middle-age and sinking quickly.
This is a wonderful book. You'll find yourself laughing out loud and reading passages over simply because Russo puts words together so well.
Straight Man is clearly not for all readers. The cynicism is often relentless and the middle-age-crisis theme limits the book's audience. But for a thoroughly engaging novel, extremely well written and funny, Straight Man does indeed stand tall.
As much as you want to point it out, convention dictates that you remain silent, lest the serious tone of the conversation be lost
The protagonist of Russo's new novel, one William Henry Devereaux Jr., not only points out the poppy seed, but willingly suffers the social consequences for his own candor as well.
Like Sully in Russo's Nobody's Fool, Devereaux is his own worst enemy. Self-deprecating, highly intelligent, wickedly funny, he is also mired in the quicksand of middle-age and sinking quickly.
This is a wonderful book. You'll find yourself laughing out loud and reading passages over simply because Russo puts words together so well.
Straight Man is clearly not for all readers. The cynicism is often relentless and the middle-age-crisis theme limits the book's audience. But for a thoroughly engaging novel, extremely well written and funny, Straight Man does indeed stand tall.
The Places in Between (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780156031561Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 05/01/2006
Bookseller: Eric
Title: The Places in Between
Comments:
"I stopped, sat down, got up, walked ten more minutes, and then, because I felt exhausted, sat down again, half buried in deep powder. My feet where wet, my hands were cold..." That's a fairly common description from this very uncommon man and his remarkable sojourn.
Not a pretty book to read in a lyrical sense, but amazing nonetheless. Stewart's knowledge of Afghan history and culture and of the current geo-political scene is stunning and informs his story throughout.
Ghenghis tried, Alexander failed, the Russians and now the U.S. have all tried to "unify" this rugged land of disparate tribes and ethnicities.
The shear audacity of this walk--and of the author--is what lured me to it. Well worthy of the glowing review it received upon publication from the NYT Book Review. A paperback original.
Title: The Places in Between
Comments:
"I stopped, sat down, got up, walked ten more minutes, and then, because I felt exhausted, sat down again, half buried in deep powder. My feet where wet, my hands were cold..." That's a fairly common description from this very uncommon man and his remarkable sojourn.
Not a pretty book to read in a lyrical sense, but amazing nonetheless. Stewart's knowledge of Afghan history and culture and of the current geo-political scene is stunning and informs his story throughout.
Ghenghis tried, Alexander failed, the Russians and now the U.S. have all tried to "unify" this rugged land of disparate tribes and ethnicities.
The shear audacity of this walk--and of the author--is what lured me to it. Well worthy of the glowing review it received upon publication from the NYT Book Review. A paperback original.
Uncommon Carriers (Paperback)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780865477391Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 04/01/2007
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Uncommon Carriers
Comments:
From the pulp mill,
Title: Uncommon Carriers
Comments:
From the pulp mill,
to the printing press,
to the publisher's warehouse,
to The Bookloft,
into your hands,- lots of toiling going on to bring this book to fruition. (Not Counting Mr. McPhee's prodigious effort.)
John McPhee at his most observant and illuminating best. Very few writers could tell us about the people who haul things for us with such astuteness, wryness, and eloquence.
A writer at the peak of his form.
Runaway: Stories (Hardcover)
$27.50
ISBN-13: 9781400042814Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Knopf, 11/01/2004
The women in these stories could be our spouses, our sisters, daughters or neighbors. Her characters and stories seem fairly mundane and filled with seemingly unconnected events. (And makes the reader sometimes wonder where she's going.) But somehow, and with great literary style, she takes all of the frayed ends and yanks them into a knowt. What can I say -- she gets what it is to be human. This book has received nothing but rave reviews. Here is a masterful writer.
In Siberia (Paperback)
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060953737Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2001
Since few of us are likely to motor 1500 miles up the Yensei River (ever heard of it?) to dine on sturgeon and reindeer steak, In Siberia takes us very close to the real thing. If you enjoy Peter Matthiessen, or Bruce Chatwin, you'll surely like Colin Thubron. A fine book about a forbidding and mysterious place.
Prince of Thieves (Hardcover)
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780743264556Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Scribner, 08/01/2004
Simply put, a great story beautifully written. Atmospheric in the style of Dennis Lehane w/the insight into human nature of a mature author. Those who know Charlestown will especially relate. A pretty grim story, not for the feint of heart.
I take exception with the "thriller" label noted on the dust jackt. That's way too simple a tag for this finely wrought, hard-edged but poingnant novel. My favorite of the year.
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781565847958Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: New Press, 01/01/2007
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Digital Destiny
Comments:
Imagine if you got on-line last night & every site you viewed was catalogued, stored, transmitted & sold to someone. Imagine. Oh, wait, that is happening
Title: Digital Destiny
Comments:
Imagine if you got on-line last night & every site you viewed was catalogued, stored, transmitted & sold to someone. Imagine. Oh, wait, that is happening
Hannah Coulter (Hardcover)
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781593760366Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Shoemaker & Hoard, 09/01/2004
Berry brings us once again to his fictional Port William. His best fiction, I think, since "The Memory of Old Jack" (one of my top five all-time favorite books).
For the firt time, tho, for those of you who know Berry's work, the modern world is beginning to creep in. It's refreshing in a bittersweet sort of way. An American master at his peak.
Take a look at Berry's poetry and essays, as well; they're wonderful.
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780312428327Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 04/01/2009
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: A Voyage Long and Strange
Comments:
True or False?
Title: A Voyage Long and Strange
Comments:
True or False?
Tony Horowitz's previous book, Blue Latitudes, is Eric's favorite travel book. [True]
You'll be entertained and illuminated when you read this book. [True]
Roasted Iguana is quite tasty. [Debatable]
We Americans are seriously misinformed (educated) about our own history. [Very True]
You should buy this book! [True!]
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780805065411Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Henry Holt and Co., 10/01/2002
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Blue Latitudes
Comments:
I loved this book! With a journalist's eye, Tony Horwitz paints a fascinating portrait of a complex historical character. Born to impoverished parents, Cook rose to a positionof sumpreme respect in the class conscious British Navy of the 18th century.
Title: Blue Latitudes
Comments:
I loved this book! With a journalist's eye, Tony Horwitz paints a fascinating portrait of a complex historical character. Born to impoverished parents, Cook rose to a positionof sumpreme respect in the class conscious British Navy of the 18th century.
If you enjoy Bill Bryson's work, you'll love this as well (though I think Horwitz is the better writer of the two).
I know, I know, what a cliche, but I couldn't put it down.
Unformed Landscape (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781590512265Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Other Press, 04/01/2006
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Unformed Landscape
Comments:
Most of the action in this gem of a book is internal. To me, reading it was like stumbling on a subtitled foreign movie that while you may not entirely understand it, you do know you've been to an exotic land and have been moved by being there. In this case, Finmark. FINNMARK!
But the real adventure takes place in the protagagonist's heart and soul (Katherine).
A quiet, thoughtful book where seemingly nothing happens, but after reading it, you think back and realize that everything happened.
Title: Unformed Landscape
Comments:
Most of the action in this gem of a book is internal. To me, reading it was like stumbling on a subtitled foreign movie that while you may not entirely understand it, you do know you've been to an exotic land and have been moved by being there. In this case, Finmark. FINNMARK!
But the real adventure takes place in the protagagonist's heart and soul (Katherine).
A quiet, thoughtful book where seemingly nothing happens, but after reading it, you think back and realize that everything happened.
By the Lake (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780679744023Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 04/01/2003
A book where nothing seems to happen, yet everything does. I kept having the feeling that I was in 19th century rural Ireland and then a car would intrude into the scene or a fax would arrive. If you want action, this isn't for you. This is best read on the ack porch in the early evening with a glass of wine and the chore list done. Language is king in this quiet, beautiful book.
Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst (Paperback)
$10.00
ISBN-13: 9780618619290Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 11/01/2005
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
Comments:
As Paul SImon wrote, "Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance, everybody thinks it true." So too, with coyotes. But put them in your backyard eyeing 'ole Fido for dinner and they suddenly don't seem so romantic.
Title: Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
Comments:
As Paul SImon wrote, "Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance, everybody thinks it true." So too, with coyotes. But put them in your backyard eyeing 'ole Fido for dinner and they suddenly don't seem so romantic.
As Berkshire author Catherine REid writes, love them or hate them, they're here to stay, folks. These scrappy, supremely intelligent survivors truly are the stuff of mythology- and an amazing wildlife success story.
A terrific book, illuminating an often poignent.
And Then There's This (Hardcover)
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670020843Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 06/01/2009
SO I GT 140 CHARCTRS 2 TTY BOUT THIS BK.
SEZ IT AL RE: OUR OBSESON W/MICROMINIMAL-FAST INTERCONECTIVNES. WASIK’S BRILIANT & FUNY.
I GET IT NOW! DO YOU?
I’V MUCH TO SA BUT M OUT… TTYL
Forgetfulness (Hardcover)
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780618634637Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 09/01/2006
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Forgetfullness
Comments:
All these years selling books and I've never read Ward Just-what a pitty. As a former Washington Journalist he understands well the current political scene and the trickle-down effects of the war on terror and individuals. We are all impacted.
Not a flashy writer but his prose is so elegantly crafted and evocotive ( you can smell the French cigarette smoke wafting across the page). His characters are complicated. And no one-at least in this book-is innocent entirely.
There's a scene where terror suspects are being interrogated by French "officials" that still haunts me.
Title: Forgetfullness
Comments:
All these years selling books and I've never read Ward Just-what a pitty. As a former Washington Journalist he understands well the current political scene and the trickle-down effects of the war on terror and individuals. We are all impacted.
Not a flashy writer but his prose is so elegantly crafted and evocotive ( you can smell the French cigarette smoke wafting across the page). His characters are complicated. And no one-at least in this book-is innocent entirely.
There's a scene where terror suspects are being interrogated by French "officials" that still haunts me.
The Blade Itself (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780312360313
Availability: Out of Print - Contact Us for a Quote
Published: Minotaur Books, 01/01/2007
Bookseller: Eric
Title: The Blade Itself
Comments:
Here's one for that airplane trip, the beach, the long car ride-whatever-wthe perfect vacation read. Not high art by any means, but a heck of a compelling story & so well written. With rave reviews Marcus's debut novel is being rightly compared to Dennis LeHane. Only these are Chicago Irish pals, not Boston. And one of these "pals", Evan, is as bad as they get. Evil is carnate. Author Marcus Salkey's reputation is on the rise, no doubt about it.
Title: The Blade Itself
Comments:
Here's one for that airplane trip, the beach, the long car ride-whatever-wthe perfect vacation read. Not high art by any means, but a heck of a compelling story & so well written. With rave reviews Marcus's debut novel is being rightly compared to Dennis LeHane. Only these are Chicago Irish pals, not Boston. And one of these "pals", Evan, is as bad as they get. Evil is carnate. Author Marcus Salkey's reputation is on the rise, no doubt about it.
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781401303440Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Hyperion, 01/01/2008
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Stirring it Up
Comments:
I've never staff-picked a business book before, but having heard Gary Hirshberg speak recently, I'm a convert. (Great product, by the way. I'm a convert with yogurt, too!) Stoneyfield is a business that thinks and acts GREEN not only because it's the right thing to do, but because it's profitable. $$$$$
Title: Stirring it Up
Comments:
I've never staff-picked a business book before, but having heard Gary Hirshberg speak recently, I'm a convert. (Great product, by the way. I'm a convert with yogurt, too!) Stoneyfield is a business that thinks and acts GREEN not only because it's the right thing to do, but because it's profitable. $$$$$
With great anectdotes and a lively personal writing style, Gary Hirshberg shows us, trite as it sounds, that we can make a difference. Here at The Bookloft, we've already quietly implemeneted some of the Stoneyfield (and other profiled business environmental practices). Perhaps your business can as well?
The Law of Dreams (Paperback)
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780812978001Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 09/01/2007
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: The Law of Dreams
Comments:
Honestly, the rhapsodic blurbs on the back say it far more eloquently than I ever could.
Title: The Law of Dreams
Comments:
Honestly, the rhapsodic blurbs on the back say it far more eloquently than I ever could.
All true.
one of teh best - if not the best - novels I've read in years. You'll be up late with this one, trust me!
Articles of War (Hardcover)
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780385512770Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Doubleday Books, 02/01/2005
A realistic, spare first novel that captures well the madness and chaos of war. After all of the "Greatest Generation" lit of late, it's kind of refreshing to discover a novel about a coward. A coward for all the right reasons... he's young; he's scared of dying; he's traumatized; he runs; makes perfect sense to me.
But like Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, the youth in this story runs towards an understanding of himself and his place amidst the madness.
Stone by Design (Hardcover)
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781586854430Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Gibbs Smith Publishers, 08/01/2005
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Stone by Design
Comments:
OK, it's settled, we're selling the Bookloft and I'm becoming a stone mason...
Title: Stone by Design
Comments:
OK, it's settled, we're selling the Bookloft and I'm becoming a stone mason...
Check this book out and prepare to be inspired to go out and gather stone and start stacking.
Lew French combines the unique qrtistryof Andy Goldsworthy and the functionality of Yankees like Helen & Scott Nearing to create some truly magnificent work. And all without an ounce of mortar. This is a beautiful book - and reasonably priced.
Atonement (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307387158Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 11/01/2007
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Atonement
Comments:
If you enjoy good writing- I mean the kind of writing where you reread sentences for the sheer appreciation of the author's craftsmanship, Ian McEwan is for you. A master storyteller, McEwan with sharpness and wit unmatched. He reminds me of a mixture of Henry James and John Cheever, with a healthy dollop of Kafka. Worhty of all the glowing reviews it's received, Atonement is at once a psychological novel rich wit hunforgettable characters, and a story of the English class system.
Title: Atonement
Comments:
If you enjoy good writing- I mean the kind of writing where you reread sentences for the sheer appreciation of the author's craftsmanship, Ian McEwan is for you. A master storyteller, McEwan with sharpness and wit unmatched. He reminds me of a mixture of Henry James and John Cheever, with a healthy dollop of Kafka. Worhty of all the glowing reviews it's received, Atonement is at once a psychological novel rich wit hunforgettable characters, and a story of the English class system.
Jennifer Government (Paperback)
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781400030927Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 01/01/2004
Three Day Road (Paperback)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780143037071Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 04/01/2006
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Three Day Road
Comments:
Why do we not hear about terrific Canadian writers such as Joseph Boyden? A good reading buddy told me about this (Thanks, Paul!) and am I glad he did- I see that Jim Harrison has written a blurb for it and I can see why, their styles are similar. The comparison to All Quiet on the Wester Front is apt, and it's definitely not for the squeamish, but I have no problem "staff picking" this beautiful work of historical fiction.
Title: Three Day Road
Comments:
Why do we not hear about terrific Canadian writers such as Joseph Boyden? A good reading buddy told me about this (Thanks, Paul!) and am I glad he did- I see that Jim Harrison has written a blurb for it and I can see why, their styles are similar. The comparison to All Quiet on the Wester Front is apt, and it's definitely not for the squeamish, but I have no problem "staff picking" this beautiful work of historical fiction.
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9780385523820Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Doubleday, 03/01/2008
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Knockemstiff
Comments:
If it's hope you seek, don't look for it within these pages. "Not for the squeamish!"- the cover should warn. This is Winesburg, Ohio on speed. The same desperations are here beautifully portrayed in this gritty first book. Violence, betrayal, lust, hopelessness- they're all here. God help me, but I loved it!
Title: Knockemstiff
Comments:
If it's hope you seek, don't look for it within these pages. "Not for the squeamish!"- the cover should warn. This is Winesburg, Ohio on speed. The same desperations are here beautifully portrayed in this gritty first book. Violence, betrayal, lust, hopelessness- they're all here. God help me, but I loved it!
Red Rover (Paperback)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780143113546Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 08/01/2008
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Red Rover
Comments:
We originally got this in hard cover and it sank like a stone. Not because it wasn't worthy, I assure you. Just out in paperback, I was drawn to the cover, read it and loved it!
Title: Red Rover
Comments:
We originally got this in hard cover and it sank like a stone. Not because it wasn't worthy, I assure you. Just out in paperback, I was drawn to the cover, read it and loved it!
A haunting, lyrical, sweet story of Montana lives, hard-lived, converging unwittingly at the end.
Another of those books where I find myself constantly re-reading a sentence simply to marvel at how beautifully it's written. And those beatiful sentences all add up to make Red Rover one of the best fictions I've read in a long while.
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780807085783Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Beacon Press (MA), 04/01/2007
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
Comments:
I'm not a birder, but i loved this book. With just enough science to make it enligtening an d just enought beer to make it funny - and fun.
David Gessner embarkes on the kind of solo sejourn most of us wish we could take but our lives always seem to get in the way. Gessner's life does occasionally get in the way in this funny, wise and readable book, but somehow, he pulls it off.
He knows ospreys well and by the end of the book you have nothing but admiration for these magnificent birds.
For readers who know Cape Cod, the story begins in the marches of Brewster.
Very reminsiscent in style to Beill Bryson and Tony Horowitz(Blue Latitude).
Title: Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
Comments:
I'm not a birder, but i loved this book. With just enough science to make it enligtening an d just enought beer to make it funny - and fun.
David Gessner embarkes on the kind of solo sejourn most of us wish we could take but our lives always seem to get in the way. Gessner's life does occasionally get in the way in this funny, wise and readable book, but somehow, he pulls it off.
He knows ospreys well and by the end of the book you have nothing but admiration for these magnificent birds.
For readers who know Cape Cod, the story begins in the marches of Brewster.
Very reminsiscent in style to Beill Bryson and Tony Horowitz(Blue Latitude).
Peace (Hardcover)
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780307268334Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Knopf, 04/01/2008
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Peace
Comments:
Hands down, my favorite book of the year by a writer most readers have never heard of. A writer's writer, Richard Bausch's publisher is hoping this will (finally) be his break-out book. I have no doubt about it.
Title: Peace
Comments:
Hands down, my favorite book of the year by a writer most readers have never heard of. A writer's writer, Richard Bausch's publisher is hoping this will (finally) be his break-out book. I have no doubt about it.
A consumate stylist who makes you feel as though you can smell the smoke, feel the cold.
Peace is justifiably receiving rave reviews.
Give it a look, you won't be disappointed.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780618773473Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 09/01/2006
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: The Worst Hard Time
Comments:
John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie had it only partly right
Title: The Worst Hard Time
Comments:
John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie had it only partly right
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781596915374Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Bloomsbury USA, 09/01/2008
Bookseller: Eric
Title: Fruitless Fall
Comments:
80% of the food we eat is dependent on the pollination of bees. 30% of bees have disappeared, suffering from the mysterious Colony Collapes Disorder (CCD).
Title: Fruitless Fall
Comments:
80% of the food we eat is dependent on the pollination of bees. 30% of bees have disappeared, suffering from the mysterious Colony Collapes Disorder (CCD).
Do the math and start getting scared. I am, both as a beekeeper and as a guy who eats to survive.
Truly an important book with a message equally as important as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Will a fruitless fall follow a silent spring?
Hint: it's not cellphone towers causing this malaise. But it is being caused by our own callousness towards Mother Earth.
Told in an easygoing, non-academic style, Vermont writer Rowan Jacobsen offers a sobering portrait of an insect, an industry, and just maybe, of a planet in peril.
An excellent book!
The Book of Illusions (Hardcover)
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780805054088Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Henry Holt and Co., 09/01/2002
I bet Paul Auster tells great bedtime stories to his kids! For that's just what he is - a storyteller - in the true, traditional sense of the word. At once comic, then dark, The Book of Illusions is a fine, (and finely told) story of how the seemingly innocent and unplanned small moments in our lives can transform and redeem us.
Peace Like a River (Hardcover)
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780871137951Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 08/01/2001
A double staff pick, it must be good! Well, Laura and I assure you, it is. My favorite book of the year, no doubt about it.
A complex family saga, simply and poetically told. I know, I know, its a cliche, but I hated for this book to end.
Berkshire Stories (Paperback)
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9781584200284Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Lindisfarne Bks, 10/01/2004
Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey (Paperback)
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780385336550Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2006
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Temple Stream
Comments:
I know, I know, you've never heard of this guy, right? One of New England's best - and usung - writers, I think.
Title: Temple Stream
Comments:
I know, I know, you've never heard of this guy, right? One of New England's best - and usung - writers, I think.
If you're partial to good (very good) nature writing, have a warm spot in your heart for New England and appreciate a thoughtful spiritual journey, Temple Stream and Bill Roorbach may be perfect for you.
Check out his short story collection, also another staff pick and reminiscent of Richard Russo's style.
The Smallest Color (Paperback)
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781582432526Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Counterpoint LLC, 11/01/2002
Well, this was a nice surprise! Having a mid-life crisis? This book may offer a few clues as to the way out. Funny, poignant, well-written with a totally engrossing plot, Roorbadh's style is very reminiscent of Richard Russo's sharp witty self-deprecating books. Keep your eye on this author; he's going places.
The March (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780812976151Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 09/01/2006
Bookseller: Eric
Title: The March
Comments:
Like some huge snake slithering through Georgia and South Carolina (A 60 mile wide slither). Sherman's troops left indelible scars still seen and felt today. Above all, the march was about people. Soldiers and slaves, poor and rich, brave and cowardly, hungry and satiated.
Title: The March
Comments:
Like some huge snake slithering through Georgia and South Carolina (A 60 mile wide slither). Sherman's troops left indelible scars still seen and felt today. Above all, the march was about people. Soldiers and slaves, poor and rich, brave and cowardly, hungry and satiated.
If Charles Dickens had written a book about slavery and the Civil War, this would be it.
Unforgettable characters populate this book, all determined to survive by any means possible.
Doctorow richly deserves all the accolades he's been receiving for The March.
Ordinary Wolves (Hardcover)
$22.00
ISBN-13: 9781571310446Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Milkweed Editions, 04/01/2004
Ever had lynx stew? Ever been the only white person in an Eskimo village and felt the sting of racism? Author Seth Kantner has.
This is a remakable first novel. A coming of age story, contemporary, echoing the naturalist school in American literature.
Jack London with a joint in his hand.
Take a look at the info about Milkweed Editions on the last page. We're proud to sell their books!
Empire Falls (Paperback)
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375726408Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 04/01/2002
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Empire Falls
Comments:
Annie Proulx's comments on the jacket say it best. This is Russo's masterwork to date. Like Russo's other books, this is about ordinary people doing ordinary things. Seen through RR's eyes, though, they become extraordinary. Very funny and poignant with an uncharaceristic serious twist at the end. My favorite book of this year.
Title: Empire Falls
Comments:
Annie Proulx's comments on the jacket say it best. This is Russo's masterwork to date. Like Russo's other books, this is about ordinary people doing ordinary things. Seen through RR's eyes, though, they become extraordinary. Very funny and poignant with an uncharaceristic serious twist at the end. My favorite book of this year.
Through Black Spruce (Hardcover)
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670020577Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 04/01/2009
Bookseller:Eric
Title: Through Black Spruce
Comments:
You're right, you've never heard of Joseph Boyden, but you soon will, mark my words.
Title: Through Black Spruce
Comments:
You're right, you've never heard of Joseph Boyden, but you soon will, mark my words.
Readers of Jim Harrison & Louise Erdrich will love this new fiction (my favorite of the year so far) by Boyden, a Canadian of mixed blood heritage. Readers of his amazing first novel, Three Day Road, will recognize characters and story lines in Through Black Spruce.
From the dangerous bush country of upper Canada to the Manhattan club scene, Boyden paints an unforgettable portrait of two broken and seemingly disparate people whose lives have been touched by loss. How they triumph over those losses is told with great empathy and a deep understanding of what it means to be an Indian - and a human - in the modern world. I loved it.
Saturday (Paperback)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781400076192Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 04/01/2006
Bookseller:
Eric
Title: Saturday
Comments:
This is a book that takes more than a few pages to get into, but, once you're drawn in, you are held by it.
Title: Saturday
Comments:
This is a book that takes more than a few pages to get into, but, once you're drawn in, you are held by it.
Much of it is stream-of-consciousness, sharing the thoughts of the protagonist as he goes about his day as a successful neurosurgeon, and as a husband, father, and son. The tension builds from an incident in the day that he thought he'd handled well. It comes back to him several times during the day, ratcheting up the suspence.
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