*A Collection of
Antiquarian Curios & Relics*
"Speaking
personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book
when you pry my
dead, cold fingers from off of the binding . . ."
--Stephen King, author of Mr.
Mercedes
(9781476754451) 30.00
1) THE RUNNING
(WO)MAN . . .
I would like to believe that Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices (9781476751443)
35.00 will be a blockbuster bestseller, but I remain unconvinced. When
people buy memoirs, they're buying them to see if the author is dishing any
dirt. And then they buy accordingly. Hillary may or may not be
running for President, but either way, she's not going to reveal where the
bodies are buried. This book has been vetted through so many hands there
can't possibly be anything that could be even vaguely controversial. So
far, the only thing that has been questioned by the media (and The Right) was
the comment that Bill and she were dead-broke after Bill's presidency. If
that's the most outrageous assertion in her book, then I expect sales to be
fair to middling. This is what we were really hoping for:
Vince Foster was staring at
the wrong end of a .44 Magnum. The end of the barrel looked like a black,
unblinking eye. It appeared just as uncaring as the face behind the gun,
which belonged to one Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hillary said in a clipped
staccato, "I know what you're thinking Vince. You're thinking 'did
she fire six shots or only five?' Now to tell you the truth I forgot
myself in our little run through the forest. But being this is a .44
Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and it will blow your head clean
off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Do
ya?"
His tear-stained eyes implored
her, but try as he might, no sound would escape his lips.
She cocked the hammer on the
gun, "Sorry, Vince. These are the hard choices I have to
make. Do I shoot you in the head or the heart?"
A shot rang out and Vince slumped
forward in the seat of his car.
"I guess I'm going with the
head shot."
Now I'd buy that book . . .
2)
JOYLAND . . . This is the place my wife went when she
received her copy of Diana Gabaldon's Written in My Own Heart's Blood
(9780385344432) 35.00. She has been waiting for the 8th title in the Outlander
series for five years and innumerable delays. So you can imagine her
excitement. Starring John Heffernan, Nell Hudson, and Caitriona Balfe,
the Starz television series based on Outlander (9780440212560)
9.99 debuts on August 3. This means that this title will have some legs
and we will be selling her backlist as well. We have already sold out of
the first shipment, but we should have more stock next week . . .
Odds
& Sods
"Dada ding
ding ding ding." I have absolutely no idea what Sam Kean's new book,
The Tale of the Dueling Nerosurgeons (9780316182348) 27.00 is about, but
I just love the title. It immediately conjured up an image of two
slit-eyed doctors with whirling scapels performing neurosurgery side-by-side on
a Southern shack's wooden porch. Or stethoscopes. Definitely
stethoscopes.
We were saddened
to learn that children's author and illustrator of The Spot series, Eric Hill
passed away at the age of 86. I still remember reading Where's Spot?
(9780399207587) 12.99 to my oldest daughter, and barring the machinations of a
mad scientist, I will have those memories forever . . .
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