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*A Collection of
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"Sometimes
I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion . . ."
--Donnie
Darko
HOLIDAY
GIFT GUIDE: STAR WARS EDITION
Psych! B. Traven Jr
here. Actually, in this timeline, President Trump has banned any
references to Star Wars. So no Star Wars for you! Nobody is quite
sure why, but the general feeling is just because he can. Hey, it could
be worse. You should see the alternate universe where Carly Fiorina was
elected President. I didn't even know you could outsource government jobs
to China. Ha, ha!
I know you don't have a lot of
time for jibber jabber, and book sales in every timeline is very similar, so
here's a run down on titles we've just received (and some of these titles are
in the stash, so you may have to call to check quantities):
1) H is for Hawk (9780802123411)
26.00 by Helen Macdonald. The feel good hit of the summer is back and
selling briskly.
2) A Manual for Cleaning Women
(9780374202392) 26.00 by Lucia Berlin. Short story writer
extraordinaire. I will be purchasing one for myself.
3) S.P.Q.R. (9780871404237)
35.00 by Mary Beard. I grabbed this one as soon as it hit the
docks here. Now everybody wants it. I don't feel so cool
anymore. Kinda like John Mayer . . .
4) Harry Potter & The
Sorceror's Stone Illustrated (9780545790352) 39.99 by J.K. Rowling. What
you say? There aren't enough editions of J.K. Rowling's first book in
print already? Scholastic: Challenge accepted.
5) The Man in the High Castle (9780544817289)
14.95 by Philip K. Dick. The Amazon TV series is very, very loosely
based on the PKD Hugo Award-winning novel. So loosely based that it was
virtually unwatchable to me. However, I watched the first episode of the
SyFy channel's adapation of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (9781101967034)
7.99 and the spirit of the novel definitely shone through. Watch it
instead.
6) The Wright Brothers (9781476728742)
30.00 by David McCullough. He is the Mack Daddy of American
historians. Earlier today I was picturing Mr. McCullough and Antony
Beevor, author of Ardennes 1944 (9780670025312) 35.00 at one of their
many historian soirees, perhaps the Pritzker Prize Award ceremony and the two
of them are having cocktails near the entrance. And who should walk
in? Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake (9780307408860) 28.00.
I can envision them turning their backs on him and whispering to one another,
"Who invited HIM? He's not a real historian." Ha, ha!
Odds
& Sods
For our
Minnesotan accounts, we've received Wynia and Haine's Pond Hockey (9781592988334)
49.95. It'll bring back memories of hot chocolate and frozen toes . . .
Michigan-wise, there
have been two regional titles that have been doing exceptionally well:
Frederick Stonehouse's The Last Laker (9781938229237) 19.95 and the
Detroit-centric How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass (9780996836708)
19.99 by Aaron Foley. The sudden burst in sales for the Stonehouse book
is inexplicable to me, but Foley's book has the best title that I've heard in
years . . .
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