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TIME SHELTER by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel. Bulgarian author Gospodinov’s narrator meets (invents?) Gaustine, a psychiatrist who creates “clinics for the past," perfectly reproducing prior decades to help dementia patients recall that time and thus improve their memory. The concept grows in popularity and unexpectedly transforms Europe. Mind-bending, it’s a meditation on time and memory and how one’s perspective on both can evolve. - Eric
FIVE DECEMBERS by James Kestral. This year's Edgar winner for Best Mystery is a hard-boiled delight, following a Honolulu detective immersed in a murder case over five years of World War II. Although there is no shortage of violence and mayhem, Kestral effectively evokes a historical time and place and weaves a surprisingly moving love story into his rich crime classic. - Hut
THIS TIME TOMORROW by Emma Straub. Straub deftly uses time travel in a fresh manner to weave a moving and endearing tale that in the end is about a daughter’s ache to “solve” her ailing father’s health issues and the eternal bond of love between them. Engaging, funny, hopeful. “It’s not about the time, it’s about how you spend it." - Eric
NEW MERCHANDISE THAT MAY BOWL YOU OVER
These blue and white Miya ceramic bowls are back by popular demand. Their versatile size and shape - 6" in diameter - is perfect for cereal, soup, and snacks, and they are both microwave and dishwasher safe. Mix and match your set!
OUR LATEST AUTHOR EVENT
Many thanks to ANITA BARROWS, whose recent in-store reading from her new novel The Language of Birds, was a big hit with her engaged and enthusiastic crowd. (Photo by Andy Ross)
Check out our upcoming author events at the top of the right hand column on this home page.
READ WITH PRIDE!
June is LBGTQIA+ PRIDE Month! Click here to find a list of noteworthy children's books, published since June 1, 2021, featuring LGBTQIA characters and experiences. For additional noteworthy titles, published before June 2021, please see our LGBTQIA--CLASSICS list here. Books are organized by age from young readers to young adults so be sure to scroll down.
TEEN PRIDE
PREORDER OFFER FOR MRS. DALLOWAY'S CUSTOMERS
RANDALL MUNROE is the bestselling author of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - one of our favorite (and most offbeat) science books. The millions of people who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness Munroe has the answers.
Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions will publish on September 13. Click on the image to preorder, and receive an Exclusive Enamel Pin with your book (while supplies last).
AUTHOR DROP-INS AT MRS. DALLOWAY'S
Hard-working children's author JOANNA HO surrounded herself with three of her latest picture books - Eyes That Speak to the Stars, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, and Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma, in a recent visit. Her newest book, The Silence That Binds Us, is a departure for Joanna - a young adult novel that explores timely themes of mental health, racism, and classism through a Chinese Taiwanese American family. It publishes June 14.
Artist CASSANDRA ROCKWOOD GHANEM, illustrator of Basho’s Haiku Journeys, (written by Freeman Ng), came by and posed with her children's picture book about the 17th-century Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho, who is best known for his travel journals. This delightful volume--written entirely in haiku and illustrated by Cassandra with vibrant hand-painted scenes taken directly from the poet's written travelogues--tells the true story of Basho and of the five great journeys he then took through the length and breadth of Japan.
Middle grade author ANNE NESBET holds two of her historical fiction paperbacks. In Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen, the 12-year old star of silent films faces villains both on and off screen when a fake kidnapping goes terribly wrong, The Orphan Band of Springdale is a historical novel set in 1941 in which a young girl is sent to a prphange and discovers small-town prejudices--and a huge family secret.
Summer is here, and there are plenty of good books for young readers waiting to be read. From new picture books to the latest YA, please take a look at our lengthy list of recommendations!
Longtime customer and teen book reviewer Calliope Cameron has recently posted a glowing review of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston on her "Confessions of a Reading Addict" blog. You can read the review by clicking here - it's a great book for Pride month! McQuiston is also the author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue - both staples on our adult fiction bookshelves.
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