Holiday books are on display. Come pick up a holiday decorating book, a cook book or a work of fiction by your favorite author. Many authors write Christmas stories, often with their favorite characters. Marcia Willett, Anne Perry and Janet Dailey all have new holiday titles out this year. Come take a look and see what we’ve found. We’ll replenish the display as needed, so feel free to take a book or two.
There is no denying it, I love books. I love reading them and yes looking at them in my home. So Books Make a Home by Damian Thompson is delicious. He provides numerous ideas for storing and displaying books elegantly. I am particularly taken with the bookshelves built into stairs. Someday, maybe I’ll get some.
White bread, in particular Wonder Bread, has been in the news. White Bread by Aaron Bobrow-Strain is a social history of the store-bought loaf and has those easily recognizable red, blue and yellow dots on the cover. I never knew so much history and social documentary was inside the humble loaf of Wonder Bread.
What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam is a memoir in blindness. The story of Candia’s descent into the darkness of blindness is uncomfortable, heartrending and yet at times hilarious. I know I would have a very difficult time dealing with going blind.
Winter weather and the end of the year always make me think about poetry. I’m not sure why, but The 20th Century in Poetry edited by Michael Hulse and Simon Rae fulfills my desire to read some poetry. This collection, arranged by year written is a fascinating look at the past century through poetry. Seeing history unfold through the minds and words of poets is a journey through war, peace, childhood, and more.
If you don’t want to read holiday fiction then here are a few other new titles to consider. Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer is a moving tale of Maxon and Sunny. They are childhood sweethearts who marry and 20 years later as Maxon heads to the moon on a NASA Mission, Sunny is left to care for their autistic son while pregnant with another child. Their marriage is already on the brink of imploding before an accident puts everything else in jeopardy as well. Nothing will ever be the same, but it never is, anyways.
A Killing Winter by Wayne Arthurson takes place in Edmonton among First Nations street culture and is a gritty, no nonsense tale. We have two new titles that feature Lake Superior. Murder for Mayor by Andie Peterson features Laura Kjelstad, the first woman mayor of a small town in Northern Minnesota who comes across a dying woman while on a hike. The Long-Shining Waters by Danielle Sosin features three different women living on the shores of Lake Superior in three different centuries.
And don’t forget, if these don’t sound interesting, you are always welcome to stop in and ask for personal recommendations.
