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NON-FICTION FICTION FOOD biographies PHOTOGRAPHY ART CHILDREN YOUNG ADULT MERCH RARE SIGNED STAFF PICKS author’s bookshelf STRAND gift bundles
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non-fiction
from DAVID AND GOLIATH by Malcolm Gladwell
“He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.”
Gift for the underdog in all of us
FOR DadS WHO love history
David and Goliath
The Bully Pulpit
This book addresses how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, what it means to be discriminated against, or suffer from any other setbacks.
Learn about the Progressive Era through the story of the broken friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Malcolm Gladwell
ISBN 0316204366 LIST PRICE $29.00
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For the roaring 20’s buff
Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN 141654786X LIST PRICE $40.00
The Gorgeous Nothings
Bill Bryson
Emily Dickinson
“Bryson’s inimitable wit and exuberance are on full display in this wide-ranging look at the major events in an exciting summer in America.”
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Must have for the dickinson fan
One Summer
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The first full-color facsimile edition of Dickinson’s manuscripts— a deluxe edition of her late writings, as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes.
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“The read of the year.” —Junot Diaz
For the sociologist
Gift for the cultural observer
Floating City
White Girls
In a sociological study of Manhattan, the author travels through the underground economy utilized by prostitutes, drug dealers, hedge fund traders, and more.
Using his subjects as a springboard to analyze literature, music, television, race, sexual orientation, and history, Als offers wry insights throughout.
Sudhir Venkatesh
ISBN 1594204160 LIST PRICE $27.95
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Best read for the refined palate
Hilton Als
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Best gift for a veteran
Provence 1970
Thank You for Your Service
A dramatic account of the gathering where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and launched the modern food movement in America.
David Finkel
Luke Barr
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From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war.
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fiction
Dave Eggers, author of The Circle Photo Courtesy of Annie Tritt
Best can’t miss gift
This book will be the best gift they get
The Goldfinch
The Lowland
Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
A tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.
Donna Tartt
ISBN 0316055433 LIST PRICE $30.00
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Gift for the technologically paranoid
Jhumpa Lahiri
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most imaginative novel
The Circle
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A cautionary tale of subversive power in the digital age suavely packaged as a Silicon Valley social satire.
Conceived by the renowned filmmaker, this multi-layered literary puzzle chronicles two readers’ fascination with an enigmatic author and the menacing secrets contained within his book.
J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst
Dave Eggers
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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher
Gift for your “cool” aunt
Best gift ever!
Death of the BlackHaired Girl
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
Robert Stone
Ian Doescher
“A powerful tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight.”
ISBN 0618386238 LIST PRICE $25.00
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For the Booker Prize completist
Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon.
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Gift for your “cool” uncle
The Luminaries
Bleeding Edge
It is 1866, and Walter Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
With occasional excursions into the Deep Web and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet.
Eleanor Catton
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Thomas Pynchon
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Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
FOOD
Best gift to give yourself
for the casual chef
Ottolenghi
One Good Dish
140 recipes culled from the popular Ottolenghi restaurants and inspired by the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean.
In this, his first non-menu cookbook, Tanis offers 100 delicious recipes that epitomize comfort food.
Yotam Ottolenghi
ISBN 160774418X LIST PRICE $35.00
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Best international cookbook
David Tanis
ISBN 1579654673 LIST PRICE $25.95
D.O.M.
The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook Gramercy Tavern
A creative chef, Alex Atala is known in Brazil and throughout the world for exploring, through classical techniques, the gastronomical possibilities of Brazilian ingredients.
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Best NYC cookbook
Alex Atala
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A NY culinary landmark shares its recipes, stories, and pioneering philosophy.
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For the adventurous eater
Perfect for the urban foodie
Pok Pok
Roberta’s Cookbook
A guide to bold, authentic Thai cooking from one of Portland & New York’s hippest Thai food restaurants.
Recipes, photographs and stories which capture the extraordinarily Brooklyn experience of Roberta’s for those who haven’t been.
Andy Ricker with JJ Goode
ISBN 1607742888 LIST PRICE $35.00
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Gift for the Iatlian food lover
Roberta’s
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For the gourmet
Classico e Moderno
Coi
An extraordinary collection of 250-plus authentic and inspired traditional and modern Italian dishes, with a foreword by Thomas Keller, from one of this country’s most talented chefs.
Patterson’s personal account of the celebrated San Francisco restaurant, its dishes, and his own unique philosophy on food and cooking.
Michael White
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Daniel Patterson
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BIOGRAPHIES
Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones
Best gift for father-in-law
Best gift For Mom
Johnny Cash
The Most of Nora Ephron
Robert Hilburn
Nora Ephron
A compelling portrait of one of the most iconic figures in modern popular culture—in country and rock music.
ISBN 0316194751 LIST PRICE $32.00
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Best gift for your inner child
“This posthumous collection celebrates Ephron’s talent for turning her experiences into material, no matter the medium.”
ISBN 038535083X LIST PRICE $35.00
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Gift that shows how cool the giver is
Jim Henson
Duke
A biography of one of the most innovative creative artists in history.
A comprehensive biography of the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century.
Brian Jay Jones
3150
Terry Teachout
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ISBN 0345526112
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“For us, Richard was a gateway artist, opening the door to worlds of music, storytelling, and poetry that had been thriving just out of sight, humming beneath our radar.” from Furious Cool by David Henry & Joe Henry
Best gift for the comedy lover
A must have for any Twainophile
Furious Cool
The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. 2
David Henry, Joe Henry
Mark Twain
Joe and David Henry bring Pryor to life both as a man and as an artist.
ISBN 1616200782 LIST PRICE $25.95
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for someone who has read everything
“Twain is incapable of going more than a few paragraphs without making you laugh or think hard. . . . Don’t loan this book out: you’ll never see it again.”
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BEST GIFT FOR A REAL MAN
Book of Ages
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Jill Lepore
Nick Offerman
“A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself.”
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A hilarious memoir from the actor who reveals how much he truly has in common with everyone’s favorite man’s man Ron Swanson.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Humans Of New York by Brandon Stanton
Gift for the hobo at heart
Great gift for the Fire Island lover
Period Of Juvenile Prosperity
Fire Island Pines Tom Bianchi
Mike Brodie
“Soaked in sun, sex, camaraderie and reverie, Fire Island Pines conjures a magical bygone era.”
“Brodie’s pictures have the intimacy and immediacy of a journal, but the journey they describe has a clear narrative, even if the route is irrelevant.”
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Must have for any fashioN designer
Give the gift of NYC
Alexander McQueen: Working Process
Humans of New York
Nick Waplington
Brandon Stanton
Waplington was commissioned to document McQueen’s final Fall/Winter collection before his untimely death in this fascinating look into the designer’s creative process.
“Based on the blog with more than a million fans, a beautiful, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city.”
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2013 holiday gift guide
Woo! by Juergen Teller
Gift for the sports enthusiast
Best gift for the photographer
A Sporting Life
Woo!
This beautiful new edition reveals the complexity of Lartigue’s approach to photography and looks at the issues surrounding the rise of modern sport.
“Not like conventional exhibition catalogues, this publication brilliantly relays the raw impact of the original installation held at the ICA in London.”
Jacques Henri Lartigue
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Juergen Teller
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ISBN 2330016115
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Best gift for an architect
Best coffee table BOOK
Fire Island Modernist
Earth From Space Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Horace Gifford
Earth from Space’s compelling selection of satellite images raises important questions about our future, while also showcasing the planet’s beauty.
Fire Island Modernist ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life and work trace the operatic arc of a lost generation.
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“Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.”
ART
from James Turrell by James Turrell
For the panorama enthusiast
Gift for the surrealist
The Great War
Magritte
A depiction of the most infamous day of World War I by one of the world’s greatest cartoonists.
On the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary images.
Anne Umland, Editor
Joe Sacco
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For the lover of religious art
For the love of color
Josef Albers: Spirituality And Rigor
James Turrell
James Turrell
This full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition at the Guggenheim, detailing the production of the rotunda installation and situating it in the context of Turrell’s career.
Josef Albers
The most thorough portrait yet published of Albers’ spiritual convictions.
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Pharrell: Places and Spaces I’ve Been by Pharrell
Gift for the comic book addict
Gift for the fashionably hip
Co-Mix
It
A comprehensive overview of the output of this legendary cartoonist’s art career.
“A wholly unique collection of Chung’s personal writings, drawings, and photographs which covers everything from her candid thoughts on life, love, and music to her favorite ensembles.”
Alex Chung
Art Spiegelman
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Gift for the classy
Perfect for the urban artist
Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age
Pharrell: Places and Spaces I’ve Been
“Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture—both highbrow and low.”
“Pharell’s intellectual curiosity will have your favorite budding artist finding inspiration in unexpected places.” ~Complex.com
Graydon Carter
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Pharrell
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CHILDREN
Hard Luck (Wimpy Kid 8) by Jeff Kinney
Kids love Lemony Snicket!
For the time travel enthusiast
When Did You See Her Last?
Fortunately, The Milk
Lemony Snicket
Neil Gaiman
In the fading town of Stain’dby-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are hired to find a missing girl.
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Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious story of time travel and breakfast cereal.
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For the Wimpy Kid fanatic
Best gift for your 6 - 9 year old niece
diary of a wimpy kid: hard luck, book 8
The Never Girls Collection Kiki Thorpe
Jeff Kinney
This attractive box contains the first four Never Girls adventures: In a Blink, The Space Between, A Dandelion Wish, and From the Mist.
Greg’s on a losing streak so he decides to turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around?
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Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown
Best gift to inspire creativity!
Middle School Aspiring Superheros
A Little Bit of Oomph!
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Barney Saltzberg
Kate DiCamillo
How do you make the ordinary extraordinary? With A Little Bit Of Oomph!
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A laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters.
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gift for your pre-school age nephew
Gift for the pop-up lover
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe
Peter Brown
“From Caldecott Honor artist Peter Brown comes a story that shows there’s a time and place for everything...even going wild.”
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Matthew Reinhart Starring more than 35 iconic Transformers characters, this book offers fans new and old a pop-up experience they won’t ever forget.
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YOUNG ADULT
from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can’t Google.)”
Gift for the fan of dystopian lit
Gift for the mythology lover
Allegiant
The House of Hades
What if your whole world was a lie? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? This book reveals the secrets of the dystopian world.
If the demigods don’t succeed, Gaea’s armies will never die. They have no time. In about a month, the Romans will march on Camp HalfBlood. The stakes are higher than ever in this adventure that dives into the depths of Tartarus.
Veronica Roth
1795
Rick Riordan
ISBN 006202406X
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Best present for a high school girl
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for the lover of technological thrillers
FanGirl
The Eye of Minds
“Fangirl is a coming-of-age novel that is smart, funny, and genuine.”
The first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyper-advanced technology, cyber-terrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams.
Rainbow Rowell
1695
James Dashner
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“Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”
from Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
A great present for the teen romantic
For the teen graphic novel lover
the Infinite Moment of Us
Boxers
Gene Luen Yang
Lauren Myracle
An innovative graphic novel that brings magical realism to the complexities of the Boxer Rebellion and the people caught up in its violent rift.
“...a passionate romance built on a bedrock of love, respect, and trust.”
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best Inspirational gift
Gift for the hopeless romantic
Two boys kissing
Just One Year
A based-on-true-events story of two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record.
This is a story of the choices we make and the accidents that happen—and the happiness we can find when the two intersect.
David Levithan
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Gayle Forman
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ISBN 0307931900
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MERCH
For the fan of the old school
Perfect for the urban traveler
Panel Tote: Metallic Typewriters
LG Vintage Bag: Green Inspired by military paratrooper bags, this Strand exclusive is stylish and sturdy for whatever adventure you take.
Be the talk of the office (for all the right reasons) with this retro-inspired colorful typewriter tote bag!
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ISBN 9110852603
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For the Modern Day Don Draper
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For the coffee lover
Whisky Stones
Greek Coffee Mug
Whisky, like revenge, is best served cold and undiluted. Don’t cheapen your whisky experience with ice.
1995
Take the spirit of New York coffee carts with you wherever you go.
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Gift for the future reader
for those who want to look awesome!
Onesie: Script 12th/ B’Way Grey
T-Shirt: Script 12th/B’Way Cranberry
Now the newest member of your family can rep their (future) favorite book store!
Our favorite Strand Books script logo on a super soft tri-blend unisex tee. (Also available in coffe and gray)
ISBN 9110870377
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Perfect present for a teacher
ISBN 9110862692
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Give the gift of comfort
Tote Bag: Keep Calm & Teach On
Fleece: Unisex Grey Zip Strand Hoodie
What do you do when you’re surrounded by loud, know-itall students? Keep calm and teach on!
A perfect way to stay warm on these cold winter days while you curl up with your favorite book.
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RARE
Alphabet du Père Noel by A Capendu Editeur
For the Armchair Spy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
For the Literary Connoisseur
James Bond (First Editions)
Don Quixote (1842 Edition)
A selection of classic titles featuring Britains most iconic secret agent. Original dust jackets in beautiful condition.
A handsome two-volume edition of Charles Jarvis’s 1742 translation of Don Quixote, nicely bound in dark green morocco over marbled boards.
Miguel de Cervantes
Ian Fleming
ISBN 1399099256
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For the Rock’n’Roll Animal
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For the Nascent Collector
The Raven (Limited Signed Edition)
Alphabet du Père Noel
Lou Reed
A Capendu Editeur
This book of Poe-inspired poetry by the late, great Lou Reed one of a limited slipcased edition of 250 numbered and signed copies.
ISBN 0802117597
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A very rare late 19th-century abecedary from noted French children’s publisher Capendu, illustrated with bright chromolithographs throughout. ISBN 9110909818
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2013 holiday gift guide Sex by Madonna
For the Lusty Lover
For the (Harlem) Rennaissance Man
Sex
Sweet Flypaper of Life (first edition)
Madonna
Roy Decarava & Langston Hughes
Timelessly titillating, Madonna’s explicitly libidinous photo book tops the wanted list for out-of-print books. This copy comes sealed in its original mylar bag.
ISBN 0446517321
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This inspired collaboration offers an optimistic glimpse into the everyday lives of black Harlem residents on the cusp of the civil rights era. ISBN 9110933409
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For the Fantasy Fanatic
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For the Cultured Collector
The Lord of Rings (first american editions)
Five Poems (Limited signed edition)
Toni Morrison & Kara Walker
J.R.R. Tolkien
Morrison’s only book of poetry, these free verse poems are each accompanied by an evocative silhouette by Walker. One of 425 copies signed by both.
Tolkien’s vision set a new standard for epic fantasy, and its wild popularity only continues to grow.
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SIGNED
from Night Film by Marisha Pessl
“There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.”
Gift for somone who likes a tear jerker
For the mystery/suspense lover
Enon
ISBN 1400069432
Night Film
Paul Harding
Marisha Pessl
“A stunning allegorical novel about one man’s enduring love for his daughter.”
The gorgeously-written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Pessl will hold you in suspense until the final page.
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Gift for the fan of author memoirs
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For those who enjoy a good family saga
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem
Ann Patchett
“A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of allAmerican radicals.”
In this memoir, Ann Patchett examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband.
ISBN 0062236679
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Rookie Yearbook Two by Tavi Gevinson
Great gift for a fellow book club member
FOR THE TEEN QUEEN DREAM
Claire of the Sea Light
ISBN 030727179X
Rookie Yearbook Two
Edwidge Danticat
Tavi Gevinson
A stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town, where a little girl has gone missing.
“Irreverent, honest, and wholly affirming, this is a book that teen girls will cherish.” —School Library Journal
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Gift for the lover of the macabre
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Gift for the urban gardener
Doomed
The Art of Simple Food II
Chuck Palahniuk
Alice Waters
In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil.
ISBN 0385533039
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A vegetable-focused book that showcases flavor as inspiration and embodies Alice’s vision for eating what grows in the earth all year long.
ISBN 0307718271
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STAFF PICKS
Recommended by Billy Mo.
Recommended by Adam P.
The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual
The Drunken Botanist Amy Stewart
“A great read for anyone who is curious about what exactly you are drinking.”
Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh
“Do you like improvisational comedy and want to learn more about it? Then this book is for you!”
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Recommended by Richard B.
Recommended by Justin B.
Going Clear
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Lawrence Wright
Neil Gaiman
“... another fascinating, exciting, and altogether shocking work by a PulitzerPrize-winning journalist.”
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“Gaiman captures with realism and genuine emotion the magic, camaraderie, fear, and powerlessness of childhood...”
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from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Yayoi Kusama
Recommended by Emily S.
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Tenth of December
How Should a Person Be?
George Saunders
Sheila Heti
“These stories, though, garner particular strength from the restraint with which George chooses subtle rightward zigs where he previously may have zagged boisterously left.”
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“Stylistically, this book is irresistible; thematically, it is PERHAPS even radical.”
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Recommended by Tierney N.
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
The Fault in Our Stars John Green
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
“...Green masterfully illustrates the power of true love against the tragic uncertainty of being alive.”
“Questlove leaves no stone unturned as he explains his musical evolution.”
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AUTHOR’S BOOKSHELF George Saunders
Alison Bechdel
Edwidge Danticat
Strand Presents: George Saunders’s Pick
Alison Bechdel’s Pick
Journey to the End of the Night
Hark! a Vagrant Kate Beaton
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
An uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comicssensation Kate Beaton.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel.
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Edwidge Danticat’s Pick
Junot Diaz’s Pick
The Big Sea
Lilith’s Brood
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade-Harlem and Paris.
Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali.
Langston Hughes
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Octavia Butler
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junot diaz
karen russell
Michael Cunningham
siri hustvedt
adam gopnik
The Author’s Bookshelf Karen Russell’s Pick
Michael Cunningham’s Pick
Stranger Things Happen
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
Kelly Link
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.
“An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” -Salon.com (Best of the Year)
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Siri Hustvedt’s Pick
Adam Gopnick’s Pick
Nightwood
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov
Djuna Barnes
Barnes’ depiction of these characters and their relationships has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.
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Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.
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