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Closed Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2013 

 
Of course, we are OPEN 24/7 at 

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Dear Friends,

A great week hosting fundraising Bookfairs at the store for Edgemont, Renaissance, Bullock and Brookdale Schools!  Lots of new families, a nice time to chat together and exchange book ideas.

And in the blink of any eye - the season is upon us. This is the time of year we look for the book that really resonates with our loved ones.  We thought we'd start highlighting some of the incredible books we have in the store now - and give you a bit of a head start with our 20% coupon!

We have only a few author events left this month!  It really is special to hear the author speak of their work and their art.  We hope you can make the time to meet them.

Friday evening, 11/22, 7pm
Allen St. John
The Science Behind America's Game
Before you settle down for the Thanksgiving day football game, find out all you need to know about the science of the game from NYT journalist Allen St. John.


Author/Illustrator Saturday Morning Storytime, 11/23, 10:30am
Thyra Heder
It takes a lot of bravery to face your fears!



Saturday evening, 11/23, 7pm
Sara Paretsky
at Bnai Keshet Book Festival, 99 So Fullerton Ave
Start off the evening with Austrian and Chicagoan noshies to put us in the mood for Paretsky's indominatable character Chicago detective VI Warshawski investigates the past of her friend, Vienese-born Dr. Lottie Hershel.

Tuesday afternoon, 11/26, 4pm
Robin Preiss Glasser
illustrator of Fancy Nancy books
at the Montclair Public Library, 50 So. Fullerton Ave
Robin will be visiting for an afternoon of chatting, drawing and signing with all her fancy friends.  Boas are encouraged.  RSVP a MUST!


Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne  

 

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The Beautiful Books
November 2013   
Jimmy Nelson
  
Over the course of years, British photographer Jimmy Nelson traveled with an archaic studio camera and visited 35 of the world's least known and most imperiled tribal peoples -- from the Huli and Kalam tribes of New Guinea, to the Tsaatan of Mongolia and the Mursi people inhabiting the highlands of the Omo River valley in remote southern Ethiopia.The book is less ethnology or anthropology than a document of his romance with otherness. 
Judith Dupre

Incredible photographs, fascinating interviews, plans and diagrams, obscure facts - just everything you need to know to truly appreciate these architectural wonders.  Features more than 60 buildings.Hardcover 
Antonis Antiniou

Maps help us understand the world. This book features the most original and sought-after map illustrators whose work is in line with the zeitgeist.  A Map of the World is a compelling collection of their work--from accurate and surprisingly detailed representations to personal, naive, and modernistic interpretations. Hardcover
Based on archival documents, you are taken on a stroll charming and delightful world of Marie Antoinette's garden, with descriptions of the cosmetic and medicinal uses of the garden's plants, anecdotes from the royal court, and Redoute's watercolors of the herbarium.
Hardcover  

What photos exist of WWI tend to be claustrophobic and grainy, which makes Sacco's epic panorama feel all the more revelatory. Illustrated across a single, wordless 24-foot-long accordion-fold page, Sacco details-and detail is the right word-the situation on July 1, 1916, as British troops meet the Germans at the Battle of the Somme in France.
Mark Frauenfelder

This book tells the WHOLE extraordinary story, from Colossus to the iPad.  Highly illustrated, The Computer traces the evolution of this vital machine from its earliest roots in code-breaking in WWII to an integral part of 21st Century life.
adapted by Amy Ehrlich, paintings by Daniel Nevins
 
For thousands of years the stories contained in the Torah have been passed down, studied, revered.  With a Mighty Hand is Ehrlich's interpretation of these stories into a single narrative, brought to life with Nevins luminous paintings.  The combination retains the complexity of the sacred text and offers families a keepsake to share.
Emily Dickinson     

Arguably America's greatest poet,
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems during her lifetime. This edition of her late writings, presents this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes.  Hardcover 
The murals featured in this volume act as both an artistic and cultural guide to New York and its citizens over the past 100+ years-from the Victorian sensibilities of the 1900's, to the New Deal outlook of the WPA-commissioned artworks, to the graffiti-inflected art of Keith Haring and Barry McGee. Hardcover 
Lisa S. Johnson

Armed with a macro lens, an incredible eye for detail and a truly ground breaking vision, Lisa Johnson's guitar art, is taking the world of fine art photography on a rock and roll ride. Far from still life, Lisa's work conjures the abstract, yet also possesses a very sensual and ethereal feel 
Nathan Williams

45 tastemakers who are cooking and entertaining in a way that is beautiful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive. Each of these home cooks artisans, bloggers, chefs, writers, bakers, crafters has provided one to three of the recipes they most love to share with others, whether they be simple breakfasts for two, one-pot dinners for six, or a perfectly composed sandwich for a solo picnic. Hardcover 

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November '13:
The Beautiful Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here:
Before They Pass Away, With a Mighty Hand, Skyscrapers, The Gorgeous Nothings, A Map of the World, Mural of New York City, From Marie Antoinette's Garden, 108 Rock Star Guitars, the Great War, The Kinfolk Table, and the Computer.
Offer Expires:
November 27, 2013