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It's Here!
Our Annual Holiday Sale
20% Off
Regular Priced Adult Hardcover Books
As well as...
Toys, Games & Puzzles*
Nov. 1st -
Dec. 1st, 2013
*sale excludes LEGOS, Bananagrams, some signed editions, and just a few other books.
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 Titcomb's Bookshop
Sandwich Holly Days
Events
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Holiday Open House with Carolers, Hot Cocoa and Cookies!
Sunday, December 1st
12-4pm
Bring the whole family to enjoy carolers from Cape Cod Academy (2-3pm), sip hot chocolate and enjoy delicious holiday treats as you browse.
 The Drunken Botanist Martini Night at the Bookshop
Thursday, December 5th 6-8pm.
Enjoy a fun night of shopping as you sip delicious cocktails featured in Amy Stewart's book, The Drunken Botanist. We'll gift wrap everything, too!
Book Signing with Susan Branch! Saturday, Dec. 7 1-3 pm
Susan Branch will sign A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside. This lovely gift book, beautifully illustrated with Susan's artwork and calligraphy, recalls her two month trip to England. $26.95
 Sunday, December 8th 1-3pm Cookie Baking with PJ Hamel PJ Hamel from the King Arthur Company will demonstrate how to make her favorite holiday cookies. Enjoy some cookies and bring the recipes home!
Signing with Howie Carr
Ratman: The Trial and Conviction of Whitey Bulger
Sunday, Dec. 15 2:30-4pm
Howie Carr chronicles the trial of this notorious mob boss, who was charged with 19 murders. Carr also shares accounts of a uniquely personal nature, including testimony from one of Bulger's hit men, who Whitey ordered to kill Carr in the driveway of his home.
 Thursday, December 19th 6-8pm Men's Shopping Night Featuring Cape Cod Beer!
Let our expert staff help you select beautiful, fun, thoughtful and imaginative gifts for everyone on your list. We'll wrap them while you enjoy a beer tasting and light refreshments.
Find more great events happening all around Sandwich at the Sandwich Chamber's Holly Days Website. Click here to see.
*** We'll be open until 8:00 pm on Thursdays in December!!***
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Bargain Books
Just in time for the holidays, we've stocked the shelves with over 1000 new and wonderful bargain books - history, gardening, cookbooks, children's books, humor and much more. Like all our books, each is carefully selected for quality of content. They make great gifts (even for yourself!) and help stretch your gift-giving dollars. Stop by soon - supplies are limited on all bargain books!
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 Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson Orig. price: $30.00; Our price: $9.99  Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road by Paul Theroux Orig. price: $25.00; Our price $9.99
 Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy Orig. price: $24.99; our price $7.99  Natural History of the Piano:The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians: From Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between by Stuart Isacoff Orig. price: $30.00; our price $11.99  Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje Orig. price: $26.00; our price $7.99  Silver Spoon Pasta Orig. price: $39.95; Our price $12.99  A is for Annabelle: a Doll's Alphabet by Tasha Tudor Orig. price: $17.99; our price $8.99 Convertibles Storybook: Story, Playmat and Fire Engine. Our price: $9.99 Curious George Travel Activity Kit [With Stickers, Card Game, Crayons, CD and Paperback Book] Orig. price: $12.99; our price: $5.99 | |
New Toy Corner!Creativity for Kids!
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We adore the toy brand Creativity for Kids! They offer some of the most unique and fun craft kits around. They inspire kids' natural curiosity and help spark their creativity. Currently we have many kits available ranging in price from $11.99 - $29.99.
Color Cord Bracelets
Everything you need to make 8 super-trendy paracord bracelets - create a bracelet for every mood. $16.99
 Black Light Glow Book
Combine neon colored pencils with a mini black light to create a glow-in-the-dark story. $17.99
|  X-Treme Sticker Maker
The BEST sticker maker on the planet! This high quality machine is versatile and super easy to use. Includes 40' of sticker tape, 80+ sticker designs - including velvet, metallic and glitter, color-in markers and sticker book. You can even turn your artwork and photos into stickers! $29.99
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Titcomb's Bookshop November Newsletter
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November is here and more than ever, we are bursting at the seams with so many wonderful books, gifts, toys, cards and puzzles!
This month brings our annual holiday 20% off sale on hardcover books, toys, games and puzzles now through December 1. It's a great time to get holiday shopping done early - and save money, too! As always, our experienced and knowledgeable booksellers are here to help you find just the right gifts for everyone on your list - and gift wrap them, too!
The end of the month brings us to Thanksgiving and the first full day of Hannukah. We wish everyone a wonderful holiday!
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Upcoming Events
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 Book Talk and Signing with Elise Richer
Always in Season: Twelve Months of Fresh Recipes from the Farmer's Markets of New England
Saturday, November 2nd 2-3pm
Join Maine author Elise Richer as she introduces her beautiful new cookbook, Always in Season. With inviting, approachable, delicious recipes you can prepare using fresh, local produce, Elise Richer takes you through each month of the year, highlighting a few select ingredients each month. Entrees, side dishes, soups, and baked goods are all featured, showcasing traditional and contemporary ways of using what is available locally, along with recipes from far-flung locations that put those same local ingredients to use in creative new ways.
 Celebrate Neighborhood Toy Store Day
Saturday, November 9th 1-4pm
It's a party! Come and try out some of our wonderful new toys and games as we join the nationwide celebration of Neighborhood Toy Store Day. In addition to a lot of fun new toys and games to try out, we'll have refreshments and goodie bags, and we'll be making balloon hats, too. We hope you can join us!
 Pie Palooza with PJ Hamel
King Arthur Flour Cookbook and Blog Writer
Sunday, November 10th 2-4pm
Our good friend and Sandwich resident PJ Hamel is coming to the bookshop... and this time she has a pie mission - to show us that pie making is, well, "as easy as pie"! P.J. will demonstrate how to create perfectly delicious pies. Drop in for just a few minutes or stay for a while as she shares some great ideas to make your holiday pies really special! PJ joined the King Arthur Flour Company in 1990. She spends many happy hours in the test kitchen in Vermont developing recipes. She authored/co-authored three King Arthur cookbooks; and currently writes, edits, and blogs about food and baking online at kingarthurflour.com.
Treasure Hunters Party
Wednesday, November 13th 2-3pm
Sandwich Public Library
Recommended Ages 7 - 12
Argghh!! Don't know what to do on the upcoming half day at school? We're having a pirate party for children ages 7-12! Titcomb's Bookshop and the Sandwich Public Library will celebrate the release of James Patterson's hilarious new high-seas adventure, Treasurer Hunters. We will read from the book, plot our own treasure map, learn how to use a compass and more!
About Treasure Hunters: The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But after their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. They'll have to work together to defeat dangerous pirates and dodge the hot pursuit of an evil treasure hunting rival, all while following cryptic clues to unravel the mystery of what really happened to their parents - and find out if they're still alive.
Attendance is free and reservations are required. To make your reservation, please stop by or call the bookshop at 508-888-2331.
 Book Talk and Signing with Stan Grayson
The Wianno Senior Story: A Century on Nantucket Sound
Saturday, November 16th 2-3pm
The Wianno Senior Story is a "must-have" book for anyone interested in the history of American small boat racing and of Cape Cod! We are very excited to welcome author Stan Grayson as he comes to the bookshop to talk about this brand new, well researched and gorgeously illustrated coffee table book.
Designed and built by the Crosbys of Osterville, the Wianno Senior was first launched in 1914. With its centerboard and gaff rig, the boat soon proved perfectly adapted to the shallow, current-swept waters of Nantucket Sound. The Wianno Senior is still flourishing, among the longest-lived one-designs in America. Many are familiar with the boat because President John F. Kennedy owned one. The book is profusely and beautifully illustrated with important historical images and photographs by some of today's most accomplished yachting photographers. Stan is well known for his books and articles about American yachting and small craft history, including his book, Cape Cod Catboats. He lives in Marblehead, Mass.
 Book Talk and Signing with Brian Lowney
Unconditional Love: Pet Tales to Warm the Heart
Sunday, November 17th 1-2pm
Unconditional Love: Pet Tales to Warm the Heart is an absolutely wonderful book for anyone who loves animals, especially those furry, finned, and feathered creatures that bring pure joy to their owners' lives. Whether you share your heart and hearth with a friendly feline, a comical canine, a colorful tank of fish, or other creatures, this book will entertain, educate, and inspire you with stories that illustrate how animals transform lives, and make the world a better place.
Brian Lowney is a journalist who is well known for his weekly column, "Fur, Fins and Feathers," for two newspapers in Southeastern Massachusetts. He is active with several kennel clubs and has shown Kerry Blue Terriers for many years. $14.95
  Book Talk and Signing with Ann Hood
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
Tuesday, November 19th 4-5pm
In Knitting Yarns, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Barbara Kingsolver describes sheering a sheep for yarn. Elizabeth Berg writes about her frustration at failing to knit. Ann Patchett traces her life through her knitting, writing about the scarf that knits together the women she's loved and lost. Sue Grafton writes about her passion for knitting. Also included are five original knitting patterns created by Helen Bingham. Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.
Ann Hood is the best-selling author of The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, and Comfort, among other works. Her most recent novel is The Obituary Writer. She has been the recipient of a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, a Best American Food Writing Award, a Best American Travel Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Providence, Rhode.
 Book Club
The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood
Tuesday, November 19th 7:00pm
Ann Hood will join our discussion of The Obituary Writer!!!
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, an uncompromising young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie O, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless marriage or follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier, in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between Claire and Vivien will change the life of one of them in unexpected and extraordinary ways. Part literary mystery and part love story.
  Book Talk and Signing with Nancy Thayer
Nantucket Christmas
Saturday, November 23rd 1-2pm
We are so happy to welcome back Nantucket author Nancy Thayer to talk about and sign her new novel, Nantucket Christmas. Christmas on Nantucket is like a scene from Dickens' classic tale. Unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet to get over her parents' divorce. Pregnant and highly emotional, Kennedy sets in motion a scheme to sabotage Nicole's meticulous holiday preparations. When Kennedy's glamorous mother appears on the Somerset doorstep, Kennedy thinks her devious plan might just work. Holidays may be a perfect time for reconciliation, but they are also known for miracles. Even before the gifts are unwrapped, other visitors will make unexpected appearances and sweet little Maddox gets his most fervent Christmas wish.
 Book Talk and Signing with Kate Conway
Undertow
Sunday, November 24th 2-3pm
Undertow is a gripping paranormal young adult novel set on Cape Cod. When Eila Walker inherits a million-dollar Cape Cod home, she thinks her luckless days are over... until she is hauled beneath the waves at the Sandwich Boardwalk by an unnatural undertow and rescued by her new friend, the handsome Raef O'Reilly. Raef reveals that he and Eila are not who they seem to be. Eila can supposedly channel the power of human souls, while Raef is more adept at stealing them. As hidden pieces of their brutal histories unravel, Eila begins to realize that she may be forced to follow in her dead grandmother's fearless footsteps to save those she loves.
K.R. Conway has been a journalist for fifteen years and serves on the Board of Directors for the Cape Cod Writers Center. She teaches Fiction Craft classes for teens at local libraries and drives a 16-ton school bus because (she says) she is ENTIRELY NUTS. She lives on Cape Cod with her two children and her fishing-obsessed husband.
 Small Business Saturday:
MEET THE AUTHORS!
Saturday, November 30th 9am - 5:00pm
It's the Saturday after Thanksgiving and a great day to shop some of Cape Cod's very special small businesses!
What is Small Business Saturday? It's a day dedicated to helping support the small businesses that help create jobs, boost the economy, and preserve neighborhoods around the country. It was founded in 2010 by American Express.
We will celebrate Small Business Saturday with the authors of some of our favorite gift books. Please join them - and find out what some of their favorite books are, too! We'll be serving light refreshments throughout the day.
 9-10am Ron Lasko, A Tale of Two Rivers
This is an intimate portrait of fly fishing on Cape Cod's Quashnet and Mashpee rivers, seeking a unique species of Sea Run Brook Trout.
 11am - 12pm Christie Palmer-Lowrance, Nature's Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton Burgess
This first true biography of Burgess examines his place not only in literature, but in the early conservation movement in America.
 1-2pm John Carafoli, Cape Cod Chef's Table Cape Cod Chef's Table offers recipes for the home cook from the Cape's celebrated eateries and purveyors along with beautiful full-color photos.
 3-4pm Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides
The true story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are forever changed.
 4-5pm Pam Dalton, Giving Thanks: Poems, Prayers, and Praise Songs of Thanksgiving
Paterson's meditations on what it means to be truly grateful and Dalton's exquisite illustrations are paired with a collection of more than 50 graces, poems, and praise songs from a wide range of cultures, religions, and voices.
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Signed Books Make Great Gifts!
Looking for a very, very special gift? We are thrilled and honored to offer signed copies of books by the poet Mary Oliver and by hockey great Bobby Orr. We are happy to gift wrap the books and ship them, too!
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
We are delighted to offer signed copies of this beautifully written and very moving poetry collection by Mary Oliver, winner of both the National Book  Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and one of America's most beloved poets. As a special bonus, the illustrator, John Burgoyne, has added his signature to each book, too.
Dog Songs is a collection of some of her most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of her relationship to the furry companions who have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. The many dogs of Oliver's life emerge not only as fellow travelers, but also as guides capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.
The books are also signed by the illustrator, John Burgoyne, of West Barnstable. John's beautifully detailed drawings perfectly complement Mary's poetry. $26.95
Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr, one of the greatest sports figures of all time, breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had ever played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. But all the brilliant achievements leave unsaid as much as they reveal. They don't tell what inspired Orr, what drove him, what it was like for a shy small-town kid to suddenly land in the full glare of the media. They don't tell what it was like when the agent he regarded as a brother betrayed him and left him in financial ruin. He is speaking out now because "I am a parent and a grandparent and I believe that I have lessons worth passing on." Orr: My Story is more than a book about hockey--it is about the making of a man. $27.95
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Staff Reviews and New Releases
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Adult Fiction
 Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Jack Brigance, the hero of Grisham's very powerful first novel, A Time to Kill, is back in this "nail-bitingly suspenseful" new book. When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. List price: $28.95 Our price: $23.16
 Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History, has written a book about every 10 years, so it's very exciting news when a new book appears. Goldfinch is the story of Theo Decker, who, at the age of 13, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, he finds himself at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. List price: $30.00 Our price: $24.00
(We will have a limited number of signed copies available after November 11. Reserve a copy now!)
 Just One Evil Act: A Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George
Barbara wants to help when the daughter of her friend, Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, Angelina. However, Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn't on their daughter's birth certificate. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective to find the child, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: their daughter was kidnapped. Barbara takes matters into her own hands -- at the risk of her own career. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. List price: $29.95 Our price: $23.96
 Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Throughout each of the four linked novellas in this brilliant new book, characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next and love is "dirty"--tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. Set in a New Hampshire coastal town, a controlling manager discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a teenage girl, fleeing a dirty image of her posted online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed great-uncle Francis and of an Iraq vet she's met surfing the Web. List price: $25.95 Our price: $20.76
 Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
Have you ever read Alice Munro's short stories? If not, perhaps now is a good time to try! Set in the countryside and towns on Lake Huron, these stories paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.
At the end of Dear Life are four stories that Munro says are "autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact," and she adds: "I believe they are the first and last - and the closest - things I have to say about my own life." Munro was just awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. $15.95
"One of the great short story writers not just of our time but of any time." --The New York Times Books Review
"Wise and unforgettable. Dear Life is a wondrous gift; a reminder of why Munro's work endures."" --The Boston Globe
 Identical by Scott Turow
State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a re-investigation of Dita's death, a complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds.
List price: $28.00 Our price: $22.40
 The House Girl by Tara Conklin
1852. Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. New York City, 2004. Are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? This book is a real staff favorite and a great choice for book clubs, too! $14.99
Adult Non-Fiction
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World by Thomas Cahill
With his conversational style and delightfully analytic mind, bestselling author Thomas Cahill focuses on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. He guides us through this thrilling period (the late 14th to the early 17th century), which was full of innovation and cultural change. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue. This is Volume VI of Cahill's wonderful Hinges of History series. List price: $29.95 Our price: $23.96
 Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life by Karen Karbo
If Julia Child stood for anything, it was the pleasure found in sharing good food with good people, working hard and being content (even when things aren't going your way), and living with joy and abandon. In Karen Karbo's new book, Julia Child Rules, she shares the universal themes we can all learn from the master of French cooking. A wonderful gift, this is a book to savor as much as Julia's famous boeuf bourguignon! List price: $24.95 Sale price $19.96
 Mud Season by Ellen Stimson
After a getaway in gorgeous rural Vermont--its mountains ablaze in autumnal glory, its Main Streets quaint and welcoming--Ellen Stimson and her family make up their minds even before they get back to St. Louis: "We're moving to Vermont!" The reality, they quickly learn, is a little muddier than they'd imagined, but, happily, worth all the trouble. Reg. price: $23.95 Sale price: $19.16
 One-Woman Farm: My Life Shared with Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Goats and a Fine Fiddle by Jenna Woginrich
Jenna Woginrich's inspiring journey from city cubicle to rural homestead has captivated readers of her blog and previous books. Now, in One-Woman Farm, Woginrich shares the joys, sorrows, trials, epiphanies, and blessings she discovers during a year spent farming on her own land, finding deep fulfillment in the practical tasks and timeless rituals of the agricultural life.
List price $16.95 Sale price $13.56
 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The gap between rich and poor has never been wider...legislative stalemate paralyzes the country...corporations resist federal regulations...spectacular mergers produce giant companies...the influence of money in politics deepens...bombs explode in crowded streets...small wars proliferate far from our shores...a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life. These unnervingly familiar headlines serve as the backdrop for Doris Kearns Goodwin's highly anticipated The Bully Pulpit, a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft-a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history.
List price: $35.99 Sale price: $28.79
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, delivers a fascinating and highly readable history about how America became "one nation, indivisible". He tells the stories of the events and people who unified a growing number of disparate states into today's United States. Winchester follows in the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers and innovators from coast to coast. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together. List price: $29.99 Sale price: $23.99
 This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett's life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer. List price: $27.95 Sale price: $22.36
How to Tie a Scarf: 33 Styles
We've all fallen in love with this beautiful little book! Covered with beautiful silky fabric, it shows 33 different ways to tie a scarf. From designer silk squares to chunky homemade knits, this guide is filled with inspired ways to style your scarves. Inside you'll find:
- Step-by-step tutorials for square, oblong, and embellished scarves
- Styles for the summer, fall, winter, and spring seasons
- DIY scarf accessories featuring camera straps, tote bags, necklaces and more. $12.95
Soup Night: Recipes for Creating Community Around a Pot of Soup by Maggie Stuckey
Soup nights are popping up all around the United States as a stress-free way to bring neighbors together. The host provides two or three pots of soup, and the guests bring their own dishes and silverware, and perhaps a salad or some bread. Neighbors get to know each other by name, people of all ages connect and socialize. Here is a practical guide to starting your own soup night group, along with 99 delicious soup recipes and 40 recipes for accompaniments. $19.95
The Little Book of Prayers by David Schiller, editor
Gathered from holy books and prayer books, from songs and spirituals, spoken traditions and poets, this is a thoughtfully gathered and beautiful little collection of common and uncommon prayers from around the world. Each prayer was chosen for its depth of feeling, beauty of expression, spiritual intensity, and sense of the universal. The book is organized into categories of praise, entreaty, contemplation, mourning, and grace. There are familiar prayers, like the Lord's Prayer and 23rd Psalm, which, placed in new context, shine with a renewed beauty and wisdom. You'll find prayers unfamiliar to many in the West, such as the Opener from the Koran or the four vows of the Boddhisattva, chanted every evening in Zen monasteries around the world. $8.95
All Ages!
Advent Calendars by Vermont Christmas Company
Advent Calendars are a great way to count down to the holidays! These classic calendars feature beautiful images, both secular and religious. A great gift for college students as they count down the days before coming home, too! $3.99-$4.99
Young Adult
 Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy) by Veronica RothWhat if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation--like a single choice--changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent. $19.99
 Champion: A Legend Novel (Legend #3) by Marie LuJune and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government's elite circles as Princeps Elect while Day has been assigned a high level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them once again. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country's defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything he has. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu's bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion. $18.99
Children's Picture Books
Tea Party Rules by Ame Dyckman
When this book arrived at the bookshop, Elizabeth Merritt read it to us and we all started laughing! This utterly delightful story is matched with "picture perfect" illustrations. It is the story of a bear cub who follows his nose through the woods, where he discovers a backyard tea party...with cookies! He is just about to dig in when the hostess of the tea party shows up, and she has strong opinions on how a Tea Party "must" be played. Cub tries pretend he's just a teddy bear and tries to follow her rules . . . but just how much can one bear take, even for cookies? $16.99
 Old Mikamba Had a Farm by Rachel Isadora This fabulous version of the classic nursery song "Old MacDonald" introduces children to a menagerie of African animals and their sounds. Meet Old Mikamba, who watches over a wide variety of animals on his game farm in the plains of Africa. Children will discover a whole new set of fun animal sounds as they roar with the lions, bellow with the rhino, whinny with the zebras, honk with the wildebeests, and more! The book is beautifully illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora, with her signature collage-style artwork. Includes facts about African animals. $17.99 (Available Nov. 5)  Snowflakes Fall by Patricia MacLachlanIn Snowflakes Fall, Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life's natural cycle: its beauty, its joy, and its sorrow. Together, the words and pictures offer the promise of renewal that can be found in our lives--snowflakes fall, and return again as raindrops so that flowers can grow. MacLachlan and Kellogg, who are longtime friends, were moved to collaborate on a message of hope for children and their families following the tragic events at the school in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Kellogg lived in Sandy Hook for 35 years--he raised his family there and was an active member of the community. Random House, the publisher of Snowflakes Fall, has made a donation to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund and is also donating 25,000 new books to the national literacy organization First Book in the community's honor and in support of children everywhere. $17.99  Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella by Jan BrettJan Brett sets her Cinderella story in a snowy Russian winter where one magical night, Cinders, the most picked upon hen in the flock, becomes the most loved by Prince Cockerel when she arrives at his ball looking so beautiful that even her bossy sisters don't recognize her. Jan travelled to Russia and readers will be in awe of the Ice Palace aglow under a deep blue moonlit sky, exquisite ball gowns on the comely pullets, uniforms with gold braids and buttons on the cockerels, striking Russian architecture transformed into ice in the borders, and a very funny flock of chickens who provide an appealing, original look at this snowy Cinderella. Readers will find these dressed up chickens comical as they pour over the extravagant setting, including a "WOW"-inducing double gatefold of chicken couples whirling around the ballroom. A feast for the eyes sure to become a perennial favorite. $17.99 (Available Nov. 5)
 Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor
This lovely book is exquisitely illustrated by Cape Cod author and artist Salley Mavor, who created a beautiful hand sewn miniature world using wool felt, various stitching techniques, and found materials like acorn caps and seashells.
Looking for something fun to do with people of all ages during the holiday season? Visit the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis from Nov. 9th to January 26th, 2014 to see the original fabric relief illustrations from this book! The artwork has been touring the country since the book was released in 2010. It's a totally incredible experience to view the real artwork!
We will have signed copies of Pocketful of Posies on November 5. $21.99 (Call by Nov. 3 to get an inscribed copy!)
Children's Fiction
 Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8) by Jeff Kinney
Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story? $13.95 (Available Nov. 5) We have a limited number of special Wimpy Kid window clings and wristbands to give out with the books, so reserve a copy now! $13.95
 Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab: A Mystery with Electromagnets, Burglar Alarms, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself ( Nick and Tesla's High Voltage Danger Lab #1 ) by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith
Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they're sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It's not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own--engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt burglar alarms, electromagnets, mobile tracking devices, and more. Readers are invited to join in the fun as each story contains instructions and blueprints for five different projects. $12.95 (Available Nov. 5)
 The Twistrose Key by Tone Almhjell
Something is wrong in the house that Lin's family has rented; Lin is sure of it. The clocks tick too slowly. Frost covers the flowerbed, even in a rain storm. And when a secret key marked "Twistrose" arrives for her, Lin finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal who ever loved a child. Lin is overjoyed to be reunited with Rufus, the pet she buried under the rosebush. But together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction. They are not the only ones hunting for the boy this night. In the dark hides a shadow-lipped man, waiting for the last Winter Prince to be delivered into his hands. Exhilarating suspense and unforgettable characters await the readers of this magical adventure, destined to become a classic. $16.99
Children's Non-Fiction
 The Super Book for Super Heroes by Jason Ford
The Super Book for Super Heroes is a compendium of ideas, drawings and activities that allows you to create your own crusaders for justice who do battle with super villains, unraveling their crazed schemes for taking over the world. You will learn to draw villains such as the Mad Scientist, Bog Creature, and Evil Robot, while also creating superheroes, their sidekicks, secret hideouts, outfits, and super gadgets. And there are superpowers to discover - such as invisibility, super strength, speed, flight, heat vision, teleportation, and X-ray vision. $15.95
 Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals by Donna Jo Napoli
This volume is a stunning tableau of Egyptian myths, including those of pharaohs, queens, deities, and legendary creatures like the Sphinx. The stories are embellished with sidebars that provide historical, cultural, and geographic context and a mapping feature. Resource notes and ample back matter direct readers to discover more about ancient Egypt. $24.95
 Pinkalicious Cupcake Cookbook by Victoria Kann
Pinkalicious loves pinkatastic cupcakes--and now readers can make all their cupcakes Pinkalicious cupcakes. The Pinkalicious Cupcake Cookbook features more than 20 cupcakes straight from Pinkalicious's world. Bake everything from a classic Pinkalicious cupcake with a cherry on top to a princess cupcake and castle, a snowman cupcake, or a cake pop flower! There are cupcakes for every occasion--birthday parties, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and more--and tips to help get kids into the kitchen. $14.99 |
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