Titcomb's Bookshop
March 2016
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Titcomb's Bookshop
 Best Sellers for February
 1. Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

 2. True North by K.R.Conway

 3. Girl Singer by Mick Carlon

 4. Pax by Sara Pennypacker

 5. Tin Ticket by Deborah Swiss

 6. Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

 7. Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon

 8. Finest Hours by Michael Tougias

 9. Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

10. Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton

For Easter! 
Can you believe that Easter is on March 27?!!
No worries - we're fully stocked with many adorable varieties of bunnies and chicks, from plush to puppets to wind-up hoppers! And as always we also have lots of fun things to add to your Easter baskets!


Here are a few of our favorite Easter books:

A Friend for Bo by Elizabeth Zoriga $16.99


The Bunny Book by Richard Scarry $7.99


FIve Little Bunnies $6.99


The Wonderful Habits of Rabbits by Doublas Florian $16.99


Jan Brett's The Easter Egg $17.99


Hopping Owls! So cute!!
$3.99

And of course we have many beautiful Easter cards! 

Nanoblocks!
We are so excited to tell you about Nanoblocks! 

Nanoblocks are collectible miniature building block sets that we know will appeal to older children and adults as well.

At just 1/8th the size of standard building bricks, the detail of projects has to be seen to be believed!

Here are a few examples:


Easter Island $19.99


FIddler Crab $9.99


Praying Mantis $9.99


Castle $19.99



Octopus $9.99
Irish Fairy Doors!!!
Straight from Ireland come these beautifully hand- crafted and decorated Magical Irish Fairy Doors, which have just arrived in the United States!

Do you believe in fairies? We do, too! Now your child can invite his or her own fairy to co
me live in your house! These adorable w
ooden fairy doors, which come in several different colors, are sprinkled with magic and ready for your fairy to move in! 


Each Irish fairy door comes with a magic key in a bottle, three stepping stones, the Family/Fairy Lease Agreement, a notepad for your fairy and the Fairy Welcome Guide - all you need to help settle your fairy into its new human home!   When the magic key disappears, you know your fairy has moved in!   $29.99


Titcomb's Toy Buyer Ellen Speers with Oisin Sherwin-Barry of Dublin, Ireland at the Toy Fair in New York City.  Oisin is one of the founders of the Magical Irish Fairy Door Company.  For more information about the doors, click here.
Harry Potter News!!
The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.

A new Harry Potter book will be released this summer, and this time, it's a little bit different. Set nineteen years after book seven, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II will be the rehearsal script for the play debuting this summer in London. The book will hit the shelves on July 31st -- the evening of the play's debut, and on Harry Potter's birthday. We'll of course (!) be celebrating with a midnight release party on the evening of July 30th.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.






Legos!!
New LEGOs are coming this week!! Here are just a few of the sets that will be arriving just in time for the weekend:

Dilophosaurus Ambush! $29.99


Heartlake Cupcake Cafe!
$39.99


Garbage Truck! 
$19.99

Ferry Boat!
$29.99

(Stay tuned!  New LEGO minifigures are coming later this month.  We'll announce their arrival on facebook.)



It's going to be a very exciting month at the bookshop!  We have some truly amazing events planned, and we've discovered some books we can't wait to share with all of you!

Spring is around the corner, and for us that means it's a time to get ready for the coming year.  Over the past few weeks, we had a wonderful time at the huge Toy Fair in New York City, where we discovered lots of wonderful new toys that are beginning to arrive now at the bookshop. 

We've been to bookseller meetings with publishers in Denver, Sturbridge, Boston and New York, where we learned about many great new books being published in 2016 and where we have celebrated with other independent booksellers a successful 2015.  Many thanks to people like you who support independent businesses in our communities! 

So, we wish you all a happy spring - and happy reading, too!  We hope to see you soon!

March Events:
Knitting Club
Always the first Monday of every month
March 7   1-3pm

Knitting Supports a Healthy Brain -

What if when you were knitting a scarf, you were also knitting better cognitive health and well-being? Research shows that regularly knitting has tremendous health benefits, and that joining a knitting club can improve minds, moods and spirits. 
So grab some needles and yarn in your favorite color and join us!
Book Talk & Signing
Evan "Josh" Albright
Tuesday, March 8  7PM
Sandwich Public Library
The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World: A Gringo History of Mexico's Chichen Itza

Join author Evan "Josh" Albright  at the Sandwich Public Library for an illustrated presentation about his fascinating new book, The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World, which tells the story Edward Herbert Thompson of West Falmouth who owned the ancient Mayan city of
Chich�n Itz� in Mexico over 100 years ago. 

Thompson, an archaeologist, explored Chich�n in the 1880s and made one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in North America. The site was declared one of the new Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.   Book price $25.00

Albright is also the author of Cape Cod Confidential: True Tales of Murder, Crime, and Scandal from the Pilgrims to the Present. He has also worked as an editor and reporter for several Cape Cod newspapers, winning more than two dozen journalism awards.
Book Release Event
Saturday, March 12
1-2:30pm
Sandwich Public Library
Sandwich, a Cape Cod Town 
by Russell Lovell, Jr.

The Friends of the Sandwich Town Archives are pleased to announce they will host a book release event for the 4th edition printing of Russell Lovell,Jr.'s Sandwich, a Cape Cod Town. 

This is the first time in 20 years the book has been reprinted and contains many updates including; revisions from Russell Lovell's notes, updated maps, new cover art and rescanned photographs directly from the originals. A special paperback edition containing the inscription, "Limited Edition Copy, First 100 Books" will be available for sale at the event. Author Russell Lovell, Jr. plans to attend the event and will be available to sign copies, which will be on sale for $24.95.  Additional copies will be available at the bookshop in April.  
Book Talk and Signing
K.R. Conway
Sunday, March 13
1-2pm
True North (Book 4 in the Undertow series)


Join the fun as we welcome back to Titcomb's the wonderful Cape Cod author Kate Conway, who has just published the 4th in her Undertow series of young adult supernatural love stories set on Cape Cod.


When asked to describe the series, Ms. Conway said it "reflects the fallout from a war between two races that were genetically designed to hate one another."  The series is full of supernatural characters and is built around its own unique mythology. 

Not only will readers recognize specific places on the Cape, they may even recognize specific people. As part of an auction at the Sturgis Charter Public School, Ms. Conway auctioned off naming rights to characters in True North. 
A big part of Undertow's influence came from a house on Main Street in Centerville that belonged to a friend of Ms. Conway, "a grand sea captain's home that I love," she said.

"Making the setting its own character and basing the books here on my beloved Cape Cod was important to me," Ms. Conway said. 

Ms. Conway, who drives a school bus, teaches and mentors, writes reviews, works as a graphic designer, and does "about a million other things," remembers being told numerous times in college that she should become a writer.
Book Club
Tuesday, March 15
7pm
Author Deborah Swiss will join us for our discussion!

All are welcome to attend our monthly book discussion.  This month, we are delighted that author Deborah Swiss will join us to talk about her fascinating book, The Tin Ticket.

The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.

 Deborah Swiss is an acclaimed expert and management consultant on gender equity, career development, and work/life balance issues.

The book club discussion is led by Titcomb's Book Buyer Elizabeth Merritt.  Light refreshments.

Click here to see a video about this amazing book.

Kathryn Aalto, Author of
The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
Saturday, March 12  at 2pm
Heritage Museums & Gardens


Join us at Heritage Museums & Gardens to discover the real world of Winnie-the-Pooh! 
We are delighted to welcome author, landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto as she talks about her new book, The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh, which explores the magical landscapes where Winnie the Pooh and his friends live and play. 

The Hundred Acre Wood was inspired by Ashdown Forest, a 6,000 acre wildlife haven in southeast England. You will discover how Milne's childhood connection with nature and his role as a father influenced his famous stories, and how his close collaboration with illustrator E. H. Shepard brought those stories to life. This charming book also serves as a guide to the plants, animals, and places of the remarkable Ashdown Forest. In a delightful narrative, enriched with Shepard's original illustrations, hundreds of color photographs, and Milne's own words, you will rediscover your favorite characters and the magical place they called home.

The talk will be followed by a book signing, light refreshments, and an opportunity to explore the Heritage gardens so that all can be inspired by the same types of trees and landscapes found here as in Ashdown forest. 

Admission:  $8 for Museum Members, $10 Non-Members payable at the museum on the day of the event or in advance via the museum's website.  The fee is for admission to the talk and also to the museum gardens.  Click here to make your reservation.
Book Talk & Signing
Author Sara Majka
Cities I've Never lived In: Stories
Saturday, March 19  2-3pm

We are delighted that author Sara Majka will visit Titcomb's to talk about her brilliant new novel. Fearlessly riding the line between imagination and experience, fact and fiction, the linked stories in Sara Majka's debut collection offer intimate glimpses of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after a divorce. Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to the unmade beds of strangers, these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of understanding herself.

When she was young, Sara Majka's family moved along the New England coast, living in Maine, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cuttyhunk and even for a time in a lighthouse. Sara's stories have appeared in "A Public Space," "PEN America," "The Gettysburg Review," and "Guernica." A former fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she lives in Queens, New York.

"Prodigal with insight into why and how people love and leave, and love again. Humane, dazzling, and knowing." Author Kelly Link
Dr. Padraig O'Malley 
Talk and Book Signing
Wednesday, March 30  1-4pm
Cape Cod Community College
Studio Theater (on lower level of Tilden Arts Center)
The Two State Delusion: Israel and Palestine - a Tale of Two Narratives











Cape Cod Community College will host Dr. Padraig O'Malley as he talks about his work in the Middle East.   
Dr. O'Malley is a lifelong peacemaker and the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.  He has spent his career working to resolve conflicts around issues of ethnicity and religion - in Northern Ireland, Iraq, South Africa, and Serbia/Croatia/Kosovo, among others.  He is the founder of the Forum for Cities in Transition, an international network that endeavors to promote reconciliation, civic participation and economic development in cities divided by ethnic, religious or political conflict.  

A reception with light refreshments will be held from 1-2pm. The talk will begin at 2 and a book signing will follow.
 
This event is being held in partnership with Cape Cod Community College as the 2016 Schatzberg Endowed Speaker Series. Titcomb's will have books available for sale at the event and books are available at the bookshop now.  
To register for the event, click here. 
Save the Date - April 2!
Author Dawn Tripp
Georgia
Book Talk and Signing
Saturday, April 2
2pm

We are so excited to tell you that Dawn Tripp will be here at the bookshop to talk about her brilliant new novel, Georgia! Based on the life of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her relationship with photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Published just last month, the book is already a national bestseller!

Georgia is as stunningly beautiful as the artwork that inspired it. With amazing insight, Tripp captures the personal and artistic relationships between two difficult, brilliant, and complex people: the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. This is an incredible read from beginning to end.

Joining Dawn to talk about the book will be art historian Dr. Wanda Corn,  a scholar of late 19th and early 20th century American art and photography.  Dr. Corn has written extensively about O'Keeffe's skull paintings in her 1999 book The Great American Thing, Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-35.
Make your reservation now!
Guided Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Thursday, April 28
10:30am - Noon

Meet us at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge for a guided tour by author Stephen Kendrick! 
The cost is $20.00 and includes a copy of the book.  

Reservations must be made in advance, and are limited.  Call or stop in at the bookshop to make your reservation.


The Lively Place; Mount Auburn Cemetery, and its Revolutionary and Literary Residents by Stephen Kendrick 
The story of one of the Boston area's most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and "residents" have influenced American culture.

In The Lively Place, Stephen Kendrick celebrates this vital piece of our nation's history, as he tells the story of Mt. Auburn's founding, its legacy, and the many influential Americans interred there, from religious leaders to abolitionists, poets, and reformers. (Available April 5) $16.00

Stephen Kendrick is senior minister at the First and Second Unitarian Universalist Churches in Boston. He is the author of Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggles for Equality Changed America, and Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union. 



Click on the beautiful photograph above for more information about the Mount Auburn Cemetery.
New Fiction:

We're Already Gone This Far by Patrick Dacey
Patrick Dacey's story collection is moving, amusing, and thought provoking. Set in the fictional working-class town of Wequaquet, the stories are sometimes funny, often heartbreaking. Each deals with small town life, struggles and minor victories, petty grievances and accomplishments. In this impressive debut collection, Dacey gives voice to often neglected members of society. 

Patrick Dacey grew up on Cape Cod, received his MFA from Syracuse and currently lives in Virginia.  Reg. price $26.00, our price $20.80


The Widow by Fiona Barton
From Elizabeth S This gripping debut thriller is based on the premise of just how much does the widow know?  A suspected kidnapper and pedophile leaves behind his wife and secrets. Who really knows what goes on in a marriage?  Told by 5 very different people's points of view - Who to believe?  Who is guilty?  A page turner with a climactic ending.  Fans of Gone Girl and Girl on a Trainwill want to add this to their reading lists!!! Reg. price $26.00, our price $20.80


At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
From Elizabeth M: Once again Chevalier has written a historical novel that blends fact with a riveting story.  The tale opens in northwestern Ohio in the 1830's where the Goodenough family is struggling to establish a farm which includes apple trees provided by Johnny Appleseed.  Fleeing from a tragic incident the youngest son, Robert moves westward and the story moves forward via a series of letters that may or may reach the intended recipients. The odyssey culminates in California where once again trees become main characters in the form of redwoods and giant sequoias when Robert becomes an associate of a naturalist collecting saplings and seeds to export to England.  (available March 15) Reg. price $27.00, our price $20.79


  The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
From Vicky: Brilliant writing, laugh out loud humor and an amazing knowledge of the Bronte family add up to an absolutely fabulous page-turner in this very smart mystery and love story. Samantha Whipple is a descendant of the Bronte family and rumored to be the recipient of a wealth of Bronte literary treasures - something she knows nothing about. After she enrolls at Oxford University, Bronte items from her deceased father begin to mysteriously appear, setting her off on an unforgettable literary scavenger hunt. This is an absolutely fabulous debut and would make a perfect discussion book for book clubs. Reg. price $25.99, our price $20.79


A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
A Few of the Girls is a collection of Binchy's short story writing - some published in magazines, others for friends as gifts, many for charity benefits. The stories are all filled with the signature warmth and humor that have always been an essential part of Maeve's appeal.  Reg. price $26.95, our price $21.56
New Fiction (continued):


Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast navigator determined to win her heart; a naive cabin boy eager to earn a permanent spot on the world's largest airship; an impetuous journalist who has been blacklisted in her native Germany; and an enigmatic American businessman with a score to settle. Over the course of three hazy, champagne-soaked days their lies, fears, agendas, and hopes for the future are revealed.

Flight of Dreams is a portrait of the real people on board the last flight of the Hindenburg. Behind them is the gathering storm in Europe and before them is looming disaster. But for the moment they float over the Atlantic, unaware of the inexorable, tragic fate that awaits them. Reg. price $25.95, our price $21.56

Click here to watch a video about this book!


Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
From Kathy: Creepy murderous-stalker-bookseller Joe is back! In this sequel to You, Joe is in love with a woman named Amy, and this time he's sure it's real. But then she disappears, taking a bunch of collectible books from the shop with her. Furious, Joe is determined to find her. His quest takes him to Los Angeles where he breaks his own self-imposed ban on social media. He joins Facebook and Tinder and anything else his new friends and acquaintances suggest. In California, Joe meets an heiress named Love, who seem ready to accept Joe exactly as he is. Can Joe give up his killer games now that he may have found his perfect woman at last? I must admit Hidden Bodies is a truly compulsive, disturbing, and sometimes hilarious read - Joe's twisted attempts at relationships will appeal to fans of Dexter. Not for the faint-hearted! Reg. price $26.99, our price $21.59

Author Caroline Kepnes is from Centerville! She lives and works in L.A., but comes back to the Cape each summer, and will come to Titcomb's for a signing! Stay tuned to our website - we'll put up the information as soon as it's finalized.


New Fiction in Paperback:
Hanging Mary by Susan Higginbotham
As hope fades for the Confederacy in the fall of 1864, the widowed Mary Surratt, left heavily in debt by her drunken husband, moves to Washington with her children, John and Anna, and opens her home to boarders. There she welcomes the friends of John, a Confederate courier, even as she is disturbed by her son's increasingly secretive behavor.

Fresh from convent school, bookish Nora Fitzpatrick finds a second mother in Mary, and is fascinated by the odd characters who frequent her landlady's house. But none of the visitors is so thrilling as John Surratt's new friend, the dashing actor John Wilkes Booth, who captivates Nora and Anna with his charm and good looks, and whose fervor for the Southern cause draws John and Mary into an audacious scheme to save the dying Confederacy.

On Good Friday, 1865, Booth commits an act that will reverberate through history. Suddenly everyone in the boardinghouse is under suspicion, and everyone has something to hide or to reveal.

Mary Surratt was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged, becoming the first woman executed by the United States federal government.   $15.99

 The  Flying Circus by Susan Crandall
The Flying Circus is a great story based on the lives of barnstorming stunt pilots who crisscrossed the U.S. in the 1920's. Gil Gilroy, a former WWI flyer, Cora Haviland, a penniless heiress, and Henry Schuler, a teenage orphan fleeing a crime back in his native Indiana, crash into one another-quite literally - at a rural crossroads and eventually transform themselves into an act, traveling from town to town, with Gus doing stunts in his Curtiss Jenny biplane, Cora doing stunts on her motorcycle, and Henry acting as their mechanic.  The three of them up the ante and join an actual flying show of aero-acrobats, in which Cora becomes a wing-walker, constantly trying to devise more and more dangerous stunts to attract larger crowds to the show. Cora eventually graduates to air racer, but the combined secrets from their past threaten to destroy their future together.  Gil, Cora, and Henry make for a sturdy romantic trio, and this old-fashioned novel will remind you of the 1970's Robert Redford movie, The Great Waldo Pepper. $16.00


 Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths. The deadbeat father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by playing the role of Jesus in a bloody penitential Passion. A young man discovers that his estranged father and a boa constrictor have been squatting in his grandmother's empty house. A lonely retiree new to Santa Fe becomes obsessed with her housekeeper. One girl attempts to uncover the mystery of her cousin's violent past, while another young woman finds herself at an impasse when she is asked to hear her priest's confession.

Always hopeful, these stories chart the passions and obligations of family life, exploring themes of race, class, and coming-of-age, as Quade's characters protect, betray, wound, define, and ultimately save each other. $15.95


The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
From Kathy: This is a taut, suspenseful story! The narrator is an American woman whose terrible decisions keep the story moving at a clip.  She arrives in Casablanca and is promptly robbed. The police notify her that her bag has been recovered - only to present her with another woman's backpack. She feels she has no other choice but to claim it as hers. Fearing she will be found out, she takes another name. And then another. She will become Sabine, Megan, Reeves, Jane and Aretha. She will chop off her hair one minute, and wear a wig the next. As we slowly learn her true story, we face the provocative question of who would we be if stripped of our name and possessions, in a foreign country without friends or family. Would we feel free? Or?  (available March 15) $14.99


New Nonfiction:
Half Earth by E.O.Wilson
Edward O. Wilson (Letters to a Young Scientist) is a famous and sometimes controversial naturalist, a Harvard professor and the Pulitzer-winning author of more than 20 books. Half-Earth is the last book in his trilogy* on "how our species became the architects and rulers of the Anthropocene epoch, bringing consequences that will affect all of life... far into the geological future."

His recommendation is a radical one. "I am convinced that only by setting aside half the planet in reserve... can we save the living part of the environment and achieve the stabilization required for our own survival." $25.95

(*The other books in this trilogy are: The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence)



H is for Hawk (paperback)
We are very happy that this very moving bestselling book is now available in paperback!!
When Macdonald, a Cambridge lecturer, poet, and naturalist, was in her late 30s, she lost her father to a heart attack on a London street. Then she lost herself. Torn by grief, she acquired a goshawk. Already an experienced falconer, she withdrew from people to train her bird, "solitary, self-possessed, free from grief." Highly recommended!
$16.00



On the Move by Oliver Sacks (paperback)
From Karen: The acclaimed physician, best-selling author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat among others), and professor of neurology believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe". This memoir (published just months before his death) recounts his life from after his graduation from Oxford and early working life through his work with patients with unusual brain disorders is told with his characteristic engaging and accessible style. He traveled widely including throughout California and the West to New York City and the East on his beloved motorcycle, was an avid weightlifter and his curious mind never seemed to cease to find fascination in the world, it's people and the human brain. This book was a captivating look into the life of a brilliant and engaging mind - I couldn't put it down! $16.95


 Children's Picture Books:
Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book
by Britta Teckentrup
Through a hole in the book's cover, an owl invites you inside to meet a majestic tree and all its forest inhabitants during the changing seasons. Children will love seeing a new set of animals appear and then disappear as each page is turned, and along the way they'll learn about the seasons and how a forest and its inhabitants change throughout the year.  $14.99




The Night Gardener
One day, William discovers that the tree outside his window has been sculpted into a wise owl. In the following days, more topiaries appear, and each one is more beautiful than the last. Soon, William's gray little town is full of color and life. This is a beautiful picture book filled with whimsy about enjoying the beauty of nature.
$17.99





Going For a Sea Bath by Andree Poulin, illustrated by Anne-Claire Delisle

We love this book! It's a combination bath time/seashore book with a father-daughter adventure that will inspire giggles all around. The illustrations are so much fun - smiling sea creatures, a charmingly silly father, and one little girl who will never complain about boring bath times again.  $14.95



Chapter Books:
Brambleheart by Henry Cole
From Gail: Very special pencil illustrations lead you through this really good story about an underachieving chipmunk who has troubles at trying to master
the skills that will make him a valuable part of his community. He learns that his dreams and expectations don't come easily to him, but when his friends support him he discovers what is truly important to him. There is so much emotion evoked in the heart-warming illustrations you root for him, too. I could read more about this whole group of animals for a long while.  Ages 8-12 $16.99


Just My Luck by Cammie McGovern 
From Vicky: Just My Luck is a gem! It's the story of Benny, a 4th grade boy who's having a tough year. His father has had an accident that led to a brain injury and Benny feels responsible. His best friend has moved away. He got the teacher he really wanted, but something is different with Mr. Norris this year. His older brother, whom he loves, is autistic. Sometimes Benny feels like he has no luck at all, but with the help of his family and others around him he discovers the truth of the saying on the cover of the book: "Everyone has bad days. You have to make the good ones." This is a book with so much heart. A great choice for readers who loved books like R. J. Palachio's Wonder. Ages 8-12 $16.99


Maybe a Fox by Kathi Applet and Alison McGhee
This is a heartbreaking and beautifully written book that conveys an understanding that grief is a journey and that a person can, even after terrible loss, feel the warm sun, smile once again, and make wishes for the future.

A review from Ellen's ten year old daughter, Kalyn:"Maybe a Fox is a book about two sisters.  When Julie's sister Silvy disappears into the Slip, an underground river, her soul is claimed by the river.  This magical story tells a tale of how a young fox brings Julie to a place Silvy once loved.  I give it a 5 out of 5."   Ages 10-14  $16.99  (Available March 8)
Nonfiction for Children:
The Forest Feast for Kids: Colorful Vegetarian Recipes That Are Simple to Make by Erin Gleeson

This is the perfect cookbook for young people! Based on Erin Gleeson's wonderful blog, this book is gorgeous! The layout is beautiful, the recipes are easy for kids to follow, and it is a great way to get your kids to eat their veggies and help out in the kitchen.  $19.95




Life in the Boreal Forest by Brenda Guiberson, illustrated by Gennady Spirin 

Learn about the boreal forest, who lives there, and why it is as important as the rain forests to our world.  Spectacular, gorgeous, glorious illustrations combine with engaging and informative text.  (paperback) $8.99

Teens:

The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Set in Alaska in the 1970s, this moving new novel tells the story of four young people. Ruth has a secret that she can't hide forever, Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance with the life she's always known on her family's fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it's safer to run away than to stay home until one of them ends up in terrible danger.

Author Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock was born and raised in Alaska. She worked many years fishing commercially with her family and as a reporter for Alaska Public Radio stations. Her writing is inspired by her family's four generations in Alaska. Fans of Rainbow Rowell, Louise Erdich, and Sherman Alexie will love this book, and it will appeal to adults as well as young people. Ages 12 - 17 $17.99


Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
The electrifying next installment in the popular Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince - her friend - who betrayed her. Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?  Ages 13 - 17 $17.99


After the Woods by Kim Savage
Would you risk your life to save your best friend?
Julia did. When a paroled predator attacked Liv in the woods, Julia fought back and got caught. Liv ran, leaving Julia in the woods for a terrifying 48 hours that she remembers only in flashbacks. One year later, Liv seems bent on self-destruction, starving herself, doing drugs, and hooking up with a violent new boyfriend. A dead girl turns up in those same woods, and Julia's memories resurface alongside clues unearthed by an ambitious reporter that link the girl to Julia's abductor. As the devastating truth becomes clear, Julia realizes that after the woods was just the beginning.  Ages 14 - 18 $17.99

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