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Newsletter Editor:
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Titcomb's Best Sellers:
July 2016
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1. Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams by Susan Branch
2. Heart of the Home Cookbook by Susan Branch
3. Island House by Nancy Thayer
4. Hanging Mary by Sue Higginbotham
5. Last Ride to Graceland by Kim Wright
6. Tin Ticket by Deborah Swiss
7. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
8. My Heart Rocks by Amy Dykens
9. The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer
10. Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand |
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Here are some of our Toy Buyer Ellen's favorite new toys:
Spyderball!
You'll love playing Spyderball! Whether you're on land or in the water, this game provides tons of fun and intense competition. Four foam floats help stabilize your target while on water, and the elevated net design provides elasticity for a better bounce, no matter the playing surface! Put a new twist on your volleyball game with the Franklin Sypderball set!
Designed for play in the water or on land.
Great for ages 8 and up
Includes one target, one 5" ball, one inflation pump with needle
$34.99
Fire Buggz! Hot dog/marshmallow roaster that looks and feels like a fishing pole! Just like jigging your fishing line...a quick flick of your wrist and it flips your hotdog or marshmallow!
Fun for the whole family! $34.99
Buoy Bats - New Colors! Have you seen Buoy Bats? Played like baseball - perfect for the beach, backyard, or playground. Safe, easy, and fun for all ages and abilities!
It's an ideal multi-generational family game!
Light and easy to use, it comes with a "face-friendly" ball.
Handmade in Maine with real lobster buoys and hardwood handles.
$31.99
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We think summer is a wonderful season to read! In honor of that, Titcomb's Bookshop is launching a brand new summer reading program for young readers!
Stop in at the bookshop and pick up a free bingo game card. Come back at the end of the summer and claim your reward!
The Sandwich Public Library is also launching their popular reading program - more details will be available on their website:
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Titcomb's Bookshop
August 2016 Newsletter
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Knitting Club
Monday, August 1
1-3pm
All are welcome - no reservations needed!
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 3-6 pm
Author Lisa Brown: The Airport Book
Hangar B Eatery
Chatham Municipal Airport
240 George Ryder Road
Chatham, MA 02633
Bring the children to a very special and fun airport event as author and illustrator Lisa Brown celebrates her wonderful new picture book, The Airport Book.
We hope you'll join us at Hanger B Eatery at the Chatham Municipal Airport.
There will be food, drinks, and - of course! - airplanes!
(And SHHHH... Lisa's good pal Lemony Snicket may appear! ! !)
About the book: Follow a family on its way through a modern-day airport. From checking bags and watching them disappear on the mysterious conveyor belt, to security clearance and a seemingly endless wait at the gate to finally being airborne.
 Lisa Brown is the New York Times bestselling author/illustrator of a number of books for young readers including The Latke That Couldn't Stop Screaming by the illusive Lemony Snicket.
Book price $17.99 |
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Book Signing
Wednesday, August 3 2-3pm
Christopher Setterlund
In My Footsteps: Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket
  
 Christopher Setterlund is a 12th generation Cape Codder with some famous names from the area in his family tree. His passion for travel, adventure, and visiting new places is apparent in his writing, with vivid descriptions and crisp photos that help paint pictures for the readers and give them the impression of walking in his footsteps.
He does his very best to share each and every place he visits with the love and care of a native but with the wonder of a first-time traveler.
Book price $16.99 each |
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Book Talk & Signing
Thursday, August 4 4-5pm
Author Joe Flanagan
Lesser Evils
Joe Flanagan's Lesser Evils expertly reimagines 1957 Cape Cod, where the mystifying murder of a local child brings us into a world of intrigue--honed by intricate plotting, sharp dialogue, and original characters--that culminates in a conclusion both surprising and deeply moving.
Flanagan's debut novel is a modern take on classic noir crime fiction.
 Joe Flanagan was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He has worked as a freelance writer, a speechwriter, and magazine editor. His fiction has appeared in the anthology Glimmer Train. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Book price $18.00 |
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Book Signing
Thursday, August 11 3-4pm
Author/Photographer Don Krohn
On Cape Cod
We think this is one of the most beautiful Cape Cod books of all time, so we are very pleased to welcome author and photographer Don Krohn to the bookshop! Loosely chronicling the arc of a summer day on Cape Cod, each town is represented through more than 100 color photographs. Locals will discover something new, along with the familiar, while visitors will quickly find themselves falling in love with our beloved Cape.
Don Krohn is a New York City-born photographer and occasional writer, teacher, and designer. As a photographer he is self-taught in many variations of the medium, and travels extensively in pursuit of his craft. He and his wife Janis Brennan are co-owners of Main Street Books and the Orleans Whole Food Store.
Book price $29.95
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Book Club
Tuesday, August 16 7pm
Hanging Mary by Susan Higginbotham
 In this novel we meet Mary Surratt, the only woman convicted and executed in connection with the Lincoln assassination. The widow of a drunkard, Mary remakes her life as a boarding house owner in Washington, DC. With her eldest son, Isaac, fighting for the Confederacy, Mary has concerns about her wayward son, Johnny, an impressionable and frequently unemployed young man who undertakes dubious schemes in support of the Southern cause. The other voice within this novel is that of Mary's friend and boarder, Nora Fitzpatrick, admirer of President Lincoln. When Johnny Surratt brings home the charismatic actor John Wilkes Booth, Mary's boarders are star-struck. Although concerned by Johnny's mysterious associates, Mary agrees to look the other way and is eventually convinced to pass along cryptic messages, although she prefers to remain ignorant of the details. Mary is portrayed as a devout woman, a "victim of circumstance" who pays dearly for being naive. She is tried in a military court, and despite several pleas for clemency, she becomes the first woman executed by the U.S. government.
Author Susan Higginbotham will join our discussion by phone.
Reg. book price $15.99, book club price $12.80 |
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Wednesday, August 17
3-4pm
Author/Illustrator Howard L. Bonington
History of Aviation on Cape Cod
We hope you will join us to meet the author/illustrator of a wonderful new book, Aviation On Cape Cod. This book is filled with exquisite pen & ink line drawings depicting the history of flight here on Cape Cod. If you are interested in local aviation history, you will not want to miss this event! Book price $15.95
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Thursday, September 8 7:00pm
Political Analyst and Author Mark Hannah
The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama
Sandwich Public Library
 We are very excited to announce that political analyst and Fox News commentator Mark Hannah, who grew up in Sandwich, will talk about his new book, The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong about Barack Obama on Thursday, September 8 at 7:00 pm at the Sandwich Public Library.
In The Best Worst President, Hannah and New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake, who lives on Cape Cod, swiftly and systematically debunk conservative lies and disinformation meant to negate the president's accomplishments and damage his reputation. The Best Worst President is a whip-smart takedown of these half-truths and hypocrisies, each refuted in a smart, witty, fact-based style. Hannah and Staake not only defend the president but showcase his administration's most surprising and underappreciated triumphs.
Mark Hannah is a veteran of the Kerry-Edwards and Obama for America presidential campaigns and an adjunct professor of media studies at The New School. A public affairs and media analyst, Mark is the political correspondent for PBS.org's media blog, a contributor to Politico's "Arena," and a frequent commentator on Fox News.
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The  Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
From Elizabeth M: Ann Hood's many fans will welcome this poignant novel which celebrates the positive effects of reading and will undoubtedly become a book club favorite. The main character, Ava feels quite alone after her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her children are living away from home. At the suggestion of a friend she joins a book club which has a theme for the year -- "the book that matters most." (available August 9)
$25.95, our price $20.76
 The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
Are you a political junkie? Hooked on House of Cards? Do you miss The West Wing? If so, you will definitely enjoy this new novel by the author of Girls in White Dresses! Fresh and smart, light and funny, this send-up of life in Washington D.C. is a great book to add to your beach bag this summer.
$26.95, our price $21.56
 Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Author Jay McInerney has described himself as a "novelist who considers New York his proper subject." He returns to that preoccupation in his eighth novel, Bright, Precious Days, a sobering sketch of the city on the eve of the Great Recession, through the eyes of Corinne and Russell Calloway--first seen in his novel Brightness Falls and again in The Good Life--whose midlife marriage is about to endure its own upheaval. (available August 2)
$27.95, our price $22.36
 Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers
Set in the Alaskan wilderness, Eggers' new novel centers on a woman named Josie. Fleeing a failed marriage and a disappointing life in suburban Ohio, where she lost her dental practice after being sued by a former patient, Josie takes her two young children to Alaska, where she rents an R.V. and sets out on a sometimes harrowing road trip. They name the RV "the Chateau" and at first it feels like a vacation - hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, they see bears and bison. But as they drive north to get away from encroaching wildfires, Josie is forced to deal with enemies real and imagined, past mistakes and more. Captivating, often hilarious, Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of contemporary life. $28.95, our price $23.16
 Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything - until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant-a part of a future that belonged to them.
Author Ann Patchett has this to say: "Another Brooklyn is a sort of fever dream, containing both the hard truths of life and the gentle beauty of memory ... Jacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice. I loved this book."
(available August 9) $22.99, our price $18.39
 Christodora by Tim Murphy
In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. Orignially built by and for immigrants, later lived in by artists and bohemians, the Christodora is a character itself. Set in the early 1980's, the novel spans over forty years of sex, drugs, art and activism during the AIDS epidemic. Murphy beautifully explores the themes of family (both born into and created), passion, addiction, creativity and purpose. If you are a fan of A Little Life, this is the next novel to sink into. (available Aug. 2)
$26.00, our price $20.80
 Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
From Kathy: I love this novel very much! I am a science fiction fan, and Good Morning, Midnight could definitely be classified as such, but don't let that keep you away. The plot is character driven, told through beautiful and lyrical writing. Returning from a long voyage in space, astronaut Sully and her crewmates find that communications from Mission Control on earth have suddenly gone dark. At the same time, Augustine, an aging scientist at a remote research outpost in the Arctic, decides to stay put even when an evacuation order is issued.
With piercing emotional insight, Lily Brooks-Dalton captures the heartbreaking regrets and profound bravery of Sully and Augustine - whose stories gradually twine together in surprising ways. Good Morning, Midnight is an amazing story of the power of love at the end of the world. (available August 9) $26.00, our price $20.80
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 American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the name "Tania."
(available Aug. 2) $28.95
 All at Sea; A Memoir by Decca Aitkenhead
How life can change in the blink of an eye is poignantly narrated in this tragic memoir. As she did yoga stretches on her hotel terrace, Decca Aitkenhead watched her partner, Tony, playing with their four-year-old son on Treasure Beach, Jamaica. The next time she looked up, Jake's head was bobbing on a wave. A rip tide had pulled him out to sea. Decca ran down to the beach and found Tony had managed to swim out to the boy, Decca grabbed her son and swam back to shore. The tide was too powerful for Tony. He drowned before her eyes, leaving her alone with their two young sons.
There is no such thing as a charmed life and the book underscores life's precariousness, reminding us not to take anyone we love for granted. But Aitkenhead does not preach - she writes with powerful honesty about grief, transformation, loss of old moorings, and finally a new permission to put the heart first.
(available Aug.16) $25.00
 Great Italian American Food in New England by John Carafoli
Explore the Italian neighborhoods in different parts of the six states and the evolution of Italian heritage cuisine. What part of Italy did the immigrants come from? How did they adapt recipes and use new ingredients? How did those recipes evolve over the years? Included are profiles of the people, places, and communities that made the largest impact and interviews with descendants including: local chefs, famous pizzeria owners, Italian butchers, home cooks, celebrities, and specialty shops purveyors. Alongside these stories is a mix of historical and modern photos as well as more than 50 classic recipes passed down through generations and some from establishments that still thrive today. (available August 15) $22.95
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Fiction:
 Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Warning: Once you start this book you will not put it down until you finish! This psychological thriller begins with Rachel, on her daily commute via the train to London. Rachel is a mess following a heartbreaking divorce, and is an alcoholic prone to blackouts. She has found a measure of comfort in imagining the lives of the people she sees in the houses she passes every day. Suddenly something happens to one of these people and the suspense does not let up until the violent conclusion! Think Rear Window meets Gone Girl and then some! (the movie is coming out this fall! Click here for the trailer) $16.00
 Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
As this coming of age novel begins in 1951, 11-year-old Donal Cameron is on a Greyhound bus bound for Manitowoc, Wisconsin to stay with an aunt while his grandmother has surgery. Donny has never known a life without his Gram, a ranch cook in the Two Medicine Country in Montana. When he meets his aunt Kate (not the famous Kate Smith to his dismay) he soon learns that she's not nice like Gram, not to him or to his uncle, Herman the German. And so as soon as he can, he hops back on the bus to go west, to go home. Once the trip is underway, Donny is surprised to find Herman on the bus with him. As the road trip progresses, the odd couple find themselves in all sorts of situations including sleeping in a hobo camp and looking for odd jobs. This story, the last from beloved author Doig, is reminiscent of The Bartender's Tale. You'll wish you were on the bus with them and that the trip would never end. (Aug. 16) $16.00
 Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
A Manual for Cleaning Women; Stories by Lucia Berlin
Lucia Berlin's short stories were not well known during her lifetime. A few collections published by small presses between the 70s and 90s won a tiny but devoted band of admirers including Lydia Davis and Saul Bellow.
Lucia Berlin was a cleaning woman, a switchboard operator, a physician's assistant and a nurse. She was an alcoholic with three failed marriages, too. But the onetime University of Colorado associate professor was also a powerful writer whose short stories draw on her own life, her personal relationships, her failures and her addictions. More than half of those stories are included in A Manual for Cleaning Women. Not to be missed! (available Aug. 2) $16.00
 All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani
From Elizabeth M: This historical novel is set in the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930's and the reader is quickly caught up in a tale that is based on a true story. Larger than life movie stars such as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and David Niven play roles on the screen and in real life. Loretta Young is a young actress who has been in the movies since she was a child. She is cast in a film with Gable and they are immediately attracted to one another. The story is enriched with the addition of a young woman who upon leaving the convent where she has spent several years becomes Loretta Young's secretary. $15.99
 Dragonfish by Tran Vu
From Kathy: "Everyone had a cell phone in this town, even people who had no one to call." This smart thriller is set in the Vietnamese immigrant community of Las Vegas. It made me think of Walter Mosley's novels. The writing is so good - you will be drawn into a world of violence and heartbreak, loss and love and obsession that will keep you up late into the night. If you are a fan of noir fiction, you will enjoy this - a great read!
The author, Vu Tran, was born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in a refugee camp in Oklahoma. His short stories have appeared in many publications, including the O. Henry Prize Stories and the Best American Mystery Stories. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. $15.95
 Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Franzen's novel is a multi-generational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler, or Pip, who doesn't know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pip's family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower. (available Aug. 2) $17.00
Non-fiction in paperback:  Spirals in Time; The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells The science and natural history of shells are woven into a compelling narrative, revealing their cultural importance and the ways they have been used by humans over the millennia. (Seashells have even been tapped as a source of mind-bending drugs.) Marine biologist Helen Scales shows how seashells have been sculpted by the fundamental rules of mathematics and evolution; how they gave us color, gems, food, and new medicines. $17.00
Life, Animated by Ron Suskind
This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family discovered that they could communicate through Disney dialogue and song. Ron and Owen were recently featured in a fascinating documentary. Click here for a look at the trailer.
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 Avenue of Spies; A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alex Kershaw
The author of The Liberator documents the story of an American doctor in Paris and his life-risking espionage contributions to the French resistance during World War II.
$16.00
 Queen Bees and Wannabees; Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World
by Rosalind Wiseman
An updated and revised paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling Queen Bees and Wannabes, the definitive guide for parents to cracking the "girl code" and understanding the powerful role that cliques play in shaping every aspect of adolescent girls' lives. This updated edition focuses on bullying situations with younger girls as well as new research on the role of video games and online worlds. $16.99
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Children's Picture Books:
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 Ishi; Simple Tips from a Solid Friend by Akiko Yabuki
We think this is one of the most adorable and uplifting books ever! Each page features an image of Ishi, the rock (Ishi means rock in Japanese) in a negative situation. On the facing page is Ishi in a positive solution. We love this book - it's a hardcover version of a smile. Everyone can relate to the situations in these pages and Ishi's charming solutions will pick you right up when you're feeling down.
This book includes a FROM/TO page inside the front cover intended to promote sharing the book with friends. By passing this book along, it will allow others to experience the euphoric feeling you get from giving to others...shared happiness!
$12.95
 Have You Seen Elephant? by David Barrow
Elephant wants to play hide and seek. See if you can help the others find him! Hint - he's very good!
Ages 3-6
$16.99
 What a Beautiful Morning by Arthur A. Levine
 Lucy by Randy Cecil
Lucy is a small dog without a home. She had one once, but she remembers it only in her dreams. Eleanor is a little girl who looks forward to feeding the stray dog that appears faithfully beneath her window each day. Eleanor s father is a juggler with stage fright. The overlapping stories of three delightful characters, offering a slightly different perspective each time, come together in a truly original, beautifully illustrated book for dog (and underdog) lovers of all ages. $19.99
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 The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase by Wendy Mass
If you liked The Candymakers, you will love this sequel!
It has been a few months since the Harmonicandy was chosen as the winner of the nationwide candymaking contest. Forever changed by the experience, Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when presented with the chance to go on tour to promote the new candy, they each have very different reasons for hitting the road.
The stakes are a lot higher than they thought, however, and a decades-old secret is revealed. In this action-packed adventure, the four friends embark on a journey full of hidden treasures, imaginary worlds, rivers of light, a map of awe, a sky of many colors, and one very small cat who thinks he's a dog.
And candy. LOTS and LOTS of candy.
They've already learned to trust one another. Now they'll have to trust themselves in order to face what lies ahead and save what really matters. Ages 8-12
(available Aug. 2) $18.99
 The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Award-winning author, Kelly Barnhill (The Witch's Boy) has written an epic coming of age fairy tale.
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.
One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna's thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge--with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth's surface. And the woman with the Tiger's heart is on the prowl . . .
Spellbinding!
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Little Black Dresses, Little White Lies by Laura Stampler OK, finished your required summer reading? Ready for a fun beach book? Here it is! Summer internships, NYC, drama, friendships, and cute boys. This book embodies the best of summer contemporaries.
Harper gets the surprise of her life when she's offered a chic NYC summer internship with Shift, a magazine poised to take over the viral internet. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine she would be chosen, so it's no big that she submitted a salacious true-event inspired story from her bff's life, right? Riiiiiighttt. There's one other problem: she's been selected as the teen dating blogger and has basically never been on a date in her life. Ages 14+ $17.99
 Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee
In a powerful debut novel, Sonya Mukherjee shares the story of sisters Clara and Hailey, conjoined twins who are learning what it means to be truly extraordinary.
Seventeen-year-old conjoined twins Clara and Hailey have lived in the same small town their entire lives-no one stares at them anymore. But there are cracks in their quiet existence, and they're slowly becoming more apparent. Clara and Hailey are at a crossroads. Clara wants to stay close to home, avoid all attention, and study the night sky. Hailey wants to travel the world, learn from great artists, and dance with mysterious boys. As high school graduation approaches, each twin must untangle her dreams from her sister's, and figure out what it means to be her own person.
Told in alternating perspectives, this unconventional coming-of-age tale shows how dreams can break your heart-but the love between sisters can mend it. Ages 13 - 17 $17.99
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 In Store Pick-Up!
If you want to be extra sure that a copy of a book mentioned in the newsletter is available when you come to the store, please call us or simply click on the book photo. Use that link to order a copy of the book for "In Store Pick Up". No credit card needed! We will then hold a copy of the book for you. If it's not in the store we can usually have it here in 2-4 days.
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