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I’ve worked in the book trade for over thirty years, primarily as owner of The Globe Bookshop in Northampton and manager of the Yiddish Book Center store in Amherst. Now, I ’m an antiquarian bookseller, with a specialty in classic illustrated children’s books and graphic novels , at Boomerang Booksellers and director of Book Arts Promotions, a book fair production company, both in Northampton. I like to read literary fiction, mysteries, cookbooks, and children’s books. When I’m not at work, I love to cook, take walks, canoe, and tend to our vegetable and fruit garden.
This is the artfully told story of an African American family’s haunted trip from the fictional town, Bois Sauvage to Parchman Farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary through areas of the country where blacks are most certainly not welcome. Ward, the 2011 National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones, has crafted an elegant epic of three generations and the ghosts that haunt them. Their journey is a portrait in words of a family in dire need, clinging to what they have and believe in while attempting, at the same time, to outrun their adversity. This novel will be seared into your unconscious for weeks after you read it.
In this short, intense personal essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri examines the art of the book jacket through the eyes of an author and a reader. She views the dust jacket as a uniform that envelops the author’s writing, making it concrete and definitive. “If the process of writing is a dream, the book cover represents the awakening,” Lahiri writes. She analyzes how dust jackets mediate the relationships between the reader and author, providing, “a door through which to enter the text”. Lahiri examines the design of series books, reflects on how book jacket designs vary by geography, and explains how the iconic post-modern designs of Vanessa Bell for Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press became “optical echoes” of their texts. This is an ideal gift for the book lover in your life.
In their debut cookbook, the founders of the world-famous Gefilteria have reclaimed and revolutionized time-honored and beloved old-world foods with modern techniques and 21st Century sensibilities. They’ve reimagined over 100 recipes from the Jewish kitchens of Eastern Europe and the diaspora community of North America, reclaiming time-honored techniques and ingredients. They demystify for us how to make classic sour dill pickles, lox, sour cream, crispy honey-glazed chicken, home-cured corned beef, kimchi stuffed cabbage, rye pull-apart rolls, and much more. This hip and trendy cookbook gives us a contemporary take on the fermentation and preserving techniques of our grandparents.
A fan of Anna Thomas’s recipes since the release of The Vegetarian Epicure in 1973, I’m heartened by her latest effort to unite our divided tables of vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters around simple, yet elegant meals that will delight family and friends around the dinner table. She starts with food everyone eats, designing a dish and full meals around that, varying parts of each with small amounts of the right cheeses, meats or fish so everyone feels welcomed. Thomas shares her love of home cooking, giving us more than 150 recipes for salads, soups, risotto, main courses and desserts including a festive “Thanksgiving for Everyone” and other special dinners.
Readers, of all ages, will be taken back to Harlem 1958 through poems and portraits of more than fifty jazz musicians who convened for a unique, historic photograph, by graphic designer Art Kane for Esquire magazine, that preserves this group’s undying influence and talents generations later. It’s magical when you eventually open a foldout page to see the photograph, including such jazz legends as Thelonius Monk, Count Basie and Mary Lou Williams and children surrounding them on a front stoop of a brownstone. Vallejo’s acrylic and pastel images transport the reader into the beehive of activity on that hot summer’s day of August, 12, 1958. (Ages 8-12)
Treasured children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown’s heartwarming story, from 1938, of a group of kids who find a dead bird in the woods and give it a proper burial, is beautifully re-illustrated for a contemporary audience by the critically acclaimed, award-winning illustrator Christian Robinson. He moves the setting to a city park, giving one child fairy wings and another a fox costume. The children dig a hole for the bird, covering it with warm sweet ferns and flowers, and then sing sweet songs to send the bird on its way. This timeless story is rendered anew for a new generation through the illustrator’s simple brushwork and ingenious compositions. A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016. (Ages 4-8)
This is the first book with a comprehensive data-driven portrait of how animals navigate their world. For centuries, we've tracking animals by following footprints, smells and other clues in the physical world. Now we have satellites, drones, camera traps, cell phones and accelerometers that reveal the natural world unlike ever before. With four-color charts and maps, the authors tell the stories of animal behavior - from warblers to baboons, from storks to pythons and many more. This is sure to please your favorite naturalist.
Tanis, a NY Times food columnist, gives us an accessible set of simple recipes for cooking seasonally with fresh produce from the farmer’s market. From wild mushrooms to specialty pastas, from baby bok choy to rustic apple tarts. Readers will learn about each ingredient that go into satisfying recipes. This book will make your family’s meals more creative and deeply flavorful. A masterwork of recipes, approach, technique, and philosophy. Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Cookbooks for Fall 2017. ~Mark
Since 1992, Zingerman’s Bakehouse, a renowned artisanal bakery in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been the go-to source for avid fans of chewy-sweet brownies and gingersnaps, their famous sour cream coffee cake, and loaves of Jewish rye, challah, and sourdough. To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the Zingerman's bakers have shared 65 time-tested, carefully detailed recipes featuring more than 50 color photographs and many illustrations. Now we don’t have to wait for the package of delicious baked goods to arrive from Ann Arbor. When you get that craving, you can bake that treat at home. ~Mark
An accessible, remarkably good debut novel that seems, at times, to be a prose poem.
She Would Be King will capture you in its fairy tale, yet frighteningly real world, set in
and amongst Liberia in its formative stage, on a Virginia plantation, and other exotic
locales. Wayetu Moore gives us skillfully crafted characters who come to life, some
ghostly in nature, that glide through their lives, as if by the winds of the ancients. A
mashup of the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with the precision
storytelling capabilities of Jesmyn Ward, and the intense historical narrative of Marcus
Zusak.