Bookmarks Holiday 2008
Holiday season is here. We're enjoying seeing so many of our customers and helping them to pick out that special gift, be it book, art from the Skylight Gallery, or a tasty chocilate treat from the coffee shop. Here are some of the books we're recommending this year.
Special Gift Books for this Holiday Season
REMARKABLE BIRDS: 100 of the World's Most Notable Birds by Steven Moss
This luscious coffee table format book explains why each of the featured birds is so fascinating, and includes a stunning photograph of each species, taking the reader on a journey of extraordinary discovery. $24.95 Collins
GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS: Volume Two by Christine Barnes
A stunningly illustrated and meticulously researched volume offering insights into these historic landmarks and the scenic American landscapes where they are located. Includes Wallowa Lake Lodge. $35.00 Graphic Arts Center Publishing
OWYHEE CANYONLANDS by Mark Lisk
Lisk's photographs of the Owyhees, presented with essays written by people who love the region, create a book that is a love letter to this unique and beautiful piece of America. $27.95 Caxton Press
Regional Book Suggestions
EASTERN OREGON HORSE PACK TRIPS by Dr. J.R. Groupe
A perfect gift for the horse packing enthusiast, this book features 27 trips in six wilderness areas, nicely illustrated, with maps. It includes a handy trail rating chart to help choose a trail to suit your abilities and the level of adventure you'd like to experience. Author Groupe is a veterinarian from Pendleton and columnist for Agri-Times. $19.95 paperback
BIRDS OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN ROCKIES by Harry Nehls, Mike Denny and Dave Trochlell
This new, compact guide for birders in our area has nice color photos and is color-coded by species. $18.95
New Releases in Hardcover
HOT, FLAT AND CROWDED Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Going beyond the ideas of globalism expressed in The World is Flat, Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy, while proposing a strategy to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure. $27.95 Farrar, Straus & Giroux
OUTLIERS: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
In his newest book, Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink) once again proves masterful in a genre he essentially pioneeredthe book that illuminates secret patterns behind everyday phenomena. Here he takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. $27.99 Little Brown & Co.
DEWEY: A Small-Town, a Library and the World's Most Beloved Cat by Vicki Myron
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you read the charming story of Dewey , the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa. $19.99 Grand Central Publishing
HOME by Marilynne Robinson
Readers were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames's closest friend. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. $25.00 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New Releases in Paperback
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseni
The newest novel from the author of The Kite Runner is a breathtaking story of two compelling women's lives set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last 30 years that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. $16.00 Penguin
THE HEARTS OF HORSES by Molly Gloss
In her newest novel Gloss, author of The Jump-Off Creek, tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for "gentling" wild horses. Set in eastern Oregon circa 1917, it's a remarkable story of how people and animals make connections and touch each other's lives in the most unexpected ways. $13.95 Houghton Mifflin
BOONE: A Biography by Robert Morgan
This commanding biography transforms a mythic American hero into a flesh-and-blood man. The most comprehensive book ever written about the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary-an American icon for more than two hundred years. $18.95 Algonquin Books
Young Reader Recommendations
ANGUS AND SADIE by Cynthia Voigt
A charming story of two Border Collie pups adopted by a Maine farming couple. Sometimes comic and sometimes exciting, this is a wonderful book for dog lovers of all ages. $5.99 Harper
SONG OF THE SPARROW by Lisa Ann Sandell
This book is a beautiful version of the story of the Lady of Shalott written in verse. Elaine of Ascolat lives with her father, Round Table knights Tristan and Lancelot, and the hundreds of other soldiers. When the men leave to fight a decisive battle against the Saxons, Elaine and the beautiful Lady Gwynivere are thrown together by dangerous and exciting events. They must then learn the true meanings of both courage and love. $8.99 Scholastic
THE GREEN GLASS SEA by Ellen Klages
It is 1943 and 11 year old Dewey Kerrigan is moving again. Her scientist father has taken a job in New Mexico where he and others are working on a project they call "the gadget". Dewey's own mechanical interests set her apart at school, but she eventually makes friends with another loner who's creative talents complement Dewey's ingenuity. An interesting look at life during the war years as well as a good picture of how "outsiders" learn to share friendship. $7.99 Penguin
ZORGAMAZOO by Robert Paul Weston
A delightful and exciting story told in rhyme! Brave young Katrina and not-so-brave Morty have lots of adventures as they set out on a quest to find out what happened to the missing zorgles of Zorgamazoo. $15.99 Razorbill
Books for young sleuths
There are a couple of new books this season that test the reader in his or her ability to find and interpret the clues to a mystery.
Get A Clue is a series of picture mysteries by Julian Press. Each book has several mysteries to be solved, some quite challenging, with clues to be found in pictures opposite each page of text. The answer is revealed in the next page of text, so the story can progress even if the clue is not spotted. I read TREASURE OF BLACKBIRD ROCK. It was great fun looking for the clues and trying to solve the mysteries along with the three young characters. The other volume out now is OPERATION GOLDEN SCEPTER $4.99 each, Grosset & Dunlap
Another new series debuting this fall is The 39 Clues. This series of 10 books features one continuing mystery which readers are challenged to solve along with the books' characters. The books come with game cards and online bonuses. There are even prizes available for clever readers.
In the first book, THE MAZE OF BONES, the matriarch of the Cahill clan has died. At the reading of her will, family members discover that they have the choice of receiving a million dollars or forgoing the money to participate in a hunt for a prize that could lead to untold power. Book one finds heirs Amy and Dan (and their intrepid au pair Nellie) off to France on the trail of a clue involving Benjamin Franklin. Through many adventures and narrow escapes our heroes progress toward their goal. They must be clever, brave and above all, must trust no one. This series is off to an exciting start. $12.99 Scholastic
Attention Harry Potter Fans!
THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. $12.99 Scholastic
Bargain Book Favorites
Our remainder shelves are stocked with a great selection of fiction and non-fiction hardcover books at discount prices. Here are some we think you'll like:
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran-Foer
A humorous and poignant novel featuring a most precocious young hero. In his quest to solve a mystery after his father perished on 9/11, Oskar discovers so much more about his family's history , truth, and love.
RUN by Ann Patchett
This novel's surprising and endlessly moving narrative is set over a 24 hour period in which an accident during a snowstorm affects the Doyle family. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children. Newest release by the author of Bel Canto.
PLAN B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
With Anne Lamott's trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, "Plan B" is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times. This New York Times bestseller picks up where Traveling Mercies left off.
ANDY CATLETT Early Travels by Wendell Berry
This is one of Berry's classic novels set in fictitious Fort William, Kentucky. We have a selection of other titles by this respected author/farmer whose profound way of seeing the world is vividly portrayed through his characters and their stories.
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