brooklyn book store

July, 2006 ***STAFF PICKS***

Please Note: We have now doubled our Staff Pick selection, allowing staff to have two new picks every month. Pretty cool, huh?

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Luke

THE MOTION OF LIGHT IN WATER: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by SAMUEL R. DELANY

$19.95 * Biography / Paperback *  University Of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816645248

“Delany’s personal account of life in a post-war Harlem and the Lower East Side is a memoir of race that transcends race, a book about sexuality that is larger than sex, and a microcosm of the American twentieth century. This is the rare book whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts.“

 

 

THE ANIMAL FAMILY by RANDALL JARRELL

$8.95 * Middle Readers / Paperback * Harper Collins ISBN: 0062059041

“There’s an awkward gap for children who have mastered “beginning readers” but have yet to tackle more challenging chapter books. Randall Jarrell’s The Animal Family, a classic since its publication in 1965, fills that gap perfectly. Accompanied by illustrations by Maurice Sendak, this story about a lonely hunter who finds a makeshift family in the woods is simultaneously intimate and mystic.”

 

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Brie        

                                    

IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS by TIM O’BRIEN

$15.00 * Fiction / Paperback * Penguin ISBN: 0140250948

“Never has watering houseplants been so terrifying. Is this a horror story … or a love story? Either way, this is one of the best, most haunting novels you’ll ever read.”

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Zack

 

THE GARDEN OF EDEN by ERNEST HEMINGWAY

$13.00 * Fiction / Paperback * Macmillan ISBN: 0684804522

“After Hemingway purchased a shotgun at an Abercrombie and Fitch store and used it to blow off his head, his widow Mary showed up at Scribner with a shopping bag of unpublished writings left by her husband. The Garden Of Eden occupied that posthumous batch of writings. Erotic, desperate, intoxicated, and brilliant, these characters that live in The Garden Of Eden won’t stray from mind, for they are too much like us, yet hauntingly reminiscent of what we never wish to become.”     

 

 

 

 

THE CINNAMON PEELER by MICHAEL ONDAATJE

$14.00 * Poetry / Paperback * Random House ISBN: 0679779132

“I read it to my llama every night.”

 

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Henry

 

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

$13.95 * Mystery / Paperback * Random House ISBN: 0679742298

“Yearning for that European getaway with all expenses paid and no return plans? This could be your ticket.
Pleasant accomodations throughout,  three star restaurants for most meals, your own apartment in Venice and an open itinerary. You’ll have to charm an occasional clueless American visitor, though. If situations get awkward and your visitor is a threat to your plans you may kill him. Not to worry, though. You won’t feel a thing. Bon Voyage!”

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MIRACLE IN THE ANDES by NANDO PARRADO

$25.00 * New Non-Fiction / Hardcover * Random House ISBN: 1400097673

 

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Juliet

 

 

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