Miranda Brooks is a middle-school history teacher who’s just moved in with her boyfriend in Philadelphia when she learns her estranged maternal uncle, Billy, has died and left her Prospero…r Prospero Books. She hasn’t visited the bookstore or seen her uncle in 16 years, since he fought with her mother shortly after Miranda’s 12th birthday. Up until that time, Billy had been a fun if intermittent presence in her life, planning outings, adventures, and scavenger hunts. Miranda heads home to Los Angeles to attend Billy’s funeral and deal with her legacy, only to discover Billy left her a last scavenger hunt, one that will change everyt…
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Today Will Be Different
Semple returns to ground she covered in Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (2012) with an artistic antiheroine fumbling through her life of privilege as a NYC transplant to Seattle. Married to…as a NYC transplant to Seattle. Married to a celebrity hand doctor and ten years separated from her career as a groundbreaking animator, Eleanor Flood spends her days studying poetry with an untenured professor and thinking acerbic thoughts about the other moms at her precocious son’s private school. Having lunch with a former minion breaks something free in Eleanor’s past, and her life falls apart over the course of an afternoon. The reader learn…
Mayflower
This is a very engaging and readable recounting of the Pilgrims’ trip to America and their early years in Plymouth. It gives a vivid account of what life was like…This is a very engaging and readable recounting of the Pilgrims’ trip to America and their early years in Plymouth. It gives a vivid account of what life was like and the issues they had to deal with….
The Art of Racing in the Rain : A Novel
The art of racing in the rain is one of my favorite books this year. The novel is narrated by a dog, Enzo, who observes and supports his family going…The art of racing in the rain is one of my favorite books this year. The novel is narrated by a dog, Enzo, who observes and supports his family going through a crisis. His insights are spot on. This book made me rather emotional: I laughed out loud when Enzo attacked the “dancing zebra;” I cried when a loved one died; I got mad, really mad at the “evil twins.” This novel is touching and meaningful in so many ways….
Kisses on the Bottom
It’s been an awfully long time since Macca has been discussed on the Forbes Library staff picks blog. So, here I am to recommend a romantic offering from the melodious,…m kit, set the tone for this swinging affair. Recorded at the famed Capitol Studios on Hollywood and Vine, Paul, singing with Nat King Cole’s microphone, taps into the crooning spirit of yesteryear. Highlights include “It’s Only a Paper Moon”, “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive”, “My Valentine” (a Paul original), “The Inchworm”… well, I recommend ’em all!…
Talking heads Chronology
An official retrospective DVD compilation of rare footage and performances from throughout the Talking Heads illustrious career. The footage spans chronologically from mic tests and rough 1976 black and white…eir later afro-cuban funk explorations. Talking Heads fans have waited for years without any significant “archived material” from the band and few releases outside of greatest hits compilations, and this release provides the perfect companion to Jonathan Demme’s 1983 concert film. The DVD is bound within a book with some great photographs of the band and extensive liner notes by Lester Bangs, who lets loose with his usual unrestrained hyperbolic b…
Fangirl
Fangirl is about a young woman named Cath who leaves for her freshman year of college with her twin sister Wren. Both of them are obsessed with Simon Snow (think…Fangirl is about a young woman named Cath who leaves for her freshman year of college with her twin sister Wren. Both of them are obsessed with Simon Snow (think Harry Potter) and Cath writes fan fiction obsessively. Although Cath and Wren were extremely close, their new college lives get in the way of their relationship with each other, their father, and her fanfiction….
Widow’s War
Set on Cape Cod (in the area which is now Brewster), in the year 1761 we meet Lyddie Berry, whose husband drowns while whaling. She defies convention and chooses not to live with her son-in-law (and who could blame her), and holds onto the law of being able to use (but not own) 1/3 of her husband’s property. She defies social, legal and religious strictures of her time, and makes her way through a world that is not made for independent women. Thr…
Collaborations
George Harrison was first wowed by the sitar, a traditional Indian stringed instrument, on the set of the Beatles film Help!. The young pop star was intrigued and transfixed by the music he heard. He later went out and bought his own sitar at a shop in London and found his way round the neck enough to dub a part onto “Norwegian Wood” on the Rubber Soul album. Harrison then wanted to go beyond his rudimentary plucking on the instrument and properl…
Christmas Wedding
Widow Gabby Summerhill invites her 4 children and their families home to Stockbridge, Massachusetts to celebrate Christmas together, their first holiday together since their father died 3 years ago. Gabby…Patterson thriller, it has many emotional twists and turns….
Krazy Kat: the Comic Art of George Herriman
Krazy Kat was a remarkable and hugely influential daily comic. Found in newspapers around the country for over 30 years, from 1913 and 1944, it would influence comics greats such…M. Schulz, Will Eisner, and Bill Watterson. Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman provides an overview of the life and works of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, and includes a large collection of beautifully reproduced daily and Sunday Krazy Kat strips. Herriman’s astonishing Sunday Krazy Kats are reason to pick up this book alone. Giant, free form, brightly colored affairs, unconstrained by the rigid panels of today’s strips, it is the s…
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter
John Lennon once stated “Nilsson’s my favorite group.” Harry Nilsson, the tenor with the golden, three and a half octave vocal range/the brilliant songwriter/the ultimate interpreter of songs/the boozer/the raconteur/the…e stated “Nilsson’s my favorite group.” Harry Nilsson, the tenor with the golden, three and a half octave vocal range/the brilliant songwriter/the ultimate interpreter of songs/the boozer/the raconteur/the sometimes screenwriter, lived the most of his 52 years. His life was a colorful one that began with much sadness. Despite his setbacks and despair, Nilsson managed to keep his spirits high and he chose the path of adventure. He sang the theme so…
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