New Releases: August 10th, 2015
Big Little Lies has been HUGE at the bookstore I work at, and I'm sure we'll get even more interest now that it's in paperback. My brother's really excited about Felicia Day's book. Mess appeals to me because, like many people, I am hopelessly addicted to TV shows like Hoarders.
NEW RELEASES IN HARDCOVER
MESS: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act by Barry Yourgrau
Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding. New York writer and bohemian Barry Yourgrau is one of them. Behind the door of his Queens apartment, Yourgrau’s life is, quite literally, chaos. Confronted by his exasperated girlfriend, a globe-trotting food critic, he embarks on a heartfelt, wide-ranging, and too often uproarious project to take control of his crammed, disorderly apartment and life, and to explore the wider world of collecting, clutter and extreme hoarding. Memoir
THE STORM OF THE CENTURY: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900 by Al Roker
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas’s Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that existed just hours before was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen: 8,000 corpses littered the streets and were buried under the massive wreckage. In less than 24 hours, one storm destroyed a major American metropolis --- and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature. History
YOU'RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (ALMOST): A Memoir by Felicia Day
Felicia Day is a violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become at least semi-influential in the world of Internet geeks and Goodreads book clubs. She moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and was immediately typecast as a crazy cat-lady secretary. But her misadventures in Hollywood led her to produce her own web series, own her very own production company, and become an Internet star. Memoir
NEW IN PAPERBACK
BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty
A murder, a tragic accident, or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that somebody is dead. BIG LITTLE LIES follows Madeline, a funny and biting divorcee; Celeste, the beautiful mother of rambunctious twin boys; and Jane, a young single mother with doubts about her son. When Madeline and Celeste take Jane under their wing, no one realizes how she and her little boy will affect them all. Fiction
A GREAT AND GLORIOUS ADVENTURE: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance
England by Gordon Corrigan
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The fighting ebbed and flowed, but despite their superior tactics and great victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the English could never hope to secure their claims in perpetuity: France was wealthier and far more populous, and while the English won the battles, they could not hope to hold forever the lands they conquered. History
Peeking into the archives...today in:
2014: Twin Spica Vol. 1 by Kou Yaginuma
2013: RIP Barbara Mertz/Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels
2012: Fashionista Piranha is on a break until August 14th...
2011: Mangaman by Colleen Doran and Barry Lyga
2010: The Secret Eleanor by Cecelia Holland
2009: News: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2008: Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds by Tom Davis
NEW RELEASES IN HARDCOVER
MESS: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act by Barry Yourgrau
Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding. New York writer and bohemian Barry Yourgrau is one of them. Behind the door of his Queens apartment, Yourgrau’s life is, quite literally, chaos. Confronted by his exasperated girlfriend, a globe-trotting food critic, he embarks on a heartfelt, wide-ranging, and too often uproarious project to take control of his crammed, disorderly apartment and life, and to explore the wider world of collecting, clutter and extreme hoarding. Memoir
THE STORM OF THE CENTURY: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900 by Al Roker
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas’s Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that existed just hours before was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen: 8,000 corpses littered the streets and were buried under the massive wreckage. In less than 24 hours, one storm destroyed a major American metropolis --- and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature. History
YOU'RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (ALMOST): A Memoir by Felicia Day
Felicia Day is a violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become at least semi-influential in the world of Internet geeks and Goodreads book clubs. She moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and was immediately typecast as a crazy cat-lady secretary. But her misadventures in Hollywood led her to produce her own web series, own her very own production company, and become an Internet star. Memoir
NEW IN PAPERBACK
BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty
A murder, a tragic accident, or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that somebody is dead. BIG LITTLE LIES follows Madeline, a funny and biting divorcee; Celeste, the beautiful mother of rambunctious twin boys; and Jane, a young single mother with doubts about her son. When Madeline and Celeste take Jane under their wing, no one realizes how she and her little boy will affect them all. Fiction
A GREAT AND GLORIOUS ADVENTURE: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance
England by Gordon Corrigan
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The fighting ebbed and flowed, but despite their superior tactics and great victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the English could never hope to secure their claims in perpetuity: France was wealthier and far more populous, and while the English won the battles, they could not hope to hold forever the lands they conquered. History
Peeking into the archives...today in:
2014: Twin Spica Vol. 1 by Kou Yaginuma
2013: RIP Barbara Mertz/Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels
2012: Fashionista Piranha is on a break until August 14th...
2011: Mangaman by Colleen Doran and Barry Lyga
2010: The Secret Eleanor by Cecelia Holland
2009: News: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
2008: Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds by Tom Davis