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| General | Of Portland, By Portland
This book deserves its own special introduction, because rarely do books like this come along. There is a lot to love about Portland--a small city with a big city feel, the smell of the sea, old brick everywhere, parks galore--and while this book reminds me of those things, it goes a step further. Portland: Through the Lens captures the character of our city: the beauty and mystery of the ocean and the shore, the stalwart buildings, the working waterfront. It shows Portland for what it is, and most importantly, how it is experienced by those who've spent their lives here.
Edited by our very own Lisa Bowe, and published by local world-shaker Warren Machine Co., Portland: Through the Lens brings together the work of a dozen local photographers to create a wholly unique portrait of our city. First and foremost it's a work of art, full of brilliant and beautiful photographs. That such evocative work also serves to explore our rich city only adds to this book's wide appeal. | | Music | We want local music! Come on by and talk to us about playing your music in the store! | | Books | Our Top 100
These are the titles which have sold the most during the past 12 months. Talk about eclectic...
1. Any Bitter Thing
by Wood, Monica
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $23.95
Published: Chronicle Books, 2005
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Certainly one of the strongest fiction offerings by any writer last year. The story of a young girl whose parents die and she is sent to live with her uncle, a Catholic priest. This novel instructs the heart while challenging one's notions of family, love and faith itself.
2. The Way Life Should Be
by Meil, Kathleen (Edit.), Meil, Ari (Edit.)
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $14.95
Published: Warren Machine Company, 2005
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Seventeen original stories by seventeen of Maine's best contemporary fiction writers. A perfect gift for yourself or for someone from away who hungers after the Maine experience
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by Rowling, J.K.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $29.99
Published: Arthur A. Levine, 2005
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Harry's Sixth Year. Monsters,mayhem and magic
4. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Dumas, Firoozeh
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $12.95
Published: Random House Trade, 2004
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
A truly funny memoir of one family's immigration from Iran to Southern California. At the heart of this book is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery and the power of family love
5. I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted-And ALS
by Wakefield, Darcy
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $21.00
Published: Marlowe & Company, 2005
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
A brave, beautifully written memoir by the now departed, Darcy Wakefield. Darcy was an athletic, healthy 33 year old English professor when she was diganosed with ALS. Darcy decided to move her life into overdrive and in one year got married, and had a son. Heartbreaking and inspiring, this book should cause you to seek out those you love and hold them tightly
6. The Kite Runner
by Hosseini, Khaled
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $14.00
Published: Riverhead Books, 2003
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces.
7. On Bullshit
by Frankfurt, Harry G.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $9.95
Published: Princeton University Press, 2005
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
8. Americans Who Tell the Truth
by Shetterly, Robert, Shetterly, Robert
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $18.99
Published: Dutton Books, 2005
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
This book is the work of the Blue Hill painter, Robert Shetterly. Robert was so frustrated by our government's actions after 911 that he turned to painting portraits of Americans who stood up for the truth, no matter what the cost. A book that belongs in very library, classroom and household. A great book to begin a dialogue with your children about what patriotism truly is.
9. Outta My Way
by Peavey, Elizabeth
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $14.95
Published: Warren Machine Company, 2005
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability
10. Million Little Pieces
(Oprah's Book Club (Paperback))
by Frey, James
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $14.95
Published: Anchor Books, 2005
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
"The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs' Junky." --"The Boston Globe"
"Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey's staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"A brutal, beautifully written memoir."--"The Denver Post"
"Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can't help but cheer his victory." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
11. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier by Woodard, Colin
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon, Mark
13. The Year of Magical Thinking by Didion, Joan
14. Bad Cat by Edgar, Jim
15. 1776 by McCullough, David
16. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Friedman, Thomas L.
17. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
18. Smoked by Quinlan, Patrick
19. The Elements of Style Illustrated by Strunk, William, Jr., White, E. B., Kalman, Maira
20. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Gladwell, Malcolm
21. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Goodwin, Doris Kearns
22. The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai by Place, Francois, Place, Francois, Rodarmor, William
23. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Kidder, Tracy
24. The Time Traveler's Wife
(Harvest Book) by Niffenegger, Audrey
25. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Maguire, Gregory, Smith, Douglas
26. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Kunitz, Stanley, Lentine, Genine
27. Down the Road a Piece by McDonald, John
28. Eldest
(Inheritance Trilogy (Hardcover), %232) by Paolini, Christopher
29. The Book of Flying by Miller, Keith
30. On Beauty by Smith, Zadie
31. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Larson, Erik
32. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Levitt, Steven D., Dubner, Stephen J.
33. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by Sedaris, David
34. Eragon by Paolini, Christopher
35. A Man Without a Country by Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
36. Cows Going Past
(Dial Books for Young Readers) by Balan, Bruce
37. Maine Atlas & Gazetteer
(Maine Atlas & Gazetteer) by Delorme Mapping Company, Delorme Publishing Company
38. Remarkable Maine Women
(More Than Petticoats) by Kennedy, Kate
39. Angels & Demons by Brown, Dan
40. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Gladwell, Malcolm
41. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Diamond, Jared
42. Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England
(Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism) by Conforti, Joseph A.
43. Teacher Man: A Memoir by McCourt, Frank
44. At Home in Maine: Houses Designed to Fit the Land by Glass, Christopher, Vanden Brink, Brian
45. The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Corson, Trevor
46. A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
(Modern Classics) by Zinn, Howard
47. When Towns Had Teams by Baumer, Jim
48. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Brooks, Max
49. Until I Find You by Irving, John
50. The Education of a Coach by Halberstam, David
51. Small Island by Levy, Andrea
52. Recipes from a Very Small Island by Greenlaw, Linda, Greenlaw, Martha
53. In the Bleak Midwinter by Spencer-Fleming, Julia
54. Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Holmes, Hannah
55. One Man's Meat by White, E. B., Angell, Roger
56. Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Carter, Jimmy
57. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
58. Snow by Pamuk, Orhan
59. Contemporary Maine Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories by McNair, Wesley, McNair, Wesley
60. Preposterous Poetry to Tickle Your Funny Bone by Laxague, Nathan
61. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by Grogan, John
62. Out of the Deep I Cry
(Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) by Spencer-Fleming, Julia
63. Runaway by Munro, Alice
64. Birds Without Wings by de Bernieres, Louis
65. The English Teacher by King, Lily
66. Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up by Sabuda, Robert Clarke
67. Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Shields, Carol Diggory, Nash, Scott
68. Resistance by Lopez, Barry Holstun
69. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Orner, Peter
70. A Series of Unfortunate Events %2312: The Penultimate Peril
(Series of Unfortunate Events (Hardcover), %2312) by Snicket, Lemony, Helquist, Brett
71. To Darkness and to Death
(Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries) by Spencer-Fleming, Julia
72. Chronicles
(Chronicles, %231) by Dylan, Bob
73. Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie's Missing Brain by Nash, Scott, Nash, Scott
74. Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
(Ologies) by Master Merlin, Merlin, Master, Gilbert, Anne Yvonne
75. Flush by Hiaasen, Carl
76. Naked Pictures of Famous People by Stewart, Jon
77. My Sister's Keeper by Picoult, Jodi
78. Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem, Jonathan
79. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson, Bill
80. Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Desjardin, Thomas A.
81. Maine Women: Living on the Land by Shaw, Lauren
82. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel about Lost Lands, Stray Cellphone by Thompson, Ted, Horowitz, Eli, Snicket, Lemony
83. Hannah Coulter by Berry, Wendell
84. A Long Way Down by Hornby, Nick
85. Brokeback Mountain by Proulx, Annie
86. The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafon, Carlos, Graves, Lucia
87. Zen Shorts by Muth, Jon J.
88. Running with Scissors by Burroughs, Augusten
89. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by Perkins, John
90. Son of a Witch by Maguire, Gregory
91. No Country for Old Men by McCarthy, Cormac
92. Inkheart by Funke, Cornelia
93. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Phillips, Kevin
94. The Best American Short Stories
(Best American Short Stories (Paperback)) by Chabon, Michael, Kenison, Katrina
95. The Three Questions by Muth, Jon J., Tolstoy, Leo
96. Life of Pi by Martel, Yann, Kaiser, Jacqueline
97. The Secret Life of Bees by Kidd, Sue Monk
98. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Boylan, Jennifer Finney
99. Hoot by Hiaasen, Carl
100. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Goldberg, Natalie
| | Heroes | The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year:
Nonfiction:
Little Heathens by Mildred Kalish (Bantam, $22.00)
A honest memoir of life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression.
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross (FSG, $30.00)
A sweeping narrative that examines the 20th Century through the history of its music.
The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday, $27.95)
An inside look at the personalities and politics of the Supreme Court.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley (Pantheon, $27.50)
The true story of 18th Century globetrotter Elizabeth Marsh and her incredible life.
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Vintage, $14.95)
An intimate portrait of life inside Iraq's Green Zone, and the definitive history of the early failure and imperial folly in Iraq.
Fiction:
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Greywolf, $22.00)
An old man's struggle with guilt, forgiveness, and reawakened memories of the distant past.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (FSG, $27.00)
A sprawling, inventive story of a missing poet by the late Chilean master.
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas (Grove/Atlantic, $14.00)
A young black father, a broken, biracial marriage, and the ongoing struggle for the American Dream.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (FSG, $27.00)
Winner of the National Book Award, a tale of two American families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam War.
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown, $23.99)
A wildly funny novel about life in the trenches (and cubicles) of a Chicago advertising agency.
And here are a few of Longfellow Books' favorites titles:
Run by Ann Patchett (Harper, $25.95)
Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.
Bridge Of Sighs by Richard Russo (Knopf, $26.95)
A limited number of autographed copies are available.
Coursing with humor and humanity, the sixth novel by the bard of Main Street U.S.A. gives full expression to the themes that have always been at the heart of his work: the all-important bond between fathers and sons, the economic desperation of small-town businesses, and the lifelong feuds and friendships that are a hallmark of small-town life.
God is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr. (Viking, $21.95)
A Waterville native, Ron Currie's first novel is perfect for those who love satirical, cutting edge contemporary fiction. In God Is Dead Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuk's blackest comedy, and the thought-provoking ethical questions of Kurt Vonnegut, all with a light touch, empathy, and wisdom that make for an exhilarating reading experience.
Shakespeare: The World As a Stage by Bill Bryson (Eminent Lives, $19.95)
Humorous travel writer Bryson doesn't seem the obvious choice for a Shakespeare biography, but he does the job quite wonderfully by sticking to the facts about Shakespeare's life. Those are very few, so most Shakespeare biographers proceed more or less imaginatively. Not Bryson. He instead brings amused but understanding skepticism to what his forebears have posited about each period of Shakespeare's life and constructs a plausible continuity from their most persuasive ideas and what other sources reveal about Shakespeare's milieu. As he proceeds, he doesn't so much shatter illusions as reveal how creative biography and historiography must be, at 400 years removed from their subject's physical existence.
The Road Washes Out in Spring by Baron Wormser (UNE, $24.95)
"All in all, this is the best book about rural New England life since Jane Brox's Here and Nowhere Else. Its scope is narrow, but its reach is vast. Its short but wide-ranging essays seem like the dozens of jars of canned tomatoes Wormser and his wife put up each year to provide the base of their winter meals, each one carefully, thoughtfully, and lovingly prepared. The order in which they are taken off the shelves does not really matter, but it is evident that each is part of the same impulse of mind and heart and body, and each in return nourishes all three. As such, the book asks to be read slowly, savored, because, as Wormser says of the entire enterprise of living
off-grid, 'There was no sum. Only infinite entries.'"--Robert Finch, Boston Globe
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the World, 73rd Edition (Little, Brown, $27.99)
Our Dumb World is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonight's party at Erica's. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the world's most important places, such as North Korea's Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia's superhighway, the Mohammedobahn.
The Red Butterfly: How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk out of China by Deborah Noyes (Candlewick, $16.99)
A young Chinese princess is sent from her father's kingdom to marry the king of a far-off land. She must leave behind her home of splendors: sour plums and pink peach petals and -- most precious and secret of all -- the small silkworm. She begs her father to let her stay, but he insists that she go and fulfill her destiny as the queen of Khotan. Beautifully told and arrestingly illustrated, here is a coming-of-age tale of a brave young princess whose clever plan will go on to live in legend -- and will ensure that her cherished home is with her always.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown, $16.99)
Based on the authors own experiences, this National Book Award winning young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.
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