Staff Favorites: Dan
By Cloud & Leaf Bookstore
By Cloud & Leaf Bookstore
Shelter in Place
David Leavitt
$27.00 $24.84A smart and funny read by a really terrific writer. Recommended to anyone that struggled through the last presidency. Very relatable.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
$28.00 $25.76
Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art
Deborah Reed
$15.99 $14.71This enchanting book took me by surprise as it brought me to tears several times. A beautifully written and touching story that chronicles 93 year old artist Violet Swan's up and down life. Prepare to be swept away. A must read!
The Paris Hours
Alex George
$26.99 $24.83Paris in the 1920s is full of artists, writers, musicians, and lots of quirky characters from all over the world. This story is charming while at the same time showing the cruelness of the recent world war. The story takes place in one day in beautifully described Paris locations and comes together at the end of the day with a climax rarely done as well as in this book. You see a bit of an imagined slice of life of many famous persons. In my top 5 for 2020.
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Alex Ross
$40.00 $36.80Any 19th Century history buff will like this book. Especially because it relates Wagner's music and its influence on politics, thought, and the arts. Not a fast read, but worth every minute.
Vegan Japaneasy: Over 80 Delicious Plant-Based Japanese Recipes
Tim Anderson
$32.50 $29.90One of the most beautiful cookbooks published today with purple page edges and terrific recipes and pictures.
Edison
Edmund Morris
$22.00 $20.24Now in Paperback! This is probably the most thoroughly researched book on Thomas Edison to date. The book threw me at first because it is told in reverse chronological order. Once you get use to that the book is full of wonderful insights and tells the history of America's foremost inventor very well.
French Exit
Patrick DeWitt
$16.99 $15.63I read this book in the week after I had just been in Paris for 3 weeks. It completely took me in and the eccentric characters and the outstanding writing made me completely fall in love with the book. The visual writing brought locations I had just seen back to me in vivid detail. A widow, her strange son, and the family cat all provide a story of intrigue and is very enjoyable. Patrick DeWitt is a writer that can say more in fewer words than any other writer I know of. This book will be on my favorite list maybe forever.
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck
$18.99 $17.47The title of this book might lead you to believe it is a history book. But, while it is nonfiction, it is a contemporary story of two brothers recreating the trip from Missouri to Oregon in an exact duplicate of an original covered wagon with mules. A story as much about the brothers relationship to each other and their late father as it is the trip. Some moments in the journey are quite harrowing, others simply beautiful. An amazing book.