Jamie

Brookline Bookseller & Events Director Jamie recommends:

 


$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780982167120
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Published: Machines of Death, 10/2010

The premise: a machine tells you how you'll die. The twist: it's not always literal. This collection might be messed up but it's so, so good.

~ recommended April, 2013


Letting It Go (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781770461031
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly, 2/2013

Gorgeous illustrations, beautiful design, and a compelling story to boot. Miriam Katin crafts a story of long-held grudges, culture, and finally, acceptance.

~ recommended April, 2013


Exercises in Style (Paperback)

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780811207898
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2/1981

Hey, Budding-Writer-who-needs-a-kick-in-the-pants.  Raymond Queneau is here to make you want to play with language, mixing up your perspective.  It's not the story that's good - it's the way you tell it.

~ recommended January, 2013


Mortality (Hardcover)

$22.99
ISBN-13: 9781455502752
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Published: Twelve, 9/2012

I read most of this book while in the middle seat of a crowded train, squished in between an old woman laden with bags and a blasé young man who kept tapping his foot.  I recommend you read this in a place where you can't fully settle, a jittery kind of place that suspends you between two things you didn't think you'd ever be between.

~ recommended October, 2012


$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781419704123
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Published: Harry N. Abrams, 8/2012

These two touch-and-feel books are excellent for familiarizing your young writer or mathematician-to-be with letters and numbers. 

~ recommended August, 2012


$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781419704116
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Published: Harry N. Abrams, 8/2012
These two touch-and-feel books are excellent for familiarizing your young writer or mathematician-to-be with letters and numbers. 

~ recommended August, 2012