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IN PHAROAH'S ARMY by Tobias Wolff
October 17, 2011, 8:21 pm

 Tobias Wolff's Vietnam memoirs, written as a series of always entertaining vignettes. One of the very best books on the subject (or any many others for that matter).

WHO WILL RUN THE FROG HOSPITAL
October 17, 2011, 6:42 pm
This novel follows a woman looking back at a brief and tumultuous friendship from her baby boomer youth is full of wry wit, psychological insight, sociological analysis, deft characterizations, and prose so thought provoking and gorgeous and surprising it takes your breath away.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
October 9, 2009, 11:00 pm

This book will change your life, it certainly changed mine! Before I read Dr. Coelho's masterwork I lived my life in a cold cave of locked emotions, now I've learned to embrace the joy of richly deserved tears, the beauty of a child's laugh and the shadows that fall from every leaf here in god's creation. Do yourself a favor and read this book, share it with someone whom you cherish.



Twilight by Meyer
May 11, 2009, 11:00 pm

This book not only rocks but rolls. I wouldn't trade anything for the experience of reading this again and again and again. This is the perfect summer read, if your summer is like mine and involves reading Twilight and softly weeping under a Willow tree.

Choir Boy by Charlie Anders
September 8, 2008, 11:00 pm

A quirky tale of teenage transgenderism that alternately charms and challenges without ever getting preachy, campy, or heavy. A great read!

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
January 21, 2008, 12:00 am

a customer just came into the store and sold us a copy of this. i said, "i just read that! it's really good! alvin, if you buy it for the store, i'll make it a staff pick!"

i love bell hooks because she is all about love (... and i didn't even think of her book title by that name when i first started typing that) and its transformative possibilities. i was reading it over the election and when all of those people started blaming the passage of prop 8 on people of color, i had some amazing bell hooks quotes to back me up on how that is just racist and wrong. hurray!

John McCain Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney
January 21, 2008, 12:00 am

Amazing! Just what I've been waiting for. This guy has got some interesting ideas

Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe
January 21, 2008, 12:00 am
This isn't just another quirky, witty book about a dysfunctional family (and yes, I realize that term is probably redundant), this is a tour de force dissection of several psychological types prominent in our hyper-neurotic age. Sharpe is finely attuned to the secret machinations of the human mind and can write about them with an economical lucidity that makes one want to stand up and cheer: Lets hear it for articulateness! Sharpe has enough psychological insight that I'd hire him as my analyst in a heartbeat. (Unfortunately, he's not available as he's busy teaching creative writing in the Bronx.) But here's the thing: when he wants to be (which is about every thirty pages or so) Sharpe is way funnier than my current shrink... or just about anyone writing in the English language today. He's laugh-out-loud hysterically hilarious - and never in a tasteless or a contrived way, either. His humor is always compassionate and wise. And though the plot meanders a bit, it never bogs because the believable, lovable characters keep the reader so deeply engaged. If you're looking for comparisons, I'd say he's a bit like J.D. Salinger or Dave Eggers and the equal of either. High praise? You bet, but I'll stand by it!