July Opening Letter
It is hot and you want a place to relax and cool down! An Open Book LLC is just the place! Or, maybe you are leaving on a vacation and need a new book to take with you…or the kiddos need to continue to read this summer. We have great new titles and as always, can provided recommendations.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHY HALLOWS will be here soon. Thank you to so many of you who came in and pre-ordered with us. Your book will be held for your arrival! We will open at 7:00AM on July 21 for those “early readers!”
GREEN BOOKS: We continue to take pride in our selections. New selections on salvaging architectural treasures of unwanted houses, natural timber frame homes, and Sarah Susanka’s new book: THE NOT SO BIG LIFE are in the store.
HEALTHY LIVING: We have new titles for safe, nontoxic cleaning: THE NATURALLY CLEAN HOME, and CLEAN HOUSE, CLEAN PLANET. Also popular is: THE LIVE EARTH GLOBAL WARMING SURVIVAL HANDBOOK. Are you even “thinking” of being a vegetarian? Well…we have a new book, in fact two new books…one on “becoming” a vegetarian, and a beautiful book from the REFRESH vegan restaurant…delicious recipes and exquisite pictures. Gluten Free and Raw Foods cooking also have new titles.
PHILOSOPHY: Stop by and read our newest “find”…LITTLE BIG MINDS, SHARING PHILOSOPHY WITH KIDS. This great book is a guide to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries – from Plato to bell hooks – with the “littlest” minds. A new best seller for adults in the same genre is: PLATE AND PLATYPUS WALK INTO A BAR…UNDERSTANDING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH JOKES.
SO YOU WANT TO BE AN AUTHOR! Thanks to a great suggestion from a local author/retired teacher, we are creating a bookshelf with YOU in mind! Some of our “tempting” titles, so far, include: BIRD BY BIRD, by Anne Lamott (some instructions on writing and life), 101 BEST SCENES EVER WRITTEN, A ROMP THROUGH LITERATURE FOR WRITERS AND READERS. **One more thought, stop by and see Sara Paretsky’s newest: WRITING IN AN AGE OF SILENCE. (Sara explores the traditions of political and literary work, against the repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.)
***One more book that has to be mentioned is: SONGS OF OURSELVES, The Uses of Poetry in America, by Joan Shelley Rubin. This book is an unusually wide-ranging, admirably researched study of the crucial importance of poetry in the making of American Culture – not only in the past but in our own time as well. Oh my….from immigrant classrooms a century ago to poetry slams today!!
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