New at Ekahni Books This Week!
Boy,oh boy! I am SO excited about the new books we have in the shop this week! Book club books, interesting used books and a new title that gives credence to our tag line “An Idiosyncratic Selection”- because it doesn’t get much more whacked out and unusual than this book!
We found a new source for information on what book clubs around the country are reading, and we have ordered books to reflect those choices… not just from our own book club here in Manzanita, but also from clubs all over the USA! Here are just a few of the new titles:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
At Home In Mitford by Jan Karon
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
We also got a few interesting used titles in this week:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Forgotten Man-A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shales
You Can’t Be Neutral on A Moving Train by Howard Zinn
But, far and away, the most interesting thing we got this week (maybe even this month) is the new book by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is called “Abraham Lincoln-Vampire Hunter” and it is AWESOME! You may remember Mr. Grahame-Smith’s previous NY Times Bestseller “The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, and this is even better! It is the true story (wink wink nudge nudge) of Abraham Lincoln’s discovery that (gasp) vampires are real, and what he does with that horrible knowledge… seek unholy revenge with his axe, of course!! This is what Vanity Fair had to say about it: “The Lincoln biography we’ve all been waiting for. It’s also the funniest, most action-packed, and weirdly well-researched account of the Civil War you’ll probably read in a long time.” And, I normally wouldn’t do this, but you just have to see the video they made for the book, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58RPS665V0 (warning, it is a touch violent and bloody- small kids might be frightened). This is a hilarious and, more importantly, well written book. I can’t wait for other people to discover it, too!
That’s all for this week, folks. As always, thanks again for supporting independent book stores in your community!
Franz & Sherry Hasslacher
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