“I read the first story on a dreary Saturday afternoon and felt it wrapping itself around me. The story’s shape kept evolving until the ending left me breathless and wanting to hold on to that moment. This collection of short stories is darkly beautiful and works together like an exquisite gallery show where each piece …
Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …
“An unfortunate potato hockey accident brings Sam to the attention of a scary stranger and Sam is attacked after work. From there, it’s quickly on to necromancy, werewolves, witches, kidnapping and multiple dead bodies, some that stay dead, some that do not. Sam is given (not much of) a choice. He can join the evil, …
“This is the story of a true American hero, Louis Zamperini. The power of his story is not about a single event in his life, but about how he overcame adversity time and again. From his childhood as a hoodlum, to becoming an Olympic runner, to surviving for 47 days on a raft in the …
“This is the latest book from our beloved Boise author Anthony Doerr. We’ve been anxiously waiting for this one, and it’s everything we hoped for!” —Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise From the publisher: “Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr’s new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that …
