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 Welcome to our portal on the web! From here you can look up and order books just by using the toolbar at the top of the page. You can search by title, author, or ISBN number. You can order books to be shipped directly to you or order them to be picked up at the store (we'll even wrap them for you). Special order books generally arrive within 2 to 3 days. We can even track down hard to find out of print books for you. We've got some great book detectives here at the store! Check out our new blog:
www.jabberwockybooks.blogspot.com
UPDATES May 8, 2008:
We've added new books in our Talking Books newsletter section including books by Leif Enger, Luanne Rice, John Sanford, Jodie Picoult, and Jimmy Buffett. Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter and get information about weekly author events, our top picks for books, and other exciting happenings here at the Jabberwocky!
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Almost every Friday evening our customers and an author come together in the comfortable setting of our Green Room. A reading or presentation by the author, followed by questions and answers, can be spirited, heart-warming, illuminating or just plain fun. It's a great way to start your weekend. All events are free and open to all. Title of Event: Katherine Hall Page
When: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:00 PM
Location: Jabberwocky Bookshop
Description: Jabberwocky Bookshop is pleased to welcome Agatha award-winning
author Katherine Hall Page for a reading from her seventeenth Faith
Fairchild culinary mystery, THE BODY IN THE GALLERY. Tantalizing
cuisine, suspense and wit, these are all the trademarks of Page's
novels, and they are in abundance in her latest mystery, which also
features modern art, revenge and a deadly game of deception set in
the heart of bucolic Aleford, Massachusetts.
Faith Fairchild struggles to connect the dots between a forged
Romare Bearden, a Jane Doe corpse, and Pepperidge Farm goldfish
crackers as she takes over the caf, at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum
at the behest of longtime friend Patsy Avery, president of the
Ganley's board of trustees. When the corpse turns up as an
unintended part of an art installation, Faith becomes enmeshed in
the Ganley's murky past and present. At home, her son Ben gets
drawn into a cyber-bullying escapade while her husband Tom wants
his wife to be more like June Cleaver. Faith is at her wit's end as
the killer attacks again, and again.
In praising Page's previous titles, The New York Times Book Review
raved, "[Page's] young sleuth is a charmer." And The Denver Post
says that Page, "writes with grace and gentle wit, expertly
weaving all her material together into a satisfying whole." The
Romantic Times says, "Page builds atmosphere and tension
beautifully, mesmerizing the reader." Serious joy for lovers of
classic crime."
Katherine Hall Page won an Agatha Award in 1990 for her first Faith
Fairchild mystery, THE BODY IN THE BELFRY. She has since gone on to
receive Agathas for THE WOULD BE WIDOWER (Best Short Story) and for
THE BODY IN THE SNOWDRIFT (Best Novel).
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Here are our staff recommendations.
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Child 44
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Smith, Tom Rob
Child 44 is a terrifying, relentless page turner. Taking place during post WWII Stalinist Soviet Union, where everything is supposed to be paradise, a serial killer is on the loose. However, one of the fundamental pillars of this society is that there is no ordinary crime, ironic since the State sends millions of people away to gulags using torture to extract their confessions. This is the work of the MGB, the state security force. One of its rising stars, Leo Demidov, loves his country and idealizes the Soviet State. He has a beautiful wife and lives a better existance than most. When he comes across evidence of this brutal killer's crime spree his world is suddently turned upside down. Risking everything he loves, he'll stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice, a killer the State refuses to admit exists. You will not be able to put this book down. Smith deftly blends historical fact with a suspensefull mystery that will leave the reader guessing until the last page. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I have not been this entertained in a while! -Bob |
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The Jabberwocky Bookshop is a full-service independent bookstore located in a refurbished tannery mill building in the heart of Newburyport. Click here for more information on directions to our store, our used book room, and many of the other unique programs the Jabberwocky has to offer.
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Talking Books is our weekly newsletter bringing you up-to-date with all that is happening here at the Jabberwocky. Find out what your friends in Newburyport are reading. To sign up for our weekly email newsletter, click on the subscription button on our front page.
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Swine Not?
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Buffett, Jimmy,
Bransford, Helen
#1 Best-selling writer Jimmy Buffett weaves an irresistible new tale---filled with colorful characters, wry humor, and the pursuit of a very clever pig. When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn't dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the hotel staff---especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform their pet into pork roast---becomes imperative. |
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The local Newburyport area is blessed with an abundance of creativity and talent. Many of these authors have a number of books available, though we have listed here just one. Often we have autographed copies on hand in the store, so please give us a call--remember autographed books make a unique gift!
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From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between
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Atkinson, Elizabeth
Alice likes playing soccer and working on her go-kart with her dad. But when she moves to the suburbs, she learns from Zen, the boy down the street, that she has no hope of fitting in at her new middle school unless she starts acting more "like a girl." At first, Alice doesn't mind that she isn't just like Haley and Yvette, the school's reigning princesses. Then she realizes that being different can set you apart...and being friends with someone like Zen can set you way apart. Why does being yourself have to be so complicated? |
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
- W. H. Auden
The Dyer's Hand
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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