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Brant Point Books 17 North Beach Street 228-5856 I'm a sucker for a Southern story. Strong women, a little bit of madness, flawed characters - Southern writing reminds me of home and makes me yearn for corn fresh from the stalk, field peas, just-picked tomatoes and cornbread. "Sufficient Grace" by Darnell Arnoult took me home and sat me down on the porch. In the style of Sue Monk Kidd in "Secret Life of Bees," Arnoult weaves a tale that will draw you in and keep you yearning for more. Every character, from Mama Toot to Tyrone, from Ed to Gracie, comes alive under Arnoult's skillful prose, and the plot meanders through their lives and the question of grace - what it is, how we give it, how we receive it. Open the book and you'll find yourself camped out on the porch swing reading by the light of the fireflies, unable to part from the company of its characters. - Lucretia Voigt, owner, Brant Point Books Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street 228-1080 mitchellsbookcorner.com
complex but interesting generational story of love and loss in Weber's novel. The book focuses on Rebecca, a genetics counselor in a cushy relationship with a composer who creates music based on patterns occurring in nature. She inherits her grandmother's memories of surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911, which killed 146 people, as well as a key to a safe deposit box that contains her grandmother's biggest secret about the tragedy. Nantucket Bookworks 25 Broad Street 228-4000 nantucketbookworks.com This book just came out in paperback this week, and I'm so excited to get it into people's hands. It's a very genuine, moving memoir of a young man growing up with a rich cast of characters as his family and a bar as his psychological home. I loved this book for the various kinds of intelligence it values: literature and an Ivy League education vie with street smart wiseacres and the insights of alcohol in the great scheme of finding one's way. This is a touchingly funny book you'll want to share, and the author will be coming to Nantucket August 10. Read it first so you can be as excited as I am.
Nantucket Bookworks MUSIC Musicall 4 East Chestnut Street 228-9306 Jurassic 5 "Feedback" Flogging Molly "Whiskey on a Sunday" Michael Franti & Spearhead "Yell Fire" Pharrell "In My Mind" DVDS Camera Shop & Nantucket Video 32 Main Street 228-0101 In this British independent film, a young boy (played by Henry Eden) realizes his mother (Molly Parker) is a drug addict. He befriends a waitress (Keira Knightley) who helps him try to get his mother clean and away from her bad boyfriend. A favorite in the Film Festival circuit. - Laurie Donovan, manager, Nantucket Video Orange Street Video 117 Orange Street 228-5806 Agroup of teenage friends evade a fatal roller coaster accident. But since they were supposed to die on the roller coaster, Death is trying to get them back, and the kids have to figure out how to dodge it. For the first time on a DVD, the movie prompts you to choose the fates of the characters at different points of the story, like a Choose Your Own Adventure" book.
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