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BOOKS
Mitchell's Book Corner
54 Main Street
228-1080
  "How Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Saved my Life" by Mameve Medwed
For a quick, satisfying read, pick up a copy of "How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life" ($14, paperback), by Mameve Medwed. This charming novel brings together a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud and a long-ago suitor in a witty and smart comedy of modern manners.

- Mimi Beman, owner, Mitchell's Book Corner
Nantucket Bookworks
25 Broad Street
228-4000
"Winterwood" by Patrick McCabe
When Redmond Hatch, a Dublin journalist, returns to his mountain homeplace for an article on folklore, he meets fiddler and storyteller Ned Strange. But things aren't what they seem with Ned, and the later revelation of his sordid secret resonates in Redmond and changes him. His resultant bizarre behavior drives away his wife Catherine and their young daughter. Years later, having reinvented himself and remarried, Redmond (now Dominic) sees Catherine in the street, and what was painfully buried gnaws its way to the surface. Somewhat Poeesque in sensibility, McCabe's novel ($24) draws on the comic and the supernatural, the tensions of the modern displacing the traditional, and the socially charged, late-20th-century phenomenon of repressed memory to create a startling, original work.

- Dick Burns, Nantucket Bookworks
VIDEOS
    Camera Shop & Nantucket
Video
    32 Main Street
    228-0101
        "Tenacious D in: The Pick of
                      Destiny"
      (Rated R for pervasive language,
      sexual content and drug use.)
This is the long-awaited movie starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass of the comedy band Tenacious D. It follows the two as they set off to form the 'world's greatest band' by finding the 'pick of destiny'. It's a light-hearted comedy, not "Flags of Our Fathers." Fans of Jack Black or Tenacious D will likely love it, others may enjoy it after a hard day of work. Directed by the creator of MTV's "Sifland Ollie Show.
    Orange Street Video
    117 Orange Street
    228-5806
            "Stranger Than Fiction"
    (Rated PG-13 for some disturbing
images, sexuality and brief language.)
Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) lives a routine life. He sticks to a strict schedule as he goes about his job as an IRS man. Nothing about Harold is unusual until one day he begins to hear a voice, which narrates his life. It turns out, Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) is writing about Harold, and the only way she thinks of ending the book is to kill off her main character. Unsure of how to deal with this voice, Harold consults the company shrink, a therapist, and, finally, a literature professor (Dustin Hoffman) for advice on what to do. With his death looming, Harold decides to try and find this voice in his head and hopefully save his life. Stranger than Fiction is a wonderful dark comedy that is also filled with sweetness and innocence.

- Kate O'Brien, manager, Orange Street Video