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- Mimi Beman, Mitchell's Book Corner Nantucket Bookworks 25 Broad Street, 228-4000 Thirteen-year-old narrator Lucas Lessar has to deal with a hodgepodge of superstition and practicality purveyed by his large, boisterous Croatian and Russian family, the memory of a good father blown apart in a coal mine, a loving mother who has recently chosen to vanish, and her crazed and dangerous Gypsy boyfriend, who is obsessed with finding her. Lucas negotiates all of this while he takes on the task of searching for his mother.Shauna Seliy's first novel is a minor wonder. When you finish this book, you'll be intimate with a half-dozen curious characters and the emotional and physical terrain of a hard-bitten Pennsylvania mining community confronting inevitable change. It's a wonderful first novel, with the kind of control and colorful detail that promises more to come.
Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street, 228-1110 Athought-provoking picture book for preschool through elementary aged students, "The Pink Refrigerator" sets the reader thinking about the nature of curiosity and personal motivation. Tim Egan's mouse character, Dodsworth, is presented with simple ink and watercolor illustrations as the reader learns of his boring routine of favorite shows, naps and daily junkyard trips. This all changes when Dodsworth finds a rusty pink refrigerator, whose daily contents enable him to follow the messages pinned to the refrigerator door with a magnet: "Make pictures, " "Read More," "Play music." Dodsworth's new life fills with adventure and purpose, until he must face himself through an empty refrigerator and the final message, "Keep Exploring." Get ready for deep discussions and lots of interesting insights from young listeners.
Camera Shop & Nantucket Video 32 Main Street, 228-0101 From Craig Brewer, the writer/director who brought us "Hustle & Flow," comes a gritty tale of redemption set in the deep South. Samuel L. Jackson is Lazarus, a God-fearing blues man who's just been jilted; and Christina Ricci is Rae, a young woman who reverts to some bad habits after her husband is deployed.Those bad habits land Rae in trouble, but Lazarus rescues her and vows to help her clean up her act with some tough love in hopes he can save her. This movie is strange and over the top but compulsively watchable. - Laurie Donovan, manager, Camera Shop & Nantucket Video Orange Street Video 117 Orange Street, 228-5806 While he believes he has been recruited to protect the president, ex-Marine Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is actually set up top take the fall for the assassination. Now, he has to run from law enforcement as well as the people who recruited him, at the same time as trying to clear his name.
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