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BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "Nantucket Taste Memories: The DeMarco Restaurant Cookbook" This large format hardcover contains exquisite photographs from Jeff Allen and others. The first half of the book discusses the restaurant's origins, thoughts on food, customers and stories. The second half is comprised of dozens of recipes of the DeMarco dishes we all have enjoyed through the years.
- Mimi Beman, owner, Mitchell's Book Corner The first, "Jacob's Ladder" by Brian Keaney, is like a dark twist on Louis Saccar's "Holes." Jacob is a young man who wakes in a field knowing only his name. He is taken to an encampent where other children live in stone dorms and are served spongy, tasteless food. While the others accept their plight, Jacob questions everything, only to receive the response that he will get used to life this way. Refusing this fate, Jacob and two companions set out on a dangerous journey, facing their fears and gaining courage and hope, trying to discover the truth about their past.
- Melanie and Zachary Kotolac,
Nantucket Bookworks
by Oliver Jeffers Every once in a while, a very clever children's story about books is published, and librarians just LOVE it. Oliver Jeffers tells a funny, entertaining tale about Henry, who finds that he loves to eat books. Colored cartoon illustrations with old book pages for backgrounds add to the narrative. Henry acquires immense knowledge before running into digestive trouble, and the solution is both nutritious and satisfying. Younger children will laugh at the story; older children will eat up the visual details. You will love it, too.
- Maggie Head, Nantucket Atheneum "Starter for 10" (Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and a scene of drug use.) Directed by Tom Vaughan, "Starter for 10" is a wonderful and cheery romantic comedy that takes a fresh approach to a formula we've seen before. Set in Britain in 1985, Brian Jackson (James McAvoy of "Last King of Scotland") is a first year university student hoping to make the school's quiz show team with even better hopes of catching his dream girl's eye all while rejecting the one girl who has a crush on him. Boy wins first girl, it goes wrong, boy loses her, light bulb goes off - now where is second girl who you know is the better match for him all along? Don't miss this one!
Video "Disturbia" (Rated PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality.) Loosely based on the classic "Rear Window," "Disturbia" examines the voyeuristic effects of house arrest on a teenage boy. After Kale (Shia LaBeouf) punches one of his teachers, he is sentenced to house arrest. His mother reinforces his punishment by removing his modern distractions, TV, game system, etc. Forced to entertain himself, Kale starts spying on the neighbors. Eventually, he becomes obsessed with the idea that one of his neighbors is a murderer. "Disturbia" is a gripping thriller worthy of comparison to its Hitchcockian predecessor.
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