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Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "The Wall - Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain" by Peter Sis Peter Sis is one of the most talented, accomplished, and recognized children's book writers and illustrators working today. In his new book "The Wall - Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain," he draws us into the world that shaped him - Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. He tells his story in memories and pictures with remarkable drawings and diaries from a time and a place where one's only wish was to be free.- Mimi Beman, Mitchell's Book Corner Nantucket Bookworks 25 Broad Street, 228-4000 "The Gathering" by Anne Enright When Veronica Hegarty's favorite brother, Liam, commits suicide in the sea off Brighton, England, Veronica is the family member who has to travel from Ireland to make the necessary arrangements. During these dark days and over the next few months she reexamines her family history, her relationship with her widowed mother who's grown strange, her marriage, her past loves. She and Liam had grown close when as children they lived for a time with their grandmother Ada. Veronica now dwells on Ada's story because it seems to intertwine with her own life and the choices shes made. Her growing understanding of events and relationships, past and present, is acute and often mordantly funny. She has an absurdist view of sex, but an almost reverent respect for love. Anne Enright, author of three previous novels, has always couched real insight in a style marked by quirky observations. She has an unblinking way of looking at love, death and relationships that may seem clinical at times, but it's this very objectivity that shows how profoundly she is concerned about her characters and that gives this, her best novel, its richness and beauty.
Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street, 228-1110 "Leaves" by David Ezra Stein Aperfect match for the changes of autumn, "Leaves" tells the story of a young bear experiencing his first fall, winter and returning spring. He has never seen leaves fall off a tree before - should he put them back? And why is he feeling so sleepy. . .? Presented with single lines of text and simple ink and watercolor illustrations, this beautiful picture book gently shares with preschool children the wonder of the seasons.
videos Orange Street Video 117 Orange Street, 228-5806 "Transformers" (Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fiaction violence, brief sexual humor, and language) For anyone who grew up in the '80s, Transformers were a part of childhood. Because of that, many people had mixed feelings about a live action Transformers movie but Michael Bay delivered a fantastic action-packed disaster flick. Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is a normal kid with an anything but normal car. As war breaks out on Earth between the alien robots Autobots and the Decepticons, Sam discovers that his simple Camero is actually a transforming alien robot. Sam is immediately sucked into this ingalactic battle and so is the audience. Michael Bay is one of the best disaster flick directors and "Transformers" is no exception. If you are expecting a few explosions and good special effects you will begin to see that "Transformers" is more than meets the eye.
Camera Shop & Nantucket Video 32 Main Street, 228-0101 "Reign Over Me" (Rated R for language and some sexual references) In "Reign Over Me" Adam Sandler is Charlie Fineman, a widower who has lost his whole family, and his pain is so deep he won't even admit that he ever had one. His daily routine is interrupted by his old college friend Alan Johnson (played beautifully by the film's anchor Don Cheadle) who reaches out to help Charlie. Alan is itching for a little freedom himself from his urban life and so begins a friendship of one man's hope to help another but only if that man is ready to heal himself.
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