Media you can Trust

books

Mitchell's Book Corner
54 Main Street, 228-1080

"Penguin Great Journeys" Series
by various authors

Always on the lookout for stocking stuffers? Impress the recipients with one or more of the ten neat little paperback volumes in Penguin's recently launched "Penguin Great Journeys." Priced at $10, these books run the gamut from Olaudah Equiano's "Sold as a Slave" to Henry Walter Bates' "In the Heart of the Amazon Forest." Or how about Alexander Von Humbolgt's "Jaguars and Electric Eels?"

- Mimi Beman, Mitchell's Book Corner

Nantucket Bookworks
25 Broad Street, 228-4000

"The Book of Ebenezer Le Page"
by G. B. Edwards

This endearing novel, first published in 1981, has just been reissued after being unavailable for a few years. Purportedly Ebenezer's autobiography, it recounts the events of his long life (approximately 1890-1970) on Guernsey in the Channel Islands and brings alive a whole world in microcosm. Ebenezer leaves the island only once, to travel to the neighboring island of Jersey for a football tournament. In his idiosyncratic Guernsey patois, and despite his ignorance of the wider world, however, he slowly reveals a rich understanding of the people of his island and presents simply the often moving episodes of his life. Never married, he has had one great love, Liza Queripel of Pleinmont.That disappointment and others are absorbed with wisdom into the broad tapestry he gives us, tremendously alive with peculiar and interesting detail. Reading this novel is a fascinating experience, one that will never leave you.

- Dick Burns, Nantucket Bookworks

Nantucket Atheneum
1 India Street, 228-1110

"The Ultimate Book
of Optical Illusions"
by Al Seckel

Anew purchase for our Young Adult non-fiction collection, this comprehensive collection of optical illusions is sure to entertain puzzle enthusiasts young and old. Seckel divides the volume into four categories: action illusions, ambiguous illusions, impossible illusions and geometric illusions. A title, illusion and informative caption appear on each page. Designed for fun, but a fine reference tool as well, since many of the world's most powerful optical illusions are included.

- Maggie Head, Nantucket Atheneum

videos

Orange Street Video
117 Orange Street, 228-5806

"Meet the Robinsons"
(Rated G)

An animation movie starring the voices of Angela Bassett, Adam West and Tom Selleck, "Meet the Robinsons" is the story of Lewis, an orphaned inventor trying to find his family. He invents a time machine that he thinks does not work. However, a visitor from the future whisks him away and advises him he is the key to the future of mankind. Of course, no movie would be complete without an evil villain, and this one is after Lewis. A great movie for the family that parents will enjoy as much as their children

- Kate O'Brien, Orange Street Video

 

Camera Shop & Nantucket Video
32 Main Street, 228-0101

"The Hoax"
(Rated R for language)

Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, and starring Richard Gere, Alfred Molina Hope Davis and Stanley Tucci, "The Hoax" is the true story of a writer, Clifford Irving, who after his latest book is rejected convinces the same publisher that he is working on "the most important book of the 20th century." His pitch? That Howard Hughes, the world's most famous billionaire recluse has asked Irving to write his biography. If the eccentric Hughes can stay out of the way Irving may just pull off his unbelievable and elaborate scheme.

- Laurie Donovan, Camera Shop & Nantucket Video