This first pick is especially important to me as we consider "shopping local" during the holidays and throughout the year. Independent bookstores appreciate your business, and so do small presses. Bender is out from Washington's own Copper Canyon Press, a nonprofit publisher with offices in Port Townsend and Seattle. Small presses work hard to put out quality literature, so keep an eye out for their books!
Bender: New and Selected Poems by Dean
Young
“...Toothpicked samples
at the farmer's market, every melon,
plum, I come undone, undone.”
Unusual,
dense, funny and brilliant—these poems are full of surprises. Try
one. There is beauty on every
page.---Sarina
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
Fascinating essays by a quirky Brit on subjects ranging from the
oddball guy next door to Stanley Kubrick, from credit card debt to
the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Offbeat and
entertaining.---Judith
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
Seraphina is
about a young woman caught between two worlds, hiding her true
identity and suppressing her amazing talent for music. Delve into
this world of court intrigue, family secrets and civil unrest.
Seraphina shines!---Morgaine
Here, Here!
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