Bottom's Dream
by Arno Schmidt
We have a very large new book in the store, so large I haven't even figured out where, or how, to display it. Thirteen pounds, 1,495 pages, and $70; seven years in the making in the original German an... (Tom)
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
MADE-UP
Nearly ancient by the standards of the time but still in good voice as an itinerant reader of the news through small-town, post-Civil War Texas, Capt. Jefferson Kidd finds himself a temporary guardian... (Tom)
The Great Piratical Rumbustification & The Librarian and the Robbers
by Margaret Mahy and Quent
MADE-UP
My new and fanatical devotion to How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen led me to this kindred item, also from the '70s and also illustrated with chaotic glee by Quentin Blake. If you thi... (Tom)
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