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New Releases in
Hardcover and Paperback
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Sunday, September 11 at 2pm
Author Discussion and Signing
Bridge Builder,
by: P.N. de Vries
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A childhood is shattered by war, sending our narrator on a quest to a foreign country where he finds peril, new awareness, and romance. As this romance blossoms into a biracial marriage, however, it is met by old-fashioned prejudices from the couple's family members. In their struggle to bring their opposing families together, the couple is inspired to build a bridge across the waterway dividing them - an idea which only brings more sabotage and deadly danger.
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Monday, September 19th at 6:30pm,
The Hickory Stick Bookshop's Book Club will meet and discuss
Dead Wake by Erik Larson.
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the "Lusitania" was one of the era's great transatlantic Greyhounds the fastest liner then in service and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack.
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Our book club is open to all and no registration is required, so please feel free to read the book and join in on the discussion!
Questions? Please call 860-868-0525.
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Friday, October 7th at 5pm, The Hickory Stick's Not-So--Secret Readers Society meets to discuss Candy Makers
by Wendy Mass. IIn the town of Spring Haven, four children have been selected to compete in the national candymaking contest of a lifetime. Who will make a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Yellow Lightning Chew?
Logan, the candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by feel alone? Miles, the boy allergic to rowboats and the color pink?
Daisy, the cheerful girl who can lift a fifty-pound lump of taffy as if it were a feather?
Philip, the suit-and-tie-wearing boy who's always scribbling in a secret notebook?
This sweet, charming, and cleverly crafted story, told from each contestant's perspective, is filled with mystery, friendship, and juicy revelations.
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Our book club is open to all (suggested age: 8-12) and no registration is required, so please feel free to read the book and join in on the discussion!
Questions? Please call 860-868-0525.
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"I loved this book so much. Yes, at times it was a tad idealistic, but that was necessary, because this book is the perfect example of what love and acceptance looks like. Books like this (and the people in them) deserve our love and attention". -Emelie
About the Book:
A big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are.
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone.
But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can t help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself, including her past. But Amanda's terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it.
Because the secret that Amanda's been keeping? It's that at her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love?
Meredith Russo's If I Was Your Girl is a universal story about feeling different and a love story that everyone will root for.
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We are well-stocked on books for summer reading for kids and adults! Stop in, say hello and let us help you find a great read!
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