holiday gift guide

The Girl Who Found Christmas: An Advent Calendar Storybook by Barbara Escher

December 16, 2019 admin 0

After over 20 years helping businesses solve their problems, Barbara Escher turned her writing and problem solving skills in a new direction. The Girl Who Found Christmas: An Advent Calendar Storybook (Red Mitten) tells the story of a six-year-old girl named Belinda. On one chilly December 1, Belinda is tasked by her mom with a big mystery to solve: “Can you, Belinda, figure out what it is that makes it Christmas?” Well, Belinda is a […]

According to Gaiman: Books Make Great Gifts

December 20, 2017 admin 0

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!” ― Neil Gaiman And while we’re at it, you can see January Magazine’s 2001 interview with the author here. Still shopping? You can see part of our Holiday Gift Guide here. (c) Can Stock Photo / frenta

Holiday Gift Guide 2017

December 9, 2017 admin 1

There are a hundred thousand interests and there are millions of books, but here are a handful that might make those you love realize just how much you care. [masterslider alias=”ms-159-1″]

Holiday Gift Guide: Orgasmic Appetizers and Matching Wines by Shari Darling

November 18, 2008 admin 1

Picture this: a full house at your place in the weeks leading up to the Big Holiday. You come out of the kitchen with a tray. And on that tray, Seared Scallop with a Pickled Ginger and Clementine Butter Sauce. And nestled next to it, a platter of Meatballs in Camembert Sauce that you put down on the table right next to the Chipotle Goat Cheese Dip with Bagel Wedges. And the whole place sighs. […]

Holiday Gift Guide: The Fire by Katherine Neville

November 17, 2008 admin 0

While a few reviewers have been somewhat cool about Katherine Neville’s long-awaited sequel to 1988’s The Eight, we predict that The Fire (Ballantine) will still manage to find its way under a lot of trees this holiday season. The Fire features Alexandra Solarin, the sole daughter of the heroic couple we first met in The Eight. The Fire covers a lot of fictional ground between 1822 and 2003 while Solarin searches for a piece of […]

Holiday Gift Guide: The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

November 17, 2008 admin 0

If you’ve never encountered the book before, reading it is like stumbling across a lost treasure. First published in 1985, a decade before The Golden Compass ever saw the light of day, Philip Pullman’s mystery series featuring 16 year old Sally Lockhart provides a glimpse at a sort of proto-Lyra Belacqua. The Ruby in the Smoke (Knopf) was the first of four Sally Lockhart Mysteries, a series set in Victorian London. In the first book, […]

Holiday Gift Guide: The 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac

November 13, 2008 admin 0

Obviously, you’d don’t have to be an old farmer — or even any kind of farmer — to enjoy The Old Farmer’s Almanac (Yankee Publishing), which has been published annually since 1792. The contemporary editions retain all the down-homey advice that made the annual publication an absolute must for those who made their living from the land, but gears itself these days to answering questions and bringing smiles to readers wherever they live. The 2009 […]

Holiday Gift Guide: Garfield: 30 Years of Laughs and Lasagna

November 13, 2008 admin 0

Who says nothing good came out of the 1970s? Jim Davis’ sardonic comicbook kitty, Garfield, turned 30 this year. And though he was born in the 1970s, as Davis points out in an introduction, “Garfield morphed from a grumpy lump of wisecracking clay into the iconic ‘spokescat’ for the ‘80s generation: the ‘Me Generation.’ What perfect timing!” Garfield: 30 Years of Laughs and Lasagna (Ballantine) offers up a generous sampling of Garfield over the decades. […]

Holiday Gift Guide: 101 Things Canadians Should Know About Canada

November 13, 2008 admin 0

101 Things Canadians Should Know About Canada (Key Porter Books) is a weird little book. It reads like an anthology of Canadian stuff as described by a handful of Canada’s top contemporary writers. Contributions by Camilla Gibb, Christopher Moore, Todd Babiak, Michelle Berry and others reflect a view of Canada that is distinctly east of the Rockies in a package that looks and feels more like a children’s book than perhaps it really should. The […]

Holiday Gift Guide: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

November 11, 2008 admin 0

Half a century on, Holly Golightly is as fresh and compelling as she was the day Truman Capote first skated her across the page.Capote’s novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, turns 50 just as holiday shopping gets going in earnest. Vintage has published an anniversary volume that goes on sale today. The film, of course, won’t join the anniversary for another couple of years. According to The New York Observer, Capote didn’t want Audrey Hepburn for the […]