Danielle's Staff Picks

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity By Hugh MacLeod Cover Image
$27.45
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ISBN: 9781591842590
Published: Portfolio - June 11th, 2009

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog - gapingvoid.com - and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.


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Play It As It Lays: A Novel (FSG Classics) By Joan Didion, David Thomson (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Joan Didion, David Thomson (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374529949
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - November 15th, 2005

This book has a brevity that is stunning. It reminds me that stark writing is just as good as long-winded prose. Sometimes better. It takes you into the empty dark side of the 1960s. Joan Didion is masterful. Read it.


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Lolita (Vintage International) By Vladimir Nabokov Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679723165
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Published: Vintage - March 13th, 1989

This is the most beautiful book I have ever read. It's a classic but I still think it deserves a shelf talker. It feelsl ike reading a poem. The language is lush and intoxicating.


Alice I Have Been: A Novel By Melanie Benjamin Cover Image
$17.00
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ISBN: 9780385344142
Published: Bantam - December 21st, 2010

I am not usually one to read historical fiction, but since I grew up loving Carroll’s work I gave it a shot. It paints a vivid picture of its characters and makes you want to dive into the rabbit hole. For the romantically curious sort.