Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Maggie, one of two mighty front desk managers, has a knack for knowing what each of us likes to read.  She said, “Hey, Pat.  I think you’ll like Spooner. It’s funny and a bit quirky and by Pete Dexter, National Book Award winner for Paris Trout.” The first few chapters spelled magic for me. When [...]

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Hey, mystery and dog lovers out there, have I found a delectable late night read that’s got a low key, slightly life- battered detective named Bernie and his K9 counterpart Chet.  This is the first of the Chet and Bernie series.  A teenager gets kidnapped, Chet gets dognapped and spends some harrowing hours in an animal shelter, bikers spin [...]

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How to and why live an authentic life are the basic tenets of this new book by Dr. James Hollis, practicing Jungian analyst in Houston, Texas. This book with its emphasis on the unfulfilled self brings to mind other writers like Alice Miller, Robert Johnson, Scott Peck and Frederick Buechner as well as writings in [...]

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Every time I go to the dentist or doctor’s office and pick through the magazines lately, I have seen rave reviews about this newly distributed, remarkable book. Of course, we at Lemuria have been hearing about it for quite a while. Harper Collins said it is one of the finest books they have published in [...]

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The narrator of this book is Enzo, an old lab mix (as in labrador retriever), who has a very fine tale to tell with a very wise, old soul-like point of view. Enzo lives with a young family whose pack leader is Denny, a race car driver, and his wife Eve and their daughter Zoe. [...]

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My new section at Lemuria Bookstore is the one with science, nature, sports, ecology, hunting and fishing, adventure, sailing. We are all becoming one with our newly assigned sections. We are getting to know each and every book by studying its history in the bookstore and the message, plot or puzzle inside. We might even [...]

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Contrary to the title, Out Stealing Horses is not about rounding up the neighbor’s horses and galloping away. The title refers to holding onto tree limbs and letting go right as horses pass underneath to chance a few moments of sheer joy as two young men, two main characters in this sweep of a beautiful [...]

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The Darkest Evening of the Year The temptation was too great for me to not do an about face when I saw a mysterious and majestic golden retriever on the front of a book in the fiction room at Lemuria. Opening the dust jacket, the promise of a good mystery about an enigmatic woman who [...]

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