Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Recently Emily and I have teamed up to give our First Editions Club Members a new opportunity and I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. On February 18th, the grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline series, was here at Lemuria signing his new book, Madeline at the White House. With [...]

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i quite often judge books by their covers.  regularly this results in me reading a damn fine book.  it is difficult for me to resist a book that has an amazing cover, even if i know nothing about the book or the author. penguin has two series which feature new cover art that i am [...]

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well…have you?  no?  why not?  i’m willing to bet that i haven’t gone a day without touching at least one book in over ten years.  i wouldn’t have it any other way. i’m not one of those folks who can read from a screen for very long.  if there is something on the internet that [...]

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reading…there’s not much out there that compares to it.  getting totally lost in a book is an amazing thing.  one aspect of being a book lover that some people don’t partake in is the collecting of books.  i don’t understand these folks.  why wouldn’t you want to walk by your bookcase and be reminded of [...]

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welcome to amy sedaris’ wonderful world of crafting.  this book is beyond amazing. there is no way someone else could even attempt to combine this much humor with this much creativity…can’t be done. i’m not gonna give out any freebie step by steps here because everyone and their mother needs to own a copy of [...]

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i saw this book come in a few weeks ago and immediately fell in love with the looks of it and had to have it.  they say you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover but i say phooey.  cover judging is how i’ve found most of my favorite books including this little gem. the [...]

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back in december of 2007 i read an awesome little book of short stories titled st. lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves. about a week ago when our random house reps were here for a sales call they met with all of us lemurians to share their big upcoming titles.  one that i had [...]

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“My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed to other forms.” – OVID, Metamorphoses welcome to the wonderful world of mutants.  this book jumped out at me several months ago while i was looking for a book for a customer in the science section (a section i don’t get to spend much time in).  [...]

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as i’ve been totally consumed with shipping the latest First Editions Club pick and Grisham’s new book i’ve been too exhausted to read much.  so i’m going to share with you a flier that i had made up not too long ago that accompanies all of my ship outs that’s about the First Editions Club.  [...]

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Join us as we welcome John Brandon to Lemuria for the first time.  He will be here on Tuesday July 12th at 5:00 signing and reading from his latest book Citrus County. As this book will be the August First Editions Club pick, I’m quite excited about this event and hope to see you there.

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