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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Several months ago, I smiled happily when John and Joe placed an advanced reader’s copy of Joseph O’Connor’s new masterpiece Ghost Light in my hands. In the fall of 2007, I had been one of the lucky ones to hear the Irish author read from his novel Redemption Falls. Those of us who were at [...]

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Ellen is sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office on the army base of Fort Hood, waiting to hear the results of a test. The waiting is making her thoughts run wild; she fears that her cancer’s back, that insidious disease that has taken her breasts already, and that has in many ways [...]

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When I read You Know When the Men Are Gone, I was impressed with Siobhan Fallon’s writing alone. The stories could have been about anything. It was clear Fallon knew how to write a good short story. But since her stories are about military family life, there is no doubt many readers who are part [...]

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January’s First Editions Club can be one of the hardest to pick, but it can also be one of the most rewarding. Think about it, there are so many books coming out in the three months before Christmas, holiday sales etc., that January turns out to be somewhat of a dry month for publishing. So, [...]

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As we finish up 2010 we reflect on the our work and our favorite books – Mark lists his favorites here. Many of my favorites were first editions club picks. Steve Yarbrough’s Safe From the Neighbors and Karl Marlantes’ Matterhorn immediately come to mind because this time last year we were just learning about the [...]

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I started reading Citrus County this weekend,  John Brandon’s new book and our First Editions Club pick for August. The novel is set in Florida in, you guessed it, Citrus County (visitcitrus.com). The county is on the Gulf coast in central Florida, north of Tampa but south of the panhandle, and it’s home to such [...]

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First Editions Club: July 2010 The Story Behind the Pick: Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross “In 1995, my father told me about the suspicious death of my second cousin, who was morbidly obese, struggled epically with depression, and also suffered from lethal nut allergies.  According to her husband — who was, conveniently, the only witness [...]

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i recently finished reading our july First Editions Club pick, Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross.  damn fine book mr. ross, damn fine indeed.  i don’t think i was aware before starting to read it that one of the characters is dr. sam sheppard who was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife in 1954.  i’m absolutely [...]

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Lee Child warned an enthusiastic audience that he was not going to read from his new Jack Reacher novel, 61 Hours. Besides giving away crucial plot information, he said that he did not want to bore us with his monotonous voice. Well, I wanted to jump up and say, “No, we love your voice! Please [...]

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