Summertime Reads

It's a wet start to the summer in Oklahoma - time to break out the canoes and a good book. We've brought in a stock of magazines for light reading, everything from Cars to Cooking! New books from Dean Koontz and Danielle Steele have already sold out in their first stocking. Featured books include WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (currently available in used hardback and new trade paper) by Sara Gruen, is a thrilling story set in a traveling circus during the 1930's, and enough plot to fill the big top! The book has been on the independent bookseller's recommended books lists for quite some time and continues to be a popular read.

Broken Arrow's Will Thomas has a new offering and Publishers Weekly says: At the start of Thomas's well-crafted fourth Barker and Llewelyn mystery to feature a London detective duo clearly modeled on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (after 2006's The Limehouse Text), a distraught guardsman, Major DeVere, consults Cyrus Barker, a smugly intellectual private enquiry agent, and his young apprentice, ex-con Thomas Llewelyn. The major's 12-year-old daughter has disappeared, and DeVere fears she has fallen victim to white slavers, though the sleuths suspect a serial killer may be at work. The plot thickens when Barker receives a taunting letter in rhyme signed Mr. Miacca, a child-eating bogeyman from a bedtime story. Scotland Yard hampers the investigation in a possible coverup of some upper-class depravities.

RARE FIND! Just who was G. Ranger Wormser? We've come across a 1911 copy of THE SCARECROW AND OTHER STORIES (Dutton & Co.) and although the book is listed in at least one American universities list of Rare holdings, there is little to be found on the author. Research uncovered the fact that the -G- stands for Gwendolyn, making this collection of horror and supernatural stories all the more unusual, but as far as her biography there is not much else to be known. The book was reprinted in a limited edition some years back, intended (according to the publisher) to raise her from obscurity, but apparently she lingers there. No other copies of this book in this First Edition printing are listed for sale anywhere in the world.

McHuston Booksellers April Arrivals

Another load of books with a decidedly Celtic flavor is heading for the shelves this month. Among the titles: O Come Ye Back to Ireland, by Niall Williams and Christine Breen, Are You Somebody, by Nuala O’Faolain, Gourmet Ireland, by Paul and Jeanne Rankin, Aspects of Irish Art, Irish Tales of the Supernatural, by Mairtin O’Griola, Of Irish Ways, by Mary Murray Delaney, Irish Magic, by various authors, and The Celts, by Nora Chadwick.

Among the history and genealogical titles to be added are The History of Rockingham County Virginia by John W. Wayland, and The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years, by Haynes Johnson.
Five boxes of Christian non-fiction books prompted a change to that section of the store, and Inspirational fiction is now in its own section, just behind the Christian non-fiction shelves.
McHuston Booksellers will carry a full line of magazines once they are forwarded from the various publishers. Already on the shelves are Newsweek and Rolling Stone magazine.
Mysteries are now in their own section, and a good many titles have been added to the collection of westerns – books that are always tougher to come by, since fewer are written each year than other genres.
A number of NY Times bestselling fiction titles are ready for reading, including Steve Berry’s The Templar Legacy – with new books always discounted from the publisher’s price.

February Arrivals!

Some great Celtic books are among those added to the shelves today, including some hard to find titles! An Aran Reader by Breandan and Ruiri O hEithir is a First Edition from 1991, from The Lilliput Press in Dublin, and features stories from a wealth of Irish writers. Also added to the CELTIC CULTURE section - Celtic Myths and Legends, by Charles Squire; Bard, by Morgan Llywelyn; The Wind From Hastings, by Morgan Llywelyn; Druids, also by Morgan Llywelyn; Ireland, by Frank Delaney; The Irish Famine, by Peter Gray; and The Inland Ice and other stories, by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne.

Added to the HISTORY section are several biographies, including Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Fiction additions include a First Edition copy of Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver, and in reference, one of the bibles of book collecting, Collected Books, by the Ahearns.

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