Meet the Staff
Island Books booksellers are not only well-read, charming, and articulate, but they have more than 100 years of bookselling experience among them.
Current staff reading:
- Kay: The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar
- Nancy: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty, by Joshilyn Jackson; The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton
- Garry: George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis
- Marni: A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness
- Roger: A Good Man, by Guy Vanderhaeghe; Off the Beaten Tracks: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers, by Irina Bogotyreva
- Cindy: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Marilyn: State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett; The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton
- Lori: There Is No Dog, by Meg Rosoff
- James: The Odditorium, by Melissa Pritchard; Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations, by Norman Davies
- Miriam: The Flight of Gemma Hardy, by Margot Livesey
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Kay |
Specialty: Cards and music; general bookseller Favorite contemporary book: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
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Specialty: Co-owner (a.k.a. the boss's wife); children's books; toy and game buyer All-time favorite books: Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner; Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard; anything by Mary Oliver
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 Garry |
Specialty: Receiving; backroom factotum All-time favorite books: The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Diaries, by Count Harry Kessler
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Specialty: Back-up backroom factotum; general bookseller Favorite authors: Jane Austen; John Irving; Phillipa Gregory; Ian McEwan; Harper Lee
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Specialty: Owner, manager, bookseller All-time favorite books (dating back to his impressionable teenage years): The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett; Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing; The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame; Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
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Specialty: Out of print books; general bookseller
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Specialty: Money manager All time favorite book(s): anything by Jodi Picoult |
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Lori |
Specialty: Children's bookseller Classic favorites: The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton; The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham; Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott |
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Specialty: General bookseller; webmonkey Some all-time favorite books: Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon; Persuasion, by Jane Austen; Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville; Peace, by Gene Wolfe; Springer's Progress, by David Markson
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Miriam |
Specialty: Webmonkey Some all-time favorite books: A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry; American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld; Serena, by Ron Rash |
