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: When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams; Magnificence, by Lydia Millett
- Nancy: The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout; The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Garry: The House of Rumour, by Jake Arnott
- Marni: The Yard, by Alex Grecian; The Burning Air, by Erin Kelly
- Roger: Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin
- Cindy: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, by Ron Currie
- Marilyn: The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Lori: Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James; Tattoos on the Heart, by Gregory Boyle
- James: Speedboat, by Renata Adler; The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson; From the Mouth of the Whale, by Sjon; The Letters of William Gaddis, by William Gaddis; At Lady Molly's (Book Four of Dance to the Music of Time), by Anthony Powell
- Miriam: Eleanor and Park and Attachments, by Rainbow Rowell
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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 bookseller; 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 |
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Emma |
Specialty: Erstwhile children's bookseller; current college correspondent; passive nepotist All-time favorite books: The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear and The City of Dreaming Books, by Walter Moers; Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury; Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy; Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino |
