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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.

 

Kay WilsonKay

Specialty: Cards and music; general bookseller

Current favorite book: Cutting for Stone, byAbraham Verghese

Currently reading: The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett; One-Dimensional Woman, by Nina Power; Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich

Nancy PageNancy

Specialty: Co-owner (a.k.a. the boss's wife); children's books; toy and game buyer

All-time favorite book: Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner; Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard; anything by Mary Oliver

Currently reading: The Summer Guest, by Justin Cronin; Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese

Kay Wilson Garry

Specialty: Receiving; backroom factotum

All-time favorite book:  The Silmarillion/Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien; In the Twenties, by Count Harry Kessler

Currently reading: The Prophet: Trotsky, by Isaac Deutscher; The Infinities, by John Banville; Elegy for April, by Benjamin Black

Kay WilsonMarni

Specialty: Back-up backroom factotum; general bookseller

Favorite authors :  Jane Austen; John Irving; Phillipa Gregory; Ian McEwan; Harper Lee

Currently Reading: The Lonely Polygamist, by Brady Udall; My Fair Lazy, by Jen Lancaster; Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger; What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman; One Day, by David Nicholls

Kay WilsonRoger

Specialty: Owner, manager, bookseller

All-time favorite books (dating back to his impressionable teenage years): Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett; Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing; Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame; Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

Currently Reading: Night Tide, by Michael Sherer; Daring Young Men, by Richard Reeves; You Are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier; The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, by Frances McCue

Kay WilsonCindy

Specialty: Out of print books; general bookseller

All time favorite authors: Margaret Atwood; Adrienne Rich; Lewis Carroll; Gregory Maguire

Currently Reading: Horns, by Joe Hill; Death with Interruptions, by Jose Saramago; The Nobodies Album, by Carolyn Parkhurst

Kay WilsonMarilyn

Specialty: Money manager

All time favorite book(s): anything by Jodi Picoult

Currently Reading:  Secret Son, by Laila Lalami; The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein; Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese; All Other Nights, by Dara Horn; Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

 Lori imageLori

Specialty: Children's bookseller

Catching up on missed classic favorites: Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton; Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham; Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

Currently Reading: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher

James imageJames

 

Specialty: General bookseller

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

Currently reading: C, by Tom McCarthy; Kraken, by China Mieville; The Four Fingers of Death, by Rick Moody; The Private Lives of Trees, by Alejandro Zambra; Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon; Tongues of Serpents, by Naomi Novik