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3014 78th Ave. SE Mercer Island, WA 98040 800.432.1640 206.232.6920 info@mercerislandbooks.com

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Roger and Sergeant Major

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Garry receiving books

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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: The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the 19th Century, by Martha Hodes

Currently reading: People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks; Returning to Earth, by Jim Harrison; Running for Mortals, by John Bingham; Being Caribou, by Karsten Heuer; In the Company of Crows and Ravens, by John Marzluff and Tony Angell

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: Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier; Away, by Amy Bloom; World Without End, by Ken Follett; The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama

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: Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, by Mark Blake; Europe, Europe, by Hans Maenus Enzenberger; The Translator, by John Crowley

Kay WilsonMarni

Specialty: Back-up backroom factotum; general bookseller

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

Currently Reading: advance copy of The Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri

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: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz; People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks; The Lady and the Monk, by Pico Iyer; Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, by Lee Siegel

Kay WilsonCindy

Specialty: Out of print books; general bookseller

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

Currently Reading: The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by Edward Griffin; Catch 22, by Joseph Heller; Triangle, by Katherine Weber; Everybody's Autobiography, by Gertrude Stein

Kay WilsonTonya

Specialty: Book group advisor; general bookseller

Favorite authors: Graham Greene; Ian McEwan; Virginia Woolf

Currently reading:  Garden of Earthly Delights, by Joyce Carol Oates; Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan; Paris: the Secret History, by Andrew Hussey; Moral Disorder, by Margaret Atwood; Rape of Europa, by Lynn Nicholas

Kay WilsonMarilyn

Specialty: Money manager

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

Currently Reading:  One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson

 Lori imageLori

Specialty: Children's bookseller

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

Currently Reading: The Wall, by Peter Sis

 MJ imageM. J.

 

Specialty: Children's bookseller

All time favorite book: Periodic Table, by Primo Levi; "Why I Live at the P.O.", by Eudora Welty

Currently reading: My Latest Grievance, by Elinor Lipman; Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate

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: Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier; The Curtain, by Milan Kundera; I'm Looking Through You, by Jenny Boylan; The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff; Human Smoke, by Nicholson Baker