The Beastie Boys Book

Staff Pick

The best part of Beastie Boys Book is that it's basically a giant Beastie Boys song: wild, unpredictable, and unimpeachably cool—a big, party to which we've all been invited. Just as the Beasties themselves perfected the art of sampling, so too does their book, mixing the Beasties's rise to fame with contributions from the likes of Amy Poehler and Colson Whitehead. At its core, however, Beastie Boys Book is a tribute to the late, great Adam "MCA" Yauch, who endowed the Beasties with both their craziness and their consciousness. As you turn the final page, you'll have a smile on your face and a lump in your throat, and will immediately want to go on the whole ride again.

 

 

 

 

Beastie Boys Book By Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz Cover Image
$50.00
ISBN: 9780812995541
Availability: Not On Our Shelves—Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Random House - October 30th, 2018

The Travelling Cat Chronicles -- Hiro Arikawa

Staff Pick

The big conceit of Hiro Arikawa's Traveling Cat Chronicles is that the book is narrated in halves - a third-person account of the protagonist, Satoru, and a first-person narrative from the point of view of his faithful cat, Nana, as they drive across Japan in search of a temporary home for Nana, for reasons that are not entirely clear. It's a premise that feels almost too-cute-by-half at first, gradually growing on you as the book progresses - up until the beautiful and tragic third act, when the rug is pulled out from under the reader and the narrative seems all the more poignant. This is a book to be curled up with in the coziest possible reading space, with, if you're lucky enough, a purring feline by your side.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles By Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translated by) Cover Image
By Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translated by)
$24.00
ISBN: 9780451491336
Availability: Backordered
Published: Berkley - October 23rd, 2018

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte

Staff Pick

Like many other former seven-year-olds, I was once a dinosaur obsessive. With Jurassic Park roosting in the VCR, I would give any grown-up in earshot a rundown of my favorite dinosaurs (this changed daily) and what periods they lived in. If you're anything like me, a page or two into Steve Brusatte's prehistoric masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (William Morrow, $29.99), will be enough to bring back the kid in you. A perfect gift for any dino-lover, Brusatte’s book presents the Mesozoic in vivid detail and with an immediacy not often reserved for a period that ended 65 million years ago. From spindly, cat-sized lizards at the beginning of the Triassic to thundering giants at the end of the Cretaceous, dinosaurs were a highly diverse, sophisticated species whose millions of years of earthly dominance help put our world and lives in far greater perspective.

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World By Steve Brusatte Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062490421
Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability
Published: Mariner Books - April 24th, 2018

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