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On Diane's Shelf

HAPPY APRIL EVERYONE! HAPPY APRIL 2024!

As always, thank you devoted customers for your continued patronage.

We thank you for valuing our expertise and customer service.

DIANE'S BOOKS FOREVER AND FOREVER!

FICTION:

TABLE FOR TWO: Fictions. Amor Towles. 

CHEERS TO AMOR TOWLES!

We are now mesmerized by six brilliant and sagacious short stories and a novella.

THE KEEPER OF HAPPY ENDINGS. Barbara Davis.

"Every story leaves an echo. Especially the unfinished ones "Walk into Soline and Rory's worlds, you will never forget them. An enchanting novel about fate, second chances and hope."

TAKE TWO, BIRDIE MAXWELL. Allison Winn Scotch.

MY APRIL ROMCOM! You will love this fabulous strong-willed BIRDIE MAXWELL. NOT TO BE MISSED!

CITY IN RUINS. Don Winslow.

The dramatic conclusion to this explosive trilogy about two New England crime families that began in CITY OF FIRE and CITY OF DREAMS. "Sometimes you have to become someone you hate to protect what you love."

NON-FICTION:

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. Hampton Sides.

"An acclaimed historian, Hampton Sides, takes to the sea in this rousing tale of exploration."

DRIVE: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods. Bob Harig.

"There's perseverance. Then there's Tiger Woods perseverance. "Tiger Woods changed the game of golf!"

FOR CHILDREN:

DOG MAN: The Scarlet Shedder. Dav Pilkey.

Our canine superstar returns in this suspenseful and hilarious twelfth adventure!

5 MINUTE NATURE STORIES. Gabby Dawnay. 

CELEBRATE EARTH DAY! "Down by the meadow, that blows wild and free, there's a world of wonders I want to see." A PERFECT READ OUT LOUD FOR EVERYONE! NON-FICTION!

AND OF COURSE THESE ARE JUST A SMALL TASTE! Please come, browse, talk books with us-in the bookstore, on the telephone, on our new exciting website dianesbooks.com.

WE LOVE TO TALK BOOKS WITH YOU!

AND please remember our signature DIANE'S BOOKS RED READING WAGONS-traveling all over this country and beyond, enchanting readers young and old.

Such joy to put books in the hands of precious children and special grown-ups!

AND perfect gifts every time are DIANE'S BOOKS GIFT CERTIFICATES and DIANE'S BOOKS PICK OF THE MONTH CLUB! TALK TO OUR MARIA.

And as always, I thank my devoted, caring, amazing, hardworking, intrepid staff members: Maria; Joanie; Danielle; Chris; Lisa; Verna; Dorothy; Diana; Alex; Dimple and Rachel.

PLEASE READ OUT LOUD TO YOUR CHILDREN EVERY DAY

PLEASE SHOP LOCAL TO YOU CAN SHOP LOCAL FOREVER!

 

AND my final April thought is from the esteemed Toni Morrison:
 

"Imagination is an open door.

Step in here and let it soar"

 

HAPPY READING EVERYONE AND HAPPY READING OUT LOUD!

diane