"...a town isn't a town without a bookstore."
Neil Gaiman
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904 Manhattan Avenue,
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
{pages} is open for in store browsing, online, phone & email orders
Monday - Sunday 11-5
Please wear a mask, use our hand sanitizer and respect social distancing.
Ring the bell before entering.
We are limiting guests to six.
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Grads, Dads, Entertaining and Beach Reads |
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We can hardly believe it's June, the season of dads, grads and summer reading!
{pages} is stocked full of great titles for any occasion, beach reads, current events, literary fiction or history. We've got just the right books for you or whoever you're gifting. Are you hosting your first gathering in forever and looking for some inspiration? Check out our cookbook selection and consider joining {pages} new Cook Book club led by the fabulous Danielle Anderson. Details Here
We're ready to kick off the season with our own virtual summer party celebrating the launch of one of the most anticipated beach reads of the season. Tonight, {pages} welcomes back Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six who is celebrating publication of her new novel Malibu Rising. This is a free event but if you order your book through {pages} we have signed copies and limited edition Malibu Rising sun glasses, ( while supplies last). Fix yourself a summer cocktail and join us for an hour of great conversation with Taylor and actress Julia Whelan who narrates the audio version of Malibu Rising. Details Here
On Thursday, June 3rd at 5pm we welcome back bestselling author and South Bay local, Elizabeth Letts as she discusses her new book The Ride of Her Life with author Matthew Goodman. Horse lovers and adventurers will enjoy hearing Elizabeth share stories about 63-year old Annie Wilkins' ride across America in 1954 on her horse Tarzan. Details Here
Thanks for reading our newsletter. We hope to see you at one of our events or in the store soon.
Patty, Linda, Kristin, Pam & the {pages} team
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On the calendar at {pages} ... |
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6:00 pm - {pages} Is thrilled to be hosting the launch event for Malibu Rising, the new novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six - Info Here
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6:00 pm - {pages} Young Adult Book Club meets to discuss What's Not To Love by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka - Info Here
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5:00 pm - {pages} Is pleased to welcome back Elizabeth Letts who is celebrating the publication of her new book The Ride of Her Life - Info Here
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10:30 am - {pages} Stroller Storytime with Miss Amy in person in the courtyard. Please wear your masks. This will be our first in person event in a very long time. Safety will be our priority so we are asking that all in attendance please wear your masks and honor social distancing. We want to keep our littlest readers safe as they have likely not yet been vaccinated.
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6:00 pm - {pages} Mystery Book Club meets to discuss When The Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain - Info Here
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All Day - {pages} is celebrating PRIDE all month but is very pleased on June 15th to donate a % of our sales back to PFLAG. Details Here
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11:30 - {pages} together with the Manhattan Beach Chamber is pleased to present: Michael Levine, the celebrated author of Broken Windows, Broken Business. Register Here - Purchase book here
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10:30 am - {pages} Coffee Time Book Club meets to discuss Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin- Info Here
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5:00 pm - {pages} Is pleased to present a Literary Happy Hour with Martha Cooley and Dinah Lenney who will be discussing Martha's new novel Buy Me Love- Info Here
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7:00 pm - {pages} Non- Fiction Book Club meets to discuss Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Spy by Ben MacIntyyre - RSVP
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6:00 pm - The launch event with local author Laurie James celebrating the publication of her brand new book Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding on and Letting Go. Details Here
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Malibu Rising
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six …Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.
Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.
The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.
Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.
And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.
By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface.
This is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them…and what they will leave behind.
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Golden Girl
by Elin Hilderbrand
In this satisfying page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl.
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently “off again” with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she’ll have to think carefully where to use them.
From the Beyond, Vivi watches “The Chief” Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi’s family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes—with or without a nudge of help from above—while Vivi finally lets them grow without her.
With all of Elin’s trademark beach scenes, mouth-watering meals, and picture-perfect homes, plus a heartfelt message—the people we lose never really leave us—Golden Girl is a beach book unlike any other.
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The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust.
Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW.
It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career.
A whip-smart and dynamic thriller and sly social commentary that is perfect for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace, The Other Black Girl will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last twist.
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We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
by Alice Waters with Bob Carrau and Cristina Mueller
From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats
In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the welcoming hospitality that infused the small space—human qualities that were disappearing from a country increasingly seduced by takeout, frozen dinners, and prepackaged ingredients. Waters came to see that the phenomenon of fast food culture, which prioritized cheapness, availability, and speed, was not only ruining our health, but also dehumanizing the ways we live and relate to one another.
Over years of working with regional farmers, Waters and her partners learned how geography and seasonal fluctuations affect the ingredients on the menu, as well as about the dangers of pesticides, the plight of fieldworkers, and the social, economic, and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. So many of the serious problems we face in the world today—from illness, to social unrest, to economic disparity, and environmental degradation—are all, at their core, connected to food. Fortunately, there is an antidote. Waters argues that by eating in a “slow food way,” each of us—like the community around her restaurant—can be empowered to prioritize and nurture a different kind of culture, one that champions values such as biodiversity, seasonality, stewardship, and pleasure in work.
This is a declaration of action against fast food values, and a working theory about what we can do to change the course. As Waters makes clear, every decision we make about what we put in our mouths affects not only our bodies but also the world at large—our families, our communities, and our environment. We have the power to choose what we eat, and we have the potential for individual and global transformation—simply by shifting our relationship to food. All it takes is a taste.
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The Ride of Her Life
by Elizabeth Letts
The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion.
In 1954, sixty-three year old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money, no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.
Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, they pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than 4,000 miles, through America’s big cities and small towns. Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television’s influence was expanding fast, when home-owners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.
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How The Word Is Passed
by Clint Smith
The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation–turned–maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.
A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted.
Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith’s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.
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A Message From Pam - {pages} Children's Specialist |
Join {pages} and Miss Amy for Stroller Story time in our courtyard , Mondays at 10:30 starting June 7th, You can also view past virtual story times on {pages} Instagram and Facebook.
The middle grade book club meets next on Wednesday, June 23rd at 4:30 pm to discuss Bea Is For Blended by Lindsey Stoddard. All are welcome to join our middle grade book club with members ranging from 4th to 7th grade. New members can send me an email and I will be sure to provide the zoom. Email: pam@pagesabookstore.com
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Oddbird
by Derek Desierto
A picture book about a bird who doesn’t fit in…at first!
It’s SO hot outside. All the fancy birds are gathered around the water, wishing they could cool off. But they don’t want to get wet and ruin their fine feathers.
Oddbird isn’t worried about his feathers; he wants to go for a refreshing dip. But he doesn’t fit in. He’s not fancy, or colorful. He’s just…different. The other birds don't want him around. How can he join them?
Oddbird's story is one all readers will relate to, and ultimately celebrate.
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Brave as a Mouse
by Nicolo Carozzi
The friendship of a goldfish and a mouse is in jeopardy when three not-so-friendly felines want to play too. This gorgeously illustrated picture book reminds us of the importance of bravery and friendship.
A goldfish and a mouse become fast friends as they play in and around the goldfish’s bowl.
But when three cats crash the party and terrify the poor goldfish, the brave little mouse gets an idea. She leads the three black cats on a wild and epic chase up and down and over and around until they find themselves surrounded by absolutely irresistible food in the pantry. The cats gorge themselves so much that they fall into a deep sleep, but the mouse knows they won’t sleep forever. So the brave little mouse gets another idea to keep the goldfish out of harm’s way for good!
This is a heartwarming story with a simple text and gorgeous illustrations about the lengths one brave mouse will go to in order to save her friend.
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Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race
by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Now available as a hardcover picture book!
Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven picture book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children can grasp and adults can leverage for further discussion.
While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it’s hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize and confront things that are unfair, like discrimination and prejudice.
This first book in the series begins the conversation on race, with a supportive approach that considers both the child and the adult. Stunning art accompanies the simple and interactive text, and the backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.
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The Mending Summer
by Ali Standish
From the award-winning author of The Ethan I Was Before comes a stunning middle grade stand-alone for fans of Wishtree by Katherine Applegate! Perfect for summer reading, it’s the story of a girl who, to avoid her alcoholic father, is sent away to her mysterious great aunt's country house, where she finds a magical wishing lake and the courage to mend her heart back together.
Some summers are just meant to break your heart.
Georgia can almost feel hers cracking a little more every day, like a clay pot left in a kiln too long. Daddy is working nights, and often the man who comes home isn’t Daddy. He’s a man who looks like Daddy but walks a little wobbly. He’s the man Daddy turns into when he drinks—the Shadow Man.
With Daddy sinking deeper into alcoholism and Mama struggling to keep the family afloat, Georgia is sent to stay with her mysterious great aunt in her rambling old country house. Soon Georgia meets Angela—a girl with secrets of her own—and together they discover a magical lake. At first, the lake offers Georgia thrilling adventures with her new friend. But as things grow worse at home, the magic threatens to spiral out of control. . . .
Award-winning author Ali Standish explores the courage it takes to piece your heart back together when those closest to you break it, and the ways we keep the light of hope burning, even through our darkest hours.
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Shark Summer
by Ira Marcks
“Shark Summer is bursting with vibrant, expressive art....The characters are distinct and relatable...It’s a lovely read!”—Molly Knox Ostertag, author of the Witch Boy series
"Eloquently chronicled in Marcks’s cinematic panels, friendships are formed and repaired, parental relationships articulated, and inner conflicts expressed and resolved. A winning production." --Kirkus
When a Hollywood film crew arrives on Martha's Vineyard with a mechanical shark and a youth film contest boasting a huge cash prize, disgraced pitcher Gayle "Blue Streak" Briar sees a chance to turn a bad season into the best summer ever.
After recruiting aspiring cinematographer Elijah Jones and moody director Maddie Grey, Gayle and her crew set out to uncover the truth of the island's own phantom shark and win the prize money. But these unlikely friends are about to discover what happens when you turn your camera toward the bad things lurking below the surface.
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Pawcasso
by Remy Lai
The award-winning creator of Pie in the Sky makes her middle-grade graphic novel debut with a heartwarming and hilarious story about the unexpected friendship between a lonely 11-year-old girl and a basket-toting dog who goes grocery shopping on his own--perfect for fans of Best Friends and Wishtree.
Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she’s seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso’s owner.
Excited to make new friends, Jo reluctantly hides the truth and agrees to let "her" dog model for an art class the kids attend. What could go wrong? But what starts as a Chihuahua-sized lie quickly grows Great Dane-sized when animal control receives complaints about a dog roaming the streets off-leash. With Pawcasso’s freedom at stake, is Jo willing to spill the truth and risk her new friendships?
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