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Stephen and I are busy processing book orders for online home delivery and in-store orders for curbside pick-up. We are in the store Tuesday through Saturday from 10-4 . Call us if you need help with an order, need suggestions or want to check store stock.

It's still National Poetry Month- so we have added a couple of our Connecticut poets' work at the bottom. We love poetry.

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Books That Inspire
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The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations.
I n the book Cross Country, Gates documents this epic experience from South Carolina to San Francisco, sharing  first-person essays, interviews, and over 200 photographs  of the ordinary and extraordinary people and places he saw along the way.

While Gates delivers unparalleled insight into the extreme athletic and mental challenge of this transcontinental run, running is not the core focus of Cross Country—it is a story of the remarkable people across the United States who we would otherwise never meet.
By exploring the nature of wonder in many areas of human experience, from the natural world to the spirit world, from science to storytelling, Francesco Dimitri reveals how we can reclaim our sense of wonder—not to become children again, but to become happier and more fulfilled adults, better equipped to face the challenges of modern life.
New For Kids in the Store
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New in paperback
New in paperback
THIS IS FREE from Candlewick Press
Coronavirus – A Book for Children
“ An elegant, effective work. Download this now, read it immediately, share it with everyone you know.”
 —  School Library Journal  (starred review)
This informative and accessible guide for young readers defines the coronavirus, explains why everyday routines have been disrupted, and lays out how everyone can do their part to help. With child-appropriate answers and explanations, the book addresses several key questions. Download HERE
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A Poem or Two for National Poetry Month
by Connecticut Poets
OLD by Jack Powers

A thousand yawns from now
when I am a bent question mark
and the children are busy living

and a push of a buzzer
summons the night nurse,
I will drag my oxygen tank trolley

resistant like a leashed mutt
across sticky linoleum
to peek between drawn blinds

and squint to find Orion,
the Big Dipper and Polaris
and remember a beach in Rhodes

where stars littered the sky
like luminescent river stones
so close

we could pluck them
from the heavens,
offer them to each other

and the universe
seemed – like our lives –
to roll on forever.

We had few questions
and the sky seemed full
of answers, some hurtling
like arrows into the future.
Essays Agains Ruin by Brian Clements
At first you will be guilty of mistakes,
long drives to Afton or Redbud,
fits of house-cleaning, the use of second person.

You may walk across the room and feel responsible
for the weather, fire, the contempt your friends hold you in.
There is no end to this essay against ruin.

You will try to realize how to live
when you can only live a few years.
Try to tell a few secrets:

Here is your life and here is a beehive.
Here is the river, here is an engine.
You on the jetty, you on the way home.

Something to hold, something to lose.
Form is emptiness, emptiness form.
Now. Write what you know.
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