Buyer’s Choice
Copperfield’s Book Buyers review thousands of new books each season and have selected the following two as truly standouts!
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A Curious Earth Retired art teacher Aldous Jones is so paralyzed by the death of his wife that his potatoes are sending shoots out of his cupboard and he couldn't care less. But an unexpected encounter in the National Gallery with Rembrandt's sensual portrait of his late-in-life mistress, Hendrijcke Stoffels, breaks the spell and sends his life off in unexpected directions. It is during these unpredictably comic and at times pathetic wanderings that we become allied to his struggle, an eminently likeable and suddenly fearless man simultaneously trying to feed his passions and manage the jumble of art and sex and love he stirs up. A Curious Earth is a worthy successor to Woodward's award-winning last novel, I'll Go to Bed at Noon. by Ty Wilson, Frontlist Book Buyer |
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Tennyson Ages: 9-12 This book was spellbinding. It is imbued with a yearning and heat that has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with a deep sense of loss. The Young girl who surpasses her mother even as she attempts to win her back seems almost to mirror that fateful, fatal love-hate relationship between master and slave born of centuries of slavery in the American South which she witnesses through a deep psychic connection to her crumbling family estate. by Marci Johnson Children's Book Buyer and Events Coordinator |
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People of the Book The Sarajevo Haggadah is one of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illustrated with images, and has remarkably survived centuries of wars––thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks has turned the history of this precious volume into a novel full of fascinating people, intrigue and religious detail. It is meaningful, heartfelt and moving. Everything a great book should be. by Michele Bellah Remainders/Great Finds Buyer |
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The Black Book of Secrets Ages: 9-12 This book brings the reader instantly into the protagonist's darkest hour, so that the rest of the book is spent in a rapt reading of all of the adventures precipitated by that one last straw. This Dickensian tale centers around the protagonist, young Ludlow Fitch, and his employer, Joe Zabbidou; tall, limping, wildly gray-haired and mysterious but with a certain warmth and twinkle about him. Mr. Zabbidou is a pawn broker of secrets. The story unfolds as Joe Zabbidou enters a new town, sets up shop and becomes the new center of attention and secret late-night visits from the town's people as they unload their guilty secrets. Once the fruit of Zabbidou's energies come to bear, the reader will surely feel satisfied in having found an utterly fascinating and original tale sure to fulfill most reader's appetites for something new and exciting. by Marci Johnson, Children’s Book Buyer and Events Coordinator |
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