The BOOKMARK in Dolega

December 10, 2007

Arrivals for Holiday gift time

In time for the holidays, several tropical gardening books have just come in. They make beautiful, but practical, gifts for gardening friends
A Neotropical Companion…we have three copies…it’s an absolute MUST for anyone here who considers him/herself a naturalist
Several SuDoKu books, keep your wits and brains active through this trying month of festivities.
The new Lonely Planet Panama (2007) has just come in, updated and issued in late November 2007. Grab your working copy now.
Best of all, ALL our Christmas books, novels, craft books, decorating, tree trimming, party planning, carols etc. etc ( an entire table full) are on sale at 30% discount.
The Gift Table. Suggestions, from art books to collectible cook books, rare Panama books, sports, Orchids, even an orchid kit, something sure to appeal to the discriminating gift buyer.
We will close December 25, so are planning to open on Monday, December 24, for last-minute shopping. Enjoy safe and sane Holidays.
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November 24, 2007

New Arrivals
Actually, topping the list are some old arrivals, being held for a customer who shall remain nameless (unless you ask me, of course), having presented me with the problem of finding books by West African writers, particularly Nigerian. The nine titles, which I purchased some months ago and am tired of holding onto, and prices are as follows:
Ben Okri (winner of 1991 Booker Prize) The Famished Road $8.00; Wole Soyinka (1986 Nobel Laureate) Death and the King’s Horseman A Play $8.00; Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning $10.00; Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation $7.50 (Iweala is actually American born); Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart $6.50; Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Petals of Blood 9.00; Aminatta Forma: Ancestor Stones $12.00 and The Devil That Danced on Water $8.00. Also African Writing Today, an old copy from my Canal Zone collection $5.00
To complete the list this week, newly arrived books include:
1. Brian & Wilma Rittershausen: Orchids: A Practical Handbook, 256 pages crammed with photos, information, and descriptions, all you will ever need to know about raising orchids (well, maybe not “all”)
2. The World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids, at twenty-five dollars, an elegant coffee table source book for cultivated orchids.
3. John Vanderplank: Passion Flowers. Next to Passiflora, the best source book on Passion Flowers and their propagation. Illustrated, and with a great bibliography
4. Ted Jordan Meredith: Bamboo for Gardens,everything you wanted to know to start a private bamboo estate, farm, garden, forest, whatever. Very nice book, though pricey.
5. The Yale Carol Book, facsimile of the 1941 traditional song book, with 35 carols (ALL verses) and music. Available at $4.00
6. Whoever the person was who wanted me to buy Norman Zollinger books…okay, I have two; Riders to Cibola and Corey Lane, hardcover Americana. at $8 each.
7. Martin Rix: Subtropical and Dry Climate Plants, a beautiful yet very practical working book. A great gift for gardeners. $40.00
8. Hubba Hubba, Cindy Cody’s new “alternate history” of Bocas del Toro; if only life would follow art. Special holiday price $13.50 paperback
9. Lots of David McCullough books, Truman, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between, etc…..
That’s it, for this week. Ho Ho Ho Give Books
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November 17, 2007

A reminder to crafters…holidays are approaching fast, and we have every conceivable craft book, from mosaics to book-making to quilting to building birdhouses to dried flower arrangements, to…well you should get the idea. Get moving, time’s a wasting!

New arrivals. This week, some gift suggestions for younger readers.

1.Christopher Paolini: Aragon and The Eldest (boxed set) the first two volumes of the prolific teenager’s fantasy epic

2. C.S.Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia, seven volumes (boxed set)

3.Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials trilogy, three volumes, including The Golden Compass (boxed set)

4. The Complete Nonsense Books of Edward Lear (One volume)

5. The Complete Encyclopedia of Terrarium (reptiles, insects, amphibians and spiders…the works)

6. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Little House Christmas

7. Longfellow: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (illustrated by Jeffrey Thompson)

8. Nancy Wilson Parker: Locks, Crocs, and Skeeters The Story of the Panama Canal

9. Norman Rockwell’s Christmas Book, filled with ALL the Christmas favorites, lavishly illustrated by Rockwell. Includes 32 pages of carols(words AND music)

10.Turk Pipkin: Be a Clown The Complete Guide to Instant Clowning

The great Health and Wealth Sale (50% off) ends tomorrow, the 18th. ‘Tis a pity if you miss it; you are guaranteed healthy riches for life

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November 10, 2007

For Panama buffs, I should just mention that I have some copies of Red White and Blue Paradise, By Herbert and Mary Knapp, the famous recollections of the Canal Zone in its heyday. a rare book and collectors’ item. Also, A very rare first edition (Sudworth 1911) of Old Panama and Castilla del Oro, a beautiful gilt edge volume, nicely illustrated..it’s a steal at 135 dollars. Other new arrivals include the following:

1. Liesel Litzenburger: The Widower

2. Karl Taro Greenfeld: The China Syndrome{ The True Story of the 21st Century’s First Great Epidemic

3. A Pursuit of Snakes & Other Reptiles: The Herpetological Library of Adrian Crane (the 2007 catalogue, a real collection for snake lovers)

4. Nan Roche: The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches for Jewelry Making

5. Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat Pray Love

6. Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point

7. Paulo Coelho: The Zahir

8. Isabel Allende: Ines of My Soul

9. Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today

10.Peter Hoffmann: Tomorrow’s Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet

Just a note…these are, except for the Knapp book, single copies. SO, if it’s gone when you get here, it’s gone.

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Recent arrivals at the Book Mark. We will provide you a weekly list of some of our latest acquisitions, for you reading enjoyment

1. Kevin Trudeau: The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want you to Know About

2. Jodi Picoult: The Tenth Circle

3. Tim Dorsey: The Big Bamboo

4. Ken Bruen: The Dramatist

5. Stephen Hunter: American Gunfight The Plot to Kill Harry Truman

6. David Mitchell: Black Swan Green

7. Robert Sheer: Playing President

8. Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth

9. Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

10.Anna Politkovskaya: Putin’s Russia

November 1, 2007