David is Bay Books' buyer. "I've always loved to read," says David. "When I was a kid, I'd read in the car at night by holding the book so it got illuminated by the flash of the streetlights passing by. If it was a book that just carried me away, I'd stay up all night until I finished it. I still do that..." David likes all sorts of books, especially ones that are strange, quirky, and intense. Here's a few of his favorites.
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$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780679761044
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Published: Vintage, 1/1996
This is the most beautiful and painful novel I have ever read. Told from a distance, the novel gives us a modern Japanese version of Romeo and Juliet. This is the best book in the store.
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781400077809
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Published: Vintage, 11/2004
A book of remarkable beauty and intelligence. Lightman imagines Albert Einstein's dreams of other physical universes where different natural laws hold sway. The prose style takes on the character of these imaginary worlds, and then we realize that the worlds Einstein dreams are inside us, are the ways we have of looking at our own world. A brilliant book.
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780061238826
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Published: Harper Perennial, 8/2007
A love-song to an island! Adam Nicolson tells us everything about the Shiant Isles, an island group in the Hebrides that he owns: the geology, the flora and fauna, the archaeology, the history, and the sheer lovely beauty of it all. What a wonderful book!
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781439130094
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Published: Free Press, 2/2011
A beautiful and moving exploration of the state of mind brought on by a fatal cancer. Kugel connects his own new-found sense of his own smallness amid a strange stark world to the religious consciousness of ancient humanity. Along the way we get fascinating reflections on the Bible, cathedral architecture, Boethius, scientific explanations for religion, and much more. A compelling work of great learning and wisdom.
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781594930355
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Bella Books, 7/2005
A classic of LGBT fiction, beautifully written, with acute insight into human relationships, social conventions, and mid-fifties America. Written in a time when unconventional love was severely ostracized, Rule's novel is refreshingly optimistic and romantic.
$10.00
ISBN-13: 9780316078917
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Published: Back Bay Books, 10/2010
This book is funny! This book is very funny! After reading this book you will never be able to think about Christmas without laughing out loud. Just one more word...Funny!
David is Bay Books' buyer. "I've always loved to read," says David. "When I was a kid, I'd read in the car at night by holding the book so it got illuminated by the flash of the streetlights passing by. If it was a book that just carried me away, I'd stay up all night until I finished it. I still do that..." David likes all sorts of books, especially ones that are strange, quirky, and intense. Here's a few of his favorites.
