Liz's Picks

Our Glenview operation's (known as The BookMarket at Hangar One) store manager and avid book-person, Liz has eclectic tastes. A little bit of everything is how we would describe Liz's interests. 

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris (Hardcover)

By David King
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780307452894
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown, 9/2011
A mild-mannered physician by day, Marcel Petiot spent his nights hacking up at least 27 victims and possibly dozens more. He was finally brought to justice by the dedicated Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu of the Homicide Squad. What makes this story particularly unsettling is that Petiot committed his ugly crimes in Nazi-occupied Paris. Sounds like something Erik Larson would write—and like an entirely absorbing read. - Library Journal

The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for the New Yorker (Paperback)

By Matthew Diffee, Robert Mankoff
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780761165781
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Workman Publishing, 10/2011
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Diffee brings together some of "The New Yorker"'s brightest talents--Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and others--and reveals their other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side. Their sick side. Their naughty side. Their outrageous side. And what a treat.

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)

By Anna Funder
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780062077325
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial, 9/2011
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterward the two Germanys reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder's bestselling "Stasiland" brings us extraordinary tales of real lives in the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who tried to escape to West Berlin as a sixteen-year-old; hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her baby by the Berlin Wall; and gets drunk with the legendary "Mik Jegger of the East," once declared by the authorities--to his face--"no longer to exist." And she meets the Stasi men themselves, still proud of their surveillance methods. Funder's powerful account of that brutal world has become a contemporary classic.

Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel (Paperback)

By Lynda Barry
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780684838465
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster, 10/2000
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Roberta Rohbeson begins her book in 1971, in what starts out as a drug-fueled teenage rant that gradually fades into the story of two cross-country trips she made with her father five years earlier -- a story she has kept to herself since she was found wandering the desert covered with blood. Illustrations.

My Beastly Book of Twisted Tales: 150 Ways to Doodle, Scribble, Color and Draw (Paperback)

By Berengere Delaporte
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781926973005
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Owlkids Books, 7/2011
More Brothers Grimm than Disney, "My Beastly Book of Twisted Tales" is filled with over 150 doodle and scribble activities to give budding young artists hours of fun. Like the other, best-selling titles in the series, "My Beastly Book of Twisted Tales" aims to push kids' latent illustrative creativity into curious new directions by presenting them with silly scenarios and open-ended instructions.
The twisted takes on childhood favorites are delightfully mischievous and endless. Kids will dirty Cinderella's ball gown, fill Hansel and Gretel's mouths with rotten teeth after they snack on the witch's gingerbread house, give a sunbathing Snow White a sunburn, decide what ingredients will go into their own magic potion, and more. After all, not all fairy tales have to end happily-ever-after!
The wide variety of activities -- from drawing and coloring to cut-outs and more -- help kids build confidence in their artistic skills and inspire their minds. Instructions are clear and concise, but still give kids plenty of reason to make use of their active imaginations. Illustrator Berengere Delaporte's loose, fantastical style sets up each impish scenario perfectly and encourages kids to respond to each page in a spontaneous and natural way. - iPage
 
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