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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Gift-Worthy Ideas




Edward Curtis photographs are well known and widely reproduced, but this beautiful new hardcover edition with explanatory and historical text by Don Gubrandsen has the virtue of combining excellent reproductions with an extremely affordable price.



Edward S. Curtis: Visions of the First Americans
by Don Gulbrandsen
Hardcover, 256 pp/illustrated/index
$24.99



Another beautiful book capturing the life of the planet we love from outer space is Earth: Spirit of Place, featuring photographs from space by astronaut Chris Hadfield. This is earth, our beloved, threatened home planet, as you and I have never seen it. A book for artists and scientists, mom and pop and all the kids.



Earth: Spirit of Place
Softcover, 192pp
$35.00

There’s a two-year wait, I hear, for tickets to the see the musical version, but you can read the book now, and history buffs on your shopping list will be pleased to find it under the tree.

Alexander Hamilton,
by Ron Chernow
Paper, 817pp
$20



And last but hardly least, you may know Porter Abbott from his talks on narrative or his letters to the editor of the Enterprise, Record-Eagle, and Northern Express, but a new side of the scholarly academic is revealed in his new book of poetry and short fiction.

Falling Slowly Dreaming of Flight:
Poems and Stories
by H. Porter Abbott
Paper, 103pp
$18.85
(60% of price to be donated to Leelanau Township Library)








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