If You're Spooky and You Know It (Board Books)

Clapyour hands for thisspooky, Halloween-themed twiston the classic children's song"If You're Happy and You Know It"
"If you re spooky and you know it, "
"clap your hands "
"If you re spooky and you know it, "
"clap your hands "
"If you re spooky and you know it, "
"and you really want to show it "
"if you re spooky and you know it, "
"clap your hands "
The monsters in the bookall want to show how spooky they are Filled with spooky skeletons clapping hands, wicked witches stomping feet, hairy werewolves jumping up and down, sneaky vampires nodding heads, naughty mummies snapping fingers, and creepy frankensteins honking noses, little ones will love this frightful, Halloween-themed twist on the song If You re Happy and You Know It.

Cursed in Pennsylvania: Stories of the Damned in the Keystone State

Mark Nesbitt was a National Park Service Ranger/Historian for five years at Gettysburg before starting his own research and writing company. Since then he has published fourteen books including the national award-winning Ghosts of Gettysburg series. His stories have been seen on The History Channel, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, Unsolved Mysteries, and numerous regional television shows and heard on Coast to Coast AM, and regional radio. In 1994, he created the commercially successful Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours(r) and in 2006, the Ghosts of Fredericksburg Tours. Author Patty A. Wilson was born in America and lives in Central Pennsylvania with her three sons. She has been a writer for thirty years and has 19 books to her credit. She has written about diverse subjects including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and North Carolina history, folklore, the paranormal, farming, and cooking. She has appeared as an expert on various television shows including Mysterious Journeys and My Ghost Story. Patty enjoys people and loves working as a lecturer and tour guide in Central Pennsylvania. She hosts a blog on examiner.com and created The Ghost Research Foundation (ghostsrus.com). She truly enjoys discovering and sharing the more colorful side of history and the paranormal. Follow her on twitter at ghostladyofpa.

The longlist for this year's National Book Awards, and why YOU should be interested!

Hi, all! This is from Kasey... I hardly ever post to the blog any more, just as me, just my recommendations. But here it is, and I used a HUGE cheat list.

In my probably not-so-humble opinion, the National Book Awards are THE award list to look at for books. Looking for a new list of choices for book club? Look at the Nt'l Book Award nominees for the year. Looking for a new author? Check out who won the Nt'l Book Award over the past several years. Tired of what's touted on TV, or what's in the drugstore racks... feel the algorithms at Amazon just don't get you? Look no further.

The National Book Award nominees and winners are just the right balance -- beautifully written, with obvious talent, but not so ivory tower or hoity-toity that they aren't accessible to someone without a degree in literature.

I'd say more, but I'd rather you peruse the list. I suggest picking one title (or more, if you're ambitious) and trying to read it before the awards are announced November 16. I just happen to know a great little indie bookstore that will give you a great deal on any of these titles ;)


LONGLIST FINALISTS FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2016:
FICTION:
• Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
• Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
• Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)
• Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)
• Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
• Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)

NONFICTION:
• Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
• Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
• Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
• Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
• Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
• Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
• Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
• Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
• Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

POETRY:
• Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)
• Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)
• Donald Hall, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
• Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press)
• Jane Mead, World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books)
• Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)
• Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)
• Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A. Knopf)

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE:
• Kwame Alexander, Booked
• Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale
• John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist), March: Book Three
• Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver
• Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours
• Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn
• Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax
• Jason Reynolds, Ghost
• Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
• Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

Tractor Mac Farm Days (Board Books)

Tractor Mac wakes up eager to start the day. Plow, plant, scoop, mow--there's always a new chore for him and his animal and vehicle friends to do at the farm. When the day is done, he washes up and goes to bed, excited to see what the next day will bring.

About the Author

Billy Steers is an author, illustrator, and commercial pilot. In addition to the Tractor Mac series, he has worked on forty other children's books. Mr. Steers raised horses and sheep on the farm where he grew up in Connecticut. Married with three sons, he still lives in Connecticut.

One, Two... Boo!

The littlest trick-or-treaters can lift the flaps to count their way through a spooky old house . . . but they had better be prepared for a few surprises! With a die-cut cover, adorable illustrations, and a flap on every page, this sturdy little board book is the perfect Halloween gift for trick-or-treaters everywhere.

Ghosts

Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahia de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret: There are ghosts in Bahia de la Luna. Maya is determined to meet one, but Cat wants nothing to do with them. As the time of year when ghosts reunite with their loved ones approaches, Cat must figure out how to put aside her fears for her sister's sake -- and her own.
Raina Telgemeier has masterfully created a moving and insightful story about the power of family and friendship, and how it gives us the courage to do what we never thought possible.

Operation Ragnarok (Kobo eBook)

We are all just killing time, until time eventually kills us. We go through life knowing death is waiting, but not knowing what comes next. I don't have to wonder anymore, because I died.

The sages say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Mine started with just a single click. This is an epic tale full of danger, adventure, friends, and a wolf the size of a bull moose, and it all started on my living room couch.

Operation Ragnarok is a fantastical adventure with comedic elements about a group of gamers going through a mid-life crisis, instead of the little red corvette, they decide to steal a Viking longship from a museum. It's a story of friendship, sacrifice, and unleashing Hel on Earth...

Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror

What happens when idyllic small-towns, and the simple folk who inhabit them, collide with inexplicable evil borne of a vast and uncaring cosmos?

Imagine a series of stories set in a golden era of American life, where worldly troubles are regarded from a distance, if at all. Hear the buzz of playing cards clipped in children's spokes echo down quiet lanes. Smell the faint aroma of rich tobacco smoke from an old man's pipe on a shady boulevard. Listen to the gossip of small towns where everyone knows everyone's business. Or do they?

Sometimes, deadly secrets lurk out in the barn. Sometimes, unimaginable evil awaits us in the root cellar. Sometimes, we fall under the sway of the Shadows Over Main Street.

Contains stories and poems by: Gary Braunbeck, Nick Mamatas, Josh Malerman, Mary SanGiovanni, Tim Curran, Rena Mason, Lucy A. Snyder, Stephanie Wytovich, Kevin Lucia, Chesya Burke, Brian Hodge, James Chambers, Aaron Polson, T. Fox Dunham, Richard Thomas, Adrian Ludens, Cameron Suey, Lisa Morton, Jay Wilburn, and John Sunseri.

Foreword by Ramsey Campbell.
Cover art by Luke Spooner.
Interior illustrations from Paul Carrick, Vincent Chong, John Coulthart, Galen Dara and HagCult.

Independent We Stand, But Not Alone

You may have already read that From My Shelf Books & Gifts has been nominated for the Indie Awards sponsored by independentwestand.org. Only twenty five businesses will make the next round and we can't do it without your votes.

Voting to advance us to round two starts now! You can vote once a day per IP address, that means some of you can vote from home, from work, AND when you are drinking your latte in the coffee shop. Voting continues until November 13th. Then the top twenty five businesses will proceed to Round 2.

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Operation Ragnarok

We are all just killing time, until time eventually kills us. We go through life knowing death is waiting, but not knowing what comes next. I don't have to wonder anymore, because I died.

The sages say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Mine started with just a single click. This is an epic tale full of danger, adventure, friends, and a wolf the size of a bull moose, and it all started on my living room couch.

Operation Ragnarok is a fantastical adventure with comedic elements about a group of gamers going through a mid-life crisis, instead of the little red corvette, they decide to steal a Viking longship from a museum. It's a story of friendship, sacrifice, and unleashing Hel on Earth...