Costco Connection - August 2009

August staff book picks

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Nonfiction

Ripley’s Believe It or Not!—Seeing Is Believing, from Ripley Publishing. They say seeing is believing, but even with photographic evidence staring back at me I found it hard to believe some of the over-the-top exploits, strange foods and incredible people featured in the 2009 edition of Ripley’s. Now celebrating its 90th year, Ripley’s still has no trouble finding bizarre candidates to fill its many chapters, which include “Strange but True” (skydiving Scrabble players), “Crazy Creatures” (a four-eared cat) and “Body Oddity” (Ice Man). Contortionists, eaters of cockroaches and a man who skateboarded 7,500 miles will have you asking yourself, do I believe this or …?

read to move to the top of your pile? F ans of Kellerman won’t be disappointe and neither will newcomers. I like way she tells the story primarily thro ^d—the ugh dialogue, which keeps the plot moving at a fast clip. In this Decker-Lazarus m tery, Lieutenant Peter Decker is force look into a cold case at a wealthy wo ^ys-d to man’s insistence. The body of a music p ro-ducer has turned up in the back of a

Mercedes. The wealthy woman is interested in this case, as her favorite teacher died a similar death 15 years earlier.

FRANCE FREEMAN

—Joshua Lilly

Inventory Control Specialist, Books

Juvenile

Costco book buyers’ picks are available in Costco warehouses and online at Costco.com.

—Wendi Wamboldt Assistant Book Buyer

Fiction

The Mercedes Coffin, by Faye Kellerman. Each year when August rolls around I start to panic. Between cookouts and baseball games, I can’t seem make a dent in my summer reading list. If that’s a familiar scenario, may I suggest The Mercedes Coffin as an action-packed must-

Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath, by Cornelia Funke. What I love about the Inkheart trilogy is that it addresses the question most (young) readers have often asked: What if the characters in this book could come to life? For 12-year-old Meggie the answer involves adventure, excitement and magic. Meggie’s father, Mo, who repairs and binds books for a living, can read fictional characters to life. The adventure starts in the first volume, Inkheart,

which was recently made into a movie, and continues through the series, leaving readers with the question of how much influence we have over our destinies. Also appealing is that this is a great father-daughter story as Meggie learns that she and her father have something in common when it comes to magic.

—Melissa McMeekin Assistant Book Buyer

Interactive learning at its finest ! Explore The Universe and journey to the edges of the unknown with the new DVD from New Video. Then, sit back and read along to favorite storybook classics that the whole family will cherish.

DVDs available early August

Double the learning fun withthenew Puzzle Doubleseries
from The Learning Journey. Each Puzzle Doublecombinesa
giant 2' X 3' beautifully illustrated
oor puzzle with another fun- lled
learning activity. Choose from games,
coloring activities, plus much more!
Four titles: Search & Learn Farm,
Find It! Dinosaurs,
Let’s Learn Animals ,
and Giant ABC & 123
Trains.
Puzzles and games
available early August

Incredible worlds to be discovered Get an in-depth look at when giants ruled in Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Life, and venture to the nal frontier in the newly updated Encyclopedia of Space. Take an incredible journey with Earth and marvel at the sky in Bird, then learn about mankind’s conquest of the skies in Flight and discover the animal kingdom in the Encyclopedia of Animals.