DDG will be 25 this year! One idea I had to mark the occasion was to pick one book of the year for each of our 25 years from 1991-2015. It’s a…
In Janet Taylor’s Into The Dim, when 21st century lead character Hope Walton enters 12th-century London, she reflects that “My mom was a renowned historian … Reviewers wrote how Sarah Walton’s lectures…
Our Valentine for Blobfish contest, in which local school librarians read Jess Keating’s stellar non-fiction book Pink is For Blobfish to K-4 classes and then have students write Blobfish a Valentine, was…
Pax, Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, has the rare quality of isolating its subject to the point of making the story a living portal for its readers. The story’s motion is rendered in…
A new Year walks among us now and she has graciously offered to provide her insights into what lays ahead in this exclusive interview! Kenny: Thank you indeed for taking the time…
It is time. Time, I mean, to announce the Seventh Annual DDG Stocking Stuffer of the Year Awards! The superb quality of the contenders demanded a worthy judge, one who could assess the…
As the holiday season draws near there are a crush of responsibilities that clamor for attention at the bookstore. One of them is the production of the Holiday 20; our picks of…
FARMINGTON – Mallett School’s Prime Time Reading, aka Jammie Night, is my favorite event of the year. Obviously. After all it has some of the best ingredients an event could have: a…
By Kenny Brechner Chapter One – Will This Be The Year? Every year someone on my staff, Eldridge, makes the same promise to me. He avows that if I staff the Downtown…
Given that Alice Cooper’s pronouncement that “school’s out for summer, school’s out forever” is only true for a month or so it is past time for Back to School table displays to…