1. A long time staff favorite: If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
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2. The Tenant by Roland Topor, another staff favorite that we didn't even stock & the inspiration for the Roman Polanski film.
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3. This is one of my favorites, Apathy & Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan, now one of our local Richmond District authors. We have sold 491 copies of the paperback alone since it came out 2 years ago.
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5. Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region by Harold Gilliam: This is just a classic case of taking an everyday field guide but wording why you should read the book. "...few regions in the U.S. even require," "...why the weather here is so zany," "(it's also fun)".
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What are some of your favorite shelf-talkers? Which one's have helped you find that book you loved. (Two of mine that shelf-talkers in this store helped me findare now two of my favorite books, The History of Love & The End of Vandalism, I will recommend those books for the rest of my life.)
2 comments:
I can't recall a specific shelf-talker but I'm a big fan of them. It's all too easy to stick to authors I'm familiar with or to authors my college professors convinced me I need to read to be "well-read." Keep the shelf-talkers coming, especially ones that quote Queen Latifah.
Never said anything about eating any old damn shoe...
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