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How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) Cover Image

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? (Hardcover)

By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
$17.09

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, those titans of whimsy, teamed up to produce an absolutely charming exploration of Santa's relationship with chimneys. The book's deadpan tone and marvelous illustrations convey a magic and wonder made more touching and enduring by being handled so seriously.    

 


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Starling House By Alix E. Harrow Cover Image

Starling House (Hardcover)

By Alix E. Harrow
$26.09

There are many reasons to read Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House, for it is both resoundingly entertaining and profound. The psychological underpinnings of haunted houses and cursed communities are dealt with powerfully without veering into allegory. The book’s monsters are tethered to forces that strongly echo within and surprising narrative choices will keep the reader on their literary toes.

 


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Maine Home Cooking: 175 Recipes from Down East Kitchens By Sandra Oliver Cover Image

Maine Home Cooking: 175 Recipes from Down East Kitchens (Paperback)

By Sandra Oliver
$33.26

Food historian Sandra Oliver, has produced a terrific new cookbook which is based on submissions sent to her by readers of her Bangor Daily News column "Taste Buds." Oliver selected the recipes, arranged them thematically, and then added the history behind the food. Fine photographs complete this truly exceptional book.

 


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Lost But Found: An Upcountry Life By Robert Kimber Cover Image

Lost But Found: An Upcountry Life (Hardcover)

By Robert Kimber
$24.26

No local writer embodies the experience of living in central Maine quite like Bob Kimber. His wry, self-effacing depth, his warmth, his kind, yet penetrating humanity, and his elegant style are everywhere evident in this fine retrospective. Lost But Found makes fresh our own familiar landscapes through Bob’s skilled and knowing writing.

 


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The Magicians By Blexbolex, Karin Snelson (Translator) Cover Image

The Magicians (Paperback)

By Blexbolex, Karin Snelson (Translator)
$31.46

The Magicians is a unique illustrated tale. Even its design and paper are unexampled!  Translated from the French, this story of magic and adventure offers a depth and scope of beguiling strangeness, rewarding vistas and narrative landscapes.   Stop by the store and explore this one for yourself!

 


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I Must Be Dreaming By Roz Chast Cover Image

I Must Be Dreaming (Hardcover)

By Roz Chast
$25.19

Comic artist Roz Chast is at her best in I Must Be Dreaming!  This exploration of the somnolent landscape is filled with Chast's humor, insight, and imagination.  Will reading this book affect your own dreams? It's so worth finding out!

 


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In Every Life By Marla Frazee, Marla Frazee (Illustrator) Cover Image

In Every Life (Hardcover)

By Marla Frazee, Marla Frazee (Illustrator)
$17.09

In Every Life is a singular treat!  The structure is a universal idea written above a group of illustrations, followed by a breathtaking, unifying illustrative spread.  It seems impossible for this idea to be entirely new, but in my many years of picture book buying I have not seen it before. The freedom accorded to readers of all ages is magnified by the impact of the images gathered together and then reimagined as singular. Truly it must be held in hand to be appreciated.

 


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The Last Ranger: A novel By Peter Heller Cover Image

The Last Ranger: A novel (Hardcover)

By Peter Heller
$24.30

The Last Ranger by Peter Heller is a stand-alone novel set in Yellowstone National Park. Heller—as readers of his previous books such as The Guide, The River, and The Dog Stars are aware—combines engrossing wilderness survival narratives with exceptionally appealing characters. His books engage the heart. The Last Ranger is filled with unexpected moral nuance and a deeply likeable lead character. I believe it is his finest novel since The Dog Stars and a great starting point to experience this terrific writer.

 


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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean By Susan Casey Cover Image

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Hardcover)

By Susan Casey
$28.80

Susan Casey, author of that highly-engaging exploration of giant waves, aptly named The Wave, returns to the sea in fine form with The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean. Casey's skill at arranging multiple narratives around a single subject is employed to great effect in her, umm, immersive new exploration of a fascinating topic.Susan Casey, author of that highly-engaging exploration of giant waves, aptly named The Wave, returns to the sea in fine form with The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean. Casey's skill at arranging multiple narratives around a single subject is employed to great effect in her, umm, immersive new exploration of a fascinating topic.

 


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The Probability of Everything By Sarah Everett Cover Image

The Probability of Everything (Hardcover)

By Sarah Everett
$17.99

You'll never find a book harder to discuss without spoilers than The Probability of Everything.  But here goes:  It makes brilliant and novel use of an unreliable narrator, who is also insightful and resilient.  By tightly maintaining focus on this extraordinary young narrator, the story extends from the personal to the cultural and communal. This is a rare, exceptional and memorable story.

 


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Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas By Matt Tavares, Matt Tavares (Illustrator) Cover Image

Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas (Hardcover)

By Matt Tavares, Matt Tavares (Illustrator)
$16.19

Award-winning Maine author-illustrator Matt Tavares follows up his beloved holiday picture book, Dasher, with an equally sumptuous and moving sequel: Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas. If you love Dasher, don’t wait to, umm, dash in to get your hands on this sequel.


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Ten-Word Tiny Tales: To Inspire and Unsettle By Joseph Coelho, Various (Illustrator) Cover Image

Ten-Word Tiny Tales: To Inspire and Unsettle (Hardcover)

By Joseph Coelho, Various (Illustrator)
$17.09

This book is pure genius. It is also a fantastic writing and illustrating prompt! Author Joseph Coelho crafted ten tiny tales, each one being a ten-word story. Here are three examples: 1.  "Invite me in," she says outside my tenth-story window. 2. The second giant came crashing out of the white cliffs. 3. We buried her on Wednesday, again on Thursday, and Friday. The author then challenged his children's book illustrator friends to render each tiny tale in a single illustration. Readers cannot help but be inspired to write and illustrate their own. What could be more fun? 


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Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide By Rupert Holmes Cover Image

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide (Hardcover)

By Rupert Holmes
$25.20

This book will delight anyone who enjoys a good helping of farce or dark humor. Reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh, Murder Your Employer spins a tale rooted in the literary and cultural norms of the era in which it is set, the 1950's, and yet it is subtly imbued with a more modern moral compass and sense of power dynamics. A source of great pleasure, Murder Your Employer is in fact not in the least bit dangerous. Why, I've noticed that two of my booksellers have been reading it avidly and nothing untoward has ensu... (Meg and Isabelle here. Unfortunately, Kenny was unable to finish writing this summary due to some exquisitely foreseen circumstances.)

 


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The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels By Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illustrator) Cover Image

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels (Hardcover)

By Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illustrator)
$16.19

The Swifts is one of those rare and unlooked for manifestations, a wholly original middle grade novel, that will be enjoyed by word lovers of all ages!  If you yearn for something novel in your novels, you will be very glad for The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels.  The story is built around a family for whom words and etymology are a determining force of character, except that young Shenanigan Swift will have none of it.

 


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Curious Tides (The Drowned Gods Duology) By Pascale Lacelle Cover Image

Curious Tides (The Drowned Gods Duology) (Hardcover)

By Pascale Lacelle
$19.79

Curious Tides is a terrific story with intricate plotting, an atmosphere steeped in dangerous possibility, and dark academia at its best. And then there are the tides. Untethered from their traditional role as a regular and rhythmic force, the inscrutable tides make this a story whose narrative pulses with the magic it describes.

 


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Very Good Hats By Emma Straub, Blanca Gómez (Illustrator) Cover Image

Very Good Hats (Hardcover)

By Emma Straub, Blanca Gómez (Illustrator)
$17.09

This illustrated children’s book by an acclaimed novelist, appears to effortlessly traverse an often fraught transition between writing adult fiction and writing children’s picture books!   Novelist Emma Straub serves up an absolutely delightful book for children that is happy in every sense of the word.  Come have a look -  it is a perfect holiday gift. 

 


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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens By David Mitchell Cover Image

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (Hardcover)

By David Mitchell
$29.25

How much fun is the history of British monarchs in David Mitchell's witty and incisive hands? Edifying and entertaining,  Unruly is an absolute treasure, and the perfect gift for anyone inclined to appreciate history and all the peculiar foibles attendant on ordained power. 

 


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I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel By Rebecca Makkai Cover Image

I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Makkai
$25.20

Yes, Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You has all the best qualities of an immersive literary thriller, untangling a long-past boarding school murder replete with professors, podcasters, and overlooked suspects.  Yet, what carries this book beyond its well-crafted characters and gripping plot is the murky undercurrent of questions that it poses. How does imperfect memory guide the hand of the present? What is the instinct that lures us towards tragedy, the impulse to insert ourselves into the story, how far will we go to satiate our hunger for resolution? The echoes of this book ring out long after the final page. (meg)

 


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I Will Read to You: A Story About Books, Bedtime, and Monsters By Gideon Sterer, Charles Santoso (Illustrator) Cover Image

I Will Read to You: A Story About Books, Bedtime, and Monsters (Hardcover)

By Gideon Sterer, Charles Santoso (Illustrator)
$17.09

This tale of a young boy who seeks out the monsters in the forest to read them a bedtime story is an enchantment. Charles Santoso's superb illustrations dynamically complement Gideon Sterer's vibrant text. I Will Read to You wonderfully captures the joys of shared reading, making it a sweet irony that young readers will want to have it read to them over and over (and over) again."

 


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The Lost Library By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass Cover Image

The Lost Library (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass
$16.19

Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead—the creators of Bob, that wonderful novel for young readers—  have teamed up again!  Their latest, The Lost Library, is another tale of surprise, wonder, imagination, and growth.  When a little free library appears out of nowhere, its books open up a mystery that eleven -year-old Evan is drawn into solving. Brimming with warmth and discovery, The Lost Library is a book that every child will love finding themselves in this holiday season! 

 


DDG's Weekly Top 2 Newsletter Picks - 15% Off During Their Week of Glory

  • The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel (Molly the Maid #2) By Nita Prose Cover Image
  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2024 By Sarah Janssen Cover Image
  • Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #5): From the Creator of Dog Man By Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Blaze Me a Sun: A Novel About a Crime By Christoffer Carlsson, Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translated by) Cover Image
  • Lungfish: A Novel By Meghan Gilliss Cover Image
  • Food, Hope & Resilience: Authentic Recipes and Remarkable Stories from Holocaust Survivors (American Palate) By June Hersh, Daniel Boulud (Foreword by) Cover Image

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DDG's Pre-Order Spotlight

  • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War By Erik Larson Cover Image
  • The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook By Hampton Sides Cover Image
  • Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire #2) By Jay Kristoff, Bon Orthwick (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow #2) By Xiran Jay Zhao Cover Image
  • The Familiar By Leigh Bardugo Cover Image
  • The Hunter: A Novel By Tana French Cover Image

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Fiction Favorites

  • All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries By Martha Wells Cover Image
  • The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos) By Samantha Shannon Cover Image
  • Mickey7: A Novel By Edward Ashton Cover Image
  • Mirrorland: A Novel By Carole Johnstone Cover Image
  • She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor Duology #1) By Shelley Parker-Chan Cover Image
  • Never Saw Me Coming By Vera Kurian Cover Image

Non-Fiction Favorites

  • On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War By Hampton Sides Cover Image
  • Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest By Carl Hoffman Cover Image
  • Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II By Robert Kurson Cover Image
  • Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See By Robert Kurson Cover Image
  • The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean By Susan Casey Cover Image
  • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette By Hampton Sides Cover Image

Picture Book Favorites

  • Everything Will Be OK By Anna Dewdney, Judy Schachner (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Let's Do Everything and Nothing By Julia Kuo, Julia Kuo (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Donut: The Unicorn Who Wants to Fly By Laura Gehl, Andrea Zuill (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Gladys the Magic Chicken By Adam Rubin, Adam Rex (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Grumpy Monkey By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors By Drew Daywalt, Adam Rex (Illustrator) Cover Image

Middle Grade Favorites

  • The Mad Wolf's Daughter By Diane Magras Cover Image
  • Small Spaces (Small Spaces Quartet #1) By Katherine Arden Cover Image
  • The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery By P. G. Bell Cover Image
  • Skulduggery Pleasant By Derek Landy Cover Image
  • The Lost Property Office (Section 13 #1) By James R. Hannibal Cover Image
  • Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow By Jessica Townsend Cover Image

Young Adult Favorites

  • The Prison Healer By Lynette Noni Cover Image
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    Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) By Kristin Cashore Cover Image
  • As Many Nows as I Can Get By Shana Youngdahl Cover Image
  • This is Not the End By Chandler Baker Cover Image
  • How to Build a Heart By Maria Padian Cover Image
  • Three Things I Know Are True By Betty Culley Cover Image

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