BUOY BATS!!!!
We are pleased to announce that we are now carrying Buoy Bats!
Buoy Bats are handmade in Maine from real foam fishing buoys and hardwood handles. Played like baseball, stick ball, or wiffle ball, Buoy Bat is perfect for the beach, backyard, or playground and wicked easy to hit because of the oversized sweetspot.
Beautiful Spring…finally!
Our long winter has been rewarded!
A beautiful day on the Cape, many happy visitors enjoying the weather, flowers and of course, books!
Author Joanna Rakoff coming to Sandwich Public Library
On Wednesday, May 13 at 7 p.m. Sandwich Public Library, author Joanna Rakoff will be talking about her memoir My Salinger Year (in paperback May 12), Titcomb’s is sponsoring the event and will have books available for purchase.
Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century.
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Rakoff is tasked with answering Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency’s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back. Over the course of the year, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger’s, on her own dangerous and liberating terms.
Author Kirsten Valdez Quade reading at Titcomb’s Bookshop!
Kirstin Valdez Quade has received a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation as well as the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the 2013 Narrative Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and is currently the Nicholas Delbanco Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. 
New socks!
Check out some of the new designs just in today!
The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Facing Adversity.
What a wonderful project author Daniel Handler has begun!
The award was created by Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, the author of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and also a character in the 13-book series. As a character, he is hounded by his enemies and suffers considerable adversity. Handler created the award “to remind readers everywhere of the joyous importance of librarians and the trouble that is all too frequently unleashed upon them.”
http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2014/07/lower_9th_ward_librarian_wins.html
Lemony Snicket!!!
“At a time when certain corporate booksellers are locking horns and wounding authors, it is swell to align myself this summer with Titcomb’s, who have always been nice when I stop by unexpectedly, demand obscure poetry volumes, and use the bathroom without asking.”
We are honored and excited to have been chosen as the sole source of autographed Lemony Snicket books this summer!
Ordering information for autographed books:
http://www.titcombsbookshop.com/signed-copies
Summer on Cape Cod!
Can’t beat summer at Titcomb’s Bookshop! We are fully stocked with books, games and toys, including great beach toys and more for those active summer days! Check out our website for upcoming author events.
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