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News from The Studios of Key West

May 23, 2019
by Robin Wood

Big things are happening at The Studios of Key West, the arts organization that Books & Books @ The Studios is part of. We are moving our artists residences into the neighboring building on Eaton Street and construction is well underway for our new rooftop terrace, Hugh’s View.

Hugh’s View will take advantage of our building’s three-story height and offer fabulous views of Key West.

Additionally, The Studios has purchased the neighboring historic guesthouse at 529 Eaton Street, and will use the new space for its month-long artist residencies. The move from the artist residences on Ashe Street increases the residency space and puts the artists in the thick of everything happening at The Studios. Through the residency program, The Studios hosts writers, musicians, actors, painters, photographers and other artists, enhancing the Keys dynamic, creative community.

Interested in learning more about The Studios’ programs? Visit tskw.org.

 

 

Pre-Order Colson Whitehead’s New Novel, THE NICKEL BOYS

May 5, 2019
by Robin Wood

Pre-Order a Signed First Edition of the new novel THE NICKEL BOYS (out July 16th) by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead.

Supplies of signed copies will be extremely limited. While supplies last, customers who pre-order will also receive an exclusive bookmark. Online orders ship free. First come, first served.

Order online at https://shop.booksandbookskw.com/book/9780385537070

 

Cheers to Our Volunteers!

May 5, 2019
by Robin Wood

Thanks to all of our wonderful volunteers. We had a great high season and we are grateful for all of your help, at events, keeping the store looking beautiful and neat, helping customers find their #nextfavoriteread.

For those of you headed up north, have a wonderful summer, we’ll see you in the fall.

Volunteers supplement our booksellers’ work, aiding in both retail and back office activities. This extraordinarily well-read group also give us a much wider sense of what’s worth reading by sharing insights and recommendations.

We are always looking for new volunteers, so if you’re interested, introduce yourself next time you’re visiting the store and we’ll tell you how it works.

Get your copy of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid

October 22, 2018
by Robin Wood

Dylan Thuras, co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid, will be on hand for a presentation and book signing at Horace O’Bryant School on Nov. 15. A New York Times bestseller, The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid by Dylan Thuras, with co-author Rosemary Mosco and illustrator Joy Ang is a fun, educational book showcasing the world’s wonders. Order your student’s copy online and we’ll deliver it the day of the event.

“This unique atlas impresses the interconnectedness of the world upon readers,
stoking their sense of respect, wonder, and opportunity.” — Booklist, Starred Review

A follow-up to the runaway success of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders, this new middle-grade book is a stunning, full-color illustrated journey to 100 real destinations in 47 countries on every continent. Fun extras like a handy packing list, a world map, obscure facts, GPS coordinates, and useful travel advice are also sprinkled throughout the text. With each turn of the page, readers embark on a worldwide daisy chain voyage between common points of interest.

Order The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid for your HOB student and get 20% off. To order online, follow this link: Buy the book and in the order comments, include “HOB event purchase for [student’s name].” We will apply the 20% discount before charging your card.

Choose “in-store pickup” for your method of delivery, but books ordered online for this event will be delivered to the school on the day of the event.

Books can also be purchased the day of the event by cash or check (local checks only), while supplies last. Cash price $17.00. Please write checks for the exact amount of $17.16 and make them out to Books & Books @ The Studios. Please include a phone number on the check.

Fill out this form to reserve a copy of the book for pick-up and payment on the day of the event.

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Dylan Thuras will also be featured at the bookstore in an all-ages presentation, Nov. 15 at 6pm. Bring the whole family and join us for a fun journey through the world’s hidden treasures. Event details at: Atlas Obscura, Nov. 15.

Please contact robin@tskw.org with any questions.

The Only Story – Julian Barnes

April 17, 2018
by George Cooper

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness, and deep truth.

Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there’s only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine.

One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is also a warm companion, their bond immediate. And they soon, inevitably, are lovers. Clinging to each other as though their lives depend on it, they then set up house in London to escape his parents and the abusive Mr. Mcleod.

Decades later, Paul looks back at how they fell in love, how he freed Susan from a sterile marriage, and how–gradually, relentlessly–everything fell apart, and he found himself struggling to understand the intricacy and depth of the human heart. It’s a piercing account of helpless devotion, and of how memory can confound us and fail us and surprise us (sometimes all at once), of how, as Paul puts it, “first love fixes a life forever.

Art Book Extravaganza!

February 10, 2018
by George Cooper

Wait until you see this!

The Liman Gallery and Bookshop in Palm Beach, Florida recently closed the doors of its book department and donated tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of large format art books to Books & Books @ The Studios.On February 25, for one day only, the Sanger Gallery will be transformed into a bookstore, and hundreds of titles originally selected and curated by a professional art historian will be available for purchase, including many first editions and collectibles, all deeply discounted.

(*If you’d like to get exclusive early access to the collection at 11am, click here  to pre-purchase a $25 voucher.)
Early bird admission for voucher buyers at 11:00am. General admission at 1:00pm.

It’s a feast for the eyes…and a bonanza for buyers! Louise Bourgeois, Picasso, Beardsley. Beautifully illustrated collections about visual artists — Bonnard, Lautrec, Chagall, O’Keefe and many others. Profusely illustrated catalogs from major auctions, all available at a small fraction of the Liman Gallery prices. Some as low as $5. These are new books, but in some cases less than mint because of customer handling.

Want to be sure you get first access to the collection? Pre-buy a $25 voucher applicable to your purchases, and you’ll be allowed in to the sale at 11am – two full hours before the doors open to the general public. All proceeds go directly to support Books & Books @ The Studios.

Voucher holders will be limited to 100 and be admitted in order of their time/date of purchase.
Dealer purchases limited until 1pm.

11am – *Doors open to voucher holders.
1pm – Doors open to the general public.(*If you’d like to get exclusive early access to the collection at 11am, click here  to pre-purchase a $25 voucher.)

Beautiful Days – Joyce Carol Oates

February 6, 2018
by George Cooper

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning “Undocumented Alien”

The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance.

“Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results.

In “Big Burnt,” set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage.

In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior–until the hour when they do not.