I loved reading about the exhibit featuring interactions of animals and humans<\/a> that curator Carla Drummond<\/a> built from the very varied holdings of the Morgan Library. Okay, it\u2019s a stretch, but I remembered my long ago librarian days in a tiny, newly tax-supported library outside Chicago with mostly donated books, making \u201cthemed\u201d book displays which sometimes provoked great comments. (Looking through my \u201cGood and Evil\u201d book display, a local priest noted that Morris L. West\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Advocate<\/strong> did not belong, as it was about sanctity, a very different concept.) And now, RB\u00a0 bookseller days building personalized gift-book lists are not so different. Each has an idea, options, and likeliest best choice.<\/p>\n No more ropes and buoys on a dock nearby; summer is winding down.<\/p><\/div>\n Now, as promised, RB summer book sales about sailing included the following:<\/p>\n McKinlay, Jenn. Due or Die<\/strong> (well, the library is in a coastal New England village and includes boat rides) How I mostly know it’s fall:\u00a0 The sun comes up later and angles differently through the maple trees up the hill.\u00a0 The moored sailboats are even fewer.\u00a0 The school bus picks up the several kids who live on or near Barter’s Point Road. The Monitor heater comes on each night, I’ve worn a sweater the last two days, and my family was here to enjoy the German-American-Seafood Cooking at the Happy Clam, the\u00a0 (some nights) biker bar next to the bakery behind Roseledge.\u00a0 Yum.\u00a0 And the berries are done.\u00a0 But the sumac is still green or no longer in the ditches, the blue asters are few and the maples I see have no red leaves.\u00a0 And two nights from now, I will be in Minneapolis, where today it was 90 degrees above.\u00a0 I’ll leave my sweaters here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a perfect day, I shouted. \u201cToday is worth a howl,\u201d neighbor Fred said, and he howled down Sea Street on his way to get a paper at the General Store. \u201cMy daughter wants to stop by and get her … Continue reading ![\"IMG_1799.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-g6LsoHAXfe4\/TVH5wNILjJI\/AAAAAAAAC6E\/s3AYw-pRULM\/h480\/IMG_1799.jpg\")
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\nWolff, Geoffrey. Hard Way Around<\/strong> (Joshua Slocum biography)
\nBergreen, Lawrence. Over the Edge of the World <\/strong>(Magellan\u2018s round-the-world trip)
\nMowat, Farley. Bay of Spirits<\/strong>
\nMowat, Claire. Outport People<\/strong>
\nO\u2019Hanlon, Redmund. Trawler<\/strong>
\nHorwitz, Tony. Voyage Long and Strange<\/strong>
\nNorman, Howard. The Bird Artist<\/strong>
\nCarson, Rachel. Under the Sea Wind<\/strong> (evokes \u201cspecial mystery and beauty of shore and open sea\u201c)
\nGreenlaw, Linda. Seaworthy<\/strong>
\nMarryat, Frederick. The Phantom Ship<\/strong>
\nAlexander, Caroline. The Bounty: True Story of Mutiny on Bounty<\/strong>
\nHenderson, Bruce. Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard the USS Polaris
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