Category Archives: Pelican’s Picks

Everything Christmas!  Everything 50 percent discount starting Monday December 18th. The more we have not sold the more we need to return.  I would rather our friends get the deal.

If our beautiful weather continues we should have a terrific week at the beach!  It has been spring!  Gorgeous days to stroll on the sand and enjoy the calm winter water. Still time to pick up that perfect book for a gift or your enjoyment. Clancy, Cornwell, or King, we have them all.  Come in for a great recommendation!

Looking for that hard to buy for niece or nephew?  “39 clues” Vespers series has released the second in that series.  The new movie based on “Hunger Games” is due out soon,  read the book first!  This is a great book for 12 to adult.  If you have a youngster just ready to read try Usbourne’s series of phonic readers such as “Fox on a Box”  or “Pig on a Dig”.

Tom Clancys new thriller will be out Tuesday “Locked On” and just released a new novel by Patricia Cornwell “Red Mist” both would make great Christmas presents!  Remember hardback best sellers are discounted 20 percent.

The Pelican elves tell me the Christmas cards will go on sale the 17th at 40 percent off.  We have just received many cards that say Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach.

Start a new tradition in your family.  Read the “Christmas Jars” then start saving those coins!  A truly great example of giving at Christmas!

For the history buffs  “Catherine the Great” by Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Massie” or “1861: The Civil War awakening” by Adam Goodheart. Both good choices!

We are very excited about Marybeth Whalen’s new book out this summer, this time set on Ocean Isle Beach.  We are starting to plan a fun event  for the launch! Also, new out this month is a local author Tom Rieber’s murder-mystery novel “The Devil’s Parody,” stop by the store and check it out!

Everyone is getting ready for the holidays!  It’s cooling down a bit, perfect weather for shelling and bird watching.  We have guides for both.  Makes a walk an adventure!

Patterson’s new book “Kill Alex Cross” is a good read.  He is the sole author and it reads like his best effort. Really enjoyed it.

I have “V is for Vengeance” on my nightstand, it’s next.  Sue Grafton rarely disappoints.Stop in we have a few Thanksgiving cards left!!

We have been receiving great reviews on Stephen King’s new book.  The name of the books is “11/22/63”. Yes, strange name but look who we’re talking about.  The book is about a young man traveling back in time to change the Kennedy Assassination, but with Mr. Kings’ unique twist.

For the kids, out this week is the next book in the Wimpy Kid Series “Cabin Fever”,  a lot of anticipation on this one. Paolini fans will be reading the 4th book in the Inheritance Cycle Series “Inheritance”. Both due out this week!

And congratulations to Rich Ceratto who was elected as the new Mayor of Sunset Beach.

#1 on the best seller list this week is Nicholas Spark’s ‘The Best Of Me”.    It is right up there with his “Message on a Bottle”. We are also reading John Grisham.  His new ‘The Litigators” does not disappoint.

Exciting news in our area!! It has been announced that the new “Ironman” movie will be filmed in Wilmington in 2012.

Karen Whites new book “The strangers on Montagu Street, # 3 in the Tradd Street Mysteries,  will be on the shelf on Tuesday always a local favorite.  And for all you Danielle Steele fans “Hotel Vindome” is right there too. Nora Roberts is introducing a new trilogy the first is out this week, “Next Always”. The first in the “Inn Boonsboro Trilogy”. David Baldacci has just releasedhis  latest with a new character, an Army Special Agent named John Puller.

So many books so little time. Don’t forget Holden Beach’s Festival by the sea Oct 29th & 30th. Arts and Crafts vendors are open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sat. and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sun. There will be music, food and all kinds of fun!

Oyster Festival is this weekend.  We’re looking forward to beautiful weather, and a large crowd.  Stop by and visit with some of our local writers.  One of my favorite stops is Sea Grove Pottery.

While you’re in the area swing by the bookstore and check out the new releases.  Paula Deen’s “Southern Cooking Bible” Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Lincoln” and Jeffrey Eugenides “The Marriage Plot”.

Young adult writer Rick Riordan’s new series “ Son of Neptune” is enjoying a place at the top of the charts.

Don’t forget to check out our Halloween cards!

We all mourn the loss of Steve Jobs, his great innovations have truly changed our world. His biography , which the author Walter Isaacson has been working on for the past 2 years will be available November 21.  We will be taking preorders starting October 21^st.

There’s a new book for the kids by the author of, “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake”  the new book is titled, “If You Give a Dog a Donut.”