Dave

Dave

Dave began his books career as a library page in his Idahoan hometown. When he finished college in Bellingham, WA, he worked at Village Books before moving to Seattle and getting employed here. Rarely is he reading nothing. Memoir, more than most books, fill his bookshelf at home. People's stories fascinate him to no end, how we live, think, believe, interact, regret, etc. By the same stretch, he also reads his fair share of character-driven fiction and books about religion—with an admittedly heavy slant toward Christian traditions—as belief and the like seem to be vital elements in both. His favorite book is The Brothers Karamazov. Go figure. Dave's debut collection of poems, Contingency Plans, can be found in our Poetry section; and, if you have questions about our Religion, Education, Photography, or Gardening sections, there's a good chance he can point you to the right book.

Dave's Recommends

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780807004661
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Published: Beacon Press, 11/2011
The most redemptive book I've ever read.

$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780374528379
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 6/2002
One brother is a priest. One brother is an atheist. Another is a hedonist. And another is a secret. What happens when their scoundrel father is murdered becomes the most astounding epics of faith and hope and love I have ever read. This book is an experience. It kept me up late so, so many nights.

The Cloister Walk (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781573225847
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 4/1997
This book has EVERYTHING! History, poetry, memoir, prayers, feminism, confessions, saints, literature & criticism, dragons—oh yes! Dragons. Norris is a brilliant voice of our times, and this is a remarkable book. Simply my favorite.

$5.95
ISBN-13: 9780977055722
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Published: Microcosm Publishing, 11/2006
A funny, energetic, wild, off-beat guide I use every time I visit that capricious city. Makes for great armchair touring as well!

Bowie: A Biography (Paperback)

$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780307716996
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Published: Three Rivers Press, 10/2010
Everything I could want to know I learned from David Bowie. And Spitz’s keen journalism places the rock icon within a greater cultural context over a relentlessly fascinating half-century of increasing notoriety.

$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780143105848
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Published: Penguin Classics, 11/2009
Whom did you love first? That you still remember is exactly why this book is so sweet and sad and funny. Because, like Harry, we know. We get it.

$12.00
ISBN-13: 9781590513385
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Published: Other Press, 5/2010
Never have I read anything so warmly cathartic, so darkly funny, so wickedly sentimental. If it sounds contradictory; it is. How else do we experience our surest loves?

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594487736
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 10/2010
Face-blind since childhood, Sellers leads us through the twisty-turny life she's lived—a mother whose peculiarities turn sinister, father out of control, husband she can't recognize—to find she has been blind to so much more than faces. Wonderfully told, tragically true, a memoir coming to grips with family, self and perils of the mind.

Vestments (Hardcover)

$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781571310804
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Published: Milkweed Editions, 9/2010
A priest on hiatus tells the story of his raucous Irish-Catholic family and rough-around-the-edges faith—a rich portrait of love and devotion, bawdy, loud, and drunk. This novel is cut from strong, authentic, Midwestern fabric you can curl up with in the cold nights.