Thursday, June 28, 2012

Do Your Ears Hang Low Do They Wobble To and Fro?

Listen to Cuddle Barn's cute plush musical Elliot as he sings a children's favorite. 

Elliott from Cuddle Barn - $28

Cuddle Barn's Elliot



Come see our display of Cuddle Barn's latest items.  They make great gifts and are sure to bring a smile to everyone's face!



Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Romantic Debut Novel


An exquisitely romantic debut novel that captures the longing of lost--and sometimes found--love.

It is the mid-1960s in a small seaside town in Croatia. Two children, Luka and Dora, meet on their first day of kindergarten. Luka faints the first time he sees Dora and she wakes him with a kiss. The two become inseparable. Over the next few years, they wander the shores of their town, lying on their special rock by the sea as Luka paints--until Dora's parents move to Paris. Bereft, Luka becomes a solitary young man, prey to the needs of his family, but a promising painter. In Paris, Dora blossoms and becomes a successful actress.

When Luka comes to Paris for a show of his paintings, a chance encounter brings them together. Now adults, they fall back in love, and their feelings are given resonance by a shared adoration of Pablo Neruda. Timing and fate, however, seem determined to keep them apart.

Like The Solitude of Prime Numbers and One Day, Natasa Dragnic's Every Day, Every Hour is a haunting tale of star-crossed love that will utterly entrance readers with the rhythmic beauty of its language and ineffable air of expectation and heartache.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Memoir by the wife of Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch


Dream New Dreams - Jai Pausch

A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer.

"Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife."" "Jai knows that she'll have to give herself permission to make herself a priority."

In Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch shares her own story for the first time: her emotional journey from wife and mother to full-time caregiver, shuttling between her three young children and Randy's bedside as he sought treatment far from home; and then to widow and single parent, fighting to preserve a sense of stability for her family, while coping with her own grief and the challenges of running a household without a partner.

Monday, June 25, 2012

I Gotta Draw!



Charlie Muttnik is the pup with the pencil, the mutt with the marker, the dog with the drawing pad, the chap with the chalk! He draws all the time.

But when Charlie doodles all over his homework, there's trouble at school. It's only when his strict teacher, Miss Rich, tries something new that both realize Charlie can be a great artist at school and at home.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Readin' and 'Rithmetic on Fridays at Burry's

On Fridays at 10 am rising 1st and 2nd graders can come brush up on a variety of skills to prepare for the new school year in the fall.  Rising 3rd and 4th graders will meet at 11 am. 

Here is a new book from American Girls that ties right in with our Friday morning sessions, and boys, don't worry, we  have books you will enjoy too!



Girls can move to the head of the class with math puzzles to help them pass! Packed with all kinds of puzzles and problems geared toward the stylish girl, this book gives girls creative ways to add, subtract, multiply, and divide their way to a good time. Girls are invited to join in the fun as Isabel and her friends from Innerstar University give their math skills an arithmetic makeover. Plus, this book includes a special access code for even more skill-building activities online.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

We've all been waiting for Karen White's new book Sea Change

Sea Change by Karen White hit the shelves on Tuesday.



Follow this link to watch a trailer about the book

For as long as she can remember, Ava Whalen has struggled with a sense of not belonging, and now, at thirty-five, she still feels stymied by her family. Then she meets child psychologist Matthew Frazier and thinks her days of loneliness are behind her. After a whirlwind romance, they impulsively elope, and Ava moves to Matthew's ancestral home on St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia.

But after the initial excitement, Ava is surprised to discover that true happiness continues to elude her. There is much she doesn't know about Matthew, including the mysterious circumstances surrounding his first wife's death. And her new home seems to hold as many mysteries and secrets as her new husband. Feeling adrift, Ava throws herself into uncovering Matthew's family history and that of the island, not realizing that she has a connection of her own to this place--or that her obsession with the past could very well destroy her future.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Cuddle Barn Birthday Bear


We've just gotten in some new Cuddle Barn items.

Follow this link to hear the birthday bear

"May your birthday be as bright as the candle on my cupcake!"


Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Maryann McFadden Author Luncheon Wednesday, June 13th

On Wednesday, June 13th, Burry Bookstore and Black Creek Arts Council
are co-hosting an author luncheon featuring Maryann McFadden



Maryann is on tour with her new novel The Book Lover



Pre-registration is required and is $27

Pre-registration includes a copy of The Book Lover, lunch catered by Bizzell's Food and Spirits, and the opportunity to hear Maryann speak, read, answer questions, and have her sign copies of her book