Annie's Book Stop of Worcester

The little bookstore that's bigger on the inside

  It’s the end of January at our little store that’s bigger on the inside, and we welcome you to our Monday Updates blog!         While we wait for the Caldicott medals to be awarded today, January 30, 2023, I thought I would post some of the children’s books that I would …

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    Biographies and Memoirs are very popular nowadays, and this little store that is bigger on the inside has a number of new (and older) biographies that run the gambit from funny and light-hearted to very heartwarming and tear-jerking.  It always is interesting to find out that some of your favorite celebrities actually came …

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  This week there are many non-fiction books being unpacked at Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester (as well as some Fiction books), but I thought that the non-fiction books needed to be given a bit of a plug. Included in this week’s selection. We have several humorous books, a few biographical (or autobiographical) books, a …

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    Hello, and welcome back after a nice holiday weekend, certainly weather wise here in Wormtown. Or Wootown. Or Worcester.   This week’s new arrivals (and next week’s arrivals marked with an *) are mainly different types of romances, with a few non-fiction books and a thriller thrown in for sport.   Let’s start …

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  The first new arrivals to don our shelves this week are some interesting genre books.   We have a thriller:   THE MATCH by Harlan Coben,   and a mystery:   GIVE UNTO OTHERS (A COMMISSARIO GUIDO BRUNETTI MYSTERY) by Donna Leon     Then for those of you who enjoy the TV series, …

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    This week there are two types of new books that are entering into our literary establishment – thrillers/mysteries and non-fiction books. I will start with the non-fiction, of which there are several different categories:   Biographies:   ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: MEMOIRS OF AN ATTORNEY GENERAL by William P. Barr and REBEL: …

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Here at our little bookstore that’s bigger on the inside, we used our time at the virtual booksellers trade shows this past September and October to look into bringing you more nonfiction titles, concentrating most on biographies and memoirs. We think you’ll find something for everyone amongst our selections this holiday season. First we have …

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      I am just kidding about what I said in the title – but it does give you a good idea as to what we have in store for you as our new arrivals come in this week. First, there are the Mysteries/Thrillers: CLIVE CUSSLER’S THE DEVIL’S SEA by Dirk Cussler, TOM CLANCY …

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    We have a very different mixture of books coming across our shelves this week. They include a few biographies, such as a Sports memoir, NO ONE WINS ALONE: A MEMOIR by Mark Messier and an Asian memoir, 1000 YEARS OF JOY AND SORROW by Ai Weiwei translated by Allan H. Barr. The next …

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    This week, new arrivals abound with tales of Hollywood celebrities, Tinseltown personalities you might be interested in. Two of them are involved with music, and their lives are chronicled for all to see. Those are in the biographies UNPROTECTED: A MEMOIR by Billy Porter (also a book of LGBTQ interest), and MADE IN …

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