Let’s Bring Back
Inspired by Ms. Blume’s popular, longstanding Huffington Post column by the same name, Chronicle Books released Let’s Bring Back as a book on November 1, 2010.
A sophisticated, stylish cultural encyclopedia of nostalgia, Let’s Bring Back celebrates forgotten-yet-delightful objects, curiosities, pastimes, fashions, words, landmarks, and personalities from bygone eras.
Let’s Bring Back transports its readers from the golden age of Hollywood to the bacchanals of ancient Rome to the elaborately-coiffed and martini-filled New York City of the 1960s. This is a world of monocles and parasols; luxurious train travel and gilded airline cabins; decadent feasts, pet cheetahs, and zeppelins.
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It Happened Here
What do Salvador Dali, Alfred Hitchcock, and Diana Vreeland have in common? They all created, reveled, and rebelled at the St. Regis in New York City. It Happened Here - a convivial, social, and artistic history of old New York, as seen through the prism of one of its grandest hotels.
The inaugural volume of the Thornwillow Libretto Library—a new literary series that takes inspiration from the early works of Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, The Yellow Book magazine, and the early days of The New Yorker—It Happened Here will be joined by future works by other exciting writers and creators.
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Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties
Perhaps you think that fairies are figments of the imagination, or relics of an ancient past.
You may even think all fairies are lovely winged creatures who dance in bluebell fields, granting wishes to anyone who encounters them.
Your would be wrong on all counts.
Once you’ve read Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties, you will never see the world around you in the same way again.
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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Eleven-year-old Cornelia S. Englehard lives in New York City and is the daughter of world-famous concert pianists. Her legacy should feel fabulous, but instead it feels just plain lonely.
In a world where privacy is as rare as diamonds, Cornelia isolates herself inside a fortress of books full of long and complicated words. But when a glamorous writer named Virginia Somerset moves next door with her servant Patel and her mischevious French bulldog, Cornelia discovers that the world is a much more exciting place than she had originally thoughts.
With a cast of unforgettable characters - from the ghost of King Arthur to Pablo Picasso to Virgina’s three winsome and irrepressible sisters - and deliciously imaginative storytelling that takes the reader around the world and back again, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters is a magical story of friendship and adventure.
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The Rising Star of Rusty Nail
Time drags in Rusty Nail and nothing ever seems to happen. Once it was the exciting American Coot capital of the world, but in 1953, it’s just a sleepy backwater farm town with one dusty traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters.
Franny has lived there all her life: ten whole years. On the surface, she seems like a regular girl. She goes to school, throws water balloons at her neighbors, and watches space movies at Hauser’s Movie Palace like everyone else. Her dad is an accountant who always forgets to take off his green eyeshade and her mother is the worst cook in town.
But one day, a mysterious Russian woman arrives in town, turns the town upside-down, and changes Franny’s life forever.
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Tennyson
It’s 1932, The Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere.
Fresh eggs are a luxury. Diamonds are a dream from another world. On the banks of the Mississippi River, Tennyson Fontaine and her sister, Hattie, play endless games of hide-and-seek and make up fantastical stories about the latest adventures of their wild dog, Jos.
But when their mother doesn’t come home and their father sets off to find her, the sisters are whisked away to Aigredoux, once one of the grandest houses in Louisiana, now a vine-covered ruin.
Their caretaker, Aunt Henrietta, becomes convinced that she can use the girls to save the family’s failing fortunes. But then Tennyson discovers the truth about Aigredoux, the secrets that have remained locked deep within its decaying walls.
Caught in a strange web of time and history, Tennyson comes up with a plan to bring Aigredoux’s past to light. Will it bring her mother home and her family back together?”
Called “Brilliant, unusual writing” by the Chicago Tribune, Tennyson is a heart-breakingly evocative story, steeped in Southern lore, about one girl’s struggle to come to terms with her family’s dark past.
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