Sarah "SK"

SK is a junior at Middlebury College and a member of its championship field hockey team. When not in-season, SK enjoys her hours at VBS amongst the books, our customers, and her fellow booksellers. 

Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick By Shelby Van Pelt Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063204157
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Published: Ecco - May 3rd, 2022

This is a heartwarming story about finding things you thought were lost forever in places you'd never expect. Van Pelt artfully combines endearing characters (both human and non-human) and a family mystery with the everyday challenges of what it means to be young and what it means to grow old. It's a book you won't be able to put down, and by the end you'll have learned to never doubt the power of connection, across generations, distance or species, and against the myriad odds and obstacles life brings.


My Cousin Rachel By Daphne du Maurier Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781402217098
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Published: Sourcebooks Landmark - March 1st, 2009

This is a timeless, simmering exploration of the mental havoc wrought by suspicion, the power of youthful infatuation, deceit, and the futile quest to decipher good from evil in the people we love most. Du Maurier's writing takes you back to another world of estates, inheritances, rolling countryside and raucous banquet halls, and through it all she weaves a compelling thread of mystery and dread that kept me up reading night after night.


The Book of Goose: A Novel By Yiyun Li Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250872418
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Published: Picador - August 8th, 2023

This was an incredibly touching read about the bittersweetness and enduring love of long-lost childhood friendships and about the power of imagination. Featuring vivid, original characters and intimate interpersonal dynamics, this was a challenging and all-consuming read, the implications of which I'll be grappling with for a long time. This book is at once unsettling and comforting, reminiscent of a true coming of age and the accompanying contemplation of what it means to transition from a world of youthful dreams and imagination to one of stark adult reality.


Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier By Daphne du Maurier, Patrick McGrath (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Daphne du Maurier, Patrick McGrath (Introduction by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781590172889
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Published: NYRB Classics - October 28th, 2008

Every story pulls you in in completely unexpected ways, and resolves in even more shocking ones. I have never encountered a Daphne Du Maurier story that disappoints. I read most of her books and story collections in less than a week, simply because I can't put them down, and this one is no exception


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The Maidens: A Novel By Alex Michaelides Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250304469
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Published: Celadon Books - May 24th, 2022

No book has kept me quite as close to the edge of my seat as this one. The Maidens combines the best elements of a great murder mystery, a mythic tragedy and a psychological thriller all set against the backdrop of classic dark academia. Like Silent Patient, this is one of those books you wish you could read again for the first time, and one that you need to reread knowing what you know by the end. No one writes a plot or a plot twist quite like Michaelides.


Jackie & Me By Louis Bayard Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643753898
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Published: Algonquin Books - June 13th, 2023

You've heard of Jackie O and JFK, Camelot, the golden age of American politics, but I bet you've never heard of Lem Billings, the architect of their relationship. Jack's college best friend, an adopted member of the Kennedy clan and a closeted gay man, is instructed by Jack and the Kennedys to get close to Jacqueline Bouvier, a confident, independent career woman determined not to become a housewife. As Lem and Jacqueline become close friends, Lem must weigh the Kennedy's expectations against Jacqueline's own hopes for her life. Looking back, did he do the right thing? Louis Bayard's characters are well-researched and dynamic as always in this reflective tale about the origins one of the most famous couples in America. 


I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel By Rebecca Makkai Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593490143
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Published: Viking - February 21st, 2023

A stunning, perspective changing mystery - a must read for women particularly in the wake of the Me Too movement.  


Homecoming: A Novel By Kate Morton Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780063020894
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Published: Mariner Books - April 4th, 2023

This is a slow-burning mystery pieced together artfully by Morton's world-weary protagonist. The struggling investigative reporter returns home to South Australia and her sick grandmother's estate, only to stumble upon a decades-old story of tragic loss, hidden from her by the grandmother who raised her. With compelling characters and plotlines that span generations, this book will keep you reading until you discover what really happened on Christmas Eve 1959. 


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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: A Novel By Roshani Chokshi Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063206502
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Published: William Morrow - February 14th, 2023

Chokshi weaves an enticing world that walks the line between the real and the superstitious in the same way her characters do. Indigo is a woman who keeps secrets from everyone in her life - even her new groom. But her otherworldly mirage begins to unravel when the newlyweds return to Indigo's childhood home together. This book has all the elements of a great gothic novel, and I just couldn't put it down!


The Silent Patient By Alex Michaelides Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250301703
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Published: Celadon Books - May 4th, 2021

This gripping saga straddles the realms of psychological thriller and murder mystery. A passionate criminal psychotherapist fights to get his traumatized patient to speak about the brutal murder that silenced her, as she silently fights her way through her memories to the truth - a truth no one could have suspected. This book has twists and turns unlike anything I've read before


How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future By Maria Ressa Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063257511
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Published: Harper - November 29th, 2022

In a world overrun with fake news and social media propaganda, Maria Ressa founded Rappler, an online newspaper in the Philippines dedicated to reporting the facts. She has faced death threats, jailtime and direct attacks from government officials in her fight for reliable reporting, but she stands by her beliefs in her country's right to the truth. This is her compelling life story


Rules of Civility: A Novel By Amor Towles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780143121169
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Published: Penguin Books - June 26th, 2012

This is a book I return to again and again and I get something new with each reading. Like all of Towles' books, this one is packed with meaning and inhabited by vivid characters that you'll miss when the book is over. It reads like a modern, more down-to-earth Gatsby, and explores the relationships between three characters who, meeting by chance, are forever linked by friendship and tragedy.


The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel By Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385341004
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - May 5th, 2009

This is a beautiful, unforgettable, unique story of the importance of human connection and shared experience during good times and bad. Told through correspondence between a successful author trying to create a meaningful piece of work, and a resident of the formerly Nazi-occupied British island Guernsey, this is the story of the ways people come together to create joy and support one another even at the most difficult of times. 


Still Life By Sarah Winman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593330760
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - September 13th, 2022

This is a beautifully-written story about strangers that become family, and about the strength of friendship in the face of disasters and decisions that complicate life in unforeseen ways. Winman's vivid scenery and endearing characters feel so real that I actually missed them when I stopped reading, and I couldn't wait to dive back into the beautiful Tuscan countryside that her characters call home.


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The Elegance of the Hedgehog By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator) Cover Image
By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator)
$17.00
ISBN: 9781933372600
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Published: Europa Editions - September 2nd, 2008

Rebecca    T By Daphne Du Maurier Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780380730407
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - November 1st, 1997

It's no mystery why this suspenseful, eerie story continues to capture the attention of readers and viewers almost a hundred years after it's publication. Du Maurier's poetic prose and the tightly-guarded secrets of the narrator's haunted new groom keep you reading until you learn what happened to his beautiful former bride in his family home, Manderley, and why they can never go back there again...


The Dutch House: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Summer Beach Read By Ann Patchett Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780062963680
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Published: Harper Perennial - January 5th, 2021

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) By Donna Tartt Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780316055444
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Published: Back Bay Books - April 7th, 2015

The Secret History (Vintage Contemporaries) By Donna Tartt Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781400031702
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Published: Vintage - April 13th, 2004

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The Night Circus By Erin Morgenstern Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307744432
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Published: Anchor - July 3rd, 2012

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1) By Ransom Riggs Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781594746031
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Published: Quirk Books - June 4th, 2013

The Mysterious Benedict Society By Trenton Lee Stewart, Carson Ellis (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Trenton Lee Stewart, Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
$9.99
ISBN: 9780316003957
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - April 1st, 2008

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