Talisman Books & Gallery

Talisman Books & Gallery Pender Island's source for books (new and used), pottery, gifts and original fine art.

06/04/2026

Take a trip, through a book 📚❤️. Love Chris’s words here 🤗Repost- this applies to movies as well

06/03/2026

The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger is in our used book section. It is a book you will never forget. Repost: “No one can take away what you’ve put in your own mind.”

Our dearest Edie passed away in April 27th at the age of 98.

We recently came upon this never-before-seen video of her, and it is pure Edie.

If her story moves you, please carry it forward:

📚Read her books - The Choice, The Gift and The Ballerina of Auschwitz

🌐 support her legacy at edithegerfoundation.com

06/03/2026

We Need Your Art is waiting for you in our art section 📚❤️ Repost In an era where tech can replicate almost anything, the “human mess” is the only thing that can’t be manufactured.

Amie McNee’s TED talk hits hard on this: art isn’t just about the final,

https://youtu.be/2XZ9z6OewR0?si=svfBNURtKH2kcB2t




06/03/2026

Both books are in the shop I loved News From Dublin and would tell you to READ IT NOW! Repost This week, Colm Toibin gives a New to You rec so good, Ann offers him a job on the spot. Get your copy of Mansfield Park at the link in stories!

06/03/2026

Repost Ann Patchett’s new book, “Whistler,” has a cover that may be deceiving 🐎

Find this on our bestseller wall! ❤️📚 A New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller!Everyone’s favorite let...
06/02/2026

Find this on our bestseller wall! ❤️📚 A New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller!

Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.

After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t know.

Including human children. Ugh.

This may well call for... eye contact!

(Emotion check: Oh, for f—). Martha Wells
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Fiction / Science Fiction - Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences / Science Fiction - Action & Adventure / Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery

New release 📚❤️ In this new collection, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong...
06/02/2026

New release 📚❤️ In this new collection, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are “among the best of his career” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

“A welcome return to form for the much-awarded and much-loved humorist…Sedaris remains a national treasure.” —Kirkus (starred review)

In The Land and Its People, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. A ambivalent Duolingo bot becomes his unlikely confidante as he attempts to describe his family in a foreign language. Ever adding to his list of “Countries I Have Been To,” he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest’s cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.

Time takes its toll: scrolling through his address book, he counts those he couldn’t bear to outlive, and realizes how many are already gone. He is bitten by a dog and insulted by a wee train passenger. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn’t. It’s easy to agree with the lady waving a sign that reads, “Enough Is Enough.” And yet, life holds much to delight in: the massive testicles of a ram, a trip abroad with his sisters, a really excellent reptile video, a pair of well-made cotton underpants.

Throughout these essays—at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound—Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.Essays

Publisher:
Humor / Form - Essays / Topic - Adult
Family & Relationships / Siblings

Repost• Happy New Release Tuesday! Today is stacked with amazing books, including three TBL Spring selections that will...
06/02/2026

Repost• Happy New Release Tuesday! Today is stacked with amazing books, including three TBL Spring selections that will transport you to places around the world, from Ireland to New York. If you’ve been waiting for a heavy-hitter to captivate you with its prose, you’re in luck this week!:

About Land:
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by The Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one.

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?

About The Typing Lady:
In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story, exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention, and the unsparing clarity of old age. With her distinctive blend of wit, warmth, and deep humanity, she brings us twelve richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds—grappling with faded ideals, evolving identities, and the inevitable compromises that shape a life.

About Whistler:
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than a year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

06/02/2026

Releases June 2nd! 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴, 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯, 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵.

Maggie O’Farrell launches her new novel, Land, live at Hay Festival 2026.

Thanks to and my granddaughter and I listened to the is gripping novel ❤️. It held both of our attention all the way t...
06/02/2026

Thanks to and my granddaughter and I listened to the is gripping novel ❤️. It held both of our attention all the way through. Lessons on relationships, self worth, fear and courage without ever being preachy or lame. We would both highly recommend it ❤️🐺A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Oregon Book Award Winner

“Sure to help readers reflect on where and how they fit into the world. Highly ­recommended.”—School Library Journal

“Another winner from a proven author.”—Booklist

The stand-alone companion to Rosanne Parry’s New York Times bestseller A Wolf Called Wander tells the story of a wolf named Warm. Warm is not the strongest or biggest in his pack, but when he needs it most, he finds within himself the heart of a true leader. This Voice of the Wilderness novel is an animal survival story illustrated in black and white throughout. Features educational back matter, including a map.

Warm is the smallest pup, the one his father calls the heart of the pack. But all Warm sees is his bigger brothers Sharp and Swift, even his sisters Pounce and Wag, winning all the wrestling matches. Warm finds his place in the pack helping take care of the young pups, a role he is assured is important, but doesn’t always feel like it is.

When enemy wolves attack, the pack is forced to defend themselves. Instead of joining the fight, Warm leads the pups away to safety, only to find himself alone on the mountain with four helpless pups. His pack has scattered. The pups are his responsibility now. Fearful and uncertain, Warm and the pups climb higher and higher into the mountains. Their journey is grueling, lonely, and full of danger, and they face hunger, storms, fire, and enemy wolves nipping at their heels. Will Warm have the courage to be the leader his pack needs when the fiercest enemy of all comes to challenge him? Will Warm and the pups ever find a place to call home?Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño
Publisher: HarperCollins
Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure - Survival Stories / Animals - Wolves, Coyotes & Wild Dogs / Science & Nature
Ages 8-12

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