Friday, September 16, 2011

The Bird is the Word?




These just in! Audubon Birds with real bird calls!




(The product of a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and the Ornithology Lab at Cornell University).


Charming, wonderful, cute. These birds are a hoot! (Or some of them are anyway). And at $7.50 each, they cost just chicken feed.

Twenty different birds are currently nesting in a tree in the middle of the store. Come see. Binoculars not required...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Regulator's Top Ten Bestsellers September 1-15

1. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention will Transform the way We Live, Work, and Learn by Cathy Davidson.

2. Dark Tangos by Lewis Shiner.

3. Durham in Changing Light by John Zager.

4. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

5. Arguably by Christopher Hitchens.

6. Night Train by Clyde Edgerton

7. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

8. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin.

9. That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.

10. Just Kids by Patti Smith.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Rude and Douchey

We solidify our reputation as an intellectual bastion with two new arrivals:

-Rude Hand Gestures of the World, and

-The Rogers and Littleton Guide to America's Douchiest Colleges.

The Dukies are going to want to give some of the gestures from the first book to the authors of the second...