Welcome to Byrd’s Books!
Byrd’s Books is a general bookstore that carries only new titles, with a special focus on Bethel authors, Connecticut authors, poets, publishers and illustrators. Additionally, we carry greeting cards, gifts, take special orders and offer gift cards. We will have exciting author events throughout the year, often on Sunday afternoons at 1:00 p.m. in the Upstairs Gallery across the hall from the bookstore. Events are posted regularly on the … [Read More...]
Jerry Brooker Author Event
Byrd's Books is excited to host local author Jerry Brooker on Sunday, May 20th at 1:00 p.m. He will be discussing his new book There's a Fortune Cookie In My Turtle Soup and there will be a presentation to go with it! Since space is limited, registration is recommended. To reserve a spot, call Byrd's Books at (203) 730-2973 or email at events@ByrdsBooks.com. … [Read More...]
The Uninvited Guests
By Sadie Jones One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor – and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate … [Read More...]
There’s a Fortune Cookie In My Turtle Soup
By Gerard Brooker I could see it on the front page of the Hohhot News tomorrow: American Man Shot and Killed at Bus Station. The only detail we have now is that the murder appears to be one of jealousy. The alleged murderer has escaped, and the young woman at the scene appeared to be delirious. More details tomorrow. Fiction. On Sunday, May 20th, Byrd's Books will be hosting an author event with Gerard Brooker featuring this book! Click … [Read More...]
Featured INDIE Bestsellers
Mole Had Everything
By Jamison Odone Mole is happy and fulfilled by his simple life and limited possessions ("one bed, one pillow, one shelf for books, one cup for tea") till a friend "who has everything" persuades him that he doesn't have nearly enough. And so he … [Read More...]
Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale
By Lynda Rutledge On the last day of the millennium, sassy Faith Bass Darling, the richest old lady in Bass, Texas, decides to have a garage sale. With help from a couple of neighborhood boys, Faith lugs her priceless Louis XV elephant clock, … [Read More...]
Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them
By Frank Langella Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying … [Read More...]
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems
By Gail Carson Levine This Is Just to Say If you're looking for a nice happy book put this one down and run away quickly Forgive me sweetness and good cheer are boring Inspired by William Carlos Williams's famous poem “This Is Just to Say,” Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine delivers a wickedly funny collection of her own false apology poems, imagining how tricksters really … [Read More...]
Sisters of Glass
Maria is the younger daughter of an esteemed family on the island of Murano, the traditional home for Venetian glassmakers. Though she longs to be a glassblower herself, glassblowing is not for daughters–that is her brother's work. Maria has only one duty to perform for her family: before her father died, he insisted that she be married into the nobility, even though her older sister, Giovanna, … [Read More...]
Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings
By Douglas Florian With 14 funny, fact-filled poems and paintings, Florian explores the natural history of some of the world's most unloved critters: bees. The poems detail the unexpected wonders of these bugs' lifestyles, families, and communities, revealing them to be an important part of the ecosystem. … [Read More...]
Oceana
By Ted Danson Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe – the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the complete collapse of the world's … [Read More...]
Lives of the Novelists
By John Sutherland No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction – from gothic, penny … [Read More...]
To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes
By Francis Slakey A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spirit. Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey set out to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships were little more than ways to fill the evenings. But as his journey veered … [Read More...]