Handselling

In the past week I've tried to keep track of what I handsold to see just how many books I talk up with our customers. Here's the list, incomplete as it is:

• 2 books about falcons and various birds of prey
• A pocket guide to wild mushrooms
• A guide to edible wild plants
• A bargain astronomy book
• A star atlas (one of the round ones)
• The new Junie B Jones hardcover Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-Ha-Ha!
• The new Magic Treehouse hardcover Blizzard of the Blue Moon #36
• A Captain Underpants boxed set
• A Harlan Coben book on cd
• A Janet Evanovitch book on cd
• A Robert Ludlam book on cd
• A First Dictionary
• Haunted Connecticut
• Ian Kershaw's Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
• Olivia by Falconer
• The very excellent How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
• Two J. California Cooper books: In Search of Satisfaction & Some Love, Some Pain, Some Time
• A leather address book
• A calorie counter guide
• Two classic books on board books
• A couple of teen fiction titles I can't remember what
• A booklight
• A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
• The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• A Spanish audio set
• A travel book for India
• A baseball book for "a boy who doesn't like to read" (I forget which one)
• A particular Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at ____
• Caroline Kennedy's A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
• Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie to a guy interested in books about South Boston gangster Whitey Bulger
• the better of two college algebra test books
• the best college guide
• The new Barefoot Contessa book Barefoot Contessa at Home

and a host of others I forgot to write down.