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11/14 (Sunday) 3:00pm - Susan Cheever reads from and discusses her latest book, Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography 11/16 (Tuesday) 9:30am - 6:00pm - Book fair to benefit Alcott Elementary School. Lenore Look, author of the Alvin Ho series of children's chapter books, will read and sign at 2:30. 11/18 (Thursday) 7:00pm - Historical researcher and author Nora Titone reads from her book, My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
11/21 (Sunday) 3:00pm - Richard Francis discusses his newest book, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia Leslie Perrin Wilson reads from and discusses Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight
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Greetings!
It's a full week for collectors, gift-givers, and readers of all types!
On Saturday, November 6, the Nashoba Brooks School will hold their annual book fair at the Concord Bookshop. A portion of all purchases on that day will benefit students at the school.
We invite you to join us on Sunday, November 7, when we host Ellen Rogers with Kasey to the Rescue; this extraordinary memoir of hope, heart, and healing is featured in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. Scroll down for more details.
We've added three new titles to our signed books gallery this week - Dennis Lehane returns with another adventure for the beloved Patrick-Angie team; Simon Winchester offers a riveting biography of the Atlantic Ocean; and Erin Blakemore gives contemporary insight to our literary heroines.
In addition, we're spotlighting two paperbacks - Patti Smith's memoir, and Alice Munro's most recent collection of short fiction.
Lastly, be sure to peek in our window at the display from the Concord Antiques Show, held at Trinitarian Congregational Church this coming weekend.
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Stop in and talk with us about what you'd like to read next! Comments are also welcome via email to info.concordBookshop@gmail.com. |
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Our Next Event: Ellen Rogers and Kasey to the Rescue
A memoir of hope, heart and healing.
Join us in welcoming Ellen Rogers on Sunday, November 7 at 3:00pm when she reads from and discusses her heartwarming memoir, Kasey to the Rescue: The Remarkable Story of a Monkey and a Miracle.
In her extraordinary memoir, local author Ellen Rogers shares how the special bond between animals and humans has transformed her family.
Kasey, a mischievous capuchin monkey, has helped return hope, humor, and healing to Ellen's son Ned, after a devastating accident. This trained service animal has a special place in Ellen's large family, providing Ned not only with the practicalities of day-to-day tasks, but also with unexpected levity.
The story caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who featured a lengthy excerpt and photos in the November 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.
Of the Concord community, Ellen says "It is such a warm, caring community where friends, neighbors, townspeople and even complete strangers have reached out to us as we faced the challenges of the last few years. We will always be grateful." We are looking forward to greeting Ellen and Ned on Sunday. |
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New Dennis Lehane in our Signed Books Gallery!
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
"An explosive tale of integrity and vengeance"
Nearly a decade after Gone Baby, Gone, Dennis Lehane reunites readers with the beloved duo of private investigators - Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro - in Moonlight Mile:
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl-only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.
Now Amanda is sixteen-and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing. Yet Amanda's aunt is once more knocking on Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, clever young woman-a woman who hasn't been seen in weeks.
Haunted by their consciences, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most. Their search leads them into a world in which motives and allegiances constantly shift and mistakes are fatal.
In their desperate fight to confront the past and find Amanda McCready, Kenzie and Gennaro will be forced to question if it's possible to do the wrong thing and still be right or to do the right thing and still be wrong.
The Concord Bookshop has signed first editions of Dennis Lehane's Moonlight Mile. Come in, or call us at 978-369-2405 to reserve your copy. |
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New in our Signed Books Gallery: The Heroine's Bookshelf
The Heroine's Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore 
"An exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors, The Heroine's Bookshelf shows today's women how to tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence and grace."
Jo March, Scarlett O'Hara, Scout Finch - the literary canon is brimming with intelligent feisty heroines and celebrated female authors. Like today's women, they placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When they were up against the wall, authors like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott fought back - sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions. In this witty, informative, and inspiring read, their stories offer much-needed literary intervention to modern women.
Full of beloved heroines and the remarkable writers who created them, The Heroine's Bookshelf explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Jane Eyre and Lizzy Bennet can encourage women today.
Each legendary character is paired with her central quality - Anne Shirley is associated with irrepressible "Happiness," while Scarlett O'Hara personifies "Fight"- along with insights into her author's extraordinary life. From Zora Neale Hurston to Colette, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Charlotte Brontė, Harper Lee to Alice Walker, here are authors and characters whose spirited stories are more inspiring today than ever.
The Heroine's Bookshelf draws a line between the strengths of our literary heroines (and their authors) and our own lives. Paired with a favorite classic - Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, etc., we learn about self, happiness, and family ties. Many other books and traits are explored; ask us for a suggested pairing or package.
We've added first editions of The Heroine's Bookshelf to our Signed Books Gallery! |
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New Nonfiction - Signed First Edition
Atlantic by Simon Winchester
 Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution.
Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores - whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south - the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by Europe and Africa to the East. Atlantic is a biography of this immense space, of a sea which has defined and determined so much about the lives of the millions who live beside or near its tens of thousands of miles of coast.
The Atlantic has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists and warriors, and it continues to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Poets to potentates, seers to sailors, fishermen to foresters -all have a relationship with this great body of blue-green sea and regard her as friend or foe, adversary or ally, depending on circumstance or fortune. Simon Winchester chronicles that relationship, making the Atlantic come vividly alive. Spanning from the earth's geological origins to the age of exploration, World War II battles to modern pollution, his narrative is epic and awe-inspiring.
It's a trifecta for collectors this week! Concord Bookshop is pleased to offer signed first editions of Simon Winchester's Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories. |
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New Nonfiction - Venice
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
 Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial - a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city. The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd transports its readers to that sensual and surprising city. His account embraces facts and romance, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges, and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the festivals and the flowers. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and its trading empire, the wars against Napoleon, and the tourist invasions of today. Everything is here: the merchants on the Rialto and the Jews in the ghetto; the glassblowers of Murano; the carnival masks and the sad colonies of lepers; the artists-Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo. And the ever-present undertone of Venice's shadowy corners and dead ends, of prisons and punishment, wars and sieges, scandals and seductions. Whether you're researching, planning a trip, or simply engaging in armchair travel, Peter Ackroyd's Venice: Pure City will take you to the "Queen of the Adriatic." Award-winning author Peter Ackroyd has written several acclaimed biographies and successful novels. This gorgeous hardcover features deckle-edged pages and a die-cut dust jacket.
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Now in Paperback
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Did you catch the recent re-broadcast of an NPR interview with Patti Smith? In it, Smith describes a bit of the summer of 1967, "the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots," when by chance her path crossed that of Robert Mapplethorpe, and they forged a bond that would last decades. A finalist for the 2010 National Book Award, Nonfiction, Just Kids, Smith's memoir of her remarkable relationship with Mapplethorpe, is now available in paperback.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm ... in 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous - the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. |
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Paperback from Man Booker winner
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers-the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
In the first story a young wife and mother, suffering from the unbearable pain of losing her three children, gains solace from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other tales uncover the "deep-holes" in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and, in the long title story, the yearnings of a nineteenth-century female mathematician.
Award-winner author Alice Munro was raised and educated in Ontario. In addition to Too Much Happiness, she has published twelve collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. Awards and prizes include the Giller Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. |
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In Our Window
Concord Antiques Sale; November 5 and 6, 10am - 5pm
This week's window display was created by The Concord Antiques Sale of the Trinitarian
Congregational Church. This annual sale, now in its 41st year, showcases more than 40 exhibitors with country furniture & accessories, Victorian pattern furnishings & glass, jewelry, fine china, antique maps & prints, decorative accessories and much more. In addition, there is a cafe serving fresh sandwiches, homemade soups & delicious baked goods. All proceeds support both local and international charities.
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