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Upcoming Events
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Concord Bookshop Book Club (CBBC) discusses Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Daniel Palmer reads from and discusses Delirious
2/17 (Thursday) 7pm -
Save the date for Concord Bookshop Book Club (CBBC). Our February selection will be announced next week!
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Greetings!
We're focused on non-fiction this week, with a highly discussable memoir, a look at the efforts to save Alaska's Wilderness, and a biography of Anne Boleyn.
If you stopped by the Bookshop this morning you witnessed the enthusiastic group who joined our writing workshop with novelist Ilie Ruby. The group learned what it means to use authentic voice, to write athletically, and to mine the mind. After responding to a writing prompt and sharing our work, Ilie reminded us that "the best revenge is revision!" Keep an eye on this space for announcement of future Jumpstart Your Writing workshops or longer-term writing programs.
The Concord Orchestra is featured in our right-most window this week. Related books on display have themes of music, composers, and origami.
On Thursday, January 27, at 7pm, we'll have our book group discussion of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. We hope you can join us for what promises to be a lively and enlightening conversation.
Please remember that if you can't get out in the snow, you can reach us via phone or email. Our new partnership with Google eBooks offers electronic editions for most e-readers; shop from the comfort and warmth of your home on a snowy day!
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New Memoir
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards - and the costs - of raising her children the Chinese way.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is an eye-opening exploration of the differences in Eastern and Western parenting - and the lessons parents and children everywhere teach one another.
It's likely you've read or heard something about Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and the debates it has stemmed.
Depending on your perspective, it may be read it as straight memoir, tongue-in-cheek recollection, an instruction manual, or a cultural study.
In any case, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother provides fodder for introspective thought, evaluation, and discussion. A solid choice for book groups.
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New Non Fiction
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom by Douglas Brinkley
A riveting history of America's most beautiful natural resources, The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save wild Alaska and her treasured landscapes from the extraction industries.
Award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley traces the wilderness movement in Alaska with narrative verve. Basing his research on extensive new archival material, Brinkley shows how a colorful band of determined environmentalists - including Ansel Adams and Rachel Carson - created the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Brinkley tells incredible stories about the sea otters in the Aleutians, moose in the Kenai Peninsula, and birdlife across the Yukon Delta expanse while exploring the devastating effects that reckless overfishing, seal slaughter, and aerial wolf hunting have wrought on Alaska's once-abundant fauna. While taking into account Exxon Valdez-like oil spills, The Quiet World celebrates how the U.S. government has preserved many of Alaska's great wonders for future generations to enjoy.
Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His recent The Wilderness Warrior won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature and the National Outdoor Book Award. The Great Deluge, his account of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.
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Now in paperback
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
 Drawing on myriad sources from the Tudor era, Alison Weir provides the first book ever to examine, in unprecedented depth, the gripping story of Anne Boleyn's final days. The Lady in the Tower explores the motives and intrigues of those who helped to seal the queen's fate, unraveling the tragic tale of Anne's fall, from her miscarriage of the son who would have saved her to the final, dramatic scene on the scaffold.
What emerges is an extraordinary portrayal of a woman of great courage, tested to the extreme by the terrible plight in which she found herself, a powerful queen whose enemies were bent on utterly destroying her.
Horrifying but captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn's guilt (and innocence) and the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in English history.
Alison Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Innocent Traitor and The Lady Elizabeth and several historical biographies, including Mistress of the Monarchy, Queen Isabella, Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Life of Elizabeth I, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. She lives in Surrey, England with her husband and two children.
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In Our Window - The Concord Orchestra
The Concord Orchestra Performing at 51 Walden
The Concord Orchestra is composed of 70 musicians living in Concord and the greater Boston metropolitan area. Richard Pittman, the versatile founder and music director of Boston Musica Viva, has been the music director and conductor of the Concord Orchestra since 1969.
Their Winter Concert: New Talent, New Work will be performed January 28 and 29, 2011 at 8 p.m. Hoffer's Elegy for Solo Violin and String Orchestra with Siri Smedvig, and the Liszt Piano Concerto #1 performed by Yoko Ellie Fukumura, winner of the Young Artist Competition.
For more information call 978 369-4967, or email The Concord Orchestra.
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