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Mon - Fri 9:30 - 6:00
Sat 9:30 - 5:00
Sun Noon - 5:00
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Upcoming Events
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We welcome Jeffrey Cramer, curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute, with The Quotable Thoreau
We welcome author
Jael McHenry with
The Kitchen Daughter, with treats from Ginny's recipe box
7/17 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome author Dawn Tripp with Game of Secrets
7/24 (Sunday) 3pm -
Workshop: How to Have Years of Fun with a Mother-Daughter Book Club. Led by Lori Day and her daughter, Charlotte Kugler
* Pre-registration required
7/31 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Brookline author Wendy Swart Grossman with Behind the Wheel
8/21 (Sunday) 3pm -
Please join us to welcome Leanne Lasofsky with My Life
9/25 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Vanessa Diffenbaugh and The Language of Flowers
10/2 (Sunday) 3pm -
Please join us as we welcome area author Tim Riley with Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - the Definitive Life
10/16 (Sunday) 3pm -
Join us for an event with Erin Morgenstern and The Night Circus
10/23 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Katrina Munichiello with A Tea Reader
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Greetings!
As you wander down Main Street on these gorgeous summer days, check out the books in our "sidewalk sale" cart out front. Something in the windows catch your eye? Come on in and tell us about the books you're reading!
Last week's author events added two new books to our signed books gallery - we have Carolyn Cooke's Daughters of the Revolution (a "Briefly Noted" review is in the July 4 issue of The New Yorker) and J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine, signed by the authors and on our shelves for you.
Our next event will be Sunday, July 10, with Jeffrey S. Cramer, curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute, and his latest book, The Quotable Thoreau.
Attention moms - are you looking for a bonding and growth experience for you and your daughter? See details below for information on a Mother-Daughter Book Group workshop led by a mother-daughter pair who were part of a group that ran for six years. Attend the workshop solo, or bring your daughter to help get her involved and excited!
Other upcoming events are listed in the left sidebar of this weekly newsletter and on our Facebook page.
Our book picks this week include Paul Farmer's first-hand account of Haiti in the days and months following the devastating 2010 earthquake, a favorite book group pick now in paperback, and new paperback fiction set in South Africa. If you pick up one of these books, tell us "I saw it in the newsletter!"
This week's window highlights the Summer Stages Dance program at Concord Academy. As always, we look forward to chatting with you in the Bookshop; tell us what you're packing in your beach bag. Comments are also welcome via email to info.concordBookshop@gmail.com.
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Our Next Event: Award-winning Thoreauvian Scholar Sunday, July 10 at 3pm
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Please join us as we welcome Jeffrey S. Cramer, discussing his latest book, The Quotable Thoreau.
Few writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and witticisms, from the famous to the obscure and the surprising.
The Quotable Thoreau is thematically arranged, fully indexed, richly illustrated, and thoroughly documented. For the student of Thoreau, it will be invaluable. For those who think they know Thoreau, it will be a revelation. And for the reader seeking sheer pleasure, it will be a joy.
Jeffrey S. Cramer is curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, an independent research institution that holds the world's most comprehensive collection of Thoreau-related material. Cramer is the editor of The Portable Thoreau, Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, and I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, among other books.
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New in Our Signed Books Gallery
Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke
 Last Thursday, award-winning short fiction author Carolyn Cooke joined us to read from and discuss her novel, Daughters of the Revolution. The excerpt Cooke read introduced the audience to this ferociously intelligent, richly sensual novel about the lives of girls and women, the complicated desperation of daughters without fathers and the erosion of paternalistic power in an elite New England town on the cusp of radical social change. During Q&A, she further discussed her inspiration to create a novel that follows the women of fictional Cape Wilde as they claim and explore their various freedoms - from education and birth control to self-control and saying "no" and forging a new path when a relationship isn't working. Cooke's prose are tight; a single sentence can speak volumes, not only advancing the plot or revealing characters, but also reflecting on the American social history which inspired Daughters of the Revolution. Signed editions of the novel are available at the Bookshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan 
"Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of the best-selling novel Commencement ... One of this year's most inviting summer novels"
-The New York Times
We enjoyed spending time with J. Courtney Sullivan on Sunday afternoon, when she returned to the Bookshop to read from her new novel, Maine.
The audience had a lively conversation with Sullivan, who described Maine as centering on "the elasticity of family; just when you think it has stretched to the breaking point, we find a way to reform."
Signed copies of Maine are on our shelves!
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Upcoming workshop: How to have years of fun with a mother-daughter book group
Sunday, July 24 at 3pm
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Did you read this article in last week's Concord Journal, about mother-daughter book groups?
Not only are these groups a fantastic way to explore literature together, but also to see each other in context of other mothers and daughters.
Join Lori Day and her daughter Charlotte Kugler as they discuss how they formed a mother-daughter book group when Charlotte was in third grade, and how it was able to run successfully for six years. They formed lasting friendships, strengthened their own bonds, and discussed books that ranged from childhood classics to popular series.
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Preregistration is required; call 978-369-2405 or stop at our front desk the next time you're in the bookshop. Reserve a seat (or a pair of seats!) for $10, returned to you on the day of the workshop in the form of a Concord Bookshop gift certificate.
Lori, formerly Director of Admissions at The Fenn School, is an educational consultant who focuses on admissions and special education. She writes the It's Your Day blog, and can be found on the Huffington Post and in the pages of the Concord Journal. Charlotte, who just finished her freshman year at Mount Holyoke College, wrote the "Notes from Charlotte's Web" column in the Concord Journal for five years and is spending her summer writing for the Concord Journal and several other local newspapers.
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New Account of Haitian Earthquake
Haiti after the Earthquake by Paul Farmer
"A gripping recollection of the quake's ruin, chaos, and despair, and the story of remarkable persistence, hope, and love in the aftermath. Once you've seen Haiti through Paul Farmer's eyes, you'll never see Haitians, or any of the world's poorest people, quite the same way again." -President Bill Clinton On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.
In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering - and resilience - that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake - the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster." Complementing his account are stories from other doctors, volunteers, and earthquake survivors.
Haiti After the Earthquake will both inform and inspire readers to stand with the Haitian people against the profound economic and social injustices that formed the fault line for this disaster.
Paul Farmer is the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and co-founder of Partners In Health. Among his numerous awards and honors is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius award."
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Discussable fiction, now in paperback The Bells by Richard Harvell
"The Bells does for the ears what Perfume did for the nose. A novel to engage the senses as well as tickle the mind."
-Sarah Dunant, international bestselling author of Sacred Hearts
Young Moses Froben was cast out of his village with only his ears to guide him in a world fraught with danger. But it is this gift of music and song that will cause Moses' greatest misfortune: determined to preserve his brilliant pupil's voice, the choirmaster of the Abbey has Moses castrated.
Now a young man, he will forever sing with the exquisite voice of an angel - a musico - yet castration is an abomination in the Swiss Confederation, and so he must hide his shameful condition from his friends and even from the girl he has come to love. He follows her to sumptuous Vienna, to an apprenticeship at one of Europe's greatest theaters, and to the premiere of one of history's most beloved operas.
In this confessional letter to his son, Moses recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europe's celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired?
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New fiction from the author of *Becoming Jane Eyre*
Love Child by Sheila Kohler
This is a beautiful new novel from Sheila Kohler, the author of acclaimed Becoming Jane Eyre. New in paperback, the physical book itself is lovely, with "French flaps." The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill, a South African woman whose life has been defined by the apartheid-era, class-riven society in which she lives. Under pressure to make her will, Bill is forced to think about the momentous events and decisions that have made her an extremely wealthy if somewhat disillusioned woman. To whom should she leave her fortune? As Bill relives her past, we learn that this is a simple question with a complicated answer. In elegant, sensual, and nuanced prose, Kohler skillfully explores the space between our dreams and our reality, between our hopes and our disappointments.
Author Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She currently teaches at Bennington College and Princeton University and lives in New York City.
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In Our Window
Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy
 - Daring
- Inventive
- Spectacular
- Affordable
The Summer Stages Dance program at Concord Academy offers workshops, community class, and a performance series during their 2011 season, which runs through July 30. More information, including a complete calendar of events, can be found at the Summer Stages Dance website, or by phoning 978-402-2339. |
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