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Store Hours
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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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Please join us to welcome Leanne Lasofsky with My Life
9/11 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome John Smolens and The Schoolmaster's Daughter
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
Join us for an event with Erin Morgenstern and The Night Circus
10/23 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Katrina Munichiello with A Tea Reader
10/30 (Sunday) 3pm -
Please join us as we visit with artist, teacher, and Harvard resident Loring W. Coleman and Living and Painting in a Changing New England
11/13 (Sunday) 3pm -
Please join us for an event with Caroline Preston and The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Picures
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Greetings!
Our next event is with Leanne Lasofsky on August 21. Leanne is involved with the Minuteman Arc program, and has written her memoir, My Life, which tells about living with cerebral palsy, and highlights her art, education, and travel, as well as other positive experiences with family and friends.
We highlight four books this week - truly something for everyone! A beautiful new children's book, great humor for the college-bound student, an inspiring memoir, and a biography of a Revolutionary hero. Scroll down for details on these hot picks!
Have you had a chance to download Google e-books from our website? All this month, HarperCollins is tempting us with 20 of their top titles available for just $.99 each! These are .pdf files which can be read on your laptop/desktop, or easily imported to e-readers such as nook, Sony, Kobo, iPad, and iPhone. Just click on the links in the article below to see full title descriptions and "add to cart."
Upcoming events are listed in the left sidebar of this weekly newsletter and on our Facebook page. Take out your fall calendar - we have a lot of authors and events planned! 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 - Leanne Lasofsky and My Life
Please join us on Sunday, August 21 at 3pm, as we welcome Leanne Lasofsky with her memoir, My Life.
Leanne discusses the how the physical limitations of Cerebral Palsy have impacted her, and shares stories of the many highlights of her life, including her family and friends, education, travel, and art.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
 From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love.
Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. Readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.
Grandpa Green is a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.
Author Lane Smith has written and illustrated several books, including It's a Book; John, Paul, George & Ben; and Madam President. His titles with Jon Scieszka include the Caldecott Honor-winner The Stinky Cheese Man; The True Storyof the 3 Little Pigs; Math Curse; and Science Verse.
We have signed editions of Grandpa Green on our shelves!
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Tickle your funnybone with this paperback
College Humor. The Website. The Book. by Streeter Seidell
 A fun paperback for the college-bound student (or for a parent hoping to reminisce about "the good old days"):
Since 1999, CollegeHumor.com has been home to some of the best comedy online. From its humble, dorm room origins, CollegeHumor has grown to attract over ten million monthly visitors.
CollegeHumor. The Website. The Book. compiles the staff's favorite articles from the first decade of the site's existence, plunging the depths of the archive to bring you the very best of the very funny.
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New! Biography of Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen: His Life and Time by Willard Sterne Randall
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison.
While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father.
Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen's beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on.
Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen's life, Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth and historical folklore.
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New Memoir of a Reading Life
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
A perfect book for readers; Tolstoy and the Purple Chair shares life lessons - large and small - gleaned from a year of devoted reading.
Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books and authors (and even other readers), her life changed profoundly, and in unexpected ways. Reading, it turns out, can be the ultimate therapy.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair also tells the story of the Sankovitch family: Nina's father, who barely escaped death in Belarus during World War II; her four rambunctious children, who offer up their own book recommendations while helping out with the cooking and cleaning; and Anne-Marie, her oldest sister and idol, with whom Nina shared the pleasure of books, even in her last moments of life. In our lightning-paced culture that encourages us to seek more, bigger, and better things, Nina's daring journey shows how we can deepen the quality of our everyday lives - if we only find the time.
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e-book sale!
 For the entire month of August, Harper Perennial is offering 20 of their finest books for just $.99 each! You can fill your e-reader with works from some of your favorite authors and discover new ones, too!
It's so easy to purchase e-books from the Concord Bookshop website! Simply sign in using your google (gmail) password, select the books you want, add them to the shopping cart, and "check out" via a secure server. You can read your new e-books on your computer/laptop, or use Adobe Digital Editions to manage your e-library and transfer them to many e-readers (including iPad, iPhone, nook, and Sony reader).
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