| |
Store Hours
| |
Mon - Fri 9:30 - 6:00
Sat 9:30 - 5:00
Sun Noon - 5:00
|
|
Upcoming Events
|
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
11/6 (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 Pictures
11/18 (Friday) 7pm
Gregory Maguire returns to the Bookshop to present the fourth novel in the "Wicked" series, Out of Oz
|
|
Greetings!
While some of our staffers experienced the relatively minor inconveniences of power outages and wet basements after Irene, we hope you fared well, and wish the best for the recovery efforts elsewhere.
We offer our congratulations to Philip Levine, who was named the new American Poet Laureate. Levine, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1995 collection, The Simple Truth, has a number of volumes on our shelves - we'd love to share our favorites with you when you're in!
Our three book picks this week include three distinct genres - a novel, a novella, and a novel-in-stories. Two of these were published posthumously, and two are from award-winning authors. Read the details below to learn how they line up. When you come in to look at these titles, please tell us "I saw this in the newsletter!"
Our next event is with John Smolens on Sunday, September 11 at 3pm. John's most recent novel, The Schoolmaster's Daughter, is set during the American Revolution, in Lexington and Concord.
Other 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 author activities planned! Our Facebook page has photos from recent events.
Scroll down in this newsletter to see what the Girl Scouts have in our window this week!
As always, we look forward to chatting with you in the Bookshop; tell us what you're packing in your back-to-school bag. Comments are also welcome via email to info.concordBookshop@gmail.com.
|
|
|
Our Next Event - John Smolens and The Schoolmaster's Daughter
Sunday, September 11 at 3pm
Please join us on Sunday, September 11 at 3pm, as we welcome John Smolens with his most recent novel, The Schoolmaster's Daughter.
This novel, set during the American Revolution, explores a family torn apart - Abigail Lovell's schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist and prominent figurehead in the community, she and her two brothers engage in acts of espionage to undermine the British forces in Boston. Much of the story takes place in Lexington and Concord.
John Smolens is author of Cold; The invisible World; Fire point; and The Anarchist, an "editor's Choice" pick by The Denver Post. John received his MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently head of the MFA program at Northern Michigan University.
|
|
Posthumously published novel from an award-winning author
The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
 "A genuine original with a macabre imagination."
-The New York Review of Books
Set in America in the spring of 1968, Beryl Bainbridge's The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress follows two people on a cross-country mission to find a man from their past.
Along the way, they're greeted by signs of the times - Vietnam vets, racial hatred, and the madness of revival meetings. The pair unknowingly follow the campaign trail of Robert Kennedy, on whom the country has hung its hope for a future president.
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE (1932 - 2010 ) was an award-winning English novelist. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996 and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress is the last book she wrote.
|
|
Novel-in-stories, now in paperback
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay by Beverly Jensen
"Idella and Avis, the sisters from Hardscrabble Bay, stole my heart. They'll steal yours, as well. Read this book. And buy a copy for your best friend, because you'll want to keep yours."
--Stephen King
This widely acclaimed novel-in-stories offers a richly textured portrait of a bygone era. In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick - a barren world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From "Gone," the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, through "Wake," a darkly comic saga of funeral plans gone awry,
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay beautifully charts the trajectory of the Hillocks' divergent lives against the background of a lost slice of Americana.
Author Beverly Jensen (1953-2003) was born in Westbrook, Maine. Between 1986 and 2003, she wrote The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay.
|
|
New from award-winning novelist
Train Dreams: A Novella by Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.
Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century-an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West - its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders-the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
Author Denis Johnson has published six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award.
|
|
In Our Window
Concord-Carlisle Girl Scouts
Girl Scouting builds girls of Courage, Confidence, and Character who make the world a better place! Become a Girl Scout today and you can: make new friends, get involved, camp, sing, play, have fun, try new things, create, and explore new places and ideas!
Girls in grades K-12 are invited to come to one of our Fall Registration Events:
- September 15th, 6-8pm, Concord Scout House (downstairs), 74 Walden Street, Concord
- September 17th, 10am-2pm, Concord Scout House, 74 Walden Street, Concord
- September 22th, 6pm-7pm at the CSA Fair, Carlisle School, 83 School Street, Carlisle
For more information on Concord-Carlisle Girl Scouts, check us out on You Tube.
Click on this link to see our registration flyer.
Questions? E-mail ccgirlscouts@gmail.com
|
|
|
