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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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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 -
Book Fair to support the NashobaBrooks School
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
11/12 (Saturday) all day -
Book Fair to support the Concord Children's Center
11/12 (Saturday) 1pm -
David Hyde Costello presents Little Pig Joins the Band
11/13 (Sunday) 3pm -
Please join us for an event with Caroline Preston and The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures
11/15 (Tuesday) all day -
Book Fair to support the
Alcott Elementary School PTG
11/15 (Tuesday) 1pm -
We welcome children's author Jane Schoenberg with The One and Only Stuey Lewis
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Greetings!
Wow! Great new books arriving daily! It's exciting to see the new titles hitting our shelves this fall season - come on in and find the books everyone is talking about ... or those treasures that are "under the radar." When you come in, please tell us "I saw this in the newsletter!"
Our next event is with Vanessa Diffenbaugh on Sunday, September 25 at 3pm. Vanessa's novel, The Language of Flowers, juxtaposes beauty and pain, as the protagonist learns what it means to be a family.
Other upcoming events are listed in the left sidebar of this weekly newsletter and on our Facebook page. If you're unable to attend an event, but would like a signed copy of the book, please call us to pre-order. We'll have the book personally inscribed to your specifications, hold it for pick-up, or arrange to ship it.
Scroll down in this newsletter to see what the Concord Chamber of Commerce has 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 tote bag. Looking for a nice new bookbag? Concord Bookshop canvas totes are for sale at our front desk. Comments are also welcome via email to info.concordBookshop@gmail.com.
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Our next event
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Please join us on Sunday, September 25 at 3pm as we welcome Cambridge-based author Vanessa Diffenbaugh, reading from The Language of Flowers.
If we were to assemble a Victorian bouquet for this event, it would include Forsythia (anticipation), Bouvardia (enthusiasm), and Hyacinth (beauty).
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.
Having spent her childhood in the foster-care system, Victoria Jones is adept at using the Victorian language of flowers to convey her grief, mistrust, and solitude. She is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.
Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. Soon Victoria must decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.
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Upcoming event
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
by Tim Riley
Please join us on Sunday, October 2 at 3pm as we welcome local area author Tim Riley, reading from his hot-off-the-presses biography of John Lennon.
Riley writes brilliantly about the music and about Lennon's artistic and creative processes. The Beatles have just enjoyed their most successful sales decade ever, and this book will be a great gift for the Beatles fan in your life or for anyone with an interest in this British music legend.
NPR critic, author, pianist, and speaker Tim Riley reviews pop and classical music for NPR's "Here and Now", and has written for the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Slate.com and Salon.com. He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman.
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Moving new fiction
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
 "Cohen's stunning writing and ruthless, beautiful magnification of soul- crushing sorrow that threatens the Ryries' day-to-day family life mesmerizes, wounds, and possibly even heals her readers. Her courageous novel (she knows of what she writes) is to be savored."
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Library Journal
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that their marriage, their family, have always been intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby's death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface.
Moving, psychologically acute, and gorgeously written, The Grief of Others asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family, and how we take measure of our own sorrows in a world rife with suffering. This novel shows how one family, by finally allowing itself to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness and hope.
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A paperback to whet your appetite
Best Food Writing 2011 edited by Holly Hughes
 The eleventh annual edition of Best Food Writing once again authoritatively and appealingly assembles the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and websites, featuring established food writers, rising stars, and some literary surprises.
Catch the trends, big stories, and upcoming stars than in this Best Food Writing collection. From molecular gastronomy to the omnivore's dilemma, from meat-free to wheat-free to everything goes, there's something for every foodie.
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Unique biography, now in paperback
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
"This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne's life and essays into twenty thematic chapters...Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne's work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences and the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception of the essays." -The New Yorker
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love-such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment -and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography.
Author Sarah Bakewell was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart and The English Dane. She lives in London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogs rare book collections for the National Trust.
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An eye-popping edition of a children's classic
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside - including our hero, Charlie Bucket. With his golden ticket in hand, Charlie is ready for the wildest time of his life!
This is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as you've never seen it before - amazing pop-up visuals, lift-the-flaps, pull tabs, and more bring Roald Dahl's timeless classic to life in a scrumdiddlyumptious new way that's sure to amaze kids of all ages!
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In Our Window
"Fall in Concord"
Many thanks to the Concord Chamber of Commerce for this week's eye-catching "Fall in Concord" display.
The window highlights seasonal books, favorite reads about our town and its residents, and events around town - including activities at the Concord Museum and Orchard House.
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