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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 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
We welcome Sara Hoagland Hunter and Julia Miner, the author and illustrator of The Lighthouse Santa.
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
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) 2pm -
We welcome children's author Jane Schoenberg with The One and Only Stuey Lewis
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Greetings!
We're excited by the new books arriving daily at the bookshop; they're falling in like leaves this season. When you come in, please tell us "I saw this in the newsletter!"
Our next event is with Tim Riley on Sunday, October 2 at 3pm. Tim is a journalist and music critic whose newest work is a major new biography, Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life.
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 peak at our window and the "Piece of Mind" program sponsored by Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education.
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
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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Upcoming event
The Pig Scramble written by Jessica Kinney, illustrated by Sarah Brannen
Please join us on Sunday, October 9at 3pm as we welcome the illustrator of The Pig Scramble, area artist Sarah Brannen.
"Clarence has always felt very small compared to his two big brothers. He just can't seem to find his place on the family farm. But advice from his inventive uncle helps him win the county fair's pig scramble and gain some confidence in the process. Told in a true storytelling fashion and accompanied by illustrations of a pig every kid will want to take home, The Pig Scramble is perfect for read-aloud story times or for newly independent readers."
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New in our signed books gallery Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
 Scroll down for details on Russell Banks's newest novel - one of our top book picks this week. Lost Memory of Skin is a novel which examines "a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim." We have signed first editions of Lost Memory of Skin on our shelves! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh  On Sunday afternoon we enjoyed a visit with Vanessa Diffenbaugh and her novel, The Language of Flowers. Diffenbaugh found inspiration for the novel in her own experience as a foster mother. After reading, taking questions and discussion with the audience, the author graciously signed additional copies for us to offer our readers who were unable to come to the presentation. |
New fiction - signed edition! Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
"Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time... I trust his portraits of America more than any other-the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it." -- Michael Ondaatje
The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results.
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of the novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, he is on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl. He has nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.
Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders.
Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show-casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore.
This novel probes the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of subtlety and compassion - a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim.
We have signed copies of Lost Memory of Skin on our shelves!
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New memoir
Drama: An Actor's Education by John Lithgow
 In this riveting and surprising personal history, John Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle, crisis, and discovery, revealing the early life and career that took place out of the public eye and before he became a nationally known star.
Above all, Lithgow's memoir is a tribute to his most important influence: his father, Arthur Lithgow, who, as an actor, director, producer, and great lover of Shakespeare, brought theater to John's boyhood; performance and storytelling were constant and cherished parts of family life. Drama details with poignancy and sharp recollection the moments that introduced a budding young actor to the undeniable power of theater.
The theater worlds of New York and London come alive as Lithgow relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors. His ruminations on the nature of theater, film acting, and storytelling cut to the heart of why actors are driven to perform, and why people are driven to watch them do it.
Lithgow's memory is clear and his wit sharp, and much of the humor that runs throughout Drama comes at his own expense. But he also chronicles the harrowing moments of his past, reflecting with moving candor on friends made and lost, mistakes large and small, and the powerful love of a father who set him on the road to a life onstage.
Illuminating, funny, affecting, and thoroughly engrossing, Drama raises the curtain on the making of one of our most beloved actors.
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Bestselling novel, now in paperback Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 
"Mr. Franzen has written his most deeply felt novel yet-a novel that turns out to be both a compelling biography of a dysfunctional family and an indelible portrait of our times." -The New York Times
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Walter and Patty Berglund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels - The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion - and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
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New, from a favorite children's poet
Every Thing on It by Shel Silverstein
A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and silver strings
To catch all sorts of flying things,
Like crumbs of thought and bits of smiles
And specks of dried-up tears,
And dust of dreams that catch and cling
For years and years and years . . .
Have you ever read a book with everything on it? Well, here it is, an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings from the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up.
What's that? You have a case of the Lovetobutcants? Impossible! Just come on in and let the magic of Shel Silverstein bend your brain and open your heart.
Shel Silverstein is the author-artist of many beloved books of prose and poetry. He was a cartoonist, playwright, poet, performer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated songwriter.
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In Our Window
"Piece of Mind"
Many thanks to the Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education for this week's "Piece of Mind" display.
Concord Carlisle ACE and Concord Park are sponsoring a community discussion series on brain health and wellness, with programs October 13 - 20.
The programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 978-318-1432 or email ace@colonial.net.
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