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Mon - Fri 9:30 - 6:00
Sat 9:30 - 5:00
Sun Noon - 5:00
Holiday Hours
effective Sat. December 3:
Open weekends until 6pm
Open Thurs until 8pm
Open Dec. 24 until 4pm
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Upcoming Events
12/8 (Thursday)
Extended hours as we celebrate the Concord Holiday Shopping Night
1/22 (Sunday) 3pm-
Jeff Clements presents Corporations Are Not People
1/29 (Sunday) 3pm-
John Matteson returns to the Bookshop with his hot-off-the-presses biography, The Lives of Margaret Fuller
2/5 (Sunday) 3pm-
Alan Lightman returns to the Bookshop with his latest novel, Mr. g
2/19 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Sarah McCoy with The Baker's Daughter
2/26 (Sunday) 3pm -
Award-winning author Margot Livesey presents The Flight of Gemma Hardy
3/11 (Sunday) 3pm -
Kate Flora returns to the Bookshop with her latest novel, Redemption
3/18 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Madeline Miller with Song of Achilles
4/1 (Sunday) 3pm -
Two authors present their non-fiction books: Deborah Kops with The Great Molasses Flood, and Heather Lang with Queen of the Track
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Greetings!
We were happy to welcome so many of our neighbors and visitors in the bookshop this weekend, celebrating Small Business Saturday. As the Concord Independent Business Alliance reminds us, "Your Indie purchasing choices help preserve Concord's unique character." Click here to learn about the $200 Concord Indies shopping spree raffle, which can be entered by those who shift their shopping.
Please make note of our extended hours during this holiday season. Beginning Saturday, we remain open until 6pm on weekends, and 8pm on Thursdays.
Do you follow the lists? The New York Times just announced "The 10 Best Books of 2011," which are:
Fiction:
- The Art of Fielding by Chard Harbach
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
- The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obrecht
Nonfiction:
- Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
- The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown
- Malcolm X by Manning Marable
- A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman
This week's newsletter spotlights books from several nonfiction categories (film/design, art, cooking, history, adventure) as well an exciting new short fiction collection.
Remember, we have an extensive selection of signed books (a thoughtful gift!), and we offer free gift wrapping for your Bookshop purchases.
As always, we look forward to chatting with you in the Bookshop! Comments are also welcome via email to
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Event at Farfalle Italian Market
Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm; 26 Concord Crossing
Alice Feiring and Naked Wine
Farfalle Italian Market is holding a book signing and wine tasting with Alice Feiring on Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm.
Farfalle is located at 26 Concord Crossing. For more information about this no-fee event, visit their website, and RSVP to 978-369-2900.
More about Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally:
Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics - wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them "overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown" and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature and less to marketers, and stop using additives and chemicals.
But letting wine make itself is harder than it seems.
Three years ago, Feiring answered a dare to try her hand at natural winemaking. In Naked Wine, she details her adventure - sometimes calm, sometimes wild, always revealing - and peers into the nooks and crannies of today's exciting, new (but centuries-old) world of natural wine.
Alice Feiring is an award-winning food and wine journalist, frequent magazine contributor, and author of a previous book on wine. She lives in New York.
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For the film buff
Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham
"An epic survey of Saul Bass's career shows why he was the master of graphic film titles."
-- The Guardian
This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work.
Designed by Jennifer Bass, written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham, a with a Foreward by Martin Scorsese, the book contains more than 1,400 illustrations from the Bass archive. This is the definitive account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century, a study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating.
Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American post-war visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta.
His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates, as well as an equally impressive series of film titles, ranging from Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear and Casino in the 1990s.
Designed by Jennifer Bass, Saul Bass's daughter and written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass personally, this book is full of images , providing an in depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century.
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For the art aficionado
The Art Museum by Phaidon Press
"If this [The Art Museum] were a real museum and not just a book, there would hardly be need for another."
-NPR's "All Things Considered"
Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors, with a consulting global team of 100 specialists in all fields of art, The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers.
This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,500 works of art. Specialists in art history have collected important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover.
Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, this volume contains a wealth of masterworks spanning three millennia and culled from 650 museums, galleries and private collections from 60 countries to tell the history of world art. It is organized by innovative color-coded, galleries, rooms, corridors and special exhibitions, which display the paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art.
With intelligent in-depth text throughout, explanatory sidebars for each artwork, a comprehensive glossary and detailed location maps, The Art Museum is accessible for everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field.
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History and Adventure
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
"The First World War, the worst calamity humanity has ever inflicted on itself, still reverberates in our lives. In its immediate aftermath, a few young men who had fought in it went looking for a healing challenge, and found it far from the Western Front. In recreating their astonishing adventure, Wade Davis has given us an elegant meditation on the courage to carry on."
-George F. Will
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest's North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain's finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers' epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. Into the Silence sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context: Davis shows how the exploration originated in nineteenth-century imperial ambitions, and he takes us far beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I, where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered. In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by these scions of Britain's elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope.
Beautifully written and rich with detail, Into the Silence is a classic account of exploration and endurance, and a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers, soldiers, and mountaineers the likes of which we will never see again.
Wade Davis is the best-selling author of more than a dozen books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow and One River, and is an award-winning anthropologist. He currently holds the post of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and divides his time between Washington, D.C., and northern British Columbia.
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"Good things come in small packages"
Handheld Pies: Dozens of Pint-Sized Sweets and Savories
by Rachel Wharton and Sarah Billingsley, photos by Ellen Silverman
What's better than small treats? Eating with your hands!
This enticing cookbook delivers on both counts in one adorable package. Pie-lovers everywhere will be thrilled to find their favorite recipes plus fabulous new creations. Savory pies also make an appearance: grab a "Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Pie" on the way out the door in the morning!
This book is deal for beginning and seasoned bakers alike (a chapter on crusts offers all the instruction anyone needs to make delicious, flaky pastry with ease!).
Handheld Pies proves that good things definitely come in small packages.
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Short fiction collection from award-winning author
Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo
From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, chronicling - and foretelling - three decades of American life.
Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories.
Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.
Don DeLillo, the author of fifteen novels, has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize.
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In Our Window
Concord Chamber of Commerce
This week's window display was created by Concord Chamber of Commerce in celebration of upcoming holiday events.
The annual holiday parade and tree lighting will take place on Sunday, December 4, 4:45 - 6:00pm. The parade in Concord Center will feature antique cars, Mrs. Claus, Louisa May Alcott, and Santa arriving by fire truck. Unwrapped gifts for Community Chest will be collected under the tree, with music by the Sounds of Concord.
Concord's Holiday Shopping Night will be held on Thursday, December 8, 5:00 - 8:00 pm. Shop locally in Concord and enjoy the festivities with many holiday treats, shopping specials, entertainment, and strolling carolers.
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