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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
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
2/12 (Sunday) 3pm -
We welcome Toby Lester with his newest book, Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
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
3/22 (Thursday) 7pm-
Howard Frank Mosher returns to the Bookshop with The Great Northern Express
3/25 (Sunday) 3pm -
Natalie Dykstra presents Clover Adams
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!
Our next event is Sunday, January 22, when local resident and attorney Jeff Clements discusses Corporations Are Not People; details are below in this newsletter.
The left sidebar of this note contains our complete event calendar; you can also check details on our website and/or rsvp on our Facebook page.
If you're unable to attend an event, but would like a signed copy of the book, simply call us to pre-order. We'll ask the author to inscribe it to your specifications, then hold it for pick up or arrange to have it shipped.
This week's newsletter features a selection of recent fiction favorites from award-winning authors, and new paperback editions of lauded psychological thriller, a thought- (and discussion-) provoking nature-based memoir, and the highly anticipated new novel from Young Adult author John Green. We also shine a spotlight on Europa Editions and their quality literature and non-fiction, many of which are works in translation.
As always, we look forward to chatting with you in the Bookshop! Have you made any reading resolutions for 2012?
Comments are also welcome via email to
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Our next event - January 22
Jeffrey Clements and Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It
Please join us at the Bookshop Sunday, January 22nd at 3 pm as we welcome local resident Jeffrey Clements, discussing his new book, Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It.
This is the first practical guide for every citizen on the problem of corporate personhood and the tools we have to overturn it.
Jeff Clements explains why the Citizen's United case is the final win in a campaign for corporate domination of the state that began in the 1970s under Richard Nixon. More than this, Clements shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. 
Corporations Are Not People answers the reader's question: "What does Citizens United mean to me?" And, even more important, it provides a solution: a Constitutional amendment, included in the book, which would reverse Citizens United. The book's ultimate goal is to give every citizen the tools and talking points to overturn corporate personhood state by state, community by community.
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Spotlight on Europa Editions
Europa Editions is a Rome-based publisher of works of literary fiction, high-end mystery and noir, and narrative non-fiction from around the world.
Come in and browse our table display of books from Europa Editions. Dozens of lovely French-flapped paperback editions of quality literature and non-fiction, for about $15 each.
You may recognize some of the titles and authors, or discover new-to you works. Featured books include:
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New fiction from award-winning author Penelope Lively
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively-a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect.
Through a richly conceived and colorful cast of characters, Penelope Lively explores the powerful role of chance in people's lives and deftly illustrates how our paths can be altered irrevocably by someone we will never even meet.
Brought to life in her hallmark graceful prose and full of keen insights into human nature, How It All Began is an engaging, contemporary tale that is sure to strike a chord with her legion of loyal fans as well as new readers.
Author Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, and studied at Oxford University. She is the author of many children's books and adult novels, including the Man Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger.
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English translation of celebrated and controversial French novelist
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
"Very likely his best [book] ever, a serious novel about aging and death that also employs its author's trademark lugubrious wit towards some delicious exercises in satire and self-parody.... A challenging, mature and highly intelligent book."
-The Daily Telegraph
The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus - about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons.
The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs, of countless industrial objects, were followed by a surprisingly successful series featuring Michelin road maps, which also happened to bring him the love of his life, Olga, a beautiful Russian working-for a time-in Paris. But global fame and fortune arrive when he turns to painting and produces a host of portraits that capture a wide range of professions, from the commonplace (the owner of a local bar) to the autobiographical (his father, an accomplished architect) and from the celebrated (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Discussing the Future of Information Technology) to the literary (a writer named Houellebecq, with whom he develops an unusually close relationship).
Then, while his aging father (his only living relative) flirts with oblivion, a police inspector seeks Martin's help in solving an unspeakably gruesome crime-events that prove profoundly unsettling. Even so, now growing old himself, Jed Martin somehow discovers serenity and manages to add another startling chapter to his artistic legacy, a deeply moving conclusion to this saga of hopes and losses and dreams.
Already honored with the Prix Novembre and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Michel Houellebecq won the Prix Goncourt for The Map and the Territory in 2010. This new English translation edition is by Gavin Bowd.
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A nature-based memoir, now in paperback
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
by Carl Safina
 "You could call Safina a Thoreau for the twenty-first century."
-New York Post
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four points of the compass.
As he witnesses a natural year in an unnatural world he shows how the problems of the environment are linked to questions of social justice and the politics of greed, and in asking difficult questions about our finite world, his answers provide hope.
Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean, and founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, was named by the Audubon Society one of the leading conservationists of the twentieth century. He's been profiled by The New York Times, and PBS's Bill Moyers. His books and articles have won him a Pew Fellowship, Guggenheim Award, Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize.
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A lauded suspenseful thriller,
now in paperback
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
"Lupton enters the highly charged ring where the best psychological detective writers spar... Both tear-jerking and spine-tingling, Sister provides an adrenaline rush that could cause a chill on the sunniest afternoon."
-The New York Times Book Review
When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. Tess has always been a free spirit, an artist who takes risks, while conservative Bee couldn't be more different. Bee is used to watching out for her wayward sibling and is fiercely protective of Tess. But then Tess is found dead, apparently by her own hand.
Bee is certain that Tess didn't commit suicide. Their family and the police accept the sad reality, but Bee feels sure that Tess has been murdered. Single-minded in her search for a killer, Bee moves into Tess's apartment and throws herself headlong into her sister's life--and all its secrets.
A thrilling story of fierce love between siblings, Sister is a suspenseful and accomplished debut with a stunning twist.
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John Green's much-anticipated new Young Adult novel
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
 "An electric portrait of young people who learn to live life with one foot in the grave. Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy ... takes a spin on universal themes - Will I be loved? Will I be remembered? Will I leave a mark on this world? - by dramatically raising the stakes for the characters who are asking."
--Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper and Sing You Home
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
John Green is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author whose many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. He has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Previous works include An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and Looking for Alaska.
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