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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
3/11 (Sunday) at 3pm -
Kate Flora returns to the Bookshop with her latest novel, Redemption
3/18 (Sunday) at 3pm -
We welcome Madeline Miller with Song of Achilles
3/22 (Thursday) 7pm-
Quintessential storyteller Howard Frank Mosher returns to the Bookshop with a slideshow and talk about The Great Northern Express
3/25 (Sunday) 3pm -
Natalie Dykstra presents Clover Adams
4/1 (Sunday) at 3pm -
Two authors present their non-fiction books: Deborah Kops with The Great Molasses Flood, and Heather Lang with Queen of the Track
4/15 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Dawn Tripp returns to the Bookshop with The Season of Open Water
4/22 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Celebrate National Poetry Month with our "open mike" poetry circle hosted by Jim Leahy, author of Living in Concord
4/29 (Sunday) at 3pm-
We welcome April Bernard with Miss Fuller
5/6 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Jay Atkinson returns to the Bookshop with Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man
5/9 (Wednesday) 7pm-
We welcome Christopher Tilghman with his most recent novel, The Right-Hand Shore
5/20 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Local author Andrew Goldstein presents The Bookie's Son
6/10 (Sunday) at 3pm-
We welcome Nichole Bernier with The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D
6/24 (Sunday) at 3pm-
James Geary presents a slideshow and talk about I Is An Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the World
7/8 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Local humorist and author Eric Kester presents That Book about Harvard
9/9 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Local novelist Ilie Ruby returns to the bookshop with her latest work, The Salt God's Daughter
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Greetings!
Greetings from Main Street!
Our next event is Sunday, March 11 at 3pm, when we'll visit with local author Kate Flora and her most recent novel, Redemption: A Joe Burgess Mystery.
And save the date of March 18 for Madeline Miller and The Song of Achilles, said by The Guardian to be "a deeply affecting version of the Achilles story: a fully three-dimension man - a son, a father, husband and lover - now exists where a superhero previously stood and fought."
The left sidebar of this note contains our complete events 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.
Scroll down for this week's book picks, and to see the window display from The Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund - the "Phonathon" is just around the corner!
As always, we look forward to chatting with you in the Bookshop! When you come in to take a closer look at an item mentioned here, please tell us "I saw it in the newsletter!"
Comments are always welcome via email to
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Our next event-
Sunday, March 11
Kate Flora and Redemption
Please join us at the Bookshop Sunday, March 11 at 3pm when Kate Flora reads from and signs her third Joe Burgess police procedural, Redemption.
Flora, an attorney, has published eleven previous novels, and teaches at Grubb Street in Boston. She divides her time between Bailey Island, Maine and Concord
More about Redemption: All emotionally damaged Vietnam veteran Reggie Libby wanted was normal. What he got was a life on the streets of Portland, Maine. Pushing a shopping cart, collecting bottles for redemption. Now Reggie is dead, his body pulled frtom Portland harbor, and his buddy, homicide detective Joe Burgess, is grieving.
Grief and mourning are thrust aside when the medical examiner determines that Reggie drowned in a bathtub, with bruising that suggests it was no accident. Who would want to harm Reggie?
Joe Burgess has been longing for normal, too, a hope shattered when his long-time girlfriend makes an unexpected decision. Burgess soon loses himself in the investigation, avoiding his personal life.
As the investigation gains speed in this page-turning novel, a suspect's bullet exploding from the darkness may mean Burgess will never find the answers.
Please join us as the author reads selections from Redemption, takes Q&A, and signs copies of her books.
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Upcoming event-
Sunday, March 18
Madeline Miller and The Song of Achilles
Please join us at the Bookshop Sunday, March 18 at 3pm when Cambridge-based author Madeline Miller reads from and signs The Song of Achilles.
This is a thrilling and unique retelling of the legend of Achilles: a tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart -- a dazzling feat of the imagination that is already one of the most buzzed about books of the season.
Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder, says of The Song of Achilles "at once a scholar's homage to THE ILIAD and a startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her own fresh take on the Trojan war and its heroes. The result is a book I could not put down."
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Life in London
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It by Craig Taylor
 "From Brixton to Piccadilly Circus, a fascinating oral history of contemporary London."
-- Chicago Tribune
In the grand style of Studs Terkel and Dave Isay, an epic oral portrait of today's London that is as rich and lively as the city itself
Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities - a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum.
Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city, getting to know the most interesting Londoners, including the voice of the London Underground, a West End rickshaw driver, an East End nightclub doorperson, a mounted soldier of the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace, and a couple who fell in love at the Tower of London - and now live there. With candor and humor, this diverse cast - rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant, men and women (and even a Sarah who used to be a George) -shares indelible tales that capture the city as never before.
Together, these voices paint a vivid, epic, and wholly original portrait of twenty-first-century London in all its breadth; Londoners is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest cities.
Craig Taylor is an acclaimed writer, playwright, and editor. He is the author of One Million Tiny Plays About Britain and Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century, and he edits the literary magazine Five Dials. He lives in London.
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Rave reviews of new novel
set in late 1980s New England
The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
 This novel about "life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions" was on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Book Review this weekend. We love the setting, the atmosphere, and Demont's vibrant prose.
Jason Prosper grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate.
Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and provocative novel about a young man finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love.
Author Amber Dermont received her MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Dave Eggers's Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story, and Jane Smiley's Best New American Voices 2006.
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Short stories that explore our relationships with nature
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
"Megan Mayhew Bergman apparently possesses, all in one sensibility, Ralph Waldo Emerson's love of a back-to-the-land self-sufficiency, Amy Hempel's infinite tenderness towards animals, and Tillie Olsen's fierce sense of the emotional intensities of motherhood."
- Jim Shepard, author of You Think That's Bad
Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collide with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can't be denied.
In "Housewifely Arts," a single mother and her son drive hours to track down an African gray parrot that can mimic her deceased mother's voice. A population-control activist faces the ultimate conflict between her loyalty to the environment and her maternal desire in "Yesterday's Whales." And in the title story, a lonely naturalist allows an attractive stranger to lead her and her aging father on a hunt for an elusive woodpecker.
As intelligent as they are moving, the stories in Birds of a Lesser Paradise are alive with emotion, wit, and insight into the impressive power that nature has over all of us.
Author Megan Mayhew Bergman grew up in North Carolina and has graduate degrees from Duke University and Bennington College. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals including Ploughshares, Oxford American, One Story, and Narrative. She lives in Vermont, with her veterinarian husband, two daughters, and several animals.
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A "powerful travelogue and personal voyage," now in paperback
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
 "Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved by an author's outward journey."
-Bob Shacochis, Boston Globe
This is the account of a journey to the holiest mountain on earth, the solitary peak of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind. To both Buddhists and Hindus it is the mystic heart of the world and an ancient site of pilgrimage. It has never been climbed. Even today, under Chinese domination, the people of four religions circle the mountain in devotion to different gods.
Colin Thubron reached it by foot along the Karnali River, the highest source of the Ganges. His journey is an entry into the culture of today's Tibet, and a pilgrimage in the wake his mother's death and the loss of his family. He undertakes it in order to mark the event, to leave a sign of their passage. He also explores his own need for solitude, which has shaped his career as a writer - one who travels to places beyond his own history and culture, writing about them and about the journey.
Colin Thubron is an award-winning novelist as well as, arguably, the most admired travel writer of our time. He lives in London.
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In our window
The Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund
"Help Bridge the Gap"
It is the mission of the Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund (CCSF) to assist deserving young men and women from the Concord and Carlisle community in achieving a post-secondary school education.
The Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund "phonathon" is just around the corner - be listening for the phone to ring on Sunday, March 18 and Tuesday, March 20.
A member of the National Honor Society will be on the line to share information about the CCSF, which has granted scholarship aid to over 1,000 students since its inception in 1966.
For more information, visit the Concord Carlisle Scholarship Fund website.
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