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Mon - Fri 9:30 - 6:00
Sat 9:30 - 5:00
Sun Noon - 5:00
Closed Easter Sunday
April 8
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Upcoming Events
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
6/3 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Join us as Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot presents Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
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
9/16 (Sunday) at 3pm-
We welcome novelist Erika Robuck with Hemingway's Girl
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Greetings!
Our next event is Sunday, April 15 at 3pm when Dawn Tripp joins us to read from The Season of Open Water; scroll down to learn more about this novel, which won the Massachusetts Book Award.
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.
This week's book picks include hot new hardcover fiction and favorites now in paperback. 
Have you raised an eyebrow, wondering about our "Not Just for Adults" column display? These are wonderful "crossover" books that appeal to adults and are appropriate for teens. The Harry Potter novels fit this category, as do others such as A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving), The Lottery (Shirley Jackson), Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), The Once and Future King (T.H. White), and Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut). Come in and explore these shelves!
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!"
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Our next event - Massachusetts Book Award winner
Sunday, April 15 at 3pm
Dawn Tripp presents The Season of Open Water
Please join us at the Bookshop on Sunday, April 15 at 3pm when Dawn Tripp joins us to read from, take questions, and sign The Season of Open Water.
Ms. Tripp visited us with Game of Secrets last summer; when we learned that The Season of Open Water had been selected as the town-wide "community read" for Dedham, we invited her to share it here.
The Season of Open Water is the passionate, searing story of a young woman coming of age in a New England seacoast town that is swept up in the dangerous trade of rum-running.
It is October 1927. Bridge Weld is nineteen, headstrong and beautiful, working in her grandfather Noel's boatbuilding shop. When Noel is approached by a local bootlegger to refit a boat for smuggling, he feels in his gut that he should not accept the work, yet he takes the job for the money it offers and for the chance it gives him to build a future for his beloved granddaughter, Bridge, and her brother, Luce. What Noel doesn't count on is that Luce will be lured into the rum work himself and will try to pull Bridge into it with him.
But Bridge has embarked on a different course. Caught up in a passion for Henry, a veteran of World War I, Bridge is propelled beyond the confines of her known world, and ultimately she must choose between the man who loves her and the brother to whom she has been loyal all her life. As Bridge strikes out on her own, Luce's fierce attachment spirals out of control.
Exquisitely written, haunting in its rendering of place, The Season of Open Water is a superb novel about a family and the lawlessness of the heart, a love story that explores the often inescapable connections between violence and desire.
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New novel from Pulitzer Prize winner
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
 "The wonder of Anne Tyler is how consistently clear-eyed and truthful she remains about the nature of families and especially marriage. ... Because love, though necessary, is by its very nature imperfect."
-- Los Angeles Times
Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances - in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
When Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace.
A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler's humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.
Author Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her nineteenth novel; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Contemporary and compassionate
Wish You Were Here: A Novel by Graham Swift
"Wish You Were Here is a book of quiet emotional integrity . . . [which] expertly explores the poignant contrast between irrepressible human hope and the constraints within which we live our finite lives."
-- The Times
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains and to confront his most secret, troubling memories.
A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart-wrenching personal truth.
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Lauded novel (based in biography and memoir) now in paperback
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
 "Goldman's power of description lulls you into forgetting that you're reading a tragedy. . . . He blurs the line between lover and biographer. . . . [Say Her Name] is a map of grief and work and missed chances "
--NPR.org
Praised by over a dozen media outlets as a "best book" of 2011, and winner of the Prix Femina Etranger, Goldman's novel, a moving tribute to his late wife, is now available in paperback.
In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain.
Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe - and always through the prism of her gifted writings - Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humor leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous as it is deep and profound.
Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would've been.
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DFW's final work, now in paperback
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
"...in almost everything Wallace wrote, including The Pale King, he aimed to use words to lasso and somehow subdue the staggering, multifarious, cacophonous predicament that is modern American life."
-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions --questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.
Author David Foster Wallace was born in 1962, received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in hardcover in 2011.
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Concord-Carlisle Adult & Community Education
Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education (CCACE) provides opportunities for lifelong learning to the citizens of the school district and surrounding towns.
Fun statistics about the programs:
- Over 200 local residents participated in the series "Piece of Mind" and learned about brain health last fall
- 374 young musicians met over 12,000 times for after-school instrumental music lessons last year
- 232 community educators taught at Concord-Carlisle Adult & Community Education last year
- "Armchair Travels" has brought people together on Monday nights for over 40 years for exceptional travel photography
Pick up a current catalog from our community window display, or visit the CCACE website to learn more about program offerings in writing, music, parenting, finance, and more!
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