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Upcoming Events
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
6/17 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Special Father's Day event - Jerry Pallotta presents F Is for Fenway, an alphabet book for Red Sox fans of all ages
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
Lee Woodruff presents Those We Love Most, a novel
9/30 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Maryanne O'Hara presents Cascade
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Greetings!
Our next event is Sunday, June 3 at 3pm, when Harvard sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot presents Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by Q&A, and book signing.
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 to learn about an exciting addition to our signed books gallery and this week's book picks, which include Nancy Mitford's biography of Louis XIV and Denis Johnson's most recent novella (now in paperback) - John says Train Dreams is deserving of the Pulitzer.
We have a new column display featuring Toni Morrison. Watch for this changing feature, our "author of the month."
Our community window looks just ducky! Lucky Ducky, that is, promoting Milldam Nursery School's 7th Annual Ducky Race and Fair, to be held on Saturday, June 2.
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" and let us know what you're reading now!
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Our next event:
Renowned Harvard sociologist presents on June 3
Exit by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Please join us on Sunday, June 3 at 3pm, when Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot presents her research on the wisdom of saying goodbye in Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There's a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and our ability "to master and mark the larger farewells."
In Exit, her tenth book, she explores the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next; how we anticipate, define, and reflect on our departures; our epiphanies that something is over and done with.
Too often, Lawrence-Lightfoot believes, we exalt new beginnings at the expense of learning from our goodbyes. Exit finds wisdom and perspective in the possibility of moving on and marks the start of a new conversation, to help us discover how we might make our exits with purpose and dignity.
Author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where, since 1972, she has studied the culture of families, communities, and schools, and the relationships between human development and social change.
She is the author of ten books, including The Third Chapter, Respect, and The Essential Conversation. In 1993, she was awarded Harvard's George Ledlie Prize; she is the recipient of twenty-eight honorary degrees and is the first African-American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
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New in Our Signed Books Gallery
Canada by Richard Ford
When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed.
His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner. Willful and burning with resentment, Berner flees their home in Montana, abandoning her brother and her life. But Dell is not completely alone. A family friend intervenes, spiriting him across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him to a better life. There, afloat on the prairie of Saskatchewan, Dell is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and charismatic American whose cool reserve masks a dark and violent nature.
Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery and arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew. But his search for grace and peace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with Remlinger, an elemental force of darkness.
A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic.
Richard Ford is the author of the Bascombe novels, which include The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day - the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award - and The Lay of the Land, as well as the short story collections Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford.
Signed editions of Canada are on our shelves.
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Mitford's biography of Louis XIV - back in print, paperback edition
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
"[Mitford's] interest is focused on the human beings whose hopes, frustrations, and tragedies are hidden behind the stiff brocade of the period. The splendid century had its seamy side, and her racy narrative alternates between the glory and the grime, the ermine and the vermin."
-The New York Times
The Sun King has been out of print for years; we're thrilled to have it back in this attractive NYRB paperback edition!
The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France's golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and gardeners responsible for the creation of the most magnificent palace Europe had yet seen.
Mitford lays bare the complex and deadly intrigues in the stateroom and the no less high-stakes power struggles in the bedroom. At the center of it all is Louis XIV himself, the demanding, mercurial, but remarkably resilient sovereign who guided France through nearly three quarters of the Grand Siècle.
Brimming with sumptuous detail and delicious bons mots, and written in a witty, conversational style, The Sun King restores a distant glittering century to vibrant life.
Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, about the foibles of the English upper class. Nancy Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970). In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin's disease.
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Lauded novella, now in paperback
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
"The gothic sensibility of the wilderness and isolated settings and Native American folktales, peppered liberally with natural and human-made violence, add darkness to a work that lingers viscerally with readers . . . Highly recommended."
-Library Journal (starred)
- A New York Times Notable Book
- An Esquire Best Book of 2011
- A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011
- A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011
- John Netzer's pick for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!
Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.
It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century -- an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, this novella captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
Denis Johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award.
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Featured author - Toni Morrison
Visit our column display of the "author of the month," currently featuring American author Toni Morrison, whose most recent novel, Home, we highlighted last week.
Ms. Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Princeton University. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2008 she was nominated for a Grammy Award for the audio of her children's book Who's Got Game?
She is the author of novels, children's literature, short fiction, plays, libretti, non-fiction articles, and essays.
Her ten novels include:
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In our window
Milldam Nursery School's 7th Annual Ducky Race and Fair
Milldam Nursery School's 1800 rubber ducks are gearing up for their 7th Annual Ducky Race and Fair, to be held on Saturday, June 2nd from 10 am to noon at Emerson Playground, 90 Stow Street in Concord (in case of rain, the event will take place in the Hunt Gymnasium in the same location).
This year the Ducky Race and Fair will once again feature its famous Lucky Ducky Raffle, where 30 prizes valued at over $3,000 will be awarded, including an iPad2, iPod, gift certificates to area restaurants, concert tickets and much, much more.
The 7th Annual Ducky Race and Fair will also bring to Emerson Playground a petting zoo of baby animals; an opportunity to explore a real fire truck; a dunk tank and other old-fashioned children's carnival games; face-painting and a silent auction. Join us for the Bubble Ducky Parade and try your hand at our arts and crafts table.
As Milldam Nursery School's largest fundraising event, proceeds support the school's enrichment and scholarship programs so that every child, regardless of family income, can participate in a meaningful and nurturing preschool experience during a critical developmental period.
For more information, or to sponsor a Ducky for just $10, visit the Milldam Nursery School website.
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