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Thursday 9:30 - 9:00
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Now open every Thursday night until 9!
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Greetings!
We announced this last week, but it bears repeating ... You asked for evening hours, we heard you! As of Thursday, September 6, the Concord Bookshop will be open every Thursday night until 9pm!
Our fall Author Series begins this week! In the next ten days we'll be visited by Hank Phillippi Ryan, Ilie Ruby, Ilse Plume, and Erika Robuck! Scroll down to read about three of these upcoming events, and view our complete schedule in the left sidebar of this newsletter.
This week's newsletter picks include the most recent in Louise Penny's "Inspector Gamache" mystery series, and new paperback editions of award-winning fiction and non-fiction.
The community window features the Concord-Carlisle Adult and Continuing Education, with their FREE Armchair Travels series.
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 - Thursday, September 6 at 7pm
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
 Seduction, betrayal, and murder ...
Join us as we welcome Hank Phillippi Ryan, reading from and signing her most recent mystery - The Other Woman - on Thursday, September 6 at 7pm. This is the first in an explosive new series.
Hank Phillippi Ryan is is the investigative reporter for Boston's NBC affiliate, and has won twenty-seven Emmys and ten Edward R. Murrow awards. A bestselling author of four mystery novels, Ryan has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards.
More about The Other Woman:
Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news...until she refused to reveal a source and lost everything. Now a disgraced newspaper reporter, Jane isn't content to work on her assigned puff pieces, and finds herself tracking down a candidate's secret mistress just days before a pivotal Senate election.
Detective Jake Brogan is investigating a possible serial killer. Twice, bodies of unidentified women have been found by a bridge, and Jake is plagued by a media swarm beginning to buzz about a "bridge killer" hunting the young women of Boston.
As the body count rises and election looms closer, it becomes clear to Jane and Jake that their cases are connected...and that they may be facing a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to silence a scandal.
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Upcoming event with local author Ilie Ruby - Sunday, Sept. 9 at 3pm
The Salt God's Daughter by Ilie Ruby
Local author Ilie Ruby (author of The Language of Trees) celebrates her most recent novel, The Salt God's Daughter, at a book launch on Sunday, September 9 at 3pm!
Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, "The Salt God's Daughter" follows three generations of extraordinary women who share something unique-something magical and untamed that makes them unmistakably different from others. Theirs is a world teeming with ancestral stories, exotic folklore, inherited memory, and meteoric myths.
Impeccably narrated in two powerful and distinctive voices, The Salt God's Daughter puts a feminist spin on a traditional Scottish folktale about the selkies-a provocative, timeless story that explores our ability to transcend the limitations of a world that can be hostile to those who are different, and to find joy and belonging in our unmistakable humanness.
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Upcoming event: award-winning illustrator - Friday, Sept. 14 at 4pm
The Year Comes Round: Haiku through the Seasons
written by Sid Farrar, illustrated by Ilse Plume
Caldecott Honor recipient Ilse Plume will visit the Bookshop on Friday, September 14 at 4pm to talk about her most recent work - a collaboration with author Sid Farrar in which she illustrated a book of seasonal haiku poems.
Kirkus Reviews calls this picture book of poetry "a richly illustrated view of the seasons through haiku."
The book contains twelve nature-themed haiku accompanied by lush illustrations take the reader from January to December. This is a great way to introduce children to the traditional Japanese poetry form.
Ilse Plume is a local resident with studios at Concord's Emerson Umbrella; she is a collector and illustrator of children's songs and folk tales from around the world. Her first book, The Bremen Town Musicians, was a Caldecott Honor book for 1981. She has since created many other beautiful works, including The Twelve Days of Christmas, and Saint Francis and the Wolf. She has illustrated books by Jane Langton, Nancy Willard, and Charlotte Zolotow. This fall Ilse will be teaching illustration classes at the Museum School in Boston and the Emerson Umbrella.
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New Louise Penny mystery!
The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by Louise Penny
"Penny writes with grace and intelligence about complex people struggling with complex emotions. But her great gift is her uncanny ability to describe what might seem indescribable - the play of light, the sound of celestial music, a quiet sense of peace."
-- The New York Times
The Beautiful Mystery - Louise Penny's 8th Inspector Gamache novel - is about the plain chant at the heart of their monastic life and the power of that music to inspire and corrupt. But Chief Inspector Gamache soon discovers something else, hiding in the silence. Tyranny.
Gamache and Beauvoir are faced with an unsettling question. Was the monk murdered by the tyrant, or because he was the tyrant?
In the great silence of the monastery, Gamache and Beauvoir come face to face with their own truths, and their own tyrants. While so many are kneeling down, Gamache must discover if he has the courage to stand up. To speak up.
Louise Penny is the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of seven previous novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Her debut, Still Life, won the John Creasey Dagger and the Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys Awards, and was named one of the five Mystery/Crime Novels of the Decade by Deadly Pleasures magazine. Penny was the first author ever to win the Agatha Award for Best Novel four times in a row - for A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, and The Brutal Telling (which also received the Anthony Award for Best Novel), and Bury Your Dead (which also won the Dilys, Arthur Ellis, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero Awards). She lives in a small village south of Montréal.
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National Book Award winner -
now in paperback
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen J. Greenblatt
"[A] nonfiction wonder . . . part adventure tale, part enthralling history of ideas."
--Maureen Corrigan, NPR
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
The copying and translation of this ancient book - the greatest discovery of the greatest book - hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.
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#1 bestseller - now in paperback
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
"Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas."
-- Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
The Marriage Plot was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and named "best book of the year" by over a dozen publications -- read what you've been missing in the brand new paperback edition.
Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce?
It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.
As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes -- the charismatic and intense Leonard Bankhead, and her old friend the mystically inclined Mitchell Grammaticus. As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned. Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in "his most powerful novel yet" (Newsweek).
Author Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.
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In our window
Concord Carlisle Adult and Community Ed - Armchair Travel
Join Concord-Carlisle Adult & Community Education for their FREE fall "armchair travel" series.
The programs meet on Monday evenings, 7pm-8pm at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center.
On various night throughout the season, we'll visit:
- Armenia, Georgia, & Azerbaijan (10/1)
- India (10/15)
- Bhutan (10/29)
- Tuscany - A Painter's Paradise (11/12)
- Sailing in Newfoundland (12/3)
For more information, and to register, visit the Concord-Carlisle Adult & Community Education website or call 978-318-1432.
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