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Greetings!
Do you ever wish there were more hours in the day? In a sense, we can make your wishes come true - we're open every Thursday evening until 9pm! That's 3 additional hours for your bookish pleasure. Your feedback tells us that our new Thursday evening hours are a hit -- thanks for stopping in!
Our fall Author Series continues ... In the next few weeks we'll be visited by Ilse Plume, Erika Robuck, and Lee Woodruff! Scroll down to read about these upcoming events, and view our complete schedule in the left sidebar of this newsletter.
We've got some hot new additions in our signed books gallery - Michael Chabon, Louise Penny, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Ilie Ruby.
This week's newsletter picks focus on new picture books - fantasy, non-fiction, and simply FUN!
The community window features the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle, with thoughts on "Democracy in the Balance."
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: 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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Upcoming event: historical fiction
set in Hemingway's Key West
Hemingway's Girl by Erika Robuck
Event date: Sunday, September 16 at 3pm
"Robuck brings Key West to life, and her Hemingway is fully fleshed out and believable, as are Mariella and others. Readers will delight in the complex relationships and vivid setting."
--Publishers Weekly
Author Erika Robuck will here on Sunday, September 16 at 3pm with Hemingway's Girl, her novel set during Ernest Hemingway's years in Key West with his second wife, Pauline. Seen though the eyes of their mixed-race housemaid, Mariella, Hemingway is both larger than life and surprisingly human. Mariella is taken by her feelings for the private side of Hemingway, as she balances this awareness against her attraction for a WWI vet who is part of a group of enlisted men building the Overseas Highway. The contrast of the Hemingway's "rich and famous" lifestyle is a shock to Mariella, who lives with her widowed mother and sisters among fisherman and others who hunger for food and shelter in Depression-era Key West.
The novel is a paperback edition with a reader's guide included; an attractive package for discussion groups. The author is accessible to meet with book groups via Skype.
Erika Robuck was born and raised in Annapolis, Maryland. Inspired by the cobblestones, old churches, Georgian homes, and mingling of past and present, her passion for history is well nourished. Her first novel, Receive Me Falling, is well-regarded historical fiction; her third novel, Call Me Zelda, will be published in the summer of 2013.
Please join us on Sunday! The event is free and open to the public; seating begins at 2:30.
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Save the date: new fiction from best-selling author Lee Woodruff
Those We Love Most by Lee Woodruff
Event Date: Sunday, September 23 at 3pm
When the ties that bind us to those we love are strained or broken, how do we pick up the pieces?
Life is good for Maura Corrigan. Married to her college sweetheart, Pete, raising three young kids with her parents nearby in her peaceful Chicago suburb, her world is secure. Then one day, in a single turn of fate, that entire world comes crashing down and everything that she thought she knew changes.
Those We Love Most chronicles how these unforgettable characters confront their choices, examine their mistakes, fight for their most valuable relationships, and learn what makes their families and marriages tick.
As co-author of the best-selling In an Instant, Lee Woodruff garnered critical acclaim for the compelling and humorous chronicle of her family's journey to recovery following her husband Bob's roadside bomb injury in Iraq. Appearing together on national television and radio since the February 2007 publication of their book, the couple has helped put a face on the serious issue of traumatic brain injury among returning Iraq war veterans, as well as the millions of Americans who live with this often invisible, but life-changing affliction.
They have founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation to assist wounded service members and their families receive the long-term care that they need and help them successfully reintegrate into their communities.
She now works at CBS's This Morning, after being a contributing editor at ABC's Good Morning America. Her second book was a collection of essays, Perfectly Imperfect - A Life in Progress.
In addition to freelance writing, Woodruff ran her own public relations and marketing consulting business for 16 years. She lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and four children.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
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The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
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The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
 
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The Salt God's Daughter by Ilie Ruby
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Picture book picks!
Look ... Look Again by John O'Brien
A pizza, a moon, and a balloon will never look the same!
For twenty-five years, John O'Brien has contributed quirky and one-of-a-kind cartoons to the pages of the New Yorker. Now readers are invited into O'Brien's lopsided universe with a hilarious collection of cartoons created especially for this volume. A farmer, a knight, a clown, and other off-the- wall characters find themselves in an absurd world where the moon is a Frisbee and a hungry pizza may gobble them up.
Visual gags will tickle readers' funny bones and tease their brains, sometimes all at once. Humor fans can expect the unexpected in this wildly entertaining cartoon collection from a brilliant comic mind.
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Wolf Story written by William McCleery
illustrated by Warren Chappell
First published in 1947, this classic is back in print after being unavailable for decades!
Wolf Story is an irresistible book about: a father; his five-year-old son, Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); Michael's best friend Stefan (stalwart listener, equally addicted to stories); and, well-what else? - a story.
Oh, and a wolf. It is as Michael always demands: a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and spins wildly on through subsequent bedtimes and Sunday outings to the beach and park in a succession of ever more trickily tantalizing episodes. Waldo the wolf is sneaking up on Rainbow the hen, when Jimmy Tractorwheel, the son of the local farmer, comes along. After that, there's no knowing what will happen next, as while stalled in traffic jams or nodding off at night, the boys chime in and the story races on and Waldo finds, if not necessarily dinner, his just desserts.
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Following Grandfather written by Rosemary Wells
illustrated by Christopher Denise
Invisible to humans exists a parallel world of mice, where young Jenny misses her cherished grandfather so much that she begins to see him everywhere.
Jenny is as close to her grandfather as a small mouse can be. Grandfather shows Jenny how to button her buttons and how to write her name. He passes along to her the secrets of making the best lasagna in all of Boston. And during long, shared days at Revere Beach, Grandfather teaches Jenny the names of the seashells they find washed up on shore. When Grandfather is all of a sudden gone one day, the hole he leaves behind is too great for Jenny to fathom. Isn't that him turning a corner, sitting on a bench, heading for the pier, walking along their beloved beach? Jenny runs after the familiar silver whiskers, hoping. . . .
Rosemary Wells peels back the layers of grief to reveal, at its core, something as exquisite and achingly beautiful as the rare and storied queen's teacup seashell. Christopher Denise illustrates mid-century Boston with affection, and a mouse and her grandfather with gentle humor and unabashed sympathy.
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First Mothers written by Beverly Gherman
illustrated by Julie Downing
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson's mother ran a plantation by herself, or that Abraham Lincoln's mother was a wrestler? James Madison's mom called him "Jemmy" and made his shirts while he went to college, and Woodrow Wilson created Mother's Day to celebrate all mothers--especially his. Join Beverly Gherman and Julie Downing in this celebration of the women behind the White House. Gherman delightfully dishes fun facts about each mother, and Downing's lively illustrations are sure to enthrall and entertain.
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Oh, No! written by Candace Fleming
illustrated by Eric Rohmann
Young children will delight in repeating the refrain "OH, NO!" as one animal after another falls into a deep, deep hole in this lively read-aloud. This simple and irresistible picture book feels like a classic-in-the-making.
Candace Fleming's most recent picture books include Clever Jack Takes the Cake and Imogene's Last Stand, and she is also the author of the nonfiction titles The Great and Only Barnum, The Lincolns, and Amelia Lost.
Eric Rohmann is a painter, printmaker, and fine bookmaker. His books for children include Caldecott Medal winner My Friend Rabbit and Caldecott Honor book Time Flies.
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Lovabye Dragon written by Barbara Joosse
illustrated by Randy Cecil
In her bed in her room in her castle, a girl longs for a dragon.
In his nest in his cave in his mountain, a dragon dreams of a girl.
When a lonely dragon follows a trail of princess tears, a beautiful friendship is born. They march and sing, roar and whisper, hide and seek, then settle into snug companionship at bedtime.
Barbara Joosse's fiercely protective and gently loving dragon cavorts across the pages, endearingly illustrated by Randy Cecil. At the end of the day, who can resist curling up in the embrace of a lovabye dragon?
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In our window
League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle
"Making Democracy Work"
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
The League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle starts the conversation about "Democracy in the Balance: Money, Speech, and Power" by asking:
- How do you feel?
- What do you think:
- What do you know ....
.... about Campaign Financing and how money influences our government?
For more information, visit the LWVCC website, or call 978-254-1598
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