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Greetings!
There's a festive air in Concord - light poles wrapped in greenery, the Christmas tree in Monument Square, and ribbons and bows on windows up and down the street. Share that festive spirit in the Bookshop, where our staff will be happy to help you find the perfect gift for everyone on your list.
We are delighted to announce that his Sunday, December 9, award-winning children's illustrator Barbara McClintock will visit the Bookshop. The author of Adèle & Simon, and illustrator of dozens of children's books, will discuss her art and her two most recently illustrated books. One, Leave Your Sleep, is illustrated with bright and detailed whimsical drawings, and includes a CD with music sung by Natalie Merchant. The second, Twelve Kinds of Ice, recalls classic New England winter activities.
Scroll down to find more information about this event, and view our complete schedule in the left sidebar of this newsletter. If you're unable to attend an event, but would like a signed book, just call us to have it a copy personalized and we'll hold it for your pick-up or arrange to have it shipped.
We've added to our Signed Books Gallery - first editions of Eve LaPlant's Marmee & Louisa and the collection of Abigail May Alcott's writing, edited by LaPlante. Also, Susannah Cahalan's riveting memoir, Brain on Fire.
This week's newsletter picks include something for dog-lovers (and fans of The New Yorker), a poetry retrospective, a fact-filled football almanac, and new editions of the work of Evelyn Waugh.
The community window highlights the Holiday House Tour to benefit The Concord Museum.
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 children's book illustrator
Leave Your Sleep book and CD set; adapted to music by Natalie Merchant, illustrated by Barbara McClintock
Twelve Kinds of Ice written by Ellen Bryan Obed,
illustrated by Barbara McClintock
Event Date: Sunday, December 9 at 3pm
Award-winning children's author/illustrator Barbara McClintock will visit the Bookshop on Sunday, December 9 at 3pm, discussing the art in two new children's books she has illustrated. More about Leave Your Sleep book and CD set: This collection of classic children's poetry, adapted to music by Natalie Merchant, opens the door to a wondrous world filled with witches and fearless girls, blind men and elephants, giants and  sailors and dancing bears. Leave Your Sleep features a daring and delightful selection. Natalie Merchant's brilliant musical renderings, selected from her highly praised album, share the stage with Barbara McClintock's richly imagined art to create a memorable reading, looking, and listening experience.
More about Twelve Kinds of Ice: With the first ice - a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched - one family's winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice  like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice, the third ice . . . perfect ice . . . the last ice . . . Twelve kinds of ice are carved into twenty nostalgic vignettes, illustrated in elegantly scratched detail by the award-winning Barbara McClintock.Barbara McClintock has illustrated editions of A Child's Garden of Verses, The Gingerbread Man, and The Mitten, among dozens of others. She is author/illustrator of Adèle and Simon and Adèle and Simon in America.Barbara's books have won 4 New York Times Best Books awards, a New York Times Notable Book citation, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor award, and numerous other awards, recommended/best book lists, and starred reviews.
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Sit! Stay! Read!
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs from The New Yorker
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell
Only The New Yorker could fetch such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man's best friend. This copious collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine's archives.
The roster of contributors includes John Cheever, Susan Orlean, Roddy Doyle, Ian Frazier, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Roald Dahl, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Alexandra Fuller, Jerome Groopman, Jeffrey Toobin, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ogden Nash, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Strand, Anne Sexton, and Cathleen Schine.
Complete with a Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell and a new essay by Adam Gopnik on the immortal canines of James Thurber, this gorgeous keepsake is a gift to dog lovers everywhere from the greatest magazine in the world.
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Career retrospective of Nobel Laureate
The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz,
edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger
Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger - who has been translating Paz for over forty years.
In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Paz is "a writer for the entire world to celebrate" (Chicago Tribune), "the poet-archer who goes straight to the heart and mind, where the center of being is one" (Nadine Gordimer), "the living conscience of his age" (Mario Vargas Llosa), "a poet-prophet, a genius" (Harold Bloom).
This edition includes many poems that have never been translated into English before, new translations based on Paz's final revisions, and a brilliant capsule biography of Paz by Weinberger, as well as notes on the poems in Paz's own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his life.
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For fans of the game - on the field, on the bleachers, or on the couch
Sports Illustrated Football's Greatest
from the editors of Sports Illustrated
This is the book to end all arguments - and to start many others. Who's the greatest quarterback of all time, Joe Montana or Tom Brady? Brett Favre? Who was the most dominate linebacker, Lawrence Taylor or Dick Butkus? Was Deion Sanders better than Ronnie Lott? Are the Packers of Steelers the greatest franchise ever?
Sports Illustrated has polled its pro football experts to determine the Top 10 in more than 20 categories. The rankings appear alongside stirring photography and classic stories from SI's archives. This is the best of the NFL's best, or more simply, FOOTBALL'S GREATEST.
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New editions of Evelyn Waugh
 These are striking new paperback editions of Evelyn Waugh's novels and complete short stories.
A thoughtful gift to introduce a friend to a favorite work.
Titles include:
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
Marmee & Louisa and My Heart is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother by Eve LaPlante
We had a wonderful visit with award-winning biographer Eve LaPlante, discussing her two new books - Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother is a dual-biography that sheds light on the many ways Abigail May Alcott influenced her the way Louisa lived her life, and her writing.
Ms. LaPlante has also edited My Heart is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother. This is collection of Abigail May Alcott's private writings, which provide an intimate portrait of the real woman behind the fiction.
After reading from her recent works and discussing her connection to the Alcott family (LaPlant is a great niece and a first cousin of Abigail and Louisa May Alcott), she and the audience had a lively and engaging Q&A.
Signed editions of both books are on our shelves!
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
We were delighted when Susannah Cahalan stopped in to sign copies of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness.
This is a memoir like no other you've read - in 2009, at the age of 24, Ms. Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records - chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all - showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability.
A team of doctors spent a month - and more than a million dollars - trying desperately to pin down a medical explanation for what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, as the days passed and her family, boyfriend, and friends helplessly stood watch by her bed, she began to move inexorably through psychosis into catatonia and, ultimately, toward death. Yet even as this period nearly tore her family apart, it offered an extraordinary testament to their faith in Susannah and their refusal to let her go.
Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity and to rediscover herself among the fragments left behind. Using all her considerable journalistic skills, and building from hospital records and surveillance video, interviews with family and friends, and excerpts from the deeply moving journal her father kept during her illness, Susannah pieces together the story of her "lost month" to write an unforgettable memoir about memory and identity, faith and love. It is an important, profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance.
Signed editions are here!
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In our window
Holiday House Tour to benefit the Concord Museum
On the second annual Holiday House Tour, organized by the Guild of Volunteers of the Concord Museum, seven of Concord's most beautiful private homes will be professionally decorated in the holiday spirit by local and Boston-based interior designers. From 11:00-4:00 on Saturday, December 8th, guests will be welcomed inside the front doors of these gracious private residences to visit the charming ground floor rooms. From Colonial to Victorian to Shingle Style and more, each house will be decorated in a different holiday theme.
The Concord Museum welcomes you to spend the day in Concord, a small town with a big history, and enjoy the elegant streets, charming cafés and shops, as well as the many historic homes.
Tickets are available in advance at the Concord Museum or by phone (978) 369-9763 ext. 216.
For more information about The Concord Museum and its programs, visit their website or "like" them on Facebook.
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