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Greetings! Baby, it's cold outside! Sit down with a warm cuppa, plan your reading, then bundle up and come on in to browse the Bookshop!
Our next event is Sunday, January 27, when Drs. Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky join us to discuss how we can be our own best medical advocates.
And, next Thursday evening, best-selling novelist Jennifer Haigh joins us to talk about News from Heaven, her first published collection of short stories.
As with all our events, if you can't visit us in person to purchase a signed copy of the featured book, you're welcome to call or email before the event - we'll ask the author to personally inscribe the book to your specifications, and will arrange to ship the book or hold it for pick up.
We're featuring some great new paperbacks this week - the ins and outs of yoga; the elegant prose of Richard Ford; a thriller full of international intrigue. Also, a lavishly illustrated hardcover from our Bargain Books!
Scroll down to see what's new in our Signed Books Gallery ... OK, we'll give you a hint --> David Sedaris!
You can also take a peek at a fun new display in our Children's Section. "Talk Like a Pirate Day" isn't until the fall, but you can get a jump start on all your "ahoy mateys" and "yo ho hos" with this Arrr Arrr Awesome selection of pirate favorites.
World Book Night US is back! Save the date of April 23, and be a Book Giver - "help spread the love of reading, person to person." Details and sign-ups are at the World Book Night US web site; hurry - application deadline is January 25!
Our community window highlights the offerings of the Concord Center Cultural Districts - shops, museums, music, art ... come, explore!
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.
Comments are always welcome via email to
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Our next event: Being your own best medical advocate
When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests
by Dr. Leana Wen and Dr. Joshua Kosowsky
Join us on Sunday, January 27 at 3pm, and learn how to be your own best healthcare advocate when it comes to getting the proper diagnosis and treatment.
In When Doctors Don't Listen, two Harvard physicians, Leana Wen, M.D. and Joshua Kosowsky, M.D., teach patients that they need to advocate for their own health by doing one very simple thing: asking for a diagnosis when they go to see their doctor. They offer "8 Pillars to Better Diagnosis" so patients can help their doctors reach the right diagnosis.
The book offers action tips and worksheets to deal with scenarios such as what to do with the doctor who is too busy to listen to you and how to work with your doctor to figure out what tests you need - and what tests you don't need.
Wen and Kosowsky give voice to what a growing number of healthcare providers have come to believe: that the way medicine is taught and practiced is in urgent need of change, and now is the time to address it. Theirs is not, however, a top-down approach; instead, it requires patients to take the lead to usher in a new era that will not only improve individual medical care, but also lead the way to meaningful healthcare reform.
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Upcoming event: Short fiction collection from best-selling novelist
News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh
"Jennifer Haigh has accomplished what James Joyce did in Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio: render a place with such exactitude the landscape, character, and fate are inextricably linked. One of America's finest novelists, Haigh is now one of our finest short story writers as well."
-- Bestselling author Ron Rash
Please help us welcome Jennifer Haigh on Thursday, January 31st at 7 pm, reading from her collection of short stories, News From Heaven.
Long before she wrote such New York Times bestselling novels as Faith and The Condition, Jennifer Haigh was a passionate student and teacher, reader and writer, of the short story. Though widely published in magazines -- from The Atlantic Monthly and Granta to The Saturday Evening Post - her stories have never before appeared in book form.
News from Heaven is a collection of ten new stories set in and around the fictionalized mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania - a world familiar to readers of Baker Towers, Haigh's award-winning second novel, beloved by readers and critics alike. This is an honest and anguished portrait of a company town on an unsettling journey from boom to bust, where intimate secrets and public events collide with unexpected consequences.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jennifer Haigh has been published in The Best American Short Stories 2012,won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England writer. Her books have been published in sixteen languages.
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Untwist yoga myths from facts -
now in paperback
The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
by William J Broad
"After reading The Science of Yoga, I am even more awed by the magnificent complexities of the human body and mind, and astonished that we can exert so much control over this invisible realm through the practice of yoga. Broad has not only thoroughly researched his topic, he has lived it."
-- Alan Lightman,
author of Einstein's Dreams
The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what's real and shows what's illusory, describes what's uplifting and beneficial and what's flaky and dangerous - and why. Broad unveils a burgeoning global industry that attracts not only curious scientists but true believers and charismatic hustlers. He shatters myths, lays out unexpected benefits, and offers a compelling vision of how the ancient practice can be improved.
William J. Broad has practiced yoga since 1970. A bestselling author and senior writer at The New York Times, he has won every major award in print and television during more than thirty years as a science journalist. With New York Times colleagues, he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, as well as an Emmy Award and a DuPont. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
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Most recent from Richard Ford - now in paperback
Canada by Richard Ford
"Pure vocal grace, quiet humor, precise and calm observation."
--The New Yorker
If John didn't sell you this book (one of his favorites!) when it was first out in hardcover last summer, come on in and get it in a paperback edition now!
When fifteen-year-old Del Parsons' parents rob a North Dakota bank, his normal life is altered forever, and a threshold is crossed that can never be uncrossed. His parents' imprisonment threatens a turbulent and uncertain future for Del and his twin sister, Berner. Fierce with resentment, Berner flees their Montana home for California. But Del is not completely abandoned. A family friend spirits him across the Canadian border toward safety and a better life. There, afloat on the Saskatchewan prairie, Del finds only cold refuge from Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and alluring American fugitive with a dark and violent past.
Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery, Del struggles to remake himself. But his search for grace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with the forces of darkness that shadow us all.
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.
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International intrigue for an American abroad -
now in paperback
The Expats by Chris Pavone
Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.
She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done - playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored.
Kate becomes suspicious that people are not who they say they are, and she's terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her.
Author Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Cornell. For nearly two decades he was a book editor and ghostwriter; he is also the author of The Wine Log. Chris and his family have lived in Luxembourg, but recently returned to New York City.
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Don't be fooled by this bargain book!
Bird Decoys of North America: Nature, History, and Art
by Robert Shaw
Original publisher price of $40, this is on our Bargain Book table for only $12.99 -- oversized (about 10.5 inches square), and lavishly illustrated, it's a treat anyone with an interest in art, history, or decoy collecting.
Sumptuous, informative, and written by a leading scholar in the field, this is the ultimate book on North American bird decoys. Shaw provides an insightful look at the decoy's Native American origins through its evolution, and demonstrates that although they were created as humble tools, decoys are also works of art, examples of craftsmanship and ingenuity, and pieces of history.
The 300 stunning illustrations include delicate paintings by John James Audubon, as well as both historic and contemporary photography.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
David Sedaris
"It's not just that Sedaris's crisp prose is humorous. 
What makes his work a consistent joy to read is his deliciously skewed vision of the world, and his deadpan delivery."
--Boston Globe
We were delighted to be invited to sell books at a private event with David Sedaris at Concord Academy -- David is a humorist and author, a regular contributor to The New Yorker and NPR's "This American Life."
He is a wonderfully engaging performer, and very attentive to his fans. He signed books both before and after the show, staying until every last person had a chance to speak with him. No photos of the author/humorist were allowed, but this *is* the chair he sat in while signing!
He also signed a number of books for us - you'll find these in our Humor section and in our Signed Books Gallery:
Barrel Fever
Dress Your Family Corduroy and Denim
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Naked
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (both paperback and hardcover editions)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
  
 
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Ahoy, Mateys! Come, visit our Children's Section!
Yo ho ho and a table full of books!
Calling all pirates -- take a sail on the seven seas and discover this treasure trove of pirate-themed books.
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In our window
Concord Center Cultural District
In August 2012, thanks to the efforts of the Concord Chamber of Commerce, Concord Center was designated a Cultural District by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).
Per the MCC's website, a state-designated Cultural District is "a compact, walkable area of a community with a concentration of cultural facilities, activities, and assets."
The Concord Center Cultural District is a picturesque New England village that looks like a page out of history. 18th, 19th and 20th century buildings in a National Historic District are the backdrops for world-class dance performances, concerts and art exhibitions. Although you see a bit of history at every turn, you are invigorated by history being made today by goldsmiths handcrafting jewelry, artists creating works of art and teaching their craft, and performers taking an evening dining experience to another level.
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