Greetings! 

A short - but sweet - newsletter for this President's Day week --

This coming Sunday (February 24) memoirists Margaret Roach and Katrina Kenison visit the bookshop for an afternoon of inspirational conversation.

Novelists Randy Susan Meyers and Juliette Fay join us on February 28 - details are below.

And, save the date of Sunday, March 3, when Dick Lehr discusses and signs  Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss. He co-authored both Whitey and Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal with Gerard O'Neill. 

Our next event: An afternoon with two inspirational memoirists

Sunday, February 24 at 3pm

We are so fortunate to have - not one, but two - fantastic memoirists visiting with us on Sunday, February 24. Join us as Katrina Kenison discusses her most recent, Magical Journey, and Margaret Roach presents The Backyard Parables.

From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day, Katrina Kenison's intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, and growth will resonate deeply with any woman who has ever mourned the passage of time, questioned her own purpose, or wondered, "Do I have what it takes to create something new in my life?" 

With the candor and warmth that have endeared her to readers, Kenison reflects on the inevitable changes wrought by time: the death of a dear friend, children leaving home, recognition of her own physical vulnerability, and surprising shifts in her marriage. She finds solace in the notion that midlife is also a time of unprecedented opportunity for growth as old roles and responsibilities fall away, and unanticipated possibilities appear on the horizon. 

After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In The Backyard Parables, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.  

Upcoming event: A conversation with novelists Randy Susan Meyers and Juliette Fay

Thursday, February 28 at 7pm

Please join us at the Bookshop on Thursday evening, February 28th, as we welcome Juliette Fay, author of The Shortest Way Home, and Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Comfort of Lies, in a joint reading and conversation.

With The Murderer's Daughters, Randy Susan Meyers established herself as an author to watch, garnering critical praise, award nominations, and passionate reader response. An international bestseller, the powerful first novel was called an "an impressively executed novel, disturbing and convincing" by the Boston Globe.

Now she brings us The Comfort of Lies, a compelling novel about three women caught in the aftermath of infidelity.

Julliette Fay's first novel, Shelter Me, was a 2009 Massachusetts Book Award "Book of the Year;" her second novel, Deep Down True, was short-listed for the Women's Fiction award by the American Library Association. 

She returns with The Shortest Way Home, a novel full of humor and hope for finding yourself where you least expected. This is another perfect serving of a slice of life!

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