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Thursday 9:30 - 9:00
Friday 9:30 - 6:00
Sat 9:30 - 5:00
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Upcoming Events
3/14 (Thurs) 6 - 7:30pm
Drop-in customer-led group discusses articles and essays in The Sun Magazine
3/17 (Sunday) at 3pm-
We welcome Megan Marshall with Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
3/21 (Thursday) at 7pm-
Lauren Scheuer visits with Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens
4/4 (Thursday) at 7pm-
University of London philosophy professor
A.C. Grayling discusses The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
4/7 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Elizabeth Graver reads from and signs The End of the Point
4/11 (Thurs) 6-7:30pm
Drop-in customer-led group discusses articles and essays in The Sun Magazine
4/21 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Tatiana Holway presents The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created
4/25 (Thursday) at 7pm-
Henriette Lazaridis Power reads from and signs The Clover House
4/28 (Sunday) at 3pm-
An afternoon with memoirists Katrina Kenison (Magical Journey) and Margaret Roach (The Backyard Parables)
5/2 (Thursday) at 7pm-
We welcome novelist Julie Wu with The Third Son
5/16 (Thurs) 6 - 7:30pm
Drop-in customer-led group discusses articles and essays in The Sun Magazine
5/19 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Ted Reinstein, of WCVB-TV's "Chronicle," presents New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories
5/30 (Thursday) at 7pm-
Novelist Daphne Kalotay (Russian Winter) returns to the Bookshop with Sight Reading
6/9 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Erika Robuck (Hemingway's Girl) returns to the Bookshop with Call Me Zelda
6/13 (Thursday) at 7pm-
Pulitzer Prize winning author Joseph Ellis discusses and signs Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
6/14 (Friday) at 7pm-
J. Courtney Sullivan (Commencement, Maine) presents her
new novel, The Engagements
6/20 (Thurs) 6-7:30pm
Drop-in customer-led group discusses articles and essays in The Sun Magazine
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Greetings! The snow from last week's storm is rapidly melting, and we see crocus shoots reaching through through the ground; Spring is on its way! Mark your calendars for these upcoming events: - Thursday, March 14 - The Sun Magazine discussion group
- Sunday, March 17 - Megan Marshall - Margaret Fuller
- Thursday, March 21 - Lauren Scheuer - Once Upon a Flock
- Thursday, April 4 - A. C. Grayling - The God Argument
Remember, if you're unable 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.
Our newsletter features a new book about the Victorian-era evolution debate; a gorgeous generation-spanning novel about an Irish immigrant family (paperback); a history of the Tudors and Henry VII (paperback); also, a wonderful picture book read-aloud by the author of Red Sled.
We've added Kathryn Miles's All Standing to our Signed Books Gallery. Also signed and on our shelves are books by David Sedaris, Joyce Carol Oates, and Kent Harfuf. Visit the store, click this link, or call us for details.
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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Upcoming event: new monthly discussion group
Thursday, March 14, 6:00 - 7:30pm
One Thursday each month, beginning March 14 at 6:00 pm, a group of SUN loving readers will be gathering at the Bookshop.
But these SUN worshippers, unlike those of the UV rite, are dedicated readers of SUN Magazine.
This is an open, customer-led discussion group, and all are welcome to join at anytime. The discussions are lively and camaraderie great.
Take a 90 minute break from your usual mayhem and join us. Additional meet-ups have been scheduled for April 11, May 16, June 20, July 18, and issues of The SUN are available for purchase at the bookstore.
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This Sunday: award-winning biographer presents Margaret Fuller
Sunday, March 17 at 3pm
Megan Marshall presents Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, called "A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer" in a starred Booklist review!
The award-winning author of The Peabody Sisters takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine - Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, first female war correspondent, passionate advocate of personal and political freedom.
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Upcoming event: local-area author memoir about raising chickens
Thursday, March 21 at 7pm
This delightful memoir about life with a spirited, sometimes reckless flock of backyard chickens -inspired by the author's popular blog, "Scratch and Peck."
Once Upon a Flock tells the whimsical, wonderful stories of Lauren Scheuer's backyard chickens, their friendships, rivalries, and secrets. By enthusiastically immersing herself in the flock, Lauren discovers that love, loss, passion and resilience are not only parts of the human experience, but of the chicken experience as well.
Throughout the book, Scheuer documents the humor and drama of the flock's adventures with beautiful photos and charming illustrations.
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Victorian-era explorer caught in the middle of the evolution debate
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel
In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged with a gorilla three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what he'd experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth.
Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time - the evolution debate, racial discourse, the growth of Christian fundamentalism.
Grand in scope, immediate in detail, and propulsively readable, Between Man and Beast brilliantly combines Du Chaillu's personal journey with the epic tale of a world hovering on the sharp edge of transformation.
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Henry VII and the Tudors -
now in paperback
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty -filled with spies, plots, counterplots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII.
Author Thomas Penn holds a Ph.D. in medieval history from Clare College, Cambridge University, and writes for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.
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Love, loss, and change - a novel of an Irish immigrant thru generations
The O'Briens by Peter Behrens
The O'Briens is a family story that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan.
In Joe O'Brien - backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul - Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling character who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice-by-the-Sea, California, the story of their courtship - told in Behrens's gorgeous, honed style - becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. The O'Briens is the story of a marriage and a family moving through history - from the first flying machines, through two world wars, to the election of JFK - told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.
Peter Behrens is the author of The Law of Dreams - which was awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in Canada - and Night Driving, a collection of short stories.
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Kid's pick - from the author/illustrator of Red Sled
Red Hat by Lita Judge
We loved Red Sled, and are happy to have Lita Judge's new book - Red Hat - on our shelves!
In this almost wordless springtime picture book, an adorable crew of baby animals borrows a familiar-looking red hat (last seen on the head of Red Sled's unsuspecting protagonist) and embarks on a joy-filled escapade - until all that is left is a long piece of red string! 
Their playful romp is gorgeously depicted in bold watercolor and complemented by humorous expressions and exuberant sound effects - perfect for a read-aloud.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship by Kathryn Miles
It was a full house when Kathryn Miles visited to read from her book about the Jeanie Johnston, the only one of the Irish "coffin" ships that never lost a passenger during its dozen crossing between Ireland and North America.
During a time when over a million people escaped the Potato Famine to settle across the Atlantic, why did the Jeanie Johnston  succeed when so many others failed?
Ms. Miles looks a social history, economics, the humanitarian crisis, and one particular Irish-American family whose son was born on the maiden voyage of the Jeanie Johnston.
Signed editions are on our shelves!
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