| | |
Store Hours
| |
Mon - Wed 9:30 - 6:00
Thursday 9:30 - 9:00
Friday 9:30 - 6:00
Sat 9:30 - 5:00
Sun Noon - 5:00
We are closed March 30, Easter Sunday
Open 24/7 online at:
|
|
Upcoming Events
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
6/2 (Sunday) at 3pm-
Novelist Meg Donohue presents All the Summer Girls
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
|
|
Greetings! It's time for our mid-week reminder of upcoming events: - Thursday, April 4 - A. C. Grayling - The God Argument
- Sunday, April 7 - Elizabeth Graver - The End of the Point
Our newsletter features a beautifully illustrated book of poetry that the entire family will appreciate; WWII history from the author of Citizens of London; paperback editions of best-selling memoirs (Cheryl Strayed's Wild and R. A. Dickey's Wherever I Wind Up) and a favorite novel; also, we introduce a fun new children's series, sure to be a hit with our Middle Grade readers.
We've added Elizabeth Strout's The Burgess Boys, Jacqueline Winspear's Leaving Everything Most Loved, and Lauren Scheuer's Once Upon a Flock to our Signed Books Gallery.
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
|
|
|
Our next event: humanism as an alternative to organized religion
Thursday, April 4 at 7pm
A powerful argument for humanism as an alternative to organized religion, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals.
Examining all the arguments for and against religion and religious belief - across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious and how they stand up to scrutiny - The God Argument is a landmark book in the ongoing debate about the place of religion and secularism in our world.
|
|
Our next event: award-winning author with "eloquent new novel"
Sunday, April 7 at 3pm
We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Graver, reading from her fourth novel, remarked upon for its "engaging, expansive storytelling" in a New York Times Sunday Book Review.
A place out of time, Ashaunt Point - a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts - has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore.
This is an unforgettable portrait of one family's journey through the second half of the twentieth century, artfully probing the hairline fractures hidden beneath the surface of our lives and traces the fragile and enduring bonds that connect us. With subtlety and grace, Elizabeth Graver illuminates the powerful legacy of family and place, exploring what we are born into, what we pass down, preserve, cast off or willingly set free.
Elizabeth Graver is the author of the novels Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her work has been anthologized in many volumes, including Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Boston College and lives west of Boston.
|
|
Illustrated book of poetry for all ages and interests
Poems to Learn by Heart selected by Caroline Kennedy,
illustrated by Jon J. Muth
This is a beautifully illustrated book of poetry for all ages, almost 200 pages of poems selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.
There's a poem to celebrate every moment in life; a poem is a gift of the heart that can inspire, reassure, or challenge us. Memorize it - share it - it's yours forever.
In this diverse collection, Ms. Kennedy has chosen poems that speak to all of us: the young and young at heart, readers new to poetry and devoted fans. These poems explore deep emotions, as well as ordinary experiences. They cover the range of human experience and imagination.
Illustrated with striking watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J. Muth, this is truly a book for all ages and interests, and one that families will want to share for years to come.
|
|
Lauded historian looks at WWII
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson
Lynne Olson's last book, Citizens of London, told the story of three prominent Americans who supported Britain during the dark early years of World War II when Britain alone in Europe held out against Hitler.
Those Angry Days views these years of crisis from the American side, as the country divided into interventionist and isolation factions who fought in Washington, in the press, even in the streets to express their vehement convictions. Personifying this bitter struggle were FDR, in support of the British, and Charles Lindbergh, America's most outspoken isolationist. Their high-profile battles add to the drama and poignancy of this crucial two-year period of U.S. history.
|
|
Best-selling memoir -
now in paperback
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Now in paperback - named a "Best Book of the Year" by NPR, and a #1 New York Times Bestseller: a powerful, blazingly honest, and inspiring memoir of a young woman, reeling from catastrophe, who hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest trail to break herself down - and build herself back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - and she would do it alone.
Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
|
|
Baseball pitcher's inspiring memoir -
now in paperback
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball by R.A. Dickey with Wayne Coffey
This baseball superstar's searingly honest memoir "has set a new standard for athlete autobiographies" (Publishers Weekly)
In 1996, R.A. Dickey was the Texas Rangers' much-heralded No. 1 draft choice. Then, a routine physical revealed that his right elbow was missing its ulnar collateral ligament, and his lifelong dream - along with his $810,000 signing bonus - was ripped away. Yet despite being twice consigned to baseball's scrap heap, Dickey battled back. Today, he is the starting pitcher for the New York Mets and one of the National League's premier players.
Sustained by his faith, the love of his family, and a relentless quest for self-awareness, Dickey overcame extraordinary setbacks. Whatever their team allegiance or personal faith, baseball fans everywhere will embrace Dickey's life-affirming message and the quintessentially American tale that he so eloquently shares.
|
|
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize - now in paperback
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The national bestseller about the silent regrets that erode a marriage and the simple acts of faith and forgiveness that build it anew.
Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, whom he hasn't heard from in 20 years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye.
Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores, Harold intends a quick walk to the corner mailbox to post his reply but instead, inspired by a chance encounter, he becomes convinced he must deliver his message in person to Queenie - who is 600 miles away - because as long as he keeps walking, Harold believes that she will not die. A novel of charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller.
|
|
Kid's pick - new comic series
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis
A recipe for a page-turning, laugh-inducing clever new series:
- Take eleven-year-old Timmy Failure - the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation.
- Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear named Total.
- Throw in the Failuremobile - Timmy's mom's Segway.
- Stir it all up, and what you have is Total Failure, Inc., a global enterprise destined to make Timmy so rich his mother won't have to stress out about the bills anymore.
With perfectly paced visual humor, Stephan Pastis gets you snorting with laughter, then slyly carries the joke a beat further - or sweetens it with an unexpected poignant moment Stephan Pastis is the creator of "Pearls Before Swine," an acclaimed comic strip; his 2011 compilation Larry in Wonderland debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback graphic novels.
|
|
New in our Signed Books Gallery
Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a south-London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
Thus begins the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling "Maisie Dobbs" series.
Signed First Editions are in the Bookshop!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout 
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge returns with an extraordinary novel about two brothers living in Brooklyn whose lives are irrevocably altered when they are called back to rural Maine by their sister, whose nineteen-year-old son is embroiled in a scandal of his own making.
Signed editions are on our shelves!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens
by Lauren Scheuer
We had a wonderful evening when Lauren Scheuer visited to read from and discuss Once Upon a Flock. The audience loved her tale of embracing a flock of chickens as more than "just" pretty lawn ornaments - they became full-fledged family members, complete with distinctive wants, needs, and personalities. She shared the story of Lucy, a special hen with special needs ... details are in this heartwarming book, which is lavishly illustrated with drawings and photos.
Ms. Scheuer signed books, sketching a chicken in each one. This book appeals to adults and "high middle grade" readers.
Signed/sketched books are here!
|
|
|
