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Upcoming Events
6/7 (Friday) at 7pm-
We welcome Claire Messud with The Woman Upstairs
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
6/20 (Thursday) at 7pm-
Amy Brill presents The Movement of Stars. The event will be introduced by Tracy Winn, author of Mrs. Somebody Somebody
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Greetings! Wow! We know that you're listening when we ask a question! Last week we asked if you follow us on Facebook, and an additional thirty readers of our newsletter joined our Facebook page. If you'd like to join the fun, click here to "like" us and keep in touch. Please know that we're listening, too, and will be happy to address and questions or comments you have when you visit the store, via the Facebook page, or emailed to info.concordBookshop@gmail.com This week's newsletter features three great books now in paperback, and a hot-off-the-presses novel from National Book Award winner Colum McCann. We have signed books from Meg Donohue and Nichole Bernier. Explore our "signed books gallery" when you're in the store for extra special gift ideas. A reminder about some upcoming events at the Bookshop: - Friday, June 7 - Claire Messud and The Woman Upstairs
- Sunday, June 9 - Erika Robuck and Call Me Zelda
- Thursday, June 13 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis discusses Revolutionary Summer
- Friday, June 14 - J. Courtney Sullivan and The Engagements
A full list of scheduled events is on the sidebar of this newsletter. Remember, if you're unable to attend an event, but would like a signed/inscribed copy of the featured book, we'll be happy to arrange that for you - just call us (978-369-2405), or send an email to books@concordBookshop.com.
Take a peek in our community window to learn more about the FOPAC performances of "The Merry Widow" at 51 Walden.
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."
Comments are always welcome via email to
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Our next event: Claire Messud presents The Woman Upstairs
Friday, June 7 at 7pm
Join us at the Bookshop on Friday, June 7 at 7pm when we welcome the award-winning author Claire Messud, with her new novel, The Woman Upstairs.
This is a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements.
Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahids - her new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese professor who has come to Boston for a fellowship at Harvard, and Sirena, an effortlessly alluring Italian artist.
Nora is drawn deep into the complex world of the Shahid family; she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora's happiness explodes her boundaries, and she discovers in herself an unprecedented ferocity - one that puts her beliefs and her sense of self at stake.
Told with urgency, intimacy and piercing emotion, this brilliant novel of passion and artistic fulfillment explores the intensity, thrill-and the devastating cost-of embracing an authentic life.
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Upcoming event: Erika Robuck presents Call Me Zelda
Sunday, June 9 at 3pm
Join us at the Bookshop on
Sunday, June 9 at 3pm when we welcome Erika Robuck, with Call Me Zelda.
Ms. Robuck visited the Bookshop last fall with Hemingway's Girl, which told the story of Hemingway's Key West days, through the perspective of a fictional housemaid. Now comes a richly imagined tale of Zelda Fitzgerald's love, longing, and struggle against ever-threatening insanity, as seen through the eyes of a psychiatric nurse.
From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, but those who really knew them saw their inner turmoil.
Committed to a Baltimore psychiatric hospital in 1932, Zelda vacillates between lucidity and madness as she fights to forge an identity independent of her famous husband. She discovers a sympathetic ear in her nurse Anna Howard, who finds herself drawn into the Fitzgeralds' tumultuous lives and wonders which of them is the true genius. But in taking greater emotional risks to save Zelda, Anna may end up paying a far higher price than she ever intended.
In this thoroughly researched, deeply moving novel, Erika Robuck explores the boundaries of female friendship, the complexity of marital devotion, and the sources of both art and madness.
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New fiction from award-winning novelist Colum McCann
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
In this story of dark and light, men and women, history and past, fiction and fact, National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCann delivers a tour de force that is his most spectacular achievement to date.
In 1845 a black American slave lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. In 1919, two brave young airmen emerge from the carnage of WWI to pilot the very first transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. And in 1998 an American senator criss-crosses the ocean in search of a lasting Irish peace.
Colum McCann is the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, and Songdogs, as well as two story collections. He has received many international honors, including the National Book Award, International Dublin Impac Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, election to the Irish arts academy, and an Oscar nomination, in addition to several European awards.
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An "urgent social message"
now in paperback
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
"With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message... a clarion call about climate change, too lucid and vivid for even skeptics to ignore."
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction.
The novel takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She received the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, and in 2010 won Britain's Orange Prize for The Lacuna. The Poisonwood Bible was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
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Fiction from Dave Eggers -
now in paperback
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
- A National Book Award Finalist
- One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
- One of the "Best Books of the Year" from The Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In this most recent novel, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together.
Eggers is the author of six previous books, including Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. What Is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's Prix Medici. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's; in 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco.
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Furst's latest historical spy novel -
now in paperback
Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
"Vividly re-creates the excitement and growing gloom of the City of Light in 1938-39...It doesn't get more action-packed and grippingly atmospheric than this."
--The Boston Globe
Late summer, 1938. Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. The Nazis know he's coming - a secret bureau within the Reich has been waging political warfare against France, and for their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence. What they don't know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy.
Mission to Paris is filled with heart-stopping tension, beautifully drawn scenes of romance, and extraordinarily alive characters: foreign assassins; a glamorous Russian actress-turned-spy; and the women in Stahl's life. At the center of the novel is the city of Paris - its bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it were their last. Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it.
Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into eighteen languages, he is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, The Spies of Warsaw, and Spies of the Balkans. Born in New York, he lived for many years in Paris, and now lives on Long Island.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
All the Summer Girls by Meg Donohue and
The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier
We enjoyed a lovely Sunday afternoon of readings and converstation with Meg Donohue and Nichole Bernier.
Both All the Summer Girls and The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D are available in paperback - thoughtful ruminations on the hidden cost of secrets we hold, finding one's authentic self, and the delicate balance of family/work lives.
Some overlapping themes make these excellent choices for book groups to read and discuss in tandem.
Signed editions are on our shelves.
photo credit Beth's Book-Nook Blog
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In our window
FOPAC presents "The Merry Widow"
FOPAC will present "The Merry Widow," by Franz Lehar, at 51 Walden on June 14, 15 and 16, 2013.
The fully staged operetta, directed by Kathy Lague, will be sung in the English adaptation by Quade Winter. The production includes dancers, chorus and orchestra conducted by Alan Yost.
All seats are $25, proceeds will benefit the operation of 51 Walden.
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