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Upcoming Events
7/18 (Thurs) 6-7:30pm
Drop-in customer-led group discusses articles and essays in The Sun Magazine
Stay tuned for a list of our Fall events, which will resume after Labor Day!
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Greetings! We've got a great selection summer reading for your beach bag, or materials for camp care packages; a few suggestions in this week's newsletter: Jo Nesbø's Phantom, now in paperback; a new "standalone" novel from Henning Mankell, author of the Kurt Wallander books; new fiction from Cathleen Schine, author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport; and a fun colorful picture book for dinosaur fans. We have signed books from Megan Marshall - Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.
Acton-Boxborough High School has announced their inaugural  community reading program -- One Book/One AB. The program is a community-wide summer reading program and the goal is to enable all members of the AB community to connect with one another by reading a common story. For this summer, ABRHS teachers and students have chosen Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John. Copies of the book are at the Bookshop!
Take a look in our community window to see some of the "star-studded" books that have inspired films. And, if you weren't happy with the film version, remember, never judge a book by its movie!
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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Harry Hole mystery -
now in paperback
Phantom by Jo Nesbø
Fun fact for fans of Jo Nesbø's "Harry Hole" mysteries -- the hero's surname is pronounced "hoola" in his native Norwegian. Thanks to Matt for saving this newsletter editor from the further embarrassment of referring to him as "Harry Hole!"
When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now, the unthinkable has happened - Oleg, the boy he helped raise, has been arrested for killing a man. Harry can't believe that Oleg is a murderer, so he returns to hunt down the real killer.
Although he's off the police force, he still has a case to solve that will send him into the depths of the city's drug culture, where a shockingly deadly new street drug is gaining popularity. This most personal of investigations will force Harry to confront his past and the wrenching truth about Oleg and himself.
Author Jo Nesbø's books have sold more than eighteen million copies worldwide, and have been translated into forty-seven languages. His previous Harry Hole novels include The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil's Star, The Snowman, and The Leopard, and he is the author of Headhunters and several children's books. He has received the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel. He is also a musician, songwriter, and economist and lives in Oslo.
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New "standalone" novel from the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels
A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
A Treacherous Paradise is set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïveté by her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths.
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1904, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes - or fears - prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages both leave her widowed, she finds herself the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white colonists rule, where she is isolated within white society by her profession and her gender, and, among the bordello's black prostitutes, by her color. As Hanna's story unfurls over the next several years in this "treacherous paradise," she wrestles with a devastating loneliness and with the racism she's meant to unthinkingly adopt. And as her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes', she moves inexorably toward the moment when she will make a decision that defies all the expectations society has of her and, more important, those she has of herself.
Henning Mankell's novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European prize for crime fiction) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. His Kurt Wallander mysteries were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.
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** a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s **
Fin & Lady by Cathleen Schine
It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady - giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free - is as much his responsibility as he is hers.
Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the '60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War - Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.
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Meet Linus-a Tyrannosaurus rex who is very brave, very tough, and very...vegetarian?
Linus the Vegetarian T. rex by Robert Neubecker
Ruth Ann Mackenzie knows everything about dinosaurs. She knows their names. She knows when they lived. And she certainly knows what they ate. So when she meets Linus, a towering, toothy T. rex who prefers picking vegetables to preying on his herbivorous neighbors, she's not sure what to think. Is something wrong with Linus? Or does Ruth Ann maybe, just maybe, not know everything there is to know about dinosaurs?
Dino lovers young and old will delight in this picture book chock-full of prehistoric personality - and don't forget to search for the naughty velociraptor duo hidden throughout the book!
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
We were delighted when Megan Marshall stopped in to sign copies of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.
The biography 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.
Megan Marshall is the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Slate. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, Marshall teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.
Signed editions are in the Bookshop!
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In our window
Don't judge a book by its movie!
There are so many movies that are "based on" books!
Do you prefer to read the book first, then see the movie?
Or, does your interest in a book increase after a film version has been made?
Whichever your preference, we've got a large selection of books that have been made into films.
Come on in and browse the "coming attractions" (new fiction and non-fiction tables, and our special books-to-film display in the front window) and make your selection.
Then, retreat to the "concession stand" (your own kitchen pantry) and grab a snack to eat while you SIT BACK, RELAX, AND ENJOY YOUR BOOK!
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