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Upcoming Events
We welome Randall Kennedy with For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Susan Conley presents Paris Was the Place
We welcome The Beekman Boys - Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge - with
The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Dessert Cookbook: 100 Delicious Heritage Recipes from the Farm and Garden
We welcome Carlisle author Diana Rodgers with Paleo Lunches and Breakfasts on the Go: The Solution to Gluten-Free Eating All Day Long with Delicious, Easy, and Portable Primal
We welcome Doris Kearns Goodwin with
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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Greetings! Greetings from Main Street!
This week's newsletter highlights three books in paperback: prize-winning short fiction; Agatha Christie's letters and photos from a 10-month tour of the British Empire; and Michael Chabon's epic tale of Berkley/Oakland in the early 2000s. Our kids' pick takes us back to the initial days of transcontinental travel via the great steam locomotives.
New in our Signed Books Gallery are First Editions of the hot-off-the-presses new books from award-winning novelists Alice McDermott and Jonathan Lethem. Read more about these novels below.
This week's community window spotlights the Al Filipov Peace & Justice Award and their featured speaker at a Forum on September 21.
Our Fall Author Series begins September 15 with Randall Kennedy and For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law. See the complete list of events in our left sidebar; as always, if you're unable to attend an event, but would like a signed copy of the featured book, please call or email us to arrange personalization.
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 -
Sunday, September 15 at 3pm
Randall Kennedy presents For Discrimination
The definitive reckoning with one of the most explosively contentious and sharply divisive issues in American society, a book extraordinary for its cool reason and genuine fairness-at once a recollection of the little-known history of affirmative action and an anatomy of its pros and cons.
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Upcoming event -
Sunday, September 22 at 3pm
Susan Conley presents Paris Was the Place
From acclaimed author Susan Conley (The Foremost Good Fortune), a novel that gives us a luminous emotional portrait of a young woman living abroad in Paris in the 1980s and trying to make sense of the chaotic world around her as she learns the true meaning of family.
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Prize-winning short fiction -
New in paperback
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 edited by Laura Furman
Twenty unforgettable stories-the best of the year-by famous writers as well as new and emerging voices.
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year, including stories by Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer
The stories were selected by jurors Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers), Edith Pearlman (Binocular Vision, winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award), and Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway winner of The Story Prize).
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Agatha Christie's travels thru the British Empire - photos and letters - Now in paperback
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery
by Agatha Christie
An account of Agatha Christie's trip around the British Empire in 1922, told in letters and photos taken from the "Queen of Mystery"'s very own archives.
In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a ten-month voyage around the world. Her husband, Archibald Christie, had been invited to join a trade mission to promote the British Empire Exhibition, and Christie was determined to go with him. It was a life-changing decision for the young novelist, a true voyage of discovery that would inspire her future writing.
Edited and introduced by Agatha Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, and accompanied by reminiscences from her own autobiography, this unique travelogue reveals a new adventurous side to Agatha Christie, one that would ultimately influence the stories that made her a household name.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.
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Prize-winning author's epic novel pits David against Goliath in Berkley -
Now in paperback
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart stands Brokeland.
When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Layer after layer of complication is added to the couples' already tangled lives.
Author Michael Chabon is the bestselling author of several novels, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) and The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and Gentlemen of the Road; as well as a short story collection and an essay collection. He is the Chairman of the Board of the MacDowell Colony and lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
Someone by Alice McDermott
An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion - lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone. Scattered recollections - of childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old age - come together in this transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole by McDermott's deft, lyrical voice.
Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Signed First Editions of Someone are on our shelves!
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Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
At the center of Jonathan Lethem's new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer is an unreconstructed Communist; her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.
Flawed and idealistic, Lethem's characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference.
As the decades pass - from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment - we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.
Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of nine novels, including Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, and the nonfiction collection The Ecstasy of Influence.
We have signed First Editions of Dissident Gardens.
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Kids pick: Travel back to 1869 aboard the transcontinental railroad
Locomotive written and illustrated by Brian Floca
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America's brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean.
Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!
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In our window
The Al Filipov Peace & Justice Forum
photo credit C. Veitch
The mission of the Al Filipov Peace & Justice Forum is to promote peace and justice among all people and to demonstrate the power of an individual to make a positive difference in the world.
Held annually in September, the Forum invites a distinguished individual to speak about his or her work and vision.
Journalist and Author Margaret Regan is the recipient of the 2013 Al Filipov Peace & Justice Award, and will speak at a program at Trinitarian Congregational Church on Saturday, September 21, at 7pm. The program is free and open to the public.
For years, journalist Ms. Regan has documented the economic, political, and historical factors that have contributed to the human tragedies at our shared border with Mexico. Having witnessed the many sides of human migration through the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, Regan describes the issues of Mexican immigration to the United States with sensitivity and fairness.
In The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands, Regan puts a human face on the tragedy of migrant deaths in the Arizona wilderness.
For more information, visit the Filipov Forum website.
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