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Upcoming Events
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!
Exciting news for those who follow the National Book Awards: The National Book Foundation is announcing the Longlists in a new format this year - one category per day this week.
This week's newsletter highlights the complete short fiction mysteries of Dorothy Sayers (new in paperback); a relatively unknown but influential couple in the world of Modernist literature; a new memoir of the south from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward; and a kid's pick about silly animals in costume.
New in our Signed Books Gallery are two nonfiction books from Randall Kennedy and the hot-off-the-presses new Middle Grade novel from sports-centric Mike Lupica.
This week's community window spotlights Cooperative Elder Services here in Concord.
Up next in our Fall Author Series is Susan Conley and Paris Was the Place. The Beekman Boys visit next week, and we get another great dose of history with Kevin Phillips in October. 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."
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Our next 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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Upcoming event - The Beekman Boys!
Thursday, September 26 at 7pm
Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge present
The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Dessert Cookbook
When Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his partner Brent Ridge purchased the historic Beekman 1802 Farm (Sharon Springs, NY) in 2007, they had no idea that it would launch one of the "fastest growing lifestyle brands in the country."
After taking in a neighboring farmer and his herd of beloved dairy goats, Ridge and Kilmer-Purcell began producing soaps and cheese. As other neighbors taught them how to farm, Ridge and Kilmer-Purcell shared their city-honed skills - starting a website and Mercantile.
The men began working with several other local farmers and artisans to market their goods, and the entire village came together to host seasonal festivals, which are now attended by thousands of visitors from around the globe.
Soon the press began noticing this little farm and village that refused to give up. A television network launched a reality show about their effort - The Fabulous Beekman Boys - which spread the Beekman message of hard work, living seasonally, and neighborly sharing around the globe.
The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Dessert Cookbook is the couple's second cookbook, filled with 100 heritage recipes from farm and garden.
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Upcoming event -
Thursday, October 3 at 7pm
Kevin Phillips presents 1775: A Good Year For Revolution
A groundbreaking account of the American Revolution.
Iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the struggle's watershed year.
Focusing on the great battles and events of 1775, Phillips surveys the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations of the crucial year that was the harbinger of revolution, tackling the eighteenth century with the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing contemporary politics and economics. The result is a dramatic account brimming with original insights about the country we eventually became.
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Complete stories of Dorothy Sayers, called one of the greatest mystery story writers - new in paperback
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
A sure treat for Dorothy L. Sayers' legions of fans, The Complete Stories is the ultimate collectible.
This delightfully gruesome collection captures all of Sayer's short stories in one volume. The tantalizing puzzles and baffling cases will provide mystery lovers with a sumptuous feast of criminal doings and all those amusing and appalling things that happen on the way to the gallows.
Often called the greatest detective novelist of the Golden Age, Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University and later became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.
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A veritable Who's Who of Modernist literature
Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman
A biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England.
Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality.
Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. Violet was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word.
Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time.
Author Stephen Klaidman was an editor and reporter at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune. He brings to light rare correspondence that offers a unique and intimate look at the thoughts, feelings, and everyday goings-on of some of literature's giants.
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
"An important contemporary voice: a sensitive, lyrical narrator of difficult stories from the land of Faulkner and Welty."
-- The New York Times
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life - to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth - and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships.
Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.
Jesmyn Ward was raised in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, for which she won the 2011 National Book Award, and was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Literary Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a nominee for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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New in our Signed Books Gallery
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
by Randall Kennedy
It was a pleasure to host Randall Kennedy last week - his overview of some of the pros and cons of affirmative action was followed by lively and interesting conversation. CSPAN-2 was here to record the event, you can catch a reply on an upcoming episode of their BOOK-TV program
Signed editions of For Discrimination and The Persistence of the Color Line are on our shelves!
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QB 1 by Mike Lupica
Jake Cullen is a freshman quarterback playing high school football in the high-pressure land of "Friday Night Lights" (Texas). He is also the brother of Wyatt Cullen, who quarterbacked his team to the Texas State Championship last season - not to mention the son of former NFL quarterback and local legend, Troy Cullen.
To be a Cullen in Texas is to be royalty . . . and a quarterback. All of which leaves 14-year-old Jake in a Texas-sized shadow. Being a good teammate comes naturally to Jake; being a winner and a celebrity does not. He's just like every other boy - awkward around a pretty girl, in awe of his famous family, and desparate to simultaneously blend in and cast his own shadow.
Inspired by the real-life Manning family of quarterbacks (father Archie, Super Bowl-winning sons Peyton and Eli) and set amid the football-crazy culture of Texas, QB 1 is a coming-of-age story perfect for younger football fans.
When not writing for children, Mike Lupica writes for New York's Daily News, and appears on ESPN's The Sports Reporters and hosts "The Mike Lupica Show" on ESPN Radio. He is the author of such bestsellers as Heat, Travel Team, and Million-Dollar Throw.
We have signed First Editions of QB 1.
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Kids love dress-up! Animals do, too!
Animal Masquerade written and illustrated by Marianne Dubuc
Come one, come all to the animal masquerade! The lion is going as an elephant, the elephant as a parrot, and the parrot as a turtle!
Each costume gives way to another, yielding new surprises on every page, and revealing a menagerie of familiar and unusual animals. Young children will delight in the absurd and amusing images (who wouldn't love a ladybug dressed as a hippopotamus?) and will also appreciate the gags (a fish costumed as a cat is dubbed a "catfish") and other bits of silly sweetness. Recapping this reading adventure: a detailed panorama at book's end, showing all the party guests in their fanciful finery.
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Cooperative Elder Services, Inc.
Cooperative Elder Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has provided Adult Day Health and Alzheimer Day Care Services to clients in more than fifty communities in the Greater Boston area since 1979.
When faced with the challenges of aging and illness, finding the right health care solution for you and your loved one can sometimes be difficult. Cooperative Elder Services offers frail elders and disabled adults who have medical, emotional or cognitive impairments, a caring and secure alternative to nursing home placement, while offering their family caretakers peace of mind and respite.
The Concord Center provides Adult Day Health and Alzheimer Day Care Services to frail elders and disabled adults who reside in Concord and surrounding communities.
If you are interested in receiving more information about our Concord Center, the services they offer, or program eligibility, please contact Cooperative Elder Services, Concord.
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