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.

Kevin Phillips has been a political and economic commentator for more than three decades. A former White House strategist, he is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and NPR and writes for Harper's and Time. His 15 published books include New York Times bestsellers Wealth and Democracy and American Theocracy. The Cousins' Wars was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He lives in Connecticut. 

Lunch and breakfast are often the hardest meals to eat without busting your Paleo, gluten-free diet, especially when most recipes call for gluten, processed oils, sliced bread or sandwich buns.

Diana Rodgers, a Carlisle-based nutritional therapist and Paleo community activist, solves the problem with 100 easy and delicious packable meals without bread.

She takes the confusion out of how to make hand-friendly and fast Paleo meals. These mouth-watering creations are perfect portable meals that are as healthy and easy to make as they are gourmet.

From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a history of history itself.

Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.

Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man; his sister spent her life caring for her children. They left very different traces behind. Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world - a world usually lost to history. 

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; and The Mansion of Happiness, which was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

One of America's most beloved writers shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times.

Survival Lessons provides a road map of how to reclaim your life from this day forward, with ways to reenvision everything - from relationships with friends and family to the way you see yourself. 

Wise, gentle, and wry, Alice Hoffman teaches all of us how to choose what matters most.

Alice Hoffman has published twenty-one novels, three books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults. Ms. Hoffman's advance from Survival Lessons will be donated to the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Signed editions of Survival Lessons are on our shelves!

** Save the date -- Thursday, October 24 at 7pm

conversation and book signing with Alice Hoffman! **