We are delighted to welcome Alice Hoffman to the Bookshop with her first book of nonfiction.

With Survival Lessons, 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.

As Alice Hoffman says, "In many ways I wrote Survival Lessons to remind myself of the beauty of life, something that's all too easy to overlook during the crisis of illness or loss. I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts of sorrow and joy, and that it is impossible to have one without the other. I wrote to remind myself that despite everything that was happening to me, there were still choices I could make."

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

A publishing event: the first ever collection of correspondence to and from John F. Kennedy. 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy led his nation for little more than a thousand days, yet his presidency is intensely remembered, and not merely as a byproduct of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered the nation away from the brink of nuclear war, initiated the first nuclear test ban treaty, created the Peace Corps, and launched America on its mission to the moon and beyond. JFK inspired a nation, particularly the massive generation of baby boomers, injecting hope and revitalizing faith in the American project.

Drawn primarily from more than two million letters on file at the Kennedy Presidential Library - many never before published - this extraordinary book presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy the man, as well as the times he lived in.

Martin W. Sandler has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Among Sandler's books are the six volumes in his award-winning Library of Congress American History Series for Young People. Mr. Sandler has taught American history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College, and has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television. 

We Are Water is an intricate and layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs - nonconformist Annie; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest Oh. Set in New England and New York during the first years of the Obama presidency, it is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.

Wally Lamb is the author of four previous novels, including The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', She's Come Undone, and I Know This Much Is True. He is the editor of Couldn't Keep It To Myself and I'll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for fifteen years.  

We have signed First Editions on our shelves.

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Some Horses: Essays by Tom McGuane