Please join us on Thursday, December 5 at 7pm, when Marcella Pixley discusses and signs the new paperback edition of her Young Adult novel, Freak.

"An expertly-and lovingly-narrated story about girls and bullying . . . Stunning."

-- Kirkus, starred review

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in memory "clear as pain." That's the year her older sister, Deborah, once her best buddy and fellow "alien," bloomed like a beautiful flower and joined the high school "in" crowd. And that's the year the popular "watermelon girls" turn up the heat in their cruel harassment of Miriam - ripping her life wide open in shocking, unexpected ways. Teased and taunted in school, Miriam is pushed toward breaking, will she find the inner strength to prove she's a force to be reckoned with?

Marcella Pixley is a writer and a middle school language arts teacher at the Carlisle Public Schools. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is also the author of Without Tess. She lives in Westford, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons. 

You're invited to the Bookshop on Thursday, December 12 at 7pm when Michael Goodwin joins us. Michael Goodwin is a founder of the "Rivers & Revolutions" program at CCHS, and one of 50 teachers highlighted in Katrina Fried's American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom, a book offering profiles and photographs of these outstanding teachers.

Mr. Goodwin will speak a bit about the program, its genesis, and current state. He'll be joined by one or two others on the teacher team, as well as a couple of students. The program will move to Q&A and conversation.

We were honored to host Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, discussing her latest work, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

This accessible work brings to life the fractured relationship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, Wm Howard Taft, during a pivotal time in our country's history.

Signed copies of both The Bully Pulpit and Team of Rivals are on our shelves!

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What a nice surprise! John Matteson stopped in for a visit earlier in the week.

Have we mentioned that signed books make especially thoughtful gifts?

We now have signed copies of Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, for which Matteson won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Lives of Margaret Fuller.  

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What a delight to be at the launch of Adriana Trigiani's The Supreme Macaroni Company, the final book in the "Valentine" trilogy (following Very Valentine and Brava, Valentine).

Romantic and poignant, told with humor and warmth, and bursting with a cast of endearing characters, The Supreme Macaroni Company is a sumptuous feast of delights: an unforgettable narrative about family, work, romance, and the unexpected turns of life and fate.

Signed editions are on our shelves!