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Upcoming Events
Jen Petro-Roy presents
P. S. I Miss You
Emily Sweeney presents
Gangland Boston: A Tour through the Streets of Organized Crime
Kate Greathead presents
Laura & Emma
Alan Lightman presents
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Susan Tan presents
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book Is a Classic
Joseph Rosenbloom presents
Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
George C. Daughan presents
Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
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Greetings from Main Street!
Big news in the children's book world this week, as several awards  were announced --
Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children  was given to Wolf in the Snow, written and illustrated by Matthew Cordell.
Caldecott Medal Honors were awarded to:
Coretta Scott King Book Awards recognizing African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults:
The King Author Award winner is Piecing Me Together written by Renée Watson.
This e-newsletter is coming your way on February 14 - Valentine's Day! It's not too late to pick up a Bookshop Gift Certificate or select a Valentine - we'll wrap your gift books and tie them with a red ribbon.
And, yes, we still have a lovely selection  of cards.
We look forward to seeing you in the Bookshop!
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A year in the life of Instagram bread-baking sensation Tara Jensen
Why do so many people make pilgrimages to Tara Jensen's North Carolina Smoke Signals Bakery? Why do over a 100,000 people follow her Instagram feed @bakerhands?
In this marvelous book, illustrated throughout with the author's photographs and drawings, Tara Jensen teaches readers how to bake bread and pies, build the perfect fire to cook with, and live a simple, satisfying life.
She shares her philosophy of simple living and her trove of recipes with others.
A Baker's Year takes readers month-by-month through the seasons at Smoke Signals.
Tara Jensen is an artist and baker living a solitary life at Smoke Signals, a wood fired bakery deep in the mountains of North Carolina. Jensen baked her way through her twenties in professional settings, keeping handwritten journals as she went. Baking has now become her personal practice, which she shares with students from around the world.
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Adventures and misadventures cycling the route of the Iron Curtain -
now in paperback
Tim Moore and a rickety metal steed are back together - riding the entirety of the Iron Curtain, where history, mechanical failures, physical endurance, and humor come together for "the Bill Bryson on two wheels."
Asking for trouble and getting it, Moore sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility, Romanian landslides and a diet of dumplings, Moore and his 'so-small bicycle' are sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers and Serbian rock gods, plus a shameful addiction to Magic Man energy drink.
Tim Moore's writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, The Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of French Revolutions and Gironimo! in addition to four other books. He lives in London.
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The case for reason, science, and humanism
In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature - tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking - which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rear-guard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.
With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.
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Poets, writers, artists, and politicians who converged in Paris between 1940 and 1950
In Left Bank, Agnès Poirier gives us the human stories behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century, from
Richard Wright
's
Native Son
to
Albert Camus
's
The Stranger
, along with the origin stories of now legendary movements, from
Surrealism
and
Existentialism
to the
Theatre of the Absurd
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We follow
James Joyce and
Saul Bellow as young men, peek inside
Picasso's studio, and trail the many twists in
Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir's epic, ever evolving love story. We watch the births and deaths of newspapers and literary journals. At every turn, Poirier deftly hones in on the colorful information we want most, without undermining the crucial significance of the era.
With a balance of clear-eyed historical perspective and irresistible anecdotal charm, Poirier shows us the flawed and ultimately lovable Parisians who fell in love, bickered, separated, and reunited all while changing the political and intellectual landscape - and history - of one of the world's greatest cities.
Born in Paris, Agnès Poirier has lived and worked in London for the last twenty years, and writes in both English and French. Her work has appeared in Le Monde, The Guardian, and The Times, among others. She advises the Cannes Film Festival on British films and is currently a regular panel member of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Dateline London.
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In our Signed Books Gallery
An untraditional life and love story, this novel is inspired by the life of Lorena Hickok, and on her love affair and enduring friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Kids pick - Guess how much we love giving/receiving Valentines!?
The incredible story of the world's largest visionary environment: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, kept secret by outsider artist Nek Chand for fifteen years.
After the partition of India in 1947, Nek Chand Saini settled in the city of Chandigarh, with nothing but stories brought from his homeland. Dismayed at his stark new surroundings, Nek began collecting river rocks, broken glass, and cracked water pots found on the roadside. He cleared a section of jungle and for seven years he stockpiled odds and ends. They were castoffs and rubbish to everyone else, but to Nek, they were treasures. He began to build a labyrinth of curving paths, mosaics, and repeating patterns: his very own tribute to the winding village of his youth, a hidden land of stories.
Author Barb Rosenstock introduces readers to the outsider artist's stunning creation, while Claire A. Nivola's illustrations bring to life the land's natural beauty and the surreal world Nek coaxed from his wild landscape.
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In our Community Window
Concord Carousel Preschool
Concord Carousel Preschool has provided a half day preschool for children of Concord and the surrounding towns for the past 30 years.
Located in West Concord's historic Harvey Wheeler building, Carousel offers a small, creative learning environment for children ages 2 years 9 months - 5 years.
Concord Carousel operates 2, 3, and 4 day programs (based on age) from 9:15 to Noon. Optional extended days include "Stay and Play" in their classrooms or "Stay and Swim" featuring swim lessons at the Beede Center.
Concord Carousel operates on "rolling admission," and welcomes new students at any point throughout the September to June school year.
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Elisha Cooper
Jason Chin
Ekua Holmes, written by Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderly and Marjory Wentworth.
