Titcomb's Bookshop Newsletter
Mid-Month September 2020
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What's in This Issue?
- Back to School Help for Families
- Books, books, books!
- Old books
- September events
- Zoom FAQ
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September is back to school month, and this year is different from any we've seen before. We'd like to be here to help students and parents with resources to make this a successful year - one that is filled with learning, fun and work.
We have books to help children as they do more learning at home. We've greatly expanded out workbook selection to supplement and reinforce school learning. We've expanded our parenting books to include advice and guidance to parents on learning.
We're also very excited to announce that we will host a series of educational sessions for parents with some wonderful speakers who will focus on children and friendships, technology, and learning strategies in today's world. These talks will take place via Zoom in October and November. Please watch our October newsletter for more information.
Working together in our own communities across the country (and beyond), we can provide an environment that values learning for parents, teachers, grandparents, friends, libraries and bookstores - among others!
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A Covid Back to School Guide: Questions and Answers for Parents and Students |
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture your Child's Developing Mind |
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And Then They Stopped Talking To Me: Making Sense of Middle School |
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Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond - and How Parents Can Help |
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Parenting the Strong-Willed Child: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of
Two to Six-Year- Olds
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons |
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Zero-dust chalk doodle pads! |
These compact, flexible, lightweight doodle pads are perfect for starting the new school year off right! Use the dust-free Butterstix chalk to create anything you want! There are doodle books, doodle placemats, table runners, and an educational package.
Jaq Jaq Bird products are sustainable and recyclable. The mess-free chalk is smooth as butter!
$17.99-$29.99
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We now carry masks for children, as well as for adults! These stylish masks from Streamline are super comfortable and adjustable!
- Made with 2-layers of quality breathable Lycra fabric
- Re-usable, washable, & fast-drying
- Comfortable ear loops with adjustable cord lock
- Contains one replaceable PM 2.5 Activated Carbon Filter
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EDC (The Educational Development Corp) publishes a wide variety of children's activity books, sticker books, early readers, and books on science and art. The books are beautifully designed and well thought out.
The company decided in 2018 to only sell through stores and their own sales team and not on Amazon.com. Once they did that, their sales actually increased 59% in 2019 and sales have continued to grow in following years.
We just received an order of their books and more new titles will be coming! We hope you'll take a look. (Unfortunately, we don't have the ability at this time to list these books for sale online, so you'll need to visit the shop to purchase them.)
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Big Dinosaur Sticker Book |
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Little Sticker Dolly Dressing Unicorns |
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Little Sparkly Fairies
Sticker Book
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Wipe-Clean Ready for Reading Phonics |
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Little Coloring Under the Sea |
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini
VICKY: What a grand adventure story! I can't put this book down!! Kira Navarez is a scientist on a voyage of discovery in the future to the outer reaches of the galaxy. Her body becomes bonded to an alien life form and she finds herself at the center of a huge battle.
I'm not usually a science fiction reader, but I'm loving this book! I was drawn to it because the author, Christopher Paolini, also wrote the huge international bestselling children's book, Eragon, when he was only a teenager and this is his first book for adults.
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The Darkest Evening
(a Vera Stanhope Novel)
Ann Cleeves
The ninth book in the very popular series featuring Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope finds Vera investigating a murder at her estranged family's home during a snowstorm.
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What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez
"Sigrid Nunez (The Friend) orchestrates a beautiful chorus of humanness here, and the novel asks a question we might all be thinking in these distant times: What does it mean to really be there for someone in times of hardship?" – LitHub
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The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult
9/22 preorder!
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. As the story unfolds, Dawn must confront the questions she’s never truly asked: What does a life well lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices…or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are right now?
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Jack
Marilynne Robinson
9/29 preorder! signed copies while they last
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal returns to the world of Gilead. In Jack,Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the son of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now.
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Troubles in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand
10/06 preorder!
Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in the conclusion to Hilderbrand's Winter in Paradise trilogy.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
New in paperback!
“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work.” —Annie Proulx
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Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
New in paperback!
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson’s novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child.
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The Paris Secret
Natasha Lester
New in paperback!
A fictionalized account of the real-life women pilots of the RAF. The Paris Secret delves into the little-known story of Catherine Dior's involvement with the French Resistance and her internment in Ravensbruck concentration camp as a result.
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Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods |
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed!
Thomas W. Gilbert
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The Little Book of Life Skills: Deal with Dinner, Manage your Email, Make a Graceful Exit, and 152 Other Expert Tricks
Erin Zammett Ruddy
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Welcome to the
New World
Jake Halpern
& Michael Sloan
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Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels & Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved |
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The Writer's Library:
The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
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How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepeneurs
Guy Raz
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The Gifts of Imperfection:
10th Anniversary Edition, Including New Tools to Make the Work Your Own
Brene Brown
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
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Charming as a Verb
Ben Philippe
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Watch Over Me
Nina LaCour
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Furia
Yamile Saied Mendez
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The Extraordinaries
TJ Klune
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Kenny & the Book of Beasts
Tony Diterlizzi
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Lalani of the Distant Sea
Erin Entrada Kelly
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The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road
Max Brallier
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Dory Fantasmagory:
Tiny Tough
Abby Hanlon
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The Mysteries of the Universe |
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The Massachusetts Chronicles |
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You Are a Beautiful Beginning
Nina Laden
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Margaret's Unicorn
Briony May Smith
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Fern and Otto: A Story About Two Best Friends
Stephanie Graegin
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If You Come to Earth
Sophie Blackall
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A Mystery in the Forest
Susanna Isern
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The Tiny Baker
Hayley Barrett
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We have just put on the shelves several collections of beautiful leather-bound books published by Franklin Library and Easton Press. Many are limited editions and all are classic works of fiction and some nonfiction, including books on philosophy, poetry, theater, biography and history. The books are upstairs with our used and rare book collection. Most are in very good condition and many have bookplates or embossing of prior owners. Prices are $15.00 and up. They would make wonderful gifts and will look beautiful in your homes! |
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Virtual Tea with Susan Branch
Home for Christmas
Sunday, September 20, 3:30pm
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We invite you to join us from the comfort of your home. To get into the spirit of the event, we encourage you to brew a cuppa tea and make a treat from one of Susan's fabulous cookbooks that you can enjoy while listening to the conversation.
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We are delighted that New York Times bestselling author and artist Susan Branch has invited us to her home on Martha's Vineyard (via Zoom) to celebrate the publication of her beautiful new book, Home for Christmas. Grab a cuppa and join us for a lovely afternoon!
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Susan will offer two very special raffle prizes to event participants: a beautiful English bone china Susan Branch Santa cup and her fantastic new 1000 piece puzzle, "For the Love of Books."
Susan Branch calendars, puzzles, mugs and books are available on our website and in our store. Home for Christmas releases in September and the puzzle "For the Love of Books" will be shipping in October.
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Virtual Book Club
September 24 at 7pm
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Come join us on September 24th at 7pm EST! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with prolific and acclaimed author Katherine Center for the paperback release of her bestselling book Things You Save in a Fire. We've partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club members across the country, who can tune in to hear a discussion with Brené Brown and participate in the live Q&A.
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Do I need a Zoom account to access Zoom events?
- No! All you have to do is register for the event with your name and email address. No account necessary.
How do I register for a Zoom event?
- In this newsletter, and on our website, we provide registration links for our events. When you click on the link, it will take you to the registration page, where you will enter your name and email address. We will then send you a confirmation email with the link to the event.
The event is starting soon - What do I do??
- We will send you a reminder email the day before the event, and 1 hour before the event. The link to the webinar is in these emails, as well as in the initial confirmation email. Simply click on the link highlighted in blue that says "Click here to join," then click the box that pops up and says "launch zoom."
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