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NEXT WEEK!

PROTEST: RESPECT IT, DEFEND IT, USE IT
by Annie Leonard & Andre Carothers
Thursday, September 24 @ 6pm

“When people step forward to make the world a better place, almost anything is possible.”

With these words, lifelong activists Annie Leonard and André Carothers introduce this vibrant, diverse, and inspiring collection of 42 protests and nonviolent movements that helped secure so many of the rights we often take for granted today: weekends off, women’s right to vote, desegregation, same-sex marriage, cleaner air and water, wheelchair-accessible sidewalks, and so much more.

We hope to see you there!

We were so overwhelmed by all of the new releases out this week that we forgot to post about them yesterday! What are you reading first?

this week we’re reading the alex stern series from the beginning to prepare for DEAD BEAT; another campus novel (evidence of the depth and breadth of the genre), THE REBEL ANGELS; critic anahid narsessian’s unforgettably brilliant HOW TO HAVE S*X IN A POEM, a survey of erotic poetry throughout history; adored cult classic LOVE JU**IE; the devastating odyssey of a dog of war (ETNA); 1980s irish noir (HANG ON ST. CHRISTOPHER); a sweet tribute to the power of community (THE FOX OF KENSAL GREEN)

⭐️ TONIGHT! ⭐️
7pm @ Longfellow Books

Don’t miss our event with Ayelet Waldman & Rebecca Traister as they discuss Ayelet’s book, A PERFECT HAND!

A deliciously funny, gorgeously detailed, utter enthralling novel, A Perfect Hand is a glorious novel of class, gender, and England on the cusp of enormous change.

We hope to see you there!

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!

HARD AS A HEADSTONE by Richard Cass
in conversation with Gabi Stiteler
Tuesday, September 1 @ 6pm

Join us to celebrate the launch of Richard Cass’s Ardmore Theberge mystery series! Islandport Press is reissuing the first Ardmore novel, THE LAST ALTRUIST, alongside the “binge-worthy” (Gerry Boyle) stand-alone sequel, HARD AS A HEADSTONE.

This is sure to be a fun night, so we hope to see you there!

A fishing family. A vanishing waterfront. A daughter finding her way back.

Join Mechanics' Hall and Longfellow Books for the launch of Mia Millefoglie's memoir "Daughters of Stone and Tide: Loss and Resilience in a Fisherman's Family," in conversation with acclaimed author Susan Conley.

Rooted in Gloucester's storied waterfront, the book is a love letter to a disappearing fishing industry and the community that shaped generations of it. Through one woman's journey, Millefoglie traces family, immigration, and heritage—and the questions of where, and to whom, we belong.

Together, she and Conley dig into the craft of memoir: the truths uncovered, and the ones left sealed.

this week’s reading: seals’ role in the ecosystem (A YEAR WITH THE SEALS); a despairing woman lies in hospital reflecting grimly on her life (PLAY IT AS IT LAYS); an emily brontë-like figure’s single novel looms over the canon (THE SONG OF STORK & DROMEDARY); the seminal novel of the edges between the mundane and the fabulous (LITTLE, BIG); a curator begins to lose herself in her subject (MAY WE FEED THE KING)