Location: Dedham, MA, United States

STORYBOOK COVE CHESS CLUB: A Chess Club for Elementary Students on the South Shore It's Elementary! Come learn and play chess in a friendly supportive atmosphere! DATE of First Meeting: Sunday, May 19, 2013 TIME: Beginners (no to little experience): 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Intermediates (some experience): 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Call Janet Bibeau at 781-871-7801 or email jbcove@bibeau.us for more informaton and to sign up to attend AGES: children in grades 1 through 5 (time depends on experience) LOCATION: Storybook Cove event room Chess sets will be available for use during the club. Storybook Cove carries chess sets and children's books on chess which will be available for purchase.

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Netrunner Regional Tournament Entry Fee: $10 Time: 1 pm - 6 pm Location: Pandemonium Main Arena Judge: Dan Nichols Prizes: a Regional Championship 2013 Trophy! a World Championship Weekend ticket 2 sets of 4 plastic identity cards (8 cards total) 8 Full-color Android: Netrunner the card game playmats 16 sets of 7 Regionals exclusive acrylic click tracker tokens (112 tokens total) 1 "Scortched Earth Prize" - Playmat or deck box from the FFG archives for the last place player

Location: Street: 4 Pleasant St Additional: City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02139 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

STORYBOOK COVE CHESS CLUB: A Chess Club for Elementary Students on the South Shore It's Elementary! Come learn and play chess in a friendly supportive atmosphere! DATE of First Meeting: Sunday, May 19, 2013 TIME: Beginners (no to little experience): 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Intermediates (some experience): 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Call Janet Bibeau at 781-871-7801 or email jbcove@bibua.us for more informaton and to sign up to attend AGES: children in grades 1 through 5 (time depends on experience) LOCATION: Stroybook Cove event room Chess sets will be available for use during the club. Storybook Cove carries chess sets and children's books on chess which will be available for purchase.

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us at the Bookshop on May 19th at 3 pm when we welcome Ted Reinstein, discussing his new book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories.

Ted is a full-time correspondent for “Chronicle”, the long-running and award-winning nightly-newsmagazine on WCVB-TV, ABC’s Boston affiliate. Covering New England, he reports on a wide-range of stories, from human-interest to current events. He received a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award in 2003 for his reporting on Boston’s “Big Dig.” Elsewhere on television, he hosted “The Popular Mechanics Show” on the Discovery Channel, and “Lighthouses” for HGTV. On the Travel Channel’s “Freeze Frame”, he landed on top of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, explored caves in Puerto Rico, and swam with sharks in Tahiti. He is a frequent opinion columnist for Boston’s Metrowest Daily News, has written op-ed pieces for The Boston Globe, and writes a weekly online column for the Bostonchannel.com. Ted also counts numerous professional theatre credits. He studied acting in New York with Emily Mann, and appeared on the NBC soap, “Another World.” With Boston’s Lyric Stage Company, he has appeared in David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”, and “Speed the Plow”, winner of a 1997 Elliot Norton Award. Other Boston credits include “The Deal” with the Huntington Theatre Company, “Death of a Salesman” with the Nora, and the original production of Israel Horovitz’s “North Shore Fish” with Gloucester Stage. As Detective Nick Rossetti in “Shear Madness”, he helped solve the crime more than 500 times in both the Boston and Chicago productions of America’s longest-running play ever. He is the co-author of the play, “Yom Kippur in DaNang”, and has written several plays for the annual Boston Theatre Marathon. Ted received his B.A. and M.F.A. from Brandeis University, is married with two daughters, and lives just west of Boston.

Location: Street: 65 Main Street City: Concord, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 01742-2503 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

CONSTRUCTION Ages 4-5 TUESDAY, MAY 21 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. We'll listen to a fun story and make our own lift the flap picture with a surprise find. Reservations required (call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "Storytime Reservations" in subject line)

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St. - Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

CONSTRUCTION Ages 2-3 Tuesday, May 21 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We'll read a fun story and make a lift the flap picture with a surprise! Reservations required (call 781-871-7801 or e-mail to jbcove@bibeau.us with "Storytime Reservations" in subject line)

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington St.- Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

“Miracles and monsters abound in Anthony Martignetti’s memoir Lunatic Heroes...Beautifully, honestly, sometimes fiercely told, these memoirs are, like Martignetti himself, unique.” Neil Gaiman “Thoughtfully described, heartbreakingly honest...a powerful piece of writing and of inner observation and, of course, redemption.” Jack Kornfield, PhD Dark, comic, raw, disturbing, and often redemptive, these tales take us from the 1950s to the present, along with a repeating cast of heroes and lunatics. These characters span the breadth and depths of human qualities and capacities. The same person, in one story, may materialize as a hero and a god, and in another, as a lunatic and a demon. While the author roughs up the people in his stories with the hand of terror, he simultaneously views them with the eyes of love. Martignetti spares no on, and to his credit, particularly not himself. For one who confesses so much fear, he is fearlessly self-revealing. After reading this collection of memoirs, you will come to know these characters and the author intimately. Not that you’d want to, it’s just the way things will turn out. C. Anthony will be in conversation with Amanda Palmer. Yep, that Amanda Palmer.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

2-DAY WRITING SESSION Pen to Paper Creative Writing Sessions with Writer/Author Laura Lovett

Storybook Cove, Event Room Merchants Row, Upper Level Cost: $60.00 Wednesday and Thursday May 22 and May 23 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. each day each day Boys and Girls ages 9+ Each day we'll focus on a new theme: mysteries, poetry, journal writing, fantasy and personal narratives. LIMITED SPACE - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED FOR PROGRAM INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION, PLEASE CONTACT: jbcove@bibeau.us or Storybook Cove at 781-871-7801

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: 2053 Washington Street, Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck, The African Trilogy)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria, where she attended medical school for two years at the University of Nigeria before coming to the United States. A 2003 O. Henry Prize winner, Adichie was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and the Iowa Review. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. She now divides her time between the U.S. and Nigeria. (added from Random House)… (more)

“There is love in this book--erotic love, mother love, love animals and nature--but it’s not an easy love. One has to work hard to hold together. And Triedman does, relying on unflinching observation and far-reaching imagination to provide a plumb line to anchor an unknown future.” Wendy Mnookin “Every poem in Selvage digs up treasures of insight, words pungent as the air outside the tannery, ineradicable artifacts like the bullet in a slave woman’s unearthed spine--not always comfortable to contemplate, but satisfying as only the truth can be.” Jendi Reiter Kim Triedman has published widely in such literary journals as Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Women Arts Quarterly, and Poetry International. She won the 2008 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest for her first collection bathe in it or sleep, and has won and placed in numerous other poetry and fiction competitions. After the 2010 earthquake, she developed and edited Poets for Haiti: An Anthology of Poetry and Art which benefited Partners in Health. Her first novel, The Other Room is due out in October. Donna Johnson grew up in Tennessee, but now lives with her family outside of Boston. Her poems and reviews have been published in Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, Cafe Review and others. In 2010 she won Cutbank magazine’s annual poetry contest and was a finalists for the Patricia Dobler Award. She currently works in the educational software publishing field.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

2-DAY WRITING SESSION Pen to Paper Creative Writing Sessions with Writer/Author Laura Lovett

Storybook Cove, Event Room Merchants Row, Upper Level Cost: $60.00 Wednesday and Thursday May 22 and May 23 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. each day each day Boys and Girls ages 9+ Each day we'll focus on a new theme: mysteries, poetry, journal writing, fantasy and personal narratives. LIMITED SPACE - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED FOR PROGRAM INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION, PLEASE CONTACT: jbcove@bibeau.us or Storybook Cove at 781-871-7801

Location: Street: Storybook Cove - EVENT ROOM Additional: Merchants Row - UPPER LEVEL, 2053 Washington Street City: Hanover, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02339-1655 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Please join us at the Bookshop on Thursday, May 23rd at 7 pm as we welcome back John Hanson Mitchell, reading from his latest book, An Eden of Sorts.

Along with his nonfiction work, John Hanson Mitchell is editor of the award winning magazine, Sanctuary, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He was editor of The Curious Naturalist, and a co-author, with Chris Leahy and Tom Conuel, of the coffee table edition of The Nature of Massachusetts (l998), illustrated by the internationally-recognized Swedish painter Lars Jonsson. In 2001 he won a Vogelstein grant for Following the Sun. He was awarded an honorary PhD from Fitchburg State University for his work on the book Ceremonial Time and was given three different grants for his work on Looking for Mr Gilbert. He is also winner of the John Burroughs Essay Award for his Sanctuary piece, “Of Time and the River”. In 2000, he was given the New England Booksellers’ Award for the body of his work. Mitchell attended the Sorbonne and is a graduate of Columbia University. A former journalist, he has had assignments in Kerala in southern India and also the South China Sea and has written extensively about Western Europe.

Location: Street: 65 Main Street City: Concord, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 01742-2503 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)