Location: Leominster, MA 01453, United States

DANIEL PALMER explores the timely subject of identity theft in this brilliantly plotted new novel, Stolen.

The future has never looked brighter for Boston couple John and Ruby. But Ruby receives a life-changing diagnosis, and their cut-rate insurance won't cover her treatment. Faced with a ticking clock, John makes a risky move.

DANIEL spent a decade as an e-commerce pioneer, helping to build websites for popular brands. An experienced musician and songwriter, he has recorded two cds. A graduate of Boston University, Daniel lives in New Hampshire with his wife and children.

Location: Street: 614 Nashua Street, Lorden Plaza Additional: 603-673-1734 City: Milford, Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03055 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join MLS and practicing Law Librarians from MA Trial Court Law Libraries to learn the fundamentals of fielding and responding to questions regarding legal concerns. Law Librarians will walk you through their web site at www.lawlib.state.ma.us, highlighting their “Massachusetts Law About…” web pages, links to primary source law, and their “Ask a Librarian” services. You will have a chance to get a library card, which will give you remote access to legal databases and nolo.com legal self-help books. Attendees will learn how to read a legal citation, distinguish civil from criminal issues, locate legal definitions and identify relevant legal materials suitable for your own collection. As an added bonus, network with MA Law Librarians who are available to assist you and your patrons navigating the legal reference system. Feel free to bring your most challenging legal reference question for discussion. (added from Eventkeeper)… (more)

Welcome to our monthly meeting for teens, where YOU become the star!

The group will select FREE books (many in advance of publication) and review them for the following month. It's a great way to meet fellow readers, try something new, and polish your editorial skills. Perhaps one day soon we'll be reading YOUR book!

Our host is Sarah Brodin, give her a call and sign up to reserve your place at the table. Meetings are usually held on the fourth Thursday each month.

Next meeting: MAY 23, JUNE 27

Location: Street: The Toadstool Bookshop Additional: 614 Nashua St, Lorden Plaza 603-673-1734 City: Milford, Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03055 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)

Please join us at the Bookshop on Thursday, May 30th at 7 pm, as we welcome back Daphne Kalotay, dicussing her latest novel, Sight Reading. Daphne Kalotay is the author of the award-winning novel Russian Winter and the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships, she has taught at Boston University, Skidmore College, Middlebury College and Grub Street. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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

Please join us at the Bookshop on Sunday, June 2nd at 3pm, as we welcome Meg Donohue, reading from and signing her latest novel, All the Summer Girls, and Nicole Bernier, reading from and signing the paperback edition of The unfinished work of Elizabeth D.

Meg Donohue is the author of the bestselling novel How to Eat a Cupcake, which was translated into Dutch, German, Italian, and Polish. She has an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Dartmouth College. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she now lives San Francisco with her husband, two young daughters, and Cole, her endearing Taiwanese rescue pup.

Nichole Bernier is the author of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D, a novel inspired by a family friend's healing following the September 11th attacks.

Nichole has written for magazines including Elle, Self, Health, Men’s Journal, Child and Yankee, as well as Boston Magazine, where she was a senior editor. A 14-year contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveler magazine, she was previously on staff as a features writer, golf and ski editor and television spokesperson, until she met her future husband on a blind date, and gave up New York and her rent-controlled apartment for Boston. She is one of the founders of the literary blog Beyond the Margins, and a recipient of the literary journalism award from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

She is at work on her second novel, and lives outside of Boston with her husband, five children, and any number of rescue animals.

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

We are pleased to have Edgar-nominated local author STEVE ULFELDER return to our store and chat about his latest mystery featuring Conway Sax (Purgatory Chasm, The Whole Lie), SHOTGUN LULLABY.

Conway is a man with a deeply checkered past seeking redemption. As a member of the AA group The Barnburners, he pays for his sins by aiding those in trouble. Enter wise-ass Gus Biletnikov, son of a wealthy investment banker, who drives him nuts. Keeping him straight and sober will take all his resolve, but the kid reminds him of his own estranged son. And so Conway finds himself deeply invested.

When a triple murder takes place in Gus's halfway house, Conway suspects Gus was the intended victim, and wades in to find the killer in his usual full-tilt, no-holds-barred fashion.

A great new series for fans of Robert B. Parker and Dennis Lehane. All three are Brian picks -please check Steve out!

STEVE is an amateur race car driver and co-owner of Flatout Motorsports, a company that builds race cars in Bellingham, MA. He was a business and technology journalist for twenty years. Visit him to learn more at
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Location: Street: 614 Nashua Street, Lorden Plaza Additional: 603-673-1734 City: Milford, Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03055 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Please join us at the Bookshop on Friday, June 7th at 7 pm as we welcome Claire Messud, discussing her latest novel, The woman upstairs. Claire Messud’s most recent novel, The Emperor’s Children, was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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

Please join us on Thursday, June 13th at 7 pm as we welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis, discussing his newest book, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence. Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history. The author of seven books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation and won the National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson. His in-depth chronicle of the life of our first President, His Excellency: George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller. Ellis' essays and book reviews appear regularly in national publications, such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Ellis’s commentaries have been featured on CBS, CSPAN, CNN, and the PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and he has appeared in several PBS documentaries on early America, including “John and Abigail Adams” for PBS’s The American Experience and a History Channel documentary on George Washington Ellis currently teaches at the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He previously taught at Mount Holyoke College and at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife, Ellen Wilkins Ellis, two dogs and a stray cat.

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

J. Courtney Sullivan (Commencement, Maine, The Engagements)

J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel Commencement. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York, Elle, Glamour, Allure, and Men’s Vogue, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.J. Courney Sullivan is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (www.rhspeakers.com) (added from Random House)… (more)

Please join us at the Bookshop on Friday, June 14 at 7 pm as we welcome back J. Courtney Sullivan, discussing and signing her latest novel, The Engagements.

J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement and Maine. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. Courtney’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure, Men’s Vogue, and the New York Observer, among others. She is a contributor to the essay anthology The Secret Currency of Love and co-editor of Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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

One Thursday each month, a group of SUN loving readers will be gathering at the Bookshop. But these SUN worshippers, unlike those of the UV rite, are dedicated readers of SUN Magazine. This is an open customer-led discussion group, and all are welcome to join at anytime. Our discussions are lively and camaraderie great. Take a 90 minute break from your usual mayhem and join us. Additional meet-ups have been scheduled for April 11, May 16, June 20, July 18, and issues of The SUN are available for purchase at the bookstore. For additional information, please contact info.concordBookshop@gmail.com

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

Please join us on Thursday June 20th at 7 pm as we welcome to the Bookshop Amy Brill, discussing her new novel, The Movement of Stars.

Amy Brill is a writer and producer. Her articles, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Salon, Guernica, and Time Out New York, and have been anthologized in Before and After: Stories from New York and Lost and Found. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been awarded fellowships in fiction by the Edward Albee Foundation, Jentel, the Millay Colony, Fundacion Valparaiso, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation. In 2005, she was the Robert and Charlotte Baron Visiting Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.

As a broadcast journalist, she received a George Foster Peabody Award for writing MTV’s The Social History of HIV, and she researched, wrote, or produced over a dozen other projects for the network’s pro-social initiatives. She has also produced online projects fostering public dialogue on arts, culture, and society for PBS, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and other organizations. A native New Yorker, Amy lives in Brooklyn with her husband. They have two small daughters, neither of whom can yet tie her own shoes.

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