Titcombs Book Shop

Titcomb's Bookshop and the Sandwich Public Library are thrilled to host a special story time with children's author/illustrator Graeme Base. He will read his new picture book ENIGMA: A MAGICAL MYSTERY, answer questions and sign books. If you are unable to attend and would like to reserve a signed copy ... (more)of his books or if you need further information, please call Titcomb's Bookshop at (508) 888-2331

Titcomb's Bookshop and the Early Childhood Communnnity Partnership of Sandwich will host a talk with noted child development specialist Dr. David Elkind (author of "The Hurried Child"). He will discuss his newest book "The Power of Play". The discussion will be held at the Sandwich High School auditorium ... (more)on Monday Nov. 3rd at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public, no registration required. If you are unable to attend and would like to reserve a signed copy of his books or if you need further information, please call Titcomb's Bookshop at (508) 888-2331

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks will speak, read from "People of the Book," take questions, and sign her books. Brooks' visit is part of the 2009 "Sandwich Reads Together" community-wide reading program.

Sandwich Reads Together sponsors an entertaining, informative talk by Anita Silvey, children’s and young adult book expert and author of "100 Best Books for Children." She will present a history of the American picture book with background on Allen Say’s unique contribution to the genre. (Say's new ... (more)book, "Erika-San," is one of the main book selections for the Sandwich Reads Together 2009 program.)

Sandwich Reads Together sponsors a presentation by the award-winning reporter who interviewed the librarian who saved the Sarajevo Haggadah. Well known for writing about books, bibliophiles, and various aspects of book culture, Nicholas Basbanes has worked as an award-winning investigative reporter, ... (more)a literary editor, a lecturer, and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author of "Every Book Its Reader: the Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World" and other titles on book culture and bibliophiles. The Sarajevo Haggadah is featured in our Sandwich Reads Together 2009 main book selection, "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks.

Caldecott Medal-winning author/illustrator Allen Say shares the background story of his latest picture book "Erika-San." The story relates an American girl’s life-long fascination with Japan and its culture. Discussion moderated by Mindy Todd, host of "The Point" on WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station. ... (more)Say's visit is part of the 2009 "Sandwich Reads Together" community-wide reading program.

Come learn about "The Sharing Solution". Everyone can benefit from sharing resources from babysitting and lawn care to household tools. Come learn about how to build community and reduce your impact on the environment through sharing and get an overview of some of the legal ramifications to consider. ... (more)This is a free event, no registration required.

Come learn about "The Sharing Solution". Everyone can benefit from sharing resources from babysitting and lawn care to household tools. Come learn about how to build community and reduce your impact on the environment through sharing and get an overview of some of the legal ramifications to consider. ... (more)This is a free event, no registration required.

Author (and bookstore owner!) Elizabeth Bluemle will read her new picture book How Do You Wokka-Wokka? With jazzy rhythms, silly rhymes, and welcoming images, the creative team behind "My Father the Dog" returns with a call-and-response for preschoolers that celebrates movement, dance, and community ... (more)spirit. Come join the fun. This is a free event, no registration required.

Most of you have seen the beautiful picture book "Journey Around Cape Cod A To Z" by Martha Zschock. We hope you will join us for a special preschool storytime as the author joins us to read her new board book Hello Cape Cod! This is a free event, no registration required.

Join as John Hough talks about his new novel of the Civil War that describes the experiences of two brothers from Martha's Vineyard who fight in the war. John Hough describes life in the Union Army during the Civil War as he tells the story of two young brothers coming of age who volunteer to serve their ... (more)country. Luke and Thomas Chandler grew up on Martha's Vineyard, raised by their abolitionist father and Rose, their headstrong and beautiful Cape Verdean housekeeper. When a recruiter comes to the island, the boys, who have already witnessed their father and Rose helping a runaway slave to freedom and who are determined to join the fight against slavery, eagerly enlist in the storied Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Throughout the hot days of early summer the brothers march with the army through Virginia and Maryland, crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. They experience unaccustomed hardships: food that is barely edible, terrible thirst, chilly nights, and rain-soaked marches. They share in the camaraderie of their fellow soldiers, spending their evenings discussing over card games what they will do when the war ends, alternately exhibiting anxiety and bravado as the next battle looms. The climactic battle at Gettysburg is rendered as vividly as in the classic Civil War novel The Killer Angels. John Hough does full justice to the townspeople, including free blacks suddenly imperiled by the arrival of the Confederate army, and the Rebel soldiers themselves, battle hardened, war weary, yet convinced they are fighting for a just cause. But above all this is a heartbreaking story about two brothers united and then separated by the powerful bond that only love can forge, and break.

Nancy Bestul will read from her new children's chapter book: Summer Spies ($8.95). Summer Spies is the story of an 11 year old girl on Martha's Vineyard during WWII. She wants to help the war effort and decides to be President Roosevelt's unofficial lookout for enemy spies. She teams up with a deaf boy ... (more)from the island to discover if a suspicious man is a Nazi spy from a German submarine.

Come celebrate with us! Titcomb's Bookshop is celebrating it's 40th year in business. We want to thank all of our customers for their support over the years so we are treating this like a real birthday party. We will have cake and a make-your-own-sundae buffet with 40 toppings you can chose from! Balloons ... (more)for the kids and more.

Ann Hood found solace in learning to knit after the sudden death of her daughter. Sakonnet Purls is the wonderful shop where Ann found new friends and an absorbing hobby. She will meet us at this wonderful yarn shop and talk about writing, reading, and new knitting patterns! Bring a picnic lunch or plan ... (more)to buy a sandwich at one of the local shops. Call us to register so we know who is coming! We will meet at the Sagamore commuter lot to caravan to the store at 9:30am. If you live near the shop (in Tiverton, Rhode Island), you can meet us there at 10:30am.

Based on the popular public television series "MoneyTrack", The MoneyTrack Method offers you the principles, techniques, and approaches that allow real people of all incomes to become successful investors. Steering you away from the get-rich-quick mentality that sinks so many, this book shows you how ... (more)patience and planning pay off, as well as how good investing habits lead to better overall financial health. Filled with in-depth insights and real-world examples, The MoneyTrack Method outlines the time-tested principles of smart investing, and shows you how others have already applied them.

Set in the lush, rolling hills of northern New Jersey and the romantic, windswept dunes of Cape Cod, So Happy Together is the story of three generations of women who find their lives, and dreams, suddenly transformed in ways they never could have imagined. But ultimately, it is the heartbreaking and ... (more)joyful journey of one woman who comes to realize that when you're a mother, or a daughter, you are never truly free. Come meet author Maryann McFadden and learn more about her novel set on our own Cape Cod.

Maritime historian Mary Malloy will introduce us to her new novel, The Wandering Heart. A summary of the historical novel: Historian Lizzie Manning didn't set out to become a sleuth, and she had no intention of becoming personally involved in a medieval mystery. Her expertise lay in eighteenth-century ... (more)maritime voyages, and her assignment was to find a Tlingit Indian corpse robbed from its grave two hundred years ago during Captain Cook's Pacific voyage. First accident, then compulsion, pull her deeper into the past, through thirty generations of one British family. Lizzie's sources aren't fingerprints and firearms, but documents, artifacts, paintings, architecture, and even the landscape--though modern forensic science helps clarify what happened to a few ancient corpses. Lizzie's work takes on personal meaning as she is drawn into her own family's history of insanity and a search for a Crusader's disembodied heart. As with Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody and Amanda Cross' Kate Fansler, Mary Malloy creates a heroine who is a respected scholar in her field, and who draws on her expertise to solve the mysteries that come her way.

Richard Russo will discuss his new book, That Old Cape Magic, and answer questions from the audience. Following the discussion, he will sign his books.

We are thrilled to be hosting a talk with Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo on Saturday August 15th at 7:00pm. He will talk about his newest novel, That Old Cape Magic set here on Cape Cod! The book will be released for sale on August 4th, 2009. We are accepting pre-orders. You may also reserve ... (more)a signed copy if you are unable to attend the event. Doors to the auditorium will open at 6:00pm. A $2 donation to the Sandwich Public Library will be reqeuested at the door. SPECIAL RECEPTION TO BENEFIT THE SANDWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY There will be a special dinner reception with Richard Russo on Saturday August 15th from 5-6:30pm at the home of Ralph and Nancy Titcomb (attached to the Bookshop). Tickets are $40 per person and include a buffet dinner, dessert, wine and reserved seating at the 7:00pm talk. All proceeds will go to the Sandwich Public Library. Only 50 tickets will be sold so this is a unique opportunity to meet and chat with a Pulitzer prize winning author in an intimate setting.

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight ... (more)answers--right from the belly of the beast. In "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense," Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald's Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world's toughest trading floors.

Catie Copley has a very special job - she is canine ambassador at a big, beautiful hotel in Boston. She lives with Jim, who also works at the hotel, and spends her days in the lobby, sleeping, greeting people, chasing balls, and sleeping some more. The adventures of Catie Copley are based on the real-life ... (more)experiences of a small black labrador, originally trained as a guide dog. She had a career change and is now a member of the guest services team at the storied Fairmont Copley Plaza, where she shares her unique breed of hospitality daily. Catie Copley's Great Escape is a new picture book (the second about Catie) that has Catie traveling to The Fairmont, Copley's sister hotel in Quebec City. Come listen to the story and meet Catie herself!

Bring a paper bag full of natural materials (shells, rocks, leaves, moss, sticks, etc..) and we will make fairy houses! (Based on Tracy Kane's Fairy House books). No registration necessary. Open to all.

Join us at 1:30pm or 3:30pm for tea, treats, stories and activities based on Fancy Nancy's book about the great outdoors. This event will be held at the Green Briar Nature Center Education building. Tickets are $8 per person. Reservations required.

GRANGE HALL AUTHOR SERIES A VISIT WITH WALLY LAMB: The Hour I First Believed Saturday September 5th, 7:00pm We simply couldn't think of a more exciting way to kick-off our new Grange Hall Author Series! We will be hosting an evening with Wally Lamb (!) author of She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is ... (more)True and most recently The Hour I First Believed (which will be available in paperback as of August 1st). Tickets for this event are $5 per person with the proceeds going towards the Grange Hall. Refresments will be served.

LEARN HOW TO GET PUBLISHED FROM A FIRST TIME NOVELIST First time novelist Tracy Kiely will introduce us to her new book Murder At Longbourn. She will also discuss the publishing process and the challenges facing first time writers. The book is a mystery set on Cape Cod with a Jane Austen theme. Book ... (more)Summary: Planning New Year's resolutions to rid her life of all things unhealthy, Elizabeth Parker has dumped fatty foods, processed sugar, and her two-timing boyfriend. Indeed, the invitation to join her Aunt Winnie for a How to Host a Murder Party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod B and B comes just in time. But when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim, Elizabeth must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion. The suspects include the town gossip, a haughty rich woman, and an antiques business owner much enamored of his benefactress, a Mrs. Kristell Dubois. If that isn't bad enough, Elizabeth must also contend with her childhood nemesis, Peter McGowan---a man she suspects has only matured in chronological years---and her suspicions about his family's interest in Winnie's inn. Yesterday, her only worry was of ever finding her Mr. Darcy. Now she has a murder to solve. Is it any wonder her resolution to achieve inner poise is in tatters? By reimagining characters and themes lifted from the treasured classic "Pride and Prejudice," and crafting an expert, intricate mystery, Tracy Kiely has brought to life something very special: a new cozy series that is clever, vibrant, and utterly disarming.

Get a first hand feel for the historical novel set here on Cape Cod that we absolutely love. We will be taking a driving tour of some of the locations mentioned in the pre-Revolutionary War novel set here on Cape Cod. Following the tour we will stop at the Scargo Cafe in Dennis to sit and talk with author ... (more)Sally Gunning. We will meet at 1:00pm at the Dennis Cinema to carpool through the tour. This is a free event but reservations are required. (Drinks and dessert will be available for individual purchase at the Scargo Cafe.)

Author David Ebershoff will join our monthly discussion by phone to answer our questions about his book! As always, book club is open to all and no registration is required.

John Kircher will discuss his book The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth at the Green Briar Nature Center. The talk is free and open to the public. The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination ... (more)and even among some ecologists today. In this lively and thought-provoking book, John Kricher demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history. He explains how and why this notion of a natural world in balance has endured for so long, and he shows why, in these times of extraordinary human influence on the planet's ecosystems, it is critical that we accept and understand that evolution is a fact of life, and that ecology is far more dynamic than we ever imagined. "The Balance of Nature" traces the fascinating history of the science of ecology and evolutionary biology, from the discipline's early innovators to the advent of Darwin and evolution, to the brilliant and inquisitive scientific minds of today. Blending insights and entertaining stories from his own remarkable life in science, Kricher reveals how evolution is a powerful engine that drives ecological change, how nature is constantly in flux and, in effect, quite naturally out of balance--and how notions to the contrary are misguided and ultimately hazardous to us all. "The Balance of Nature" forcefully argues that an understanding of the dynamic nature of ecology and evolution is essential to formulating policies of environmental ethics to guide humanity toward a more responsible stewardship of our planet's ecosystems.

John Kircher will discuss his book The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth at the Green Briar Nature Center. The talk is free and open to the public. The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination ... (more)and even among some ecologists today. In this lively and thought-provoking book, John Kricher demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history. He explains how and why this notion of a natural world in balance has endured for so long, and he shows why, in these times of extraordinary human influence on the planet's ecosystems, it is critical that we accept and understand that evolution is a fact of life, and that ecology is far more dynamic than we ever imagined. "The Balance of Nature" traces the fascinating history of the science of ecology and evolutionary biology, from the discipline's early innovators to the advent of Darwin and evolution, to the brilliant and inquisitive scientific minds of today. Blending insights and entertaining stories from his own remarkable life in science, Kricher reveals how evolution is a powerful engine that drives ecological change, how nature is constantly in flux and, in effect, quite naturally out of balance--and how notions to the contrary are misguided and ultimately hazardous to us all. "The Balance of Nature" forcefully argues that an understanding of the dynamic nature of ecology and evolution is essential to formulating policies of environmental ethics to guide humanity toward a more responsible stewardship of our planet's ecosystems.

Ann Pieroway will sign copies of her new cookbook Taste and Tales of Cape Cod and the Islands. Stop by and try samples made from recipes in the book. Taste and Tales of Cape Cod and the Islands is a cookbook with 150 irresistible recipes from Cape Cod and the Islands culled from inns, restaurants, bed ... (more)& breakfasts and vintage cookbooks plus 80 entertaining tales, written and edited by P. Ann Pieroway with cover painting and illustrations throughout by Massachusetts artist Louise Minks.

Come meet children's author Coleen Paratore, author of the new tween novel Forget Me Not set right here on Cape Cod! (for ages 9-12). She is also the author of The Wedding Planner's Daughter series.

Did you know that The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is celebrating its 40th Anniversary too? We will host a special preschool storytime in honor of its anniversary. Join us for stories, snacks and activities.

In honor of new LEGO books being released by DK, we will be part of a national LEGO tour. Stay tuned for details (time to be announced)!

We will host a talk with Pulitzer prize winning poet Mary Oliver at the Cape Cod Community College Tilden Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

Children's author Andrew Clements, author of Frindle, No Talking and A Week in the Woods, will join us for a talk about his new chapter book Extra Credit. Book Summary: It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork, it's just that she doesn't like doing it. And that means she's pretty much failing ... (more)sixth grade. When a warning letter is sent home, Abby realizes that all her slacking off could cause her to be held back -- for real! Unless she wants to repeat the sixth grade, she'll have to meet some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project: find a pen pal in a foreign country. Simple enough (even for a girl who hates homework). Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, and Sadeed Bayat is chosen to be her pen pal.... Well, kind of. He is the best writer, but he is also a boy, and in his village it is not appropriate for a boy to correspond with a girl. So his younger sister dictates and signs the letter. Until Sadeed decides what his sister is telling Abby isn't what he'd like Abby to know. As letters flow back and forth between Illinois and Afghanistan, Abby and Sadeed discover that their letters are crossing more than an ocean. They are crossing a huge cultural divide and a minefield of different lifestyles and traditions. Their growing friendship is also becoming a growing problem for both communities, and some people are not happy. Suddenly things are not so simple. The doors to the auditorium will open at 6:00pm. No registration necessary, open to all.

If you haven't read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, you have to go out and do that right now. You won't put it down and you will be dying to meet her after you've read it. We are delighted to bring you that opportunity! Jeanette will talk about her new book (Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel, ... (more)released Oct. 6th) that is based on the story of her maternal grandmother. We are accepting pre-orders. You may also reserve a signed copy if you are unable to attend the event.