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Booksmith's design and buying teams have been knocking their heads together to assemble a beautiful presentation of all the best that your local independent bookstore has to offer. The first weekly Brookline Booksmith Gift Guide will arrive in your inbox (subscribe to B-Mail at the bottom of theis page) soon, and inside it you will find the very best of the books that have caught our heart and minds. And if a book isn't what you're looking for, our outstanding Giftsmith team has hand-picked a bunch of great ideas for anyone and everyone on your list. We hope our Gift Guide provides a spark of inspiration, and we sure hope it brings you into the store this holiday season.
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Thursday, November 19th at 7:00pm Our newest book club selects readings from independent presses. Read something off the beaten path! Free and open to the public, meeting the third Thursday of every month at 7:00pm. To contact our moderator, email smallpress@brooklinebooksmith.com |
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Friday, November 20th at 7:00pm Join us for a night of new stories, essays, and poems by MFA candidates from Emerson, BU, and UMass Boston. For more information, please visit breakwaterreadingseries.wordpress.com |
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Saturday, November 21st at 10:30am Do you love picture books? Join us in our children’s section as our fine children’s team reads stories aloud every third Saturday and last Sunday of the month. |
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Monday, November 23rd at 7:00pm For twenty-five years, Rabbi Tovia Halberstam, a scion of leading Chassidic dynasties, told riveting Chassidic tales to an audience of thousands on the Yiddish radio in New York. In The Blind Angel, Rabbi Halberstam’s son, Joshua Halberstam, renders these stories for a contemporary audience while maintaining the full charm, rhythm, and authenticity of the original tales. |
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Booksmith Book Club Monday, December 14th @ 7:30pm How to Be Both Ali Smith No need to sign up, just show up! |
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Small Press Book Club |
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 |
The Sleep of the Righteous |
Beatlebone |
This Old Man: All in Pieces |
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat |
| The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs Elaine Sciolino W. W. Norton & Company Hardcover, $25.95 |
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Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, offers an homage to Parisian street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,” Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents, bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. |
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438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.
On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore.
Fourteen months later, on January 30, 2014, Salvador Alvarenga, now a hairy, wild-bearded and half-mad castaway, washed ashore on a nearly deserted island on the far side of the Pacific, some seven thousand miles away from home. Jonathan Franklin's retelling of his nearly unbelievable ordeal is called “The best survival book in a decade” by Outside magazine. |
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Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, and their views on love, style, self-invention, feminism, child rearing, and the importance of art as they ponder what it means to be a woman. |
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| Jack Frost William Joyce Atheneum Hardcover, $17.99 Ages 4-8 |
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William Joyce's lush picturebooks contain whole worlds in each image. His newest adventure tells of the days before Jack Frost was Jack Frost; when he was Nightlight, the most trusted and valiant companion of Mim, the Man in the Moon. But when Pitch destroys Mim’s world, he nearly destroys Nightlight too, sending him plunging to Earth where, like Peter Pan, he is destined to remain forever a boy, frozen in time. Jack finds the warmth he’s been yearning for when he gets a chance to help some children in need,
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The barrier between the vibrant little domestic scene inside Hilda's little cottage and the dangerous, stormy world outside is merely the width of her imagination. But is that really just her imagination, or is there really a troll on her trail? Hilda is one of the best heroines to emerge over the past few years. Luke Pearson's stunningly beautiful book is finally out in paperback, so get a copy for the smart, brave little kid in your life!
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The Game of Lives (the Mortality Doctrine, Book Three) James Dashner Delacorte Press Hardcover, $18.99 Ages 13-17 |
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The Game of Lives is the final book in the Mortality Doctrine series, an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure trilogy. Michael used to live to game, but the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet - which combines the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience - has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine, the evil creator of The Mortality Doctrine, grows stronger by the day. Little by little the line separating the virtual from the real is blurring, and unless Michael can figure this out, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. |
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| Oranges John McPhee Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000 Used Paperback, $7.50 |
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Oranges, you love to eat 'em. I have one poor friend who is allergic to fruit. Can you imagine? My son has this trick with a clementine, it only works as long as he still has those slim little fingers, but it's great, he peels the clementine and then just slides a finger right through the middle and all of the stuff you don't want to eat just pops out the other side. Sometimes I like to wash an orange, stick a toothpick through one hole in the rind repeatedly at all different angles, and then just suck on the orange for the next five minutes or so. I haven't read this book, but I assume eminent essayist John McPhee covers a lot of the same ground as I just did. |
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Two or Three Things I Know For Sure Dorothy Allison Plume, 1995 Used Paperback, $7 |
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In Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Dorothy Allison takes a probing look at her family’s history to explore how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the author’s personal collection, this slim memoir tells the story of the Gibson women - sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts - and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.
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"Juxtaposing our wars, our disturbed cities, our flawed policies with the erotic and domestic, Michael Broek creates a stunning love song for our troubled nation and world." - Martha Collins |
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| The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens Stephen Apkon Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Hardcover Orig. $26, Sale $6.99 |
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The farthest thing from a bemoaning of the degeneracy of the written word, Stephen Apkon's The Age of the Image traces the deep history and frenetic present of human methods of communication, from cave paintings to YouTube, and instead presents a case for the excitement we should be feeling as we bear witness to humankind's evolving ability to blend word and image in ever more meaningful ways.
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Historian Denise Spellman's groundbreaking research reveals how a handful of Founders, led by Thomas Jefferson, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims - then considered the ultimate outsiders in Western Society - to turn what had been a purely speculative debate into a practical foundation for American governance, not to mention the Constitutionally mandated religious tolerance which has been a beacon of hope for so many citizens of the world who have suffered at the hand of the state for holding a set of personal beliefs.
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Four characters lives are unexpectedly turned upside down by the deliciously inconvenient arrival of love. For Anna, meeting Yves has brought a flurry of excitement to her life and made her question her values, her reliable husband, and her responsibilities to her children. For Louise, a successful career woman in a stable and comfortable marriage, her routine is uprooted by the youthful passion she feels for Thomas. Thought-provoking, sophisticated, and amusing, Hervé le Tellier's Enough About Love captures the euphoria of desire through tender and unflinching portraits of husbands, wives, and lovers. |
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Travel mugs and tea, stock up for the season! Whether it's going to be savored at home, curled up in a window seat with a book, or sipped in traffic on your way to Thanksgiving dinner, our new selection of sumptuous teas and mugs will bring comfort and calm to even the chilliest days. |
Brookline's First Light event started eighteen years ago in Washington Square when several businesses came together to spread some holiday cheer by hanging snowflakes in their storefront windows. The glowing flakes illuminated the square, signaling the start of the holiday season, and they've been coming back every year since. First Light has grown into the Town’s annual winter festival, showcasing the talents of local artists, musicians and performers at businesses and other venues throughout town. Join your neighbors in Coolidge Corner tomorrow, Thursday November 19 from 5-8pm, and let's spread some serious peace and love all together!
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I would say "where did the time go?" but I can recall where it went: eleven months of 2015 have passed, and all I have to do is flick at the newsfeed on my phone to see that more than enough changes have occurred for one calendar year. Full measures of beauty, but far too much tragedy.
One thing that springs to mind in the wake of such scenes of mayhem as this year has brought us is a Buddhist slogan that struck me the first time I read Chogyam Trungpa's Training the Mind:
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