Thursday, August 12, 5–7 pm at the Spirit of ’76

Did you miss our spring book launch event for The Map of True Places? Fear not — you have another opportunity to meet Brunonia!

Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world.

Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats — a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She’s now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She’s also about to marry one of Boston’s most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee’s patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she though she’d left behind.

What starts as a brief visit home to Salem after Lilly’s funeral becomes the beginning of a larger journey for Zee. Her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, has been hiding how sick he really is. His longtime companion, Melville, has moved out, and it now falls to Zee to help her father through this difficult time. Their relationship, marked by half-truths and the untimely death of her mother, is strained and awkward.

Overwhelmed by her new role, and uncertain about her future, Zee destroys the existing map of her life and begins a new journey, one that will take her not only into her future but into her past as well. Like the sailors of old Salem who navigated by looking at the stars, Zee has to learn to find her way through uncharted waters to the place she will ultimately call home.

The Lace Reader was a New York Times bestseller, received a starred Publisher’s Weekly review, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. For more information on Brunonia Barry and her novels, visit www.lacereader.com.

The Map of True Places (Hardcover)

By Brunonia Barry

$25.99

ISBN-13: 9780061624780
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Published: William Morrow, 05/01/2010

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The Lace Reader (Paperback)

By Brunonia Barry

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780061624773
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 09/01/2009

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Sunday, August 15, 11–1

Meg Pier has published five gorgeous, themed photography books---Visions of New England, Visions for Faith, Visions for the Journey, Visions for Becoming, and Visions for Belonging -- in which her images from New England and around the world are captioned by motivational and thought-provoking quotes from sages of the ages, ranging from Ovid to Oprah. Meg is a published travel writer and photographer who contributes regularly to The Boston Globe and online boutique travel magazine www.viewfromthepier.com. Meg is a former public relations executive who retired from a career in the investment management industry in 2008. She currently resides in Nahant.

Visions of New England: a book of photography and quotations to inspire a sense of awe (Paperback)

By Meg Pier

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780982220245
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Published: Meg Pier, 12/01/2009

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Visions for Faith (Paperback)

By Meg Pier

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780982220214
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Published: Meg Pier, 11/01/2009

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Visions for the Journey (Paperback)

By Meg Pier

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780982220238
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Published: Meg Pier, 12/01/2009

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Visions for Belonging (Paperback)

By Meg Pier

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780982220207
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Published: Meg Pier, 11/01/2009

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Visions for Becoming (Paperback)

By Meg Pier

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780982220221
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Published: Meg Pier, 11/01/2009

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Thursday, August 19, 6–8pm

Local author Janet Spurr, author of The Beach Chair Diaries, has now sold over 3,300 copies of her book! Join us for a boisterous evening of celebration filled with tales from the beach chair and champagne. Did we mention that August is National Beach Month?

Beach Chair Diaries (Paperback)

By Janet E. Spurr

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780979985041
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Published: Falmouth Heights Books, 06/01/2008

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Tuesday, September 7, 10–noon
Coffee and pastries will be served.

From the national Book Award-winning author of The Three Junes, The Whole World Over and I See You Everywhere comes a rich and powerful tale about the multigenerational loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a family, inhabitants of a complacently prosperous world where no one is immune to unexpected change.

In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, 70-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy’s rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine the choices he’s made.

Publisher’s Weekly calls The Widower’s Tale “thought-provoking, and immensely satisfying,” and in Booklist’s starred review they said “Elaborately plotted and luxuriously paced, Glass inquisitive, compassionate, funny, and suspenseful saga addresses significant and thorny social issues with emotional veracity, artistic nuance, and a profound perception of the grand interconnectivity of life.”

The Widower's Tale (Hardcover)

By Julia Glass

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780307377920
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Published: Pantheon, 09/01/2010

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