Perhaps we've had all the snow we're going to get and can schedule these events
with assurance (knock on wood). Remember that these programs are free and open to the public. If you cannot attend an event but would like a copy personalized by the author, we're happy to oblige.
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Thurs., June 5, 7 PM
Leland Kinsey
The Immigrant's Contract
In this new collection of linked poems, Leland Kinsey offers a new
installment of his moving and powerful narrative verse. Arriving by horse-and-carriage as a child, the main character of this sequence embodies the
cultural transformation that so many American families have endured, while Kinsey's verse captures the twentieth-century themes of displacement, work,
and transformation in bold, crisp detail. No subject is beyond his grasp: travels through the Canadian wilderness, a baseball game in Florida, the
sabotage of archaeology, a night crossing to Cuba, a lonesome poacher's soliloquy. He always connects these disparate themes with a sure hand,
constructing something sure to resonate with every American - newcomers and first settlers alike. It is all here, acute, ambitious, and
accessible.
The Immigrant's Contract is the most masterful and engaging story of what it means to be an
immigrant in America that I have ever read.
- Howard Frank
Mosher
Utterly
splendid.
--Edward Hoagland
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EVENT POSTPONED, DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Susan Richards
Chosen Forever
Susan Richards, author of the powerful memoir Chosen by a Horse, is back with her new
book, Chosen Forever.
When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA she didn’t
know how Lay Me Down’s loving nature would touch her heart—and change her life. ...
Join us Sunday, June 15, at 3
PM, to hear Susan Richards read from her new book and discuss the special relationship that continues to change her life--booksigning to
follow.
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Thurs., June 19, 7 PM
Geoffrey Douglas
The Classmates
Fifty years ago, in the
fall of 1957, two thirteen-year-old boys were enrolled at St. Paul's School in Concord. One of them, descended from wealth and eminence, would go on
to Yale, then to a career as a navy officer and Vietnam war hero, and finally to the U.S. Senate, from where he would fall just short of the White
House. The other was a scholarship student, a misfit giant of a boy from a Pennsylvania farm town who would suffer shameful debasements at the hands
of his classmates, then go on to a solitary and largely anonymous life as a salesman of encyclopedias and trailer parts--before dying, alone,
twelve months after his classmate's narrow loss on Election Day 2004.
It is around these two figures, John Kerry and a boy known here only as Arthur, the bookends of a class of one
hundred boys, that Geoffrey Douglas--himself a member of that St. Paul's class--builds this remarkable memoir. His portrait of their
lives and the lives of five others in that class--two more Vietnam veterans with vastly divergent stories, a federal judge, a gay New York
artist who struggled for years to find his place in the world, and Douglas himself--offers a memorable look back to a generation caught between
the expectations of their fathers and the sometimes terrifying pulls of a society driven by war, defiance, and self-doubt.
Geoffrey Douglas is also the author of The Game of Their Lives:
The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset , a bestseller at Gibson's.
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Wed., July 23, 7 PM
Linda Greenlaw
Fisherman's Bend
When former Miami homicide detective Jane Bunker left her big city life for
Green Haven, Maine, she thought she was also leaving behind the
pollution, noise, and dead bodies.
Well--as any New Englander will tell you --two out of three ain't bad. After solving a murder and surviving a couple of
attempts on her life (recounted in the bestselling mystery Slipknot), Jane Bunker believes she's finally earned a respite from murder and intrigue. But if she
thinks it's time for her to soak up the peace and quiet she's been seeking, she should think again.
On her way back from a routine investigation into some smashed equipment, Jane makes the chilling discovery that a lobster boat is in serious
trouble, with nobody aboard--its owner has vanished without a trace.
And that's the least of the mysteries. A young mariner dead of a heroin overdose; the real agenda of a charismatic
Indian leader; a missing bait iron and a corpse painted red--nothing is what it seems.
Linda Greenlaw, the swordfish boat captain
immortalized in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, has written many memoirs, a cookbook, and now a bestselling series of detective
novels.
Come meet her--she's great.
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We hope you'll attend as many of these events as you can. Support great writers and great
writing!
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