Author Event

Maggie Thrash (Rainbow Black) with Margot Douaihy (Blessed Water)!

Thursday, March 28th, 2024, 6:30 pm

What do you get when you cross a novel about a queer teen struggling with the aftermath of the 90s Satanic Panic, and a thriller about a queer chain-smoking crime-fighting nun? You get a Gibson's Bookstore event! Maggie Thrash (Rainbow Black) and Margot Douaihy (Blessed Water) are at Gibson's Bookstore to discuss their new books:

Rainbow Black: A Novel By Maggie Thrash Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780063286870
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Harper Perennial - March 19th, 2024

I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow


Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery By Margot Douaihy Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781638930266
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Published: Gillian Flynn Books - March 12th, 2024

Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove in this fast-paced, blistering follow-up to Scorched Grace.


Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery By Margot Douaihy Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781638930242
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Published: Gillian Flynn Books - February 21st, 2023

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this "unique and confident" debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn).

When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos.


Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery By Margot Douaihy Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781638930983
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Gillian Flynn Books - January 16th, 2024

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this "unique and confident" debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn).

When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos.


Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir By Maggie Thrash, Maggie Thrash (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Maggie Thrash, Maggie Thrash (Illustrator)
$14.99
ISBN: 9780763687557
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Published: Candlewick - May 9th, 2017

“Thrash has so carefully and skillfully captured a universal moment. . . . A luminescent memoir not to be missed.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.


Caught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcare, with Dr. Lloyd Sederer

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, 6:30 pm

Caught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcare By Lloyd I. Sederer Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9798886451290
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Greenleaf Book Group Press - January 9th, 2024

The inspiring true story of how a small group of dedicated leaders led radical and relentless change to save McLean, Harvard's historic psychiatric hospital.


Ink-Stained for Life By Lloyd Sederer Cover Image
$13.95
ISBN: 9781645757702
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Published: Austin Macauley - September 30th, 2020

"Walking with Lloyd through the pages of Ink-Stained for Life will make you laugh, and think, and cheer, and deeply feel what gives meaning to life. A page-turning jaunt of joy. " -- Ron Suskind Pulitzer prize-winning author of A Hope in the Unseen, The One Percent Doctrine and Life, Animated In the 1950s, America was coming of age.


Storytime! Small Business Saturday edition

Saturday, November 25th, 2023, 11am

Where Is Little Stripe's Daddy? By Deborah Bruss, Cornelius Van Wright Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781595729286
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Star Bright Books - December 5th, 2023

The Thing to Remember about Stargazing By Matt Forrest Esenwine, Sonia Maria Luce Possentini (Illustrator) Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780884489405
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Published: Tilbury House Publishers - October 3rd, 2023

A picture-book ode to stargazing with an underlying message of awe for the wonders of nature.


Maddie and Mabel Make a Plan: Book 4 By Kari Allen, Tatjana Mai-Wyss (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Kari Allen, Tatjana Mai-Wyss (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781638940241
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Published: Kind World Publishing - October 31st, 2023

The fourth book in the Junior Library Guild Award Winning Series


Whose Prints? By Kari Allen, Kim Smith (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Kari Allen, Kim Smith (Illustrator)
$8.99
ISBN: 9781665929592
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Published: Little Simon - September 19th, 2023

Go on a snowy adventure through the woods and match animals to their tracks in this beautiful board book with die-cuts throughout!

Who tiptoed across the snow? Who scurried and skittered? Who slink-slink-slinked along? Little readers will love looking at different tracks in the snow and figuring out which animal made each one.


Poetry Society of New Hampshire: Carla Schwartz

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023, 4:30-6pm

Join the Poetry Society of New Hampshire for an afternoon of verse! In November the headliner is Carla Schwartz. Her reading is followed by an open mic. Newcomers welcome!

Signs of Marriage By Carla Schwartz Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781646628575
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Published: Finishing Line Press - June 10th, 2022

"My favorite is Turntable Park, which may be seen as a contest with nature: wind, rain, waves, with focus on the finish line. The vivid imagery draws the reader into this exploit in this nicely woven poem with no loose threads-a fresh, original creation."-Harris Gardener, poet and poetry editor, Ibbetson Street Press


Intimacy with the Wind By Carla Schwartz Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781635343090
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Published: Finishing Line Press - October 6th, 2017

Poems in Intimacy with the Wind by Carla Schwartz encapsulate a nomadic life living on a solar electric-powered tiny houseboat on a lake. They touch on nature and the environment, and fuse the themes of love, family, death, and life throughout.


Mike Dickerman presents: 4000-Footers of the White Mountains (3rd edition)

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, 6:30 pm

4000-Footers of the White Mountains (3rd edition) By Mike Dickerman, Steven D. Smith Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781931271394
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bondcliff Books - November 1st, 2023

The much anticipated new third edition of this indispensable guide to the 48 highest peaks in New Hampshire’s beautiful White Mountains. This updated and revised edition includes descriptions of all the trail approaches to each summit. There are also more than 100 photographs, plus informative historical timelines and extensive view descriptions for all peaks on the 4000-Footer list.


The 4,000-Footers of New Hampshire's White Mountains (Images of America) By Mike Dickerman Cover Image
$23.99
ISBN: 9781467106672
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Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC) - July 5th, 2021

Earth Retrograde, with R.W.W. Greene

Thursday, November 16th, 2023, 6:30 pm

Earth Retrograde: Book II of the First Planets By R.W.W. Greene Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781915202482
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Published: Angry Robot - October 24th, 2023

Becoming the planet's most (in)famous human has not changed Brooklyn Lamontagne one bit, but the time has come for him to choose where his allegiances really lie.


Mercury Rising By R.W.W. Greene Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780857669728
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Published: Angry Robot - May 10th, 2022

Top Gun in space!

An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty


 The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. 


Barb Higgins, Motherland, with Virginia Macgregor

Following the abrupt loss in 2016 of her 13-year old daughter, Molly Banzhoff, due to a ruptured, undetected brain tumor, Concord local Barb Higgins was adrift.

Motherland: Living with Child Loss and Becoming a Mother Again at 57 By Barb Higgins Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9798891320246
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Published: Atmosphere Press - October 24th, 2023

"Powerful, honest and gut-wrenching." - Paul Brogan, author


"Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming." - Dave Cummings, former editor and columnist, The Concord Monitor


"Motherland is an insightful, searingly honest, and incisive exploration of child loss." - Margaret Porter, author


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Isaac Fitzgerald, with Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Monday, November 13th, 2023, 6:30 pm

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional By Isaac Fitzgerald Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781639731640
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - November 7th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year


Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin By Peter Orner Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781646222049
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Published: Catapult - October 24th, 2023

Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism


Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional By Isaac Fitzgerald Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781635573978
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - July 19th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction

“The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy.” –Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year"


Endangered Species: Chronicles of the Life of a New England Fisherman and the F/V Ellen Diane, with author David Goethel

Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, 6:30 pm

Endangered Species: Chronicles of the Life of a New England Fisherman and the F/V Ellen Diane By David Goethel Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781942155676
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Published: Peter E. Randall David Goethel - October 24th, 2023

If David Goethel was a cat, he would be in the market for more lives. But David is a small boat fisherman, an endangered species, who works tirelessly for himself and others like him to survive. Follow along on that journey, sea stories and autobiography mixed with twists and turns of science and management as David and his family work relentlessly to feed America sustainable seafood.


The Lost Cause, with Cory Doctorow

Saturday, November 18th, 2023, 1pm

Cory Doctorow returns to Gibson's Bookstore to present his new novel, The Lost Cause!

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?

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The Lost Cause By Cory Doctorow Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250865939
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tor Books - November 14th, 2023

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?


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