Holiday Book Recommendation Night, with publisher sales reps!
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, 6:30 pm
Just For Fun
Find Waldo 2023!
Waldo is back! This famous striped-shirt friend is hiding in 24 Downtown Concord businesses, and we want you to find him!
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536210651
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Candlewick - November 12th, 2019
Where’s Waldo? Enjoying a refreshed cover on his first adventure — plus two new pages of games and searches!
In the amazing original that set off the worldwide search for Waldo, the intrepid traveler is trekking from the beach to the mountains, the city to the county fair. And everywhere he goes, he somehow manages to lose more belongings to be found.
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536210668
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Published: Candlewick - December 24th, 2019
Where’s Waldo? Enjoying a refreshed cover plus two new pages of games and searches!
Waldo and his friends Wenda, Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, and Odlaw are cropping up in scenes throughout history, appearing alongside cavemen, gladiators, gold miners, and more. Waldo even gets lost in the future!
$17.99
ISBN: 9780763645281
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Published: Candlewick - May 14th, 2013
Have you found Waldo’s special deluxe editions yet?
Another classic Waldo adventure has received the deluxe treatment! Prepare to find:
A striking jacketed cover
An original collectible poster on the underside of the jacket
A spot-the-difference game on the cover
A gatefold with checklists on every spread
Never-before-seen sections of artwork in each scene
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536210972
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Published: Candlewick - November 25th, 2019
Where’s Waldo? Enjoying a refreshed cover on his fantastic adventure — plus two new pages of games and searches!
$14.99
ISBN: 9781536224399
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Published: Candlewick - March 1st, 2022
The travel companion that Waldo fans can’t get enough of—now with all the classic adventures!
Waldo seekers on their own voyages will be raring to go with this compact compilation featuring all seven of his renowned excursions:
Where’s Waldo?
Where’s Waldo Now?
Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
$18.99
ISBN: 9781536228618
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Published: Candlewick - March 7th, 2023
Who’s the fastest at finding Waldo? An exciting new format challenges fans to race against their speedy friends. Go!
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536213089
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Published: Candlewick - March 11th, 2020
When books come alive! A classic Waldo adventure enjoys a refreshed cover — plus two new pages of searches.
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536213065
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Published: Candlewick - March 11th, 2020
Hey, Waldo fans! Sharpen your eyes and your wits, because Waldo is taking you on a whole new star-studded adventure. That's right, you're going to Hollywood! Follow Waldo—if you can find him—through a cast of thousands on the bustling streets of the great movie classics. Is he there in the chorus line of that musical in production, or up on the ramparts of that epic war film?
$14.99
ISBN: 9781536211450
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Published: Candlewick - March 10th, 2020
Waldo’s ultimate antidote to “there’s nothing to do” brims with searches, puzzles, and games of all stripes — plus a five-minute challenge on each page.
$17.99
ISBN: 9780763645267
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Published: Candlewick - September 25th, 2012
A second classic Waldo adventure gets the deluxe treatment!
Prepare to find:
A striking jacketed cover
An original poster on the underside of the jacket
A spot-the-difference game between the jacket and the self-cover designs
A gatefold with a visual checklist on every spread
A never-before-seen section of artwork revealed on every spread
New things to search for!
$9.99
ISBN: 9781536228908
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Published: Candlewick - September 27th, 2022
Have you ever wondered which of his many adventures Waldo loved best? Seek the answer in this paperback collection of some of Waldo’s most iconic journeys.
$12.99
ISBN: 9781536201550
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Published: Candlewick - March 27th, 2018
Take it on the road! Waldo’s activities will challenge and entertain fans for hours in a format perfect for travel.
$18.99
ISBN: 9781536201765
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Published: Candlewick - October 2nd, 2018
Where’s Waldo? In the spotlight . . . somewhere! Now that the rest of the scene has gone dark, finding him is a spectacular new challenge.
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536224405
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Published: Candlewick - May 10th, 2022
Maybe you’re good at spotting Waldo. But can you spot the difference? Head to the museum, where even the sharpest eyes are seeing double.
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536215106
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Published: Candlewick - October 13th, 2020
He’s a master of the paper trail! Keep your eyes peeled for Waldo’s amazing seventh adventure -- his most interactive journey ever.
$22.99
ISBN: 9780763648732
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Published: Candlewick - August 6th, 2013
A small, enticing, portable boxed set makes a gift-ready introduction to Waldo’s adventures for the younger crowd.
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536213072
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Published: Candlewick - March 11th, 2020
Every picture tells a story! A classic Waldo adventure enjoys a refreshed cover — plus two new pages of searches.
$9.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780763654160
Published: Candlewick - February 8th, 2011
Have YOU gotten a postcard from Waldo yet? The iconic traveler takes fans on a whirlwind tour with this cool collection of thirty postcards.
Independent Bookstore Day 2023
Saturday, April 29th, 2023, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Independent Bookstore Day 2022
This is the day when you, our favorite customers, get to show your appreciation for us, your favorite indie bookstore!
Start making your lists of books that you've been meaning to buy, and help us make this one of our most successful days of the year!
We'll have exclusive Indie Bookstore Day items for sale, raffles to enter, and even some special giveaways!
Capital Arts Fest Favorite Poem Project
Gibson’s Bookstore is proud to be taking part in the Capital Arts Fest the last weekend in September.
We are gathering people who are well-known in the community and asking them all to read a favorite poem on Sunday, Sept. 26, starting at 2 PM.
Independent Bookstore Day!
It's Independent Bookstore Day! Things are a little bit different than previous years, but we've got some cool virtual programs you can attend, and some exclusive and limited IBD merchandise!
From 1-2:30ish PM, Erin Bowman will be signing copies of her new release, Dustborn, out on our sidewalk! She'll sign her previous titles too.
Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 24th, 2021!
Show your Gibson's pride with this green and silvertone enamel pin!
Pin stays in place with a metal butterfly clutch back.
Pin measures 1" in width. Produced by a New Hampshire company, Crown Trophy in Hooksett!
Adorn your laptop, your waterbottle, your car, with this snazzy Gibson's vinyl sticker! Green print on a white background, 4"x6".
Produced locally, with Speedy Printing.
Virtual author cocktail hour! With Kat Howard, Cat Valente, Kelly Braffet, and Freya Marske
Saturday, April 24th, 2021, 5pm EST. Online only, in Zoom. Free registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aok0EMBtSmO_rzK4P323YQ
$16.99
ISBN: 9781481451208
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Gallery / Saga Press - June 5th, 2018
“A remarkable writer.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods
An Alex Award Winner
There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.
In New York City, magic controls everything.
$15.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9781481492164
Published: Gallery / Saga Press - October 8th, 2019
From the acclaimed author of Roses and Rot—a “Brothers Grimm tale for the contemporary reader” (School Library Journal, starred review)—Kat Howard’s exquisite shorter works, nominated for the World Fantasy Award, and performed on WNYC’s Selected Shorts—called “brilliant” (Library Journal, starred review).
$16.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9781401291341
Published: Vertigo - July 16th, 2019
Timothy Hunter may be destined to become the most powerful magician in the universe, but he's still a London teenager, and having magical abilities is about to turn his world upside down...
From award-winning writer Kat Howard, the Books of Magic series will captivate your interest from the start!
$16.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9781401299040
Published: Vertigo - February 11th, 2020
Not all fairy tales have happy ending. Classes. Quizzes. Crushes. Classmates going missing. Cults dedicated to your destruciton. School is rough on everybody, but it's especially hard on kids like Tim Hunter - a teenage magician destined to change the world.
$24.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9781779503008
Published: DC Comics - February 16th, 2021
Destined to become the most powerful magician in the universe, will Tim Hunter end up the greatest sorcerer the world has ever known? Or the greatest evil that the universe will need to stop?
$16.99
ISBN: 9781481451178
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - July 4th, 2017
Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel from “a remarkable young writer” (Neil Gaiman, American Gods).
Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make
$9.99
ISBN: 9781250010193
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Square Fish - May 8th, 2012
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."—Time magazine on the Fairyland series
$9.99
ISBN: 9781250034120
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Published: Square Fish - October 1st, 2013
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."—Time magazine, on the Fairyland series
$9.99
ISBN: 9781250050618
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Published: Square Fish - March 3rd, 2015
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century." —Time magazine on the Fairyland series
$17.99
ISBN: 9781481497503
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - December 18th, 2018
2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M.
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250816214
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Published: Tordotcom - November 9th, 2021
Comfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver
A Shirley Jackson Award finalist!
A Locus Award finalist!
$14.99
ISBN: 9781481444736
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - November 10th, 2015
A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West.
Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves.
$18.99
ISBN: 9780765326317
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Published: Tor Books - February 14th, 2012
A glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M. Valente, set in a mysterious version of St. Petersburg during the first half of the 20th century
$20.99
ISBN: 9781250301130
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Published: Tordotcom - July 20th, 2021
“The Candide of our #@$\*%?! age.”— Ken Liu, award-winning author
$20.99
ISBN: 9780765335302
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Published: Tor Books - October 18th, 2016
Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
$27.99
ISBN: 9780778309406
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Published: Mira Books - February 11th, 2020
"Fantasy at its most sublime "--Erin Morgenstern, New York Times bestselling author of THE NIGHT CIRCUS
"Suspenseful, magical, wonderfully written... An essential addition to all epic-fantasy collections." --Booklist, STARRED review
A penetrating tale of magic, faith and pride...
$16.99
ISBN: 9780778388241
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Published: Mira Books - May 25th, 2021
Suspenseful, magical, wonderfully written... An essential addition to all epic-fantasy collections. --Booklist, starred review
An epic tale of greed and ambition, cruelty and love, this deeply immersive novel is about bowing to traditions and burning them down.
$27.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780778331797
Published: Mira Books - January 25th, 2022
"An exciting fantasy adventure tale." -Booklist, STARRED Review
Deeply immersive, this penetrating tale of magic, faith and self-determination is the brilliant sequel to Kelly Braffet's The Unwilling
$15.95
ISBN: 9780618441433
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - February 4th, 2005
THRILLINGLY DANGEROUS, WORRYINGLY LIKEABLE: SOME SIBLINGS ARE BETTER KEPT APART • NOW A FILM, DIRECTED BY SARAH LANCASTER
Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home.
$16.95
ISBN: 9780618919765
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Published: Mariner Books - November 9th, 2007
As she did in her darkly thrilling debut, Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet again explores the often ambiguous nature of love and danger in a riveting novel of suspense. When twenty-something drifter Miranda Cassidy wrecks her car one night on the way home from a bar, she seizes the accident as an opportunity to reinvent her life.
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250788870
Availability: Backordered
Published: Tordotcom - November 2nd, 2021
An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!
An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | Book Riot
$28.00
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780593237809
Published: Del Rey - May 18th, 2021
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a chilling story that revolves around a mysterious small town, revealing its sinister secrets one by one.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “Must-read horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781594749766
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Published: Quirk Books - July 11th, 2017
Soon to be a major motion picture.
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying
Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250765352
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Published: Tordotcom - October 5th, 2021
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982169664
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Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - August 3rd, 2021
From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius,” comes a “wild, and exhilarating” (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her—but at what cost?
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare.
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316542753
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Published: Orbit - March 23rd, 2021
On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women--a princess and a soldier--will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy filled with rebellion, espionage, and assassinations.
Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts
$14.99
ISBN: 9781728229614
Availability: Backordered
Published: Sourcebooks Casablanca - March 2nd, 2021
"Absolutely unputdownable! Roni Loren is a new favorite."—COLLEEN HOOVER, #1 New York Times bestseller, for The One You Can't Forget
$12.99
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780316329675
Published: Back Bay Books - August 24th, 2021
Can you fall in love for the first time twice?
$26.95
ISBN: 9781645660163
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Published: Erewhon Books - April 27th, 2021
“Ghost story, family saga, parable, feminist reimagined myth: Angela Mi Young Hur’s hugely ambitious Folklorn is a spellbinding shape-shifter of a novel that tackles questions of race, culture, and history head-on, exploring the blurry boundaries between past and present, fact and fantasy, and personal and cultural—or cosmic.” —Celeste
$40.00
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780307961167
Published: Knopf - October 27th, 2020
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.
“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
$18.00
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780307739636
Published: Vintage - May 11th, 2010
Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award
"A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316300131
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Published: Orbit - October 6th, 2020
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)
$27.00
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Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780525658559
Published: Knopf - March 2nd, 2021
Truth and lies are two sides of the same coin. But who's flipping it? A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction from one of the world's leading deceivers, the creator and star of the astonishing theater show and forthcoming film In & Of Itself.
$13.99
ISBN: 9781442472433
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - November 28th, 2017
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has eve
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250274304
Availability: Backordered
Published: St. Martin's Press - January 25th, 2022
An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones, a “tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell” (Stephen King) supernatural thriller.
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250267689
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Published: Tordotcom - May 11th, 2021
Included in NPR’s Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade (2011-2021)
A Nebula Award Winner
A Ignyte Award Winner
A Compton Crook Award for Best New Novel Winner
A Locus First Novel Award Winner
A RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner
A Hugo Award Finalist
A World Fantasy Award Finalist
$19.99
ISBN: 9780765396945
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Published: Tor Books - December 1st, 2020
Moving from poison and treachery to war and witchcraft, Sam Hawke's Poison Wars continue with Hollow Empire, a fabulous epic fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Robin Hobb, Naomi Novik, and Scott Lynch.
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250250469
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Published: Swoon Reads - September 1st, 2020
A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's New York Times-bestselling paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking."
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.
$11.99
ISBN: 9781250758859
Availability: Available Now
Published: Tor Books - February 2nd, 2021
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Poetry Society of NH: January Round Robin
The Poetry Society of New Hampshire is back! This January they will be holding a Poets In the Round round robin reading; anyone can join the circle to ask questions or make comments, or to share their poetry! Bring four or five of your favorite poems (your own compositions, or someone else's) and we'll go around reading poems, asking questions, and discussing poems. Feel free to bring copies to share!
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