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This month we say a very fond farewell to Rita Spero.  (The above picture of some of the Bookshop staff taking Rita on a Cape Cod Canal cruise for her send off.)  For 10 years, we have had the good fortune to work with Rita and will miss her very much.  She was one of our very first (non-family) employees and has been responsible for so much of the growth and success of our bookshop. Rita has been a good friend and a tireless worker - always finding new and better ways to do things. Her wonderful sense of humor kept us all smiling. Fortunately, she has offered to return from time to time, so you may see her here again one day!

 

We also say goodbye to Alyssa DeConto, a college student who has worked here this summer and led our summer storytimes.  We will miss her quiet sense of humor and warm smile.  We wish her well in her studies and hope to read her first novel before long!

 

We are delighted to welcome Vickie Levinson to our staff.  Vicki had her own public relations firm in California and is a tremendous reader.  We love the energy and insights of our students and welcome two new students to our staff,  Maddie Drake and Delia Cullity.

 

---Vicky

 

 

Have you already signed up for the luncheon?  You are welcome to come to the Bookshop (after Sept. 4th) to pickup your copy of The Street of a Thousand Blossoms.  You have already paid for it after all, and it might be helpful to have read the book prior to the luncheon.  If you cannot pick it up, don't worry.  We will be bringing books to the luncheon.

 

There will be a new theme every week, starting with Waddle Like A Duck

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (Sept. 25th, $26.95, our price $21.56, Knopf) Six years after his bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Empire Falls," Richard Russo returns.  Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be-chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they'd known in childhood.  And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who'd fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.

The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam (Sept. 25th, $35.00, Hyperion). Halberstam uses his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in history: the Korean War. He provides a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculation on both sides, culminating with the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, which catches Douglas MacArthurs forces by surprise.

Playing For Pizza by John Grisham (Sept. 24th, $21.95, our price $17.56) Grisham returns this fall with a comic novel about a one-time American football star who moves to Italy to play for the Parma Panthers, and finds himself entangled in a series of cultural misadventures.  (Hey, if I always wrote one kind of book, I would get bored too)


The Choice by Nicholas Sparks (Sept. 24th, $24.99 our price $19.99)  Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast, "The Choice" tells the story of Travis Parker, a small-town veterinarian, who avoids romantic entanglements until Gabby Holland enters his life. "New York Times" bestselling author Nicholas Sparks is at his best in this moving new love story.