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A Wellesley High School art student stopped by the store to work on a watercolor for her portfolio! Color us impressed.

#art student #high school artist

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Debut YA novelist, Wellesley College alum, fellow tumblrer and all around wonderful person @annzhao was here to sign more copies of DEAR WENDY for us. We were proud to be one of her pre-order stores.

“Reading Dear Wendy felt like sitting down with a friend you’ve known your whole life. Ann Zhao’s voice is so witty, warm, and effortlessly charming in this pitch-perfect coming-of-age story and love letter to friendship—I’m an instant fan.” —Ann Liang, author of If You Could See the Sun

#debut novel #ann zhao #ya #read ya #feiwel and friends #autographed copies #college students #rom com #aromantic #friendship #dear wendy

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A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve...

Coming Tuesday, September 17th from bestselling author Richard Osman- a new mystery series.

We Solve Murders pre-order your copy today.

#mystery #richard osman #thursday murder club #new mystery series #pamela dorman books

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Books Plus Plus

We learned to make books with our display pieces from Plus Plus. Plus a customer helped.

#we love books #plus plus #build things #read books

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A new Amor Towles book makes us happy.

#amor towles #new book #short stories #novella #a gentleman in moscow #rules of civility #the lincoln highway #table for two #book recommendations #npr #author interview

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Friday night sunshine in Wellesley Square.

#new england bookseller #wellesley #Wellesley Books #march #bookstore #spring

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming, published by Scribner

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, published by FSG

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, published by Melville House

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles, published by Random House

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia, published by Henry Holt

How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair, published by Simon and Schuster

#women's prize #nonfiction #book prize #women authors #shortlist #2024

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Happy Birthday Robert Frost Born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco Died January 29, 1963 in Boston

To the Thawing Wind

Come with rain, O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; Make the settled snowbank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; But whate’er you do tonight, Bathe my window, make it flow, Melt it as the ice will go; Melt the glass and leave the sticks Like a hermit’s crucifix; Burst into my narrow stall; Swing the picture on the wall; Run the rattling pages o’er; Scatter poems on the floor; Turn the poet out of door.

#robert frost #poetry #author birthday #March #New England Bookseller #Wellesley Books

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#the atlantic #great american novels #best of list #american novels

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Reading for the Ides of March

#ides of march #bookstore display #books #julius caesar #there’s a book for that #Wellesley Books

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As booksellers in an independent bookstore, we love a challenge!

The longer we work and read- the more we know.

My first Guardian Books cartoon for 2024

#tom gauld #book comics #book detectives #booksellers #independent bookstore #wellesley books #new england booksellers #bookseller brains #hive mind

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Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world.

The judging panel for the 2024 prize is chaired by author Monica Ali. She is joined by author Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀; author and illustrator Laura Dockrill; actor Indira Varma; and presenter and author Anna Whitehouse.

The longlist titles announced today are:

Hangman by Maya Binyam

In Defence of the Act by Effie Black

And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The Maiden by Kate Foster

 Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

 Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

 Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

 Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee

The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie

Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams

#women's prize #book award #longlist #fiction prize #women authors #Youtube

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Maureen Corrigan reviews The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai translated by Jesse Kirkwood

#japan #detective novel #food #novel in translation #father and daughter #japanese food #memories of food #maureen corrigan #npr #book review #freah air

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We are New England booksellers.

A wintry mix of books.

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The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.

Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian

#andrew carnegie medal #american library association #excellence in nonfiction #excellence in fiction #amanda peters #roxanna asgarian #berry pickers #we were once a family

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Say yes to corgis! We love it when our books and gifts come together this magically.

#corgis #no thoughts just corgis #corgi vase #corgi pencil holder #gifts #dog lovers #Wellesley Books

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#ala #ala awards #american library association #newbery #caldecott #dave eggers #vashti harrison #the eyes and the impossible #big #picture book illustration #kids books