Author Event

Steve Dahill, Boston’s award-winning author of historical fiction, presents the spark of the American Revolution – but from the British point of view.

She doesn’t have a job–but she does have a closet full of designer bags and shoes…
Claire Shipman never imagined she’d be the single mom of a teenager, going through a contentious divorce, and unexpectedly pregnant. On the bright side, at least she’s on Nantucket, where she grew up, and where her mother and grandmother welcome her home with open arms.

A warm and witty memoir about the ever-changing relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters that traverses two continents and multiple generations of two disparate yet connected families.

The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia, ending up in a channel to nowhere, a dead end so flooded there is literally no land to stand on. Their raft—a mere four logs—separates them from the piranha-and-caiman-infested water until they finally realize that there is no way out but to swim.

An extraordinary memoir about the author’s early years in a close-knit 1960s and ‘70s Polish-American Massachusetts grade school and community, Compositions details a life that revolves in a circle of faith and family. Written in the author’s voice and point of view from her first eight years of school, the humorous and poignant essays show a past still fully present.

By the Academy Award-winning author of On Golden Pond, Out Clause asks the question, what if you could leave your life – a suspense novel that follows a company that helps people escape from their lives and disappear. The caveat is that you have to agree to live a better life. So it becomes a philosophical question: what does it mean to live better?

Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet meets Jane Austen in this historical fiction based on the life of daring eighteen-year-old Claire Clairmont who in 1816 changed the course of literature forever. But then—unlike her stepsister Mary Shelley—was forgotten, until now.

Fifty years after the bombing shook the city, Troubled Times tells the story of lives changed by political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis. Written by a former journalist for the Associated Press, The Seattle Times and The Boston Globe.

Murder on the Green is the fifth book in Christine Knapp's "Modern Midwife Mysteries" series, featuring nurse-midwife Maeve O'Reilly Kensington, who investigates a murder during a vacation in Ireland with her sister and their mother's friends, uncovering secrets while also dealing with other crimes, such as jewelry theft, back home.

Ghost Stories of Historic Duxbury is a tribute to the spirits that still echo through this historic town.

Author Event with Julie Gerstenblatt, Stargazer of Nantucket: An epic tale of adventure on the high seas, a spunky stowaway, and a family confronting the past to secure their future.

Author Event with Julie Gerstenblatt, Stargazer of Nantucket: An epic tale of adventure on the high seas, a spunky stowaway, and a family confronting the past to secure their future.