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UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Upcoming events.

At Brewster Book Store we love bringing community together. We host book signings, events, book clubs, story time, and more! Browse our upcoming events below and scroll to the bottom to explore the full lineup.

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Book Clubs

Browse our full list of events below. We have something for everyone!

Cookbook Club
Jun
19

Cookbook Club

Prepare a recipe from either book and join us for a potluck-style gathering at the store.  Oh, and bring an empty stomach; we will sample the dishes and discuss our recipes.

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Book Signing with Em Dickson
Jun
26

Book Signing with Em Dickson

Join us for a book signing with Em Dickson.


Beyond They/Them is a captivating, gorgeously illustrated book celebrating 20 trailblazing nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit individuals who have left an indelible mark on music, sports, film and television, politics, and more.

Explore 20 biographies of game-changing and noteworthy nonbinary people of diverse backgrounds and in a wide variety of industries. Beyond They/Them: 20 Influential Nonbinary People You Should Know is a fully illustrated guide to celebrities, activists, musicians, and other influential people of various identities across the nonbinary spectrum. Complete with beautiful illustrations by the talented artist Cameron Mukwa and written by Em Dickson, this book is a celebration of nonbinary joy and proves that there has been, and always will be, a place for people of all genders.

 

Athlete is agender. Athlete can mean anyone. "Part memoir, part manifesto" (Booklist) this book revels in the achievements of strong, passionate, and determined LGBTQ+ athletes across every age, level, and field of sports.

Find your strength in: Adam Rippon's unbelievable journey from figure-skating Olympic alternate to the first openly gay Olympic medalist in his sport; CeCé Telfer's career as a trans track star and her unwavering commitment to run for the future freedom of trans athletes; em dickson's relationship to eir gender identity and how sailing, a sport that doesn't categorize athletes by gender, helped em embrace eir power and identity, and many other invaluable true stories. Featuring testimonies by world-class athletes and award-winning children's book authors, as well as profiles on culture-defining figures like Megan Rapinoe and Billie Jean King, Athlete Is Agender is a lifesaving book not to be missed.


About the author: em dickson (e/em/eir/she), cofounder of genderdiverse literary coalition Pronouns May Vary, is also a school librarian, authenticity reader, author of both IP and original works, competitive sailor, and, according to eir friends, a sea shanty royale extraordinaire. E holds a dual MA/MFA in Children’s Literature/Writing for Children & Young Adults from Simmons University and has written for preschool IP under the name Em Lune. Like Peter Pan, e has a strong emotional attachment to eir shadow, a fluffy black muppet of a dog called Luna, and e definitely believes in ghosts, witches, and especially selkies. When not reading or writing, e can be found daydreaming, accidentally harmonizing to random sounds, collecting trinkets in eir pockets like a dragon, or promoting the color teal. E feels most at home by the sea, which is convenient, since e spends most of eir time in coastal Massachusetts. You can find em @mlereads.

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Fiction Book Club: Wait
Jul
3

Fiction Book Club: Wait

Join us for our July Fiction Book Club meeting on Thursday, July 3, at 5:30 p.m.

We will discuss Wait by Gabriella Burnham

Purchase for 20% off the entire month before the March meeting.

Reserve your spot here!

About the book:

Elise is out dancing the night before her college graduation when her younger sister, Sophie, calls to tell her that their mom is nowhere to be found. Elise leaves on the next flight back to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly four years.

The sisters soon learn that their mother was stopped by police on her way home from work and deported to São Paulo, Brazil. Intent on bringing her mother back, Elise stays and secures the same job she had in high school: monitoring endangered birds. Meanwhile, her best friend from college, Sheba--a gregarious socialite and heir to a famed children's toy company--reveals that she has inherited her grandfather's summer mansion on Nantucket. Elise's worlds collide as she confronts the emotional and material conditions that have fractured her family, as well as the life in Brazil that her mother has had to leave behind.

Told with penetrating insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Wait is a story about a family swimming against the social currents that erode bonds: housing precarity, immigration systems, and inherited wealth. But it is also a story about love, wit, and sisterhood, and how two sisters cling to each other in the midst of cataclysmic change, all the while dreaming about a better future. (One World)

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Author Talk with Karen Dukess
Jul
11

Author Talk with Karen Dukess

Join us for an author talk with Karen Dukess in conversation with Lindsey Palmer.

Register here.

 

About Karen Dukess: Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party and Welcome to Murder Week. Karen has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian studies from Brown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She lives outside of New York City and in Truro on Cape Cod, where she interviews some of today’s most acclaimed writers as host of the Castle Hill Author Talks for the Truro Center for the Arts.

About Lindsey Palmer:

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Book Signing with Mark Epstein
Jul
12

Book Signing with Mark Epstein

Tucked away on the shores of Cape Cod Bay there lies one of the greatest amateur athletic organizations in American sport's history. Welcome to the 101-year-old tradition of the Cape Cod Baseball League. This great tradition was built on the values that have made our great nation so special.

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Garden Party & Author Talk with Miranda Cowley Heller
Jul
17

Garden Party & Author Talk with Miranda Cowley Heller

Join us for a garden party and author talk with the author of The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller.

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About the author: Miranda Cowley Heller was raised in New York City and Cape Cod. Her debut novel, The Paper Palace, was a number one New York Times bestseller in the US, a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She has worked as a senior vice president and head of drama series at HBO, developing and overseeing such shows as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, and Big Love, among others. This is her first poetry collection.

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Garden Party & Author Talk with Brooke Lea Foster & Martha Hall Kelly
Jul
19

Garden Party & Author Talk with Brooke Lea Foster & Martha Hall Kelly

Join us for a garden party with Brooke Lea Foster & Martha Hall Kelly. Register here.

About Brooke Lea Foster: Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York TimesThe AtlanticThe Washington Post Magazine, The Boston Globe, People mag, Good HousekeepingParents and PARADE. She's the author of four novels: Summer Darlings, On Gin Lane, All the Summers in Between and Our Last Vineyard Summer. She writes the popular Dear Fiction newsletter and she's the author of three nonfiction books.

About Martha Hall Kelly: The New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls,Lost Roses,Sunflower Sisters, and The Golden Doves. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she was inspired to write this novel by her mother’s family, the Smiths, who settled on Martha’s Vineyard in 1891. She received journalism degrees from both Syracuse and Northwestern universities and worked as an advertising copywriter for many years before becoming a novelist. With more than two million copies of her books sold and translated in fifty countries, Martha Hall Kelly lives in Litchfield, Connecticut, and Hobe Sound, Florida.

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Kids-Create: Best Buds
Jul
23

Kids-Create: Best Buds

Calling all story-loving, curious, and creative kids! Brewster Book Store’s Kids-Create Story-time is designed with children’s inquisitive nature and imagination in mind.

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Jul
31

Author Talk with Mary Catherine Starr and Nicole Graev Lipson

Join us for an author talk with authors Mary Catherine Starr and Nicole Graev Lipson.


About the authors:

Nicole Graev Lipson is the author of the memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters, a USA Today bestseller. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Virginia Quarterly ReviewLA Review of Books, The Millions, the Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other venues. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for a National Magazine Award, and selected for The Best American Essays anthology. She lives outside of Boston with her family.

 

Mary Catherine Starr is an artist, graphic designer, and the author of Mama Needs a Minute! A Candid, Funny, All-Too-Relatable Comic Memoir about Surviving Motherhood (Chronicle Books). Her popular Instagram account @momlife_comics explores motherhood, marriage, and the double standards of parenting through funny, relatable, and sometimes maddening comics. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her husband, their two children, and her son’s large collection of plastic dinosaurs.

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Aug
7

Storytime with Liza Ketchum, , Phyllis Root, and Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Join the authors of Turtles Heading Home! for a turtle focused story time! Each year, cooling water off the Cape signals to sea turtles that it is time to swim south to a warmer climate. The journey does not always go as planned. Learn about the efforts of the conservationists as they rescue the turtles, nurse them back to health, and relocate them.

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Aug
10

Campfire Stories

Meet Dave and Ilyssa Kyu, developers and editors of Campfire Stories, a book series that “gives an authentic and diverse perspective into [a region’s] landscape, flora, fauna, history, and community… while igniting our imagination about the wild”. The latest in their series, Cape Cod: Tales & Travel Companion, offers a unique blend of literature and lore about Cape Cod that is sure to delight locals and visitors alike. Contributors include Mary Oliver, Michael Cunningham, Henry Beston, and many more.

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Kids-Create
Aug
13

Kids-Create

Calling all story-loving, curious, and creative kids! Brewster Book Store’s Kids-Create Story-time is designed with children’s inquisitive nature and imagination in mind.

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Aug
15

Author Talk with Casey Sherman

Calling all true crime enthusiasts! Casey Sherman is returning to Brewster Book Store this summer to discuss his latest book, Blood in the Water. You are in for a treat as Sherman discusses a twisty true crime story that will immerse you in the world of the Carman family, where money, power, and family collide.

Register here.

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Aug
21

Book Signing with Sarah Seltzer

Join us as we celebrate the paperback release of The Singer Sisters and welcome Sarah Seltzer, who will be signing copies of her novel. Don’t miss this compelling and fun debut filled with a folk-rock family’s secrets - a perfect novel for a music lover or anyone who enjoys a great multigenerational family story!

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May
3

Brewster in Bloom

10:30 a.m.

Seed Season Storytime

Calling all curious kids! Join us as we read aloud garden-themed books and plant seeds for a summer garden.

11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

Book Signing with Candace Hammond

On the heals of her wildly successful Christmas in Cranberry Harbor, local author Candace Hammond has dished up a new novel, Spring in Cranberry Harbor, just in time for Brewster in Bloom.

Pre-order today to reserve your copy.

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