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UPCOMING EVENTS

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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!

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.

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In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the "bittersweet page-turner" (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town

When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she's forced to go through her mother's things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming "murder week" in England's Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother's secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself--and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.

Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers--Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband's birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels--Cath sets about solving the "crime" and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling--or something more--with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.

Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist,Welcome to Murder Weekis a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter's reckoning with her grief, her past--and her own budding sense of adventure.

 

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: Lindsey J. Palmer is the author of the novels Reservations for Six, Otherwise Engaged, If We Lived Here, and Pretty in Ink. She is the Deputy Editor of BrainPOP, an animated education site for kids. Previously, she was a features editor at SELF, Redbook, and Glamour, and taught high school English. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master’s in Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College. After 15 years as a New Yorker, Lindsey moved to the Outer Cape with her husband and daughter in 2020, and spends most of her free time at the beach or swimming in kettle ponds. You can find her online at www.lindseyjpalmer.com and on Instagram @lindseyjpalmer. 

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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 in welcoming New York Times Bestselling author Miranda Cowley Heller to Brewster Book Store's secret garden for a late afternoon discussion and signing of her debut poetry collection, What the Deep Water Knows.

This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes admission for one person and a paperback or hardcover copy of What the Deep Water Knows. Register here.


From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond.

"Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world." -Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress

If I could fly backward, I would.
To the safety of branches, to the time
when my heart still raced for you,
twelve hundred beats a minute.

In poetry that is at once bold and lyrical, affecting and devastatingly frank, Miranda Cowley Heller takes us through childhood, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. Suffused with the natural world and the landscape of Cape Cod, where many of the poems are set, What the Deep Water Knows contemplates love in all the seasons.

 

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. Register here.


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.

In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives.

What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters. Whether she's testing the fragile borders of fidelity, embracing the taboo power of female friendship, escaping her family for the solitude of the mountains, grappling with what to do with her frozen embryos, or letting go of the children she imagined for the ones she's raising, Lipson pushes beyond the easy, surface stories we tell about ourselves to brave less certain territory.

As Lipson journeys through this thorny terrain, literature becomes her lodestar. Kate Chopin's erotic story "The Storm" helps her reckon with the longings stirring below the surface of her marriage. Watching her son absorb the stifling codes of manhood, she finds unlikely parenting inspiration in Philip Roth's most cartoonish overbearing mother. Summoning Gwendolyn Brooks, she asks, Can destroying one's frozen embryos be understood as a maternal act? And accompanied by Shakespeare's gender-bending heroine Rosalind, she seizes on the truest meaning of loving her oldest child.

Risky and revealing, nourishing and affirming, rigorous and sexy, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters is a shimmering love letter to our forgotten selves--and the ones we're still becoming.

 

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.

 

Packed with humor, warmth, and all-too-relatable anecdotes, this comic memoir explores the (often invisible) labor of modern motherhood that leaves so many moms feeling like they are losing themselves--and their minds! Whether you're navigating a hellish sleep regression, wiping sweet potato off the walls, seething with spousal resentment (deserved and undeserved), or simply hoping to pee without a toddler watching, this candid and irreverent account perfectly captures what every mom knows in her heart to be true: motherhood is @#$% hard (and also really amazing)!

Filled with Starr's signature wit, warmth, and observational humor, Mama Needs a Minute! tackles all the absurdities of mom life and will make you laugh, cry, and feel seen in a way only a true mom-friend can offer.

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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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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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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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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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