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What are we reading this week?
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Jesus' Son meets
Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.
Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love.
But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York and he flunks out of school and joins the Army.
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Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an Army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at--robbing banks.
Hammered out on a typewriter, CHERRY marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.
The
GREAT FALL BOOK PREVIEW
Pre-Order from your Nantucket Book Partners by clicking the book cover photos! New books coming from Nantucket Book Festival veterans Jodi Picoult, Elliot Ackerman, John Boyne, Elin Hilderbrand, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Louise Penny.
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Book Signing with
Calvin Trillin
author of
About Alice
Thursday August 23
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Mitchell's Book Corner
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Join White Heron for this special event with author Calvin Trillin.
Book Signing to follow after the show and interview.
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Book Signing with
Rabbi Deborah Prinz
author of
On the Chocolate Trail
Friday August 31
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Mitchell's Book Corner |
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Book Signing with
Steven Axelrod
author of
Nantucket Red Tickets
Saturday September 1
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Mitchell's Book Corner |
Only a few more Summer Saturdays with Barnaby Bear at Barnaby's Place left this season! Very limited seating so email
barnabybearnantucket@gmail.com to reserve your seat on Saturday, August 25 from 11AM - 12PM.
The $45 ticket includes a Storytime & Craft Project with Wendy Rouillard, a copy of Barnaby's Coloring Book, a tasty treat, stickers & tattoos, and a Barnaby Bear Appearance!
BOOK
a Stay at the Second Story Loft this year!
This 3BR/2.5BA literary oasis above
Nantucket
Bookworks is in the heart of downtown
Nantucket
! Close to the best restaurants and shopping and it is filled with
books
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Available for short and long term stays, and special events!
The
Nantucket
Book
Foundation will hold its annual meeting for the Board of Directors TODAY
Monday, August 20 at 9:30 AM
at the
Nantucket
Island Chamber of Commerce, 0 Main Street,
Nantucket
MA.
The board will present a review of the 2018
Nantucket
Book
Festival
, PEN/Faulkner and Visiting Authors Programs, and other business. The public is welcome to attend; please RSVP
to
director@nantucketbookfestival.org
if you plan to attend.
HAPPY READING!
Mitchell's Book Corner Hours
Mon - Sun 9:30AM - 10PM
Nantucket Bookworks Hours
Mon - Sun 10AM - 10PM
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