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Love Your Mother

By tom on April 30, 2010 | Add a Comment

Just made a display table today for Mother's Day.  No, you haven't missed it yet-- it's Sunday, May 9th.  I'm always torn when making displays like this.  It seems that customers want to see lots of books about Mom, but I really want to cover the table with interesting and bizarre choices.  We like to promote titles that the mainstream may have missed, and personally I hate to think of books being specifically "for women" or "for men", but we also want people to get the book they are happy with.

As a result, we've got a pretty eclectic display including books about women and novels about women, as well as books about beer, punk rock, and Buddhism.  So whatever your mom's taste, we've got the book for her.

Do not forget your Mother!!

Tinkers wins the Pulitzer Prize!

By michele on April 18, 2010 | Add a Comment

For the first time in almost 30 years, a small press book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  The last small press book to win was A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

This recent Pulitzer winner isn't just any book. It happens to be one of our bestselling books of all time; a book that we have supported from the very beginning: Tinkers by Paul Harding, published by the wonderful Bellevue Literary Press.
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DATELINE PORTSMOUTH: TOM READS A BUSINESS BOOK!

By tom on April 02, 2010 | Add a Comment

It's true, thanks to Michael Lewis, I can now tell you what a Credit Default Swap is.  The only problem is, I get so angry talking about this topic that it's really best if you just ask me about my favorite novels instead.  The fact that Wall Street is back to business as usual while we here on Congress Street are still feeling the effects of the financial crisis makes me crazy.
 
The Big Short just hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and we are excited to be co-hosting Michael Lewis at The Music Hall on April 7th as part of the Writers On A New England Stage series.
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