Upcoming Events
During 2024-2025, we were honored to welcome, among many others:
Louise Penny, Heather Cox Richardson, Ellen Baker, Shannon Bowring, Rich Cohen, Brock Clarke, Ron Curie, Paul Doiron, Tess Gerritsen, Jessica Berger Gross, Ann Hood, Lily King, Christina Baker Kline, Michael Koryta, Sam Sifton, Tony Scott, Catherine Newman, Thomas Ricks, Lewis Robinson, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Strout, Simon Van Booy, Chris Van Dusen, and Martin Walker.
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Free Event & Book Signing
Paul Doiron Storm Tide
WHEN: Tuesday, June 30, 11am - 1pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
We are delighted to welcome Paul back to our shop on the official release day of Storm Tide, his newest Mike Bowditch mystery. Paul will take the seat of honor at our center table to meet his many fans and sign copies of Storm Tide, as well as his other books featuring the intrepid Maine Game Warden.
You are cordially invited to stop by any time between 11am - 1pm to chat with Paul and congratulate him on his new book.
Paul’s evocative outdoor crime fiction series spans all geographical aspects of Maine and the people who live here. Storm Tide is the sixteenth book in the series and here, Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings during a life-changing year. He suspects someone is orchestrating the executions of criminals who escaped justice, and for reasons he can’t explain, his own name is on the list. Meanwhile, Mike is facing a disciplinary hearing that could end his career.
Call or email to order your copy of Storm Tide in advance of June 30.
Free Event & Book Signing
Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WHEN:Tuesday, July 9, 7pm
WHERE: The First Church in Belfast
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original re-imagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
When Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in North Carolina in 1839, they’re not just a curiosity—they’re a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Word has it they’re looking for wives and their ambitions set the community on edge.
Sarah and Adelaide Yeats, distant relatives of Christina’s, are drawn into the twins’ orbit. “The foursome” married and together, raised twenty-one children and forged one of the most unconventional domestic arrangements in American history. Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a fractured nation hurtling toward war, The Foursome is both intimate and epic: a story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. Christina brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.
Christina is the author of ten novels, including New York Times bestsellers Orphan Train, The Exiles, and A Piece of the World.
Reservations required.
Free Event & Book Signing
Two Authors in Conversation: Cassandra Neyenesch & Jessica Berger Gross
WHEN:Thursday, July 16 at 7 pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
Cassandra celebrates her debut novel, A Little Bit Bad, with her friend and fellow novelist (Hazel Says No), Jessica Berger Gross and discusses the creative process and her path to publication.
A Little Bit Bad has been called “a feisty true-crime obsessive’s erotic awakening” and “a compulsively readable novel about a San Diego housewife whose love affair with her neighbor’s roofer is interrupted by a murder.” Cassandra’s witty, original, fresh novel craftily interweaves the story of the affair with the period after the murder, ending with a titillating twist.
Cassandra is a Brooklyn-based writer, activist, and curator. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, HuffPost, Public Books, and The International Herald Tribune.
Jessica’s novel, which debuted to widespread acclaim last year, has just been released in paperback. Alice Elliot Dark, author of Fellowship Point, wrote: Hazel Says No pulled me in from the first witty page… I am astonished that this is [a] first novel—it’s great, skillful, and funny.
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We are deeply grateful to the hundreds of authors — of local, national and international acclaim — who have taken time to visit our bookshop, meet our faithful customers, speak about their work, and sign their books.
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