Upcoming Events
2024 marks Left Bank Books 20th year! In celebration, we have a terrific line-up author talks and signings. If you'd like to get advance notice of those events, make sure you subscribe to our newsletter.
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Monica Wood, Author Talk & Signing
WHEN: Thursday, May 9 at 6:30pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
We can’t wait to welcome Monica to the shop again. The multi-talented writer’s works include the memoir When We Were the Kennedys, which was an Oprah magazine summer reading pick; the plays Papermaker and Saint Dad; and several novels including the critically acclaimed The One-in-a-Million Boy, which has been translated into 20 languages in more than 30 countries.
Monica will join us to celebrate her brand new novel How to Read a Book (release date May 7), which addresses multiple compelling themes including the power of books to change our lives. How to Read showcases Monica’s impeccable talent for writing with heart, wit, grace, and understanding in a story that follows three unforgettable characters and asks what decisions define a life.
Monica is a gifted public speaker who enchants audiences with her warmth and joie de vivre. Join us for a delightful and uplifting event.
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Free Event
Leaf Seligman
WHEN:Monday, May 13 at 6:30pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
This little book, Being Restorative, comprises a collection of testimonies and queries, invites readers to identify ways in which they can expand the practice of being restorative to influence how they move through the world. With its roots in Indigenous cultures throughout the world, Leaf presents her thinking as a restorative practitioner that is as insightful for the mind as for the soul.
Leaf has taught in colleges, prisons, and community settings since 1985. As a restorative practitioner, she draws on her experience as a jail chaplain, prisoner educator, congregational minister, college instructor, and human being. She facilitates peacekeeping circles, immersive learning experiences, and restorative processes of accountability, healing, and transformation.
All are warmly invited to hear Leaf speak about her work, her book, and her belief that “the first step is to nourish the capacity to imagine.”
Free Event
Martha Tod Dudman
WHEN: Tuesday, May 21 at 6:30 pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
Please join us as we welcome Martha to celebrate her new Ellsworth, Maine-based thriller, Sunrise and the Real World, a captivating coming-of-age story that explores temptation, morality, and mental health. Published last November by Islandport Press, Sunrise features a recent college graduate who works at a residential treatment center for troubled teens. She quickly finds herself absorbed into a landscape of angry and abused teenagers, illicit romance, and danger. Years later, she’s forced to confront the person she was, the choices she made, and the bitter ghosts that haunt her.
Martha is the author of four previous books including Augusta, Gone, which was adapted into an award-winning Lifetime production. She is a director of the Maine Humanities Council and a selectman for the Town of Mount Desert. Over the years she’s served on many boards including the Maine Association of Broadcasters, Bangor Rotary Club, and the Northeast Harbor Library.
Dudman has written a thriller to rank with the best writers of the genre. . .she has found the perfect setting: a juvenile home where no one can tell whether an inmate (or resident) is a sad, neglected child, or a killer. . . .The book kept me awake for nights.
— Frances Fitzgerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Recently at LBB
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson
Applause rang throughout the First Church of Belfast when internationally acclaimed historian, educator, and author Heather Cox Richardson entered the room. For the next hour and 15 minutes, she informed, educated, enlightened, and captivated the minds and hearts of the 250 lucky audience members. (The free event reached capacity enrollment three hours after it was announced.)
In addition to her wildly popular books—Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America and How the South Won the Civil War, among others—Heather writes a daily Substack newsletter, Letters from an American, that has some one-and-a-half million subscribers.
Through her self-deprecating humor, vast knowledge base, and passion for the lessons history teaches us, Heather explained why, despite the current political climate, she has hope for the future. At the end of an extensive question-and-answer period, this brilliant, warm, and funny woman was given a prolonged standing ovation. Brava, Heather. Brava!
Wall of Fame
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.
Thank you!
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