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: Talk & Book Signing
CARA BENSON in conversation with
ROBIN CLIFFORD WOOD
WHEN: August 4 at 7pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment is a climate memoir about developing deeply held commitments to ourselves, to those we love, and ultimately to the ailing natural world. Cara is the perfect guide for this journey. As an addict, she crawled through subway tunnels and partnered with an abusive man. When she came face to face with her own death, she chose life. Her journey of survival led her into recovery and ultimately to Jon, the man with whom she cultivated a relationship as a lifetime partner.
When Cara lost Jon to suicide and retreated into her grief, she also retreated into the woods of upstate New York where she found more grief in her observation of the effects of climate change. She came to realize that the lessons she learned from loving Jon could be applied to her relationship with the non-human world. Her daily life became a sort of field guide for how to live with a deep and abiding commitment to the future of the planet.
Cara’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Sierra Magazine, and selected for Best American Poetry. She wrote a series on walking in the woods for the Best American Poetry website and taught poetry in a New York prison for eight years.
Joining Cara in conversation is Robin Clifford Wood, author of The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine, winner of the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction.
Free Event: Talk & Book Signing
RICHARD RUSSO, Under the Falls
WHEN: Wednesday, August 12 at 7pm
Always entertaining and informative, Richard Russo will be celebrating the previous day’s release of his new novel, Under the Falls, a propulsive literary thriller, a new genre for the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
In this new book, Russo explores flawed and soul-searching characters in the small, dying town of Stone Mountain in rural Appalachia. The protagonist, Tyler Sinclair, left his home town at age eighteen without so much as a goodbye. Almost twenty years later, he’s the front man of a famous band and a Nashville icon, and returns to his childhood home against his better judgment to perform a one-night-only benefit concert to support an old friend.
Russo explores multiple themes in Under the Falls—perceived betrayals, small-town police, youthful friendships—and weaves them into a page-turning mystery. On the night of the concert, which goes horribly wrong, a pivotal character dies unexpectedly, Tyler is nearly killed in a suspicious car accident, and the “sinister element underpinning Stone Mountain’s communal decline” all unravel.
Library Journal writes: “As usual in a novel by Russo, all the elements—plot, character, ambience—coalesce in a stunning and deeply sympathetic portrait. This one is a treasure, another winner from an author who seemingly cannot write a bad sentence.”
Free Event: Talk & Book Signing
TESS GERRITSEN, The Shadow Friends
and PAUL DOIRON, The Storm Tide
WHEN: August 25, 2026 at 7pm
Two of Maine's leading mystery writers in conversation for the first time, celebrating the release of Tess's latest Martini Club book!
August 25 is the release date of The Shadow Friends, the latest installment in Tess's wildly popular Martini Club mysteries set in mid-coast Maine. Joining her is Paul Doiron who, in June, released The Storm Tide, the sixteenth book in his wildly popular mystery series featuring Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch.
Tess and Paul have crafted compelling protagonists that readers around the world have come to know, care about, and love.
In The Shadow Friends, Tess continues captivating readers with the escapades of The Martini Club, five retired CIA operatives who live in mid-coast Maine. It's another page-turner that takes several of the club members to Amsterdam to track down a killer.
In The Storm Tide, Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings that take him through frozen harbors, trackless forests, and remote islands, far from rescue. Meanwhile, he's facing a disciplinary hearing that could end his career and his wife Stacey, just weeks from giving birth, is being stalked by a stranger.
This is the first time these two masters of mysteries have been in conversation for a discussion about their craft, where in the world they come up with these plot lines, and what's next for the Martini Club members and Mike Bowditch. Tess and Paul will be signing copies of their books following their conversation.
Copies of The Shadow Friends, The Storm Tide, and selected backlist titles from both authors will be available for purchase at the event. To purchase in advance, contact us!
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