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The Concord Bookshop
65 Main St
Concord, MA 01742
Store Hours
M-F 9:30-6
Sat 9:30-5
Sun Noon-5
Tel: 978-369-2405
What better location for an independent bookshop than Concord, Massachusetts? Less than a mile from the historic Old North Bridge, where the minutemen fired the "shot heard 'round the world," an easy walk from the homes of such quintessentially American writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and Hawthorne, and not three miles from Thoreau's beloved Walden Pond, the Concord Bookshop has been a fixture on the town's quaint and cozy Main Street since 1940. (See our Store History.)
Our staff includes former school librarians, editors, educators and writers, all of them enthusiastic readers who can track down just about any book in print. If you need suggestions for gift books (which we will gift wrap free of charge), great vacation reads, or your book group's next selection, ask us -- or see our store picks and monthly bestsellers.
We're open seven days a week, so come in and browse or stop by for one of our Store Events. And view some of our past events at event videos.
Please join us at the Bookshop on Sunday, September 12th at 3 PM when we welcome Ilie Ruby, discussing her debut novel, "The Language of Trees".
Ilie Ruby grew up in Rochester, NY and spent her childhood summers on
Canandaigua Lake, the setting for her debut novel, "The Language of Trees". She is the the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction,
chosen by T.C. Boyle; a Kerr Foundation Fiction Scholarship; and
the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creative Achievement in Fiction. Ruby
is also a recipient of the Wesleyan Writer's Conference Davidoff
Scholarship in Nonfiction and the Kemp Award flie
or Outstanding Teaching
and Scholarship. She has worked on PBS archaeology documentaries
in Central America, taught 5th grade in Los Angeles on the heels
of the Rodney King riots of 1992, and written two children's books,
MAKING GOLD and THE LAST BOAT. In 1995, she graduated from the Masters
of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California,
where she was fiction editor of The Southern California Anthology.
Ruby is a painter, poet and proud adoptive mom to three children
from Ethiopia.
Echo O'Connell knows that the summer holds its secrets. They are
whispered in the rustling trees, in the lush scent of the lilacs, in
the flurry of the mayflies batting against the screen door, and in the
restless spirits that seem to clamor in the scant breezes on hot
evenings. It is in summer that she returns home to Canandaigua, to
confront these spirits, both living and not, and to share a secret with
her first love, Grant Shongo—a secret that will forever change the
lives of many people in the town and put to rest the mysterious
disappearance of a little boy more than a decade earlier.
Grant, a descendant of the Seneca Indians who call this place "The Chosen Spot," has also come back to face his past. After a broken marriage, he has moved into his childhood home, a lake house that has withstood happiness and tragedy. He knows the spirits of the past must be dealt with—that of the little boy who disappeared all those years ago; the boy's sister, who never overcame the loss; and the love Grant still has for Echo. But before the healing must come the forgiveness. . . .