 Saturday, June 1st @ 2 PM
THE SILENCE by MARY MCGARRY MORRIS:
There was the moment eight-year-old Ruth Corrigan ran away from playing in the woods with her best friend, and then the moment after, when Ceely was gone. Murdered. Now the silence of that day lives within Ruth. Lives in the judgment she sees in the faces of so many in the small town she still calls home. Ruth may be older now, tougher, a cop by trade, but her life has been unraveling ever since that tragic day in the woods. Alcohol, sex, broken marriages--nothing can lighten the truth she knows inside.
Until the child-killer returns, free and unencumbered. A predator who will act again unless Ruth can prove him guilty. Only no one will listen to a police officer on suspended duty, a woman whose life has been one personal disaster after the next, not even Maddie Pardeau Klein, her dead playmate's older sister. It's up to Ruth alone to trap the vicious criminal before he strikes once more. No matter what it takes. Or who gets hurt.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mary McGarry Morris grew up in Vermont and now lives on the North Shore in Massachusetts. Her first novel, Vanished, was nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. A Dangerous Woman was chosen by Time magazine as one of the “Five Best Novels of the Year” and was made into a major motion picture. Songs in Ordinary Time was an Oprah’s Book Club selection, which propelled it to the top of the New York Times bestseller list for many weeks, in addition to being adapted for a television movie. Her most recent novel is The Silence.
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Saturday, June 8th @ 1 PM
THE STANFIELD CHRONICLES by DAVID TORY:
1620, the year the Separatists arrived in America, is sometimes considered to be the year the process of English settlements began in Northern Virginia, subsequently named New England. In fact, the New England coast had been the subject of numerous surveys, expeditions and attempted settlements during the previous twenty years.
The Separatists are considered, in addition, to have travelled to an unknown country driven solely by their desire for religious freedom. In fact, many others explored and identified commercial opportunities in New England. The Separatists’ desire was fed and supported by those who wanted settlements in New England for commercial gain and to protect New England from encroachment by the French in the North and the Virginia Company in the South.
The Stanfield Chronicles is the story of the opening up of New England, prior to and after the arrival of the Separatists, seen through the eyes of a young man called Isaac Stanfield.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Retired from his careers in the computer industry and philanthropy, David Tory has spent the last few years researching the arrival of English colonists in New England. Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles is the result of those years of research, following the fictional Isaac Stanfield through a life of adventure in the early seventeenth century. Originally from England, for 30 years David Tory has called Essex County, Massachusetts, his home with his wife, Helen.
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 Saturday, June 29th @ 1 PM
SUMMER POETRY SERIES with HEATHER CORBALLY BRYANT and LYNNE VITI:
Andover Bookstore welcomes back poet Heather Corbally Bryant to Andover Bookstore alongside Westwood Poet Laureate, Lynne Viti to the store for an afternoon of poetry! Please join us for what has become one our favorite gatherings at Andover Bookstore, a gathering of poets and poetry lovers in our historic, beautiful bookstore.
ABOUT THE POETS:
Heather Corbally Bryant is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has also taught at Harvard, University of Michigan, and Pennsylvania State University where she has won awards for her teaching. She has written several books of poetry, a prize-winning academic book, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War, and a work of creative nonfiction, You Can't Wrap Fire in Paper. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, and have won Honorable Mention in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition.
Heather lives in Andover with her husband, Lou. Her latest poetry book, The Coffin Makers (Finishing Line Press 2023) is her eleventh book of poetry
Lynne Viti is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts. A lecturer emerita at Wellesley College, she is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). She facilitates a Poets in the Schools program in Westwood and a biweekly poetry workshop at the Westwood Library and serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club. She blogs at lynneviti.wordpress.com.
Lynne's poetry books include The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press/Portage Poetry Series 2022), Dancing at Lake Montebello (Apprentice House Press 2020), The Glamorganshire Bible (Finishing Line Press 2018), and Baltimore Girls (Finishing Line Press 2017)
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