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Authors Without Borders (AWB) will appear at Baker Books on Friday, November 19th, at 6:30pm to launch their first collaborative volume, Loose Ends: A Hodgepodge of Stories. The book contains short stories from each of the five members of AWB, as well as excerpts from their published works, in a new and unique format. The original short stories are accompanied by excerpts of the authors' published works in a sampler of writing styles and content.

AWB is a consortium of five local published authors who came together in 2008 to promote their books and to offer encouragement and assistance to other writers through panel discussions, workshops, and courses. Contributing to the book are: Michael DeCicco (New Bedford), author of the young adult novel Kaurlin's Disciples; Pat Perry (Fairhaven), author of a fantasy series, "The Darkness Trilogy" (Quest for the Source of Darkness, The Fortress of Darkness and The Edge of Darkness: The Final Battle,) and a new comic novella, Old Gooseberry's Dilemma; Willie Pleasants (New Bedford and Boston), author of two collections of short stories and poetry (Ain't That The Truth and Make Truth a Habit), and host of the Boston Neighborhood Network cable-t.v. show, "Willie's Web"; Alberta Sequeira (Rochester), author of a series of three memoirs (A Healing Heart: A Spiritual Renewal; Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round-An Alcoholic Family in Crisis; and the sequel, Please, God, Not Two-This Killer Called Alcoholism) and speaker on the effects of alcoholism on the family; and Joyce Keller Walsh (Lakeville) playwright and author of a mystery trilogy, "The Pittsley County Chronicles" (Juckets, Swamp Yankees,and Bog Men), and Winterkill. Additional information may be found on their website: www.awb6.com.

Each author will give a brief reading from his/her short story and the group will answer questions about their first venture in writing a collaborative volume. Books will be available for sale and signing at the event.

LEE & LOW BOOKS is proud to release Seaside Dream, by debut author Janet Costa Bates. This tender portrait of a close-knit Cape Verdean family focuses on the relationship between Cora and her grandmother. On her grandmother's birthday, Cora gives her the perfect present, plus the courage to return to Cape Verde.

Seaside Dream which received a Lee & Low New Voices Award Honor, gives readers a window on Cape Verdean culture and reflects a longing that many immigrant families experience for distant places, friends, and family. Kirkus Reviews calls it "a moving portrayal of a grandparent-grandchild relationship as well as a distinctive take on universal aspects of immigration.

Janet Costa Bates has been recognized by Highlights for Children as an Author of the Month, and her prize-winning fiction has been published in Highlightsand Pockets magazine. She lives with her family in Massachusetts and has family ties to the New Bedford area.

Whaling City Review LIVE and Baker Books are very pleased to welcome featured poets Eve Rifkah and Laurie Robertson-Lorant to the Bean & Leaf cafe at Baker Books for a reading. An Open mic will follow.

Eve Rifkah will be reading from her latest collection of poetry, Outcasts: The Penikese Leper Hospital 1905-1921, which was published this summer by Little Pear Press. Outcasts is a collection of persona poems based on the actual patients and directors of the Penikese Island Leper Hospital, which was located in the Elizabeth Islands off of Cape Cod until it closed in 1921. Patients came from countries around the world including China, Japan, The Azores, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Latvia, India, Cape Verde, Trinidad, Barbados, Syria, Italy and the US, and had all been living in the Boston area at the time they were diagnosed with leprosy.

Eve Rifkah is also the author of Dear Suzanne: The Life and Times of Model/Artist Suzanne Valadon 1865-1938. More information can be found on her website at www.everifkahwriter.com

Laurie Robertson-Lorant is the author of The Man Who Lived Among The Cannibals: Poems in The Voice of Herman Melville (2005) and Melville: A Biography (1996). Her poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Black Buzzard Review, and Earth's Daughters.

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The New England Independent Booksellers Association is proud to announce the winners of their 2010 New England Book Awards:

Fiction: Father of the Rain by Lily King (Grove Atlantic).
Lily King's third and most ambitious novel to date is a sharply insightful family drama set in an upper-middle-class East Coast suburb where she traces a complex volatile father-daughter relationship from the 1970's to the present day. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Non-fiction: Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (Random House).
Gail Caldwell's memoir about the transition from being a fiercely private person to learning to share her life with an exuberant puppy and new best friend, writer Caroline Knapp. They develop a deeply profound friendship and grow increasingly inseparable until Caroline is suddenly diagnosed with lung cancer. Gail Caldwell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2001 and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Children's Books: City Dog, Country Frog written by Mo Willems and illustrated by
Jon J Muth(Hyperion).
A word and picture perfect first-time collaboration between best-selling children's writer/illustrators, Mo Willems and Jon J Muth. This is a warm and understated story of an unlikely friendship between two seemingly incompatible animals that is fresh, timeless and surely to become a classic. Mo Willems lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jon J Muth lives in upstate New York.

Check out our August/September staff picks, where our staff's eclectic taste and varied interests will help you find a great read.
We now offer Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Children's book recommendations.

This one is for all of the kids who live outside the edge of normal, all of the kids who have secrets behind what their faces show at school each day, all of the kids who have been picked on, and especially for all of the kids who when faced with the worst, offer up their best. This one is for all of you who are rock stars of hope, just like Amber Appleton the winning heroine of Matthew Quick's charmingly heartbreaking young adult novel Sorta Like a Rock Star. Long live Amber Appleton!

What influences how far a child will advance in her education? The parents' level of education would seem like a strong indicator, but it turns out there's an even more concrete one, says LiveScience.com: the number of books in the home. A recent study by University of Nevada sociologists analyzed 20 years of data on 73,000 people in 27 countries, including the U.S. It found that a child born into a family of average income and education but with 500 books in the house would, on average attain 12 years of education-three years more than an equivalent child with no books at home. The more books are presemt, the greater the educational benefit. "Even a little bit goes a long way," says study author Maria Evans. The presence of books, in fact, was twice as important to children's progress in school as the father's level of education. "You get a lot of 'bang for your book," Evan says.
-Reprinted compliments of The WEEK Magazine,

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The Confession, John Grisham
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, Simon Winchester
Dogtown, Elyssa East
Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum, Geoffrey Wolff
Fur, Fortune, & Empire, Eric J. Dolin
Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea, Linda Greenlaw
Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea, David Fisichella
Courage to Walk, Robert P. Waxler

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