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The Odyssey Bookshop is one of five independent bookstores participating in WAMC's Roundtable on Tuesday mornings, just after the 10:00 news. People from the Odyssey will be on about once a month, talking about our favorite books.

The Odyssey Bookshop
Located in the five-college region of western Massachusetts, across the street from Mount Holyoke College, The Odyssey Bookshop is the largest independent, locally owned bookstore in the area. We proudly feature a wide selection of new, used, antiquarian and bargain book and more than 100 author events and book signings annually, more than any other venue in western Massachusetts. We also host a Signed First Edition Club, and a free Frequent Buyer Program.

November 18 Thursday 7 pm
PAUL HARDINGTinkers (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
... [a] poignant exploration of where we may journey when the clock has barely a tick or two left and we really cant go anywhere at all.
- The Boston Globe
Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Tinkers, Paul Hardings debut novel, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Sundays with Shakespeare
Led by UMASS English professor, Arthur F. Kinney. The months selection Antony and Cleopatra is discounted 20%.

November 21 Sunday 3pm
ANNA DEWDNEYLlama Llama Holiday Drama
If theres one thing Llama Llama doesnt like, its waiting. He and Mama Llama rush around, shopping for presents, baking cookies, decorating the tree . . . but how long is it until Christmas? Will it ever come? Finally, Llama Llama just cant wait any more! It takes a cuddle from Mama Llama to remind him that gifts are nice, but theres another: the true gift is, we have each other.

November 30 Tuesday 7 pm
Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.

Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of humankinds intellectual evolution.

Looking to the future... December 1, Lawrence Dorfman: The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition: Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries December 2, Martn Espada: The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive: Essays and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) and; Roberto Mrquez:A World Among These Islands: Essays on Literature Race and National Identity in Antillean AmericaDecember 4, Jane Yolan, Norton Juster, Jeff Mack, Mark Hyde Costello & Patricia MacLachlan
December 11, Jane Dyer: There's a Train Out for DreamlandDecember 14, Barry Moser: One Hundred Portraits: Artists, Architects, Writers, Composers and Friends December 15, Thrse Soukkar Chehade: LoomDecember 16, Brock Clarke: Exley

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