Ann Hood:  The Red Thread     The ancient Chinese spoke of a mythical red thread that connected a child to all of the people who would eventually play a role in his or her life. As time passed, it was believed that the thread tightened, shrinking the distance between that child and those people, until both were finally brought together.         In her latest novel, THE RED THREAD, Ann Hood, the acclaimed author of The Knitting Circle, explores the unique bond between parent and child, and the red thread that binds their lives.
	Theresa Barbo:  Nantucket Sound: A Maritime History     An ancient fishing ground, vital shipping passage and final resting place for those unable to navigate its rocky shoals, Nantucket Sound- bordered by Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and, of course, Nantucket- remains one of New England's most historic waterways. Here, the first rays of morning sunlight touch the United States before sweeping westward. In fact, the area's early inhabitants were called Wampanoag: 'People of the Dawn.' From whaling culture and infamous shipwrecks to legends of Vikings, sea gods and John Smith, local author Theresa Mitchell Barbo unearths the stories hidden beneath these rough waves. At once unforgiving and generous, Nantucket Sound has seduced countless seafarers with its siren song but still overflows with diverse marine life.         With a Foreword by Congressman Bill D. Delahunt
	Theresa Barbo:  Nantucket Sound: A Maritime History     An ancient fishing ground, vital shipping passage and final resting place for those unable to navigate its rocky shoals, Nantucket Sound- bordered by Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and, of course, Nantucket- remains one of New England's most historic waterways. Here, the first rays of morning sunlight touch the United States before sweeping westward. In fact, the area's early inhabitants were called Wampanoag: 'People of the Dawn.' From whaling culture and infamous shipwrecks to legends of Vikings, sea gods and John Smith, local author Theresa Mitchell Barbo unearths the stories hidden beneath these rough waves. At once unforgiving and generous, Nantucket Sound has seduced countless seafarers with its siren song but still overflows with diverse marine life.         With a Foreword by Congressman Bill D. Delahunt
	Juliette Fay: Shelter Me   A favorite title among area book clubs this summer!         In the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother's year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness...and help that arrives from unexpected sources         Four months after her husband's death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning is disrupted, however, by the unexpected arrival of a builder with a contract to add a porch onto her house. Stunned, Janie realizes the porch was meant to be a surprise from her husband—now his last gift to her.    As she reluctantly allows construction to begin, Janie clings to the familiar outposts of her sorrow—mothering her two small children with fierce protectiveness, avoiding friends and family, and stewing in a rage she can't release. Yet Janie's self-imposed isolation is breached by a cast of unlikely interventionists: her chattering, ipecac-toting aunt; her bossy, over-manicured neighbor; her muffin-bearing cousin; and even Tug, the contractor with a private grief all his own.    As the porch takes shape, Janie discovers that the unknowable terrain of the future is best navigated with the help of others—even those we least expect to call on, much less learn to love.
	Jennifer Eldredge Stello: Chatham At Its Best   Jennifer Eldredge Stello is a professional photographer and a life-long resident of Chatham, Massachusetts where her family goes back eleven generations. A graduate of Green Mountain College in Vermont, Jennifer specializes in child and family potraiture in addition to capturing the beauty of her native Cape Cod. During any season, you're likely to see Jennifer walking with her camera and tripod through the peaceful streets of Chatham's old village capturing the morning light, or scooting around in her boat cataloging shifting sands, fragile beach shanties, and local fishermen.
	Michael Tonello: Bringing Home the Birkin      Michael Tonello won over many hearts last summer at his luncheon when he vividly described the history behind his wonderful book Bringing Home the Birkin.         A whimsical account of the author's five-year travels throughout the world in search of hard-to-obtain genuine handbags that he would subsequently sell on the Internet for a lucrative profit describes the events that led to his accidental career and his related encounters with celebrity and danger.
	Bob Staake: Pets Go Pop     New Yorker Cover Artist and Beloved Children's Author/Illustrator Bob Staake is a Chatham resident.      As the big yellow school bus makes its stops on the way to school, a colorful cast of animal characters, including a playful ape and music-loving lion, hop aboard and take their seats in this brightly illustrated, fun-filled tale with pop-up pages.    Using colorful, pop-out images, presents a series of unlikely pets and their unique characteristics, including a tall giraffe, a speedy tiger, and a nosey elephant.    This book comes with a terrific poster with interactive questions!
	Bob Staake: The Donut Chef    In this delicious tale, a baker hangs out his shingle on a small street, and soon, the line for his doughnuts stretches down the block. But it’s not long before the competition arrives and a battle of the bakers ensues. In the competitive frenzy, both bakers’ doughnuts become “quite bizarre, like Cherry-Frosted Lemon Bar, and Peanut-Brickle Buttermilk, or Gooey Coca- Mocha Silk!” Some are not even very tasty: “Donuts made with huckleberry (don’t be scared, they’re kind of hairy).” One day, Debbie Sue, just barely two, enters the bakery, and searches in vain for her favorite doughnut, where “the choice of donuts left her dazed. Said Debbie Sue, “But I want . . . glazed.” A fun lesson in keeping it simple in which our hero chef decides to go back to the basics, and wins over the whole town.
	Edward and Yolanda Lodi : Cranberry Memories: Voices from the Bogs     Twenty-nine writers, many of them first-time authors, have contributed photographs and personal recollections to Cranberry Memories, a new anthology from Rock Village Publishing. The book is a collection of stories about cranberries and the ways in which these little red berries and the bogs they grow on have profoundly affected people’s lives in southeastern Massachusetts. The memoirs are colorful and varied, told from the perspective of laborers, growers, truck drivers, seasonal workers, tourists, and those who grew up playing near--or working on--the bogs, in the towns stretching from Cape Cod to Duxbury, Plymouth to Middleboro and Lakeville, Wareham to Mattapoisett.         Subjects include the Great Depression and the bitter “cranberry strike” of the 1930’s; dry picking--by hand, rake, snap, scoop, and machine; World War II (gas rationing and the importation of workers from Kentucky and Jamaica to harvest the crop); recipes; Edaville Railroad; Ocean Spray; instructions on how to convert a swamp into a bog; skating and other sports; flora and fauna and the beauties of nature; the Experiment Station in East Wareham; “bog buggies” made from Model A Fords; and a true ghost story, to give just a partial listing.         With more than 60 photographs dating back to as long ago as the 1930’s, Cranberry Memories: Voices from the Bogs is a nostalgic celebration of a way of life and an informal history of cranberry growing on Cape Cod and Plymouth County.
	Stephanie Duckworth-Elliott: Poneasequa: Goddess of the Waters     McKenzie Jones is always looking for a place that she can call her own and just be accepted the way she is. To escape the daily rigors of chores and school-especially with all of its homework and stress of fitting in to a place where she was the only one that looked like she did; “Tall, red-brown skin, with dark brown hair and brown eyes.” McKenzie often went to a place in her head called the “Place of Peace.” Her “Place of Peace” was a place where she could be herself and feel that people would accept her. Little did she know that this place maybe a reality not just a fantasy that she has created. McKenzie embarks upon a journey of self-discovery after being asked by her teacher to do a presentation in front of the class on what it is like to be a    Wampanoag (Native American). To her dismay, McKenzie does not really know too much about the culture of her ancestors or about how that relates to what she goes through in 2009.         In the end McKenzie learns her final lesson as she has become a young woman, learned the truth of her history, received her name, and learned the wisdom of sacrifice and sharing, her final lesson is to live in peace and abundance where ever she may be.
	Hannah Roberts McKinnon: Franny Parker     Rings on a tree tell a story,” Franny Parker tells Lucas Dunn. “They tell you about its seasons, if they’ve been plentiful or not.” So far, the rings of Franny’s life have been marked by her family, their farm, their dusty little Oklahoma town – all of it so familiar. But in the summer of her thirteenth year, the Dunns move in next door, harboring painful secrets. From the moment Franny meets Lucas, the two begin a friendship that introduces Franny to the large world beyond her barnyard fence. As their town endures one of the harshest droughts in decades, Franny learns that those in need are not just those others you hear about in church or school; they can be injured wildlife or even the family next door. When her own family suffers a loss, Franny must find the courage to look beyond her sadness to aid a friend in need.         This tender, beautifully written debut novel is the story of a summer full of promises and pain, a season that, although one of the hardest in Franny Parker’s life, turns out to be plentiful.
	Debra Lawless: Chatham in the Jazz Age     Between the town's bicentennial celebration in 1912 and the start of the Second World War, Chatham was transformed from an undiscovered fishing village into a popular tourist destination. As hemlines rose and an old way of life began to collapse, a curious cast of characters put Chatham on the national map. Local author Debra Lawless investigates five prominent residents- Harold C. Dunbar, Alice Walker Guild, Heman Andrew Harding, Joseph C. Lincoln and Alice Stallknecht Wight- whose lives changed Chatham's landscape forever. From the Twin Lights to the dark side of town, discover the hidden truth- theft, racial tension, even murder- of this supposed Eden.
	J. North Conway: The Cape Cod Canal: Breaking Through the Bare and Bended Arm    Construction on the Cape Cod Canal started 100 years ago in 1909!         The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of graveyard of the Atlantic. From the moment sailors began rounding the Cape, they wished they could sail through it instead. Only after three hundred years of wrecked ships and bureaucratic limbo did August Belmont Jr. arrive- financier of New York's legendary subway system; breeder of one of the world's finest horses, Man O' War; and grandson of one of the world's most famous seamen, Commodore Matthew Perry, who opened Japan to the West.         J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod, from its discovery to its chowder, and of the man who managed to cut a path through it.
	Suzanne Lewis: Dune Shack Summer   Suzanne Lewis is an artist, photographer and world traveler and chronicled her three-week stay on the Cape in this gorgeous     From the author:    "For three weeks last summer I lived alone in a rustic dune shack on the outermost tip of Cape Cod as part of an artist-in-residency. I had no electricity, no running water, no neighbors and no wireless. The nearest inhabited area was a 45 minute walk, if you didn’t count the other two shacks which lay off in the distant hills. Water was hand carried after being drawn up by hand pump from the well less than fifty yards away. It was iron-rich, red and earthy tasting. Because of the fragile dunescape I had no mode of transportation; the closest paved road was a 30-minute trek, up and over soft sand. The Atlantic was a few hundred yards away with miles of deserted beaches. Most of the shacks are perched on a dune with the ocean stretching out in front of you. My shack was tucked down in the dunes, hidden from hikers and surrounded by fragrant salt spray roses, beach plums and stunted pitch pine and oak. There was no Internet. I used a solar charger to juice up my cell phone. Cell reception required climbing the tallest dune. All I could hear was the rumbling surf, occasional fog-horn and the wind. Talk about solitude. I was in my element."    Price: $29.95
	Gillian Gill: We Two - Victoria and Albert - Rulers, Partners, Rivals      A twenty-first-century perspective on a giant of English history, Queen Victoria, and her marriage to German Prince Albert—timed to benefit from the release of the upcoming film The Young Victoria.    Known as one of history’s most powerful and happily married couples, Victoria and Albert together ruled the British Empire for twenty years at the peak of its strength in mid-nineteenth century. The standard account of their union is that young Victoria, married at nineteen, was only too happy to hand over the reins of power to her husband, willingly taking a back seat to bear and raise their nine children.    A well-known chronicler of the lives of achieving women, author Gillian Gill rejects this outdated interpretation, retelling the couple’s story from a fresh, modern perspective. Victoria hated pregnancy, and as much as she loved Albert, she never let him impinge on her power. Gill makes the case that Albert’s early death was the reason for the marriage’s great success, leaving his widow another forty years on the throne to rule as sole monarch.
	J. Bean Palmer: The Cape Cod Witch and Pirate's Treasure Series      An incredibly popular children's series for intermediate readers!
	Kate Feiffer: Which Puppy?      "When word spreads far and wide around the globe that the First Family is looking for a pet, animals of all sorts want the part: puppies from Egypt, India, and France; a Neapolitan mastiff from Maryland; and even a kitten, a guinea pig, skunks, turtles, and a raccoon. Which puppy will be chosen? Pulitzer prize winner Jules Feiffer teams up with his daughter Kate to tell a warmhearted tale of a worldwide competition to be the perfect pet!"
	Kathryn Kleekamp: Cape Cod and the Islands:  Where Beauty and History Meet    Cape Cod and its neighboring islands, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, possess extraordinary beauty. Magnificent ocean vistas, spectacular sand dunes, quiet marshes, and historic seaside villages, bring people back year after year. For the inquiring visitor the remarkable stories of courage and enterprise by those who settled the land and shaped its character provide background for thoughtful reflection.    This stunning new book features fifty of Kathryn Kleekamp’s original oil paintings depicting land and seascapes along with rare historic photographs. Image and text capture the fundamental nature of this remarkable area: the heartbeat of those who farmed the land, fished the seas, captained the great schooners, or waited at home for a loved one’s return. The historic vignettes explore major influences that made Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard what they are today. Traditional Cape and Island recipes found here are another link to the present from the past.    Illustrations:  159 photos & illustrations  Pages:  176  Availability:   June 2009  Binding: Hard Cover Price: $29.99
	William Sargent: Sea Level Rising:                                     The Chatham Story    On April 16, 2007, an early spring storm broke through Cape Cod’s barrier beach. Overnight, the citizen’s of Chatham had to contend with as much sea level rise as most communities will face in the next fifty years. A dozen homes were swept away in as many months and, today, a new inlet is aimed at the heart of the village. Another hundred houses and the third most lucrative fishing port in New England will be endangered in the coming years.    Illustrations:  35 b/w photos  Pages:  224  Availability:   May 2009  Price: $19.99
	Lisa Genova: Still Alice    Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away. A first novel that quickly gained global attention!    Price: $15.00
	Claire Cook: The Wildwater Walking Club    The author of Must Love Dogs presents the tale of three women neighbors who share struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way, a friendship marked by a Seattle road trip, a lavender festival, and a clothesline controversy.    Price: $24.99
	Robert Sabbag: Down Around Midnight   bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survived. Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight 248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot died but the copilot and eight passengers survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Robert Sabbag, at the height of his fame for his bestselling book Snowblind, was among them.   Down Around Midnight is Sabbag’s gripping account of what exactly happened on that foggy night and his candid attempt to come to terms with the emotional ramifications of the crash. He reconnects with the other survivors and their rescuers for the first time in thirty years, weaving the narrative between past and present to create a thrilling and affecting story of survival and recovery.  Like the best survivor tales—Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void—Down Around Midnight is fast paced and mesmerizing. It is also a meditation on healing and the things we do to compartmentalize traumatic memories. Few people experience a plane crash and live to tell the story. Sabbag brings his striking, economical style to this personal tale of learning how to remember and how to endure.   Price: $25.95
	Thomas Flynn: Bikeman: An Epic Poem    On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. Bikeman is one man's journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged from the dust and the death. Both heartbreaking and haunting, his words will stay with you like that 'forever September morning.'" --Meredith Vieira, NBC's Today    Price: $12.99
	Polhemus Savery DaSilva:  Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer      The work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders reflects the special qualities of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. This is a region of stunning landscapes and water views, crisp ocean-reflected light, classic villages, and abundant opportunities for playful living. Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer presents more than ten years of evocative design and well crafted construction that is rooted in this fabled place. In an architectural world increasingly polarized between strict revivalist classicism and avant-garde abstraction, the work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva displays a compelling third way. The book features twenty-five projects that range from modest to elaborate. Each is an individual creation tailored to its specific location and client. Several additional projects are depicted in a chronology of the firm's major work. The volume contains an eloquent introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie, as well as forewords by renowned architects Cesar Pelli and Robert Venturi. An essay by John R. DaSilva, Design Partner, describes the firm's approach and revisits the genesis of the Shingle Style that is so influential in residential architecture today. Drawings by the firm and more than four hundred color photographs by leading architectural photographers illustrate this sixth volume of the New Classicists series.    Price: $90.00