This winter hasn’t felt as hard as I thought it would. Here it is mid-February and I’m longing for more snow, for mor…
Hannah Harlow
Bookstore Owner
When you are walking down to the beach on a sun-dappled gently breezy summer afternoon, you don't want Dostoevsky lea…
Mark Stolle
Manchester By The Book
With the New Year comes resolutions, and with resolutions come a host of new books that pledge to help you with those…
Hannah Harlow
Bookstore Owner
As we prepare for our own blanket of snow to descend upon our landscape, I greatly enjoyed reading Snow by John Banvi…
What is the Christmas Spirit? The feeling of love and goodwill toward your fellow man - kindness, decency, mercy, fo…
Mark Stolle
Manchester By The Book
The latest book by 92-year-old author and Manchester resident Katharine Stanley-Brown Abbott—her third—is A Zoo Full …
If you visit The Bookshop of Beverly Farms, which I highly recommend you do, there is something especially enchanting…
Kris McGinn
Feature Reporter
As a book lover, I’m a sucker for books about books. Novels like The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, Possession by …
Hannah Harlow
Bookstore Owner
Manchester resident and author, Susan Wadia Ells, PhD, announced publication of her new book, “Busting Breast Cancer:…
Kris McGinn introduces us to a new feature in the Cricket, a book review feature. Mark Stolle, owner of Manchester b…
Kris McGinn
Feature Reporter
The quiet comfort and familiarity of coastal Manchester’s tree-lined historic downtown with its small antique shops, …
The Book Club at First Parish is open to anyone and everyone. They are currently meeting on the last Monday of each …
As Oscar Wilde once said, “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” For this edition, Ma…
It was a totally packed house last Thursday at “Wigwams At Saw Mill Brook,” the first lecture in Manchester Historica…
Long-time Beverly Farms Bookshop owners Pam Price and Lee Simonds Brown, only the third owners since the bookshop o…
Her poems are right there, concerning themselves with items that are at hand, commonplace and familiar. The natural w…
Kris McGinn
Feature Reporter
Authors Kim Kerrigan and Steven Wells made an appearance this past weekend at the Manchester Public Library to discus…
Phillippi Ryan, who recently published the psychological thriller, “Trust Me”, joined Shannon Capone Kirk (right) and…
Arches to Zigzags: An Architectural ABC has been published by Oro Editions. The book is the work of Manchester’s award-winning photographer Steve Rosenthal and his wife Kit along with Michael J. Crosbie. Paul Goldberger, the New York Times Book reviewer says in part, “The world does not nee…
The latest book by 92-year-old author and Manchester resident Katharine Stanley-Brown Abbott—her third—is A Zoo Full of Rhymes. The small and tidy book is packed with 38 light and lyrical rhymes with animals, birds, sea creatures and insects ranging from a bluefish and bongo to auk and platypus.
If you visit The Bookshop of Beverly Farms, which I highly recommend you do, there is something especially enchanting waiting on a little stack of shelves just before the register to your right. Here you will find a small collection of books wrapped in brown paper, and yes, tied up with string.
As a book lover, I’m a sucker for books about books. Novels like The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, Possession by A.S. Byatt, The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, anything by Haruki Murakami. Plus nonfiction like The Library Book by Susan Orlean, When Books Went to War, Reading Loli…
Manchester resident and author, Susan Wadia Ells, PhD, announced publication of her new book, “Busting Breast Cancer: Five Simple Steps to Keep Breast Cancer Out of Your Body.”
Kris McGinn introduces us to a new feature in the Cricket, a book review feature. Mark Stolle, owner of Manchester by the Book on Central Street will be a regular, and his column—not surprisingly called, "By The Book"—kicks us off with a recommendation that is an oldie but such a goodie, from an author Stolle calls "a master storyteller."
The quiet comfort and familiarity of coastal Manchester’s tree-lined historic downtown with its small antique shops, used bookstore, and restaurants has made it the perfect backdrop for many a blockbuster film. When Hollywood wants New England, it comes to Manchester-by-the-Sea. So, here are some of Manchester’s greatest hits, and what they’re all about.
The Book Club at First Parish is open to anyone and everyone. They are currently meeting on the last Monday of each month on Zoom. The book for the July discussion is I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron.
As Oscar Wilde once said, “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” For this edition, Mark Stolle of Manchester By the Book and Hannah Harlow of The Book Shop of Beverly Farms have offered their picks for the best summer reads.
It was a totally packed house last Thursday at “Wigwams At Saw Mill Brook,” the first lecture in Manchester Historical Museum’s year-long series tied to Manchester’s 375th Anniversary. Mary Ellen Lepionka, a historian and anthropologist and an expert on early inhabitants of Cape Ann, took rapt attendees through the amazing true story of Native Americans here.
Long-time Beverly Farms Bookshop owners Pam Price and Lee Simonds Brown, only the third owners since the bookshop opened in 1968, will hand the reigns over to a new owner this week.
Her poems are right there, concerning themselves with items that are at hand, commonplace and familiar. The natural world is often the universe from which she draws, with a soulfulness and power that is stirring.
Authors Kim Kerrigan and Steven Wells made an appearance this past weekend at the Manchester Public Library to discuss their latest book, “Making Civility Great Again.” Yes, that’s the name of the book. Certainly, it’s a timely topic.
Phillippi Ryan, who recently published the psychological thriller, “Trust Me”, joined Shannon Capone Kirk (right) and Tom DeMarchi (left), two powerhouse local authors in their own right at the “Authors & Friends” event on June 30th benefitting the Friends Of The Manchester Library.
