Front Street Book Shop

 
Front Street Book Shop
165 Front Street
Scituate Harbor, MA 02066-1314
Tel: (781)545-5011

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Store Hours
M-Sat 9:30-6:00
Th 9:30-8:00
FIRST FRIDAYS til 9
Sun 11-5:00

Directions To Store:
Route 123E to ROTARY
Into ROTARY, exit 2nd RIGHT (DRIFTWAY
Follow DRIFTWAY. Becomes NEW KENT ST
then KENT ST. At stop sign, KENT ST becomes FRONT ST. (St. Mary's on left)
Continue on Front Street. Turn LEFT immediately after SHELL GAS (Harbor Heights Rd) & immediate RIGHT into parking area behind Raveis Realty--formerly Verge's Jewelry. FSBS is navy colored building. Enter on Front St. side

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This Friday Nov 6 7- 8 pm: Join LEVEL BEST BOOKS authors Nancy Gardner, Vincent O'Neil, Ruth M. McCarty, Stephen D. Rogers and Maureen Walsh to learn how writers plot, construct and populate the mystery short story, from the light-hearted to the noir.

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The Likeness The Likeness
by French, Tana
Another stunning psychological thriller from the author of IN THE WOODS. Cassie Maddox, former undercover detective is working in domestic violence, when she is called to the scene of a murder of a girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to Cassie herself. Stranger still, the victim's name is apparently Lexie Madison, an identity fabricated by Cassie years ago. In an effort to unearth the killer, Cassie is persuaded to go undercover as Lexie Madison, a graduate student at Trinity College who lives with four other English postgrads. Thoughtfully written with multi-faceted characters, this is a mystery to be savored. As layers of secrets are revealed, this mesmerizing novel will keep the reader riveted!--Tova Beiser


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BESTSELLERS
September 20, 2009

Compiled from weekly sales data, Front Street Book Shop's bestsellers list is also reported to the Patriot Ledger and IndieBound: (Read More!)

That Old Cape Magic
by Russo, Richard
Following" Bridge of Sighs"--a national best seller hailed by" The Boston Globe" as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents' respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. He'd left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they'd moved into an old house full of character; and they'd started a family. Check, check and check.
But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura's, on the coast of Maine, Griffin's chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened?
"That Old Cape Magic" is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter's new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.



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"Americans like fat books and thin women."

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Barrows, Annie Fiery, Shaffer, Mary Ann Fiery
"" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." "January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends--and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society--born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island--boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. \Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.


 

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