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Welcome to the online store for brookline booksmith,
wellesley booksmith, and the used book cellars.
 Boston magazine named Brookline Booksmith "BEST BOOKSTORE" in its 2006 "Best of Boston" issue - our 6th win in 8 years! THANK YOU for your patronage and for helping to put us on top again!
New Staff Picks!
Click on the link at left or below to read the latest recommendataions from your favorite booksellers
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Find Event information, including Brookline Booksmith's Bookclub meetings and current title on the following pages:
Brookline Events schedule
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Brookline Booksmith & the (Brookline) UBC hours:
Mon - Thu: 8:30am - 10:00pm
Fri: 8:30am - 11:00pm
Sat: 9:00am - 11:00pm
Sun: 10:00am - 8:00pm
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Mon - Sat: 9am - 9pm
Sun: 11am - 6pm
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*A note about textbook pricing:
The prices for textbooks listed in the Book Sense database are not always realistic. If we are unable to honor the listed price, we will inform you of any difference so that you can choose whether to confirm or cancel your order.
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To read recommendations from our staff members, just click on a name or picture - you might find your next favorite book!
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
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Harris, Mark
By the mid sixties, mainstream American movies had fallen behind the times. While we listened to The Beatles, The Stones and Simon and Garfunkel, we still went to movies that were the cinematic equivalent of our parent’s record collection. A majority of American films continued to reflect the values of the old men who clung to leadership of the major studios. Yet drastic changes were coming. As Mark Harris notes in his perceptive book Pictures at a Revolution, the five films honored with Academy Award nominations for Best Picture in 1967 typified the generational war of values then underway. While Doctor Dolittle (1967, Richard Fleischer) was an old line, traditional musical, the equally old-fashioned Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967, Stanley Kramer) turned on plot points that reflected issues of concern in troubled times of rapid change. Civil rights was also at the center of In the Heat of the Night (1967, Norman Jewison). Meanwhile, The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) and especially Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) reflected a different sensibility. Influenced by the nouvelle vague films of France and the neo-existentialist dramas then coming from Italy, the films heralded the birth of what was soon to be called “The New Hollywood."
In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris traces the development, production and afterlife of five unique American movies. With wit, perception and humor, Harris allows us to better understand the cultural insurrection that erupted on the screens of the nation’s theaters at 24 frames per second.
~ recommended May, 2008 |
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Here you'll find telephone numbers and addresses for our Brookline and Wellesley stores, contact information for store employees, and more.
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Our Bestsellers - see what your neighbors are reading!
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Unaccustomed Earth
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Lahiri, Jhumpa
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written--that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations," a husband's attempt to turn an old friend's wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In "Only Goodness," a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in "Hema and Kaushik," a trio of linked stories--a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate--we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.
"Unaccustomed Earth" is rich with" "Jhumpa Lahiri's signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers. |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Storied City
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Marcus, Leonard S.
A Summer 2003 Children's Book Sense 76 Pick! "A travel guide to New York City that details all of the places featured in kids' books, from Eloise's Plaza Hotel to Harriet's spy route. Great for adults travelling with kids or for kids who want to know more about the places some of their characters inhabit." -- J.D. Ho, Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA |
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
- W. H. Auden
The Dyer's Hand
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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