Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

Storytime 10am

Join us for our weekly Saturday Storytime with local author Bernadine Coyne! Storytime will run for about 30 minutes and will be geared towards ages 3-6.

Unleash your inner artist and give your favorite book a sparkling makeover! Join us for a fun and creative event where you can decorate book covers with gems. All materials provided — bring your own book or buy one at the shop for 10% off.

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Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

Storytime 10am

Join us for our weekly Saturday Storytime with Big Ryan! Storytime will run for about 30 minutes and will be geared towards ages 3-6.

Come join us for a fun-filled evening of puzzles at Book Love! Get ready to challenge your mind and enjoy a night of brain-teasing fun with fellow puzzle enthusiasts. Whether you're a seasoned puzzler or new to the game, this event is perfect for all skill levels. Grab your friends and family for a night of laughter, teamwork, and of course, puzzles.

When registering, please only purchase 1 ticket for each group of up to 4 participants. Each team will be provided a 500 piece puzzle and a workspace. The puzzle may be taken home at the end of the night.

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A Creative Writing Workshop using personal and family photographs

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What to Expect 

• 90-minute class

• Guided meditation for centering 

• Unearthing the stories behind the photos

• Self-reflection 

• Writing tools and prompts to bolster your writing practice 

What to Bring to class

• 5-7 Printed photographs of you, family and/or vintage photos of your ancestors

• Bring a journal or composition notebook

• Wear comfortable clothing

• A beginner’s mind

Nicole Hendrick Donovan is an author, writing coach, and developmental editor. She a certified meditation + sound practitioner and the co-founder of Lotus & Rose Healing Therapies in Sandwich, MA. Contact Nicole with any questions at nhdwrites@gmail.com

Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

Join us at Book Love for an evening with two fantastic authors as they converse about their new works.

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New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan’s hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison, all he wants is to run a clean club. But that’s not possible in a city rife with corruption. Jimmy doesn’t know it, but his right-hand man, Serge Thanakis, is operating an ecstasy ring that’s drawing the wrong kind of attention. Jealous industry rivals will do anything to shut Abbatoir down, and the new mayor presses the NYPD to clean up the city’s darkest corners. As Jimmy’s troubles mount, temptations from his past call to him. 

Meanwhile, Ben Hopkins, a straight-edge rookie cop on the hunt for a fast-track ticket to detective, turns his attention to Abattoir. He has something to prove—to his father and to himself. But he’s not prepared for undercover work. The club scene devours Ben, along with his ability to tell right and wrong.

Welcome to Book Love Book Club! Join us for our in-person gathering at Book Love for a fun and engaging discussion about our latest book pick. Whether you're a bookworm or just looking to dive into a new read, our club is the perfect place to share your thoughts, insights, and love for books with like-minded individuals. Come prepared to chat, laugh, and maybe even debate a little – all in the name of our shared passion for reading. We can't wait to see you there!

October Pick: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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Storytime with Kelly Carey 10am

Join us for our weekly Saturday Storytime with Kelly! Storytime will run for about 30 minutes and will be geared towards ages 3-6.

About Kelly:

Kelly Carey is an award-winning children’s fiction author from New England. Her debut picture book, How Long Is Forever? (Charlesbridge), illustrated by Qing Zhuang, received a glowing review from Kirkus and was named a MUST READ by the Mass Center for the Book. For over a decade, her fiction stories have been published in Highlights for Children, Clubhouse Jr., and Girls’ World. Kelly is a graduate of The Institute of Children’s Literature, and a member of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She founded Pondside Pages  and is the proud co-founder of the blog 24 Carrot Writing. Kelly is represented by Sharon Belcastro of the Belcastro Agency.  

She has participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Storystorm, ReFoReMo (Reading for Research Month) and Julie Hedlund’s 12x12 Picture Book Challenge. She has attended the New England SCBWI Spring Conference on many occasions, participated in SCBWI’s Agent/Editor Day, SCBWI Encore, and the Whispering Pines Writing Retreat. Kelly received the Higher Goals Award from the Evangelical Press Association in 2008, 2009 and 2015.

Kelly holds a BA from Fairfield University in English and Communication. She worked for The Travelers Insurance Company and Tufts Health Plan before becoming a full-time writer. She conducts workshops on How to Become a Children's Writer for adults and Story Engineer classes for young writers. 

Stretch, strengthen, and unwind with a pilates session—then treat yourself to a juice from Vela Juice Bar and a new paperback.

Start your day with a rejuvenating 45-minute Pilates class led by kd Pilates, designed for all levels to strengthen, stretch, and reset. After your workout, stick around for a juice provided by Vela Juice Bar and browse a curated selection of books from Book Love—perfect for your next read.

Tickets include the pilates class, a paperback book of your choice, and juice from Vela!

*Please bring your own mat!

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Join us at Book Love for an evening featuring John Bonanni, John Hopkins, and Lisa J. Sullivan. Each poet will read about 12 minutes of their work and the evening will conclude with time to meet the poets and purchase signed copies of their work.

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John Bonanni won the Donald Hall Award for Poetry for his first book of poems, retrovirology (Pitt Poetry Series). He founded and edits the Cape Cod Review. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, and Gulf Coast, and his literary criticism has been featured in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and The Kenyon Review. He teaches on Cape Cod.

John Hopkins has been an English teacher for forty-three years. John’s poetry has appeared in Commonweal, Saint Anthony Messenger, The National Catholic Reporter, The Leaflet, Sr. Melannie Svoboda’s blog, “Sunflower Seeds,” The Catholic Poetry Room, The Amethyst Review, Ekstasis Magazine, and Father Timothy Joyce’s book Celtic Quest. For the past eight years, John has been a Benedictine Oblate affiliated with Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Massachusetts. John has published three books of poetry: Celtic Nan, Make My Heart a Pomegranate, and With Caught Rain. You can reach John at brotherjohnnyhop@gmail.com.

Lisa J. Sullivan is a Massachusetts native who holds an MFA in Poetry from the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program, where she was a Kurt Brown Memorial Fellow. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in The Comstock Review, Evening Street Review, The Arts Fuse, Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. She was the United States winner of The Poetry Project–Ireland in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets and was an Adrian Tinsley Program Creative Grant recipient. Lisa is the Art Editor for Lily Poetry Review and a Poetry Editor for Pink Panther Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Theory of Impact, was published in 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books.

Join us for a Banned Books Week Read-In! Settle in with your current read for 45 minutes of silent reading, followed by 45 minutes of shopping, mingling, giveaways, and celebrating the freedom to read. Bring a book you love—or discover a new one from our selection of frequently challenged and banned books.

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Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

Author Signing with Bruce MacDonald at 10am

Bruce grew up in Needham, Massachusetts and has lived in Glastonbury, Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. He was a sales and marketing specialist for Digital Equipment Corporation and Honeywell Information Systems. He then worked in corporate development for the American Cancer Society in Boston. Bruce’s first published novel is Where The Money Is.

Storytime 10am

Join us for our weekly Saturday Storytime with Big Ryan! Storytime will run for about 30 minutes and will be geared towards ages 3-6.

Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

Join us at Book Love for an evening with authors Susan Donovan Bernhard and Katherine A. Sherbrooke as they discuss their latest books and the inspiration behind their stories. Enjoy a lively conversation, audience Q&A, and the opportunity to meet both authors during the book signing.

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About the authors:

Susan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of the novels Westerly and Winter Loon, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a GrubStreet Novel Incubator program graduate, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and graduated from the University of Maryland. When she’s not traveling, she lives and writes in Massachusetts.

Katherine A. Sherbrooke is the award-winning author of four novels: the New York Times notable Leaving Coy’s Hill, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award; Fill the Sky, the winner of an Independent Press Award, The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, and her latest, This Much is True (September 2026). Her work has also appeared in Cognoscenti and Zibby Magazine. She served as Chair of the Board of GrubStreet, one of the nation’s premier creative writing centers, from 2013-2023. She has two grown sons and lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband.

Storytime 10am

Join us for our weekly Saturday Storytime. Storytime will run for about 30 minutes and will be geared towards ages 3-6.

Join us at Book Love for an evening with Tara Lynn Masih as she discusses her new novel The Silent Women.

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About The Silent Women

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City”—where thousands kept the deadliest secret of World War II.

Oklahoma, 1935. Black Sunday. From the moment a wall of black dust devours the plains and buries her world, Song Holloway’s life is marked by dislocation and loss. Even in the rural New England town she now calls home, that dark cloud continues to follow her.

Then the army asks her to take up work at a classified facility in the muddy outpost of Oak Ridge, a city that doesn’t appear on any map. Trained to test pipes, Song searches for leaks in a system no one will explain. The work is dangerous. People vanish. Yet it’s here, behind the barbed wire and watchtowers, that she finds what the dust storm stole: a place to belong and women who become her second family. And there is Hol—a gentle soldier who gives her, for the first time, peace.

Until she’s summoned. A small room. Two agents. Men with power she will never have. Song is given a command: spy on the women in your life. In a city built on secrets, keeping quiet used to be enough. Now it makes her complicit. But Song’s choices will haunt her long after she learns what flowed through those pipes.

The Silent Women is a sweeping, absorbing, and deeply human story about chosen family, moral courage, and what it costs to live with the truth. Perfect for readers of The Women of Arlington Hall, The Frozen River, and The Women.

Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

In this workshop we will create whimsical wool acorns, with real acorn caps! Choose to string them into a garland or gather in a bowl. A fun workshop for all levels, no experience needed. All materials provided. This workshop will be led by Isabel of The Felted Acorns, you can find out more about her work here.

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About Casey:

Casey Lynn Roland is a writer, artist, and maker from Peabody, Massachusetts who also spends much of her time on Lake Winnipesaukee—her poetry attempts to reconcile her relationships to those places, the people in them, and how they’re always changing. If the House is Inclined to Collapse is her first full length poetry publication, conceptualized during her time at the University of New Hampshire, where she earned an MFA in Poetry in 2020. Her work has previously appeared in Plainsongs, Red Ogre Review, Rougarou Journal, West Trade Review, Soundings East, and Nixes Mate among others. For more, visit www.caseyroland.com or follow her at @mscaseycreates.

Storytime 10am

Join us for our weekly Saturday Storytime. Storytime will run for about 30 minutes and will be geared towards ages 3-6.

Storytime

Join us for our weekly Wednesday Storytime! Storytime starts at 10am and will run for about 30 minutes. This is perfect for ages 1-4.

Welcome to Book Love Book Club! Join us for our in-person gathering at Book Love for a fun and engaging discussion about our latest book pick. Whether you're a bookworm or just looking to dive into a new read, our club is the perfect place to share your thoughts, insights, and love for books with like-minded individuals. Come prepared to chat, laugh, and maybe even debate a little – all in the name of our shared passion for reading. We can't wait to see you there!

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