Welcome to our new online store! Check out the new and improved, much more user-friendly way to shop online and search for books with your very own local independent bookstore. You can start your shopping using the search box in the upper right corner, or click here for more search options.
It's been an amazing stretch of weather, and no more than we all deserve, and it has brought the whole community outside, and eventually back inside to the Booksmith. It's been so nice to see you all!
Be sure to take a look into the Card & Gift Room, as well at our calendar racks.
Our BIG 75% OFF sales are still going on in both departments!
Our Writers and Readers series hosts a number of unique events over the next week, starting off Tuesday, 3/9 at 7:30 with Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels. She'll be up the street at Temple Kehillath Israel, and no tickets are necessary. Then, Wednesday at 7pm. Sam Lipsyte, a man who our Events department dubs "the funniest writer in America" will read downstairs. That's followed on Thursday by A Fundraiser to Benefit Franciscan Hospital for Children, with Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, & emcee Kelly Link which will now be held downstairs as well. Tickets are $5, call 617 566 6660 now! And finally, next Monday night at 7pm we'll go into workshop mode with Now Write! Nonfiction, a Write-in with Sherry Ellis, Leah Cohen,& Marcie Hershman. Bring writing supplies, folks.
Speaking of writing, our brookline blogsmith is turned all the way up to 11 these days. Check in each day to get closer to the minds of Booksmith.
and around town...
Learn about growing fruits and vegetables in tiny spaces, tall spaces, shared spaces, and very long skinny spaces. From gnomes! Just kidding. Talk to expert growers and connect with the community of Brookline gardeners at a special event, Spring Into Gardening with Bountiful Brookline! It'll be on March 28th, 1-4pm at the Pierce School. There will be a raffle, a wide variety of workshops, and altogether it will be a terrific way to get ready to get those hands and knees itching for the soil! Register Now for the best choice of workshops. Contact bountifulbrookline@gmail.com.
Have you thought about joining a parent co-op which nurtures both your child and your family? Come meet the staff and parents of the Corner Co-op Nursery School, see a slide show and join in a discussion with us. Tuesday, March 9, 7 – 9 pm, 1773 Beacon St. (entrance on Dean Rd.), Brookline. For details, call 617-738-4631 or visit www.cornercoop.org.
