Thursday, January 19th at 7pm
Catharine Utzschneider
MOVE! How Women Can Achieve Athletic Goals at Any Age

This year, make your resolution a reality. Boston College Professor and head coach of the Liberty Athletic Club, Catharine Utzschneider has coached women of all sorts and ages, from beginners to Olympians. In her new book, she outlines a path for any woman to achieve her athletic goals and become her best.

Monday, January 23rd at 7pm
Stuart Altman & David Shactman
Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care

Dr. Stuart Altman is the former President of Brandeis University and has been a key health policy expert for every president from Nixon to Obama. David Shactman is a freelance writer who has worked with Dr. Altman on two previous books. In their new book, they give the history of American medical reform to explain not only Obama’s reforms, but all the steps — both forward and back — of his predecessors.

Tuesday, January 24th at 7pm
Chip Bishop
The Lion and the Journalist:
The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop

In this fascinating new biography, Chip Bishop traces the lives of two very different men—the journalist Joseph Bucklin Bishop and President Theodore Roosevelt—as their friendship takes them from cleaning up the streets of New York to carving a canal through the jungles of Panama.

Wednesday, January 25th at 7pm
David Scheffer
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
Co-Sponsored by Amnesty International

As the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of efforts to set up criminal tribunals for atrocities in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia and the eventual creation of the International Criminal Court. In his new memoir, he gives a unique account from the killing fields to political back rooms in Washington of the continuing struggle for international justice.

Thursday, January 26th at 7pm
Frances Moore Lappé
EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
Co-sponsored by Climate Change Action Brookline

Monday, January 30th at 7pm
Doc Hendley
Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World

When small-town bartender Doc Hendley started a series of charity wine tastings, he never planned to be a hero. Yet, he soon found himself traveling to one of the world’s most dangerous places: Darfur, Sudan, where he set up an organization that is revolutionizing the quest to bring clean water to the world’s most impoverished places. A portion of the sales from his new book will go to Wine to Water.

Wednesday, Feb. 1st at 7pm
RoseMarie Terenzio
Fairy Tale Interrupted

A tough girl from the Bronx, Terenzio found herself in the unlikely position of personal assistant, publicist and close confidante to John F. Kennedy Jr. during the last five years of his life. In this sweet, funny and touching memoir, she remembers this prince of American royalty as only she knew him, through work and friendship, from his secretly planned marriage, to his tragic death.

Thursday, Feb. 2nd at 7pm
A Night of Poetry ft. Melanie Henderson and Becky Thompson

Melanie Henderson earned an MFA from Lesley University and an MBA from Trinity University. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Southern Women’s Review, Mourning Katrina, Torch, Midwest African American Literature, and Black Arts Quarterly. Her new book of poems, which won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, is Elegies for New York Avenue.

Professor of Sociology at Simmons College, writer, and activist Becky Thompson is the author of such books as When the Center is on Fire, A Promise, and a Way of Life, and A Hunger So Wide and So Deep. The winner of Rockefeller, Ford, NEH, and AAUW fellowships, her new book of poetry is Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night.

Monday, Feb. 6th at 7pm
David Weinberger
Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t The Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room.

Wednesday Feb. 8th at 7pm
Dan Chaon
Stay Awake: Stories

One of our great short story writers, Dan Chaon is the author of National Book Award Finalist Among the Missing as well as the critically acclaimed Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me. In his new collection, he tells haunting stories that dwell in the world of inner demons and sinister thoughts, from a father disturbed by his son’s night terrors to a divorced woman experiencing her own version of “empty-nest syndrome.”

Thursday, Feb. 9th at 7pm
Dr. Joseph B. Martin
Alfalfa to Ivy: Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean

In his new memoir, local author Joseph Boyd Martin tells the story of how he went from a Mennonite farm in Duchess Alberta to the top of Harvard Medical School. Join us for a fascinating talk about his personal journey through the education and health care systems.

Wednesday, Feb. 15th at 7pm
William Landay
Defending Jacob

The award-winning author of such thrillers as The Strangler and Mission Flats, William Landay returns to his neighborhood bookstore. In Defending Jacob, Landay tells the tale of Andy Barber, a district attorney whose world is thrown into chaos when his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the brutal murder of another student.

Thursday, Feb. 16th at 7pm
An Evening of Thrills
Ft. Lisa Gardner, Michael Palmer, and Daniel Palmer

Father and son Michael and Daniel Palmer return to the Booksmith with their own particular brand of mayhem joined by best-selling author Lisa Gardner. Michael Palmer is the best-selling author of 16 novels, including The Patient and A Heartbeat Away. His newest thriller, Oath of Office, deals with the fallout when a well-respected doctor goes on a murderous rampage.

Daniel Palmer is a former e-commerce pioneer, singer-songwriter, and the author of the critically-acclaimed thriller Delirious. In his new book, Helpless, former Navy Seal Tom Hawkins returns to his hometown after his ex-wife is murdered so that he can raise his daughter. But when he becomes the prime suspect in his ex-wife’s death and other shocking false allegations are leveled against him, he has to fight for his freedom.

Lisa Gardner is the author of fifteen crime novels, including the best-selling D.D. Warren mysteries. In her newest, Catch Me, Warren is approached by a woman claiming she will be murdered in four days, creating the inspector’s toughest case yet—to solve a murder before it happens.

Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 7pm
A Night of New Fiction from Independent Presses
Ft. Audrey Schulman and Leigh Stein

Join us as we celebrate the release of new works from two of our favorite indies: Europa Editions and Melville House.

In Three Weeks in December, Canadian author Audrey Schulman uses her vast travels and painstaking research to weave together the stories of two adventurers separated by 100 years: an American engineer contracted to build a railroad across British East Africa whose workers start to disappear when lions stalk the camps, and an ethnobotanist caught between the beautiful mountain gorillas and violent fighters of Rwanda as she seeks a cure for heart disease.

Former New Yorker staffer Leigh Stein has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Poets & Writers’ Amy Award. In The Fallback Plan, Esther is a recent college grad with no job prospects until her neighbors need a new babysitter. But what starts as a simple stop-gap job becomes more complicated as her employers’ family begins to crack, and she finds herself in the roles of confidante and partner-in-crime. Gary Shteyngart calls it, “Beautiful, funny, thrilling and true.”

Wednesday, Feb. 22nd at 7pm
Sara J. Benincasa
Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
with guests Erin Petti and Maria Ciampa

Award-winning comedian, writer, and host of the popular web shows Sex and Other Human Activities and Gettin’ Wet with Sara B., Sara Benincasa is set to break the venerable Booksmith laugh-o-meter when she brings Boston-based comedians Erin Petti and Maria Ciampa to share her new hilarious and hilariously awkward memoir about forging a wonderfully weird adulthood despite her lifelong agoraphobia, depression, and unruly hair.

Thursday Feb. 23rd at 7pm
Steve Pemberton
A Chance in the World
Co-Sponsored with The Home For Little Wanderers

Taken from his mother at age three, Steve is caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse. Finding his only refuge in a box of books gifted to him by a kind stranger, he launches an extraordinary quest for his identity and his true home. In this remarkable memoir, local author Steve Pemberton tells the story of how he surmounted his past to become a successful businessman, entrepreneur, educator and tireless advocate for others.

Monday, Feb. 27th at 7pm
Chris Faraone
99 Nights with the 99 Percent

Boston Phoenix reporter Chris Faraone has a unique understanding of the Occupy movement, having traveled around the country to visit the various camps. In his new book, he shares his insights, photographs, and new writings from his 99 Nights with the 99 Percent.

Tuesday, Feb. 28th at 7pm
Olaf Olafsson
Restoration

The author of three previous novels, including The Journey Home and Absolution, Olafsson comes to the Booksmith to share his newest. It is the 1930’s, and Alice Orsini, a wealthy British ex-pat, marries an Italian landowner and begins restoring his villa to its former glory. But as the German lines close in, and the only thing that keeps them at bay is a hidden Caravaggio, Alice’s own passions threaten to destroy everything—the villa, her love, and the refugees she comes to protect.

Wednesday, Feb. 29th at 6pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
Jodi Picoult
Lone Wolf
* Tickets Required *

The best-selling author of eighteen novels, including Sing You Home, Nineteen Minutes and My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult returns to the Coolidge for her newest tale. When prodigal son Edward Warren gets a call telling him that his father is comatose after an accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara, he returns home. But while Edward wants to terminate life-support, Cara holds out hope, and the two engage in a vicious battle over what it means to love and protect one’s family.

*** Starting January 9th, get a free ticket when you pre-purchase a copy of Lone Wolf at our store (617-566-6660) or website with the option to buy a second ticket for just $5. Any remaining tickets will go on general sale after February 21st. All tickets will be held at the Brookline Booksmith. TICKETS WILL NOT BE SHIPPED.

All pre-orders must be paid in full at the time the order is placed. Any unpaid pre-orders will be cancelled, and will not have tickets held for them. All tickets will be held at the Brookline Booksmith under the purchaser’s name. To claim them and your purchased copy of the book, please bring your ID with you to the event.

At 5:30 on the evening of the event, we will move the tickets to the Coolidge Corner Theatre (located at 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA). Please do not go to their box office; a Booksmith staff member will be distributing tickets to the ticketholders' line. The line to enter the Coolidge Corner Theatre begins promptly at 5:30pm. Seating typically begins at 5:45pm. There will be no refunds for unused tickets. At 5:55pm on the day of the event, unfilled seats will go to those in the standby line. If you have any questions or would prefer to purchase your book/tickets by phone, please call us at 617-566-6660.