Eugenio Albano\, a former professor at Bucks County Community College and Montgomery County Community College will be at the bookshop on Friday\, July 30th at 6\:00 pm to sign copies of his books\, which include\, Bashful Lucy\, a novel inspired by the life of his extraordinary mother\, Lucy Albano. The story tells of a love affair that grew out of an 'arranged marriage.' It chronicles the incredible life of a woman who raised seven children and went on to become an entrepreneur that had bankers standing tall in her presence long before "\;women's lib"\; was even a known expression in American society.
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Justin Kramon\, a graduate of the famed Iowa Writer's Workshop\, will be at the bookshop on Saturday\, July 31st at 2\:00 pm to sign copies of his debut novel\, Finny\, a sweeping\, enchanting voyage\, an insightful story about a young woman’s complicated path to adulthood.
Book Description\: We meet Finny Short as an observant\, defiant fourteen-year-old who can’t make sense of her family’s unusual habits\: Her mother offers guidance appropriate for a forty-year-old socialite\; her father quotes Nietzsche over pancakes. Finny figures she’s stuck with this lonely lot until she meets Earl Henckel\, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Unhappy with Finny’s budding romance with Earl\, her parents ship her off to Thorndon boarding school. But mischief follows Finny as she befriends New York heiress Judith Turngate\, a girl whose charm belies a disquieting reckless streak.
Finny’s relationships with Earl and Judith open her up to dizzying possibilities of love and loss and propel her into a remarkable adventure spanning twenty years and two continents. Justin Kramon has given us a wickedly funny odyssey with a moving and original love story at its core. Finny introduces us to an unforgettable heroine\, a charmingly intricate world\, and an uncommonly entertaining and gifted young novelist.
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Susan Abulhawa will be at the bookshop on Saturday\, August 7th at noon to sogn copies of Morning in Jenin\, a heart-wrenching and powerful novel that has been compared to the Kite Runner.
The author was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967\, and moved to the United States as a teenager. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine\, an NGO that builds playgrounds for Palestinian children in the occupied territories and refugee camps elsewhere. Mornings in Jenin marks her first major publication as a novelist.
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Book Description\: Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948\, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There\, exiled from his beloved olive groves\, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart\, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet\, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom\, peace\, and home. This is the Palestinian story\, told as never before\, through four generations of a single family.
The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal\, the patriarch's bright granddaughter\, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father\, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers\, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish\; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal’s own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades\; it is one of love and loss\, of childhood\, marriage\, and parenthood\, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter\, to preserve the greatest love she has.
Previously published in a hardcover edition with a limited run under the title The Scar of David\, this powerful novel is now available in a fully revised\, newly titled paperback edition. The deep and moving humanity of Mornings in Jenin forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.
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