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Barrington Books Garden City is pleased to host author Thomas Christopher Greene for a talk & book signing for his new novel The Perfect Liar.
A seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by the deadly secrets husband and wife keep from each other. Susannah, a young widow and single mother, has remarried well: to Max, a charismatic artist and popular speaker whose career took her and her fifteen-year-old son out of New York City and to a quiet Vermont university town. Strong-willed and attractive, Susannah expects that her life is perfectly in place again. Then one quiet morning she finds a note on her door: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
Max dismisses the note as a prank. But days after a neighborhood couple comes to dinner, the husband mysteriously dies in a tragic accident while on a run with Max. Soon thereafter, a second note appears on their door: DID YOU GET AWAY WITH IT?
Both Susannah and Max are keeping secrets from the world and from each other?secrets that could destroy their family and everything they have built.
Thomas Christopher Greene’s The Perfect Liar is a thrilling novel told through the alternating perspectives of Susannah and Max with a shocking climax that no one will expect, from the bestselling author of The Headmaster’s Wife.
For additional information, contact 401-432-7222 or events@barringtonbooks.com.
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Barrington Books is pleased to host author Peter Shinkle for a discussion & book signing for his new book Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler on Tuesday January 22nd at 6:00pm at 184 County Rd. Barrington.
President Eisenhower’s National Security Advisor Robert “Bobby” Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Democratic presidents. The life of any party, he was a tight-lipped loyalist who worked behind the scenes to get things done. While Cutler’s contributions to the public sphere may not have received, until now, the consideration they deserve, the story of his private life has never before been told.
Cutler struggled throughout his years in the White House to discover and embrace his own sexual identity and orientation, and he was in love with a man half his age, NSC staffer Skip Koons. Cutler poured his emotions into a six-volume diary and dozens of letters that have been hidden from history. Steve Benedict, who was White House security officer, Cutlers’ friend and Koons’ friend and former lover, preserved Cutler’s papers. All three men served Eisenhower at a time when anyone suspected of “sexual perversion”, i.e. homosexuality, was banned from federal employment and vulnerable to security sweeps by the FBI. . In addition to Bobby’s diary, Ike’s Mystery Man relies on thousands of personal letters, interviews, and previously classified archives to tell a gripping story that has never before been told.
Peter Shinkle worked for 19 years as a reporter at various news organizations, including most recently the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He covered the federal court system and also wrote investigative stories on subjects ranging from improper disposal of radioactive waste to the political influence of the payday loan industry. Shinkle is the great-nephew of Robert Cutler. It was during a family vacation in 2006 that his mother and his aunt told him that their “Uncle Bobby” was gay. That sparked a 12-year endeavor to explore the story of the man who was one of President Eisenhower’s closest advisors.
For additional information contact 401-245-7925 or events@barringtonbooks.com.
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Barrington Books is pleased to host author Marie Benedict for a talk and book signing for her new book The Only Woman in the Room. A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece.
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich’s plans while at her husband’s side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she knew a few secrets about the enemy. She had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis…if anyone would listen to her.
This is a ticketed event. Please call 401-432-7222 to purchase a ticket which includes a copy of the book and admits two people or stop by 176 Hillside Road, Cranston RI to purchase your ticket.
Marie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston College with a focus in History and Art History, and a cum laude graduate of the Boston University School of Law. While practicing as a lawyer, Marie dreamed of a fantastical job unearthing the hidden historical stories of women — and finally found it when she tried her hand at writing. She embarked on a new, narratively connected series of historical novels with THE OTHER EINSTEIN, which tells the tale of Albert Einstein’s first wife, a physicist herself, and the role she might have played in his theories. The following novel in this series is CARNEGIE’S MAID — which released in January of 2018.
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New York Times author of The Orphan’s Tale, Pam Jenoff will be conducting a talk & book signing for her new book The Lost Girls of Paris. This is a ticketed event.
1946, Manhattan. Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs – each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station.
Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a ring of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal.
Vividly rendered and inspired by true events, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shines a light on the incredible heroics of the brave women of the war, and weaves a mesmerizing tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.
To register for this event, contact the store at 432-7222. Event cost is the price of the book.
Pam Jenoff is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller The Kommandant’s Girl, which also earned her a Quill Award nomination and The Orphan’s Tale. Pam lives with her husband and three children near Philadelphia where, in addition to writing, she teaches law school.
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Barrington Books is excited to launch our new Teen Book Club. The Teen Book Club is an opportunity for teens to talk about their favorite books, plan future book club activities and meet other teens. At our first Teen Book Club get together, we will be talking about One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus. This first title was chosen by a Alex, a student in Cranston. It’s okay if you have not finished reading this title. Snacks will be provided! If you would like to let us know that you are interested in attending, feel free to email events@barringtonbooks.com or call 401-432-7222.
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Show Times:
Friday, March 15 at 7:00 pm
Saturday March 16 at 7:00 pm
Sunday March 17 at 2:00 pm
St. Pius V School is thrilled to return to the McVinney Auditorium stage to present The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum’s classic novel comes to life in this faithful adaptation by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The show features all the most beloved songs and moments from the 1939 classic film, brought to life onstage. Young Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado from her Kansas farm to the magical land of Oz, where great adventures await! See website
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Show Times:
Friday, March 15 at 7:00 pm
Saturday March 16 at 7:00 pm
Sunday March 17 at 2:00 pm
St. Pius V School is thrilled to return to the McVinney Auditorium stage to present The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum’s classic novel comes to life in this faithful adaptation by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The show features all the most beloved songs and moments from the 1939 classic film, brought to life onstage. Young Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado from her Kansas farm to the magical land of Oz, where great adventures await! See website
image: courtesy of McVinney Auditorium
Show Times:
Friday, March 15 at 7:00 pm
Saturday March 16 at 7:00 pm
Sunday March 17 at 2:00 pm
St. Pius V School is thrilled to return to the McVinney Auditorium stage to present The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum’s classic novel comes to life in this faithful adaptation by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The show features all the most beloved songs and moments from the 1939 classic film, brought to life onstage. Young Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado from her Kansas farm to the magical land of Oz, where great adventures await! See website
image: courtesy of McVinney Auditorium
Join Barrington Books for a virtual book discussion with Judithe Little for her new book The Chanel Sisters on Thursday, Jan. 14th at 7:00pm. Judithe Little will be in conversation with PattyJ, lifestyle blogger and book club host #ReadByPattyJ. Register here for this event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/author-judithe-little/register
A novel of survival, love, loss, triumph–and the sisters who changed fashion forever
Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive. The walls of the convent can’t shield them forever, and when they’re finally of age, the Chanel sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propels them out of poverty and to the stylish caf’s of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy–and to a small hat shop on the rue Cambon in Paris, where a boutique business takes hold and expands to the glamorous French resort towns. But the sisters’ lives are again thrown into turmoil when World War I breaks out, forcing them to make irrevocable choices, and they’ll have to gather the courage to fashion their own places in the world, even if apart from each other.
“The Chanel Sisters explores with care the timeless need for belonging, purpose, and love, and the heart’s relentless pursuit of these despite daunting odds. Beautifully told to the last page.” –Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Last Year of the War
JUDITHE LITTLE is the award-winning author of Wickwythe Hall. She earned a BA in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. She grew up in Virginia and now lives with her husband, three teenagers, and three dogs in Houston, Texas.
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