Category Archives: books

The Winter 2012 Book Sale sponsored by the Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries will be held from Thursday, February 2 through Sunday February 5 at the Wellesley Free Library, Wakelin Room. Hours are as follows: Members’ Preview: Thursday, February 2, 5 pm -9 pm (Not a member? join that day) Public Sale: Friday February [...]

Author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and illustrator Maira Kalman made a humorous appearance at Wellesley Books on Saturday before a packed downstairs crowd who braved snowy weather to hear the pair discuss their new young adult novel, Why We Broke Up. The two presented a slideshow sort of related to the book, and featuring [...]

Local author Kevin Walsh writes to say that Follow the Dog Home, the collection of homespun doggie tales written by Walsh and two other family members that we wrote about back in November, is now available locally at Wellesley Books and will be available nationally come Feb. 1.

Mindy Kaling, the comedian, writer and actor who plays Kelly on TV’s “The Office”, dedicates a section of her new book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me to Wellesley’s Morses Pond. She grew up in Cambridge but went to Morses Pond as a kid in the 1980′s through Wellesley Day Camp. It seems she took [...]

Daniel Handler, better known as author Lemony Snicket from the popular/creepy A Series of Unfortunate Events books, is coming to Wellesley Books next month to hawk a new young adult book called Why We Broke Up. He’ll be joined by illustrator Maira Kalman, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. The event, [...]

If that headline makes no sense to you, then you probably don’t know of author John Green, who will be kicking off his book tour in Wellesley on Jan. 10 at 7pm at Dana Hall’s Bardwell Auditorium (Wellesley Books is coordinating things, and you’ll need to jump through some hoops if you want to attend [...]

Keenan boasts that she’ll be wearing at $200 dress that she got for $8 at Shopper’s Corner. Bring your own copy of her book to have signed or buy one there that night from Wellesley Books. Shopper’s Corner accepts cash or check for its merchandise.

Paula Lee, the Wellesley author who recently self-published a comic novel call How to be a Homeless Frenchman, has followed up with us to let us know that her book has been picked up by a French distributor, who will make it available in English, in France. “It’s going to be featured at the Salon [...]