Book and Author Series

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Irene Paine

Irene Paine will be here to talk about her book Eva and Henry: A Cape Cod Marriage, which won a silver Independent Publisher Book Award. This is the story of Eva and Henry Smith, during their later 19th century marriage in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. The author was inspired by the tales of her own ancestors, the sea captains from Cape Cod and the self-reliant women they married.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Mary Cowen

Mary Cowen will present an illustrated presentation of her award winning book, Captain Mac: The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer.

Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Elliott Carr

Local author Elliott Carr will be here to talk about his new book In the Beginning: an Osprey Family Story.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Joshua Blair Delaney

Joshua Blair Delaney will be here to talk about his first book in the Cape Cod Legends Series, Pieces of Eight: Piracy, Witchcraft and the Great Spirit of Cape Cod. This colonial mystery story offers a new twist on the Whydah Tale. Pieces of Eight is a telling of several stories in one as it brings together the people and events that surround the sinking of the Whydah ship off the coast of Cape Cod in the 18th century. Delaney has skillfully married these stories in a compelling tale of piracy, witchcraft and spiritualism.

Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Chip Bishop

Chip Bishop, the author of The Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop will be here for a discussion and book signing. This is an engaging tale of our 26th president’s historic quarter-century friendship with Chip’s great grand-uncle, journalist and author Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Since flirting with radio broadcasting at 15, Chip Bishop has prospered as a communications professional, an entrepreneur and lately, as a published author.

Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Brent Harold

Wellfleet’s Brent Harold is well known to Cape Codders for his writing, especially his columns in the Cape Cod Times. But in his new book “Life As a House,” he chronicles the other side of his life — the side of him that builds. He writes about home as a shelter, as the center of one’s life, as bricks, sticks and love. Read more "Wellfleet's Brent Harold bridges the gap between house and home" at Wicked Local Wellfleet.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Marilyn Land

Marilyn will be here to talk about her book Clattering Sparrows.This heartwarming tale is the story of friendship between two friends who met at the age of five. How their surroundings and personal experiences and sacrifices shaped their lifelong journey.

Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 3:00 pm

J.J. Dutra

Judy Dutra will be here to talk about her book Nautical Twilight: The Story of a Cape Cod Fishing Family. This is the story of the true life adventures of a fishing family from Provincetown, MA. Judy shares with us the realities, humor and sacrifices of todays fishing families.