BELLOWS FALLS — Village Square Booksellers will be hosting a weekend of literary events on Nov. 16 and 17 at the bookstore on The Square in Bellows Falls.
Newfane author Archer Mayor will be making his annual visit to Village Square Booksellers on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m., as part of Bellows Falls Third Fridays (BF3F), to discuss his 23rd Joe Gunther mystery book, Paradise City, this time focusing on Northampton, Mass. Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to swiping flatscreen TVs, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry.
On Saturday, Nov. 17 at 4 p.m., two authors will be featured at the bookstore. Ernest Hebert of Westmoreland, N.H., will read from and discuss his new book.
In Never Back Down, Hebert's most autobiographical novel to date, Jack Landry, haunted by dreams of a tragedy that occurred centuries before he was born, is introduced as a promising high school baseball player from Keene, N.H. A young boy when the novel opens in July 1953, Jack and his best friend, Elphege Beaupre, devise a motto to live by: Never back down, never instigate. It's a rule of stubborn passivity Jack will follow to the end of his days.
Stuart Strothman of Putney will read from his book, Sackett. It is the lost story of a young girl's abduction from her home in Westfield, Mass., in 1682 by Greylock, one of the strongest resistors of the colonial invasion - a warrior so effective, he was arguably the reason for the construction of Fort Dummer, the first colonial settlement in Vermont.
In the novel, many frontier battles and abductions are told from Native perspectives, and the family is seen in a variety of important Abenaki settlements. Abenaki names are used in careful descriptions of the land and its ecology, and extensive historical research is mixed with imagination in the retelling of this truly American tale.
Call 802-463-9404 for book and event reservations or reserve a book online for pick up at the store through their website, www.villagesquarebooks.com. Future events include appearances by Willem Lange and Bert Dodson on Nov. 24 and Susan Speranza on Dec. 9.