Boswell Book Company Search form Search Advanced Search Welcome to Boswell Book Company's website! Our browsing hours are Monday through Friday, 10 am to 8 pm Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm. During certain in-store events, we may be closed for browsing. Masks required at Boswell for browsing. The store will close for browsing 30 minutes before start time for in-store events. In-store browsing, curbside pickup, UPS, USPS priority, and USPS media mail (for in-state delivery) are all available. This year's Holiday Gift Guide is live on our website! Click right here to shop it now Thank you for buying your books from Boswell. Holiday Book Talk with Daniel Goldin Friends of the Shorewood Public Library Virtual Holiday Book Talk Saturday, December 4, 11 am Join the Friends of Shorewood Public Library and Boswell Book Company's proprietor Daniel Goldin for a presentation on the best books to look for during the holiday season. Daniel is known for giving interesting and varied suggestions, perfect for discerning readers. The talk will feature a variety of books for adults and kids, focusing of course on this season's best gift books. Plus, this year, the Annual Holiday Book Sale will include a special treat – Daniel will announce the Shorewood Reads 2022 book and author! This year’s Holiday Book Talk will be held virtually, via Zoom. To tune into this event and find more information, click this sentence to visit the Shorewood Public Library website now. Books will be available for purchase with a portion of sales supporting the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library. This is the perfect opportunity to shop for book lovers on your list - including yourself! Ann Patchett, author of These Precious Days: Essays in Conversation with Amor Towles for a Virtual Event Tuesday, December 7, 6:30 pm Boswell Book Company is pleased to present an evening with Ann Patchett for a conversation about her latest book, These Precious Days: Essays. For this event, Patchett will be in conversation with Amor Towles, author of A Gentleman in Moscow and his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway. Cohosted by Watermark, McLean and Eakin, Square Books, Anderson's Bookshop, Left Bank Books, Novel: a Bookstore, and The Novel Neighbor. To attend this virtual event, purchase your tickets at patchettmke.eventbrite.com by clicking here right now. Admission is $5 plus tax and ticket fee, or upgrade to a copy of the book for $26.99 plus tax and fee. $5 from each ticket will be donated to BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. More at bincfoundation.org. In These Precious Days, Patchett offers a collection of essays on appreciating life as it is lived and not asking how the story ends. It's about friends and family, dogs, marriage, writing and reading, and, of course, the store she owns with Karen Hayes, Parnassus Books. The book features a full-color dual-sided dust jacket featuring two paintings by Sooki Raphael, created while the painter lived with Patchett and her husband. Sooki's story is the centerpiece of this collection, a classic profile of friendship. Here’s Daniel Goldin’s take on Patchett’s latest: “At first, I thought this book was a follow-up to This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, and why not? Patchett wrote this was the case in her introduction, which laid out why, when an author writes essays, they don’t worry about dying in the middle of writing them the way many do with novels. Sure enough, there are meditations on knitting, flying (or rather her husband flying and Patchett passengering), writing (of course), and my personal favorite, a salute to Snoopy. But the more I read, the more I see two themes took root: the value of friendship and the transience of life, which come together in the also well-known title essay. And in that way, the book started reminding me more of Patchett’s first nonfiction book, Truth and Beauty, about her friendship with the poet Lucy Grealey. And that’s a good thing – the result is a powerful, heartfelt collection." Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels, four books of nonfiction, and two books for children. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has won numerous prizes, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Jodi Picoult, author of Wish You Were Here a Ticketed, In-Person Event at the Oconomowoc Arts Center, 641 East Forest Street in Oconomowoc Wednesday, December 8, 7 pm Boswell Book Company and Books & Company are pleased to bring you #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult for an evening featuring her brand new novel in which, as she is in the habit of so masterfully doing, Picoult offers a new story for our times, a moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. This in-person event will be held at the Oconomowoc Arts Center, 641 East Forest Street in Oconomowoc. Each ticket costs $35 and includes admission to the event, a signed copy of Wish You Were Here, and all taxes and fees. Click right here to visit the Oconomowoc Arts Center website and purchase your tickets now! Please note - Vaccine Cards required. Books will be pre-signed; Ms. Picoult will not be signing after the event. Masks must be worn at all times inside. Please note that per the publisher, a recent COVID test will not be accepted in lieu of vaccination. With her always-careful touch and an eye on understanding what's happening now, Picoult has written a novel of the COVID-19 pandemic as we are still emerging from it. Emily Henry, author of the hit Beach Read, says, "Wish You Were Here is a transporting and transcendent novel about seeking out glimmers of light in the darkness, and following them wherever they lead. Jodi Picoult is that rare, one-in-a-million writer whose books both squeeze your heart and expand your mind. Her latest is wise, surprising, and utterly extraordinary." Caroline Leavitt, the bestselling author of With or Without You, adds, "In Wish You Were Here, Jodi Picoult does something brilliant, cracking open something extraordinary. I am just overwhelmed by this book. I actually finished it at three in the morning and started reading it again." Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels, including The Book of Two Ways, Small Great Things, and A Spark of Light. With her daughter Samantha van Leer, she's coauthored two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Hannah Morrissey, author of Hello, Transcriber in Conversation with Tim Hennessy for a Hybrid Event at Boswell Monday, December 13, 6:30 pm Join us for an evening with Milwaukee-area writer Hannah Morrissey, author of a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. Morrissey will be in conversation with Tim Hennessy, editor of Milwaukee Noir. Registration required. Masks required at all times in Boswell. To attend in-person at Boswell, click here and register at hannahmorrisseymke.eventbrite.com now. Or, to view this event virtually from home, click here and register. No matter which way you watch, you surely should order your copy of Hello, Transcriber now, too! Morrissey’s debut novel is inspired by her work as a police transcriber. Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. As an aspiring writer, Hazel believes that writing a novel could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape. And then her neighbor confesses to hiding the body of an overdose victim in a dumpster. The suspicious death is linked to Candy Man, a notorious drug dealer. Now Hazel has a first row seat to the investigation and becomes captivated by the lead detective, Nikolai Kole. As the investigation unfolds, Hazel will learn just how far she'll go for a good story - even if it means destroying her marriage and luring the killer to her as she plunges deeper into the city she's desperate to claw her way out of. CJ Box says, “Hello, Transcriber is a dark, atmospheric, and compelling debut by a unique talent. I was sucked in immediately and could think of little else until the last page.” Hannah Morrissey earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from UW-Madison.Tim Hennessy is a bookseller in Milwaukee, and his work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Crimespree Magazine, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Robert Lloyd, author of The Bloodless Boy in Conversation with Daniel Goldin and Lisa Baudoin for a Readings from Oconomowaukee Virtual Event Tuesday, December 14, 2 pm The December edition of the Readings from Oconomowaukee virtual event series, hosted in partnership with our friends at Books & Company of Oconomowoc, presents Robert Lloyd, author of The Bloodless Boy, a new historical, literary thriller that’s perfect for readers of The Alienist or The Name of the Rose. The Bloodless Boy was just named one of the ten best mysteries of the year by Publishers Weekly. Click right here to register for this virtual event, which will be broadcast via Zoom. And be sure to order your copy of The Bloodless Boy now, too! Click here to purchase from Boswell, or click here to purchase from Books & Company. It's New Year's Day, 1678. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped London. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of a King. London is gripped by hysteria, and rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound. When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding - and whether it’s part of a plot against the king. Wary of the political hornet’s nest they are walking into - and using scientific evidence rather than paranoia in their pursuit of truth - Hooke and Hunt must discover why the boy was murdered, and why his blood was taken. Robert Lloyd, the son of parents who worked in the British Foreign Office, grew up in South London, Innsbruck, and Kinshasa. He studied for a Fine Art degree, starting as a landscape painter, but it was while studying for his MA degree in The History of Ideas that he first read Robert Hooke’s diary, detailing the life and experiments of this extraordinary man. After a 20-year career as a secondary school teacher, he has now returned to painting and writing. Rachel Kapelke-Dale, author of The Ballerinas in Conversation with Christina Clancy at Boswell Book Company Wednesday, December 15, 6:30 pm Boswell presents an in-person event with Milwaukee native Rachel Kapelke-Dale, author of the novel The Ballerinas, a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School. For this event, Kapelke-Dale will be in conversation with Christina Clancy, author of Shoulder Season. This event is in-person. Masks are required. Due to limited capacity, registration is required to attend – click here to register to attend in-person now! If you'd like to watch the virtual broadcast of this event, please click here to register for the Zoom webinar. Please watch for any scheduling changes. Make sure to order your copy of The Ballerinas now, too! Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut. Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg, taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned to her former home and to the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House, to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart the next phase of her career and, she hopes, finally make things right with her former friends. But Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed while she's been away, and some secrets can't stay buried forever. Andrea Bartz, author of We Were Never Here, calls Kapelke-Dale’s debut, "Deftly constructed, crackling with tension… a stunner of a novel, with electric prose. I tore through this unforgettable thriller." Rachel Kapelke-Dale is the co-author of Graduates in Wonderland and the Vanity Fair Hollywood's column "Advice from the Stars." Kapelke-Dale spent years in intensive ballet training before receiving a BA from Brown University, an MA from the Université de Paris VII, and a PhD from University College London. She currently lives in Paris, but she grew up in Milwaukee. Christina Clancy is the author of The Second Home and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko, authors of The Good Life Method : Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning in Conversation with John Koethe for a Virtual Event Wednesday, January 5, 7 pm Boswell is happy to host a virtual evening featuring Sullivan and Blaschko, two Notre Dame Professors of Philosophy who’ve joined forces in a new book to ask (and answer!) the big questions about the search for faith and happiness. In conversation with John Koethe, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at UWM. Click here to register now for this virtual event. And be sure to order your copy of The Good Life Method from us now. Sullivan and Blaschko teach God and the Good Life, a course that is hugely popular both on campus and with alumni at Notre Dame, and Sullivan has received a Mellon Grant to develop this curriculum for institutions around the country. Now they invite us into the classroom in their book to work through issues like what justifies our beliefs, whether we should practice a religion and what sacrifices we should make for others - as well as to investigate what figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, and WEB Du Bois have to say about how to live well. The Good Life Method is a winning guide to tackling the big questions of being human with the wisdom of the ages. From Publishers Weekly’s starred review: "A wise and accessible guide… entertaining and insightful… Those pondering the perennial question of how to live a good life should start here." Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, director of the God and the Good Life Program, and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Paul Blaschko is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and heads up curriculum design and digital pedagogy for the God and the Good Life Program. Locally notably, Blaschko completed an MA in philosophy at the UWM. John Koethe is the author of books on Wittgenstein and philosophical scepticism, and eleven books of poetry, most recently Walking Backwards: Poems 1966 - 2016. All event times are Central Time. To see a full event listing, visit our Upcoming Events page here. Read posts from The Boswellians (our bookseller contributed) here and Boswell and Books (from Daniel Goldin) right here blogs, and visit our blog post archive right here. 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