SISTERS IN CRIME AUTHOR HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN. Her her thriller: PRIME TIME ($7.99) comes out June 30th. Come, ask questions, sip wine. Can't make it? Pre-pay & reserve a book: 781-545-5011

FIRST FRIDAY NIGHTS SCITUATE HARBOR occurs the 1st Friday of each month--that's when we host an author from SISTERS IN CRIME (Read More!)

Prime Time by Ryan, Hank Phillippi In the cutthroat world of television journalism, seasoned reporter Charlotte McNally knows that she'd better pull out all the stops or kiss her job goodbye. But it's her life that might be on the line when she learns that an innocent-looking e-mail offer resulted in murder, mayhem and a multimillion-dollar fraud ring. All too soon her investigation leads her straight to Josh Gelston, who is a little too helpful and a lot too handsome. Charlie might have a nose for news, but men are a whole other matter. Now she has to decide whether she can trust Josh...before she ends up as the next lead story.

Author Patrick Tracey is the Winner of the 2009 L.L. WINSHIP/PEN NEW ENGLAND AWARD for NON-FICTION. He will discuss his incredibly moving family memoir: STALKING IRISH MADNESS. Sunday, June 7, 2009 1:00 p.m. at Front Street Book Shop


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Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia by Tracey, Patrick In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia. For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophrenia-a disease that had claimed a great-great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright but impossible to ignore. Devastated by the emotional toll the disease had already taken on his family, terrified of passing it on to any children he might have, and inspired by the recent discovery of the first genetic link to schizophrenia, Tracey followed his genealogical trail from Boston to Ireland's county Roscommon, home of his oldest-known schizophrenic ancestor. In a renovated camper, Tracey crossed the Emerald Isle to investigate the country that, until the 1960s, had the world's highest rate of institutionalization for mental illness, following clues and separating fact from fiction in the legendary relationship the Irish have had with madness. Tracey's path leads from fairy mounds and ancient caverns still shrouded in superstition to old pubs whose colorful inhabitants are a treasure trove of local lore. He visits the massive and grim asylum where his famine starved ancestors may have lived. And he interviews the Irish research team that first cracked the schizophreniccode to learn how much-and how little-we know about this often misunderstood disease. Filled with history, science, and lore, Stalking Irish Madness is an unforgettable chronicle of one man's attempt to make sense of his family's past and to find hope for the future of schizophrenic patients.

My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park by Kluger, Steve Best friends and unofficial brothers since they were six, ninth-graders T.C. and Augie have got the world figured out. But that all changes when both friends fall in love for the first time. Enter AlA(c). Sheas pretty, sassy, and on her way to Harvard. T.C. falls hard, but AlA(c) is playing hard to get. Meanwhile, Augie realizes that heas got a crush on a boy. Itas not so clear to him, but to his family and friends, itas totally obvious Told in alternating perspectives, this is the hilarious and touching story of their most excellent year, where these three friends discover love, themselves, and how a little magic and Mary Poppins can go a long way.