One Book One Island 2019, Winter Institute, PRE-ORDERS, & MORE! Nantucket Bookworm

One Book One Island is a collaborative community project which seeks to promote reading, literacy and community by encouraging everyone on Nantucket to read, discuss, and reflect on the same book.

One Book One Island is made possible with grants from The Tupancy-Harris Foundation and Hale Family Foundation together with financial and staff support from us at Nantucket Books: Mitchell's & Bookworks, Annye's Whole Foods , Artists Association of Nantucket , Nantucket Arts Council , Nantucket Atheneum , Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce , Community Foundation for Nantucket , Nantucket Community School , Nantucket Conservation Foundation , Nantucket Dreamland , Egan Maritime Institute , Nantucket Historical Association , The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror , Nantucket Lighthouse School , Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Inc , The Maria Mitchell Association , Museum of African American History , Nantucket Preservation Trust , and the Nantucket Public Schools.

The 2019 One Book One Island pick is The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers.

It's the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen’s central place in it.

He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains and meet beleagured but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people.

You can pick up FREE copies at Annye’s Whole Foods, Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket Historical Association main office,Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror, and Saltmarsh Senior Center.

Stay tuned for FREE EVENTS in March inspired by the book.

Visit One BOOK One ISLAND

Wendy, Cristina, and Tim are headed to Albuquerque next week for the American Bookseller Association's Winter Institute - a can't miss, yearly event for the entire independent bookselling community.

Here are just a few books featured at this year's Winter Institute coming soon that we can't wait to get our hands on.

PRE-ORDER or read more by clicking the book jackets...

LEAD READ this week

I'll be packing Dani Shapiro's INHERITANCE in my carry on. When we first heard of this new memoir, we wanted to read it immediately. Imagine sending your DNA to a genealogy website and your results come back that prove your father is not your biological father.

From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist—“a writer of rare talent” (Cheryl Strayed) and Nantucket Book Festival alumni—a memoir about a staggering family secret and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.

Read INHERITANCE

Traveling this winter?

Mitchell's Travel Section is filled with information and travel guides to most everywhere in the world. Don't forget to pick up one of these Scratch Maps pictured above. It's the perfect keepsake to remember all of your life's travels.

PRE-ORDER TODAY!

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for the 2019 Nantucket Book Festival

June 14 - 16, 2019

For more information, visit nantucketbookfestival.org

Mitchell's Book Corner Winter Hours

Mon -Sat 10am - 5pm

Sun CLOSED

Nantucket Bookworks Winter Hours

Sun - Thurs 10am - 6pm

Fri & Sat 10am - 8pm

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