Wellesley Booksmith

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Welcome to the website of Wellesley Booksmith! We appreciate your support of our locally-owned, independent bookstore. Known for our helpful staff of booksellers, our outstanding children's department, and our unique selection of cards and gifts for all ages, we offer an expert selection of new fiction and non-fiction books. We also carry a wide variety of "gently read" titles in our Used Book Cellar. Our sister store is Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA. Click here to go to their website.

Go to the red bar above to begin shopping. Our online store gives you access to over two million titles, and two simple ways to get them. OPTION #1: Place an order online and choose to pick it up in our store. If you do this, you pay no shipping fees! OPTION #2: Choose to have books shipped to you (or your mom, or your sister, or your friend...). Most books can arrive on the appointed doorstep within a day or two. In either case, you'll be supporting a store that supports your community, for which we thank you! If you can't find the book you're looking for on our website, give us a call. We'd be happy to help you locate a copy.

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Store Events & Bookclubs

We hope that you can make it to some of our highly entertaining readings and meetings. If you can't make it to an event, but would like a signed book, simply call the store up until the day before the event, and when possible, we will be happy to reserve a signed copy.

Title of Event: Social Workers Pat Harvey & Jeanine Penzo to sign Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions
When: Saturday, November 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Location: Wellesley Booksmith
Description: Don't miss this chance to meet the authors of Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts & Aggressive Behaviors, renowned social workers Jeanine A. Penzo and Pat Harvey. They will be greeting customers and holding informal discussions while signing copies of their new book, which has been very well received. Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions offers a useful, thoughtful guide to parents of children who have trouble regulating their emotions. It helps parents with de-escalating a child's emotions and helps the child express feelings in productive ways, by offering strategies drawn from the well respected field of dialectical behavior therapy, including mindfulness and validation skills.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jeanine Penzo, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with the VA Boston Healthcare System, where she utilizes dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training in her work with spinal-cord-injured patients and their caregivers. She is also a trained teacher who has worked with elementary and middle school students. Jeanine is the mother of three children, one of whom suffers from emotional dysregulation and mental illness. Jeanine Penzo lives in Newton, MA.

Pat Harvey, LCSW-C, practices clinical social work, withmore than thirty years experience with people with serious emotion dysregulation. She was instrumental in the development of an award-winning dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adherent adolescent group home. Harvey now specializes in developing DBT skills groups for parents and families, coaching and supporting parents of children with intense emotions or mental illness, and training others to use DBT skills for many populations. Pat Harvey lives in Rockville, MD.

Wellesley Booksmith Bestsellers

Bestsellers for Week Ending November 15, 2009

The Help
by Stockett, Kathryn
The book everyone is falling in love with . . .
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Black maids clean the toilets, but they have their own out back. Everyone stays within the lines. But, suddenly, three women - Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter - find themselves tired of the lines.
Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child. She is a smart, regal woman, but a bitter seed has been planted in Aibileen's chest after the death of her son. Aibileen's best friend, Minny, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi, and goes through jobs like water. And Skeeter is just back from college, a white woman with a degree but, to her mother's chagrin, no ring on her finger. Too tall and too smart for her own good, she now discovers her beloved maid Constantine has disappeared without a trace.
Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put all of them at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.

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