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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.

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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: CHEF Lidia Bastianich to sign copies of Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:00 PM
Location: Wellesley Booksmith
Description:

World famous chef Lidia Bastianich will be at Wellesley Booksmith on Tuesday, November 10.

Lidia will be at the bookstore from 5 to 6:30 pm to sign copies of her new cookbook, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy. She must leave the bookstore promptly at 6:30 pm, so the signing will be on a first come, first served basis.

(Lidia will be going next door, where she will be the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Chef Michael Schlow at his Wellesley restaurant, Alta Strada. )

ABOUT LIDIA BASTIANICH
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an award winning chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and Public Television cooking show host. Her latest series, Lidia’s Italy, was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 and recently named Best National Cooking Show by the James Beard Foundation in 2009. She is also the host and author of several earlier series and companion books including Lidia’s Family Table, Lidia’s Italian American Kitchen and Lidia’s Italian Table. Together with her daughter, Tanya, she wrote Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, just out in October of 2009 along with another 52 episodes of Lidia’s Italy.

In addition to over ten years with Public Television, Lidia is well known for her acclaimed restaurants including the three-star Felidia and Del Posto restaurants in New York, the popular theater district Becco restaurant and Lidia’s restaurants in Kansas City and Pittsburgh. Lidia was named Outstanding Chef – U.S. and Outstanding Chef – New York by the prestigious James Beard Foundation.

Lidia and her son, Joseph Bastianich, well known wine expert and restaurateur of multiple locations in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and beyond also produce award-winning wines at the Bastianich and La Mozza vineyards in Italy.

ABOUT TANYA BASTIANICH MANUALI
Co-author Tanya Bastianich Manuali is Lidia’s daughter. Tanya received her Ph.D. in Renaissance history from Oxford University. Since 1996 she has led food/wine/art tours. What a perfect co-author to enhance a recipe book about Italian regional recipes.

Wellesley Booksmith Bestsellers

Bestsellers for Week Ending November 1, 2009

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
by Walls, Jeannette
Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.

""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in "The Glass Castle."

Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. "Half Broke Horses" is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" or Beryl Markham's "West with the Night." It will transfix readers everywhere.

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