Join us for an author event during Art Night! Meet Elizabeth Gonzalez James author of Mona at Sea. Elizabeth will discuss her debut book, do a reading, Q&A, and sign copies.

Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

In this sharp, witty debut, Elizabeth Gonzalez James introduces us to Mona Mireles — observant to a fault, unflinching in her opinions, and uncompromisingly confident in her professional abilities. Mona is a Millennial perfectionist who fails upwards in the midst of the 2008 economic crisis.

Despite her potential, and her top- of-her-class college degree, Mona finds herself unemployed, living with her parents, and adrift in life and love. Mona’s the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic’s eyes. In the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, Mona walks a knife’s edge as she faces down unemployment, underemployment, the complexities of adult relationships, and the downward spiral of her parents’ shattering marriage. The more Mona craves perfection and order, the more she is forced to see that it is never attainable. Mona’s journey asks the question: When we find what gives our life meaning, will we be ready for it?

About the Author:

Before becoming a writer, Elizabeth Gonzalez James was a waitress, a pollster, an Avon lady, and an opera singer. Her short story, “Cosmic Blues,” was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her stories and essays have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. She’s attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Writers Workshop, and Lit Camp. Find her on Twitter and Instagram: @unefemmejames

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Join on Saturday, September 12 at 6:00 PM for a virtual author chat with two of the best New England thriller authors, Megan Collins and Vanessa Lillie. We will discuss their latest releases.

Both books are available in-store at Ink Fish Books and online! Buy online

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For the Best by Vanessa Lillie

Suspected of a murder she can’t remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to prove her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices.

When Jules Worthington-Smith’s wallet is found next to a dead man, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. After struggling for years to build the perfect family and career, she’s dangerously close to losing everything.

Sure of her innocence, Jules is desperate to clear her name. But there’s one big problem: she was blackout drunk when the murder took place and can’t remember what happened.

Unsatisfied with the police’s handling of the case, Jules embarks on her own gin-fueled murder investigation. As she uncovers fresh clues, she starts a true-crime vlog that becomes a viral sensation, pushing her into the public eye. It’s not long before the ordeal forces Jules to confront her demons, including her turbulent childhood and excessive drinking.

The deeper Jules digs, the more dirt she uncovers about the murder and herself. Unexpected truths pile up until she’s buried so deep even finding the killer might not be enough to set her free.

“As a woman tries to clear her name of a murder charge using an investigative vlog, she unearths secrets that hit close to home. The resolution is emotionally complex and devoid of sneaky tricks and tropes. For the Best is intelligent and wholly original. It is that rare book that makes you race to the end but then stops in your tracks and just say WHOA! The perfect follow-up to Lillie’s sensational debut, Little Voices.”

—Wendy Walker, international-bestselling author of The Night Before and All Is Not Forgotten

Behind the Red door by Megan Collins

The author of the “suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) debut The Winter Sister returns with a darkly thrilling novel about a woman who comes to believe that she has a connection to a decades-old kidnapping and now that the victim has gone missing again, begins a frantic search to learn what happened in the past.

When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern’s husband is sure it’s because of Astrid’s famous kidnapping—and equally famous return—twenty years ago, but Fern has no memory of that, even though it happened an hour outside her New Hampshire hometown. And when Astrid appears in Fern’s recurring nightmare, one in which a girl reaches out to her, pleading, Fern fears that it’s not a dream at all, but a memory.

Back at her childhood home to help her father pack for a move, Fern purchases a copy of Astrid’s recently published memoir—which may have provoked her original kidnapper to abduct her again—and as she reads through its chapters and visits the people and places within it, she discovers more evidence that she has an unsettling connection to the missing woman. With the help of her psychologist father, Fern digs deeper, hoping to find evidence that her connection to Astrid can help the police locate her. But when Fern discovers more about her own past than she ever bargained for, the disturbing truth will change both of their lives forever.

Featuring Megan Collins’s signature “dark, tense, and completely absorbing” (Booklist) prose and plenty of shocking twists and turns, Behind the Red Door, is an arresting thriller that will haunt you long after you turn the last page.

Join Ink Fish Books and the George Hail Free Library for a virtual author event with Lisa Duffy the author of three novels, My Kind of People, The Salt House and This is Home. We'll discuss My Kind of People her latest novel, her full of life characters, and her writing inspirations, plus take Q&A from you. This book with transport you into a small New England community and you'll fall in love with the characters and feel their struggles and hopes for happiness.

A profound novel about the power of community and a small town’s long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl. On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen miles off the coast of Massachusetts, ten-year-old Sky becomes an orphan for the second time after a tragic accident claims the lives of her adoptive parents. Grieving the death of his best friends, Leo’s life is turned upside down when he finds himself the guardian of young Sky. Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Leary, My Kind of People is a riveting, impassioned novel about the resilience of the community and what connects us all in the face of tragedy.

Lisa Duffy is the author of The Salt House, named by Real Simple as a Best Book of the Month upon its June release, as well as Bustle’s 17 Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017 and This Is Home, a favorite book club pick. Lisa received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts. Her writing can be found in numerous publications, including Writer’s Digest. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. 

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In this debut memoir, an American corporate trainer moves to Paris in search of a Lebanese beauty queen who may help her write a book.

Davidson, who was born Cynthia Fetterolf, had a unique upbringing in Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and Lebanon that left her culturally aware, well-traveled, and able to speak three languages. She became familiar with Arabic culture, and as an adult, she began a successful career as a cross-cultural trainer for corporate executives in New York City. But in 1970s Beirut, she experienced great trauma when her father was kidnapped twice and her younger sister narrowly survived a shooting. While on a 10-day trip to Paris in 1984, she was researching a novel—“an Arab version of Gone With the Wind,” as she puts it—based on the life of Georgina Rizk, a former Miss Lebanon, and Miss Universe, who was widowed when her husband was killed by a car bomb. She hoped that talking to the pageant winner would help her understand her own past better. Rizk proved elusive, but the author’s fling with an Iraqi art dealer and her desire to write her book made her settle in Paris. She began to revisit key events in her past, and a new romance with a shadowy Tunisian driver named Omar gave her concerns about her future. Davidson’s belief that historical knowledge is the key to understanding contemporary problems results in a well-told, jet-setting memoir that spans decades and continents. The book is rather lengthy, but its seamless digressions will keep readers’ interest as Davidson recalls important years in her journey toward psychological and spiritual well-being. A vibrant parade of people moved in and out of her life, and her stories range in tone from joyful to harrowing. She also offers considerable cultural and political insight, and a little bit of romance, along the way as well as an intriguing take on Paris as a place of refuge and healing.

A richly told memoir that’s steeped in history.

KIRKUS REVIEW, September 11, 2019

Ink Fish Books is co-hosting the presentation with Elizabeth Rush at the
Barrington Public Library on Thursday, March 12, 6:30 PM.
Free tickets are available beginning February 20th on Eventbrite at Elizabeth Rush Event

We'll have her book available for purchase at the event and we have it in stock now if you'd like to pick up a copy.

Reading Across RI 2020

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place.

Join us as we welcome the author of this year's Reading Across Rhode Island selection, Elizabeth Rush. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore is her highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. 

Watch this video with Elizabeth Rush  Home or High Water

Join us as we host R. W. Alley and Zoe B. Alley for a children’s event on Saturday, February 22 from 11-12:30 PM! Light refreshments served.

R. W. stands for Robert Whitlock. But, please, call me Bob.

I’ve been making pictures as long as I can remember. They have always told stories. For me, that’s the best part of any picture; the narrative implied by the scene (what’s around the bend?), the characters (are they going or coming?), the technique (calm and static or staccato and animated?). Illustrated books are the perfect format for exploring all this. I’ve had the good fortune to illustrate the narratives in well over one hundred books by a wide variety of authors. I’ve also written and illustrated several titles.

Zoe B Alley

I became at long last thrilled to call myself an “Author” and see my own words in print with the publication of There’s a Wolf at the Door (Roaring Brook Press, 2008) and There’s a Princess in the Palace (Roaring Brook Press, 2010)! And now, my third book, Enzo Races in the Rain! I enjoy writing for being, among other things, a career that allows me to sit on the couch -– my office! -- in my pajamas and play with a pen and paper! And, to know that, somewhere, someone is reading a book to a child.

Sunday, November 3, 12-1 PM

Reading & Signing with local author Deb Curtin author of I Never Wanted a Dog

An adorable story about Ellie who is larger than life. It shows how endearing she is to even the most reluctant “dog person” and shows the emotional bond between the owner and her dog. Great family book!

President Eisenhower’s National Security Advisor Robert “Bobby” Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Democratic presidents. The life of any party, he was a tight-lipped loyalist who worked behind the scenes to get things done. While Cutler’s contributions to the public sphere may not have received, until now, the consideration they deserve, the story of his private life has never before been told.

Join Madhuri for a poetry reading & signing of her newly released book and browse the book selections at Ink Fish Books. Light refreshments will be served. In her first collection of poetry, Madhuri Pavamani crafts an intimate portrait of modern-day womanhood. Tender and bold, mournful, sometimes light, I, MACHETE, is a celebration of love, a frank discussion of loss, and a feminist call to reclaim oneself.

About the Author:

MADHURI PAVAMANI writes things. Here and there, she reads them aloud. A daughter of the South - as in South India and the very small southern town of Snellville, Georgia - she is a practicing attorney in New York City and a 2017 resident of the Rhode Island Writers Colony. When she’s not reading or writing or hanging with The Kid, she’s probably somewhere upside down, practicing her handstands. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @madhuriwrites.