Local and in-store events:

Check out these great book-themed performances at The Stoneham Theater in January!
The Book Oasis will provide copies of related titles for purchase at the Theatre.

Thanks for supporting two great local businesses! 

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Author Event!

This event has been postponed due to Hurricane Sandy -stay tuned for updates!

Meet Massachusetts author Andre Dubus III at a reading and signing event at the Stoneham Public Library on 

Wednesday, November 7th at 7pm. Mr. Dubus is the author of House of Sand and Fog, Bluesman, Cage Keeper and most recently, Townie: A Memoir. The Book Oasis will be on hand selling copies of Townie. Autographed books make fantastic holiday gifts (Yankee Swaps, Christmas, Birthdays, Chanukah etc.)

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Author Event!

Meet Massachusetts author Michael Tougias at Reading Public Library on 

Tuesday, November 27th at 7 pm. He will be discussing his book Finest Hours.

In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the "Pendleton "and the "Fort Mercer, "found themselves in the same horrifying predicament. Built with "dirty steel," and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantic's mercy. "The Finest Hours "is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships.

The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking scenes, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into one another, and men hurl themselves into the raging sea in their terrifying battle for survival.

Not all of the eighty-four men caught at sea in the midst of that brutal storm survived, but considering the odds, it's a miracle--and a testament to their bravery--that any came home to tell their tales at all.

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Author Event!

Meet Massachusetts author Roland Merullo at the Reading Public Library on 

Friday, November 30th at 7 pm. His latest work, Lunch With Buddha, continues the story of Otto and the Rinpoche begun in Breakfast With Buddha. Both humorous and thought-provoking, they are sure to be crowd-pleasers.

On the surface, LUNCH WITH BUDDHA is a story about family. Otto Ringling and his sister Cecelia could not be more different. He’s just turned 50, an editor of food books at a prestigious New York publishing house, a man with a nice home in the suburbs, children he adores, and a sense of himself as being a mainstream, upper-middle-class American. Cecelia is the last thing from mainstream. For two decades she’s made a living reading palms and performing past-life regressions. She believes firmly in our ability to communicate with those who have passed on. 

It will turn out, though, that they have more in common than just their North Dakota roots.

In LUNCH WITH BUDDHA, when Otto faces what might be the greatest of life’s difficulties, it is Cecelia who knows how to help him. As she did years earlier in this book’s predecessor, BREAKFAST WITH BUDDHA, she arranges for her brother to travel with Volya Rinpoche, a famous spiritual teacher — who now also happens to be her husband.

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