NEWBURYPORT – Two Massachusetts authors, Edith Maxwell and J.A. Hennrikus, are releasing mysteries Monday and will celebrate with a double-book launch party later that week at Jabberwocky Books in The ...

NEWBURYPORT — Jabberwocky Bookshop, dedicated to bring people and books together, is hosting a special party to launch the children’s picture book “Like a Rainbow,” by Marge Silvestri on Sunday, Sept.

NEWBURYPORT — Erik Hoel was a precocious child. Some of his first memories involve learning to read while sitting on the floor of his mother’s bookstore. When he was 5 years old, she read the entire ...

Newburyport busker — aka street performer —Jack Garvey presents his newly published book. “Pay the Piper: A Street-Performer’s Public Life in America’s Privatized Times.” His launch party at ...

One of the first modern bookstores was opened in 1774 in London by James Lackington, who wanted to find a way to make books more affordable and accessible while still making a profit. He offered ...