The Toadstool Bookshop, Peterborough

06/01/2026

Writing Forbidden Histories with Louisa Lim
Date: Friday, June 5
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Monadnock Center for History & Culture
Free and open to all (Advance registration encouraged)

Join us for a fascinating evening with award-winning foreign correspondent Louisa Lim. Drawing on more than a decade reporting from China for NPR and the BBC, Lim has earned a reputation for keen analysis of complex international issues from an insider’s perspective.

Born in London and now working out of Melbourne, Australia, Louisa Lim is the author of The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (2014), and Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (2022). Lim’s most recent book is a personal and deeply researched historical investigation, intentionally centering Hong Kongers in telling their own story. In addition to her work as a foreign correspondent, Lim is a podcaster and associate professor of journalism and podcasting at the University of Melbourne. The Little Red Podcast, which Lim co-hosts with Graem Smith, has been downloaded more than a million times. The most recent episode explores a rapidly expanding industry dominated by China: humanoid robots.

At MacDowell, Louisa is working on her third non-fiction book, her most personal and intimate project to date.

Join us for a timely and interactive evening with Louisa Lim as she synthesizes her experiences as a foreign correspondent and what it means to bear witness for two of the world’s leading public broadcasting organizations.

RSVP: https://give.macdowell.org/event/macdowell-downtown-june-2026/e803661

06/01/2026

Lowell in his natural habitat 🎶

05/30/2026

The rain can’t keep our spirits down! Come on down and hang out at The Toad. 🌧️📚🌿

05/25/2026

Do you need this new Beth Krommes Artist edition of The Toadstool Bookshop tote bag?

Well, let’s figure it out. Because it might just fit into your life in bewildering and mystical ways.

This tote bag is great for carrying the following items, including but not limited to:

A) records and books. Yes, full-size records fit into this tote bag.

B )flowers

C) a beach towel

D) potions

E) the groceries you forgot during your weekly shop

F) an extra layer

G) more books

We could go on, but if none of this convinces you, you probably don’t need a new tote bag.

The last thing we’ll say is Cowboy the Cat loves this tote bag. And Cowboy the Cat has great taste. 🍄📚

05/25/2026

We are so excited to be one of the few stores in the Monadnock Region carrying Harrisville Designs, Inc. products beyond the bucolic borders of Harrisville village! Please come check them out in either or both of our stores!

05/23/2026

Four books to check out at The Toadstool Bookshop!

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
An epic historical fiction novel following a Korean family who immigrates to Japan. The story features an ensemble of characters who encounter racism, discrimination, stereotyping, and other aspects of the 20th-century Korean experience of Japan.

Five by Ilona Bannister
Ilona Bannister’s Five introduces readers to five seemingly random people waiting for a train. But these are not just any five people. From the beginning we know that one of them is going to die soon. Very soon. In five minutes the next train to London will arrive, killing one of them. But before this happens you will learn their stories.

This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman
When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives—divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals—their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.

Plant Magic: The Magic Connection of Plants with The Universe by Anastasia Mostacci
Discover your sacred powers through the cosmic magic of plants with Plant Magic, a stunning collection and exploration of plants and their otherworldly powers. With beautiful illustrations and insightful connections, this book teaches you about the earthbound histories of the individual plants and the cosmic magic they contain.

05/21/2026

05/21/2026

Please join us as authors Thomas S. Mullaney and James M. Tabor discuss their new releases: ‘How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information’ and ‘Lighting Beneath The Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age’.

Wednesday, June 24 @ 6PM
The Toadstool Bookshop
Peterborough, NH

05/18/2026

You asked for it… we made it happen! The Toadstool Bookshops apparel is now available online.

Visit: https://www.bonfire.com/the-toadstool-bookshops-1/?srsltid=AfmBOora7jwG8PBoI504DMOV0xtzKWaNUibLkCSjJBccgcLkMgs0Zdt-

05/16/2026

The best day of the year.