NEW LOCATION!!! Due to high capacity, this event has been moved from our Lexington store to FOLLEN CHURCH!

Click here for directions to the new location!:

755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420

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October 16th: Meet & Greet, Q&A, and Book Signing with Annie Hartnett, author of The Road to Tender Hearts 

Maxima Book Center is proud to host a Meet & Greet with Massachusetts's own bestselling author, Annie Hartnett! Join us at our Lexington location on Friday, October 16th, to discuss her national bestselling novel, The Road to Tender Hearts. 

*Tickets will include an autographed paperback copy of The Road to Tender Heats. Additional autographed copies will be available for purchase in-store after the event (while supplies last).

*Please only buy a ticket if you plan on attending! If you can't make it and would like to secure an autographed copy for pick-up after the event date, please call our Lexington store by October 11th at 781-457-6185. For in-store purchase ONLY--shipping unavailable!

*Please note that copies of the book available for purchase on our website are not signed!

Date: Friday, 10/16/26

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Follen Church, 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420

ABOUT THE BOOK

A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death.

THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS is Annie’s newest novel, a national bestseller and winner of the 2025 New England Book Award. It received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist and was an April Indie Next Pick. It has been (or will be) translated into over a dozen languages.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Annie Hartnett is the award-winning author of three novels: Rabbit Cake, Unlikely Animals, and the national bestseller The Road to Tender Hearts, which won the 2025 New England Book Award for fiction, is currently longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, was named a best book of 2025 from NPR, LitHub, and Southern Living, and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Along with the writer Tessa Fontaine, she co-runs Accountability Workshops for writers, helping writers commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. She lives in Massachusetts with her pretty good husband, perfect daughter, and two flawless rescue dogs, Willie Nelson and Minnie Mouse.

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