Events
Join us to chat about favorite reads, books that changed our lives, or the book we just couldn’t put down. No need to make reservations--just come and enjoy a little conversation about books. Carol Lynch will facilitate the discussion.
Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids (Aardbaark) will discuss Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors by Charis Cotter (Annick Press, $14.95). What were famous authors like as kids? Our childhood experiences shape us into the adults we become. Born to Write tells the stories of how six extraordinary children transformed early struggles into spellbinding bedtime reading for kids around the world. Cotter chronicles the early lives of Madeleine L'Engle, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Philip Pullman, Christopher Paul Curtis, C.S. Lewis and E.B. White, revealing how each author's achievements, losses, triumphs and tragedies helped shape our most beloved books. Interspersed throughout are sidebars highlighting other well-known children's authors, such as Hans Christian Andersen and Louisa May Alcott.
The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, a short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin, $14). All Sherlockians, old or new to the canon, are welcomed. And if you don't know the difference between the canon and a pastiche, don't worry, just an enjoyment of "the game" is all that's needed.
All successful organizations revolve around the care and feeding of customers. President of the Enspiron Company, Loefflier began his career with Disney, eventually being promoted to overseeing Showmanship Service for Epcot and the Magic Kingdom. His passion is to challenge, stretch and motivate employees and leaders to excellence.
The organizational meeting for a new book club “Books and Bagels” will be held. The Bookworm will provide bagels and coffee for the first meeting. At that time members can choose books to be read and arrange for bagels or rolls (or not) for future meetings. Please sign up at the sales desk or by phone before July 7th.
A master of surrealism presents his first full-length collection. Omaha native McKernan’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Field, Antaeus, New England Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Since his retirement from teaching at Marshall University, he edits ABZ Press, which publishes a poetry magazine and books of poetry.
The As the Worm Turns Book Discussion Group will discuss Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House, $14). At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition--its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. Andy Ketterson will facilitate the discussion. Space is limited, so please call to reserve your place.
The Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. When the crew opens the cooler, they find body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Though she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is sent to investigate. Eventually, she's able to trace the torso in the cooler back to a man who mysteriously disappeared weeks earlier after a hurricane hit Port St. Lucie, Florida. Only Port St. Lucie is on the Atlantic side. How did his body end up six hundred miles away in the Gulf of Mexico?
The World War II History Book Discussion Group will discuss Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings (Vintage, $16.95). On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day, he explores the Allies' push inward. Far from a gauzy romanticized remembrance, Hastings details a grueling ten week battle to overpower the superbly trained, geographically entrenched German Wehrmacht.
Ten Walks/Two Talks updates the meandering and meditative form of Basho's travel diaries. Mapping 21st-century New York, Cotner and Fitch tap their predecessor's collaborative tendencies in order to construct a descriptive/dialogic fugue. The book combines a series of sixty-minute, sixty-sentence walks around Manhattan and a pair of dialogues about walking--one of which takes place during a late-night philosophical ramble through Central Park.
Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. But as the Great Depression threatens, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another, and triggering a series of disquieting events that threaten to unravel not only their friendship but their families as well.
Homicide Detective Kelli Jordan is called to investigate a grisly murder at a local gentleman's club, where the woman's death is only the beginning. Detective Jordan discovers a truth so revealing, it leads her to seek out someone who is familiar with how the killer operates. Will her newfound friend be able to help her end the madman's reign of terror, or does Lucifer, once again, slip away into the night?
Puppet workshop with Anna and friends. Learn to make puppets and put on a show. Ages 7 and up. Sign up in the store.
Join us to chat about favorite reads, books that changed our lives, or the book we just couldn’t put down. No need to make reservations--just come and enjoy a little conversation about books. Carol Lynch will facilitate the discussion
