Events
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Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
The new book discussion group Books and Bagels will discuss The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin, $24.95). In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. Please sign up at the sales desk or by phone, 402-392-2877. | 9
| 10
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Puppet workshop with Anna and friends. Learn to make puppets and put on a show. Ages 7 and up. Sign up in the store. | 11
| 12
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids (Aardbaark) will discuss 100 Cupboards by N .D. Wilson (Yearling, $6.99). Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room-with a man pacing back and forth! Henry soon understands that these are not just cupboards, but portals to other worlds. | 13
| 14
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss "The Blue Carbuncle", a short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 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. |
