The World War II History Book Discussion Group will select books for discussion in future meetings.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T010000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/mary-helen-stefaniak-will-sign-cailiffs-baghdad-georgia URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/mary-helen-stefaniak-will-sign-cailiffs-baghdad-georgia SUMMARY:Mary Helen Stefaniak will sign The Cailiffs of Baghdad\, Georgia DESCRIPTION:Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new\, well-traveled young schoolteacher turns a small Georgia town upside down. Miss Grace Spivey believes in field trips\, Arabian costumes\, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar\, transforming the lives of everyone around her. Populated by unforgettable characters--including three impressive camels--The Cailiffs of Baghdad\, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris (and back again) in an entrancing feat of storytelling.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101014T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101015T010000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/amiable-adult-readers-discussing-books-almost-always-read-kids-aardbaark-3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/amiable-adult-readers-discussing-books-almost-always-read-kids-aardbaark-3 SUMMARY:Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids DESCRIPTION:Aardbaark will discuss Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams (Scholastic\, $7.99). 14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange\, dysfunctional family. In fact\, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes\, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable\: a secret subterranean society.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101016T200000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/patricia-polacco-will-sign-junkyard-wonders URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/patricia-polacco-will-sign-junkyard-wonders SUMMARY:Patricia Polacco will sign The Junkyard Wonders DESCRIPTION:When young Trisha finds out her class at the new school is known as “The Junkyard\,” she is devastated. She moved from her old town so she wouldn’t be in a special class anymore! But then she meets her teacher\, the quirky and invincible Mrs. Peterson\, and her classmates\, an oddly brilliant group of students each with his or her own unique talent. And it is here in The Junkyard that Trisha learns the true meaning of genius\, and that this group of misfits are\, in fact\, wonders\, all of them.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101017T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101017T190000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/greg-kosmicki-and-marjorie-saiser-will-sign-their-books-poetry URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/greg-kosmicki-and-marjorie-saiser-will-sign-their-books-poetry SUMMARY:Greg Kosmicki and Marjorie Saiser will sign their books of poetry. DESCRIPTION:Saiser’s most recent works are Beside You at the Stoplight (The Backwaters Press\, 2010) and Rooms (Pudding House\, 2010). In 2009 the Nebraska Arts Council named her Distinguished Artist in Poetry. Her website is poetmarge.com. Greg Kosmicki's most recent chapbooks are New Route in the Dream (Pudding House Publications\, 2010) and Marigolds (Black Star Press\, 2009). He is the editor and publisher of The Backwaters Press.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101019T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101020T010000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/international-intrigue-book-discussion-group-will-discuss-silence-grave-arnaldur-indridason URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/international-intrigue-book-discussion-group-will-discuss-silence-grave-arnaldur-indridason SUMMARY:The International Intrigue Book Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:The Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason will be discussed. When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavik\, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archeological dig. Bone by bone\, the body is unearthed\, and the brutalizing history of a family who lived near the building site comes to light along with it. Was the skeleton a man or a woman\, a victim or a killer\, and is this a simple case of murder or a long-concealed act of justice? As Erlendur tries to crack this cold case\, he must also save his drug-addicted daughter from self destruction and somehow glue his hopelessly fractured family back together.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101021T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101022T010000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/worm-turns-book-discussion-group-6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/worm-turns-book-discussion-group-6 SUMMARY:The As the Worm Turns Book Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Girl Sleuth\: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak will be discussed. Eighty million books later\, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression\, World War II\, and the sixties to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers\, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer\, Nancy was brought to life by two women\: Mildred Wirt Benson\, a pioneering journalist from Iowa\, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams\, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman. Krisann Blake will facilitate the discussion. Space is limited\, so please call to reserve your place.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101024T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101024T190000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/michael-tan-creti-will-sign-make-myself-word-collected-poems-and-images-parish-priest URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/michael-tan-creti-will-sign-make-myself-word-collected-poems-and-images-parish-priest SUMMARY:Michael Tan Creti will sign To Make Myself a Word\: The Collected Poems and Images of a Parish Priest DESCRIPTION:Creti’s poetry is metaphysical\, but also romantic\, searching for the unity between such polarities as thought and experience\, spirit and earth\, orthodox faith and a freely inquiring mind. (Xlibris\, $19.99)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101025T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101025T200000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/world-war-ii-history-book-discussion-group-5 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/world-war-ii-history-book-discussion-group-5 SUMMARY:The World War II History Book Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Citizen Soldiers\: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany\, June 7\, 1944-May 7\, 1945 by Stephen Ambrose (Simon &\; Schuster\, $18). Ambrose follows the individual characters of this noble\, brutal\, and tragic war\, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier\, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany\, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T010818Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101026T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101026T194500Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/condoleeza-rice-will-sign-extraordinary-ordinary-people-memoir-family URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/condoleeza-rice-will-sign-extraordinary-ordinary-people-memoir-family SUMMARY:Condoleeza Rice will sign Extraordinary\, Ordinary People\: A Memoir of Family DESCRIPTION:Former secretary of state Rice briefly treats her tenure during the second Bush administration in favor of a straightforward\, reverential chronicle of her upbringing in the segregated south. Dr. Rice acknowledges the complicated\, intertwined history of blacks and whites in America\, which lent a lightening of skin to her forebears that was looked upon favorably at the time. Her father\, John Wesley Rice Jr.\, came from a family of well-educated itinerant preachers in Louisiana\, while the family of her mother\, Angelena Ray\, were Birmingham\, Ala.\, landowners\; both were teachers at Fairfield Industrial High School and determined to live "\;full and productive lives"\; in Birmingham\, despite the blight of segregation. Cocooned in an educational and musical environment\, Dr. Rice was a high-achieving only child. Yet the encroaching racial tension broke open in Birmingham in the form of store boycotts\, bombings\, and demonstrations. Eventually\, the family moved to Denver\, where Dr. Rice attended university\, majoring first in piano then political science. Swept into Washington politics by Colin Powell and others\, she records a thrilling\, inspiring life of achievement.
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