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« February 02, 2010 - March 04, 2010 »
 
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Start: 6:30 pm

The Mystery Lover's Book Club will be discussing Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

Dennis Lehane is the author of seven novels. These include the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; and Shutter Island, as well as Coronado,
a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie,
divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck
Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the
Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance.
Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren
island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a
locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on
the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government
machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre
case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems. 

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Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am

A "book club" for babies and their parents.  Everyone is welcome!

A storytime filled with books and songs designed to encourage laughter, brain development, and a love of books in the first years of life.  These programs are geared for babies from birth to three years-old and each baby needs a parent's lap.

Bev will pinch hit for Katie today.

Start: 6:30 pm

The Men's Discussion Group will be discussing American Journeys by Don Watson.

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02 / 11
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am

A "book club" for babies and their parents.  Everyone is welcome!

Katie Hancock, child psychologist and bookseller, leads storytime filled with books and songs designed to encourage laughter, brain development, and a love of books in the first years of life.  These programs are geared for babies from birth to three years-old and each baby needs a parent's lap.

Start: 3:00 pm

The Highly Unusual Reader Sociaty (T.H.U.R.S.) Book Club will be discussing The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoku Ogawa.

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.

And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the Housekeeper’s shoe size--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.

The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.

Yoko Ogawa's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award.

 

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Start: 6:30 pm

The Word of Mouth Book Club will be discussing Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo.  Please note the change in date.

The only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end--for you never know what may happen along the way. And so it is with this journey into the minds and souls of two very different men--one of them in search of the truth, the other a man who may have already found it.When Otto Ringling, a husband, father, and editor, departs on a cross-country drive from his home in a New York City suburb to the North Dakota farmhouse in which he grew up, he is a man on a no-nonsense mission: to settle the estate of his recently deceased parents. However, when his flaky sister convinces him to give a ride to her guru, a crimson-robed Skovordinian monk, Otto knows there will be a few bumps in the road. As they venture across America, Otto and the affable, wise, irritating, and inscrutible holy man engage in a battle of wits and wisdom. Otto, a born skeptic, sees his unwanted passenger as a challenge: a man who assumes the knowledge of the ages yet walks a mortal's path. But he also sees their unexpected pairing as an opportunity to take Volya Rinpoche on a journey of cultural discovery, with visits to quintessentially American landmarks (the Hershey's factory, Wrigley Field) and forays into some favorite American pastimes (bowling, miniature golf, dining out).It is Otto, however, who has embarked on the real journey, that of self-discovery, led by his strange and remarkable passenger. By the time they reach North Dakota, Otto's head is reeling with the understanding that so much of what he had believed--as well as so much of what he had doubted--must be rethought before his journey can truly begin.Witty and inventive, Breakfast with Buddha takes readers into the heart ofAmerica and in the process shows us a man about to discover his own true heart. 

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Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am

A "book club" for babies and their parents.  Everyone is welcome!

Katie Hancock, child psychologist and bookseller, leads storytime filled with books and songs designed to encourage laughter, brain development, and a love of books in the first years of life.  These programs are geared for babies from birth to three years-old and each baby needs a parent's lap.

Start: 6:30 pm

Chapter & Verse Book Club, a book club for adults who enjoy children's literature, is reading The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman (novel) and Years of Dust by Albert Marrin (picture book biography).

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Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am

 

A "book club" for babies and their parents.  Everyone is welcome!

Katie Hancock, child psychologist and bookseller, leads storytime filled with books and songs designed to encourage laughter, brain development, and a love of books in the first years of life.  These programs are geared for babies from birth to three years-old and each baby needs a parent's lap.

 

02 / 26
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:30 am

Lise Lunge-Larson, award-winning author and storyteller, will be back by popular demand for a storytelling program at Redbery Books on Friday, February 26 at 10:30 a.m. Her book, The Race of the Birkebeiners is the story of the Birkebeiners, the "birchleggers," who saved the infant Prince Hakon by skiing across the mountains of Norway in the dead of winter in 1206. It is a story of bravery and tenderness. It is also the story that gave the name to "The Birkie" cross-country ski race that has been skied in northern Wisconsin since 1973.

Lise was born in Norway "with skis on her feet — like all Norwegian babies." She came to the United States on a scholarship to attend Augsburg College. She had planned to stay for a year and return to Norway, but she ended up falling in love — both with her husband and with children's literature — and now lives in Duluth, Minn. She is passionate about stories and storytelling.

"By living a life immersed in great stories, children will see that they have the resources needed to solve life's struggles,” she said. “And, while listening to these stories, children can rest for a while in a world that mirrors their own, full of magic and the possibility of greatness that lies within the human heart."

Lunge-Larson will be in the Cable area to ski on the day of the American Birkebeiner and loves the opportunity to share her stories the day before the race. Children and adults typically sit spellbound and truly enjoy her sharing her gifts. Books will be available for signing.

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Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am

A "book club" for babies and their parents.  Everyone is welcome!

Katie Hancock, child psychologist and bookseller, leads storytime filled with books and songs designed to encourage laughter, brain development, and a love of books in the first years of life.  These programs are geared for babies from birth to three years-old and each baby needs a parent's lap.

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