Events
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Start: 11:00 am
Join us for this fun hour of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 4:30 pm
We welcome award-winning local children's book author Sundee T. Frazier in this reading for her newest novel, The Other Half of My Heart (Random House). Recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for her first book, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, Sundee Frazier in her new book tells the story of biracial twins who feels tugs of all kinds when they go to visit their grandmother in the South, and are there drawn into competing for the title of Miss Black Pearl Preteen of America. That one of the twins is much more white in appearance and the other much more black leads this story into interesting situations, one in which both girls come to learn some greater meanings. Please join us. While the age range of 9 to 12 is listed from the publisher's suggested reading level recommendation, readers of all ages are welcome.
Start: 7:00 pm
Up from Portland is sports journalist Zach Dundas with a fun, intriguing book on sports and sports culture, particularly the unslick, not-so-corporate kind, The Renegade Sportsman: Drunken Runners, Bike Polo Superstars, Roller Derby Rebels, Killer Birds, And Other Uncommon Thrills on the Wild Frontier of Sports (Riverhead). "The Renegade Sportsman must be the only sports book with over fifty references to beer in the first two chapters, at least where the beers are consumed by active players ... Dundas ... manages to joyfully condemn everything you know about organized sports by celebrating everything you don't know about disorganized sports. It's smart, it's cutting, it's funnier than hell." - Steve Rinella. "As a diehard (if slow) Nordic ski racer, just let me say: Zach Dundas has it exactly right; sports just get better and better, the farther you get from the media-industrial complex." - Bill McKibben.
Start: 9:00 pm
Richard Wirick's new collection of interconnected short stories, Kicking In (Soft Skull), takes the drug war out of the context of the 'fringe element,' and shines a light on another variety of user: the Valium-fogged attorney, the morphine-addled Gulf War orderly, and others for whom depressants and stimulants are necessary for functioning, if in a marginalized way. "Wirick's stories are powerful, evocative tales rife with dark beauty. His characters, whether at work or at war, or just making it on the jagged margins of society, jump off the page and into your head—this is high-octane stuff."- Thomas Kelly.
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