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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: 6:30 pm
As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Jennifer Government by Max Barry is our selection for June. Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card—as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she's allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale—and everything must go. The Boston Globe said, "The plot rockets forward on hyperdrive...fresh and very clever."
Start: 7:00 pm
In a memoir that will soon be published in numerous languages and nations around the world, Seattle's Willow Wilson traces her journey both literal—traveling to Egypt—and then spiritual, as she was drawn more and more to Islam. The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey into Love and Islam (Atlantic Monthly) should stir discussion near and far, a thoughtful, engaging book that speaks to the many virtues of Islam. "In this satisfying, lyrical memoir of a potentially disastrous clash between East and West, a Boulder native and Boston University graduate found an unlikely fit living in Cairo and converting to Islam ... her work proves a tremendously heartfelt, healing cross-cultural fusion." - Publishers Weekly. "A gorgeously written memoir about what it means to be human in a fractured world, told with warmth and wit to spare. The Butterfly Mosque is a book that will stay with you for years." - Reza Aslan.
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