This is a big year for Old Firehouse Books! It is our 30th year as a business\, our 10th year with the current owners\, Susie Wilmer and Dick Sommerfeld\, and our first full year as Old Firehouse Books downtown! To celebrate\, we invite you to a party at the store. We’ll have food and drink\, music\, and a trivia contest with great prizes! We’ll start serving the eats at 6pm and trivia will begin at 7pm. Please come into the store to buy your ticket\, or sign up for our newsletter on our website to find out how you can buy online. Cost is $5.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100626T170000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/kids%E2%80%99-event-wanted-perfect-pet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/kids%E2%80%99-event-wanted-perfect-pet SUMMARY:Kids’ Event - Wanted\: The Perfect Pet DESCRIPTION:June is Adopt-A-Pet month\, and Old Firehouse Books wants to support our local animal charities. Meet some of the adoptable animals of Animal House and bring your kids to a reading and activity event!
Animal House will be featuring some of their adoptable animals in front of our store from 11am to 2pm. At noon\, we will be doing a reading of Wanted\: The Perfect Pet and then a drawing activity with kids. We’ll even raffle off a copy of Wanted\: The Perfect Pet to a lucky family!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100709T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100709T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/strange-worlds-book-club URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/strange-worlds-book-club SUMMARY:Strange Worlds Book Club DESCRIPTION:This month we’re discussing Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory. This highly original novel is a mash-up in the best sense of the word\: it references demon possession\, comic books\, H.P. Lovecraft\, Philip K. Dick\, and Jungian archetypes. Nominated for the World Fantasy\, Locus\, and Mythopoeic Awards\, this book does not disappoint.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100710T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100710T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/kids%E2%80%99-birding-event-blues-go-birding-across-america URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/kids%E2%80%99-birding-event-blues-go-birding-across-america SUMMARY:Kids’ Birding Event with The Blues Go Birding Across America DESCRIPTION:Bring the kids to a fun interactive birding event! Sandy Fuller\, Colorado author of The Blues Go Birding Across America will be here to sign books. We'll also have some great activities. Shop the sidewalk sales and bring the kids to Old Firehouse Books!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100711T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100711T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/open-book-club URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/open-book-club SUMMARY:Open Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Nancy Pickard’s Virgin of Small Plains. This modern Gothic novel is set in Kansas. It revolves around the mystery of a young girl’s death in 1987 and her mother’s murder in 2004. The girl’s grave has also become a site of possible miracles. This book won the Reader’s Choice\, Agatha\, and Macavity Awards.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100713T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100713T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/untitled-book-club URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/untitled-book-club SUMMARY:Untitled Book Club DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Take a tour of the highlights of the history of the assassinations of Lincoln\, Garfield\, and McKinley\, with plenty of humorous and astute commentary along the way. This is history at its most morbid and most fascinating.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100716T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100716T020000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/barbecuebeer-tasting-equinox-brewery URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/barbecuebeer-tasting-equinox-brewery SUMMARY:Barbecue/Beer Tasting with Equinox Brewery DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special event featuring barbecue and beer. Explore food made with recipes in Steve Raichlen’s new cookbook\, Planet Barbecue\, and enjoy beer tasting provided by Fort Collins’ newest independent brewery\, Equinox Brewery. This is a ticketed event\, give us a call\, send an e-mail or drop by the store to reserve your ticket\; seating will be limited.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100717T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100717T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/readingsigning-author-bill-lamperes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/readingsigning-author-bill-lamperes SUMMARY:Reading/Signing with author Bill Lamperes DESCRIPTION:
Bill Lamperes has long been an important part of the Fort Collins educational community. He will be at Old Firehouse Books to do a book signing for his novels Bar Exam and Depositions\, and he may also have copies of his new book\, The Attendant\, for sale. Come with questions for Bill and be ready for a great time!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100720T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100720T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/traps-trenchcoats-book-club URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/traps-trenchcoats-book-club SUMMARY:Traps & Trenchcoats Book Club DESCRIPTION:Take a trip back to Chaucer’s England with this month’s selection\, Mistress of the Art of Death. In this novel\, a female forensic anatomist from Italy is sent to England to solve a series of child murders. Along with the mystery\, there is an examination of the struggle of church versus state in medieval England\, science versus superstition\, and romance versus realism. Believable\, human characters bring the Middle Ages to life.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T221453Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100723T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100723T020000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/book-club-happy-hour-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/book-club-happy-hour-0 SUMMARY:Book Club Happy Hour DESCRIPTION:In January\, we invited book club members from far and wide to attend our first Book Club Happy Hour\, complete with wine\, snacks\, and a perfect selection of book recommendations for any book club. We had so much fun that we’re doing it again!
You’re invited to attend for some of the hottest\, best discussion books that are just hitting the shelves. Local author Cricket McRae will also be available to talk about how she works with book clubs. Please RSVP by giving us a call\, sending an e-mail or pick up your ticket in the store\; space will be limited.
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