Join us to discuss Alan Bradley’s best-selling mystery\, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. His precocious protagonist\, Flavia de Luce\, is a twelve-year-old expert on poison\, chemistry\, and lock-picking. When a dead man turns up in the cucumber bed\, naturally she feels that she will be the one to solve the mystery. Alan Bradley’s smart little mystery won the Agatha and was nominated for the Anthony and Macavity awards. As a special treat\, we also have the opportunity for a live phone chat with Alan Bradley at 11 a.m. on August 21! Don’t miss this rare chance for a live talk with this award-winning author.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100819T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100819T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/newcomers-book-club-recommendations URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/newcomers-book-club-recommendations SUMMARY:Newcomers Book Club Recommendations DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the library does a fabulous book club recommendations presentation. Old Firehouse Books is proud to be part of it this year\, as we have been in years past. Come for the top recommendations of the best discussion books for the coming fall and take care of your book group’s selections!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/qa-author-alan-bradley URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/qa-author-alan-bradley SUMMARY:Q&A with author Alan Bradley DESCRIPTION:Join us for a phone chat with Alan Bradley\, author of the best-selling mystery The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. His precocious protagonist\, Flavia de Luce\, is a twelve-year-old expert on poison\, chemistry\, and lock-picking. When a dead man turns up in the cucumber bed\, naturally she feels that she will bethe one to solve the mystery. Alan Bradley’s smart little mystery won the Agatha and was nominated for the Anthony and Macavity awards.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/annie-walk URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/annie-walk SUMMARY:Annie Walk DESCRIPTION:Old Firehouse Books will be at the library’s Annie Walk this year\, helping tolaunch the Fort Collins Reads book of the year\, The Art of Racing in the Rain. We’ll be on hand to show off our dogs and to take part in all the canine good times! We will also be donating 20% of the proceeds from all sales of The Art of Racing in the Rain to Fort Collins reads. For more information on the Annie Walk visit www.PoudreLibraries.org/news.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/book-signing-steven-friesen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/book-signing-steven-friesen SUMMARY:Book Signing with Steven Friesen DESCRIPTION:
Steve Friesen is the director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave. His book\, Buffalo Bill\: Scout\, Showman\, Visionary\, stands apart from other historical tributes to Buffalo Bill’s life and times. Based upon the collection of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave\, this book provides a new perspective on William F. Cody through a detailed look at his personal effects and memorabilia from his larger-than-life shows.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100904T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100904T203000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/open-book-club-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/open-book-club-1 SUMMARY:Open Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of The Biographer’s Tale\, by A.S. Byatt. The Biographer’s Tale is that of Phineas G. Nanson\, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of “real life” by writing a biography of a great biographer. In a series of adventures that are by turns intellectual and comic\, scientific and sensual\, Phineas tracks his subject to the deserts of Africa and the maelstrom of the Arctic. Along the way he comes to rely on two women\, one of whom may be the guide he needs out of the dizzying labyrinth of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire\, The Biographer’s Tale is a provocative look at “truth” in biography and our perennial quest for certainty.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100908T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100908T020000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/hungry-planet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/hungry-planet SUMMARY:Hungry Planet DESCRIPTION:Old Firehouse Books will be partnering with Ten Thousand Villages for this special event featuring the book Hungry Planet\: What the World Eats. Come join us for a fun evening that will also benefit world hunger. There will be a raffle\, food trivia\, guest speakers\, and various foods\, including a sampler of breads from around the world. We will also be offering Hungry Planet at a 20% discount. Seating will be limited so mark your calendars and don’t be late.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100910T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100910T013000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/strange-worlds-book-club-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/strange-worlds-book-club-1 SUMMARY:Strange Worlds Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us as we explore Peter Watt’s New York Time’s Notable Book of the Year\, Starfish. In Watt’s debut novelcivilization rests on the backs of its outcasts\, and right now civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific. Rifters are recruited from those who are so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction. But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find\, and enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first\, not even the rifters know what they have in them - and by the time anyone else finds out\, the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole planet.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T020000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/signing-margaret-coel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/signing-margaret-coel SUMMARY:Signing with Margaret Coel DESCRIPTION:Old Firehouse Books is proud to announce that award winning author Margaret Coel will be joining us on Friday the tenth. She will bereading from her new book\, The Spider’s Web\, and signing autographs. Her bestselling Wind River Mystery series follows Father John O’Malley and Vicky Holden as they untangle mysteries amidst the Arapahoe people of Wind River. Margaret Coel is a Colorado native\, a historian\, and is considered an Arapahoe Indian expert.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/signing-sandra-brannan-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/signing-sandra-brannan-0 SUMMARY:Signing with Sandra Brannan DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome mystery author Sandra Brannan on Saturday the 11th. She will be reading from her debut novel\, In the Belly of Jonah\, answering questions\, and signing books. Sandra lived in Colorado for several years\, and the area around Fort Collins forms the backdrop for her thriller. In the Belly of Jonah is a fast-paced mystery with a likable protagonist and an intricately woven narrative brimming with bizarre yet believable twists. The first in a series\, the book expertly lays the groundwork for Liv Bergen\, amateur sleuth\, and her love interest\, FBI Agent Streeter Pierce.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T031440Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100914T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100914T013000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/untitled-book-club-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/untitled-book-club-1 SUMMARY:Untitled Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss Bill Bryson’s book\, In a Sunburned Country. In A Sunburned Country is Bryson's report on what he found in an entirely different place\: Australia\, the country that doubles as a continent\, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants\, the hottest\, driest weather\, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny\, fact-filled\, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor\, wonder\, and unflagging curiousity. Australia is an immense and fortunate land\, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.
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