Mary Ann Shaffer &\; Annie Barrows’ book\, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.
January 1946\: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger\, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation\, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120110T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/traps-and-trenchcoats-book-club-14 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/traps-and-trenchcoats-book-club-14 SUMMARY:Traps and Trenchcoats Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us this month as we solve Barbara Hambly’s mystery\, A Free Man of Color.
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It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras\, Benjamin January\, a Creole physician and music teacher\, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evenings festivities are interrupted--by murder. Ravishing Angelique Crozat\, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company\, has been strangled to death. With the authorities reluctant to become involved\, Ben begins his own inquiry\, which will take him through the seamy haunts of riverboatmen and into the huts of voodoo-worshipping slaves. But soon the eyes of suspicion turn toward Ben—for\, black as the slave who fathered him\, this free man of color is still the perfect scapegoat....
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120113T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120113T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/childrens-storytime-6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/childrens-storytime-6 SUMMARY:Children's Storytime DESCRIPTION:Join us on Fridays at 11\:00 am for a 30 minute storytime with the kids. All ages welcome!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-peter-brandvold URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-peter-brandvold SUMMARY:Author Signing with Peter Brandvold DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the weird west! Join us for a signing with Colorado author\, Peter Branvold. His new book\, Dust of the Damned\, puts a new twist on the western as werewolves\, ghouls\, and cowboys all fight for a piece of the American frontier. You won’t want to miss this blend of the paranormal and the historical.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/non-traditional-non-fiction-book-club-14 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/non-traditional-non-fiction-book-club-14 SUMMARY:Non-Traditional Non-Fiction Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Gail Collins’ book\, When Everything Changed.
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A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics\, fashion\, popular culture\, economics\, sex\, families\, and work--When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill\, the end of "\;Help Wanted--Male"\; and "\;Help Wanted--Female"\; ads\, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives\, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120119T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120119T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-brenna-yovanoff-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-brenna-yovanoff-0 SUMMARY:Author Signing with Brenna Yovanoff DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome back local author Brenna Yovanoff. An instant New York Times bestseller\, and a CSU alumna\, Yovanoff is a swiftly rising star in teen literature. Her new book\, The Space Between\, is a story of identity\, discovery\, and love set against the backdrop of warring angels and demons.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120120T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120120T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/strange-worlds-book-club-17 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/strange-worlds-book-club-17 SUMMARY:Strange Worlds Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore M.T. Anderson’s Feed.
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For Titus and his friends\, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction\, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet\, a beautiful\, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120120T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120120T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/childrens-storytime-7 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/childrens-storytime-7 SUMMARY:Children's Storytime DESCRIPTION:Join us on Fridays at 11\:00 am for a 30 minute storytime with the kids. All ages welcome!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T010000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/graphically-yours-graphic-novel-book-club-4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/graphically-yours-graphic-novel-book-club-4 SUMMARY:Graphically Yours\, Graphic Novel Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Charles Burns' graphic novel\, Black Hole.
The setting\: suburban Seattle\, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers\, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it\, that’s it. There’s no turning back.
As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it\, some who don’t\, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague\, or bring heightened awareness to it\, or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery\, the cruelty\, the relentless anxiety and ennui\, the longing for escape. And then the murders start.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120121T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-david-mogen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-david-mogen SUMMARY:Author Signing with David Mogen DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon with local historian David Mogen. His book\, Honyocker Dreams\, is a narrative of memory and history\, starting at America’s homesteading roots and spanning into current times. Don’t miss this great exploration of what it means to be a Westerner.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120127T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120127T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/childrens-storytime-8 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/childrens-storytime-8 SUMMARY:Children's Storytime DESCRIPTION:Join us on Fridays at 11\:00 am for a 30 minute storytime with the kids. All ages welcome!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T180000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/firehouse-friday URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/firehouse-friday SUMMARY:Firehouse Friday DESCRIPTION:Every Friday between 11\:00 and 11\:30 we host a children’s storytime here at the Firehouse. We’ve got Firehouse trivia\, activities\, and lots of fun stories to share. All ages are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-kelly-enright URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/author-signing-kelly-enright SUMMARY:Author Signing with Kelly Enright DESCRIPTION:Help us welcome history buff and author Kelly Enright. Her newest book\, Osa and Martin\, is the story of two explorers in the early nineteen hundreds who brought tales of Africa and the South Pacific to the Americas. Her articles have appeared in National Geographic\, USA Today and many more popular publications.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T054051Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120205T200000Z UID:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/open-book-club-18 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/event/open-book-club-18 SUMMARY:Open Book Club DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Jennifer Donnelly’s novel Revolution.
BROOKLYN\: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving\, angry at her mother for not being able to cope\, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother\, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.
PARIS\: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage\, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.
Two girls\, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary\, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until\, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris\, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time\, and the past becomes suddenly\, terrifyingly present.
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