What you'll find below:
Summer Programs are Ending!
No Mistakes Writing Workshop!
TWO Pre-order Speical Offers!
Though summer is in full, sunny swing, the end of July brings the end of most of our summer programs.
The Summer Reading Challenges are heading to a page-turning conclusion. The second of the two kids' sessions will end on Saturday, July 28th, with a fun celebration of your acheivemnts in reading for fifteen minutes every day this month! The party starts at 10am, and will feature snacks, bookish games, and a free book for everyone who brings in their completed, colored tracking sheet! The adult and teen Summer Reading program--where we challenged you to read seven books in two months--will end on the same day. That party will be Saturday the 28th at 1pm, and each book you finished and wrote on your tracking bookmark will count as a raffle entry to the grand prize drawing at 1:30!
Both the scavenger hunts--Where's Waldo Local! and the Bard in the Bar!--will be ending on July 31st! We're celebrating your super searching skills with parties on August 3rd for the kids and Waldo (at 10:30am--the raffles for all the various prizes donated by the Waldo publisher, Candlewick, and the participating businesses will begin at 11am) and on August 4th for the adults and the Bard (12pm on the deck of the Forge Publick House, with the raffles beginning at 12:30)! Don't miss out on your chance to win many fantastic prizes!
For more information about any or all of these fantastic summerlong events, check out the Summer Programs page!
We're hosting an authorless event for a new writing/drawing/inspiration book NO MISTAKES, written by Keiko Agena (you know her from Gilmore Girls!)! We're inviting artists of all kinds to a workshop crafted to test their boundaries, help them learn about their inner artist, and produce work they feel proud of. Join us on Tuesday, August 14th at 6:00pm for an hour and a half of writing time, with prompts from the upcoming book! The event is open to anyone, but registration is required, so email us today to reserve your spot!
Check out the event page for more information!
We're currently running two different pre-order campaigns that you won't want to miss out on!
The first is for Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)'s newest young adult novel, a marvelous story about family and the connections forged between five brothers. BRIDGE OF CLAY, is out on October 9th, and it's going to be just as heartfelt and beautiful as Zusak's previous publications. We're offering a speical pre-order bonus for it: the first 25 people to pre-order will get a gorgeous, embossed leather bookmark for FREE! If you pre-order by September 24th, you'll get 10% off the book, as well!
Order quickly so you can use this beautiful bookmark in this beautiful book come October! You can call the store or order online here!
The second deal is for Hank Green's debut novel AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING! We've got fun and funky enemal pins shaped like the Carls that are the central mystery of this fantastic story about viral videos, the price of fame, and, you know, giant statues shaped like Transformers wearing samurai armor. The pins are FREE with a pre-order of the book, but we've a limited number of them, so order quickly! If you pre-order before September 10th, you'll get 10% off!
You can call or pre-order online here! Don't forget to be awesome!
