Tuesday Aug 19
VANESSA SORENSEN
TUESDAY, 7-8 PM @ The Greene
Local artist VANESSA SORENSEN, will introduce her latest book, Zen Kitty: A Cat’s Guide to Enlightenment. She will be giving an art demonstration showing her digital illustration techniques. The book, which includes 30 illustrations, is a fusion of Buddhist and feline philosophies paired with illustrations of cats in Asian brushwork styles. Some of the text references traditional haikus, while some contain allusions to well-known Buddhist philosophy.
Bring a photo of your cat to be entered into a drawing for a free brush cat illustration for one lucky customer that night. SICSA will bring kittens for adoption and Moochie & Co. will present complimentary gift bags to attending cat owners.
Vanessa Sorensen is a graduate of Beavercreek High School and holds a B.S. in Zoology from Miami University. She is currently a graphic designer and illustrator in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Friday Aug 22
LESLEY KAGEN
FRIDAY, 7-8 PM @ The Greene
LESLEY KAGEN, author of Whistling in the Dark, will introduce her new novel, Land of a Hundred Wonders. Brain damaged after a tragic car accident that took both her parents, Gibby McGraw is now NQR (Not Quite Right). This is a real challenge for a fledgling newspaper reporter, especially when she stumbles upon the dead body of the next governor of Kentucky, Busty Malloy. Armed with her trusty blue spiral notebook, Gibby figures that solving the murder might be her best chance to prove to everyone that she can become Quite Right again. But she gets more than she bargained for when she uncovers a world of corruption, racism, and family secrets in small town Cray Ridge. Lucky for her, she’s also about to discover that some things are far more important than all the brains in the world, and that miracles occur in the most unexpected moments. NAL
Saturday Aug 23
KIDS STORYTIME
SATURDAY, 11 AM @ T&C
KIDS STORYTIME will features books about Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter and a related activity.
Tuesday Aug 26
JOHN SCALZI & TOBIAS BUCKELL
TUESDAY, 7-8 PM @ The Greene
Science fiction writers JOHN SCALZI, author of Zoe’s Tale, and TOBIAS BUCKELL, author of Sly Mongoose will discuss their books. In Zoe’s Tale, Scalzi takes us into the mind of 17-year-old Zoe Boutin Perry, a colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world who tells what she did to stay alive and to keep the people on Earth alive, We witness her joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope as she participates in and witnesses Earth’s escape out of captivity. But, there’s more to the story!
In Sly Mongoose, we meet 14-year-old Timas who lives in a domed city that floats 100,000 feet above the surface of Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. One day a strange man crash lands on the city, fleeing an alien intelligence intent on invading the planet and discovering the secret hidden deep inside the perpetual storm—a secret that could lead to interplanetary war.
John Scalzi has also written Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony and The Android’s Dream. Tobias Buckell has also written Crystal Rain. Both men live in Ohio.
Wednesday Aug 27
CALLING ALL WRITERS
WEDNESDAY, 7-8 PM @ The Greene
Calling all writers! Editors from Writer’s Market Books will answer questions about publishing, such as, Do I need an agent? What’s the best way to submit a query letter? Are conferences really worth it? How do I get published?
The participating editors will be ROBERT BREWER, editor of 2009 Writer’s Market and Writers Market.com; ALICE POPE, editor of Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market; and CHUCK SAMBUCHINO, editor of Guide to Literary Agents.
Saturday Aug 30
KIDS STORYTIME
SATURDAY, 11 AM @ T&C
On this Labor Day weekend, KIDS STORYTIME will feature stories about people and their occupations.
Sunday Aug 31
NO LIVE MUSIC TODAY.
SUNDAY, 4-6 PM @ T&C
There will be no live music today.
Friday Sep 5
PRISCILLA LOBA
FRIDAY, 7-8 PM @ T&C
Local psychotherapist PRISCILLA LOBA will introduce her psychological thriller, No Mercy for a Bad Girl. In it we meet Blair Damewood who was cruelly abused by her father in her childhood. Now, in adulthood, she is certain she has dealt with those earlier experiences and is able to safely leave those experiences in the past. While she knows she suffers from post traumatic stress disorder because of the abuse, she believes she can control her behavior. However, the reality is that every time she flashes back to her abuse, a dark side emerges. One day in a dissociated state, she kills a man. Then another, And no matter how hard she tries, she cant stop. Now, what is going to become of her and those around her? JONES HARVEST PUBLISHING
Priscilla Loba is a psychotherapist and has practiced in the Dayton area for over 25 years.
Saturday Sep 6
ERIN HUNTER
SATURDAY, 2-3 PM @ The Greene
ERIN HUNTER will introduce Warriors Power of Three #4: Eclipse, the latest book in the nationally bestselling Warriors series. In it, Firestars three grandchildren have just realized that they hold the destiny of the Clans in their paws. Now they begin to discover what their power means. Meanwhile, a dark prophecy might spell disaster for the Clans. HARPERCOLLINS CHILDRENS BOOKS
Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. She lives in the UK and is also the author of the Seekers series. You can read more about the world of the Clans at www.warriorcats.com. The other books in the Clan series are: #1 The Sight, #2 Dark River, and #3 Outcast.
Saturday Sep 6
KIDS STORYTIME
SATURDAY, 11 AM @ T&C
KIDS STORYTIME features Curious George stories and related activity.
Sunday Sep 7
JOHN DEBOER & JR SMITH
SUNDAY, 4-6 PM @ T&C
JOHN DEBOER and JR SMITH entertain with Native American music on flutes, guitar and vocals.
Monday Sep 8
A.J. JACOBS
MONDAY, 7-8 PM @ The Greene
A.J. JACOBS will introduce the soft-cover edition of his very popular book, The Year of Living Biblically. Jacobs, who was raised in a secular household, dives head-first into the most influential book of all time. He assembles a board of spiritual advisors, studies the Old and New Testaments, grows a beard so unruly that he is mistaken for a member of ZZ Top, immerses himself in prayereven tends sheep in the Negev desert. He embeds himself in a cross-section of Biblical communities, from a Kentucky-based creationist museum to the Pennsylvania Amish, from Christian charity workers to Hasidic Jews. His discoveries about himself and the Bible are both surprising and profound. SIMON & SCHUSTER
What would it require for a person to live all the commandments of the Bible for an entire year? That is the question that animates this hilarious, quixotic, thought-provoking memoir...laced with absurdly funny cultural commentary as well as nuanced insights. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Jacobs has also written The Know-It-All: One Mans Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.
Wednesday Sep 10
TORI CARRINGTON
WEDNESDAY, 7-8 PM @ T&C
TORI CARRINGTON will introduce Working Stiff, the newest Sofie Metropolis mystery. Sophies PI business is so successful at finding missing spouses, lost pets and at proving insurance fraud that shes hired new staff. They soon have their hands full. The week before Halloween, a body disappears from Sofies aunts funeral home. It might be a holiday prank, but Sofies barely begun to investigate when shes handed a truly hot case: prove the innocence of someone already on trial for murder! FORGE
Lori and Tony Karayianni, who write under the name Tori Carrington, are winners of the Romantic Times BOOKreviews Reviewers Choice Award. Long-time writers of romance and romantic suspense, the Karayiannis live in Toledo, Ohio.
Thursday Sep 11
MICHAEL GATES GILL
THURSDAY, 7-8 pm @ The Greene
MICHAEL GATES GILL will discuss the softcover edition of his book, How Starbucks Saved My Life. Its the amazing story of how this Ivy League graduate and ad agency executive with a six-figure salary pulled his life together after being let go from one of the top advertising firms in New York in his mid fifties, experienced a divorce and the trauma associated with it, and learned he had a brain tumor. Unable to find work again in his chosen field, this once affluent man took a job as a barista at Starbucks and learned that serving others, rather than being served, gave new meaning to his life. Tom Hanks has purchased the movie rights to his story, and reportedly wants to play Michael in the film. GOTHAM
