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When Charlie McButton Lost Power by Suzanne Collins, Mike Lester (Illustrator)
When Charlie McButton Lost Power by Suzanne Collins, Mike Lester (Illustrator)
When Charlie McButton Lost Power by Suzanne Collins, Mike Lester (Illustrator)
When Charlie McButton Lost Power by Suzanne Collins, Mike Lester (Illustrator)
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Storytime When a thunderstorm knocks the power out, Charlie McButton's tech empire tumbles to the ground. Find out what he does in a picture book from Suzanne Collins. We'll serve treats from our Cafe and as always, host a fun craft. (added from Barnes & Noble)… (more)

Adam Mansbach, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, returns with a fearless new novel Rage is Back ($29.95) about a too-wise kid and the father who left him, the price of revenge and the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen.

Adam Mansbach’s books include the #1 international bestseller Go the F*** to Sleep, the California Book Award-winning novel The End of the Jews, and the cult classic Angry Black White Boy. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and on NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in Berkeley, California. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Join us when we celebrate all things Hunger Games with games and a special viewing of the thrilling movie plus more! Join Katniss and Peeta as they battle to survive against all odds, whilst munching on some yummy pizza and snacks. Fantastic prizes to be won!

Book now to secure your spot, and may the odds be ever in your favour!

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Poetry Flash presents Francisco X. Alarcon & Melinda Palacio, Thursday, January 24th.
Francisco X. Alarcón's new book of poems is Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol/Poems for the New Sun. His book poetically announces the New Sun---which the Mayans believe arrives in 2012---and he identifies as the era of the "Flower Sun" when the world's great concerns will be "the colors/ and the scents/ of flowers/ sprouting/ from nowhere/ everywhere. . ." He is the author of twelve books of poems, including Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes and De Amor Oscuro/ Of Dark Love, and a number of bilingual books for children. His many honors include the 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award, the 1984 Chicano Literary Prize, and the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northern California Book Reviewers.

Melinda Palacio's first full-length book of poems is How Fire Is A Story, Waiting. Juan Felipe Herrera says of it, "Melinda's collection has Bop and "swagger," lingo, song, denuncia, compassion and wild, unexpected turns---all the key ingredients and hard-won practices of a poet (and shaman) in command of her powers." She has also published a first novel, Ocotillo Dreams , which won the 2012 Mariposa Award for Best First Book and the 2012 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Adam Mansbach, author of the bestselling parental satire Go the F*** to Sleep, turns from tucking in toddlers to rocketing eyes-wide-open through New York City’s unseen communities in his new fearless work, the novel Rage is Back. With drama, hilarity, and thrills (and in conversation with The Long Winters’ John Roderick), Mansbach delivers a love letter to NYC—and a literary tour de force.

7:30 – 9:00pm

Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
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