Eowyn Ivey

Join our monthly book club for adults. We meet the first Wednesday of every month from 6:30-7:30. Our May selection is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk.

Phone: 312-747-2696
Registration:
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Thursday, March 7, 2013, 7 pm. Book: The snow child by Eowyn Ivey. Come and discuss The snow child by Eowyn Ivey with the Dragonfly Books discussion group! We will meet at Dragonfly Books on Thursday, March 7th at 7:00 pm. Plan to arrive early to visit and to shop. This is your opportunity to meet other readers in the community and to discuss some great books.

This complimentary event is open to the public. We always welcome new members to our book discussion night. No pre-registration is necessary; however it will be helpful to have read the book being discussed. Light refreshments provided.

10% discount offered on all book club purchases.

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning The snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

Location: Street: 112 W Water Street Additional: City: Decorah, Province: Iowa Postal Code: 52101 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Downtown Palmer comes alive today, with activities all up and down the block! We've got some great author events to add to the celebration!

2:00 PM Romance writer Jackie Ivie

4:00 PM Eowyn Ivey, author of the bestselling novel "The snow child"

and

Naomi Gaede-Penner, author of numerous Alaskan curriculuum matierals in the Prescription for Adventure series!

Location: Street: 720 S Alaska St City: Palmer, Province: Alaska Postal Code: 99645-6356 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join Off the Beaten Path THIS Sunday morning for a healthy, home-made breakfast and skyped conversations with two amazing authors; Eowyn Ivey author of the fabulous new release "Snow Child" and Robert Goolrick author of the national best-selling book "A Reliable Wife". $15 per person or two people for $25. Space is limited so please call 970-879-6830 to make a reservation and hold your spot for this wonderfully engaging event. "The snow child" by Eowyn Ivey ISBN: 9780316175678 Reviewed by Dagny McKinley, author of "Wild Hearts" I was enchanted with this book after reading the first two sentences, "Mabel had known there would be silence. That was the point after all." This hauntingly beautiful story wraps around a couple, Mabel and Jack, who were fated to be without child, heading to Alaska to escape their past lives and start anew. Homesteading in Alaska brings its own share of challenges physically and emotionally. From the isolation to the backbreaking work of trying to live off the land, the couple becomes more isolated from each other than before. When the first snows fall, they build a Snow Child. In the morning the child is gone. Piecing together a fairy tale from childhood, Mabel knows the fate of their future before it unfolds. The child, real or imagined, binds the couple together and sprinkles a spell of love and hope that bring Jack and Mabel through season after season in the harsh Alaskan wilderness. The characters of this world combined with the realities of living with bare basics, makes the reader long for simpler times, where maybe fairy tales can come true, where nothing is impossible and where dreams can flourish. "A Reliable Wife" By Robert Goolrick ISBN: 9781565125964 Synopsis of this suspenseful story: He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "A Reliable Wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved. What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.

Location: Street: 68 9th Steet City: Steamboat Springs, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80487 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)