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Debbie Dadey Bailey School Kids and Mermaid Tales Monday, May 20th, 4-5pm Debbie Dadey, widely beloved author of the now classic, Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, introduces us to her newest series, Mermaid Tales, featuring the fun adventures and friendships of the third grade merkids at Trident Academy. Debbie Dadey taught first grade before becoming a librarian. It was while teaching that she first realized how much she wanted to write a book for reluctant readers. Her first book, Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots, with fellow teacher Marcia Thornton Jones, was the result of a very bad day. Since then, Debbie and Marcia have collaborated on more than 125 books, including the best-selling Bailey School Kid series. Debbie lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her husband, three dogs, and three children.

Location: Street: 54 Fairfield St. City: Montclair, Province: New Jersey Postal Code: 07042-4137 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Come to Chelsea and celebrate Heather Christo's new cookbook with complimentary wine and yummy goodies on Monday evening May 20th.

Heather Christo, the younger generation’s entertaining doyenne, relates to the challenges facing her busy readers, women who may juggle marriage, family, careers and budgets, but who still wish to host beautiful, unique get-togethers for the people closest to them. Heather has spent a year chronicling the special occasions that season her family’s life—wedding showers, baby showers, holiday celebrations, family birthdays and many wonderful meals shared with people they love—everyday celebrations that many families observe, and which many readers would like to be better prepared for. This is where her experience as a working mom of young children and her expertise as a chef and entertaining expert come together. Generous Table is more than just a cookbook. It is easy to find vast collections of great recipes. But how do you turn them into great meals, great experiences? Especially parties, of any size, where there is always added pressure to be organized, for things to look beautiful, and, of course, for the food to be completely delicious!

Location: Street: 75 9th Ave Additional: Chelsea Market City: New York, Province: New York Postal Code: 10011 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Come to Chelsea and celebrate Heather Christo's new cookbook with complimentary wine and yummy goodies on Monday evening May 20th.

Heather Christo, the younger generation’s entertaining doyenne, relates to the challenges facing her busy readers, women who may juggle marriage, family, careers and budgets, but who still wish to host beautiful, unique get-togethers for the people closest to them. Heather has spent a year chronicling the special occasions that season her family’s life—wedding showers, baby showers, holiday celebrations, family birthdays and many wonderful meals shared with people they love—everyday celebrations that many families observe, and which many readers would like to be better prepared for. This is where her experience as a working mom of young children and her expertise as a chef and entertaining expert come together. Generous Table is more than just a cookbook. It is easy to find vast collections of great recipes. But how do you turn them into great meals, great experiences? Especially parties, of any size, where there is always added pressure to be organized, for things to look beautiful, and, of course, for the food to be completely delicious!

Location: Street: 75 9th Ave Additional: Chelsea Market City: New York, Province: New York Postal Code: 10011 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck, The African Trilogy)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria, where she attended medical school for two years at the University of Nigeria before coming to the United States. A 2003 O. Henry Prize winner, Adichie was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and the Iowa Review. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. She now divides her time between the U.S. and Nigeria. (added from Random House)… (more)

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 5pm Theatre for a New Audience, with Drama Book Shop, presents Open Books: Penelope Niven (FREE) Penelope Niven speaks about "revivifying" Thornton Wilder in this discussion of her book, Thornton Wilder: A Life.

Theatre for a New Audience's Open Books is a program of public lectures curated by the Theatre's Literary Advisor Jonathan Kalb that feature the critical and scholarly voices behind some of the best books newly published in the theater field. In this second offering of the series, Penelope Niven discusses her decade-long process of discovering Thornton Wilder, the multi-faceted, enigmatic and intensely private man behind the celebrated writer.

Niven will read from Thornton Wilder: A Life. Question and answer and book signing will follow.

To RSVP, click here, or email cdonnelson@tfana.org

RSVP encouraged, but not required, as space is limited.

About the Author: Penelope Niven is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of poet Carl Sandburg, photographer Edward Steichen, and playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder, as well as Swimming Lessons, a memoir, and Voices and Silences, coauthored with the actor James Earl Jones. She is the recipient of three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Thornton Wilder Visiting Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale, and other fellowships and awards. Niven lectures both in the United States and abroad, and she has served as a consultant for television films about Sandburg, Steichen, and Jones. She lives in North Carolina.

Location: Street: The Drama Book Shop, Inc Additional: 250 West 40th Street City: New York, Province: New York Postal Code: 10018-1511 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Tuesday, May 21st, 7:30pm Deb Levy Bury the Hot: A Childhood Lost Hiding from Hitler Reading & Signing at Bnai Keshet She grew up celebrating holidays with Sal's family. She trick-or-treated with his daughter. Yet Deb knew nothing about Sal's past until he called out of the blue and asked her to write his story. There was a reason she didn't know. Sal hadn't even told his wife the details of his childhood. BURY THE HOT is the Holocaust story few have the tenacity or courage to share, and explores both a traumatized childhood, and how the repression of it impacts a marriage. It is the heartbreaking account of evading murder, and a brutally honest reflection of a life lived trying to escape the memories. Deb Levy lives in New Jersey with her husband and three sons. Her writing has appeared on parenting websites and in Lilith Magazine.

Location: Street: Bnai Keshet Additional: 99 South Fullerton Ave City: Montclair, Province: New Jersey Postal Code: 07042-4137 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 PM Greenlight Fiction Book Group

Led by Greenlight general manager Alexis, this book group discusses paperback fiction on the third Thursday of each month. For May, the group discusses the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living–and whom he does it for. With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters–losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life–and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

CAConrad writes: “(Soma)tic poetry rituals aim our attention at two basic principles: (1)Everything around us has a creative viability with the potential to spur new modes of thought and imaginative output and (2)The most vital ingredient to bringing sustainable, humane changes to our world is creativity.”

In this program, based upon A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, Conrad will lead us through his philosophy of poets and poetry as a means to help solve the planet’s ills and to “resist the urge to subdue our spirits and lose ourselves in the hypnotic beep of machines, of war, and the banal need for power, and things.” (rmharris)… (more)