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Start: September 26, 2009 - 9:30am
End: October 3, 2009 - 5:30pm
Check out our Banned Book displays - both in the front window and inside. All of these books have been banned or challenged in the United States. Celebrate your freedom to read by trying one of these books you may have missed.
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Start: September 26, 2009 - 9:30am
End: October 3, 2009 - 5:30pm
Check out our Banned Book displays - both in the front window and inside. All of these books have been banned or challenged in the United States. Celebrate your freedom to read by trying one of these books you may have missed.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
The Letters From Otto is written by Don Quigley of the Quigley
family from Spencerport, NY. He has written a memoir of his early
growing up in that small town and then going off to college at Notre
Dame. The Letters From Otto is the correspondence he had over those years with his good
friend Otto, also known as still current resident of the Town of
Sweden, Elliot Reynolds, a former Superintendent of Highways for the
Town of Sweden. It reflects on days when letter writing was a valuable
means of communication.
Born in Spencerport and now living in Ohio author Don Quigley visits Lift Bridge to discuss his memoir LETTERS FROM OTTO. Elliot Reynolds, the writer of the letters and the "Otto" from the title will also be on hand. Join us for a fun evening. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Makes a great holiday gift! Free and open to the public.
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10 / 3
End: 5:30 pm
Start: September 26, 2009 - 9:30am
End: October 3, 2009 - 5:30pm
Check out our Banned Book displays - both in the front window and inside. All of these books have been banned or challenged in the United States. Celebrate your freedom to read by trying one of these books you may have missed.
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10 / 4
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
Join us for an intense and useful four hour seminar with Mary Dougherty that will cover the steps and process of writing and getting published!
Mary will cover :
* putting pen to paper
* producing
* polishing
* publishing
* promoting
Cost is $30 for this informative 4 hour seminar with a special offer to bring a friend for free! One hour lunch break is scheduled. For more information call Joe at 637-2260 or email jhoffmann@liftbridgebooks.com
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10 / 7
Start: 8:00 pm
Rodney Jones is the author of eight books of poetry: the forthcoming Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985–2005 (2006), Kingdom of the Instant: Poems (2004), Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999), Things That Happen Once (1996), Apocalyptic Narrative (1993), and Transparent Gestures (1989), all from Houghton Mifflin, as well as The Unborn (Atlantic Monthly, 1985) and The Story They Told Us of Light (Alabama, 1980). He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter IB Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, a Harper Lee Award, and the 1989 National Book Critics Circle
Award.
Books are available at Lift Bridge and at the event.
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10 / 8
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
A S Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her most recent novel, The Children’s Book is published in 2009. Her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, Elementals and Little Black Book of Stories. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.
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10 / 9
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10 / 10
Start: 11:00 am
End: 11:45 am
Preschool featuring Boo to You by Lois Ehlert. Play games, sing songs, make pumpkin faces and hear about some very special Halloween cats. For ages 3-5. $5 includes coupon. Registration required.
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10 / 11
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10 / 13
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10 / 14
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10 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
" The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota ..."
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10 / 16
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10 / 17
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
You asked for it, you got it! Make it! Mold it! Fling it! The scientific hows and whys of slime with Mrs. Pennington. Ages 8-12. $5 includes coupon. Registration required. Our 11:30 session is full but there is still time to register for the 2:00 program.
UNFORTUNATELY POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS. RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH AT 1:00 & 3:00. CALL FOR DETAILS. SPOTS OPEN IN BOTH SESSIONS.
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10 / 18
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10 / 19
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10 / 20
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Join us for author Richard Reisem's presentation of his fascinating new book Historic Photos of New York State. There will be an opportunity for questions after his talk. Copies of his book will be available for purchase and signing. Signed books make great holiday gifts!
http://www.liftbridgebooks.com/book/9781596525221
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10 / 21
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10 / 22
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10 / 24
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Fancy Nancy is back and she is having a very fancy tea party straight out of her new book! Join us for a morning of crafts, games and food prep for a tea party extrodinaire. Ages 5-7. $5 includes coupon. Registration required.
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10 / 25
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Read any book on Samuel Adams and come prepared to share your insights.
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10 / 26
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10 / 28
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
A Louisiana native, Cheryl Wagner is a graduate of Tulane University
and the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Wagner has made regular appearances on public radio's This American Life and has essays and articles published in Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Mississippi Review and Five Dials. She has also been featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The Current and Definitely Not the Opera. Wagner’s first book, Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around,
is a memoir of her time in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.”
She won awards from the Louisiana Press Association for her cover
stories on Hurricane Katrina. Wagners in New Orleans.
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10 / 29
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10 / 30
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Join us as local author Derek Nikitas signs copies of his new book THE LONG DIVISION. Autographed books make great gifts! Free and open to the public. A MIDNIGHT MADNESS event!
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Please join Jo Lynne during Midnight Madness as she reads from her book of MAGICAL STORIES FOR HEART & SOUL. She will also encourage participants on this Halloween Eve to share their own ghostly stories and tales of unseen spirits. Her book will be available for purchase and signing. Makes a great gift for that hard to buy for person on your holiday gift list! Free and open to the public.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Local poet Tom Holmes will be reading from his newest book HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF EZRA POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX at Java Junction during Midnight Madness. Lift Bridge will make books available for purchase and Tom will be signing them after the reading. Autographed books make great gifts!
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Join us at Lift Bridge for a Halloween Eve discussion of Edgar Allan Poe. Read anything by Poe and come ready to share your thoughts and opinions. Free and open to the public. Part of Rochester's Big Read and a Midnight Madness Event!
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10 / 31
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
Have fun with everyone's favorite cat - who thinks he's a dog! There's a choice of two times - 11 am or 2 pm. Fun, games and a chance to have your book stamped by Skipy Jon!
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