Lift Bridge Book Shop

John Edgar Wideman is the author of more than eighteen books of fiction and nonfiction including Two Cities, The Lynchers, God’s Gym, and Fanon.His memoir, Brothers and Keepers, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Fatheralong
was a finalist for the National Book Award. Wideman was twice awarded
the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction— in 1984 for his novel Sent for You Yesterday andin 1990 for Philadelphia Fire.
In addition, his work has won the Rea Award for the short story, the
American Book Award for Fiction, the Lannan Foundation Fellowship and
the MacArthur “genius” Award. Wideman is a professor in the Africana
Studies Department at Brown University.

An eater's manifesto that explains what we should be eating to be healthy, enjoy eating again, and enrich our lives.

Geraldine Brooks credits an unlikely duo--flatulent sheep and the
Nigerian secret police--for her career as a writer of historical
fiction.  Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she longed to be a
newspaper reporter.  From New Zealand, in 1987, she filed what she considers her
most notable dispatch, on the opportunity to study global warming
afforded by the country's huge, methane-producing, sheep population.  
The so-called "farting sheep"  story led to her appointment as Middle
East bureau chief for the Journal, where she spent six years covering
regional conflicts, including the first Gulf War, and wrote her first
book of non-fiction, Nine Parts of Desire, published in 1994. Later, as
the Journal's UN Correspondent, she covered conflicts in Bosnia and
Somalia and African development issues.  In Nigeria to report on Shell
Oil's collusion with the Abacha military dictatorship, she was arrested, accused of being a spy, and thrown in jail.  It was at this point that she began to consider a midlife career change.

In 1995 she wrote a memoir, Foreign Correspondence, which chronicles a childhood enriched by penpals from around the world, and her adult quest to find them. Her first novel, Year of Wonders,
published in 2001, was inspired by the true story of Eyam, Derbyshire,
where villagers voluntarily quarantined themselves when plague struck
in 1665. He second novel, March, a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women from the point of view of Mr. March, the absent father, won the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 2006.  Her most recent novel, People of the Book, has been translated into more than 20 languages and was an instant New York Times bestseller.

She lives on Martha's Vineyard with her husband Tony Horwitz, their sons, Nathaniel  and Bizuayehu, and three dogs.

Mark your calendar for a morning of stories, games and activities guaranteed to get your gobble going.  Ages 3-5.  $5 includes coupon.  Registration required.

Join
us for a discussion on the work, films and ideas of David Lynch. After
a short video presentation Kista Tucker will lead a discussion on the
work of David Lynch. Discussion will include the goals of having a
David Lynch Exhibit at one of the Rochester, NY museums and bringing
David Lynch to the area.  There will also be mention of Tucker’s David
Lynch Project—Randolph County and how it spurred The David Lynch Crowd.

More information: kistatuckerdance

A native of Clinton, N.C., Michael Parker received his B.A. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.F.A. from the
University of Virginia. Parker is the author of the novels, Hello Down There (Scribner’s, 1993) — a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize — Towns without Rivers (2001), and If You Want Me to Stay (2005). His short fiction collection is Don’t Make Me Stop Now (2007). His stories have appeared in Oxford American, The Georgia Review and Five Points.
Parker has received the North Carolina Award, the Goodheart Prize, the
Sir Walter Raleigh Award and fellowships from the North Carolina Arts
Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the
M.F.A. Writing Program at UNC, Greensboro.

A beautiful, heartbreaking story told as only Toni Morrison can.

Do you like magic?  Join Mrs. Pennington for a REPEAT performance and try your hand at tricks that will amaze your friends.  Ages 8-12.  $5 includes coupon.  Registration required.

Please join us for an afternoon poetry reading with M. J. Iuppa and Karla Merrifield.  Following the reading will be an opportunity for questions and a book signing.  This would make an excellent holiday gift for the poetry lover on your gift list!  Free and open to the public.

4th Fridays 

Come and hear one of our most talented local musicians sing and play. He's even bringing song books so you can join in. Woody plays guitar and sings and you are welcome to sing along. A fun time for an early Friday evening. WE HAVE A SIGN-UP LIST IN THE STORE TO RECEIVE E-MAIL REMINDERS FOR THIS FUN FAMILY EVENT!

Join us as local author Lorna Barrett visits Lift Bridge to sign copies of the latest installment in her Booktown Mystery Series Bookplate Special.  If you've read the first two, we know you won't want to miss this one!  If you haven't this is the perfect opportunity to get the complete set autographed.  It would make a great holiday gift for the mystery lover on your list!

Join us for an afternoon of crafts galore during the Thanksgiving break!  Specially designed for girls 6-8.  $5 includes all materials and a coupon.  Registration is required.

Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels.

Penny was born in Toronto where she earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts from  Ryerson University. Before she turned to writing in 2004, she was a journalist and radio host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in various cities across Canada for 25 years. She currently lives in a village south of Montreal with her husband Michael.

Her oeuvre is a series of mystery novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of the homicide department of the Sûreté du Québec. The novels, although set in the province of Quebec, feature many hallmarks of the British whodunit
genre, including murders by unconventional means, bucolic villages,
large casts of suspects, red herrings, and a dramatic disclosure of the
murderer in the last few pages of the book.

Since turning to writing, Penny has enjoyed remarkable success,
garnering major crime novel award nominations for her first four
novels, and subsequently winning several of those awards.

Please join local authors Sonja Livingston and Steve Fellner as they read from their new books.  Sonja has written a memoir about growing up in poverty, GHOSTBREAD.  Steve has  written ALL SCREWED UP, a memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family which reviewers described as "laugh-out-loud funny and gut wrenching" A book signing will follow.  Signed books make great gifts!  Free and open to the public.