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Celebrate Love at our Preschool program for 3-5 year olds.  Make your reservations early as materials are prepared for each child.  Cost is $5 which includes a coupon.

Read any book about the American Revolution in New York State and come ready to share your opinion.

Please join us for the Publication Celebration of "Five Seasons", the latest anthology published by the Rochester Area Haiku Group.  Several of the poets in the collection will read their work, including Michael Ketchek, Pamela Babusci, Deb Koen, Carolyn Coit Dancy, Deanna Tiefental, and Frank Judge. 

The reading will be followed by refreshments and an informal discussion.  Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.  Free and open to the public.

You can celebrate Pet Day even if you don't have one!  For ages 7-12.  Call to register.  Materials are prepared for each child.

Sonja’s writing has been honored
with a NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, Pushcart Prize
nomination, and grants from Vermont Studio Center and The Deming Fund
for Women. Her work has appeared in some of the country's finest
literary journals, including the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Southeast Review, AGNI, the Spoon River Poetry Review, BREVITY, Gulf
Coast, and is anthologized in several texts on writing, including SHORT
TAKES, THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, and THE CURIOUS WRITER. Sonja holds an
MFA from the University of New Orleans and an M.S. Ed. from SUNY
Brockport. She runs writing workshops locally, provides manuscript consultations, and teaches in UCLA Extension's Writing Program.

Sonja's first book, GHOSTBREAD, won an AWP Book Prize for Nonfiction.

Besides writing, Sonja enjoys snapping photos, hiking in bogs, and is
currently hooked on English murder mysteries. She was born and raised
in western New York State, where she now lives with her two overweight
tabbies and her husband, the artist Jim Mott.

All are welcome to join our discussion of Edgar Allan Poe.  Free and open to the public.

"The jewels in this life are the events we do not plan...".  So begins
this account of a big city girl in the wilds of Wyoming and her life
with her coyote, Charlie.

".. combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel."

Peter Cameron was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey in 1959 and grew up there and in London, England. He spent two years attending the progressive American School in London, where he discovered the joys of reading, and began writing stories, poems, and plays. Cameron graduated from Hamilton College in New York State in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature.

He sold his first short story to The New Yorker
in 1983, and published ten more stories in that magazine during the
next few years. This exposure facilitated the publication of his first
book, a collection of stories titled One Way or Another, published by Harper & Row in 1986. One Way or Another
was awarded a special citation by the PEN/​Hemingway Award for First
Book of Fiction. In 1988 Cameron was hired by Adam Moss to write a
serial novel for the just-launched magazine 7 Days. This serial, which was written and published a chapter a week, became Leap Year,
a comic novel of life and love in New York City in the twilight of the
1980s. It was published in 1989 by Harper & Row, which also
published a second collection of stories, Far-flung, in 1991.

Beginning in 1990, Cameron stopped writing short fiction and turned his attention toward novels. His second novel, The Weekend, was published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which also published a third novel, Andorra, in 1997. FSG published Cameron’s fourth novel, The City of Your Final Destination, in 2002, and his most recent novel, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, in 2007. His work has been translated into a dozen languages.

Our topic for March will be Quakers in America.  Read any book on the subject and come ready to share your thoughts and opinions.  Free and open to the public.  all are welcome.  Questions?  Call Joe at (585) 637 2260 or jhoffman@liftbridgebooks.com