Lift Bridge Book Shop - Events Feed

Annie & Joe's Eclectic Book Group - September - THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:42:47 -0400

Start: September 9, 2010 - 7:00pm

End: September 9, 2010 - 8:00pm

"A sexy, addictive thriller."

Toddler Storytime with Miss Barbara

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:35:56 -0400

Start: September 10, 2010 - 10:30am

End: September 10, 2010 - 10:30am

Get on the school bus!

Unitarian Universalist Book Club - September - "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:47:07 -0400

Start: September 14, 2010 - 6:30pm

End: September 14, 2010 - 8:00pm

Memoirs of a boy soldier... The book all College at Brockport freshmen are reading.

This author will be speaking at The College at Brockport! Check their website for all events associated with the book all freshmen are reading: www.brockport.edu/srp/events

This book club is open to all and is always welcoming new members. They read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles and meet on the second Tuesday of each month. Give them a try! Free and open to the public.

Toddler Storytime with Miss Barbara

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:51:07 -0400

Start: September 17, 2010 - 10:30am

End: September 17, 2010 - 11:00am

September 17th is the Alphabet.

Young Adult Book Club

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:30:46 -0400

Start: September 17, 2010 - 7:00pm

End: September 17, 2010 - 8:00pm

A newly forming book club led by Tracey (mom) and her 16 year old daughter, Liz Phelps. It will meet quarterly at the store. Those interested bring a book or two to the first meeting for discussion. Liz's choice is Ellen Hopkin's newest - Fallout, available 9/14. Tracey will be discussing The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Refreshments will be served! Hope to see you there! Free and open to the public.

Write, Publish, And Promote A Book, Self-Publishing To Web-Publishing. Is There A Book In You? Come Find Out

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:46:16 -0400

Start: September 19, 2010 - 1:00pm

End: September 19, 2010 - 4:00pm

Mary K. Dougherty of Bootstrap Publishing will be holding a one day seminar for inspiring authors at Lift Bridge Book Shop on September 19th from 1-4 PM. Come and bring a friend- 2 for $45 or $30 for one person. Limited space- call and reserve your seat by phone-585-637-2260 or stop in. Any questions regarding the seminar itself, please contact Mary Dougherty at mkd@bootstrappublishing.net.

The seminar will cover:

* Local Publicity to National Exposure

* Social Networking

* Pre-sell your 2nd book before it is printed

* Press kits and press releases

* Blogging and websites

* Getting on Amazon.com

* Print on demand to ebooks

* The media and book signings

* 100s of other tips and ideas to sell your book!

History Book Club discussing Bourbon France (France during the Bourbon dynasty)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:22:24 -0400

Start: September 19, 2010 - 2:00pm

End: September 19, 2010 - 3:30pm

All are welcome to attend the September History Book Club discussion of Bourbon France. Read any book on this topic and have the opportunity to share your insights and thoughts about the book you have read. Free and open to the public.

Using Sign Language with your Baby - A Free Introductory Seminar

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:46:03 -0400

Start: September 21, 2010 - 7:00pm

End: September 21, 2010 - 8:00pm

Learn about the benefits of communicating with babies and toddlers through ASL signs. No signs will be taught, but there will be handouts and upcoming sign language classes for parents and babies will be announced. If you are interested please RSVP to

patkutz@liftbridgebooks.com

Also check out the Baby Signing Time website:

Brockport Writers Forum presents Poet Kimiko Hahn

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:02:48 -0400

Start: September 22, 2010 - 8:00pm

End: September 22, 2010 - 8:00pm

Kimiko Hahn is an American poet born in 1955 in Mount Kisco, New York. She
received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A.
from Columbia University.

She is the author of Air Pocket (Hanging Loose Press, 1989),
Earshot (HLP, 1992) which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial
Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature
Award, The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American
Book Award, Volatile (HLP, forthcoming, 1998) and Mosquito and Ant
(W.W. Norton, forthcoming, 1999). In 1995 she wrote ten portraits of
women for a two-hour HBO special entitled Ain’t Nuthin But a She-thing.

Rose O'Keefe author of books about Rochester History visiting Lift Bridge Book Shop

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:47:55 -0400

Start: September 23, 2010 - 6:30pm

End: September 23, 2010 - 8:00pm

Rose O'Keefe will be visiting Lift Bridge Book Shop to discuss her recently published book, Historic Genesee Country. Rose will give a talk about her book, answer questions, and sign books. Free and open to the public.

Science Fiction Book Club - September - The Truth by Terry Pratchett

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:54:14 -0400

Start: September 23, 2010 - 7:00pm

End: September 23, 2010 - 8:00pm

"Nothing short of magical!"

Allie Larkin, author of the critically acclaimed novel, STAY, will be visiting Lift Bridge Book Shop

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:38:20 -0400

Start: September 24, 2010 - 6:30pm

End: September 24, 2010 - 8:00pm

Allie Larkin, a graduate of St. John Fisher College, will be visiting Lift Bridge Book Shop to discuss her first published novel, Stay. Her debut novel has enjoyed very good reviews and has sold well. Allie will follow her discussion with a question/answer period and wrap up her visit signing copies of her books which are currently available at Lift Bridge. Free and open to the Public.

Brockport Freshman Read Presents:

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:35:24 -0400

Start: September 29, 2010 - 7:30pm

End: September 29, 2010 - 10:00pm

The Freshman Reading Selection Committee selected A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah for the 2010 Freshman Summer Reading Program. The author will be making his appearance in Brockport in September.

Science: Explosions Part 2

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:08:50 -0400

Start: October 2, 2010 - 11:00am

End: October 2, 2010 - 12:00pm

Learn more about blowing things up! This is a continuation of our popular summer program. Newcomers welcome. For ages 8-12. Registration required. Fee is $8 which includes a coupon.

Saturday Author Salon at Lift Bridge featuring April Terhaar

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:38:04 -0400

Start: October 2, 2010 - 2:00pm

End: October 2, 2010 - 4:00pm

Meet local children's author, April Terhaar, who will be signing copies of her book Through The Eyes Of Snowball. Books will be available for purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Brockport Writers Forum presents Kirk Nesset

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:17:51 -0400

Start: October 6, 2010 - 8:00pm

End: October 6, 2010 - 8:00pm

Kirk Nesset is author of two books of stories, Mr.
Agreeable and Paradise Road, as well as a nonfiction study, The
Stories of Raymond Carver, a book of poems, Saint
X (forthcoming), and a book of translations, Alphabet
of the World: Selected Works of Eugenio Montejo
(also forthcoming). He was awarded the Drue Heinz literature prize in
2007 and has received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, translations and essays have
appeared in hundreds of journals, including The
Paris Review, The Kenyon
Review, The Southern Review, American
Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa
Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Sun and Prairie
Schooner,
among others. His short short fictions have been widely anthologized,
appearing in W. W. Norton's NEW SUDDEN FICTION, FLASH FICTION FORWARD,
SUDDEN FICTION LATINO, and elsewhere.

Nesset grew up
in northern California, close to the coast, and studied at UC Santa
Cruz and UC Santa Barbara, as well as abroad. He has worked as a
dishwasher, a tree planter, a telemarketer, a car parker, a caterer, a
writing consultant and a salesman selling wood stoves. Currently he is
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Allegheny College in
Pennsylvania. He also plays guitar and sings in a rock group, and DJs
on FM radio, shows featuring gothic, darkwave, EBM and
electro-industrial music. He is fond of mountain biking, kayaking and
blading, and lives with three cats and a mini-Pomeranian dog.