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Start: 2:00 pm
Zoey's Story is a collection of actual events in her life as "told" by her. This book is an invitation to the reader to embrace this once-abandoned Black Lab pup that time and again demonstrates her undisciplined and mischievous exuberance. Follow Zoey's education as she attends dog obedience school and therapy dog training. Join her as she romps and plays with her friends, and share her humorous, warm, tender, and occasional sad moments. Share the joy and unconditional love she gives to her family, as well as the smiles, cheer, and comfort she brings to individuals in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, rehabilitation centers, and an alzheimer's center. Zoey's Story will remind pet lovers that their own precious animals have stories to tell. Listen very carefully, use your imagination, an d you will also share a treasured dialogue with your special pet. | 22
Start: 7:00 pm
The Bookcase welcomes Paul Linde to our store on Monday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. Mr. Linde will be on hand to read from, discuss, and sign copies of his new book, Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist. The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physicall sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside -- health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even "patients' rights" advocates -- and from the inside -- biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry. | 23
Start: 7:00 pm
The Bookcase welcomes author Patsy Keech to our store on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. to read from, discuss, and sign copies of her book Mothering an Angel. In this book, Keech describes the journey she and her husband, Robb, made during the short life of their son, Derian, through eleven surgeries, including five open heart surgeries. The book covers the 2 1/2 year experience during his lifetime and the ensuing grieving and healing process. In honoring the memory of their son, they were determined to assist other families with critically ill children. Patsy writes, "The only way we could do it was to extend ourselves and 'pay it forward' to the families who were still living the life we no longer had to." It was this sentiment that established Spare Key in 1997. This book is being done in collaboration with Spare Key. For more information, visit www.sparekey.org. | 24
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Start: 7:00 pm
The Mystery Book Club will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 25 to discuss Deborah Crombie's novel A Share in Death. A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirpool bath ends Kincaid's vacation before it's begun. One of his new acquaintances at Followdale House is dead; another is a killer. Despite a distinct lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid's keen sense of duty won't allow him to ignore the heinous crime, impelling him to send for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James. But the stakes are raised dramatically when a second murder occurs, and Kincaid and James find themselves in a determined hunt for a fiendish felon who enjoys homicide a bit too much. Anybody who is interested in attending this book club is welcome to show up! Start: 7:00 pm
Thomas Mullen will be at The Bookcase at 7:00 p.m. on Thursdeay, February 25 to read from, discuss, and sign copies of his new novel, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers. In Mullen's evocative new novel, the highly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed debut, The Last Town on Earth, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson -- bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by the press, the authorities, and an adoring public that worships their acts as heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system. Now it appears they have at last met their end in a hail of bullets. Jason and Whit's lovers -- Darcy, a wealthy socialite, and Veronica, a hardened survivor -- struggle between grief and an unyielding belief that the Firesons have survived. While they and the Firesons' stunned mother and straight-arrow third son wade through conflicting police reports and press accounts, wild rumors spread that the bandits are still at large. Through it all, the Firefly Brothers remain as charismatic, unflappable, and as mythical as the American Dream itself, racing to find the women they love and make sense of a world in which all has come unmoored. Complete with kidnappings and gangsters, heiresses and speakeasies, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers is an imaginative and spirited saga about what happens when you are hopelessly outgunned -- and a masterly tale of hardship, redemption, and love that transcends death. | 26
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Start: 10:00 am
The Bookcase is pleased to welcome children's author Greg Budig to our store on Saturday, February 27 at 10:00 a.m. Mr. Budig will be here to read from, discuss, and sign copies of his book Still: A Winter's Journey. Greg Budig does for winter what he did for fall in I Hear the Wind.In his words and illustrations, he leads the reader through woods,fields and snow-covered streets to the tempo of a world made white.While written for children, this winter walk will captivate people ofall ages. |
