TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
7:00pm

Local author Maxim Shrayer will read from and discuss his book, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam : Stories. A reception and book signing will follow.

Whether set in Maxim D. Shrayer’s native Russia or in North America and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their American present.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
7:00pm

Local author Laura Moore will read from and discuss her book, REMEMBER ME : Book One of The Rosewood Trilogy. A reception and book signing will follow.

A rising star in the modeling world, Margot Radcliffe returns to Rosewood, the Virginia horse farm where she had been raised, following a family tragedy, and must join forces with the man who had broken her heart years ago in order to save Rosewood from financial ruin. Original.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6
2:00pm

Local author Deborah Davis will read from and discuss her book, GILDED: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort. A reception and book signing will follow.

Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Many of the country's most famous blueblood families--the closest thing we have to royalty--have lived and summered in Newport since the nineteenth century. The Astors, the Vanderbilts, Edith Wharton, John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Doris Duke, and Claus and Sunny von Bulow are just a few of the many famous people who have called the city home. Through a narrative filled with engrossing characters and lively tales of untold extravagance, Gilded takes you along as you explore the fascinating heritage of the Newport elite, from its first colonists to the newest of its new millennium millionaires.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13
11:15am

Author Alison Paul will read from and discuss her book, SUNDAY LOVE as part of a special VALENTINE's DAY STORYTIME HOUR & CRAFT.

Some things just go together like chocolate and vanilla, valentines and hearts, Bruno and his one true love. This is a romance every sweet tooth can relate to. The theme of reuniting with one's true love makes this a great Valentine's Day gift for all ages.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
7:00pm

Local author Paula Butturini will read from and discuss her book, KEEPING THE FEAST: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. A reception and book signing will follow.

A story of food and love, injury and healing, "Keeping the Feast" is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
7:00pm

Local author Gerald M. Carbone will read from and discuss HIS book, WASHINGTON: Lessons in Leadership. A reception and book signing will follow.

George Washington influenced every phase of the Revolutionary war, from beginning to end. He deftly handled the "political realm" by convincing Congress to keep his army supplied, a tough task when the country was really just a loose confederation of states with no power to tax. His offenses were as brilliant as they were unpredictable, such as his legendary Christmas Day strike at Trenton, and a bold foray through the fog to nearly drive the British from the field at Germantown. It was an aggressive attack that helped convince the French that the American Army was worth supporting. Carbone argues that it is this sort of fearless but not reckless, spontaneous but calculated, offensive that Washington should be remembered for--as a leader not of infallibility but of greatness.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
11:30am

Free kids’ drawing hour with Steve Brosnihan, author of Anyone Can Draw Cartoonagrams

Draw 26 easy to learn, easy to remember cartoon characters by using letters of the alphabet!

A lifetime of fun for your kids!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
7:00pm

Local author Walter Greatshell will read from and discuss his book, XOMBIES: Apocalypticon. A reception and book signing will follow.

When the Agent X plague struck, it infected women first, turning them into mindless killers intent only on creating an army of "Xombies" by spreading their disease. Running for her life, seventeen-year-old Lulu is rescued by the father she has never known and taken aboard a refitted nuclear submarine that has one mission: to save a little bit of humanity.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
7:00pm

Local author I. Alexander Olchowski will read from and discuss his book, THE FARMER, with musical accompaniment by Jack Waldheim. A reception and book signing will follow.

Grounded in the bedrock love of Ed and Susan Brown, The Farmer begins where it ends, on a small family farm in Upstate New York. The couple's two boys grow up to be opposite men. Marvin is a lawyer. Jack lives at home and works the farm with his father. After Marvin returns to open a practice in town, Jack is forced to leave the only world he's ever known. He is gone for five years, hopping freight trains and bonding with wolves. When he finally makes it back home many things have changed. The story is a symphony, equal parts joy and grief, generations bound together by the rhythm of seasons, and the gravity of land.