TODAY AT SCHWARTZ
Mary Pearson
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
7:00 p.m. reading, Mequon
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a yearlong coma and she’s still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. She has been told her name, and her parents show her home movies of her life, her memories, but she has no recollection. Is she really the same girl she sees on the screen? Little by little she begins to remember, but with the memories come questions no one wants to answer for her. For young adults
Wendy Johnson
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
7:00 p.m. talk, Shorewood
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in northern California’s Marin County is renowned for its pioneering role in California’s food revolution, providing choice produce to farmers’ markets and to San Francisco’s Greens restaurant. Wendy Johnson has been meditating and gardening at Green Gulch for more than thirty years. She has distilled her lifetime of experience into a celebration of inner and outer growth, showing how the garden cultivates the gardener.
Thousands of second hand books have been marked down to make room for new inventory at Downer Avenue. Get in fast while supplies last! $1 paperback, $2 hardcover; Oversized: $3 paperback, $5 hardcover. Many of these popular titles are in new condition. Stop in soon to browse our wide selection of fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and collectible.
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Guess the number of books in the children’s department at our Downer Avenue shop, and win a cool prize! Include games and game books in your guess, but no stuffed toys. Remember the paperbacks in the roller bins, used books, and bargain books! Put your name, contact info, and best guess in the fishbowl. Good luck!
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Booker Prize, six authors are in the running to win a special award called the best of the Booker. Help pick the from works by Pat Barker, Peter Carey, JM Coetzee, JG Farrell, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie by voting online.
The nominees:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Vote Now!
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Schwartz Live at Alverno Presents:
She has interviewed every president and First Lady from Dwight and
Mamie Eisenhower to George and Laura Bush. Movie stars, musicians
from every genre, heads of state, athletes, and legends of the stage;
If we were talking about them, Barbara Walters was talking to
them. And, she broke boundaries as the first woman to ever co-host
a network news show. At this can’t-miss event, she will share
pieces of her extraordinary life from her new memoir, Audition. Read More
As you can imagine, we booksellers love sharing books with each other
as much as we love telling you about them. We are always talking about
what we are reading. So, whenever a book has the opportunity to land
in the hands of multiple booksellers, who then enthusiastically pass
it on to more booksellers, and they all jump with a collective "I
love this book!" we know we have a winner. Hillary Jordan's Mudboud
is just such a book.
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"Peace, a beautiful new gem from writer
Richard Bausch, tells the WWII story of six lost and frozen ragtag soldiers trying to stay alive as the battles come to an end. This quiet and illuminating
book is perfect proof that from the personal comes the profound. The book's title suggest a question as well as an answer."—Carol Grossmeyer, Owner and President
For more about Peace read
this recent article from our Email newsletter
