Events for Love Your Library Days
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What: "Love Your Library" Fundraiser for Connecticut Libraries When: Friday, December 2 & Saturday, December 3, 2005 Where: Barnes & Noble Stores (CT, MA, RI) How: Shop with a Love Your Library voucher Why: To Support Connecticut Libraries |
Authors, Librarians, Book-related Events - Book Lovers in Connecticut Loved Their Libraries at Barnes & Noble; LYL Events Are Over, Signed Books Still Available at Many Stores
Kickoff on December 1st - author Anne Margaret Lewis signed books at Barnes & Nobles throughout Connecticut
PLUS... Publisher donates one copy of Has Anyone Seen Christmas? to every public library in the state of Connecticut! Books soon to go out to Connecticut libraries!
See more information about the KICKOFF!
Also! Dr. Bernie Siegel spoke at the Barnes & Noble, North Haven, for Love Your Library days - Sat., Dec. 3rd, from 1-3 pm. What are the Exercises for the Soul that Dr. Siegel recommends? More about the event with Dr. Bernie Siegel....
Other Author Events:
Donald Bain & Renee Paley-Bain, co-authors of the Murder, She Wrote mystery series, will discuss and sign copies of their new novel, "Murder, She Wrote: Margaritas & Murder" Friday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. -- Discussion/Signing -- Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Danbury... More on this event ...
Double Pink author Kate Feiffer comes to Manchester's Barnes & Noble
Love Harry Potter? How about Lemony Snicket? Just looking for something fun and family-oriented for your weekend? Games, storytimes and more, themed around your favorite books grace Enfield's Barnes & Noble through a partnership among area libraries... See more information about Enfield's Events...
Pre-event KICKOFF: Thursday, December 1st - Author of exciting, new children's holiday book - Has Anyone Seen Christmas? - blitzes 8 Connecticut Barnes & Noble Booksellers! (Danbury, Enfield, Manchester, North Haven, Norwalk, Orange, West Hartford, and Westport) Sales of this special book will be counted toward the Love Your Library total beginning on December 1st!* (* Purchases of other items will need to be made on December 2nd and 3rd with Love Your Library vouchers, to count toward the Love Your Library totals.) See our press release (Word .doc) on the Has Anyone Seen Christmas? kickoff... View a summary of the book and see what people are saying about it....
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Canton:
Sat., December 3 10:30 AM – “Love Your Library” Children’s StorytimeBarnes & Noble Booksellers, Danbury:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Friday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. -- Discussion/Signing
Donald Bain & Renee Paley-Bain, co-authors of the Murder, She Wrote mystery series, will discuss and sign copies of their new novel, "Murder, She Wrote: Margaritas & Murder" in which the ever-popular Jessica Fletcher heads to Mexico for a vacation that ends in murder... (for more on the co-author Donald Bain, go to http://www.donaldbain.com)
Saturday, December 3 at 11:00 a.m. -- Storytime
Linda Westfall, children's librarian at Danbury Library, will read stories for children ages 2 - 10 at a storytime in the Children's Section.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Enfield:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Friday, December 2nd: 
3:00 pm Harry Potter Jeopardy Game Sponsored by Enfield Public Library
4:00 pm Story Time Sponsored by Somers Public Library
5:00 pm Poetry Event Sponsored by the Suffield Public Library
Saturday, December 3rd schedule:
12:00 Noon Lemony Snicket Trivia Contest Sponsored by Enfield Public Library
1:00 pm Story Time Sponsored by Somers Public Library
3:00 pm Harry Potter Jeopardy Game Sponsored by Enfield Public Library
4:00 pm Story Time Sponsored by Suffield Public Library
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Manchester:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Sat., December 3, 1 PM – Author Event: Kate Feiffer: Double Pink (Picturebooks)
Sat., December 3, 1 PM – “Love Your Library” Preschoolers’ Storytime (ages 3-6)
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, North Haven:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Saturday, December 3, from 1 to 3 pm:
Meet Dr. Bernie Siegel
Dr. Bernie Siegel, legendary author, physician, and alternative healing pioneer, will be present for a special holiday signing of his many books including his latest, "101 Exercises for the Soul: A Divine Workout Plan for Body, Mind, and Spirit". See press release in Word .doc format!
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Norwalk:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Sat., December 3 , 11 AM – “Love Your Library” Children’s Storytime
Featuring a guest reader from the Norwalk Public Library - Sherelle Harris - who is Head of Branch Children's Services
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Orange:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Waterbury:
Fri., Dec. 2, 6:30 PM – “Love Your Library” Family Storytime
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, West Hartford:
Thursday, December 1 -- Pre-event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis where she will stop in briefly (due to the many stops Ms. Lewis will be making on December 1st to sign copies of her book, we have no "assigned time" for her to be at most stores...) up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libraries, as early as December 1st... So stop in and get a signed copy at any of the pre-event KICKOFF stores, December 1st or after!
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Westport:
Thursday, December 1, 11 AM-noon -- Pre-Event KICKOFF with Has Anyone Seen Christmas? author Anne Margaret Lewis (time for each store to be announced) where she will sign copies of her book and up to 25% of purchases of her book will be donated to Connecticut's libaries
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Holyoke, MA:
Fri., December 2, 7 PM – Author Reading & Signing: Corrine Demas;
Storytime for Children/Beginning Readers
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Worcester, MA:
Sat., December 3, 1 PM – Jane & Steven Schoenberg: My Bodyworks
Storytime for Preschoolers & Beginning Readers (ages 3-8)
Love Your Library Days Pre-event KICKOFF With Author Anne Margaret Lewis
To kick off Love Your Library days in true holiday style, Anne Margaret Lewis, author of Has Anyone Seen Christmas?, will be touring eight of Connecticut's Barnes & Noble stores, where she'll be signing copies of this soon-to-be-classic children's holiday book. WBZ in Boston called Has Anyone Seen Christmas? unique, fresh and timeless and compared it with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Bookstores all over the country are recommending Has Anyone Seen Christmas?.
Ms. Lewis will be touring the Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Danbury, Enfield, Manchester, North Haven, Norwalk, Orange, West Hartford, and Westport on December 1st. All copies of the book purchased on this date will be counted toward the Love Your Library totals.To kick off Love Your Library days in true holiday style, Anne Margaret Lewis, author of Has Anyone Seen Christmas?, will be touring six of Connecticut's Barnes & Noble stores, where she'll be signing copies of this soon-to-be-classic children's holiday book.
To help get Connecticut's statewide library fundraiser off on the right foot, the publishers of this title (Mackinac Island Press - (http://www.mackinacislandpress.com ) have generously offered to provide one copy of the book for free to every public library in the state of Connecticut! Has Anyone Seen Christmas? was recently honored as the #1 book at the New England Booksellers Association and Great Lakes Booksellers Association meetings. The American Booksellers Association just selected it as one of the Best Christmas books for 2005.
So remember, enjoy Has Anyone Seen Christmas? at a Barnes & Noble store on December 1st and love your library!
Has Anyone Seen Christmas?
By Anne Margaret Lewis
Illustrated by Wendy Popko
What is time spelled backwards? It's EMIT, and he has been chosen by Santa to navigate his sleigh on Christmas Eve. When Emit falls off the sleigh, he must travel through all the other holidays before he finds Christmas, and its real meaning. Each holiday character, including Baby New Year, Cupid, an Easter Bunny who hops on a pogo stick, and Lady Liberty with her torch, join Emit on his journey in search of Christmas. http://www.mackinacislandpress.com/books_christmas.html
Soul Strengtheners: 101 Divine Workouts from the One and Only Dr. Bernie Siegel
If you don’t exercise your soul, you’re in danger of becoming a human doing rather than a human being. In his simple yet powerful new book, Dr. Siegel offers a wealth of mini-prescriptions for spiritual fitness that fit into the busiest of lives.
Woodbridge, CT(August 2005)—Have you exercised your soul today? If you’re like most of us, you might not be blamed for thinking, Okay, after I take my child to school, plow through a 10-hour workday, throw together dinner, fold a mountain of laundry, do the bath-book-bedtime routine—then I’ll take the soul out for a little stroll. But the truth is, that elusive entity called your soul does need regular attention. It is, after all, the part of you that enables you to live and love with enthusiasm, vigor, and plain old joy. And according to best-selling author Dr. Bernie Siegel, soul-exercise doesn’t require formal meditation, regular church attendance, or a two-week retreat at a monastery.
“There are plenty of opportunities to improve the fitness of your soul in the course of a normal, ordinary day in your normal, ordinary life,” says Dr. Siegel, author of the new book 101 Exercises for the Soul: A Divine Workout Plan for Body, Mind, and Spirit (New World Library, September 2005, ISBN: 1-57731-511-1, $17.95). “Soul work is not constrained by rigid schedules and hard and fast rules. But it does require introspection. It does require intention. It does require the courage to take that first step onto your soulful journey.”
In his new book, Dr. Siegel describes himself as a coach whose goal is helping the reader make his or her soul “stronger, leaner, and more flexible.” He offers a plethora of quick, simple, to-the-point tips and exercises that can be worked into the most hectic of lifestyles.