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FEBRUARY

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Children's Literature Book Club

7p - 8.30p

Chapter & Verse gives this entire book club meeting over to discussing the recent ALA/ALSC Award winners (announced January 23rd; look for the winners on the CLN site that day), comparing them to our December discussion books and looking at the books that did win.

About Chapter & Verse
Chapter & Verse Book Club meets from 7:00 to 8:30 pm on the third Thursday of each month. This national book club is for adults who enjoy reading and discussing books written for children and teens. Book club books are available to book club members at a 10% discount.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please call HearthFire Books to reserve a chair or purchase the books.

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Wine@5

5 - 6pm

Kathryn Brusco
Myster/Thriller Author of Mission Aborted and Ignorance by Choice

Mission Aborted was written as the author's personal response to the current, pervasive, antiwoman political atmosphere. This novel addresses the attacks on organizations such as Planned Parenthood and teachers' unions as well as basic women's rights including abortion. Kathryn says,"While obviously a fictional presentation, political views are incorporated into the story, along with diligently researched facts that are not often spoken about in the real, not often fact-checking world of mass media. For example, when a procedure is performed on a woman who has an ectopic pregnancy and the fetus is unable to develop properly or survive, it is counted as an abortion statistic rather than a miscarriage. Kathryn states that we all know women who have had this procedure when it was a very much wanted pregnancy and know how difficult it is emotionally in addition to the physical."

Ignorance By Choice was written in the aftermath of an presidential election that rid the nation of an incompetent tyrant and his minions. It also is a fast-paced and still extremely relevant political mystery/thriller that takes the reader on a morally challenging, edge-of-the-seat ride that will not be forgotten. The basis of the novel, without giving away the gravy, concerns one man with close ties to a previous administration who is on a murderous mission to cull his envisioned herd of ignorance, illustrating in a fictional setting that politics and beliefs can indeed kill.

About Kathryn

Kathryn spent most of her early years in Pensacola and in Northwest Florida on a Morgan horse farm, learning to drive in the hay fields and participating in showing horses and sheep at 4H, while avoiding rattlesnakes, black widows and the occasional 'gator. She has a degree in Art History from SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. After graduating, she taught elementary school in an inner city Chicago school. However, she always knew that Colorado would be her home from a family cross-country vacation when she ten years old. Kathryn finally got her chance to go west in her twenties when she was able to fulfill a dream of owning an art gallery in Boulder, Colorado where she met her husband.

Kathryn's admittedly strange and interesting background includes legal investigation, research, politics and art history. In her daily routine, she enjoys reading, writing, cooking and political observation while attempting to meet personal and professional goals between hiking, organic gardening, and replenishing of supplies at altitude in surreal Evergreen, Colorado. She is married with two children...with a feisty daughter described as her clone, who is in pre-school for another year, and a son, who is his father's clone and will be a first grader at the end of the summer. Where and when she is able to find the time and space to write is still a mystery to her and most of her friends and family.

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Wine@5

5 - 6pm

Ernie Jackson
Author of Quinton's Messages

In 2009, the Jackson family was transformed forever when nine-year-old Quinton Stone Jackson, son of Ernest and Kristine and brother of Cheyanne, was killed in a tragic accident during the family's annual vacation. In this memoir, Ernest explores his family's lives leading up to the crash and details the accident and its resulting effects on Quinton's family. Quinton's Messages follows Ernest and his family's journeys through the tragedy. As he attempted to find meaning for his life, Ernest scrutinized his job and the busy work it involved, and he realized that he had higher aspirations for his career. He sought direction for his life, and he found that following his son's death, when he needed direction the most. Ernest also shares the eye-opening events that followed Quinton's death as Quinton visited them and left messages for Ernest and his family after his transition. These experiences opened the family's reality to a much larger universe. A story of loss, grief, and hope, Quinton's Messages recounts how the Jackson family survived the sorrow they experienced after the loss of their beloved son and brother.

MARCH

15

Children's Literature Book Club

7p - 8.30p

The Flint Heart
by Katherine Paterson

A robust and wildly entertaining fairy tale, freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts's 1910 fantasy and wryly retold by Katherine and John Paterson.

An ambitious Stone Age man demands a talisman that will harden his heart, allowing him to take control of his tribe. Against his better judgment, the tribe's magic man creates the Flint Heart, but the cruelty of it causes the destruction of the tribe. Thousands of years later, the talisman reemerges to corrupt a kindly farmer, an innocent fairy creature, and a familial badger. Can Charles and his sister Unity, who have consulted with fairies such as the mysterious Zagabog, wisest creature in the universe, find a way to rescue humans, fairies, and animals alike from the dark influence of the Flint Heart? This humorous, hearty, utterly delightful fairy tale is the sort for an entire family to savor together or an adventurous youngster to devour.

The Secret Box
by Barbara Lehman

Times change. Cities may grow large. Summers may come and go. And people might grow old, but the one thing that always remains the same is the desire for adventure.

Barbara Lehman takes readers on a timeless trip to a world of secret messages left in secret boxes hidden in secret places.

About Chapter & Verse
Chapter & Verse Book Club meets from 7:00 to 8:30 pm on the third Thursday of each month. This national book club is for adults who enjoy reading and discussing books written for children and teens. Book club books are available to book club members at a 10% discount.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please call HearthFire Books to reserve a chair or purchase the books.

APRIL

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WORLD BOOK NIGHT

SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER BY FEBRUARY 1.

World Book Night is an annual celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books. To be held in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and Ireland on April 23, 2012. It will see tens of thousands of people go out into their communities to spread the joy and love of reading by giving out free World Book Night paperbacks.

World Book Night, through social media and traditional publicity, will also promote the value of reading, of printed books, and of bookstores and libraries to everyone year-round.

Successfully launched in the U.K. in 2011, World Book Night will also be celebrated in the U.S. in 2012, with news of more countries to come in future years. Please join our mailing list for regular World Book Night U.S. news. And thank you to our U.K. friends for such a wonderful idea!

Additionally, April 23 is UNESCO’s World Book Day, chosen due to the anniversary of Cervantes’ death, as well as Shakespeare’s birth and death.

This site exists in order to learn more about World Book Night and to keep updated on new developments – and most important, to register to be a World Book Night U.S. book giver.