February 2017 Newsletter

Saturday, March 4th
1pm-4pm
Branden Perry
Book Signing
 
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Saturday, March 4th
12pm-2pm
Jr. Naturalists
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Friday, March 10th
6:30pm-8pm
Troy Ball
Reading, Tasting & 
Signing
 
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Saturday, March 11th
1pm-4pm
Bruce Thomason
Book Signing

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Thursday, March 16th
10am-12pm
Living Creatively
(3rd Thurs 
Creative Hour)


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Friday, March 17th
1pm-4pm
JR Sharpe
Book Signing


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Saturday, March 18th
1pm-4pm
Louise Jacques
Book Signing













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Saturday, March 25th
1pm-4pm
Kay Dew Shostak
New Book Release!
Book Signing


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Sunday, March 26th
1pm-4pm
Tricia Booker
Book Signing

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Thursday, March 30th
4pm-5:30pm
Nola Perez & Ron Kurtz
Reading, Reception &
Book Signing

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Saturday, April 1st
1pm-4pm
Eileen Erikson
Book Signing


Saturday, April 8th
1pm-4pm
Heather Lyn Mann
Book Signing
 












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Saturday, April 15th
12pm-2pm
Jr. Naturalists

Saturday, April 15th
1pm-4pm
Treviance Mayo
Book Signing



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Friday, March 10th
6:30pm-8pm
Reading and Reception
Troy Ball




Bookmarks: Times-Union columnist Mark Woods wins gold from 2016 Florida Book Awards
"Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks" by Times-Union columnist Mark Woods has won the 2016 Florida Book Awards General Nonfiction gold medal. This is the 11th year the awards have been given out by the Florida State University Libraries. Other local winners are J. Michael Butler of St. Augustine, who took silver in General Nonfiction for "Beyond Integration" and Marty Jourard of Gainesville, awarded bronze in Florida Nonfiction for "Music Everywhere: The Rock and Roll Roots of a Southern Town." The awards will be handed out April 12 in Tallahassee.
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Did you have a chance to make it over to the book festival? What a wonderful event on our little island with an impressive list of authors - both local and national. Thank you Marie Fenn and the Amelia Island Book Festival team for a world class event.

We have a lot of exciting events this month and look forward to seeing you there.

Sue, Cathy, Phyllis, Dan, Rita and Christy


Sue Nelson, Jacques Pepin & Mary Kay Andrews

Joseph Finder

       
Steve Berry  & David Baldacci
       









                     
Jacques & Rita & Phyllis
RL Stine stopped by the store

                                   
RL Stine & Dan

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The Book Loft ~ 904-261-6991 ~ 214 Centre St.
Friday, March 10th RSVP: 261-8991


Saturday, March 4th "Nature Mobiles" 12pm-2pm
A class designed for children ages 7-14. Children will learn about the items that wash up on our shores as well as the skills necessary to make a successful mobile.  To register for this program, email Robyn Nemes at  robynnemes@comcast.netThere is no charge for the program but pre-registration is required, as the class is limited to 10 participants. Children are invited to bring their own "beach treasures" to use (driftwood pieces from 4-10 inches long and seashells with holes) or they may choose from the selection that will be available for them.

Saturday, April 15th "Butterflies"
1pm-2pm


Reading and Reception Thursday, March 30th 4-5:30


Lincoln in the Bardo                                 

George Saunders    
From the seed of historical truth that is the death of President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie, George Saunders spins a "story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm ... Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul"

History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund
From the seed of historical truth that is the death of President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie, George Saunders spins a "story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm ... Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul"


Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
"Extraordinary... I can't remember when an ethnographic study so deepened my understanding of American life." 
--
Katha Pollitt, The Guardian


"[A] carefully researched, often heartbreaking book." 
--Chicago Tribune



 
Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar
Black Edge  is not just a work of major importance, it is also addictively readable--and horrifyingly compelling. Sheelah Kolhatkar pulls back the curtain on the cheating, corruption, and skulduggery that underlie large swaths of the hedge fund industry and some of Wall Street's most fabled fortunes. This book is as hard to put down as it is to stomach."  --Jane Mayer, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Money  

The Little Book of Hygge     Meik Wiking
"Comfort, coziness, warmth--that's what Hygge is. It's tailor-made for turbulent times, and this guide from Denmark can help you find it."--People