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Up-Coming
Events
Spend
$50 on titles reviewed in our
newly-posted Spring 2007
newsletter
and we'll ship them free to anywhere in the U.S.!
April 24,
5:30 p.m.
Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks
welcomes
artist and poet
Ellen Gust
or a discussion of her unique new book
Life Below the Clouds: Poetry and Painting
Saturday,
May 10th, 5 p.m.
Truckee Donner Rec and Parks Department, Church Street
Truckee
Reads: The Tipping Point
Join the Bookshelf, the Friends of the Truckee Library,
and
Sierra College's Institute for Sustainability for discussion
of
Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point
with a panel of local agents of change.
appetizers,
no host bar, $5 donation requested
For more information, call the LIbrary at 582-7846
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Past events & autographed
books
at bookshelf stores:
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On March
1st at 4:00 p.m.
Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks, Truckee
Ethan Rarick
visited the Truckee store to talk about his new book
Desperate Passage:
The
Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West
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Local author Tim Hauserman joined us in
December for a discussion
and signing of his new book Cross Country Skiing in the
Sierra Nevada which covers the “Best Resorts & Touring Centers in California &
Nevada.”
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In August the Bookshelf at Hooligan
Rocks hosted
Michael Wallis, author of
The Lincoln Highway.
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Laird Blackwell author of
Tahoe Wildflowers: a month-by-month
guide to wildflowers
in the Tahoe Basin and surrounding areas
presented a slide show at
Hooligan Rocks in July.
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Megan Seeley
author of the resource-packed guide
Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist
joined us at Hooligan Rocks in May.
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Steven M. Nightengale author of The Planetary
Tambourine
visited the Bookshelf at
Hooligan Rocks during National Poetry Month.
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Elizabeth Carmel, author of
Brilliant Waters: Portraits of Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, and the High Sierra, joined
us at the Truckee store for a slideshow and signing.
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Terry Healy, author of At Face Value
visited the Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks to talk about his amazing life.
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Willard Wyman, author of
High Country, joined us at the Truckee
store to talk about
his book of gripping historical fiction about wranglers, mules, mountain men, and women.
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Veronica Barrett author of Happy New Year Darling!
which has been called, "Sexy, funny, poignant. Bridget Jones meets Bridges of Madison County in the San Fernando Valley."
visited the Truckee store
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Jack Kirby author of Autobiography of a California
Entrepreneur
and founder and creator of Tahoe Donner joined us for a discussion and book signing.
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Jimmy Peterson, author
of the coffee table book
Skiing Around the World, joined us at Hooligan Rocks
for a live Podcast interview, slide show, and book signing.
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Alice Hoffman author of
The Ice Queen, joined our book group discussion at the
Truckee Library via teleconference.
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Jason Matthews, author of The Big Bang,
joined us for a lively discussion and signing at
Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks
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Dan Price, author of Radical
Simplicity, presented a slideshow at Bookshelf at
Hooligan Rocks, and was joined by Matt
Stein, author of When Technology Fails, for a
discussion.
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Jon Paul, of South Shore's Jon Paul Gallery, signed copies of his
beautiful new coffee table book Visions Of Lake Tahoe
on at
Bookshelf at the Boatworks
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On
August 6 at Bookshelf at the Boatworks,
Todd Borg signed copies of his Owen McKenna mystery thrillers set in Lake Tahoe.
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Bookshelf and the Friends of the Truckee Library co-hosted
UNR's David Fenimore for a
Woody Guthrie Chautauqua
at the Donner Lake Pavilion on July 29.
The Reno trio Shiloh provided the music.
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Kathryn Madison joined us on July 23 at Bookshelf at the
Boatworks to discuss her novel Woman's Sigh, Wolf's Song
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We
had celebrations with costume contests and trivia contests
on July 16 and 17 to welcome the release of
Harry
Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince
Book Six in the
Harry Potter Series.
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Authors Pamela
and Mary “Perri” O’Shaughnessy,
stopped by Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks and Bookshelf at
the Boatworks on the July 5 to sign copies of Case of Lies,
their latest
Nina Reilly thriller set in South Lake.
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We have
autographed copies of Ultra
Marathon Man, by Dean Karnazes, who was here for the Western States 100-mile Run in late June.
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On May
14th,
Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks
hosted David
Beesley, author of
Crow’s
Range: an Environmental History of the
Sierra
Nevada for a signing of his new book
from University
of
Nevada Press
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On April 29 we celebrated National Poetry Month with
Calling All Poets! a Community Celebration of Poetry at the
Truckee Community Center, featuring artist-in-residence Cathee St. Claire's elementary school poets
and the Jibboom Street Writers.
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On February 12,
Bookshelf and the Friends of the Truckee Library hosted a capacity
crowd for a Blues Book Bash featuring live blues, southern cooking,
and a multi-media presentation and book signing with Buzzy
Jackson,
author of A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who
Sing Them. Buzzy grew up in
Truckee
and used to work at Bookshelf. She now lives with her husband in Colorado, and is working on her next book.
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Truckee Trattoria and
the Lake Tahoe Chapter of The Ninety-Nines hoste da gala signing
\event with Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks for Laurel
and Tom Lippert's book You
Can Fly!, which addresses questions that most prospective
pilots have about the flight training process. The colorful
layout and Tom Lippert¹s photographs illustrate the beauty of
flight and support the book¹s premise: that the rewards of learning
to fly are worth the challenge.
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