THIS WEEK IN SEPTEMBER

  1. Wednesday Sep 1 BEATNIK CAFÉ! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1; 7 PM @ T&C Members of the Western Ohio Writers Association will read their original prose and poetry. Come listen!...
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HOT BOOKS

  • STAR ISLAND by Carl Hiaasen

    You know you’re in for laughs when you pick up a Carl Hiaasen novel, and Star Island is no exception. Poking fun at our celebrity-obsessed culture, he introduces us to Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen, who has a tad of troubles with drugs and alcohol. That being the case, her handlers insist she have a “double” to handle her performing duties when she is “indisposed.” That “double” is Ann DeLusia. As luck would have it, Ann is kidnapped one day, but the kidnappers think they have Cherry Pye. You can imagine the craziness that follows as Cherry Pye’s handlers work to rescue Ann without revealing that Cherry Pye has a double.

  • THE RED QUEEN by Philippa Gregory

    Philippa Gregory uses her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy to bring us the riveting story of Margaret Beauford, the founder of the Tudors, who believed that her house should be the true ruler of England. Married to Edmund Tudor and widowed when she was just a teenager, she was determined to see that their only son, Henry Tudor, would one day rise to be King of England. This is that story, with all its intrigue, power, scheming, and determination.

  • MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins

    Mockingjay is the final book of the phenomenally popular The Hunger Games young adult series, and people have been anxiously awaiting it. It’s easy to see why, because Suzanne Collins’ books are so suspenseful you can’t put them down. In this new book, Katniss Everdeen must be a pawn to change the course of the future of Panem, if the revolution is to succeed. She must become the rebel’s Mockingjay. Will she be willing and able to take on this dangerous role?

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Wednesday, September 1

Dear Booklovers,

We have 15 authors and 3 editors coming to talk with you in September. Please go over our Calendar of Events and mark the ones you don’t want to miss. We’ll have another big line-up for you in October.

Friday, Oct. 1; 6:30 @ The Greene
JIM ARNOSKY; Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Sunday, Oct. 3; 2 pm @ The Greene
SUSANNAH CHARLESTON; Scent of the Missing
Tuesday, Oct 5; 7 pm @ The Greene
ANN WEISGARBER; The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Thursday, Oct 7; 7 pm @ T&C
CYNTHIA KOELKER, M.D.; 101 Ways to Save Money on Health Care
Tuesday, Oct 12; 7 pm @ The Greene
PETER YARROW; The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Songs for Little Folks
Wed., Oct 13; 7 pm @ The Greene
MICHAEL SIMS; Dracula’s Guest
Thursday, Oct 14; 7 pm @ T&C
BRIAN LEUNG; Take Me Home
Friday, Oct 15; 7 pm @ The Greene
JENNIFER DONNELLY; Revolution
Monday, Oct 18; 7 pm @ The Greene
JON KATZ; Rose in a Storm
Thursday, Oct 21; 7 pm @ The Greene
INNA SEGAL; The Secret Language of Your Body
Friday, Oct 22; 6:30 pm @ The Greene
ROB SCOTTON; Scaredy-Cat, Splat
Tuesday, Oct 26; 7 pm @ The Greene
P. L. GAUS; Broken English
Friday, Oct 29; 7 pm @ The Greene
JANE O’CONNOR; Fancy Nancy and the Fabulous Fashion Boutique

For those of you who like to look way ahead, we have MING TSAI, author of Simply Ming One-Pot Asian Meals coming to books&co at The Greene on Thursday, November 4 at 7 pm. And RICHARD PAUL EVANS will be at books&co at The Greene on Saturday, November 13 at 2 pm to introduce Promise Me.

We also suggest you mark your calendars for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Award Ceremony on Sunday, November 7 at The Schuster Center at 5 pm. Preceding that, at 11:30 am, we’ll be having a special brunch provided by Brio Tuscan Grille in our author area on the second floor of books&co at The Greene. The winners of this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and nonfiction will be present to discuss and sign their books. Be sure to save the date. We’ll have details, including the names of the fiction and nonfiction winners, in our October newsletter.

The winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award this year is Geraldine Brooks. She will receive the Award at the Ceremony on November 7.

As a wartime reporter, Geraldine has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans before she began writing novels, which include her 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner, March. Geraldine’s most recent book, People of the Book, is based on the true story of a Jewish manuscript that was kept safe by Muslims and Christians during centuries of European conflict. Her Year of Wonders is the story of a village in 1666 that has been ravished by the bubonic plague and the decision the occupants make to keep the illness from spreading. March takes us into the mindset of Mr. March as he experiences the devastation that occurs on the Civil War battlefields.

Geraldine’s stories introduce us to ordinary people responding in an extraordinary way to the hardships and struggles of their time. She is a native of Sydney, Australia and is married to writer Tony Horwitz. They divide their time between homes in Sydney and Martha’s Vineyard.

If you are involved with a nonprofit organization and would like to have us assist you with a fundraiser for them, please give me a call at 937-429-6302. It’s a quick and easy way to raise funds for your group.

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Warm regards,


Sharon Kelly Roth
Director, Public Relations