Come join us at Everyone's Books tonight, from 5:30-7PM, for a reading and signing by local author Timothy Lee Scott.

Invasive Plant Medicine: The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives offers a fascinating glimpse of what can be when dealing with invasives such as Japanese Knotweed, Purple Loosestrife, and others.

Everyone's Books
25 Elliot St
802-254-8160
everyonesbks@gmail.com

On Wednesday, September 8, at 7pm in the meeting room of the Brook's Memorial Library in downtown Brattleboro, author and poet, Rodger Martin will read selections from his just published second collection of poetry, "The Battlefield Guide." The book focuses on the major battles of the Civil War: Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, and Antietem. Ideal for Civil War buffs who like poetry, as well. Free and open to the public.

Dummerston, Vermont – August 25, 2010- In 1994, Mary Ellen Copeland wrote a book, Living Without Depression and Manic Depression. It was based on a study she did of the skills and strategies of people who have gotten well and stayed well over time. This was at a time when recovery from mental health issues was not even considered to be possible. This book gave people hope. It led many, many people out of the depths of despair into a rich and rewarding life.

Stephanie Cooke, author of In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age will be speaking about and signing her book at the Centre Congregational Church on Wednesday, Aug 25 at 6:30PM.

From the Manhattan Project to the present Energy Crisis Cooke's provocative history of our failure to manage the power of the atom is perfectly timed. The mistakes of the past are on the verge of being repeated. Cooke's work is a call to understand and respect the power held in mortal hands.

In case you haven't noticed, the author event schedules at The Book Cellar in Brattleboro and our sister store Bartleby's Books in Wilmington are growing. We're working hard to put together events with authors from near and far that will interest and engage the many, many readers in our communities. If you haven't been in for awhile, come check us out.

The Book Cellar has been an independent bookselling institution in Brattleboro for over 60 years, and Bartleby's, while a little bit younger (est. 1989), retains the same commitment to books and neighbors.

I’m not going to get too deeply into the meaning of reincarnation here. That will be ably covered soon enough in Temple Dog Soldier, the follow-up book to Fearless Puppy on American Road. Suffice it to say that the historical Buddha’s original teaching on the subject is reputed in some circles to have very little to do with lifeless flesh or migrating souls. We are reborn with every action. Each time we change our minds a new person comes into being. The new you or me will alter our actions in accordance with recently acquired changes of thought that become our convictions. No action happens without the thought that sponsors it, whether we are conscious of that thought or it lurks cloaked in the subconscious.

I have just finished, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, a remarkable book.

At first I thought the invisibility of the narrator was about his being Black in America. As I got deeper into the book, it became apparent that Ellison is speaking of the human condition: People do not see one another, do not really know who it is that they are talking to, or even who they themselves are..

Something in the Epilogue struck me and I want to share it:

Hi folks - Tyche Hendricks, author of The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories From the U.S./Mexico Border, will be reading and discussing her book at Everyone's Books, Thursday July 29, from 5-7PM.

Acclaimed novelist Howard Norman and much-praised newcomer Michelle Hoover will read from and discuss new work at The Book Cellar on Thursday, July 15th at 7pm. The night offers an opportunity for local readers to meet two incredibly talented authors. Lorrie Moore has called any novel by Howard Norman “cause for celebration” and Michelle Hoover’s writing has been described as “brilliant and gutsy” by such literary luminaries as Ursula Hegi. The authors will be available for book signing following the reading.

After nine years of service Barbara Brown is retiring from the Library Board, and she wants someone committed to take her place to serve an unexpired term to March 2011.

The candidate will be appointed by the Selectboard and then run for election at representative Town Meeting in March 2011 for a three-year term until 2014. Candidates for this position should have an interest in maintaining a strong and visionary library in Town. Candidates with technology skills are encouraged to apply.

During this weeks Gallery Walk we are hosting a book-signing party for Alex Wilson at American Traders (Rt.9) in West Brattleboro.
Friday 5.30 - 8.00pm

Join us to celebrate the release of the 3rd edition of the NH-VT Quite Water Canoe and Kayak Guide. Almost 20 years have passed since the launch of Alex's original quiet-water series. Come and meet Alex, get a signed copy of the book and discover new places to paddle VT.

Click on the link for invite & more details. Quiet Water Invite

http://www.amtraders.com

The Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont invites you to their Annual Meeting at Brooks Memorial Library, which begins at 7 PM, and for the presentation at 7:30 PM by Fredrik Stanton, who will talk about his newest book, Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World,which chronicles eight of the most epic parleys ever to have transpired.

According to Stanton in his new book "as much as weapons, shape history,” “The traditional way of looking at history is through the lens of either biography or war,” Stanton said in an interview. “One of the things this book does is fill in a missing piece of that equation.”

J.D. Salinger died in January at the age of 90.

Everyone knows what a recluse he was, even in the 1960's when Jim Sadwith was a boarding school student and an aspiring playright when he first read Salingers opus, The Catcher in the Rye.

Sadwith was so moved by the book, and the main character, Holden Caulfield, that he wrote a play based on Catcher in the Rye. In order to get permission to produce the play at his school, Sadwith set out for New Hampshire to find Salinger. He did in fact find found Salinger and was to have several discussions with him. Sadwith tape recorded his reactions to his Salinger encounters, produced the play, and later went to college and became a notable screenplay writer in Hollywood.

I just waded through Stephen King's new book "The Dome." Now don't get me wrong I am a King fan and have enjoyed and have had some tense moments reading his stories but this one was an over excessive killing of some really good trees. If it had been edited to half the size it would still have remaind an excellent plot and story. 1/3 of it could have been left on the editing room floor.

On Sunday, May 2nd at 1pm Ron Koss, co-founder of the Earth’s Best organic baby food company, will be at The Book Cellar discussing his new book, The Earth’s Best Story: A Bittersweet Tale of Twin Brothers Who Sparked an Organic Revolution.

The Earth’s Best Story tells how Ron and Arnie Koss succeeded in creating the first nationally distributed organic foods company to sit next to its mainstream competition on supermarket shelves—a step that revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement as a whole—and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods have been organically grown, thanks to Earth’s Best.