Mailing List LoganberryNews@logan.com Message #181
From: Harriett R. Logan <LoganberryNews@logan.com>
Subject: Independent Bookstore Day!
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:15:03 -0400
To: loganberrynews@logan.com <loganberrynews@logan.com>

Salutations!

 

Our favorite holiday of the year is here: Independent Bookstore Day! Immediately followed by Children’s Book Week! Oh boy, are we busy, and we have so many treats and treasures for you. Thanks for keeping us around and sharing your book loves and knowledge with us.  And thanks for voting us Best Bookstore of Cleveland in Scene Magazine’s Best of Cleveland 2017 issue!

 

National Event
Independent Bookstore Day
Saturday, April 29, 2017, 10:00AM—8:00PM
~ annual event ~
Independent bookstores are not just stores, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. Indie bookstores, whether dusty and labyrinthine or clean and well-lighted, are not just stores, they are solutions. They hold the key to your love life, your career, and your passions. Walking the aisles of a good bookstore means stumbling upon a novel from India that expands your heart. It’s encountering an art book that changes the direction of your life. It’s the joy of having a perfect stranger steer you toward the perfect book. In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service. Join us at Loganberry Books as we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, along with about 400 other indie bookstore across the country. We'll have books, gifts and tchotchkes developed exclusively for IBD, as well as freebies and hospitalities to say thank you for shopping indie.

 

Local Voices

Irene Shaland: The Dao of Being Jewish
Sunday, April 30, 2017, 1:00PM
~ book signing ~
Join local author Irene Shaland as she signs her book, The Dao of Being Jewish: Seeking Jewish Narrative All Over the World. This fascinating book explores the history of Jewish peoples, from over two millennia ago, when a small party of Jews exploring trade routes for King Solomon settled in the south of India, to the ancient Roman period, when Jewish merchants traveled to China over the Silk Route and made it their permanent home. Replete with her husband's photos, The Dao of Being Jewish takes you on your own journey of discovery from Austria and the Czech Republic to Scandinavia, from India and China to Sicily and Sardinia, and from East Africa to Stalinist Russia.

 

National Event

Children's Book Week
May 1—7, 2017
~ annual event ~
This May marks the 98th anniversary of Children’s Book Week. At Loganberry, we'll feature Creation Stations, 3 early evening events (including a Storytime), and more activities and tours on Saturday. These self-directed Creation Stations will be available all week long, starting early for Independent Bookstore Day.

  • Children's Book Week Voting: the only award voted on solely by kids & teens
  • Otis' Story: One sentence on large easel will start the story, and every bookstore visitor is invited to add a sentence or phrase to the story. There will be one story during Independent Bookstore Day, and another during Children’s Book Week.
  • Dav Pilkey Name-o-Changer: In our version of the Captain Underpants Name Generator, you can spin the Wheel of Fortune and choose from a variety of themes, including Animal, Cleveland, Literary, Poopypants, or Wild Weather.
  • Story Cards: This station is tailored to the younger set, with illustrated flash cards that can be arranged to create your own story.
  • Plot Twist: Roll out the Rory's Story Cubes or draw from the Storymatic deck to add a new dynamic or wrinkle to your story.
  • Books & Coloring Station: Coloring books, Little Golden Book templates for your own storybook, word searches and other games for writers and artists of all ages.

 

Lit Cleveland

Writing For the World's Most Loyal and Passionate Readers: Kids
Mondays, May 1 & 8 & 15, 2017, 7:00PM
~ workshop ~
Young readers come to stories with their hearts and minds wide open. Writing for them is a wonderful privilege and responsibility. In these workshops, we'll do brief writing exercises, but most of our time will be devoted to positive and productive critiques of each other's stories-in-progress. Picture books, chapter books, and work for middle grade only please--this is not for YA writers. Once registered, you'll receive further info.
Tricia Springstubb is the author of books for kids of all ages, most recently the middle grade novel Every Single Second (HarperCollins) and the third book in a chapter book series, Cody and the Rules of Life (Candlewick Press). She lives in Cleveland Heights.
Register with Lit Cleveland.

 

Children’s Book Week

Make Your Own Pop-Up
Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 6:00PM
~ special event ~
To celebrate Children's Book Week, Lorraine will help guide young hands in a pop-up craft creation that they’ll be able to take home with them. Bonus: the Loganberry Books Annex Gallery has an opening reception for the Altered Book Group during this time, so plenty of paper inspiration with the artists in attendance is just around the corner.

 

Annex Gallery

Altered Books Group: Women, Words, Wisdom
Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 6:00PM
~ first Wednesdays ~
The Altered Book Group celebrates their work in the Annex Gallery with a show exploring women, words, and wisdom. Artists to be featured in this show will include Pat Pitingolo, C.T. Anson, Gene Epstein, Sarah Clague, Diane Britt, Phyllis Brody, and Anne Weissman. Please join us for refreshments and conversation on May 3rd, from 6-8. The show will run through June 4th.

 

Children’s Book Week

Pajama Storytime
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 7:00PM
~ special event ~
This storytime is designed for youngsters getting ready for bed, and pajamas are encouraged! We’ll begin with Llama Llama Red Pajama, Anna Dewdney’s tale of a baby llama calling out for Mama Llama at bedtime. The new Anna Dewdney Read Together Award has just been announced for CBW, so we will introduce you to Edward Gets Messy by Rita Meade (if you don’t know it already). Come learn about how other animals and other people go about their days and nights, all while showing off your best bedtime costumes.

 

Children’s Book Week

More CBW Activities
Saturday, May 6, 2017, 11:00AM—3:00PM
~ special event ~
Culminating our week-long celebration of Children's Book Week, we'll add more hands-on craft stations for kids and some educational talks about what we do at Loganberry Books. Celebrate and learn with us!

  • You Review: This literary exercise for 6-8 year olds features Advanced Reading Copies (ARCs) of new or yet-to-be-released picture books and a simple review form to help organize young critical thinking.  Participants get to take home a free ARC, and we’ll feature pieces of their reviews in the shop.
  • Fearless Origami & Haiku Marathon: We’ll guide you through the creation of an origami peace crane or frog, and help you write some classical haikus, too. 
  • Where the Books Are Tour: Remember guided library tours of how to use the card catalog system, magazine indexes, and other reference materials? Yes, times have changed, but that doesn’t mean you won’t learn more about our services, collections, strengths, and organizational quirks by taking a quick tour. Designed for both adults and children, focusing on our children’s collections, and especially non-fiction.
  • Staff Picks: Loganberry Books staff members present their favorite children’s books, ranging from cherished picture books, classic novels, out-of-print gems, or specific sub-genres. 2:00PM start time.
  • Ten Minute History of Children's Books: This quick history is designed for younger audiences and features old-fashioned printing techniques, early moveables, foreign, and famous works of children’s literature.
  • Stump the Bookseller Quiz: We’ve featured this online service for over two decades now, and have assembled some of our favorite and most-oft asked questions of murky literary nostalgia. Go ahead, ask for an example.

 

Local Voices

Debbi Perkul: Winds Over Jerusalem
Sunday, May 7, 2017, 1:00PM
~ Sunday Signings ~
Join us as local author Debbi Perkul signs her new book, Winds Over Jerusalem: The Story of Rae Landy, Pioneer Nurse of Hadassah. This rare eyewitness account views Jerusalem 1913-15 through the lens of two American Jewish women. It adds insight and understanding to the complex relationship that still exists between American Jews, Israel, and the U.S. government. On a winter day in 1913, Rae Landy boarded a ship to Palestine. Her destination was Jerusalem, a city filled with disease and poverty. Along with nursing partner Rose Kaplan, she was to set up a district nursing system under the auspices of a new Zionist women's organization, Hadassah. The two braved tremendous hardships to bring hope and health to the people. As the nurses gained the loyalty and love of their patients, they enjoyed social life with many colourful personalities. The eruption of World War I brought a dramatic halt to this way of life. When Rose had to leave the country in 1914, Rae was alone, facing an onslaught of famine, sickness, and the misery of the people.

 

Book Signing

Rakesh Satyal: No One Can Pronounce My Name
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 7:00PM
~ special event ~
In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can’t pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit’s sister, Swati. In a misguided attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every night to pass himself off as his sister. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid forties, has just seen her only child, Prashant, off to college. Worried that her husband has begun an affair, she seeks solace by writing paranormal romances in secret. When Harit and Ranjana’s paths cross, they begin a strange yet necessary friendship that brings to light their own passions and fears. Rakesh Satyal's No One Can Pronounce My Name is a distinctive, funny, and insightful look into the lives of people who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires.

 

Open Mic

Broadsides & Ephemera
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 7:00PM
~ second Thursdays ~
Broadsides & Ephemera is a spoken word showcase by and for local writers. Our featured reader this month is Lee Chilcote, promoting his new chapbook The Shape of Home. Lee has worked as a community organizer, real estate developer, writer and teacher, and is director of Literary Cleveland. He holds degrees from Oxford University and Cleveland State University. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Next City, and numerous literary journals. A perfect environment for shaping, sharing, and improving your poetry, prose, song, playwriting and performance art. Come one, come all!

 

Larchmere

 

Community Plant Sale
Saturday, May 13, 2017, 9:00AM
~ annual event ~
Annuals and perennials, flats, pots, and baskets welcome spring and beautify your home, porch, yard and neighborhood throughout summer and fall! Get your flowers, plants, and Mother's Day gifts super locally--at the Larchmere Plant Sale--while benefiting the Larchmere Community Association and building community. The sale will be held at 12916 Larchmere Boulevard, home of Shaker Quality Auto Body.

 

Book Signing

Thrity Umrigar: When I Carried You In My Belly
Saturday, May 13, 2017, 3:00PM
~ special event ~
Thrity Umrigar will be coming to Loganberry Books to talk about her new children's picture book When I Carried You In My Belly. The special bond between a mother and her child begins well before the baby is born. But once the baby is born and starts to grow into her own person, traits from both parents begin to show themselves in delightful and humorous ways. When I Carried You in My Belly is a mother's song to her growing daughter, capturing the warmth and magic of the time when her daughter was housed inside her belly. The girl's laugh, her love of music, her sweet disposition, and her carefree attitude can all be traced back to her time in her mother's tummy, when her mother would laugh, sing songs, eat yummy treats, and dance the day away.
Thrity Umrigar's lyrical and playful text are well complemented by Ziyue Chen's soft and delightful illustrations, and together they create a sentimental and insightful book about the special bond between parents and children. With a similar tone to On the Night You Were Born and the spirit of I Loved You Before You Were Born, When I Carried You in My Belly is primed to become a new timeless classic.

 

Local Voices

Doug Cooper: The Investment Club
Sunday, May 14, 2017, 1:00PM
~ Sunday Signings ~

Join us as local author Doug Cooper signs his newest book, The Investment Club. This wild and insightful novel is told from the perspective of a seasoned blackjack dealer in Vegas, and follows a rogue's gallery of well-developed, engrossing characters, from a bereaved female sportscaster to a card-counting former Catholic priest. Doug will also be signing copies of his previous novel, the award-winning Outside In, which takes place in Put-In-Bay.

 

NOBS Forums

Fern Ruth Levy: Anne Frank: Looking Back Over the Last 70 Years  
Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 7:00PM
~ third Wednesdays ~
It has been 70 years since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl was published. Through excerpts from Anne's writings, readers will discover the authentic Anne, sometimes erased by the Broadway play and Hollywood film. Join NOBS, with guest speaker Fern Ruth Levy, to learn the stories behind this book and the obstacles related to its publication in Holland, 1947. Fern Ruth Levy, MS, MAJS, is a Holocaust educator who has taken testimonies of 15 Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. She began to specialize in Anne Frank and her Diary after interviewing people who knew Anne, including Miep Gies and Anne's beloved cousin Bernhard Elias.

 

Vintage Entertainment

Old Time Radio Night: The Great McGinty
Thursday, May 18, 2017, 7:00PM
~ third Thursdays ~
Like the Academy Award-winning film from which it is adapted, the radio production of “The Great McGinty” stars Brian Donlevy as Depression-era bum Dan McGinty. Dan is recruited by the city's political machine to help commit vote fraud. His aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from The Boss who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only union with honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan. Radio Night is hosted by Calvin Rydbom.

 

Lit Cleveland

 

Susan Grimm: Ordering Poems-- Constellation, Hillside, Sluice Gate
Saturday, May 20, 2017, 9:00AM
~ workshop ~
Participants will bring copies of their table of contents and first poem to distribute at the workshop. Moving beyond the usual and the chronological, we will think about poem-to-poem connection, development strategies, and meaning which accrues through accumulation. Some poem critique as a secondary focus. Suitable for a series, a chapbook, a book section. Susan Grimm's poems have appeared in Blackbird Poetry East, The Journal, as well as her own collection, Lake Erie Blue.
Register with Lit Cleveland.

 

Naturalist's Notebook Book Club

Toby Hemenway: Gaia's Garden
Sunday, May 21, 2017, 1:00PM
~ quarterly, third Sundays ~
It's gardening season. With weather patterns changing we are learning to adapt with new approaches to home gardening, plantings for larger areas and even farming. Permaculture, the development of ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient, is of growing interest to all of these groups. Tom Hinton and Elsa Johnson, certified permaculturists, will be leading our discussion on the ethics and design principles behind this new idea for "working with what we have". The book, Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway, is our book for the month and will be a great resource for all going forward. Please join us.

 

Bucket List Book Club

Virginia Woolf: Orlando
Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 7:00PM
~ fourth Wednesdays ~
A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Virginia Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. Orlando describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.

 

Vintage Entertainment

 

Classic Movie Night: The Great McGinty
Thursday, May 25, 2017, 7:00PM
~ fourth Thursdays ~
This comedic satire told in flashback follows Depression-era bum Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) as he is recruited by the city's political machine to help commit vote fraud. His aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from The Boss (Akim Tamiroff) who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only union with honest Catherine (Muriel Angelus) proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan. Written and directed by Preston Sturges, this film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Classic Movie Night is hosted by Calvin Rydbom.

 

Larchmere

Sidewalk Sale
Saturday, May 27, 2017, 10:00AM
~ annual event ~
Discover Larchmere Boulevard, an indie merchants mecca with over 40 shops, galleries, eateries and services featuring art, antiques, books, china, gifts, jewelry, oriental rugs, wearable art, beauty salons and more. Join us for our bi-annual sidewalk sales, with seasonal bargains, outdoor shopping, extra street vendors and food trucks.
Loganberry Books will have some extra-special bargains out on the sidewalk, as well as 20% off all books inside the store. Some odds and ends and old chairs might be added to the mix too; what's not to love?

 

Local Voices

Annie Hogsett: Too Lucky To Live
Sunday, May 28, 2017, 1:00PM
~ Sunday Signings ~
Join us as local author Annie Hogsett signs her debut mystery novel, Too Lucky to Live: A Somebody's Bound to Wind Up Dead Mystery. This novel follows Allie, a lonely, broke divorce survivor from Cleveland, and Tom, a blind heartthrob and PhD who Allie rescues from a road rage incident--only to find out that he's holding the winning MondoMegaJackpot lottery ticket. But the ticket is a hot target and now so are they. Now this modern Nick and Nora Charles have to figure out a strategy to cash in the ticket, keep the millions, and stay alive in the process.

 

Reminder

Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2017
We will be closed on Memorial Day. Have a peaceful day!

 

 

Thanks for reading,

Harriett

 


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