Live Event Thursday 3-30-17

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Great tea or a cold one and open Mic !

What I am Reading

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In this nostalgic account of the late Edwin Way Teale's boyhood at Lone Oak Farm on the borderland of the picturesque dunes, he gives us an authentic picture of the way we were, the way we would like to have been .  Printed in 1943

Authors Hour Line-Up for 3-28-17

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News,  Book Signings, Expo's, Publishing Questions and Author Interviews too !

K.W Garelick tentatively scheduled at 9:05am

And our 2016 Anthology Shorelne is available.

Amazon's new Chicago store, where the books for sale have an average rating of 4.5 stars online

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Amazon just opened its fifth bookstore, in Chicago. It primarily carries books rated 4.5 stars or higher online.

• Part bookstore, part electronics store, Amazon's newest brick-and-mortar is located in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood at 3441 N. Southport Ave.
• This is Amazon's first bookstore not housed in a mall. It sells print books, magazines, Amazon devices and accessories, Prime memberships, gift cards, and other products. Books are selected primarily on Amazon.com customer ratings.
• "Our special sauce is knowing the reading habits and passions of a city through our  Amazon.com data, Source:" Jennifer Cast, VP of Amazon Books, 

2015 Seatle, Wash.

Portland Ore.

San Francisco, CA

San Diego, CA

Dedham, Mass.

Lynnfield, Mass.

Manhattan, NY

New York City

Chicago, Ill.

Some will be in Malls, some free standing and some former Borders locations

What I am reading now !

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We will have the Author on radio show on April 4, 2017 at 9:05 am

Authors Hour All-Star Line-Up for Tuesday Marc 21,2017

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News, Book Signings, Expo's Publishing Questions and Author Interviews too !

E-mail the show at waynewnri@yahoo.com

Who could kill such a sweet woman ?At 9:05 am

 In Detective Brodie: Death of a Millionaire, Susan Betters presents a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who enjoys a mystery. Detective Brodie has a lot of suspects. His first suspect: Bettys son, Paul, who is angry because Betty refused to give him any more money to live his lavish lifestyle. But is he angry enough to murder? Suspect two is Bettys grandson Walter. Betty had him arrested for drunk driving. Walter is angry at his grandmother. Brodie knows every family member has a motive for killing Betty. Betty is about to break her silence. Discover the truth in Detective Brodie: Death of a Millionaire.

At 9:35 am
Annie is an adorable, cheerful apple who has a dream. Her story is full of surprises as Annie does everything she possibly can to fulfill her goal while confronted with unexpected ups and downs. This charming picture book with its bright, refreshing illustrations fosters learning, good health habits and hope. Children will fall in love with Annie and will be pleased with the outcome. "Annie, the Story of an Apple" has old-fashioned appeal that parents and grandparents will appreciate.

Meet The Authors

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Authors at Peacedale, RI Library Today

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Local Author Showcase at Peace Dale Library

Join us at Peace Dale Library Saturday, March 18, for our first Local Author Showcase. Meet 10 authors and their books!
Morning session 10:00-12:30, with Nan Burke, Carol Mossa, Susan Letendre, Nancy Brown, Jane McCarthy
Afternoon session 1:30-4:00, with Elda Dawber, C.  Davis Fogg, Mary Catherine Volk, Joni Pfeiffer-Moser, Yvette Nachmias-Baeu
Free, open to the public. The Library is at 1057 Kingstown Rd., Peace Dale, across from the Village Green. 789-1555.
Just a couple of the many local books available today with a autograph !

TEDxWaterloo - Amy Krouse Rosenthal - 7 Notes on Life

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   R I P    Amy Krouse Rosenthal

 Writers, old and young looking for inspiration ?  www.whoisamy.com

In The New York Times Book Review in 2009 Bruce Handy said of her work: “For all I know, she may suffer torment upon torment in front of a blank screen, but the results read as if they were a pleasure to write.” He added, “Her books radiate fun the way tulips radiate spring: they are elegant and spirit-lifting.”

 Amy Renee Krouse was born on April 29, 1965, in Chicago to Paul Krouse and the former Ann Wolk, both publishers. Both survive her.

 Besides her husband and parents, she is survived by her sons, Justin and Miles; her daughter, Paris; her sisters, Katie Froelich and Beth Kaufmann; and her brother, Joe Krouse.

 30 books and other great works of art.

Thieves Rappelled Into a London Warehouse in Rare Book Heist

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             The burglars made out with more than 160 books worth an estimated $2.5 million

Do you remember that scene in the original Mission: Impossible when Tom Cruise hangs suspended above a computer? Well, it appears that criminals recently seem to have taken a page from Ethan Hunt's spy book. Three thieves robbed a west London warehouse in late January by drilling holes in the building’s skylight, and then using rope to descend vertically into the space to avoid motion-detection alarms, George Sandeman at The Guardian reports. In total, the robbers made out with more than 160 books worth an estimated $2.5 million.

 The theft was a precision hit; the burglars came well-equipped and appeared to know exactly what they wanted. They specifically targeted the boxes containing valuable rare books, with one source saying they compared the titles in the containers to a list, reports James Cook at Business Insider. The books were being temporarily stored in the warehouse on their way to the California Book Fair.

The rarity of the books would make them incredibly hard to unload on the open market, Cook notes, and investigators theorize that a wealthy collector known as “The Astronomer” may have hired the thieves to steal the books for him.

However, the president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, Brian Lake, disagrees. “I think it was an opportunistic crime, they knew how to get in and saw the books with the cutting lists and so realised the values,” he tells Heloise Wood at the Bookseller. “The idea that these were stolen to order belies the facts. That warehouse stocks books for book fairs round the world and doesn’t normally have them in the warehouse in the weekend."

Regardless of who instigated the heist, the theft of these books is a real blow. The stolen books belonged to three separate dealers; the most valuable book taken was a 1566 copy of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus. Translated as “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,” this seminal work records Copernicus’ notion of a heliocentric universe—that the sun, and not the Earth, was at the center of the universe. Sandeman writes that it was worth around $268,000.

Other books stolen include those by luminaries such as Dante, Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci.

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Regardless of who instigated the heist, the theft of these books is a real blow. The stolen books belonged to three separate dealers; the most valuable book taken was a 1566 copy of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus. Translated as “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,” this seminal work records Copernicus’ notion of a heliocentric universe—that the sun, and not the Earth, was at the center of the universe. Sandeman writes that it was worth around $268,000.

Other books stolen include those by luminaries such as Dante, Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci.

Source: Swapna Krishna  Smithsonian

Book Signing

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The Association Of Rhode Island Authors

What I am reading now !

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Clara at Sixty is the portrait of a woman who, after losing her husband at an age when life begins to contract, returns to the world of fumbling, emotionally confused relationships. The series of mismatches are sometimes passionate and exciting, sometimes funny, but ultimately sad. Still grieving and searching for her identity, marginalized by a society that views women past their prime as invisible, she knows she must come to terms with the loss of her husband, the death of too many friends and the new reality of "being an older woman." Her search to find meaning for the last chapter of her life is universal. A struggle that begins at birth and changes over time and circumstance. Clara, in the end, discovers her way forward.