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Enjoy two tv shows for the boys written by people who have never seen them live on twitch! We have a new episode of Dragon Ball Z by Jaren George and our classic episode of Entourage by Lydia Manning. Read by Katie Rose Leon, Jeffrey Jay, and more! Saturday 8/22 1pm PDT! https://www.twitch.tv/specscript
Megan Margulies’s My Captain America (Pegasus) is a finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author’s relationship with her beloved grandfather, Joe Simon, cartoonist and cocreator of Captain America. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and ’90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and ’40s, My Captain America flashes back from Margulies’s story to chart the life and career of Rochester native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Margulies’s…
Preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 — not even close. In Which Country Has the World’s Best Healthcare? (PublicAffairs), Emanuel profiles 11 of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best — or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a…
August is a special edition of Book Club, a Summer Reading Roundup where we invite you to bring a favorite book that you read this summer, any genre! Each participant will get a chance to talk about their selection. In addition to bringing a book that you loved, you are also welcome to bring a book that you hated! That should make for some fun discussion. To order: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/ Liz Smith is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Two Rivers Book Club August Time: Aug 25, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82860767766?pwd=SXV6bmNPZURLWjFOKzZKYXZXa2lFdz09 Meeting ID: 828 6076 7766 Passcode: 408015 One tap mobile +12532158782,,82860767766#,,,,,,0#,,408015# US (Tacoma) +13462487799,,82860767766#,,,,,,0#,,408015# US (Houston) Dial by your location +1 253 215 8782 US…
Join us for the August meeting of the Fiction Addiction Book Club on August 26th. REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS Join online! https://zoom.us/j/306490858 Meeting ID: 306 490 858 OR Join by phone (301) 715-8592 We will discuss A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler. About the Book: In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans―a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter―raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree…
The Books Around the Corner Horror Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on the fourth Thursday of every month at 6PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our horror loving customers (RSVP is not required). Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Our August pick is The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones and we will meet on August 27th. About the book: A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest…
Join us for an evening of fiction, family, and baseball with Christopher Beha, author of The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, and Rob Neyer, former sportswriter and local author of Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game. $5 Registration will benefit the Roosevelt High School Athletics Program. The Index of Self-Destructive Acts Sweeping in scope yet meticulous in its construction, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is a remarkable family portrait and a masterful evocation of New York City and its institutions. Over the course of a single baseball season, Christopher Beha traces the passing of the torch from the old establishment to the new meritocracy, exploring how each generation’s failure helped land us where we are today. Whether or not the world is ending, Beha’s…
We’re ending our summer with a huge Summer Sale at the location of our (former) NE Broadway store August 28-30! For one weekend only, we’re re-opening the doors and bringing clearance prices back with not only some of the remaining things from the NE Broadway location, but we’re also bringing in hundreds of new items from across ALL of our stores! Along with deep discounts, we’ll have special items for sale limited to one-per-customer. These will be items we’re pricing at set amounts, excluded from discounts, where anyone who comes in can pick and purchase. We’re talking about things like $100 sixth scale figures, $5 action figures, $20 statues, and more! It’s our way to thank everyone for their support in these interesting times, and…
Historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck’s The Women With Silver Wings (Crown) is the thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II — only to be forgotten by the country they served. Landdeck introduces us to these young women as they meet even-tempered, methodical Nancy Love and demanding visionary Jacqueline Cochran, the trailblazing pilots who first envisioned sending American women into the air, and whose rivalry would define the Women Airforce Service Pilots. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight of them would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran’s social experiment…
Annie Bloom's is sponsoring this online interview with author Moira Dolan, MD discussing her new book Boneheads & Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Click this link to join the event: Join for a chance to win an author-signed copy of Boneheads & Brainiacs. Register to receive a free download of Dr. Dolan’s e-booklet "No-Nonsense Guide to Surviving Your Medical Encounter." For every purchase of Boneheads & Brainiacs from Annie Bloom's, Dr. Dolan will donate directly to the indie bookstore charity Binc (Book Industry Charitable Foundation). About the book: The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit…