Thursday, February 18 at 7pm Author Event with Samuel Western for Canyons
Canyons is about the inextricable, twisted relationship between two self-destructive men. Ward Fall is a rancher in Wyoming, a family man with a strong and supportive wife. Eric Lindsay is a studio musician and songwriter in Los Angeles. Eric and Ward were classmates and friends at U.C. Berkley. Their friendship turned ugly in an instant when, on a hunting trip, Ward accidentally killed Eric’s twin sister, Gwen, with a shotgun, ruining the lives of the surviving two former friends. Ward wallows in guilt, depression, and alcohol. Eric’s chaotic life is driven by anger and self-destructive behavior. Now, 25 years later, Ward invites Ericto come to his ranch to go on an elk hunt. The two former friends set out on a tense, contentious camping trip. Ward longs to atone for his guilt. Eric wants revenge.
Called by Craig Johnson as “one of the finest writers in the American West,” Samuel Western spent 14 years honing and re-writing this novel. Western has served in the Swedish Merchant Marine, worked as a commercial fisherman, a longshoreman, logger, and Wyoming hunting guide. His work of history, Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul, is now in its 8th printing, is one of the best-selling books in Wyoming literary history. In addition, Western has published in The Economist, LIFE, and Sports Illustrated. A two-time recipient of the Wyoming Literary Fellowship for fiction, he was also a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for poetry.
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Tuesday, February 23 at 7pm Country Bookshelf Book Club discusses Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel from internationally bestselling author Haruki Murakami. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.
Our Country Bookshelf book club meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7pm upstairs at the store. The book club is open to the public and we are always happy to see new faces! Please join us for some fun and interesting discussion about great new books!
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Wednesday, March 2 at 4pm The Last Best Geriactors Preform Dr. Seuss Reader’s Theater
“If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you.
If you’d never been born, well then what would you do?
If you’d never been born, well then what would you be?
You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree!
You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes!
You might be a bag full of hard green tomatoes.
Or worse than all that…Why, you might be a WASN’T
A Wasn’t has no fun at all. No, he doesn’t.
A wasn’t just isn’t. He just isn’t present.
But you…You ARE YOU! And, now isn’t that pleasant!”
Help us celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a performance by The Last Best Geriactors.
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Tuesday, March 15 at 7pm Author Event with Janet Fox for The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
“Keep calm and carry on.”
That’s what Katherine Bateson’s father told her, and that what she’s trying to do: when her father goes off to the war, when her mother sends Kat and her brother and sister away from London to escape the incessant bombing, even when the children arrive at Rookskill Castle, an ancient, crumbing manor on the misty Scottish Highlands. But it’s hard to keep calm in the strange castle that seems haunted by ghosts or worse. What’s making those terrifying screeches and groans at night? Why do the castle’s walls seem to have a mind of their own? And why do people seem to mysteriously appear and disappear? Kat believes she has the answer: Lady Eleanor, who rules Rookskill Castle, is harboring a Nazi spy. But when her classmates begin to vanish, one by one, Kat must uncover the truth about what the castle actually harbors—and who Lady Eleanor really is—before it’s too late.
Janet Fox writes award-winning fiction and non-fiction for children of all ages. Her published works include the non-fiction middle grade book Get Organized Without Losing It, and three YA historical romances: Faithful, Forgiven, and Sirens. Janet’s debut middle grade novel The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle is an historical fantasy set in 1940 Scotland. Janet is a 2010 graduate of the MFA/Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
