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Saturday, May 10th 1pm
Liz Murphy
Illustrator of the new book Broadway Barks by Bernadette Peters
In a park in New York City lives a lonely little dog. He remembers when he used to get taken for walks, fed dinner every night, and told he was a good dog. Now, he's all alone and must fend for himself. But everything changes one day when he sees a lady reading in the park and decides to follow her�all the way to a place where he might become a star! 10% of the proceeds will be donated to our local animal shelter, Paws.
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Why?
Local businesses support each other. Booksellers typically
purchase goods from other local businesses, use services from a local
accountant, and hire residents.
Sales taxes come home to work. The taxes collected by a local
independent bookstore support your schools, social services, and
public agencies.
Did you know that for every $100 spent by a consumer, a local
business would give back $68 while a chain will only give back $43?
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vibrant community for all.
Shop local. Buy local.
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Join us for a month of interesting events for children and adults! Title of Event: Author Reading & Signing Lise Funderburg
Pig Candy
When: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:00 PM
Location: Watchung Booksellers
Description: Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to understand his rich and difficult background and the conflicting choices he has had to make throughout his life.
Lise Funderburg is a child of the '60s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn't imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive; about his past she knew only that he had grown up in the Jim Crow South and fled its brutal oppression as a young man. Then, just as she hits her forties, her father is diagnosed with advanced and terminal cancer -- an event that leads father and daughter together on a stream of pilgrimages to his hometown in rural Jasper County, Georgia. As her father's escort, proxy, and, finally, nurse, Funderburg encounters for the first time the fragrant landscape and fraught society -- and the extraordinary food -- of his childhood.
In succulent, evocative, and sometimes tart prose, the author brings to life a fading rural South of pecan groves, family-run farms, and pork-laden country cuisine. She chronicles small-town relationships that span generations, the dismantling of her own assumptions about when race does and doesn't matter, and the quiet segregation that persists to this day. As Funderburg discovers the place and people her father comes from, she also, finally, gets to know her magnetic, idiosyncratic father himself. Her account of their thorny but increasingly close relationship is full of warmth, humor, and disarming candor. In one of his last grand actsFunderburg's father recruits his children, neighbors, and friends to throw a pig roast -- an unforgettable meal that caps an unforgettable portrait of a man enjoying his life and loved ones right up through his final days.
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More about watchung booksellers and directions to get here.
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All are welcome to join in watchung booksellers' Inhouse Book Groups. Whether you like Scifi/Fantasy, History, Great Writers, or the unusual with Cult Fiction.
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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"Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thought, our ambitions, our indignations,
our illusions, our fidelity to truth and our persistent leaning toward error."
- Joseph Conrad
Notes on Life and Letters
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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