Event Schedule

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Sunday
January 7 History’s Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm
Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey
Thursday
January 11 Poetry with Katrin Talbot
7 pm
&
Tom Boswell
Tom Boswell is a Madison writer, photographer and
community organizer. His poetry has appeared in the
Atlanta Review, Rattle, Poet Lore,
The Potomac Review, Two Thirds
North and other journals, as well
as the anthology New Poetry from the Midwest 2017
(New American Press).

Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s collection The Little

Red Poem was just released from dancing girl press.
She has three other chapbooks, noun’d, verb (dancing
girl press), Freeze-Dried Love (Finishing Line Press),
and St. Cecilia’s Daze (Parallel Press) and was recently nominated for two
Pushcart Prizes in Poetry.
Sunday
January 14 Maddy Hunter
2 pm
Say No Moor
A passport to peril mystery
Hoping to reach an expanded clientele of senior
travelers, Emily Miceli, travel agency owner and tour
escort, offers discounted fares to a handful of bloggers
in exchange for highlighting her group’s tour of
Cornwall, England. But when the quarrelsome host of
their historic inn dies under suspicious circumstances,
Emily worries that the bloggers’ coverage of the
situation will torpedo her travel agency.
Monday
January 15 Inventory Day!
Wish us Luck…
Wednesday
January 17 Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm
Deep Dark Descending by Allen Eskens
Thursday
January 18 Private Event
7 pm
Tempo Non-Fiction Lovers
Friday
January 19 Doug Moe interviews
7 pm
bestselling author *Nick
Petrie*
Light It Up
Nick Petrie’s riveting debut, The Drifter,
introduced us to the memorable Peter Ash and
earned the recognition of fans, critics, and
readers alike. In 2017, Petrie was recognized
with an Edgar Award nomination and an
Anthony Award nomination (to name a few),
and received the ITW Thriller Award for Best
New Novel. Putnam is thrilled to celebrate the
return of Nick Petrie’s captivating and celebrated work with Light it Up
(Putnam; January 16, 2018). The third installment in the widely acclaimed
series featuring protagonist Peter Ash—who Lee Child himself has called “the
real deal” in comparison to his own Jack Reacher—Light it Up is an action-
packed, finely tuned thriller that readers of John Sandford, Michael Connelly,
and Robert Crais will devour.
Sunday
January 28 Agatha Christie Book Club
3 pm
Tuesday
January 30 A progressive evening…
6 – 9 pm
Doug Moe interviews
John Nichols
Dinner at Bloom

This is a ticketed event.

Details coming soon
Wednesday
January 31 Carol “Orange”
7 pm
Schroeder

Specialty Shop
Retailing – How You
can Succeed in Today’s
Market
This is the 4th edition of a book widely
praised for its enjoyable writing style and
wealth of practical information based on the author’s 40 years as an award-
winning independent retailer.
Thursday
February 1 Infamous
7 pm
Mothers
Sagashus
Levingston
Black We are teen moms, single
History mothers, mothers who once sex
worked and were addicted to
Month crack. We're not your average
good girls. We are survivors of
domestic abuse and sexual
trauma. But don't call us damsels
in distress. We are women with
moxie and grit - game changers and powerhouses. We did more than go
through the belly of hell and survived, we brought something good back -
coming out on the other side as doctors, artists, nurse practitioners,
homeowners, counselors, and so much more. We are 20+ women who make a
difference in this world. Read our stories and witness how.

Sagashus Levingston is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of

English at UW-Madison. Her dissertation is titled Infamous Mothers: Bad
Moms Doing Extraordinary Things. While her research focuses primarily on
literature, it is informed by theory and criticism from rhetoric, motherhood
studies and black feminism. Her coffee table book, simply titled Infamous
Mothers, is inspired by this work and so is Infamous Mothers, LLC, a social
enterprise where Sagashus offers personal and professional development
training meant to empower women who mother from the margins of our
society.

Thursday
February 1 Nick Petrie at the
6:30 pm
McFarland Public
Library
Light it Up

In case you missed Nick on

January 19…
Friday
February 2 Sean Patrick Little
6 pm
Lord Bobbins and the
Romanian Ruckus
A TeslaCon Novel

All Nicodemus Clarke wants to do is head west,

get away from civilization, and build a home
well away from people where he could live out
the rest of his days in relative anonymity and
quiet. After stints as a sniper in the Union
Army and an expedition leader in the French
Expeditionary Forces, he's earned some
downtime. However, Lord Bobbins, the
eccentric British adventurer and industrialist, has one last job for him:
investigating sightings of werewolves in a tiny Romanian town in the
Carpathian Mountains where Bobbins has just come into the ownership of an
old castle.
Sunday
February 4 History’s Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm
Jade Dragon Mountain, Elsa Hart
Thursday
February 8 Poetry Night…
7 pm
Jeanie Tomasko
&
Richard Merelman
Sensorium, Bent Paddle Press
Saturday
February 17 Doug Moe
2 pm
interviews
Ann Davidson
Keller
Empty Chairs
Joe McDowell steals from
his mother’s coin purse,
wanting a life he can’t hope for on a North Carolina mountain farm. When his
older brother leaves to fight in WWII, a cascade of catastrophes plunges the
family into crisis…
Ann enjoyed a career in mental health care, and recently retired. She has
studied writing at UW-Madison’s Writers' Institute. She lives in Madison,
Wisconsin with her husband.
Thursday
February 22 Middleton Public
7 pm
Library
Scholar’d Series Presents
History Professor Alfred
McCoy
In the Shadow of the
American Century
Wednesday
February 28 Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm
Serena, Ron Rash
Sunday
March 4 History’s Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm
Curious Beginning, Deanna Raybourn
Tuesday
March 6 Karen Karbo
7 pm
In Praise of Difficult
Women
From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora
Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this
witty narrative explores what we can learn from
the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29
iconic women who forged their own unique paths
in the world.

Sunday
March 25 Agatha Christie Book Club
3 pm
Wednesday
March 28 Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm
In Farleigh Field, Rhys Bowen
Saturday
March 31 Poetry with Andrea Potos
11 am
Stone to Carry Home
In this collection Andrea Potos exults in images of luminous earthly beauty --
a blue scarf lake, Greek bread that tastes of heaven and salt, cobbled streets
shining like jet in the rain -- that also hint at the inevitability of loss.
Sunday
April 8 History’s Mysteries Book Club
12:30
The Last Kashmiri Rose, Barbara
Cleverly
Wednesday
April 11 Library Week Event
Tbd
Monona Public Library
Friday
April 20 Karen Dionne
7 pm
Marsh King’s Daughter
A paperback release party!

“Subtle, brilliant and mature . . . about as good

as a thriller can be.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Karen Dionne is the author of The Marsh

King's Daughter and three other novels. She is
also cofounder of the online writers community
Backspace and the organizer of the Salt Cay
Writers Retreat. She enjoys nature photography and lives with her husband in
Detroit's northern suburbs.
Wednesday
April 25 Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm Books for the year to be selected in January and February
Saturday
April 28 Independent Bookstore Day
All day!