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MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE
EXCITING
JUST BOOKS AUTHOR EVENTS THIS
FALL!!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 11:00 AM
GALE STEVES
RIGHT SIZING YOUR HOME: HOW TO
MAKE YOUR HOUSE FIT YOUR LIFESTYLE
Just Books
28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT
Book Signing; Free and Open to
the Public
Just Books is pleased to welcome Gale Steves, former editor of
Home magazine, and an
established authority on everything to do with the home, as she
introduces her newest book, Right-Sizing Your
Home: How to Make Your House Fit Your Lifestyle (Northwest
Arm Press, $21.95). Gale Steves shows how to make sense of those
spaces rarely used and no longer suited to the way we live today.
Unlike most home design books, each chapter in this beautifully
illustrated book centers on a function in the home--such as
bathing, relaxing, or eating--and helps readers assess their
individual style and approach to each. Steves takes them through
the entire process of Right-Sizing: providing worksheets to examine
the uses and requirements of space, dimension guides to illustrate
different spatial arrangements within rooms, the right way to
measure, how to create a floor plan, and even a clever use for old
grocery bags. Additionally, there are tons of inspiring ideas,
hundreds of products that can help readers Right-Size on any
budget, and a comprehensive list of resources making it easy to
find everything featured in the book--everything needed "to make
your house fit your lifestyle." The National Association of Home
Builders has recognized Steves' outstanding contribution to the
building and remodeling field with a Certificate of Merit. She is
listed in Who's Who of American Women and was most recently
inducted into the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers. Steves'
consumer magazine experience includes key editorial positions at
Ladies Home Journal, American Home, and Woman's Day, among others. She
is also the author of several books, including Weekend Cooking and Home Magazine's Best Little
Houses.
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TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 21, 7:00 PM
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
LIFE,
AFTER
LAUNCH PARTY @ Arcadia Cafe
20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich,
CT
Launch Party; Free and Open to the
Public
Just Books is pleased to welcome
award-winning teen and tween author Sarah Darer Littman, a Greenwich resident, as she
introduces her third novel for teens Life, After
(Scholastic Press; $17.99).
After a terrorist attack kills Dani's aunt and unborn cousin, life
in Argentina - private school, a boyfriend, a loving family -
crumbles quickly. In order to escape a country that is sinking
under their feet, Dani and her family move to the United States.
It's supposed to be a fresh start, but when you're living in a
cramped apartment and going to high school where all the classes
are in another language, and not everyone is friendly, life in
America is not all it's cracked up to be. Dani misses her old
friends, her life, "Before." But then Dani meets a boy named Jon,
who isn't like all the other students. Through him, she becomes
friends with Jessica, one of the popular girls, who is harboring a
secret of her own. And then there's Brian, the boy who makes Dani's
pulse race. In her new life, the one "After," Dani learns how to
heal and forgive. She finds the courage to say goodbye and allows
herself to love and be loved again. Sarah Darer Littman's widely
praised first novel for middle grade readers, Confessions of a
Closet Catholic, won the
2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award. She is also the author of
Purge. Sarah lives in Connecticut with her
two children.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 5:00
PM
JOHN LAURENCE BUSCH
STEAM COFFIN: CAPTAIN MOSES ROGERS AND THE STEAMSHIP SAVANNAH BREAK
THE BARRIER
Norwalk Boat Show
Norwalk
Cove Marina, Norwalk, CT
Visit www.boatshownorwalk.com for
ticket information
Historian and author John Laurence
Busch will present "How Did We Get from Steamboats to Steamships"
at the Norwalk Boat Show, Friday, September 24, at 5:00 p.m. John
Laurence Busch will attempt to re-calibrate your mind before
showing why the proposition of making the first crossing of the
Atlantic Ocean on a "steamship" was met with a mixture of
skepticism and fear. Visit the Norwalk Boat Show website www.boatshownorwalk.com for
ticket information and information on the Norwalk Boat Show.
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TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 28, 7:30 PM
JENNIFER JORDAN
THE LAST MAN
ON THE MOUNTAIN
A Perrot Memorial Library &
Just Books Event
Perrot Memorial Library, Radcliffe Wing
Old Greenwich, CT
Author Talk &
Book Signing
Perrot Memorial Library and Just
Books are pleased to feature Jennifer Jordan, who will be
speaking about her latest book, The Last Man on the
Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2, (W.W.
Norton & Company, $26.95). This will be Jennifer's second
visit to Perrot; she previously shared with fans her 2005 book,
Savage Summit: The True Stories
of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared
Mountain.
The Last Man on the
Mountain is the untold story of Dudley Wolfe and America's
ill-fated 1939 expedition to the roof of the world. Born into vast
wealth, yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston
and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2,
the world's second-highest mountain, and in the opinion of
mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge than Mt. Everest.
Although close to middle age and inexperienced at high altitude,
Wolfe, with a team leader, made it higher than any other member of
the expedition, but couldn't get back down. Suffering from
altitude sickness and severe dehydration, he was abandoned at
nearly 25,000 feet; it would be another 63 years before Jennifer
Jordan discovered his remains in 2002. In a story where The Great Gatsby meets Into Thin Air, readers follow
Wolfe from the salons of Europe to the most forbidding landscape on
earth. Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker and
screenwriter. She has twice lived at the base of K2.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 12:00- 3:00 PM
DOUGLAS GLADSTONE
A BITTER CUP OF COFFEE: HOW MLB
AND THE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION THREW 874 RETIREES A CURVE
Just Books
28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT
Free and Open to
the Public
Just Books is pleased to welcome
journalist and author Douglas
Gladstone as he introduces his first book A Bitter Cup of
Coffee: How MLB and the Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a
Curve (Word Association, $18). This
painstakingly researched book by Gladstone examines the plight of
874 Major League Baseball players who played between 1947 and 1979,
all with brief trials in the majors, careers figuratively just long
enough to drink a cup of coffee. Since 1980, Major League Baseball
players have needed one day of service credit for health benefits
and 43 days of service credit to be eligible for a retirement
allowance, but those former ballplayers who played during the
1947-1979 seasons were not included retroactively in the amended
vesting requirement, and so receive no pensions for the time they
gave to our national pastime. These men, the author suggests, have
gulped bitter cups of coffee. In his careful examination of this
issue, which includes many interviews with former players and some
poignant stories of their plight, Gladstone asks his readers to
examine our national relationship to sports and its heroes, as well
as our relationships with those who precede us in the game of life.
A lifelong baseball fan, Douglas Gladstone is a journalist by
training, whose published articles have appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Baseball Digest and the San Diego Jewish World, among
others.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 7:00 PM
JAY TUNNEY
THE
PRIZEFIGHTER AND THE PLAYWRIGHT:
GENE TUNNEY AND BERNARD SHAW
A
Greenwich Library & Just Books Event
Greenwich Library, Cole Auditorium
101 W. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT
Author Talk &
Book Signing;
www.greenwichlibrary.org � Free
and Open to the Public
The Greenwich Library and Just Books
are pleased to welcome author Jay
R. Tunney, as he shares his personal observations of an
unlikely friendship between a heavyweight boxing champion and
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, as one of the the guests at
AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary.
Tunney penned The Prize Fighter
and the Playwright (Firefly Books, $35), an insider's look
at the relationship between his father, boxing icon Gene Tunney,
and Bernard Shaw, the most famous playwright of the 20th century.
In this unusual and often surprising book, Tunney explores this
private friendship in the spotlight of celebrity.
The book grew out of the author's popular BBC radio program The Master and the Boy, which in
2000-01 aired to some 14 million listeners worldwide. Tunney has
written dozens of magazine articles and essays for publications
worldwide, including The New York
Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Asia edition, the
Hartford Courant, the
Annual of Bernard Shaw
Studies and The
Independent Shavian. He is a member of the International
Advisory Council for the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ontario, Canada, is vice president of the International Shaw
Society and serves on the advisory board of the New York Bernard
Shaw Society.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 12:00-2:00
PM
COLMAN ANDREWS
FERRAN: THE
INSIDE STORY OF EL BULLI AND
THE MAN WHO REINVENTED FOOD
Just Books
28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT
Book
Signing; Free and Open to the Public
Just Books is
thrilled to welcome Colman
Andrews, a Greenwich resident and acclaimed cookbook author
and co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Saveur, as he introduces his
latest novel, Ferran: The Inside
Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food (Gotham,
October 5, 2010; $28). No other chef in history has been
interviewed, written about, and parsed more than Ferran Adri�. And
perhaps no other chef has given of his philosophy, recipes and
revolutionary techniques as freely. Award-winning food writer
Coleman Andrews was given two years of unrestricted access to
Adri�'s El Bulli kitchen, dining room, Barcelona workshop, family
friends and associates. The result is a defining and revealing
portrait of the chef in a historical and culinary context that
addresses both his genius and the salient criticisms leveled
against him. FERRAN demystifies, exalts, and thoroughly examines
the man known as "the greatest chef in the world." The El Bulli
restaurant is located in the Catalan coastal hamlet of Cala
Montjoi, near Spain's boarder with France. Each year, 8,000 lucky
dinners from around the world are able to eat at the restaurant -
another 1 million are turned away from the 30-course revolutionary
experience. Dinner at the restaurant, with its year-plus wait
list, is arguably the toughest reservation in the world to
score. Coleman
Andrews was
the cofounder and a former editor in chief of
Saveur,
and is the author of
four acclaimed cookbooks, including Catalan Cuisine, which introduced the now-trendy cooking of Catalonia,
Ferran Adri�'s home region, to American food-lovers. The recipient of numerous
honors (including six James Beard Foundation awards), he was most
recently the restaurant columnist for Gourmet. He divides his time between New York
City and Connecticut.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 7:00
PM
MONA SIMPSON
MY
HOLLYWOOD
A Greenwich Library & Just Books
Event
Greenwich Library, Cole Auditorium
101 W. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT
Author Talk &
Book Signing;
www.greenwichlibrary.org � Free
and Open to the Public
The Greenwich Library and Just Books
are pleased to welcome award-winning author Mona Simpson as she reveals the
secrets behind her most cherished work when she discusses My Hollywood
(Knopf, $26.95), as part of the AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary.
My Hollywood delivers the
story of Claire, a stressed classical composer and East Coast
transplant living, like Simpson, in Santa Monica. The stay-at-home
mom struggling with the duties of motherhood enlists a nanny, Lola,
a 52-year-old Filipino mother of five. As Lola stabilizes the rocky
household, a story of the upstairs competition for the best nanny
and the downstairs competition for the best deal unfolds. My
Hollywood tackles the modern issue of whether it is possible to buy
love for our children and what that transaction costs us all.
Simpson is the author of Anywhere
But Here, The Lost Father,
A Regular Guy, and Off
Keck Road, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award
and won the Heartland Prize of the Chicago Tribune. She has
received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila
Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award and recently a Literature
Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 7:00 PM
COLMAN ANDREWS
FERRAN: THE INSIDE STORY OF EL
BULLI AND
THE MAN WHO REINVENTED FOOD
A Greenwich Library & Just
Books Event
Greenwich Library
101 W. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT
Author Talk &
Book Signing;
www.greenwichlibrary.org � Free
and Open to the Public
The Greenwich
Library and Just Books are thrilled to welcome Colman Andrews, a Greenwich
resident and acclaimed cookbook author and co-founder and former
editor-in-chief of Saveur,
as he discusses and signs copies of his latest novel, Ferran: The Inside
Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food (Gotham,
October 5, 2010; $28). No other chef in history has been
interviewed, written about, and parsed more than Ferran Adri�. And
perhaps no other chef has given of his philosophy, recipes and
revolutionary techniques as freely. Award-winning food writer
Coleman Andrews was given two years of unrestricted access to
Adri�'s El Bulli kitchen, dining room, Barcelona workshop, family
friends and associates. The result is a defining and revealing
portrait of the chef in a historical and culinary context that
addresses both his genius and the salient criticisms leveled
against him. FERRAN demystifies, exalts, and thoroughly examines
the man known as "the greatest chef in the world." The El Bulli
restaurant is located in the Catalan coastal hamlet of Cala
Montjoi, near Spain's boarder with France. Each year, 8,000 lucky
dinners from around the world are able to eat at the restaurant -
another 1 million are turned away from the 30-course revolutionary
experience. Dinner at the restaurant, with its year-plus wait
list, is arguably the toughest reservation in the world to
score. Coleman
Andrews was
the cofounder and a former editor in chief of
Saveur,
and is the author of
four acclaimed cookbooks, including Catalan Cuisine, which introduced the now-trendy cooking of Catalonia,
Ferran Adri�'s home region, to American food-lovers. The recipient of numerous
honors (including six James Beard Foundation awards), he was most
recently the restaurant columnist for Gourmet. He divides his time between New York
City and Connecticut.
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the community for its continued support. The success of an
independent neighborhood bookstore is dependent on its loyal
customers.
--
Marion Holmes and the staff at Just Books
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