Village Square Booksellers

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Bellows Falls, Vermont  

802-463-9404   

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Pat Fowler, Proprietor

 

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Village Square Booksellers Events        newsletter

Please call 802-463-9404 or email reservations for any of our book events for children & adults.


Eldest- Eragon & other Games

Prior events


In the Gallery-   Kate Gorman & Kerry Lucier

Regular programs:

  • 1st Saturdays, 1-4pm- Strategy Games  May 3  Also April 23 during school vacation
  • 2nd Saturdays, 2-4pm-Open Mic Poetry -River Voices – April 12
  • 3rd Saturdays, 2-4pm- American Girl Club— Sat April 19

Story Hour - Thursdays at 11, with Pat Fowler reading. Come for the reading and stay in Bellows Falls for a family lunch- Pat will be giving out a coupon good at Fat Franks, Vermont Pretzels & Cookies to all participants. By reservation only!


Archer Mayor - Chat  Autographed Books available!

 

Sun April 13, 1-3 pm- Doug Rose- Fearless Puppy on American Road

Travel through Fearless Puppy on American Road with our 15 year old hitchhiking runaway as he escapes a life of drug dealing in Brooklyn. This trip offers solid clues about how to leave excess fears in the dust. Follow the author’s outrageous voyage through every stupid mistake (and most of the saving grace) that humanity has to offer. Laugh at our intrepid lunatic’s ability to land on his feet in spite of himself.
The Main Purpose of Fearless Puppy and The Dog Soldier Trilogy of Books is to establish permanent funding sources to be used for sponsoring the physical care and education of what is hoped will be an increasing number of wisdom professionals. The first substantial profits from book sales will be used to build hotel/motel type guesthouses near Temples in Asia. The money raised from travelers patronizing these guest houses will perpetually support Monk and Nun students.

 

 

Fri April 18, 7pm- Reeve Lindbergh  - AUTOGRAPHED BOOK AVAILABLE

- Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age--And Other Unexpected Adventures  

In this moving collection of never-before-published essays, the author of "No More Words" and "Under a Wing" meditates on getting older and reflects on her famous parents--Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering a new stage in life, turning sixty, the period her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once described as "the youth of old age." It is a time of life, she writes, that produces some unexpected surprises. Age brings loss, but also love; disaster, but also delight. The second-graders Reeve taught many years ago are now middle-aged; her own children grow, marry, have children themselves. "Time flies," she observes, "but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too." A milestone birthday is also an opportunity to take stock of oneself, although such self-reflection may lead to nothing more than the realization, as Reeve puts it, "that I just seem to continue being me, the same person I was at twelve and at fifty." At sixty, as she observes, "all I really can do with the rest of my life is to...feel all of it, every bit of it, as much as I can for as long as I can."

Age is only one of many subjects that Reeve writes about with perception and insight. In northern Vermont, nature is an integral part of daily life, especially on a farm. Whether it is the arrival and departure of certain birds in spring and fall, wandering turtles, or the springtime ritual of lambing, the natural world is a constant revelation.

With a wry sense of humor, Reeve contemplates the infirmities of the aging body, as well as the many new drugs that treat these maladies. Briefly considering the risks of drug dependency, she writes that "the least we [the "Sixties Generation"] can do for ourselves is live up to our mythology, and take lots of drugs." Legal drugs, that is -- although what sustains us as we grow older is not drugs but an appreciation for life, augmented by compassion, a sense of humor, and common sense.

And of course there is family -- especially with the Lindberghs. Reeve writes about discovering, thirty years after her father's death and two and a half years after her mother's, that her father had three secret families in Europe. She travels to meet them, learning to expand her self-understanding: "daughter of," "mother of," "sister of" -- sister of many more siblings than she'd known, in a family more complicated than even she had imagined.

Forward from Here is a brave book, a reflective book, a funny book -- a book that will charm and fascinate anyone on the journey from middle age to the uncertain future that lies ahead.

Find out more: Read an excerpt

 

Saturday, May 10, 1-2pm-  In Search of a Metaphor Poetry reading prior to the 2nd Saturday Open Mic Poetry hosted by the River Voices, from 2-4pm

 

Friday May 16, 7pm- Tracey Medeiros- Dishing Up Vermont 

 

Sustainable, Local, Delicious …

Vermont!

 

Vermont, long associated only with cheddar cheese and maple syrup, has languished in the shadow of Cajun country, Tex-Mex spiciness, and the conspicuous healthiness of California.  A little investigation turns up the delicious fact that Vermont goes way beyond cheese and syrup, and has, in fact, been christened “the coolest food state in the union” by Saveur magazine.  The publication of Dishing Up Vermont will turn the rest of the country on to what Vermonters already know:  their state is a four-season mecca of fresh produce, farm-raised meats, and imaginative pairings of food and wines to rival their better-known counterparts.

 

Food writer Tracey Medeiros has compiled 145 recipes showcasing the best of the broad range of Vermont cooks and food producers dedicated to sustaining and enriching local culinary traditions.  Included are contributions from B&B owners who take pride in their robust country breakfasts, and the farmers themselves who love sharing the recipes that make their products shine.  Dishing Up Vermont also includes profiles of the people and places that make the state’s food scene so vibrant.  Here are the classically trained chefs, home bakers, farmers, winemakers, comfort-food cooks, beekeepers, orchard and sugar-shack owners, craft brewers, winemakers, and all the other foodies who keep Vermont food folklore alive while developing new flavor contributions that respect the integrity of the raw ingredients.  Molly Stevens, president of the Vermont Fresh Network, an association dedicated to promoting and publicizing Vermont chefs and restaurants that use Vermont-grown and -produced food, wrote the foreword.

 

Second only to eating those glorious foods are reading the recipes for local treats such as Hope’s Farm Corn and Cheese Chowder, Sweet and Sour Vermont Cheeseburger with Attitude, Roasted Cavendish Quail with Celery Root Puree, or Chocolate Porter Cake.  Finding out the origins of each dish and the restaurant or farm that created those flavors is like putting the pieces of an appetizing puzzle together.  The lush photography adds to the flavor of Dishing Up Vermont like local hot fudge sauce on some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. 

 

            A portion of the proceeds of Dishing Up Vermont will be donated to the Vermont Fresh Network.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tracey Medeiros is a food writer whose articles and recipes have appeared in Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Eating Well, and Hampton Roads magazines.  When she relocated to Vermont several years ago, she immediately became interested in the exciting local food scene.  Her interest in the Green Mountain state’s farmers and chefs led to the development of Dishing Up Vermont.  She lives in Essex Junction, Vt.

Dishing Up Vermont

Tracey Medeiros

Storey Publishing April 2008

288 pages, 7⅜ x 9¼

Full color, photographs throughout

$19.95 paper,

ISBN 978-1-60342-025-9

 

 


 

 

Friday June 20, 7pm- Jennifer McMahon- Island of Lost Girls

 

Jennifer is the author of Promise Not To Tell and visited our store in Spring 2007.  Join us in welcoming Jennifer back to Bellows Falls.

 

 

Prior events

Archer Mayor  AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS AVAILABLE 

 

 

Regular Programs

  • American Girl Club    Sat. April 19, May 17, June 21,  2-4 pm    Crafts, Reading Aloud.  Free but reservations required.

  • 2nd Saturday Poetry with the River Voices, Sat Apr 12, May 10, June 21   2 -4 pm.

    Open Mic River Voices Poetry Reading on the second Saturday of each month from 2 to 4 p.m., in the café.  The session is open mic, with individuals reading their own poetry or poems from their favorite poet. Listeners are welcome to attend. Light refreshments are served. To reserve a place at the table, e-mail vsbooks@sover.net or call (802) 463-9404.

Remarkable Reads: Classics Reading Group

 

Dead Reckoning: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Golden Age of Exploration,1800-1900  Helen Whybrow, Vermont editor reading to our patrons. Nov 2002

2nd Saturday Poetry Readings

Vince DiBernardo- Folk Music on the Cafe / Gallery

 

Workshops  at Village Square Booksellers 

(all fees payable to instructors -follow links for details on workshop) Reservations- 802-463-9404 or vsbooks@sover.net 

next class March  17 2008

Poetry Workshop at Village Square Booksellers with Jim Fowler (no relation to owner Pat).  The goal of this course is to introduce more people to the art of writing poetry and will include a discussion of modern poetry in various forms and styles. Each week, the course will provide time to share and discuss participant's poetry. Students should bring a poem and copies to the first class. The course will be limited to 5 to 8 students to allow adequate time to go through everyone's poetry contributions and will meet in the cafe at Village Square Booksellers. James Fowler, of Charlestown, New Hampshire, has a Masters Degree in Environmental Science with a major in Nature Writing. He was the editor of Heartbeat of New England, a poetry anthology. Fowler has been widely published since 1998 in such journals as Connecticut Review, Quarterly of Light Verse, and Larcom Review. Fowler is a founding member of the River Voices Writer's Circle, and a regular reader at Village Square Booksellers-River Voices Poetry Readings. The fee for this 6 week Workshop is $100, payable to Mr. Fowler at the first class. Pre-registration for the Poetry Workshop is suggested and may be made by calling Village Square Booksellers at 802-463-9404 or by email       Email Jim for more information.

Catching Fire! 

and The Village Square Booksellers

Present:

The Nuts and Bolts

Of Adult ADHD

 An Educational Presentation with Susan Venman, Certified  ADHD Coach

 Sunday, March 30th 1:00

at Village Square Booksellers

Bellows Falls 

Are you easily distracted, prone to mood swings and have problems with procrastination and disorganization?  You may have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).  ADHD is more difficult to diagnose in adults than children.  Symptoms are often disguised as difficulties in relationships, occupational underachievement and low frustration tolerance.  It can be a frightening, frustrating disorder to live with.  But you can learn to manage it and develop strategies for successful living.

          In this informative, one hour talk Susan Venman, a business and personal coach who specializes in working with adults with ADHD, will discuss:

  • The hallmark symptoms of ADHD and its various causes.

  • How adult ADHD differs from childhood ADHD.

  • Conventional approaches for managing ADHD, including a recommended 8-step treatment program. 

Reservations are recommended.  Suggested $5 seminar fee. Please contact Sue at www.ADHDCoachSue.com or 802-869-2601 or The Village Square Booksellers at 802-463-9404

 

 

 

   
         
 

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