On Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3, 2012, we will hold
our annual spring book sale. On Saturday, hard-cover and
trade paperbacks are priced at $1.00 and mass-market
paperbacks are 50 cents each. Sunday is Bargain Day; all
items are half price and a brown bag is $8.00. In addition,
individually priced books in the ongoing book sale section
will be half price on both Saturday and Sunday.
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Mark Peter Hughes, author of the book Lemonade
Mouth, talks about the story and characters of
his 2007 novel, and their adaptation into the hit
movie Lemonade Mouth, which premiered on the
Disney Channel in April 2011. The movie, Lemonade
Mouth, will be shown after the author's
presentation. Please note the earlier than
usual beginning of the program: 1:30 p.m.
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Sunanda Sahay specializes in a style of folk
painting that has been practiced for centuries in
the Madhubani region of India, near the border with
Nepal. The paintings decorate public and private
spaces with designs typically inspired by mythology
and nature.
This workshop is limited to 15 participants. Sign up
at the Reference desk in the Library if you would
like to attend. Click here for more
information.
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Mitali Perkins, award-winning author of Rickshaw
Girl, Monsoon Summer, Bamboo
People, and others, draws upon her own
experiences growing up as the "new girl from India"
in various countries, and in California. Wherever
the setting of her stories---the United States,
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar---her young people are
involved in discovering how to balance different
cultures, or sometimes, how to live with inescapable
challenges of their culture.
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On Saturday, January 28 and Sunday, January 29,
2012, we will hold our annual winter book sale. On
Saturday, hard-cover and trade paperbacks will be
priced at $1.00 and mass-market paperbacks will be
50 cents each. Sunday will be Bargain Day; all items
will be half price and a brown bag will be $8.00. In
addition, individually priced books in the ongoing
book sale section will be half price on both
Saturday and Sunday.
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Betty Sudarsky will present a host of books, with
about seventy percent new titles, plus other great
choices for personal, general, or book club reading.
Working with fiction and book club activities at
Wellesley Books, Betty stays on top of the latest
publications, and taps in to reader feedback. Her
reviews will direct you to both new fiction and
other books and authors worth a second look.
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