Books Between Cultures: My Journey as a Writer, February 12, 2012
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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. |
Book Sale, January 28-29, 2012
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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. |
Finding Fiction Worth Your Time, January 22, 2012
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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. |