*LOCAL AUTHOR* Double Reading & a YA Book Club

Today is the LAST DAY for the LSW Book Sale! 9am-6pm
4093 North Oakland Avenue

Join us again this year in Shorewood
for our annual Book Sale.

The proceeds from this sale benefit Literacy Services of Wisconsin.


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Jean Reynolds Page, author of Leaving Before It's Over and Isabel Sharpe, author of Knit in Comfort
Boswell Book Company @ 2pm

Leaving Before It's Over is a deeply compelling novel that explores the true meaning of family. When Roy Vines married his wife, Rosalind, he traded his family and his inheritance for love-a painful choice that has blessed them with years of joy nestled in rural North Carolina with their beautiful daughters, sixteen-year-old Lola and little Janie Ray. But their happiness is threatened when Rosalind suddenly falls ill. Desperate to get her the help she needs, Roy does the one thing he swore he'd never do-turn to his heartless and bitter identical twin brother, Mont, for help. The price is steep-and includes opening their home to a teenage boy who believes Roy is the father who abandoned him.


Jean Reynolds Page is the author of The Last Summer of Her Other Life, The Space Between Before and After, A Blessed Event, and Accidental Happiness. She grew up in North Carolina and graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a dance critic for more than ten years before turning full-time to fiction in 2001. In addition to North Carolina, she has lived in New York, Boston, Dallas, and Seattle. She and her family recently moved to Madison, Wisconsin.

Knit in Comfort is about the women of Comfort, North Carolina, who come together to knit and make lace-and find that the intricacies of both echo the complexities of their own lives. A story that combines the popular pastime of crafting and a richly realized cast of unforgettable characters, Knit in Comfort is a heartwarming tale of love and friendship.

Isabel Sharpe is the author of As Good As It Got. In addition to her novels from Avon, she is a prolific writer of Harlequin romances, the most recent of which is Blaze #539 : Surprise Me. Sharpe lives in the Milwaukee area.


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YA Book Club discusses Notes From the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
Next Chapter Bookshop @ 4pm


The YA Book Club will be discussing Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan
Sonnenblick. The club is free and open to any fans of YA literature who would
like to attend.



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Book Sale & a Reading

The LSW Book today through Sept. 19, 9am-6pm
4093 North Oakland Avenue

Join us again this year in Shorewood
for our annual Book Sale.

The proceeds from this sale benefit Literacy Services of Wisconsin.


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Neal Pollack, author of Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude

Boswell Book Company @ 7pm

This event takes place at Boswell and is cosponsored by Invivo Wellness, located at 2060 N. Humboldt Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53212. Visit invivofitness.com/wellness for more information.

Stretch is the hilarious true account of an overweight, balding, skeptical guy's unexpected transformation into a healthy, blissful yoga fiend. Neal Pollack was out of shape. The hair on his head was thinning and the hair on his face was pretentious-traits a New York Times critic gleefully pointed out while panning his second book. Combined with the predestined failure of his punk rock band, it was almost too much for Pollack to bear. He was willing to try anything to get his life back on track . . . even yoga.

While struggling to master difficult poses without kicking other yogis in the face, Pollack actually, remarkably, began to feel better, both in body and mind. Soon he found himself immersed in the "weird and circuslike" world of yoga. He participated in a 24-hour yogathon, attended yoga conferences and Asian retreats, went to yoga rock shows, started getting regular assignments for Yoga Journal magazine, and, finally, began teaching yoga classes himself.

Stretch mercilessly lampoons the bizarre, omnipresent culture of yoga, but it's also a story of profound personal transformation. Pollack started off mocking yoga. Now he's become one of its most enthusiastic proponents.

Author bio: Neal Pollack is the author of the bestselling memoir Alternadad and several books of satirical fiction, including The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature and the rock novel Never Mind the Pollacks. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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BOOK SALE and Reading Event!

The LSW Book Sale kicks off today! September 16-19, 9am-6pm
4093 North Oakland Avenue

Join us again this year in Shorewood
for our annual Book Sale.

The proceeds from this sale will benefit Literacy Services of Wisconsin.



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M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman, authors of Wisconsin's Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes
This event is cosponsored by and takes place at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, @7pm (2220 N. Terrace Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202)

Wisconsin's Own tells the story of the considerable contribution Wisconsin's historic homes have made to American residential architecture. It also answers questions you've likely asked when you've seen a notable historic home: Who built this house? What brought them here? Why did they select that particular style? How is it that this historic home still stands today, despite development pressures? Authors M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman and the Wisconsin Historical Society researched and carefully considered 1,500 potential houses before narrowing the selection to twenty of the state's most remarkable residences built between 1854 and 1939.

The houses are a mix of public ones you may have visited and private homes you've been hoping for an invitation to explore. The homes are representative of the varied architectural styles in Wisconsin, from an Italianate along the Mississippi and an interpretation of a sixteenth-century northern Italian villa overlooking Lake Michigan to an Adirondack-style camp in the North Woods and a fourteen-bedroom Georgian Revival mansion on Lake Geneva. The Prairie School is, of course, represented, with examples by Frank Lloyd Wright and his mentor Louis Sullivan. Richly illustrated with the photography of Zane Williams, complemented by historical images, watercolors, and line drawings by the authors, Wisconsin's Own offers an intimate tour of residential treasures-built for captains of industry, be it paper or lumber, a beer baron, Broadway stars, and more-that have endured the test of time.

Author bio: M. Caren Connolly is a landscape architect, and Louis Wasserman, AIA, is an architect whose work, including research funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, has been nationally recognized. They are both graduates of Harvard's Design School and have taught art, architecture, and landscape architecture nationwide. They are the authors of Bungalows, published by The Taunton Press. They live in the Milwaukee area.


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