 Holidays, Parties and Books - Oh My!
Hurray for powdery snow, crackling fires, and good books. Hurray for friends, food, parties, excitement and new ideas! We'd love your company at our
Christmas Party: Thursday December 3,
6:00 - 9:00 PM at A Book For All Seasons.
A Book For All Seasons looks forward with delight to the new and the old as another year's Christmas party beckons. As you've come to expect, we'll have refreshments, drawings, gifts, and the chance to meet fascinating authors and
ALL-DAY 10% off
Holiday Catalog items and all visiting authors' books.
Share the spirit at our gift-wrapping station!
Your donation for gift-wrapping will spread the joy of the season throughout the Upper Valley - all proceeds go to Community Cupboard!
What a line up this year! Six favorite authors, and a whole world of ideas, from the ebullient and provocative Seattle 7 Writers.
 Meet best-selling author Stephanie Kallos, author of Broken For You and Sing Them Home. Sing Them Home is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. When they're summoned home after their father's death, each sibling is forced to revisit the childhood tragedy that has defined their lives. With breathtaking lyricism, wisdom, and humor, Kallos explores the consequences of protecting those we love. Kallos' first novel, Broken For You, a national best seller and Today show Book Club selection, is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect.  Both funny and heartbreaking, Broken For You is a glorious homage to the beauty of broken things. With infinite charm, wit and heart, it is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world's wrongs.
Click here for more on Stephanie's books.
Click here to go to Stephanie's web site http://stephaniekallos.com
 Meet best-selling author Carol Cassella, author of Oxygen. Oxygen is a story of intimate family relationships colliding with an explosive, high stakes medical drama. A nightmarish operating room disaster and the ensuing legal morass, together with the quieter crisis of her aging father's slide into dependence, force a doctor to confront the choices she has made along life's path, including whom to love, whom to trust, and what ultimately matters. Oxygen climaxes in a final twist as heartrending as it is redeeming.
Click here to go to Carol Cassella's web site http://www.carolcassella.com. 
 Meet Kit Bakke, author of Miss Alcott's Email. Thirty-six years ago, Kit, a member of the notorious Weather Underground protesting the Viet Nam war, was surrounded by U.S. police, guns drawn. Twenty-eight years later, just after the 9/11 attacks, Kit stood, singing with other Americans, as loud-speakers played America the Beautiful, and felt tears coursing down her cheeks. That was the moment, in many ways, that her book was born, although it was almost a year before Kit discovered the uncelebrated back-story of Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women. Kit discovered that Alcott was an independent thinker, civil war nurse, activist, champion of women's rights, and a neighbor and friend of Emerson and Thoreau.  Alcott's novels were written to support her parents and siblings, who would otherwise have lived in extreme poverty. "Yours for reforms of all kinds," Louisa Alcott signed her letters. And so is Kit Bakke, it seems, beginning with this imaginative construction for a biography - in which Kit emails Miss Alcott about issues of the day - and Miss Alcott emails back.
Click here to go to Kit Bakke's web site http://kitbakke.com.
 Meet Jennie Shortridge. Her just-released fourth novel When She Flew is the evocative story of an Iraq war vet raising his daughter Lindy in the Oregon woods, avoiding the comforts—and curses—of modern life. Police officer Jessica has been ordered to uproot and separate Lindy and her father, but Jessica knows the damage of losing those you love, and believes the pair is safer and happier together. Jessica recognizes her chance to make a difference by doing something she's never dared. Officer Jessica is used to playing by the rules, but does there come a time when they need to be broken?  Shortridge's previous novels, Eating Heaven and Riding with the Queen have been called, "rich, funny, sad, sensual, and hopeful."
Learn more about author Jennie and her other wonderful novels at http://jennieshortridge.com.
 Meet Erica Bauermeister, author of The School of Essential Ingredients. Called "exquisitely written and heart-breakingly delicious" by reviewers, The School of Essential Ingredients expresses how the act of cooking provides an opportunity to slow down and focus on our senses rather than the speed of our world. One by one, cooking school students are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create: a lesson in cake-making leads to reflections on a marriage, tortillas teach a girl to believe in herself, and a man learns about love while creating tiramisu. Over time, the paths of the students mingle and intertwine, with results that are often unexpected, and always delicious.
Click here to go to Erica Bauermeister's web site http://ericabauermeister.com.
 Meet Randy Sue Coburn, author of A Better View of Paradise and Owl Island. In A Better View of Paradise, the life of a celebrated landscape architect is suddenly turned upside down. Blasted by critics, abruptly dumped by her boyfriend, and shocked to discover her father is dying, Stevie seeks solace in the calming waters of her childhood home, Hawai'i. What started as a holiday escape becomes a chance for transformation. Stevie learns to surrender her inhibitions and seize every beautiful day in a reconfigured paradise. Dramatic, moving, and exquisitely written, A Better View of Paradise explores the tender bond between fathers and daughters, ponders the delicate nature of healing, and celebrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and love. Owl Island, Randy Sue's previous novel, has also received high acclaim. With memorable characters as diverse as the novel's settings-from fishing village to Seattle's high-tech world to Hollywood-Owl Island is a beautifully wrought tale about mothers and daughters, power and control, and the liberating lessons of opening one's heart.
Click here to go to Randy Sue Coburn's web site http://www.randysuecoburn.com.
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