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WORD January Newsletter
featuring...slam poetry, Scrabble, and Celine

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Upcoming Events
WORD December bestsellers
Book Clubs
WORD Book-a-Month Club
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, January 8, 7:30pm:
WORD book club: Never Let Me Go


Wednesday, January 9, 7:30pm:

Words in Your Face (the first definitive history of the New York City slam poetry scene) author Cristin O'Keefe with slam masters Shappy Seasholtz, Rachel McKibbens and poet and executive director of Urban Word, Michael Cirelli. Free beer will be served.

Thursday, January 10, 7:30pm:
WORD book club: Never Let Me Go

Tuesday, January 15, 7:30pm:
The first monthly (every third Tuesday) game night kicks off with Scrabble. We buy the beer; bring your own board to share.

Wednesday, January 16, 7:30pm:
Launch party for Brooklyn author Sarah Langan, author of the new horror/thriller The Missing.
Complimentary wine will be served.

Tuesday, January 22, 7:30pm:
Reading by Carl Wilson, author of Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, part of Continuum's 33 1/3 series. Free beer.

Friday, January 25, 8:00pm:
The first monthly (every last Friday) Book-to-Movie Night features a screening of Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

WORD December bestsellers
Here's what everyone was buying in December:

1. NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. YULE LOG DVD GIFT SET
3. HISTORY OF THE SNOWMAN by Bob Eckstein
4. OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA by Michael Pollan
5. BORN STANDING UP by Steve Martin
6. ZAGAT BEST OF BROOKLYN
7. INSANITY DEFENSE: COMPLETE PROSE by Woody Allen
8. GALLOP! by Rufus Butler Seder
9. TWELVE HORRORS OF CHRISTMAS by John Updike & Edward Gorey    
10. 2007 BEST AMERICAN COMICS edited by Chris Ware
Book Clubs
January's book (to be discussed in February) is Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Book Club Meetings:
  • 1st Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm
  • 1st Saturday of every month at noon
  • 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm
  • 2nd Thursday of every month at 7:30pm
Call or email to sign up for a book club.
WORD Book-a-Month Club
Enroll the children in your life in the WORD Book-a-Month Club and help them build their library!

Each month, we will mail a new book directly to the child's home.  Choose from three age groups:
  • Newborn - 3 years (board books)
  • 4 - 7 years (beginning readers)
  • 8 - 12 years (classic chapter books)
Half Year $65.00 / Full Year $125.00
 


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