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A Letter from Carol Grossmeyer Regarding Bay View
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Dear friends,
The mission of our email newsletter is to keep you in the know and informed about what is happening at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops. We remind you of upcoming events, and recommend our newest book finds. In this case, however, our promise to keep you informed brings sad news: I must announce the closing of the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop in Bay View as of April 1, 2008.
We went into the Bay View location with a commitment to the Bay View community and high hopes for the future of a small, neighborhood bookshop. We were enthusiastically embraced by Bay View and appreciate the loyal readers who passed through our doors; their kind words and encouragement have enriched us and make this decision especially difficult.
Although it seems the shop has been open for a relatively short period of time, it became clear that even our modest expectations would not be realized. We have struggled greatly with the decision to close our doors in Bay View and in the end we feel that it is important now to use our resources to support our other shops. We would like to thank the Bay View booksellers for their dedication to the shop and the neighborhood and our friends in the Bay View community for your support, and hope that you will extend your support to our other Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop locations.
Sincerely,
Carol Grossmeyer, Owner and President
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Schwartz Live at Alverno Presents:
Barbara Walters · author of Audition
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Thursday, May 29 · 7 p.m. · The Pitman Theatre
 Barbara Walters has interviewed an extraordinary range of people during her forty years in broadcasting from Madeline Albright, Muhammad Ali and Lance Armstrong to Boris Yeltsin, Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Every president and First Lady from Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower to George and Laura Bush, heads of state from all over the world, newsmakers, singers from every musical genre, movie stars, athletes and legends of the stage-if we were talking about them Barbara Walters was talking to them.
At this cant-miss event, Barbara Walters will share the stage with WISN-TV's Kathy Mykleby to talk about her revealing memoir, and will take questions from the audience. Find out how she overcame barriers to make it in a male-dominated field, her thoughts on how the television industry has changed, and of course, about her amazing interviews. Tickets to this event will make a wonderful gift for soon-to-be Journalism or Communications graduates, or a fantastic night out for Mother's Day! Don't wait-get your tickets today.
$38 includes admission and a signed copy of Audition: A Memoir
Event takes place at the Pitman Theatre at Alverno College, 3401 S. 39th St., Milwaukee
Purchase tickets online or by calling the box office at 414-382-6044. There is a $5 handling fee for each order placed (per order, not per ticket). A Schwartz Bookshops gift card may be requested in place of book.
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Book Club Newsletter
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Are you a book club leader in need of a little direction? Maybe you're a member who's interested in keeping up on hot book club titles. Whether you pick the titles or just read them (or, let's face it, sometimes skim them), you should sign up to receive the Schwartz Book Club e-Newsletter. Each month we offer reading suggestions for your club, Book Club Field Trips, as well as profiles of local clubs and even periodic paperback giveaways. We're always working adding more fun features and offering more resources to book club members, so why wait-sign up for our Book Club Newsletter today!
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| Writer's Workshop presented by Patricia M. Puccinelli, Ph.D.
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Our writer's workshop with Patricia Puccinelli is back by popular demand!
The purpose of this course is to provide structure to students who wish to begin a written work or to continue a work in progress. Instructor Patricia M. Puccinelli, Ph.D. will provide assessment and suggestions, and members of the group will act as readers and reviewers of classmates' works.
The class will meet for four sessions every two weeks. Subsequent sections of the workshop are a continuation of the past sections. The classes will be held on Mondays on the following dates from 7-8:30 p.m. in our Mequon shop. Tuition is $60.00
The class will meet March 31, April 14, 28, and May 12.
Students are required to write and submit for critique a portion of a larger work, parts of a collection, or part of a series for each class meeting. This could include short stories, chapters of a work of fiction, series of essays, poetry or drama.
Please call the Mequon shop at 262-241-6220 to reserve your spot!
A copy of The Elements of Style, Illustrated by Strunk & White, will be included in the tuition of the class.
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| Live at Schwartz
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Here
is a list of the authors coming to a Schwartz Bookshop in the next few
weeks. For a complete list of upcoming author appearances visit
our new events page.
 Charles
Baxter
The Soul Thief
Friday, March 14 * 7:00 p.m.
reading * Downer Ave.
The latest novel by the acclaimed author of Feast
of Love finds Nathaniel Mason, a new graduate student in upstate
New York, drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem
to hover just out of his reach. One of those people is Jerome Coolberg
who seems to have taken parts of Nathaniel's past as his own.
It's Jerome who triggers Nathaniel's total breakdown,
and it's Jerome who shows up at his door thirty years later
to suggest that Nathaniel's identity may not be his own.
 Scott
Simon
Windy City
Friday, March 21 * 7:00 p.m.
reading * Shorewood
The host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition offers a
wise and funny novel of politics Chicago style in Windy City. Alderman
Sonny Roopini, a widower and transplant from India, finds himself
thrust into the spotlight when the gluttonous mayor apparently eats
himself into a fatal heart attack. But soon, Sonny begins to suspect
that the mayor's death has a more human and malicious cause
than cholesterol!
 
Kevin
Brockmeier * author of The View from the Seventh Layer
Tod Wodicka * author of All Shall
Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
Thursday, March 27 * 7:00 p.m.
reading * Downer Ave.
Literary fiction takes center stage at this event featuring two innovative
authors. Kevin Brockmeier, whose recent novel, A Brief History of
the Dead, was a bookseller favorite, offers a collection of inventive,
emotionally complex stories that reveal his remarkable range as a
writer. He will be joined by Tod Wodicka, whose debut novel introduces
Burt Hecker, a tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor and a man seemingly
at war with the modern world. The story unfolds to reveal the tragic
details of his life and it becomes clear why he prefers living in
a time other than his own.
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| Schwartz Select: Fiction
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 Staff
Pick
Go
With Me
Castle Freeman
Jr.
The Vermont hill country is the stark and vivid setting for this tale
of daring and conquest. Though her boyfriend has fled the state in fear,
Lillian, an outsider, refuses to back down in the face of threats from
a potentially lethal local villain. Law enforcement can't help her
but with some unlikely allies she is determined to stand her ground and
fight back in this suspenseful novel about community, individualism, fate
and self-determination.
"...a fun and exciting read."-Jerry
Kannel, Brookfield Bookseller
$21.95
 Souvenir
Therese Fowler
In 1989, Meg Powell agreed to a marriage arrangement that she couldn't
refuse. But, she could sneak off to see Carson McCay, the man she really
loved, before she sealed the deal that she made on her family's
behalf. Seventeen years later she receives shocking news and must decide
how-or if-she can endure the secret. While she attempts to
forge a relationship with her rebellious daughter, Carson McCay reappears
in her life and complicates matters more. A novel that explores the dynamic
between men and women, mothers and daughters, Souvenir is ultimately
about love's redemptive power.
$21.95
 The
Art of French Kissing
Kristin Harmel
The author of How to Sleep with a Movie Star is back with a witty,
charming tale of one woman's quest to find love while managing every
publicist's nightmare. Thirty-year-old Emma Adams is in desperate
need of a change. Dumped by her fiancé and newly unemployed, she
jumps at her friend Poppy's offer to come to Paris to manage an
internationally famous pop star. But between all the blind dates Poppy
has lined up and her client's wild antics-not to mention a
pesky (but cute!) reporter trying to bring the star down-will Emma
be able to handle the pressure and still master the "art"
of French kissing? Paperback
$13.99
 Memory
Philippe Grimbert
Translated by Polly McLean
In a novel that is part fiction, part memoir, Grimbert, a psychiatrist,
explores the secrets his parents left behind twenty years after they jumped
to their death from a balcony. Their secrets--a passionate love affair,
a lost child, and a betrayal under the shadow of World War II--set
in motion a lifetime of guilt and mourning. The award-winning novel confronts
the complex truth of a family's veiled past and explores mankind's
unfailing need to make sense of the senseless.
$19.95
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 Reading Judas
The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King
The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascination for
biblical scholars and lay Christians alike. Now two leading experts on
the Gnostic gospels tackle the important questions posed by its discovery.
Working from Karen L. King's translation, Elaine Pagels and King
provide the context necessary for considering its meaning and offer the
definitive look at the Gospel of Judas. Paperback
$15.00
 Big
Brain
The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
Gary Lynch and Richard Granger
Most of us have never heard of "Boskops," human-like creatures
who flourished in South Africa just 10,000 years ago, but they possessed
extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours and estimated
IQs to match. In Big Brain, prominent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard
Granger compare the contents of the Boskop brain to our own and arrive
at startling conclusions about our intelligence and creativity.
$26.95
 American-Made
The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
Nick Taylor
Four years into the Great Depression, twelve million Americans workers-one
quarter of the workforce-were jobless. Desperation ruled the land,
but what people wanted were jobs, not handouts. The Works Progress Administration-one
of the most controversial, humane and enduring programs ever-was
created, forever changing both the physical landscape and social polices
of the nation. Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the New Deal,
Nick Taylor offers a comprehensive look at the WPA-a program whose
legacy is still with us in countless bridges, roads, schools and national
landmarks across the country.
$27.00
 Alice
Waters and Chez Panisse
The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making
of a Food Revolution
Thomas McNamee
This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market
cooking" culture that so many of us savor today. When Alice Waters
opened Chez Panisse in Berkely in 1971, few Americans were familiar
with goat cheese or cappuccino. But it wasn't long before she
and her coterie of dreamers inspired a new culinary standard. The first
ever authorized biography of Waters is a truly delicious rags-to-riches
saga.
Paperback
$15.00
 Predictably
Irrational
The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
Why, after careful research on a car model, can a random meeting with
someone who has expressed a negative opinion change your decision to
buy? Why do honor codes work? Why do we make choices contrary to our
better judgment? And, what exactly is better judgment? Behavioral economist
Dan Ariely demonstrates that we repeatedly make the same kinds of mistakes
in a predicable way, and offers a way to recognize and break through
those patterns to make better decisions.
$25.95
 Swim
Against the Current
Even a Dead Fish Can Just Go With the Flow
Jim Hightower with Susan DeMarco
One of the nation's funniest activists, along with his "co-conspirator,"
Susan DeMarco, introduces you to people from across the country who have
broken the rules, trusted their values and made their own path. They're
changing their lives and making a difference in their communities-whether
young and just starting out or older and searching for a new path. Find
out how they were able to swim against the current and how you too can
chart a different, satisfying path of your own.
$25.95
 Four
Queens
The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Nancy Goldstone
In thirteenth-century Europe, four sisters from a single family-Marguerite,
Eleanor, Sanchia and Beatrice of Provençe-rose from obscurity
to become the queens of, respectively, France, England, Germany and Sicily.
All four were beautiful, cultured, and ambitious and their stories offer
a window into the era of chivalry, crusades, knights and monarchs. Fans
of Alison Weir and Philippa Gregory will enjoy this true tale of intrigue,
glamour and feminine power.
Paperback
$15.00
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Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops
Milwaukee's Very Own Independent Bookshop Since 1927
Downer Ave., 2559 N. Downer Ave., 414-332-1181, ondowner@schwartzbooks.com
Bay View, 2262 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-481-3401, bayview@schwartzbooks.com
Brookfield, 17145 W. Bluemound Rd., 262-797-6140, brookfield@schwartzbooks.com
Mequon, 10976 N. Port Washington Rd., 262-241-6220, mequon@schwartzbooks.com
Shorewood, 4093 N. Oakland Ave., 414-963-3111, shorewood@schwartzbooks.com
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