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Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops and the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Present Richard Louv
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Richard Louv · author of Last Child in the Woods
Thursday, April 24 · 7 p.m.
JCC Soref Community Center · 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd.
 Called an "absolute must-read for parents" by the Boston Globe, Richard Louv's landmark book details the connection between exposure to nature and children who are emotionally and physically healthy. Find out how getting your children back to nature can help spur creative play, and foster an appreciation for the natural world that will last a lifetime.
Learn more about the book and the movement to reconnect children and nature at cnaturenet.org. Then, join us at the JCC Soref Community Center for our event with author Richard Louv, presented in partnership with the Schiltz Audubon Nature Center.
Tickets to this event are $20.00 and include a signed copy of Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods. Purchase yours at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center or at any Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop.
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Six-Word Memoir Contest
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 Many of you have already responded to our Six-Word Memoir contest first announced last week. We're having a great time reading them as they come in and we can tell that you are having a great time writing them.
Keep them coming! There is still plenty of time to read Not Quite What I Was Thinking, the book that inspired this contest, and submit your own memoir for a chance to win Schwartz t-shirts, gift cards and more! Drop yours off at one of our bookshops or email them to sixwords@schwartzbooks.com from now until April 15.
Then, join us on Friday, April 25 at 7 p.m. for our Schwartz On Downer: Six-Word Slam. Share your memoir at this open mic event, or just come to enjoy what others have written. We'll also announce the winning entries and, while you don't have to be present to win, being there to hear your name called certainly makes the news more thrilling, doesn't it?
To summarize in Six-Word Form: Read. Write. Submit. Go to Slam.
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Florentine Opera Company Insight
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 Florentine Opera Company and Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops present: Opera Insights I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Romeo and Juliet)
Wednesday, April 2 · 7:00 pm · Mequon The great librettist Arrigo Boito once said, "Who does not love Vincenzo Bellini, does not love music." Likewise, he who does not love the story of Romeo and Juliet does not know love. Take a closer look at the Florentine's upcoming production of I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Romeo and Juliet). Corliss Phillabaum, Emiritus Professor of Theatre at UW-Milwaukee, will offer his unique and engaging perspectives, while featured performers Dawn Riesing, (soprano), Kristin Piefer (mezzo), Peter Voigt (tenor), Anne Van Deusen (accompanist) and Chris Zello (clarinetist) offer insight into the music. You will not want to miss the opportunity to learn about this prolific bel canto composer's adaptation of perhaps the most classic-and tragic-love story of all time. For more information about the production visit the Florentine Opera Company's website |
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Perspectives on India In-Store Class
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 Join University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan professor Bruce C. Browne for a continuation of his popular Perspectives on India class at our Mequon bookshop, which was first offered last year. New material will be presented and new students are encouraged to attend. The class will meet Wednesdays from 7-8:30 p.m. on April 16, 23, 30 and May 7.
Participants will enjoy lectures about Indian life and culture and a special slide presentation by Professor Browne, who grew up and attended school in India. The class will also discuss two books: The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri and The Ruling Caste by David Gilmour, and sample delicious Indian food on the last night of class.
Tuition is $75.00 and includes one paperback copy of each book.
Space is limited. Register by phone at (262) 241-6220 or in person at our Mequon shop, 10976 N. Port Washington Road.
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Write On II-Vital Source Short Fiction Contest
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Vital Source magazine and Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops are seeking short fiction submissions for Vital's Write On II Short Fiction Contest. You may submit two original, unpublished pieces of short fiction (maximum 3,000 words) and they are due by April 18. The winning entry will be published in the June print edition of Vital Source and on the Vital Source website. Runners-up may have selected text from their story published in print and online. Honorees will be asked to participate in a reading of their work at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops in June.
For more information, including submission guidelines, visit the Vital Source website.
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Urban Ecology Center Book Club
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Saturday, March 29
10 - 11 a.m.
For adults
Free - donations appreciated
Call to register: (414) 964-8505
The Urban Ecology Center Book Club meets once a month to discuss an environmentally themed book. Newcomers and ongoing participants are invited to come enjoy the conversation and refreshments. March's title is The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future by Thomas Berry.
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| Live at Schwartz
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Here
is a list of the authors coming soon to the Schwartz Bookshops. For a complete list of upcoming author appearances visit
our events page.
 
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.
 Susan
Wells
Changing Course:
Windcall and the Art of Renewal
Monday, April 7 · 7:00 p.m.
talk · Downer Ave.
Social justice leaders work in a field where patience and perseverance
are crucial, and with a high level of job-related stress. What happens
if these leaders fall victim to burnout? Philanthropists Albert and
Susan Wells launched an experiment in the 1980s, converting their
small Montana ranch into a place where community activists could restore
their energy and creativity, and return to their jobs with fresh hope
and commitment. They called this special place Windcall. Susan Wells
recounts the history of the project and offers a practical guide on
restoring balance in life for non-profit leaders and anyone suffering
the effects of burnout.
 Mary
Doria Russell
Dreamers of the
Day
Wednesday, April 9 · 7:00 p.m.
reading · Downer Ave.
The latest novel by the author of The Sparrow finds forty-year-old
Agnes Shanklin still reeling from the Great War and the Great Influenza
of 1919. She has just inherited enough money to take the trip of a
lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. As she tells her story of latelife
romance, Agnes is drawn into geopolitical decisions that still echo
in our lives to this day.
 Jennifer
Fox, MEd
Your Child's
Strengths
Wednesday, April 9 · 7:00 p.m.
talk · Shorewood
Educator and Shorewood native Jenifer Fox wants to change the conversation
about education. For too long parents and teachers have focused on
identifying and "fixing" children's weaknesses.
In Your Child's Strength, Fox turns that paradigm on
its head and advocates a strengths-based philosophy. Informed by twenty-five
years of experience in education, her approach provides tools to prepare
kids for a world that demands adaptability.
 Liam
Callanan
All Saints
Thursday, April 10 · 7:00 p.m.
reading · Mequon
Acclaimed Milwaukee author Liam Callanan draws you in to Emily Hamilton's
world of forgotten saints and martyrs with his latest novel. Fifty-years-old
and newly single, Emily is the iconoclastic and passionate theology
teacher at All Saints Co-Ed Catholic High School. Her classroom had
been her refuge, but when she discovers that it's her own tumultuous
life that fascinates certain students most, her fragile sanctuary
begins to crack.
 Athan
Theoharis
The Quest for
Absolute Security
Thursday, April 10 · 7:00 p.m.
talk · Shorewood
Milwaukee author Athan Theoharis, generally considered the "dean"
of FBI historians, reveals his deep knowledge of the FBI and reviews
the relationship between U.S. presidents and intelligence forces in
his latest book. He describes how the nation's periodic fears
of internal security threats have almost always resulted in violations
of individual liberties without advancing the nation's security
interests.
 Jeanne
Birdsall
The Penderwicks
on Gardam Street
Friday, April 11 · 7:00 p.m.
reading · Mequon
In the sequel to the National Book Award-winning The Penderwicks,
the Penderwick sisters are back home on Gardam Street and ready for
an adventure! But the adventure they get isn't quite what they
had in mind. It's high jinks, big laughs and loads of family
warmth when the girls put the Save-Daddy Plan into action-a
plot so brilliant and bold only the Penderwick girls could have come
up with it! For middle readers
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 Criminal
Paradise
Steven M. Thomas
Robert Rivers is a reasonably honorable thief who makes a living holding
up businesses and restaurants that dot the idyllic towns of Southern California.
During a robbery he finds something that will change everything. Inside
a safe is a haunting photograph of a young girl. Unable to shake the image,
Rivers is forced to face the fact that dark things are afoot in Orange
County-a realization that leads him down a troubling path to a strange
sort of salvation.
$24.95
 The
Killer's Wife
Bill Floyd
Six years after her ex-husband is sentenced to death for a series of gruesome
murders, Leigh Wren has almost succeeded in putting her past to rest.
But the new life she has created for herself and her son is shattered
when the father of one of her ex-husband's victims begins stalking
her and publicly exposes her past. As she grapples with her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.
$23.95
 Season
of the Witch
Natasha Mostert
Gabriel Blackstone is an unscrupulous hacker and unrepentant "remote
viewer" who can't resist his ex-lover's request to look into her
stepson's disappearance. His investigation leads him to a rambling Victorian
home that bewitches him-as do its beautiful, enigmatic owners, the
Monk sisters. The pair are solar witches, obsessed with alchemy and the
Art of Memory, a practice invented by the ancient Greeks. With his uneasy
suspicion that one of the sisters is a killer, Gabriel sets out to determine
which. Paperback
$14.00
 Sovereign
A Matthew Shardlake Mystery
C.J. Sansom
In the third installment of C.J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake
mystery series, Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves
embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered
in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting
to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
Paperback
$15.00
 Lush
Life
Richard Price
When people asked Eric Cash what he did, he used to have a dozen answers.
Artist, actor, screenwriter... But now he's thirty-five years
old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the
restaurant business serving the people he wanted to be. Not like Ike
Marcus. Ike was young, good looking and people liked him. He was going
places-until two street kids pulled a gun on him and Eric one
night. At least, that's Eric's version. Lush Life tears
the shiny veneer off the "new" New York and reveals the
gritty violence beneath the glamour
$26.00
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 Staff
Pick
Ultimate
The Greatest Sport Ever Invented by Man
Leonardo Pasquale
"This intense look into the world of ULTIMATE! Frisbee perfectly
voices the attitude of the most dedicated players. Packed with wit, wisdom
and flights of fancy, this is the most essential guide to the most Ultimate
sport."-Jordan Gower, Downer Avenue Bookseller. Paperback
$14.00
 Vegan
Express
Nava Atlas
A growing number of Americans are eliminating not only meat but also eggs
and dairy products from their diets. Vegan Express helps them eat well
without fuss with more than 160 uncomplicated recipes from appealing soups
and stews, sandwiches and pizzas to delicious deserts. Paperback
$18.95
 The
Wisconsin Lawn Guide:
Attaining and Maintaining the Lawn You Want
Melinda Myers
With snow covering much of it, it might seem premature to think of perfecting
your lawn, but it's never too early to get started on luscious
grass. The Wisconsin Lawn Guide takes the mystery out of lawn care and
maintenance and will teach you how to get your grass green. Learn how
to properly plant, fertilize and water your lawn-and deal with
inevitable problems-from Wisconsin's own Melinda Meyers.
Paperback
$12.95
 The
Garden Primer
Second Edition
Barbara Damrosch
This new edition of the beloved gardening classic has been revised front-to-back
and has gone 100% organic-which, in Barbara Damrosch's hands
also means completely accessible. In this edition, the latest research
on plants, soils, tools and techniques has been incorporated into information
about planning your garden and ecological issues are addressed much more
extensively. Find out about lawn alternatives, the benefits of native
species, and how cold-climate gardeners can extend the growing season.
Paperback
$18.95
 Guide
to Wisconsin Vegetable Gardening
James Fizzell
Whether you're looking to grow tomatoes or asparagus, James Fizzell
teaches you the tricks to growing vegetables in the Badger State. Learn
when, where and how to plant your favorite vegetables to get the healthiest
greens and greatest yields from this new, illustrated guide. Paperback
$16.95
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Great Books at Bargain Prices
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This is a sampling of the terrific deals we have on good books. Stop in to
any of our shops to pick up any of these titles or browse our bargain section.
 
 
The
Going to Bed Book & Blankie Set
Sandra Boynton
Publisher $12.95
SCHWARTZ: $5.99
Noises
at Night
Beth Raisner Glass
Illustrated by Susan Lubner
Publisher $15.95
SCHWARTZ: $7.99
Your
Week By Week Gift Set
Glade B. Curtis and Judith Schuler
Publisher $29.95
SCHWARTZ: $7.99
50 Things Every Guy Should Know How To Do
Daniel Kline and Jason Tomaszewski
Publisher $14.00
SCHWARTZ: $2.99
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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
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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