Humorist\, entertainer and NPR commentator David Sedaris returns to Auntie’s as part of his book tour for the paperback edition of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk. Purchase a Sedaris book or audio and receive one ticket for admission to his reading until tickets have all been given out. There is no purchase necessary to meet Mr. Sedaris and have a book autographed\, starting at 10\:00 p.m.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T050000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/first-friday-artist%E2%80%99s-reception-10 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/first-friday-artist%E2%80%99s-reception-10 SUMMARY:First Friday Artist’s Reception DESCRIPTION:Join us for an artist’s reception featuring The Spokane Jeweler’s Guild with a dazzling assortment of jewelry by many talented artists. The jewelry display continues through the end of the month.
Used books at Auntie's tonight are 25% off!
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/bear-and-friends-storytime URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/bear-and-friends-storytime SUMMARY:Bear and Friends Storytime (Main Store) DESCRIPTION:Come read some of Karma Wilson’s fun stories about Bear and his friends\, we’ll have some activities and coloring sheets to fill out too!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T214500Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/gift-idea-seminar URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/gift-idea-seminar SUMMARY:Gift Idea Seminar DESCRIPTION:Bring your gift list notebook and gather ‘round to hear our recommendations for great gifts featuring\: Andrea from 12\:00 to 12\:20 pm with picture books and chapter books for little kids\; Catherine from 12\:25-12\:45 pm with books for middle readers and teens\; Melissa from 1\:00 to 1\:20 with gifts for guys\, then from 1\:25 to 1\:45 with gifts for women and the rest of the family.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/woodland-creature-storytime-rps URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/woodland-creature-storytime-rps SUMMARY:Woodland Creature Storytime (RPS) DESCRIPTION:Join us for some delightful tales featuring bears\, raccoons\, foxes and other furry woodland animals!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111204T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111204T220000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/patrick-mcmanus-signing-only URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/patrick-mcmanus-signing-only SUMMARY:Patrick McManus (signing only) DESCRIPTION:All-time favorite humorist\, essayist and mystery writer Patrick McManus signs copies of his books including his latest\, the paperback edition of The Huckleberry Murders\: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111207T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111207T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/nonfiction-book-group-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/nonfiction-book-group-0 SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Group DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Silent Night\: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/lorraine-mcconaghy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/lorraine-mcconaghy SUMMARY:Lorraine McConaghy DESCRIPTION:Take a journey back more than 150 years with historian Lorraine McConaghy as she presents her book\, New Land\: North of the Columbia. A specialist in Pacific Northwest history\, McConaghy will show examples of the primary source documents that appear in her book including maps\, correspondence and journals from archives throughout Washington with a focus on the greater Spokane area. New Land is a great gift for that history buff on your list!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie-violet-storytime-5 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie-violet-storytime-5 SUMMARY:Auntie Violet Storytime DESCRIPTION:Everybody’s favorite purplicious storyteller will be here today to welcome the Christmas season by reading some heart warming holiday tales – you don’t want to miss it!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T230000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cake-bites-sampler URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cake-bites-sampler SUMMARY:Cake Bites Sampler DESCRIPTION:Drop by to try tasty samples from the popular cookbook\, 101 Gourmet Cake Bites by Wendy Paul.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/winter-wonderland-storytime-and-craft URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/winter-wonderland-storytime-and-craft SUMMARY:Winter Wonderland Storytime and Craft (RPS) DESCRIPTION:Come warm up and enjoy the winter weather from inside! We’ll share books about that frosty white
stuff and after\, you can make some paper snowflakes!
You’re invited to drop by for a discussion of Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T230000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/aunt-kimmie-bebo-signing-only URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/aunt-kimmie-bebo-signing-only SUMMARY:Aunt Kimmie Bebo (signing only) DESCRIPTION:Children’s author Aunt Kimmie Bebo\, signs copies of her picture books including her most recent\, The Goosie’s New Pond.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111212T010000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/joyce-wilkens-signing-only URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/joyce-wilkens-signing-only SUMMARY:Joyce Wilkens (signing only) DESCRIPTION:Local artist Joyce Wilkens signs copies of her book\, Teacup Art and Reflections which is filled with photographs of teacups in unusual arrangements and unexpected settings.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-evening-book-group-21 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-evening-book-group-21 SUMMARY:Auntie’s Evening Book Group DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to drop by for our book discussion about The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T070000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-morning-book-group-21 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-morning-book-group-21 SUMMARY:Auntie’s Morning Book Group DESCRIPTION:We hope you will join us to discuss Ford County\: Stories by John Grisham and The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111215T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111215T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cj-vertefeuille URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cj-vertefeuille SUMMARY:CJ Vertefeuille DESCRIPTION:Local author CJ Vertefeuille presents her novel based on experiences of a real life private detective\, The Private Dick Diaries. The author is happy to discuss how she blends fact with fiction!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111216T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111216T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/carl-wilkens URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/carl-wilkens SUMMARY:Carl Wilkens DESCRIPTION:Humanitarian Carl Wilkens presents his book\, I’m Not Leaving\: Rwanda through the Eyes of the Only American to Remain in the Country through the 1994 Genocide.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/john-patrick-lowrie-ellen-mclain URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/john-patrick-lowrie-ellen-mclain SUMMARY:John Patrick Lowrie with Ellen McLain DESCRIPTION:Author John Patrick Lowrie presents his latest book\, Dancing With Eternity\, which is set in the 40th century and features a beautiful starship captain named Steel who encounters an unemployed actor\, Mohandas\, who hides out on a backwater moon because he refuses to pay his taxes. Sharing the stage is Lowrie’s wife\, Ellen McLain\, best known as the voice of GLaDOS in the computer games Portal and Portal 2. Join us for a fun science fiction event!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/rosie%E2%80%99s-christmas-tale-storytime-and-signing-main-store URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/rosie%E2%80%99s-christmas-tale-storytime-and-signing-main-store SUMMARY:Rosie’s Christmas Tale Storytime and Signing (Main Store) DESCRIPTION:Marcy Campbell and her little mouse Rosie are back by popular demand\, this time with a story of holiday cheer and celebration. Afterwards\, get your own copy of Rosie’s Christmas Tale signed by the author!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T230000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cookie-jar-cookbook-sampler URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cookie-jar-cookbook-sampler SUMMARY:The Cookie Jar Cookbook Sampler DESCRIPTION:Drop by to try tasty samples from The Cookie Jar Cookbook by Good Housekeeping magazine which includes traditional favorites with a twist such as snickerdoodles with tiny chocolate chips.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/kids-book-club-meeting-3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/kids-book-club-meeting-3 SUMMARY:Kids Book Club Meeting DESCRIPTION:Drop by to discuss our latest book club pick From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/grinch-mas-storytime-and-craft URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/grinch-mas-storytime-and-craft SUMMARY:Grinch-mas Storytime and Craft (RPS) DESCRIPTION:Today we’ll read How the Grinch Stole Christmas plus some other festive holiday stories. Then you can
decorate a Merry Grinch-mas crown!
Authors Gale and Kandis Palmanteer autograph copies of their novel\, The Amulet\, the second installment of the Ghost Dance series. The Palmanteers will also be selling copies of their latest music CD\, Peacefully.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111218T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111218T230000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/robin-helm-and-gail-lyster-signing-only URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/robin-helm-and-gail-lyster-signing-only SUMMARY:Robin Helm and Gail Lyster (signing only) DESCRIPTION:Author Robin Helm\, M.D. and illustrator Gail Lyster visit from Sandpoint to sign copies of their children’s book\, The Land of Starry Night\, inspired by moonlight on Lake Pend Oreille.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111222T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111222T023000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/inland-nw-writers-guild-29 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/inland-nw-writers-guild-29 SUMMARY:Inland NW Writers Guild DESCRIPTION:Join other writers for our last meeting of the year to discuss the latest news about the publishing industry and pick up some pointers from published writers.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111224T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111224T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/grinch-christmas-storytime-main-store URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/grinch-christmas-storytime-main-store SUMMARY:The Grinch Christmas Storytime (Main Store) DESCRIPTION:It’s Christmas Eve! Let’s read about the Grinch’s eventful night\, and work on some activity pages in preparation for our own. Christmas is almost here!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111224T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111224T230000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/sipping-chocolate-samples URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/sipping-chocolate-samples SUMMARY:Sipping Chocolate Samples DESCRIPTION:Drop by to taste thick\, velvety hot chocolate made from blocks of Chocolate\: European Style which is available to buy at Auntie’s.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T031409Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111231T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111231T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cora-cole-storytime-and-signing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/cora-cole-storytime-and-signing SUMMARY:Cora Cole Storytime and Signing (Main Store) DESCRIPTION:Author Cora Cole joins us today to tell us an exciting new story called The Adventures of Angel Skylet and Clarence Cloudy. She will be available afterwards to sign your copies of the book!
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