Geologist and toastmaster Bob Weldin talks about his novel\, The Dry Diggin's Club. World War II has ended\, and in a sparsely populated corner of the Northwest\, Sara Mullins has earned her mining credentials but gets no union support as she tries to break into this traditionally masculine domain.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120707T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120707T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/robot-cookie-bash URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/robot-cookie-bash SUMMARY:Robot Cookie Bash! (Main) DESCRIPTION:Let’s read some fun stories about robots including Cookiebot\, and then we’ll make our own robot costumes to take home. We’ll even have cookies to eat while we create.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120707T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120707T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/summer-celebration-storytime-rps URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/summer-celebration-storytime-rps SUMMARY:Summer Celebration Storytime (RPS) DESCRIPTION:Come hear some wonderful new stories\, and then make some tissue paper butterflies.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120707T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120707T220000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/megan-bostic-j-anderson-coats-jennifer-shaw-wolf URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/megan-bostic-j-anderson-coats-jennifer-shaw-wolf SUMMARY:Megan Bostic\, J. Anderson Coats\, Jennifer Shaw Wolf DESCRIPTION:Three Whitworth grads return to Spokane to talk about their newly-released fiction for young adults. Megan Bostic presents Never Eighteen\, in which a teenaged boy with a terminal illness visits people and places in Tacoma that mean the most to him. J. Anderson Coats reads from her historical novel\, The Wicked and the Just\, which is set in medieval Wales. Jennifer Shaw Wolf tells about Breaking Beautiful in which Allie must uncover the details of a car accident that claimed the life of her boyfriend.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120710T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120710T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-morning-book-group-25 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-morning-book-group-25 SUMMARY:Auntie’s Morning Book Group DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a discussion of State of Wonder by Ann Patchett.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120711T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120711T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-evening-book-group-26 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/auntie%E2%80%99s-evening-book-group-26 SUMMARY:Auntie’s Evening Book Group DESCRIPTION:Come by and join our discussion of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120711T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120711T183000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/brothers-and-sisters-preschool-storytime-and-craft-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/brothers-and-sisters-preschool-storytime-and-craft-main SUMMARY:Brothers and Sisters Preschool Storytime and Craft (Main) DESCRIPTION:We love our siblings! Come read some stories about brothers and sisters of all ages\, and then decorate a picture frame to take home and put a photo of your own siblings in.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120712T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/bruce-bjornstad URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/bruce-bjornstad SUMMARY:Bruce Bjornstad DESCRIPTION:Geologist-hydrologist Bruce Bjornstad narrates a 45-minute slide presentation of his latest book\, On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods\: The Northern Region\, which he co-authored with EWU Professor Emeritus\, Eugene Kiver. This guidebook explores numerous flood features and directs readers to trails and tours near Cheney\, Spokane\, Farragut\, and much more.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/l-gary-gunkel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/l-gary-gunkel SUMMARY:L. Gary Gunkel DESCRIPTION:Author L. Gary Gunkel shares suspenseful tales of his days in law enforcement\, beginning as an Anchorage City Policeman\, then an Alaska State Trooper and later here in Washington as Sheriff of Asotin County. Join us for an evening packed with stories of law enforcement plus tales of Alaska fishing\, hunting and trapping.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/junie-b-jones-celebration-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/junie-b-jones-celebration-main SUMMARY:Junie B. Jones Celebration (Main) DESCRIPTION:Everybody loves Junie B. Jones! Today we will read bits from her favorite (and funniest) adventures\, and then we’ll have some great activity pages to send home with you.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/flanagan-frenzy-rps URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/flanagan-frenzy-rps SUMMARY:Flanagan Frenzy (RPS) DESCRIPTION:Meet other fans of the Ranger's Apprentice and Brotherband Chronicles series\, while you play a game and watch videos of John Flanagan discussing the series and answering fan questions.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120714T220000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/ron-tanner-slideshow URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/ron-tanner-slideshow SUMMARY:Ron Tanner (Slideshow) DESCRIPTION:Ron Tanner is a historic home perservationist from Baltimore now on tour promoting his book\, From Animal House to Our House\: A Love Story. Tanner gives a talk and narrates a slideshow about how he and Jill\, his then-girlfriend (now wife)\, took on a huge\, wrecked fraternity house and-- knowing nothing about renovation--brought it back to its 1897 Victorian splendor.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120718T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120718T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/daniel-p-orourke URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/daniel-p-orourke SUMMARY:Daniel P. O'Rourke DESCRIPTION:Former Marine and firefighter Daniel P. O'Rourke brings a wide variety of fictional characters to life as he presents his collection of short stories\, Unknown Roads.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120718T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120718T183000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/sleepytime-preschool-storytime-and-craft-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/sleepytime-preschool-storytime-and-craft-main SUMMARY:Sleepytime Preschool Storytime and Craft (Main) DESCRIPTION:Lets make naptime fun! After we read some great stories about sleep and bedtime we will make mobiles to decorate our bedrooms.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120719T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120719T023000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/inland-northwest-writers-guild-3 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/inland-northwest-writers-guild-3 SUMMARY:Inland Northwest Writers Guild DESCRIPTION:Discuss the latest news about the publishing industry and pick up some pointers from established writers.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120720T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120720T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/joseph-d-drumheller URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/joseph-d-drumheller SUMMARY:Joseph D. Drumheller DESCRIPTION:Healing arts professional Joseph D. Drumheller specializes in helping people heal pain and stress while creating success in their lives. Drumheller presents his book\, The Subconscious\, the Divine\, and Me\: A Spiritual Guide for the Day-to-Day Pilgrim.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120721T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120721T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/betts-hinckley-storytime-and-signing-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/betts-hinckley-storytime-and-signing-main SUMMARY:Betts Hinckley Storytime and Signing (Main) DESCRIPTION:Author Betts Hinckley returns to Auntie’s with her latest book\, The Adventures of Charlie Girl\, about a darling dog and her true life stories. Try your hand at creative writing with the author today.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120721T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120721T220000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/joe-robert-wilkins URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/joe-robert-wilkins SUMMARY:Joe Robert Wilkins DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Joe Wilkins lost his father at a young age and was raised by his mother and grandfather in the harsh landscape of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana. Wilkins\, who teaches writing at Waldorf College in Iowa\, visits Auntie’s to present his memoir\, The Mountains and the Fathers\: Growing Up on the Big Dry.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120725T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120725T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/christie-toribara URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/christie-toribara SUMMARY:Christie Toribara DESCRIPTION:Pharmacist Christie Toribara is one of many people who live with a condition called Celiac Sprue\, an auto-immune disorder which prevents her from eating wheat\, barley\, rye or contaminated oats. Toribara developed a cookbook and supplemented it with educational information\, Savory\, Sweet\, Delicious---Gluten Free Foods Everyone Will Love. The book is full of taste-tested recipes and menus that are gluten-free.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120725T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120725T183000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/choo-choo-trains-preschool-storytime-and-craft-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/choo-choo-trains-preschool-storytime-and-craft-main SUMMARY:Choo Choo Trains Preschool Storytime and Craft (Main) DESCRIPTION:Here comes the train! Let’s read about all of our favorite locomotives. Afterwards we will make our own train cars to play with all day long.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120726T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120726T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/literary-freedom-book-group-23 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/literary-freedom-book-group-23 SUMMARY:Literary Freedom Book Group DESCRIPTION:Come by and join our discussion of The Photograph by Penelope Lively.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120728T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120728T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/trina-lorraine-storytime-circus-day URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/trina-lorraine-storytime-circus-day SUMMARY:Trina Lorraine Storytime & Circus Day (Main) DESCRIPTION:You don’t want to miss this fun event with local author Trina Lorraine. She will be reading her latest story\, Johnny Luck and the Traveling Circus\, and then we will have the circus here at Auntie’s! Don’t miss face painting and balloon animals in the kids section.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120728T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120728T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/harry-potters-birthday-party-rps-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/harry-potters-birthday-party-rps-0 SUMMARY:Harry Potter's Birthday Party (RPS) DESCRIPTION:We're celebrating Harry Potter's 32nd birthday (a few days early). Come for snacks\, trivia\, and prizes. Wear your best dress robes or house colors!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120728T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120728T220000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/inga-jablonsky-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/inga-jablonsky-0 SUMMARY:Inga Jablonsky DESCRIPTION:Retired SFCC German instructor Inga Jablonsky reads excerpts from her second book\, a young adult historical novel called Daughters of Hope and Fear. This work of fiction is based on the life of the young German nun Sister Bonaventura who chose to leave Nazi Germany to take up mission work in Kettle Falls in the 1930’s.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120801T183000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120801T183000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/opposites-preschool-storytime-craft-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/opposites-preschool-storytime-craft-main SUMMARY:Opposites Preschool Storytime & Craft (Main) DESCRIPTION:Come visit us in the kids section today to learn all about opposites. After stories we will paint a picture of our favorite pair of opposites to take home and hang on the refrigerator.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T030000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/julie-titone URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/julie-titone SUMMARY:Julie Titone DESCRIPTION:Julie Titone is a former staff member of The Spokesman-Review whose writing and photography has appeared in international publications. She was once married to the late Grady C. Myers\, another Review staffer who was an artist and a Vietnam vet. Titone presents the book she co-authored with Myers\, Boocoo Dinky Dow which translates as\, “A world gone crazy.” Subtitled My Short Crazy Vietnam War\, this is an illustrated memoir of Myers’s years as the nearsighted young man who was trained to be an M-60 machine gunner.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T190000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/michele-moran-storytime-signing-main URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/michele-moran-storytime-signing-main SUMMARY:Michele Moran Storytime & Signing (Main) DESCRIPTION:Come hear this heartwarming tale about a little boy with two very different dogs. Afterwards\, get your very own copy signed by the author!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T230000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/greg-metcalf-signing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/greg-metcalf-signing SUMMARY:Greg Metcalf (signing) DESCRIPTION:Band teacher Greg Metcalf\, a member of the Washington State Educators Hall of Fame\, signs copies of his collection of humorous short stories\, Help! I’m In The Band.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T210000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/friendship-storytime-rps URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/friendship-storytime-rps SUMMARY:Friendship Storytime (RPS) DESCRIPTION:Tomorrow is National Friendship Day! Today\, we’ll read books with characters that share a special bond.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130522T201433Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T220000Z UID:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/miah-arnold URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.auntiesbooks.com/event/miah-arnold SUMMARY:Miah Arnold DESCRIPTION:Author Miah (pronounced Maya) Arnold visits from Utah to present her quirky first novel\, Sweet Land of Bigamy. The main character\, Helen\, has a husband deployed to Iraq but somehow falls in love with a poet from India whom she proceeds to marry\, even though all she wants to be is ordinary and middle class.
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