05/01/09 Press Release: Just Books' May Events

Upcoming Events · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · JUST BOOKS' UPCOMING EVENTS MAY DAYS & MOTHERS Come See Just Books' Terrific Author Line-Up! Author Visit & Book Signing SATURDAY, MAY 2, 10:00 AM MICHELLE MORFITT & CHRIS GORMAN OUR PLACE: GREENWICH Just Books 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Chris Gorman and Michelle Morfitt will read and sign copies of their delightful story for both kids and adults called Our Place Greenwich, that includes fascinating facts about Greenwich through a beautifully illustrated tour of the town. The cover was illustrated by Old Greenwich School's Kendall Gregory, age 9. A GREAT Mother's Day gift! A portion of the proceeds from every book sold to go to local organizations, such as the Greenwich Alliance for Education and The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich. _____________________________________________________ NEW TIME - Author Visit & Book Signing SATURDAY, MAY 2, 12:00 PM JERRY OPPENHEIMER TOY MONSTER: THE BIG, BAD WORLD OF MATTEL Just Books 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Jerry Oppenheimer, best known for biographies like "Just Desserts" (about Martha Stewart) or "State of a Union" (Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage), has now trained his sights on the world's biggest toy company, Mattel, in his new book Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel (Wiley, $24.95). _____________________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 7:30 PM ANDREW TREES DECODING LOVE A Just Books' Event at Arcadia Cafe 20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Are you in love, have you been in love, are you hoping for love? Then, you need to come and hear Andrew Trees and his new book Decoding Love. Relationships should be so simple. You meet someone. You fall in love. If all goes well, that person falls in love with you. And as the fairy tale says, you both live happily ever after. But the reality is rarely so simple. Imagine Jane Austen's romances rewritten by people like Charles Darwin and Adam Smith, and you will have some idea of what sort of book this is. The simple premise behind Decoding Love is that, despite our ingrained prejudice, our current model of finding love is deeply flawed, and science can actually provide a great deal of insight into our romantic quest. It will take something we think we know well-how to find love-and reveal that many of our assumptions are wrong. _____________________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing SATURDAY, MAY 9, 10:00 AM ALICE SCHROEDER THE SNOWBALL: WARREN BUFFETT & THE BUSINESS OF LIFE Just Books 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Come meet local Greenwich author Alice Schroeder as she talks about writing The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. The Snowball is a startlingly frank account of Buffett's life. Schroeder is a former managing director at Morgan Stanley and was hand-picked by Buffett to be his biographer. Schroeder strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word's richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. _____________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing MONDAY, MAY 11, 7:30 PM JAYANTI TAMM CARTWHEELS IN A SARI: A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP CULT A Just Books' Event at Arcadia Cafe 20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Come hear this AMAZING and TRUE story that happened right here in Connecticut and meet Jayanti Tamm as she introduces her life story Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult. Cartwheels tells the story of Jayanti's life as guru Sri Chinmoy's "Chosen One." Until she was 25 (when she left the cult for good), Guru dictated every aspect of her life, from arranging her parents' marriage to selecting her soul to be born as his chosen disciple, naming her, and dictating how she spent her days and if/where she went to school. Chinmoy's ashram was in Queens and the headquarters for his movement, helmed by Jayanti's parents, was in Connecticut. In this colorful, eye-opening memoir, Tamm shares the trauma and triumphs of growing up 'cult' in mainstream America and the powerful hold of such a lifestyle. She also reveals a new side to the enigmatic personality of Chinmoy, who until his death in 2007, managed to convince thousands of his disciples and celebrities -- Princess Diana, Carlos Santana, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, Desmond Tutu, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela -- that he was merely a humble emissary of peace. Jayanti Tamm is a graduate of Greenwich Academy and is now an English professor at Ocean County College in New Jersey. _____________________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing SATURDAY, MAY 16, 10:00 AM KAREN BENCE MIDNIGHT REVELATIONS Just Books 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Karen Bence will sign copies of her new novel Midnight Revelations, which profiles the paranormal story of a family that move to an old horse farm that is haunted by tragedies that befell its previous owners. Soon chilling events begin to take place. Resolved to find out what lies behind the strange events at the farm, Sara stumbles across the key to a diary...as well as the key to her own past. Who really are her parents? What grave secret is the old estate hiding? Midnight Revelations is a powerful portrait of strong woman determined to uncover the truth about herself. Karen M. Bence, like the protagonist of Midnight Revelations, is also engaged in a determined search for her biological mother. Ms. Bence currently resides with her husband and son in a horse farm outside of Atlanta, GA. _____________________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing MONDAY, MAY 18, 7:00 PM JANIS ABRAHMS SPRING, PH.D. LIFE WITH POP: LESSONS ON CARING FOR AN AGING PARENT A Just Books' Event at Arcadia Cafe 20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Just Books welcomes Westport clinical psychologist Janis Abrahms Spring, acclaimed author of the award-winning books, After the Affair and How Can I Forgive You? In her latest book, Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent, Janis captures the joy and imposition, the happiness and the heartache, of this universal journey with warmth, depth, and humor. A signed copy of Life with Pop would make a great FATHER'S DAY gift! Reviewer David Treadway says, "Explores the extraordinary personal challenges and moments of grace that come with caring for an aging parent. Read it. It will be a gift to you." _____________________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing TUESDAY, MAY 19, 4:00 PM CAITLIN MACY SPOILED: STORIES Just Books 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public As seen in in the New York Times Style section, hot author Caitlin Macy will visit and sign copies of her new book Spoiled (Random House). In Spoiled, Caitlin Macy turns her unsparing eye on women in their thirties -- educated and successful -- who struggle to keep their footing in viciously competitive social circles. Whether at the private school playground, business dinners, a beachhouse or exotic vacation, the wives, girlfriends, and mothers of Macy's stories are plagued by simmering loneliness and isolation, and many end up lashing out in rash and destructive ways. _____________________________________________________ Author Visit & Book Signing SATURDAY, MAY 30, 10 AM LOCAL AUTHORS DAY LUC HARDY, DON HARRISON & SKIP ALLOCCO Just Books 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT Free and Open to the Public Come to Just Books on Saturday, May 30, for LOCAL AUTHORS DAY! Luc Hardy will be signing copies of his beautiful book Arctic Transitions: Witness to Change - Young Ambassadors in Nunavut. In the summer of 2008, Greenwich resident Luc Hardy led a 16-person expedition to the Canadian Arctic. As the founder of the Pax Arctica Initiative, Luc assembled a diverse group of adults and "Young Ambassadors", ages 9 to 17, to eyewitness and report on the changes occurring in the Arctic. Arctic-Transitions brings to life beautiful and inaccessible regions through the use of stunning photography. Don Harrison will introduce his newest book Connecticut Baseball: The Best of the Nutmeg State. Twin passions - newspapers and baseball - provided the impetus for Don Harrison's early career in sportswriting. In a sense, they have led to Connecticut Baseball: The Best of the Nutmeg State, his new book about Connecticut's myriad contributions to Major League Baseball. Don Harrison is an award-winning sports writer and has written articles for The Sporting News, Sports Quarterly-Baseball, The New York Times, Connecticut magazine, Waterbury Republican-American, the Greenwich Citizen, and dozens of other publications. Skip Allocco is back by popular demand to introduce his newest book in his Lemon-AID! series of books for kids that focus on the positive. In You, in the End, to Yourself Must be TRUE!, which is book #2 in the series, Allocco illustrates that the road to finding your true passion in life is not always clearly marked, resulting in a journey full of twists, and turns, and dead ends. It's a humorous look at a serious dilemma that many of us face in the transition to becoming an "adult." ____________________ AWARD WINNING JUST BOOKS VOTED BEST INDEPENDENT BOOK STORE IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY!! Just Books would like to THANK the community for its continued support. The success of an independent neighborhood bookstore is dependent on its loyal customers. -- Marion Holmes and the staff at Just Books _____________________________________________________ Just Books is Better Than Ever - Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events! MAY - MAY DAYS & MOTHERS MAY 4, 7:00 PM - Just Words with Leslie Gueguen; tuition ($45 per two hour session) - call 203-461-9932 to register; at Just BooksJUNE - FATHERS & SUMMER READING MAY 11, 7:00 PM - Just Words with Leslie Gueguen; tuition ($45 per two hour session) - call 203-461-9932 to register; at Just Books MAY 13, 12 PM -- Greenwich Water Club Book Club - The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry; luncheon $40 (includes book): reservations required by calling 203-661-4033 MAY 18, 7:00 PM - Just Words with Leslie Gueguen; tuition ($45 per two hour session) - call 203-461-9932 to register; at Just Books MAY 6, 13, 20 & 27, 10:30 AM - Just Books' Toddler & Pre School Story Hour at Just Books JUNE - FATHERS & SUMMER READING JUNE 1, 7:00 PM - Just Words with Leslie Gueguen; tuition ($45 per two hour session) - call 203-461-9932 to register; at Just Books JUNE 6, 10 AM - WEDNESDAY MARTIN with STEPMONSTER: A NEW LOOK AT WHY REAL STEPMOTHERS THINK, FEEL, AND ACT THE WAY WE DO at Just Books (Book Signing) JUNE 8, 7:00 PM - Just Words with Leslie Gueguen; tuition ($45 per two hour session) - call 203-461-9932 to register; at Just Books JUNE 9 - KATHIE LEE GIFFORD with JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I DROPPED MY LAST EGG: LIFE AND OTHER CALAMITIES at the Avon Theatre (Book Signing) JUNE 9, 7:30 PM - ISABEL GILLIES with HAPPENS EVERY DAY at Arcadia Café (Book Signing) JUNE 13, 10:00 AM - RICHARD BROOKHISER with RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE at Just Books (Book Signing) JUNE 23, 7:30 PM - JOAN WICKERSHAM with THE SUICIDE INDEX at Arcadia Café (Book Signing) JUNE 24, 7:00 PM - WARD JUST with EXILES IN THE GARDEN at Arcadia Café (Book Signing) JUNE 24, 12 PM -- Greenwich Water Club Book Club - The World Before Her by Deb Weisgall; luncheon $40 (includes book): reservations required by calling 203-661-4033 JUNE 25, 7:00 PM - JO MAEDER with WHEN I MARRIED MY MOTHER at Just Books (Book Signing) Join Our Mailing List JUST BOOKS 28 Arcadia Road Old Greenwich, CT 06870 STORE HOURS: M-F, 9am - 5pm Sat, 9am-4pm Closed Sun REMEMBER - JUST BOOKS HAS AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKS! 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