Dec 2012

Princeton

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The Wild Christmas Reindeer
by Jan Brett
Putnam Juvenile
$17.99 List Price
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Saturday, December 1
1:00am
Happy Birthday, Jan Brett!!
Join us as we celebrate children's author Jan Brett's birthday!
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Tuesday, December 4
10:30am
Happy Winter Storytime
Join us as we celebrate winter! This week we'll read favorites some of our favorite books about winter as we begin preparing for the holidays!
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Tuesday, December 4
6:00pm
Leonard Barkan & Tom Hare in Conversation: Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
Barkan's splendid meditations take us from Plutarch, who believed that 'painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture,' through Horace, to the art and poetry of early modern Europe. In his rich and detailed musings on this ongoing debate in the history of ideas, Barkan concludes, as Shakespeare…
Barkan's splendid meditations take us from Plutarch, who believed that 'painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture,' through Horace, to the art and poetry of early modern Europe. In his rich and detailed musings on this ongoing debate in the history of ideas, Barkan concludes, as Shakespeare does, that "even when we insist that poetry and painting lie separately, it turns out they lie together."

We are pleased to welcome Leonard Barkan and his colleague Thomas Hare to the store for a conversation about words and images. Please join us.
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Wednesday, December 5
6:00pm
Peter Brown & Elaine Pagels in Conversation — Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of …
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.

Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity. We are honored to invite you to a conversation between the author and Elaine Pagels.

Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven.
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Poppleton In Winter (Scholastic Reader Level 3)
by Cynthia Rylant
Cartwheel Books
$3.99 List Price
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Thursday, December 6
1:30pm
Happy Winter Storytime!
Join us as we celebrate Winter! This week we'll read favorites some of our favorite books about winter as we begin preparing for the holidays!
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Poppleton In Winter (Scholastic Reader Level 3)
by Cynthia Rylant
Cartwheel Books
$3.99 List Price
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Friday, December 7
11:30am
Happy Winter Storytime Week Ends Today!
Join us as we celebrate winter! This week we'll read some of our favorite books about winter as we begin preparing for the holidays!
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Saturday, December 8
3:00pm
Alex Stone — Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
From the back rooms of New York City’s age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone’s quest to join the ranks of master magicians and what he encounters along the way. Please join us.…
From the back rooms of New York City’s age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone’s quest to join the ranks of master magicians and what he encounters along the way. Please join us. Tricks will be played.

As Stone navigates this quirky and occasionally hilarious subculture populated by brilliant eccentrics, he pulls back the curtain on a community shrouded in secrecy, fueled by obsession and brilliance, and organized around one overriding need: to prove one’s worth by deceiving others. But his journey is more than a tale of tricks, gigs, and geeks. By investing some of the lesser-known corners of psychology, neuroscience, physics, history, and even crime, all through the lens of trickery and illusion, Fooling Houdini arrives at a host of startling revelations about how the mind works—and why, sometimes, it doesn’t.
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Tuesday, December 11
6:00pm
Hamid Dashi: The World of Persian Literary Humanism
What does it mean to be human? Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Hamid Dabashi asks the questions anew, from a non-European point of view. His groundbreaking The World of Persian Literary Humanism presents this rich tradition as the creative and subversive …
What does it mean to be human? Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Hamid Dabashi asks the questions anew, from a non-European point of view. His groundbreaking The World of Persian Literary Humanism presents this rich tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.We are pleased to invite you to a presentation and discussion.

Exploring how 1,400 years of Persian literature have taken up the question of what it means to be human, Dabashi proposes that the literary subconscious of a civilization may also be the undoing of its repressive measures. This could account for the masculinist hostility of the early Arab conquest that accused Persian culture of effeminate delicacy and sexual misconduct, and later of scientific and philosophical inaccuracy. As the designated feminine subconscious of a decidedly masculinist civilization, Persian literary humanism speaks from a hidden and defiant vantage point—and this is what inclines it toward creative subversion.
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Happy Hanukkah, Corduroy
by Don Freeman
Viking Juvenile
$5.99 List Price
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Thursday, December 13
1:30pm
Happy Hanukkah Storytime!
Happy Hanukkah! We will be reading some of our favorite books celebrating this amazing week of Hanukkah!
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Happy Hanukkah, Corduroy
by Don Freeman
Viking Juvenile
$5.99 List Price
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Friday, December 14
11:30am
Happy Hanukkah Storytime Week Ends Today!
Happy Hanukkah! We will be reading some of our favorite books celebrating this amazing week of Hanukkah!
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Saturday, December 15
3:00pm
Alicia Ostriker & Gerald Stern: Poems
Poets Gerald Stern and Alicia Ostriker will be reading from their new collections. Please join us. Ostriker's new volume, The Book of Life, charts her extraordinary struggle to deal with a wounded world and find reasons for hope. The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same …
Poets Gerald Stern and Alicia Ostriker will be reading from their new collections. Please join us.

Ostriker's new volume, The Book of Life, charts her extraordinary struggle to deal with a wounded world and find reasons for hope.

The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Stern’s previous work, move into an area of knowledge—even wisdom—that reflects a long life of writing, teaching, and activism. They are poems of grief and anger, but the music is delicate and moving.

Alicia Ostriker is the author of fourteen poetry collections as well as several books on the Bible. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Gerald Stern, the author of seventeen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among others.
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Charlie and the Christmas Kitty
by Ree Drummond
HarperCollins
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Thursday, December 20
1:30pm
Happy Holidays Storytime!
Merry Christmas! We will be reading some of our favorite books celebrating the holiday of Christmas!
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Charlie and the Christmas Kitty
by Ree Drummond
HarperCollins
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Friday, December 21
11:30am
Happy Holidays Storytime Week Ends Today!
Merry Christmas! We will be reading some of our favorite books celebrating the holiday of Christmas!
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Saturday, December 22
1:00am
Happy Birthday, Jerry Pinkney!
Join us as we celebrate children's author Jerry Pinkney!
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The Night Before Christmas
by Tom Browning and Clement C. Moore
Sterling Innovation
$14.95 List Price
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Monday, December 24
1:00am
Christmas Eve!
Join us as we prepare for Christmas by reading one of the most traditional books of the holiday season!
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Poppleton In Winter (Scholastic Reader Level 3)
by Cynthia Rylant
Cartwheel Books
$3.99 List Price
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Thursday, December 27
1:30pm
Winter Storytime!
Join us as we celebrate all things winter!
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Princeton

The Wild Christmas Reindeer

by Jan Brett

Putnam Juvenile

$17.99 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

Saturday, December 1

1:00am

Tuesday, December 4

10:30am

Tuesday, December 4

6:00pm

Wednesday, December 5

6:00pm

Poppleton In Winter (Scholastic Reader Level 3)

by Cynthia Rylant

Cartwheel Books

$3.99 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

Thursday, December 6

1:30pm

Poppleton In Winter (Scholastic Reader Level 3)

by Cynthia Rylant

Cartwheel Books

$3.99 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

Friday, December 7

11:30am

Saturday, December 8

3:00pm

Monday, December 10

6:00pm

2012 Writer's Market

Writers Digest Books

$29.99 List Price

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Monday, December 10

7:00pm

Tuesday, December 11

6:00pm

Happy Hanukkah, Corduroy

by Don Freeman

Viking Juvenile

$5.99 List Price

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Thursday, December 13

1:30pm

Happy Hanukkah, Corduroy

by Don Freeman

Viking Juvenile

$5.99 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

Friday, December 14

11:30am

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