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SUMMARY:Climate Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We’ll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can’t read each month’s book cover-to-cover\, that’s okay–but the more you read\, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner\, with guest poets and writers. Free and open to all. \nOrder your books from BSB for a 10 percent discount. \nAbout the Book: The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination\, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate\, postapocalyptic world\, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year\, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-fiction-discussion-group-3/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:"Window of Tolerance" with Susanna Cupido
DESCRIPTION:Susanna Cupido is excited to celebrate the launch of her debut novel\, Window of Tolerance. Please join her at Buffalo Street Books for a short reading and Q&A period.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/window-of-tolerance-with-susanna-cupido/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T153000
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SUMMARY:James Baldwin: A Celebration & Community Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate James Baldwin with us and take home a free copy of a Baldwin book\, donated by Beacon Press! Funds raised support Buffalo Street Books as it transitions to a nonprofit model. \nOur conversation will be led by: \nMwalimu Kofi Acree\, Director for the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and Curator of Africana Collections for the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections \nAnne V. Adams\, Professor Emerita of Africana\, Women’s\, and Afro-German studies \nKenneth A. McClane\, W.E.B. Dubois Professor of Literature Emeritus
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/james-baldwin-a-celebration-community-conversation/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T160000
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SUMMARY:"The Eighth Moon" with Jennifer Kabat and Chris Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books for a conversation with Jennifer Kabat and Chris Holmes. They will be discussing Kabat’s debut memoir for a special live recording of the Burned By Books podcast.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-eighth-moon-with-jennifer-kabat-and-chris-holmes/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T193000
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SUMMARY:October Game Night with Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a ghostly October game night? Embrace the Halloween season and join us in playing a macabre game of Mysterium! We have a wide variety of board games you can choose from to help you decompress. $5 suggested donation.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/october-game-night-with-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T180000
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CREATED:20241007T134957Z
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SUMMARY:"Feminism Is Alive and Well in the Novel" Jennifer Savran Kelly in conversation with Aggeliki Pelekidis and Aida Zilelian
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Across genres\, styles\, and forms\, feminism is alive and well in contemporary literature. Aggeliki Pelekidis’s Unlucky Mel (Cornell University Press\, 2024) is a humorous and moving feminist campus novel and Aida Zilelian’s All the Ways We Lied (Keylight Books\, 2024) is a heartfelt family saga focused on four sisters. Please join us for a lively reading and conversation about their stories and publishing journeys. Moderated by Jennifer Savran Kelly\, author of Endpapers. \nAbout the Books: \nAll the Ways We Lied – Set in Queens\, New York\, meet the Manoukians—a dysfunctional Armenian family and the fraying rope that binds them. While a father deteriorates from terminal illness\, three sisters contend with one another\, their self-destructive pasts\, and their indomitable mother as they face the loss of the one person holding their unstable family together. Kohar\, the oldest sister\, is happily married\, yet grapples with fertility issues and\, in turn\, her own self-worth. Lucine\, the middle child\, is trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by memories of her estranged father. Azad\, the beloved youngest child\, is burdened by an inescapable cycle of failed relationships. By turns heartfelt and heart wrenching\, All the Ways We Lied introduces a cast of tragically flawed but lovable characters on the brink of unraveling. With humor and compassion\, this spellbinding tale explores the fraught and contradictory landscape of sisterhood\, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common\, and are bound by blood and history. \nUnlucky Mel: A Novel –  PhD candidate Melody Hollings is in the final year of her creative writing program in upstate New York. Her dream life of landing the perfect academic job somewhere far away from her small hometown and publishing her first novel is so close to becoming a reality. But first she has to finish writing that book. Oh\, and graduate. To do both\, she needs her good friend Ben to reciprocate all the help she’s given him over the years on his writing. But when Mel’s widowed father starts acting strangely\, she is thrown. After chalking it up to a dramatic attempt to manipulate her into moving back in with him\, she discovers that he really is suffering from dementia. Now she’ll need to stay local to care for him. Her dream is dying and her best option is to win a postgraduation fellowship through her alma mater. Despite all the upheaval in Mel’s life\, rather than helping her\, Ben turns on her in a shocking betrayal. For the first time\, Mel has a nemesis! The stress of caring for her father\, teaching too many students\, and living with so much uncertainty over her future escalates Mel’s desire for retribution–until one night\, she discovers an opportunity to ruin Ben’s reputation. Unlucky Mel is a smart\, funny debut in which Pelekidis explores the lengths we’re willing to go to in order to even the score and the ways in which women are often expected to sacrifice their professional ambitions for the men in their lives.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/feminism-is-alive-and-well-in-the-novel-jennifer-savran-kelly-in-conversation-with-aggeliki-pelekidis-and-aida-zilelian/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T140000
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SUMMARY:"A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren" with Janna Barkin
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us to celebrate the release of Janna Barkin’s new book A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren. \nAbout the Book: A Grand Love is a book of personal stories and observations from the perspectives of the author\, grandparents of transgender grandchildren\, and transgender people themselves. Transgender people have never been more visible in our society than right now. There is evidence that transgender and gender diverse people benefit greatly when they have the support\, love\, and acceptance of their parents and families. Grandparents have an opportunity to play a crucial role in family dynamics and contribute to positive outcomes for their loved ones. Grandparents who become aware that their grandchild’s gender identity doesn’t match the sex assigned to them at birth can feel confused and alone. While the field of knowledge in this area is growing at a very fast pace\, many therapists\, counsellors\, teachers\, and school administrators remain unskilled and uninformed when it comes to working with transgender or gender diverse children and their parents\, grandparents\, and other family members. A Grand Love provides consistently positive and uplifting educational guidance. The book includes a glossary of terms\, educational chapters about gender identity and what it means to be transgender\, information on the latest research on gender\, and lists of non-profits and other organizations that support transgender youth and families. Part educational\, part storytelling\, and chock-full of inspiration\, A Grand Love: Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren will inform and uplift anyone who reads it.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/a-grand-love-stories-for-grandparents-of-transgender-grandchildren-with-janna-barkin/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T160000
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SUMMARY:Local Poets for Harris Open Mic with Jon Raimon\, Ian Shapiro\, and Stacey Murphy
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: We are Local Poets for Harris\, a group of writers who want to inspire fellow citizens to support the joyful\, compassionate\, and just vision the Harris and Walz team have for our country. We will have an open mic for local writers to share three minutes of poems related to the importance of standing up for democracy\, rights\, community\, justice\, and joy! We will also have information about how we can all get involved in the campaign\, each in our own way.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/local-poets-for-harris-open-mic-with-jon-raimon-ian-shapiro-and-stacey-murphy/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T140000
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SUMMARY:Stories of Kindness and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:As a part of the United in Kindness Event Series and Domestic Violence Awareness Month\, Advocacy Center Center of Tompkins County is hosting an all-ages story hour!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/stories-of-kindness-and-resilience/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T180000
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SUMMARY:"World Headquarters" Reading and Signing
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Peter Fortunato will read from and sign copies of his new poetry collection World Headquarters. Peter Fortunato has published several other poetry collections\, the novel\, Carnevale (from Fomite Press) and a memoir\, Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar. \nAbout the Book: The three sections of World Headquarters resonate with and reinforce the interconnectedness among the local and universal\, the personal and political\, the human and non-human worlds. Poems comprising Part II\, ad-Dawha\, were begun while Peter Fortunato lived in Doha\, the capital of Qatar. During the rapid modernization of that desert emirate\, Fortunato taught four years at the newly opened Weill Cornell Medicine. But where exactly is the world’s headquarters—these poems dance across the horizons of the mind\, unlimited in its essence\, particular in its myriad expressions.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/world-headquarters-reading-and-signing/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T140000
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SUMMARY:"The Skeleton Flute" Book Signing and Reading
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us for a very fun (and spooky) reading with author Damara Allen! \nAbout the Book: \nThe legend of the Pied Piper meets Sal and Gabi Break the Universe with a touch of Coraline in this spooky and suspenseful middle grade adventure about a boy whose wish goes horribly wrong and his fight to reunite with his real family. \nSam Windsor’s parents and younger siblings\, Grayson and Addie\, are his whole world\, so when his parents announce they’re separating\, Sam is devastated. He’d do anything to make his parents change their minds and keep the family together. When a stranger offers a flute made of bone that supposedly grants the player’s wish\, Sam doesn’t really believe it will work but figures he has nothing to lose. Surprisingly\, the wish on the skeleton flute comes true. The next day\, his parents are happily in love\, with no plans for his dad to leave. But there’s a major problem: his parents’ relationship isn’t the only thing in his life that has changed\, and some of the changes are definitely for the worse. Caught in a world full of unintended consequences and familiar strangers\, Sam has limited options for returning to his old life—worries\, challenges\, and all. Can he track down the mysterious man who gave him the flute and undo his wish?
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-skeleton-flute-book-signing-and-reading/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20241007T134825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T134825Z
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SUMMARY:Climate-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We’ll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can’t read each month’s book cover-to-cover\, that’s okay–but the more you read\, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner\, with guest poets and writers. Free and open to all. \nOrder your books from BSB for a 10 percent discount. \nAbout the Book: When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s\, California becomes full of dangers\, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father\, family\, and neighbors\, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk\, she suffers from hyperempathy\, a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed\, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T190000
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SUMMARY:"Rooms: The Works and Life of JJ Manford" with Gordon Sander and JJ Manford
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Author and biographer Gordon Sander will be in store to talk with artist\, and subject of his book Rooms\, JJ Manford. \nAbout the Book: When Gordon Sander ’72\, BA ’73\, began an artist residency at Risley Residential College in 2002\, he was returning to familiar ground. The author\, photographer\, and journalist had come back to the Hill twice before to work on books and had a history of hiring Risleyites as assistants. But this time would be different. Not only would Sander end up doubling his planned one-year stay\, he’d also meet a fine arts major who’d go on to become a lifelong friend and collaborator. \nThat student was Jonathan “JJ” Manford ’06—the subject of Sander’s ninth book\, titled Rooms\, to be published by a small Latvian art press in January 2024. “Back at Cornell I envisioned writing a book about JJ at some point\,” admits Sander\, whose byline has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and numerous other publications. “The idea was like one of those bubbles at the bottom of a glass of soda.” Now a painter whose work has been mentioned in the New Yorker\, Manford was named by the popular online art marketplace Artsy as one of its most sought-after “emerging” artists in 2022.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/rooms-the-works-and-life-of-jj-manford-with-gordon-sander-and-jj-manford/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T173108Z
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SUMMARY:"Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth\, from Hagfish to Humans" with Bill Schutt
DESCRIPTION:Join author Bill Schutt in conversation with artist Patricia J. Wynne as they discuss Schutt’s newest release “Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth\, from Hagfish to Humans.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bite-an-incisive-history-of-teeth-from-hagfish-to-humans-with-bill-schutt/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240905T183352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T183352Z
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SUMMARY:"Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth from Hagfish to Humans" with Bill Schutt and Patricia Wynne
DESCRIPTION:Join author Bill Schutt in conversation with artist Patricia J. Wynne as they discuss Schutt’s newest release “Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth\, from Hagfish to Humans. \nAbout the Author: Bill Schutt is a vertebrate zoologist and author of six nonfiction and fiction books\, including Pump: A Natural History of the Heart and the New York Times Editor’s Choice\, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Recently retired from his post as professor of biology at LIU Post\, he is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History\, where he has studied bats all over the world. His research has been featured in Natural History magazine as well as in the New York Times\, Newsday\, the Economist\, and Discover.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bite-an-incisive-history-of-teeth-from-hagfish-to-humans-with-bill-schutt-and-patricia-wynne/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
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SUMMARY:Ithaca is Books Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Ithaca is Books Festival exists to celebrate the authors\, performers\, and storytellers who illuminate our world and introduce us to new ones. \nEvents will be hosted all over town including readings and conversations with Jonathan Letham\, Steven Salvatore\, and Debbie Urbanski. As part of the festival\, the book fair will take place on The Commons on September 14th and 15th. Stay tuned for a finalized schedule. We’ll see you there!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ithaca-is-books-festival-2/
LOCATION:Ithaca Commons\, E. State Street\, Ithaca\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240815T173515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T173515Z
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SUMMARY:Climate-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join us in exploring exceptional works of climate fiction! We’ll use a different book each month as a jumping-off point for talking about our collective climate future. If you can’t read each month’s book cover-to-cover\, that’s okay–but the more you read\, the more meaningful the conversation. Led by aspiring climate writer Wendy Skinner\, with guest poets and writers. Free and open to all. Order your books from BSB for a 10 percent discount. \nAbout the Book: Willa Marks has spent her whole life choosing hope. She chooses hope over her parents’ paranoid conspiracy theories\, over her dead-end job\, over the rising ocean levels. And when she meets Sylvia Gill\, renowned Harvard professor\, she feels she’s found the justification of that hope. Sylvia is the woman-in-black: the only person smart and sharp enough to compel the world to action. But when Sylvia betrays her\, Willa fears she has lost hope forever. And then she finds a book in Sylvia’s library: a guide to fighting climate change called Living the Solution. Inspired by its message and with nothing to lose\, Willa flies to the island of Eleutheria in the Bahamas to join the author and his group of ecowarriors at Camp Hope. Upon arrival\, things are not what she expected. The group’s leader\, author Roy Adams\, is missing\, and the compound’s public launch is delayed. With time running out\, Willa will stop at nothing to realize Camp Hope’s mission—but at what cost?
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
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SUMMARY:Forensics for Writers: Writing Workshop with Mary Jumbelic
DESCRIPTION:Mystery and True Crime enthusiasts – join us for this exciting workshop with expert forensic pathologist\, Mary Jumbelic! Mary will share her experiences along with the ins and outs of language\, characters\, and writing to provide authenticity to your work! \nAbout the Author: Mary Jumbelic\, M.D. is an author from Central New York\, and former chief medical examiner of Onondaga County. A board-certified forensic pathologist\, Mary has performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She has received awards for her work from the National Transportation Safety Board and the New York State Senate\, and has been recognized as a trailblazer by the National Organization of Women. As an expert witness\, she has appeared on numerous national broadcasts\, most recently Dateline and 48 hours.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/forensics-for-writers-writing-workshop-with-mary-jumbelic/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240815T172645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T172645Z
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SUMMARY:"And Some Other Third Thing" - Discussion with Authors Ivy Stevens and Tessa Permar
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Authors Ivy Stevens and Tessa Permar will be in-store to read selections from their book\, and some other third thing\, as well as discuss their creative practice and the philosophy of their group. \nAbout the Book: These three authors met at the National Theater Institute in 2013. They started a writing group at the beginning of Covid as a way to cope/stay engaged/be creative/etc. They generated prompts from conversations\, books of writing prompts\, writing prompt generator websites\, or whatever was inspiring them that week. “Like a lot of folks\, we all started many projects in 2020\, but this is one of the few we all actually kept up with. We never focused on having any kind of final product. Even this book is not the culmination of all our work; it came out of wanting to celebrate what we’d done so far.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/and-some-other-third-thing-discussion-with-authors-ivy-stevens-and-tessa-permar/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240815T172312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T172312Z
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SUMMARY:"The World She Edited" - Amy Reading in Conversation with Emily Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:About the Event: Join author Amy Reading and former New Yorker staffer Emily Hopkins to discuss Katharine Sergeant White and the literary world she curated in her 36-year editorship of The New Yorker. White was the invisible hand behind an impressive cohort of writers and was especially sympathetic to women writers just getting their start. The discussion will include how the book world looks different when read over her shoulder\, her long\, productive marriage to E.B. White\, what happens when an editor decides to become a writer\, and other tales from a rich literary life. \nAbout the Author: Amy Reading is the author of The World She Edited: Katharine S. White Edits The New Yorker and The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle\, a Cunning Revenge\, and a Small History of the Big Con. Her recent book has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the New York Public Library\, among others. She is the president of the Executive Board of Buffalo Street Books\, on which she has served since 2018.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-world-she-edited-amy-reading-in-conversation-with-emily-hopkins/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240815T172351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T172622Z
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SUMMARY:"On Strike Against God" with Alec Pollak
DESCRIPTION:Join preeminent Joanna Russ scholar Alec Pollak in celebrating the publication of a new critical edition of ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD\, out now from Feminist Press. Pollak will be joined in conversation by Jeffry Iovannone to discuss Russ’s legacy and delve into her experience in republishing this “curious and powerful revolutionary work.” (—Alison Bechdel) \nALEC POLLAK is a writer\, academic\, and organizer. She is the winner of the 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize and the 2018 Ursula Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship for her work on a biography of Joanna Russ. Her writing appears in the LA Review of Books\, the Yale Review\, and various academic publications. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. \nJOANNA RUSS (1937–2011) was a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of feminist science fiction\, fantasy\, and literary criticism. Born in New York City\, Russ graduated from Cornell University in 1957 and held teaching appointments in English and creative writing across the country until settling at the University of Washington in 1977. A historic\, groundbreaking writer of feminist science fiction\, she is best known for her novel The Female Man and now for her darkly funny survey of literary sexism\, How to Suppress Women’s Writing.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/on-strike-against-god-with-alec-pollak/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240829T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240829T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240718T155053Z
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SUMMARY:Jamaica Baldwin and Nancy Miller Gomez in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Jamaica Baldwin and Nancy Miller Gomez will read poems from their newest collections followed by a conversation and a Q&A. \nAbout the Authors \nJamaica (she/her) is a poet and educator originally from Santa Cruz\, CA. Her first book\, Bone Language\, was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, World Literature Today\, The Adroit Journal\, Prairie Schooner\, Poetry Northwest\, and The Missouri Review\, among others. Her accolades include a 2023 Pushcart Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a RHINO Poetry editor’s prize\, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, as well as the San Miguel de Allende Writer’s Conference Contest Poetry Award. Her writing has been supported by Aspen Words\, Storyknife\, Hedgebrook\, Furious Flower\, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica has a PhD from the University of Nebraska -Lincoln in English with a focus on poetry and Women’s and Gender Studies and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College in New York. \nNancy Miller Gomez’s is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) and the chapbook\, Punishment (Rattle chapbook series)\, a collection of poems and essays about her experience teaching in prisons and jails. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Best New Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, The Adroit Journal\, TriQuarterly\, New Ohio Review\, Shenandoah\, River Styx\, Waxwing\, Plume\, The Rumpus\, Rattle\, Massachusetts Review\, American Life in Poetry\, Verse Daily\, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She co-founded with Ellen Bass an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison\, the Santa Cruz County Jails\, and Juvenile Hall. She lives with her family in Santa Cruz\, California. More at: nancymillergomez.com.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/jamaica-baldwin-and-nancy-miller-gomez-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240718T155114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240718T155114Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Policing - Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Philip V. McHarris invites us to critically examine the role of policing within society and explore transformative alternatives. Drawing from his book\, “Beyond Policing\,” McHarris delves into community-based safety models that challenge traditional policing methods and offer sustainable\, inclusive approaches to public safety. Through a combination of rigorous research and compelling narratives\, the talk will explore how we can foster a society where safety is a collective\, community-driven responsibility. \nPhilip V. McHarris is an assistant professor in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. He earned his PhD in sociology and African American studies at Yale University. He was named one of the Root 100s Most Influential African Americans in 2020\, and has appeared on MSNBC\, CNN\, and PBS and in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and more. \nSadé Lindsay is a sociologist by training whose research interests lie at the intersection of criminal justice\, punishment\, racial inequality\, and public policy. Professor Lindsay’s work examines racism and the criminalization of deviance\, incarceration\, prison reentry\, collateral consequences of criminal justice contact\, and drug policy and use. Professor Lindsay’s scholarship has been published in outlets such as Criminology and Social Problems and received numerous awards from the American Society of Criminology\, the American Sociological Association\, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Professor Lindsay’s work has been funded and supported by the National Science Foundation\, the National Institute of Justice\, and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy\, among other organizations. Professor Lindsay received her undergraduate and master’s degrees and her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/beyond-policing-book-talk/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240730T004747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240730T004747Z
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Carol Van Den Hende
DESCRIPTION:Come on down to BSB to chat with this award-winning author and get a signed copy of her books! \nCarol Van Den Hende is the of the Goodbye\, Orchid series which won 20+ literary awards including the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonfly’s\, and Kops-Fetherling Award. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to global marketing and digital strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!).
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-signing-with-carol-van-den-hende/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240730T004817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240730T004817Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club: Quicksand
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly book club led by community members and local literati. This month we’ll be reading Quicksand\, by Nella Larsen. \nNella Larsen (1891-1964) is one of the most well-known names in the Harlem Renaissance canon\, though much of her personal history remains elusive. The author of two novels\, Quicksand and Passing\, and several short stories\, she received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1930 and later worked as a nurse. Larsen died in New York City in 1964. \nBook club books are 10% off when purchased instore and online. \nAbout the Book \nBorn to a white Danish mother and a Black American father\, Helga Crane has long struggled to carve a path for herself amid the racial segregation of the early twentieth century. As a teacher at an all-Black boarding school in the South\, Helga quickly becomes unsettled by the way the school measures excellence based on proximity to whiteness. Journeying to Chicago\, Harlem\, and Copenhagen\, she attempts to thrive free from the constraints of category–mother or wife\, promiscuous or chaste\, white or Black\, American or Danish. But these categories\, though slippery and unstable\, are constantly reinforced. \nHelga finally settles into a life that feels secure yet completely at odds with her previous ambitions–married to a preacher in the Deep South\, hoping to find peace under the wings of the Church. Landing back where she started\, in social and existential oblivion\, Helga forces us to consider: In a society marred by injustice\, is it even possible to find a true\, authentic self? With intriguing parallels to Larsen’s own life\, Quicksand is an engrossing page-turner that is as relevant now as ever before.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-quicksand/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240809T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240809T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240731T190835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T190835Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night with Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Swing on by for a chill game night. We have a wide variety of board games you can choose from to help you decompress after the week. \n$5 suggested donation.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/game-night-with-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240803T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240803T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240712T184026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240712T184026Z
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SUMMARY:Leaves Falling Backwards
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nOn December 28\, 2017 I was having a holiday drink with my partner and her friend. Around 6pm\, I got up\, went into the bathroom\, and when I came out I told them “something’s not right” pointing to my upper chest. Shortly thereafter\, I fell back in my chair. My eyes were rolling and I lost consciousness. My partner called 911. \nI had a massive heart attack at age 64. \nMy family was told that I probably would not survive this event. I was in the hospital for over two weeks. I was mentally out of it much of that time. When I went home\, I was in a fog for several months: felt like people were coming at me and the walls were closing in. Was paranoid\, and my memory had vanished. It took many\, many months for me to begin to feel normal. \nAbout the Author \nTish Pearlman is a poet\, writer\, broadcast journalist and community and political activist originally from Manhattan Beach\, California. For 15 years she was host of the award-winning arts/public affairs public radio interview show “Out of Bounds\,” which suspended production in December 2019. www.outofboundsradioshow.com \nIn the 1970’s and 80’s Pearlman was actively writing and gave many readings at political and literary events on the central California coast. Her work also appeared in many literary journals and magazines including Street Cries\, Adventures in Poetry Anthology\, Carousel Quarterly\, and Latitude/20. She began to write poetry again in 2009. Her current work has appeared in The Healing Muse Literary Journal (2010-2022)\, The Ithaca Times\, The Syracuse Post-Dispatch Healthy CNY Magazine\, Conversations Across Borders Literary Magazine\, Earth’s Daughters and The Iconoclast Literary Journal. One of her poems was accepted for publication in an anthology titled The Art of Medicine in Metaphors\, published in January 2013. \nHer collection\, re-telling her near-death heart surgery experience\, is a chapbook entitled “The\nFix Is In” and was published by Finishing Line Press in January 2012. \nHer full-length collection “Afterlife” was published by Foothills Publishers in May 2014. \nHer new collection is Leaves Falling Backwards. \nShe was the 2013 & 2014 Poet Laureate of Tompkins County\, NY. \nPearlman has given many solo and group readings/ classes throughout the region\, including\, Elmira College\, Buffalo Street Books\, TCPL. GIAC. She has also been part of The Healing Muse Literary Journal annual tours/readings from 2010-present. She has also organized several group readings at the annual Spring Writes Literary Festival in Ithaca NY.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/leaves-falling-backwards/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240801T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240801T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240712T183951Z
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SUMMARY:The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal
DESCRIPTION:Join professors Mark Ferrara and Roger Hecht for a conversation on the stories of the ordinary people who lived\, worked\, and died along the banks of the Erie Canal\, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation. \nAbout the Book \nThe completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean\, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade\, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas\, and accelerated the westward expansion of the United States. Yet few of the laborers who toiled along the canal shared in the prosperity it brought. \nMark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived\, worked\, and died along the banks of the canal\, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation. The Raging Erie chronicles the fates of the Native Americans whose land was appropriated for the canal\, the European immigrants who bored its route through the wilderness\, and the orphan children who drove draft animals that pulled boats around the clock. Ferrara also shows how the canal served as a conduit for the movement of new ideas and religions\, a corridor for enslaved people seeking freedom via the Underground Railroad\, and a spur for social reform movements that emerged in response to the poverty and suffering along its path. \nBrimming with vivid characters drawn from the underbelly of antebellum life\, The Raging Erie explores the social dislocation and untold hardships at the heart of a major engineering feat\, shedding light on the lives of the canallers who toiled on behalf of American expansion. \nAbout the Author \nMark S. Ferrara is professor of English at the State University of New York. His recent books include American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living (2020) and Living the Food Allergic Life (2023).
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-raging-erie-life-and-labor-along-the-erie-canal/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240725T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240725T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240624T181536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T181536Z
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SUMMARY:Menstrual Self-Care and Empowerment Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Guided by: Cody C.\, M.Ed! \nCome reconnect with your menstrual cycle! We’ll learn about the different menstrual phases and how to care for ourselves during each phase\, how to track our cycles\, options for self-care during our periods\, and ways to celebrate our bleed! We’ll understand more about how the menstrual cycle works through lessons\, discussion\, and art! \nSliding scale: $20-45 (come even if you don’t have the money) \nAnyone that experiences a menstrual cycle or that’s interested in learning more is invited to come. \nFill out the form here or scan the QR code to sign up!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/menstrual-self-care-and-empowerment-workshop/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T163601
CREATED:20240624T181518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T181518Z
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SUMMARY:Madcap Serenade - Book Launch with Dan Kopcow
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nEli\, a precocious 16-year-old social misfit living on Long Island in August 1979\, cons his way into a professional boys’ choir’s Italian and Vatican tour so he can discover his missing father’s legacy. But when he meets his dream girl\, Jane\, and finds himself connected to an intricate murder plot involving a legendary drug\, he must decide if singing for the Pope is worth losing his family and first love. \nJane\, a rebellious 16-year-old American girl\, is desperate to get back in favor with her school friends after accidentally calling a narc on them. When she is sent to a Roman convent for smuggling erotic novels\, she realizes she must grow up fast if she’s going to escape the nuns\, solve her family’s mystery involving a mythical drug\, keep clear of the authorities\, and declare her love for Eli. \nAbout the Author \nDan Kopcow’s sci-fi noir detective novel\, Prior Futures\, published in December 2021 by Black Rose Writing\, won a 2022 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction Distinguished Favorite and was a Science Fiction Best Thriller of 2021 Finalist at BestThriller.com. Kopcow’s fiction short story collection\, Worst. Date. Ever.\, was published by Regal House Publishing in March 2020 and was named one of 2020’s top 100 novels by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). The anthology\, Thank You\, Death Robot\, which included his short story\, The Cobbler Cherry\, won an Independent Publishing Award for best sciencefiction and fantasy and was voted a Chicago Tribune Top Ten Fiction book. Kopcow has had dozens of other short stories published in several magazines and anthologies.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/madcap-serenade-book-launch-with-dan-kopcow/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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