Spring Forum 2017
Schuler Books and Music
2660 28th St. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512
Schedule
9:00 am Bagels with the Board
Grab a bagel and a cup of joe and chat with the GLIBA Board members.
10:00-11:30 EDELWEISS Tips, Tricks and Best Practices
Topics covered will be decided after polling RSVP-ers
11:30-1:00 ABA Education
Bookstores - An Inclusive Place for Dialogue and Discovery
In the current environment, customers are increasingly coming to bookstores for connection and communication, as well as for sources of a diverse range of voices and viewpoints.
At the upcoming ABA Spring Forum in Grand Rapids, in response to member bookstore feedback and requests, ABA will be hosting a conversation led by ABA Board Member Matt Norcross, where booksellers will share ideas and brainstorm about how bookstores can foster communication and create opportunities for people of diverse backgrounds to express and respond to differing views in the welcoming setting of a bookstore.
This will not be a traditional education session. It is designed to be an interactive discussion, where booksellers will be able to participate in open communication and problem solving -- in both large and small groups -- to clarify strategies for strengthening the unique role that bookstores play in their communities.
1:00-2:15 ABA Forum and Lunch
This is an informal lunch with Oren Teicher, CEO of ABA, Dan Cullen, ABA Senior Strategy Officer, and Matt Norcross, ABA Board (and GLIBA) member so here is your chance to ask the ABA anything you are curious about.
3:00-5:00 Author Palooza!
Join us as we welcome 10 fabulous authors to our meeting!
Our Authors
(Click on the book cover to go to the publisher's catalog page, and on the author's name to go to the authors website)
We will begin with a conversation between Wade Rouse (aka Viola Shipman), Michigan's own internationally bestselling author of The Charm Bracelet, and the forthcoming The Hope Chest and Whitney Spotts, Events Coordinator for the Schuler stores. This series of books was inspired by Wade's grandmothers and he has taken their names as a pseudonym. It is a charming story of three generations of women finding their paths and sharing their journeys. The Charm Bracelet takes the reader back to a place of childhood memories, and the love shared by family.
The Hope Chest is a lovely story about the unconditional love and support of family. You will be reminded that hope can be found where and when you least expect it.
The Hope Chest is a lovely story about the unconditional love and support of family. You will be reminded that hope can be found where and when you least expect it.
Bloom is an uplifting story about growth, change, and a mother’s love, Deborah Diesen draws a gentle parallel between the growth of bulbs—planted by a mother, who is white, and her brown-skinned daughter—and way the daughter’s has herself developed. (PW). Children will make the connection between the bulbs growing and their own growth, and moms will find the story sweet and heart-warming.
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Deborah Diesen has a new adventure for The Pout-pout fish.Everyone's favorite grumpy fish decides to take a vacation, but oops! He forgot his favorite toy! Luckily, he finds that you don't have to pack love; it travels with you where ever you go.
The delightfully scary synopsis of The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne is this: Helena Pelletier finally has the life she wanted with a loving husband, two daughters, and a career she enjoys. But Helene has a secret. She was born to a teenage mother, two years into her captivity by a notorious child abductor called the Marsh King. One day Helene hears a news report that the Marsh King has killed two guards and escaped from prison. She know that only one person can catch him- his daughter. The author set this novel in the UP, drawing on her own experience in the 1970s, living in a tent with her husband and six week old daughter while they built a cabin, and living off the land. |
An alarming account of the slow destruction of the world's largest fresh-water system. Author Dan Egan, twice a Pulitzer prize finalist for his environmental coverage, has written a book that could have been a dense treatise on hydrology and fish biology, but instead becomes an accessible, even gripping narrative about the massive, unforeseen costs of our interventions in the natural world.
With the current administration's plan to cut back or eliminate the EPA, the information in this book has been even more critical. Egan is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
With the current administration's plan to cut back or eliminate the EPA, the information in this book has been even more critical. Egan is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Jameson love his green pants. In fact, when he wears his green pants, he feels like he can do anything. When h is invited to be in his cousin's wedding, he knows that tuxedos only come with black pants. What's a boy to do? A gentle story from author Kenneth Kragel about an adorable boy who marches to the beat of his own drummer.
The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose has been getting some amazing reviews. :Colson Whitehead said this: "“In his highly addictive and multi-faceted first novel, Augustus Rose pits an irrepressible and gritty young heroine against a sinister group of fanatics. The Readymade Thief is a kickass debut from start to finish.” What else is there to say?
Bestselling historical fiction writer Renee Rosen has done it again. With her characteristic impeccable research and talent for creating strong female characters who deal with challenges of recent (and not so recent) history. Set in Chicago in the 1950s, Windy City Blues fairly crackles with the energy of the emerging blues scene and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. One reviewer said "“Windy City Blues captures the heartbeat of Chicago in guitar riffs and harmonica slides. An ode to diversity and love’s enduring power to unite."
On a stormy night in 1939, Mary Stone Walker disappears from her home in White Hill, Michigan. Everyone knew the talented poet was desperate to escape her demons, but when Mary goes missing without a trace, one question lingers in the small town: Did Mary successfully break free of her troubled past and flee, or did her life end that night?
Sixty years later Lydia Carroll's husband Frank is obsessed with the mystery, and the only way to help him is to find out what happened to Mary all those years ago. Jacqueline Vincenta's compelling tale of madness and obsession will haunt you long after you close the cover.
Sixty years later Lydia Carroll's husband Frank is obsessed with the mystery, and the only way to help him is to find out what happened to Mary all those years ago. Jacqueline Vincenta's compelling tale of madness and obsession will haunt you long after you close the cover.
In A Unicorn Named Sparkle by Amy Young, Lucy found out that the unicorn she thought she didn't want was the exact right unicorn for her. In this new story, Lucy makes a new friend and Sparkle is worried that means she doesn't care about him anymore. What happens when two's company but three's a crowd?