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FEB 1 through March 2
Read with SRVEF
read. Booksellers is the lead sponsor for the San Ramon Valley Education Foundation’s first Read-A-Thon! which is designed to improve the children’s reading skills by reading more frequently, trying different types of books, and having a blast in the process!
It started February 1 and ends after Read Across America Day on March 2. The bookstore has copies of the pledge forms and the reading logs, or you can click and download them from the links below. The Read-A-Thon is a clear example of the power of reading, as it will yield a lot of rewards for the individual kids, their classes and their schools.
read. Booksellers is giving a $1,000 library prize (that's a lot of library books) to the 3 Top Performing Schools - aka most number of minutes of reading.
The 3 Top Performing Classes will get gift cards to spend at read. Booksellers and a pizza party at Blackhawk Plaza.
The Top Performing Class at each school will get a yogurt party donated by Yogurtland at Bishops Ranch.
Each pledge card turned in is eligible for a raffle prize from Rakestraw Books.
Individual prizes will be awarded for pledge money collected.
Any books purchased at read. Booksellers for the Read-A-Thon are offered at 5% off.
When a child taking part in the Read-A-Thon gives the bookstore a list of their 3 to 5 favorite books - read. Booksellers is offering $5 OFF a purchase of a new book. Sounds like a good deal and we're sure to see some interesting lists.
check out more about - prizes pledge form reading log
here are some questions & answers about the Read-A-Thon
Q: When does Read with SRVEF begin?
A: The Read-a-thon begins on February 1st and ends March 2nd.
Q: Where can I pick up pledge forms?
A: Pledge forms are available at read. Booksellers, school libraries, at the above link, and online at www.srvef.org/read.
Q: What constitutes reading?
A: For this Read-A-Thon, we would like students to read books vs. articles online or newspapers and magazines.
Q: Can students read during class?
A: We would like reading to be done outside of class.
Q: When are pledge forms and reading logs due to school libraries?
A: March 6th.
Q: Can I send the forms and logs directly to SRVEF?
A: Yes. The address is: 2430 Camino Ramon, Suite 240, San Ramon, CA 94583
Q: Who do we write the checks to?
A: Make checks payable to: SRVEF or San Ramon Valley Education Foundation
Q: I have questions. Who should I be talking to?
A: Your immediate resource is your school librarian. SRVEF is happy to answer questions as well via email @ info@srvef.org.
more details are @ www.srvef.org/read
MAR 2 - Tuesday @10am - for ages 3 and up
It's Children's Time every Tuesday.
Bring your child for a story time with some favorite kids books or some fun activity designed just for kids.
MAR 4 - Thursday @10am - for ages 3 and up
We have added Children's Time with Sherry on every other Thursday.
If you want these additional Thursday dates to continue - bring your friends and kids to hear some favorite kids books read or some fun activities for the children.
MAR 9 - Tuesday @10am - for ages 3 and up
It's Children's Time every Tuesday.
Bring your child for a story time with some favorite kids books or some fun activity designed just for kids.
MAR 9 - Tuesday @6pm - NEW event
 | We're trying something different. Space is limited, so RSVP now to 925-984-2250 And. of course, we also have the book for sale in the bookstore. |
MAR 10 - Wednesday @7pm
read. Booksellers will host the Contra Costa Times Book Club, with Diablo magazine's book blogger Lynn Carey running things. The book to be discussed will be Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.
The bookstore is happy to host book clubs or other types of meetings by local groups. Interested ... just ask us.
MAR 16 - Tuesday @10am - for ages 3 and up
It's Children's Time every Tuesday.
Bring your child for a story time with some favorite kids books or some fun activity designed just for kids.
MAR 18 - Thursday @10am - for ages 3 and up
We have added Children's Time with Sherry on every other Thursday. If you want these additional Thursday dates to continue - bring your friends and kids to hear some favorite kids books read or some fun activities for the children.
MAR 18 - Thursday @7pm
ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER will be with us to read and answer questions about her nonfiction book, Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death . Zoe Carter’s busy life on the West Coast with her husband and daughters takes an unexpected detour when her glamorous, independent-minded mother, Margaret, decides she wants to “end things.” Tired of living with Parkinson’s disease, Margaret declares she is no longer willing to go where the illness is taking her. Unsure how—or when—she will end her life, she is certain of one thing: she wants her three daughters there when she does it.
Anxious to maintain her role as “the good daughter,” Zoe finds herself in conflict with her older sisters, both of whom have difficult histories with their mother. As the three women negotiate over whether or not they should support Margaret’s choice and who should be there at the end, their discussions stir up old alliances and animosities, along with memories of a childhood dominated by their elegant mother and philandering father.
Capturing the stresses and the joys of the “sandwich generation” while bringing a provocative new perspective to the assisted suicide debate, Imperfect Endings is the uplifting story of a woman determined to die on her own terms and the family who has to learn to let her go.
more info @ zoefitzgeraldcarter.com
MAR 23 - Tuesday @10am - for ages 3 and up
It's Children's Time every Tuesday.
Bring your child for a story time with some favorite kids books or some fun activity designed just for kids.
MAR 25 - Thursday @7pm
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris will be the book for the third meeting of the read. Book Club.
When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, her prominent family calls on Nayir Sharqi, a pious desert guide, to lead the search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give up in frustration, her body is discovered by anonymous desert travelers. When the coroner's office determines that Nouf died not of dehydration but from drowning, and her family seems suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir takes it upon himself to find out what really happened. He quickly realizes that if he wants to gain access to the hidden world of women, he will have to join forces with Katya Hijazi, a lab worker at the coroner's office who is bold enough to pursue the investigation on her own. Their partnership challenges Nayir, as he confronts his desire for female companionship and the limitations imposed by his beliefs. Fast-paced and utterly transporting, Finding Nouf is a riveting literary mystery that offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there.
more about the book & the author @ www.zoeferraris.com
MAR 28 - Sunday @2pm
We have something for science fiction lovers, RICK FRIAR, author of The Keepers series, featuring the titles, World War III and Tribulation will join us to talk about his books and, of course, sign them for you.
Here's just a blurb on Rick's work -
Richard Friar’s new book, The Keepers is an eerie, monumental (650 page) novel portraying the rise of a fourth Reich in Germany and the start of WWIII beginning in the 2030s, the third decade of the 21st century: a mere 22 years away. The new Hitler, Geiseric, seeks to transform earth into a highly controlled master utopia modeled on Aristotle’s great classic Plato’s Republic. His new society is based on Isaiaism, a pseudo religion of which he is the Messiah.
learn more @ www.thekeepersww3.com
MAR 30 - Tuesday @10am - for ages 3 and up
It's Children's Time every Tuesday.
Bring your child for a story time with some favorite kids books or some fun activity designed just for kids.
APR 17 - Saturday @2pm - NEW event
Marcia Gagliardi joins us with her new book from Ten Speed Press, The Tablehopper’s Guide to Dining and Drinking in San Francisco. Marcia is one of the Bay Area’s most-connected food writers; her restaurant e-newsletter, The Tablehopper, is a must-read for all area foodies. (this event was just set up and I will add more - when I know more) more info @ www.tablehopper.com
APR 18 - Sunday @2pm
Local author, SUSANNE WOODS FISCHER, joins us to discuss her two books, Amish Peace, a nonfiction work, and her new novel, The Choice. In no particular order, Suzanne is a wife, mother, writer, novelist, raiser of puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind, a gardener who has an on-going battle for territory with a bossy gopher, a cook with sporadic results, and a lifelong student of the Bible.
AMISH PEACE
You don't have to "go Amish" to make personal peace a reality. Organized around five central themes in Amish life, Amish Peace shows you how you can cultivate a simple life of love, gratitude, and faith in the midst of a very complicated world. It includes real-life stories and examples of Plain People, Amish proverbs, and fascinating facts about Amish communities. Each section also contains questions for reflection and action, outlining things you can do in your own life that "make for peace."
THE CHOICE
Fisher kicks off a refreshing new series, Lancaster County Secrets, with characters that are strong, both in body and spirit. They also have weaknesses that develop into strengths with the choices they make. One moment, Carrie Weaver is planning to elope with Lancaster Barnstormer Solomon Riehl, leaving their Amish community behind. The next, she is staring into a future as broken as her heart. Now Carrie faces a choice. An opportunity. But will this decision, this moment in time, change her life forever?
more info @ www.suzannewoodsfisher.com
APR 23 - Friday @7pm
In association with the current exhibit at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in downtown Danville, Jean Blaser, who served as a docent at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, will give a talk titled, Mary Todd Lincoln: First Lady of Controversy.
| OPEN Mondays-Thursday 9am - 8pm Friday & Saturday 9am - 9pm Sunday 9am - 6pm Directions - Take Crow Canyon Road exit east off I-680 and go 4 miles to the intersection with Camino Tassajara continue on Crow Canyon (becomes Blackhawk Road) make first right turn into Blackhawk Plaza Circle the bookstore is across the breezeway from Draeger's Market, on the inside of the plaza - near a waterfall above the stream. learn more about the Plaza, the store's home, @ www.shopblackhawkplaza.com |
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