Event Schedule

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Wednesday
June 7
Madison Writers Studio Students read from
5:30 pm their work. Public Welcome
Thursday
June 8
Poetry night
7 pm with
Shoshauna
Shy and Alice
DAlessio

Friday
June 9
Steve and Ben Nadler
7 pm discuss their graphic
narrative, The Heretics!
This entertaining and enlightening graphic
narrative tells the exciting story of the
seventeenth-century thinkers who
challenged authoritysometimes risking
excommunication, prison, and even
deathto lay the foundations of modern
philosophy and science and help usher in
a new world..
Wednesday
June 14
Doug Moe interviews
7 pm Jerome Buting about
Illusion of Justice Inside
Madison
Public
Making a Murderer and
Library Americas Broken System
Room 301
Hosted in cooperation with the Wisconsin
Book Festival.
Jerry Buting wrote Illusion of Justice to make
a case for criminal justice reform that looks
at the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey
trials and beyond to show what the world
feels like to people who are standing alone
and accused.
Thursday
June 15
Its our 4th Anniversary
Celebrate with us!!
Thursday
June 15
Daniel Sharfstein
7 pm discusses Thunder in the
Mountains
In his penetrating new book, Thunder in the
Mountains, Daniel J. Sharfstein shows how
the meaning of freedom was not only
contested in the South after the Civil War
but extended all the way to the Pacific
Northwest....Sharfsteins account not only
makes for absorbing reading; it adds
immeasurably to our understanding of the
complicated, interwoven lives of those who
fought for progress east and
west....Those who know little about
General Howard, other than that he was a founder of Howard University, will
be especially interested in following his story to the end.Henry Louis Gates,
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Friday
June 16
Poetry with Steve and Jeanie Tomasko
7 pm Insects seem to creep their way into Steve Tomaskos poems (even his love
poems). He doesnt think thats a bad thing. His wife, Jeanie, long ago stopped
screaming when a dragonfly lands on her. She doesnt think thats a bad thing.
But they both still get creeped out by spiders. Steve and Jeanie edited the 2015
Wisconsin Poets Calendar. Steve has had poems published here and,
occasionally, there. Hes been rejected by
some of the best journals around. His first
(and so far only) chapbook, and no
spiders were harmed was published in
Dec. 2015 by Red Bird Chapbooks.
Jeanie Tomasko is the 2014 recipient of
the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award from
The Council for Wisconsin Writers. Her
story/poem book (Prologue) is the
recipient of an Editors Choice award from
Concrete Wolf Chapbook Series. She has
four other published books of poetry including Tricks of Light, Sharp as
Want, Violet Hours, and the just out, Collect of the Day. When they get a
chance, she and Steve like to commune with Lake Superior. Jeanie endeavors
to always have a bottomless honey jar, garlic from the garden, and bees in the
front-yard hyssop.
Sunday
June 18
Closed for Fathers Day
Wednesday
June 21
Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
Wednesday
June 21
Make Music Madison
7 9 pm Join Bobbie & Bill Malone amazingly
wonderful musicians and storytellers
Location:
702WI
702WI is located at 702 East Johnson and
Blount Street
Copies of their new books,
Sing Me Back Home and
Lois Lenski Storycatcher
will be available for sale.
Thursday
June 22
David Krugler returns to talk
7 pm about his book Dead Dont
Bleed (Paperback!)
A gripping World War II mystery, a young naval
intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a
murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing
the secrets of Americas atomic bomb project.

Friday
June 23
Poetry with F.J. Bergmann
7 pm A Catalogue of Further Suns

Thursday
June 29
Dorris Burch
6 8 pm Dont Be Invisible, Be
Fabulous

Join the Madison Chapter of the Polka Dot

Powerhouse

Public Welcome
Saturday &
Sunday
Brick Universe! Lego Fan Convention
July 1 -2 Monona Terrace
More
details to
follow!
Mystery to Me will be
selling books for Marcie
Colleen, author of The
Super Happy Party Bear
Series! Marcies husband is
a LEGO artist and will be
creating a 4 foot tall LEGO
stature of Ziggy Bear (one
of the characters from the
book).
Saturday
July 8
Claymates, illustrated
2 pm by Lauren Eldridge
Its a launch party! .with plenty of
clay for everyone

What can you do with two blobs of

clay? Create something amazing! But
don't leave them alone for too long.
Things might get a little crazy.

Sunday
July 9
Historys Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm The Devils Making by Sean Haldane
Saturday
July 15 Dean Robbins reads from
2 pm
Margaret and the Moon
Margaret Hamilton always had a knack for solving
problems. Then she discovered a new invention
called a computer and used it to solve one of the
hardest problems ever flying people to the moon!
When an astronaut flips the wrong switch on the
Apollo 11 mission, its up to Margarets brilliant
computer programming to save the first lunar
landing. Meet the pioneering scientist who broke
boundaries for women and became a hero of the United States space program.

Saturday
July 15
Tig Notaro
8 pm Mystery to Me will be available to sell Tigs
new book Im Just a Person
At the
Barrymore
Theatre One of America's most original comedic
voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly
observed, and emotionally raw account of
her year of death, cancer, and
epiphany."Notaro's thrilling, candid, and
hilarious memoir is a provocative and
convincing rallying cry to seize the day"

Saturday
July 22
Monroe Street Sidewalk Sale
10 - 5

Sunday
July 23
Agatha Christie Book Club
3 pm Poirot
Wednesday
July 26
Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Wednesday
July 26
Joan Hess discusses The
7 pm Painted Queen
By Joan Hess and Elizabeth Peters
We are delighted to host best-selling mystery
author Joan Hess. Joan will be here to
discuss The Painted Queen - an Amelia Peabody
mystery that she completed for her dear friend
and fellow mystery writer, Elizabeth Peters.

Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing

archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are
once again in danger as they search for a
priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen
Nefertiti in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth
Peters's bestselling series.

Elizabeth Peters (Author)

Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her Ph.D. in
Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the
course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and
suspense novels, and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She was the recipient of
numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement
awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and
Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in
her honor, at the Malice Domestic convention. She died in 2013, leaving a
partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.

Joan Hess (Author)

Joan Hess is the author of the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the Arly Hanks
Mysteries, formally known as the Maggody Mysteries. She is a winner of the
American Mystery Award, the Agatha Award, for which she has been
nominated five times, and is a member of Sisters in Crime and a former
president of the American Crime Writers League. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Sunday
August 6
Historys Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm Valley of the Shadow by Peter Tremayne

Thursday
August 10
Allyson K. Abbott (AKA
7 pm Annelise Ryan) discusses A
Toast to Murder

Vicki Fee will be here to

discuss her new book One
Fete in the Grave
Sunday
August 13
Craig Johnson of
6:30 pm Longmire fame!
We learned that Craig was going to be
in Green Bay so we asked if he might
drop down to Madison to see us. And
he said yes. His new book, Western
Star is not scheduled for release until
September 5 but Im sure hed love to
talk about it with you
Wednesday
August 23
Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm
Friday
August 25
William Kent Krueger is
7 pm back with his next Cork
OConnor Mystery, Sulfur
Springs
Cork OConnors search for a missing man
in the Arizona desert puts him at the
center of a violent power struggle along
the Mexican border, a struggle that might
cost Cork everything and everyone he
holds most dear.

Saturday
Sept. 9
Kevin Henkes and Laura
2 pm Dronzak
In the Middle of Fall
Everything is yellow, red, orange.
Everything is chilly, frisky, gusty. Everything
is changing, turning.
Its the middle of Fall. Can you see it? Can
you taste it? Can you smell it? Can you
imagine it?

Sunday
Sept. 10
Historys Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm Chiefs by Stuart Wood
Tuesday
Sept. 12
Robert Madygan discusses
7 pm The Solace of Trees
Described from the perspective of a child
victim, The Solace of Trees is the lesser-told
story of the tragedy of war, from the Bosnian
War to the US policy of government-
sponsored abductions. A tale shared by
countless victims in countless times and
places, The Solace of Trees is at once a page-
turner and a work of beauty and insight. It is a
sobering look at a hidden cost of war and an
affirmation of the human spirit from those
who survive the ordeal.
Saturday
Sept. 16
Monroe Street Festival
10 - 5
Tuesday
Sept. 19
Poetry with Andrea Potos
7 pm Arrows of Light
Sunday
Sept. 24
Agatha Christie Book Club
3 pm
Wednesday
Sept. 27
Mystery to Me Book Club
7 pm
Thursday
Sept. 28
Kathleen Ernst is here to
6:00 pm discuss her new Chloe
Ellefson novel Mining For
Justice
Chloe Ellefson is excited to be learning about
Wisconsins Cornish immigrants and mining
history while on temporary assignment at
Pendarvis, a historic site in charming Mineral
Point.

Sunday
October 1
Historys Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm Zoo Station by David Downing
Wednesday
October 25
Mystery to Me Book Club
6 pm
Thursday
October 26
Michael Stanley
7 pm
'A wonderful, original voice McCall Smith
with a dark edge and even darker
underbelly - Peter James

Under the African sun, Michael Stanleys

Detective Kubu investigates crimes as dark
as the darkest of Nordic Noir. Call it
Sunshine Noir, if you will a must read -
Yrsa Sigurardttir

When the body of a Bushman is discovered

near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the
death is written off as an accident. But all is
not as it seems. An autopsy reveals that,
although he's clearly very old, his internal
organs are puzzlingly young. What's more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his
muscles... but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the
morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective 'Kubu' Bengu
gets involved.
Wednesday
Nov. 1 Jeremi Suri discusses The
7 pm
Impossible Presidency
The Rise and Fall of
Americas Highest Office
Why have recent presidents failed to bring
promised change? This book charts the rise
and fall of the American presidency, from the
limited role envisaged by the Founding Fathers
to its current status as the most powerful job
in the world. The presidency is a victim of its
own success -- the vastness of the job makes it
almost impossible to fulfill the expectations placed upon it. As managers of the
world's largest economy and military, contemporary presidents must react to a
truly globalized world in a twenty-four-hour news cycle. There is little room left
for bold vision. The Impossible Presidency traces America's disenchantment
with our recent presidents to the inevitable mismatch between presidential
promises and the structural limitations of the office.

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global
Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the university's
Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He previously held a
 position in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sunday
Nov. 5 Historys Mysteries Book Club
12:30 pm Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Wednesday
Nov. 22 Mystery to Me Boook Club
6 pm
Saturday
Nov. 25 Small Business Saturday
All day!
Sunday
Nov. 26 Agatha Christie Book Club
3 pm