Camalli Book Store Events for August

Camalli Book Store Events
Camalli Book Company
An Independent Bookstore
1288 SW Simpson Avenue
Suite C
Bend, Oregon 97702
541.323.6134


Friday, August 1 ... Join us for a party celebrating the release of BREAKING DAWN, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT series. The book is officially released on August 2 (Saturday), and diehard fans can their hands on a copy at midnight! We're opening the doors at 11:00 p.m. on Friday, August 1 for some food, drink and low-key interaction (costumes welcome!). The book goes on sale at the stroke of midnight. AND, get this ... everyone here that night can enter to win a free SIGNED COPY of Stephenie Meyer's THE HOST. To make sure that you get your hands on a copy of BREAKING DAWN give us a call to reserve your copy. You can pick it up at midnight or the next day. But to win the signed copy of THE HOST you do need to be present at the party on August 1, when we will announce the winner just before midnight.

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Saturday, August 2 ... Garth Stein, author of the very popular THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, will be in the store on Saturday, August 2, for a booksigning -- 1:30-2:00. Stein is the author of three novels: THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN (Harper, 2008); HOW EVAN BROKE HIS HEAD AND OTHER STORIES (Soho Press, 2005), which won a 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, and was a Book Sense Pick in both hardcover and paperback; and RAVEN STOLE THE MOON (Pocket, 1998). He has also written a full-length play, BROTHER JONES, which received its first production in Los Angeles, in February, 2005.

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Wednesday, August 6 ... Karen Castelbaum leads the workshop FOUND TREASURE: RESTORING LOVELINESS TO THE FORSAKEN. That which we 'discard' as useless or ugly holds beauty for the soul. In this playshop you will experiment with 'forsaken' or found objects to create utterly unique art pieces. In the light of creative imagination and curiosity trash takes on a vibrant lumiosity! This playshop is AUGUST 6 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the store and RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. Cost is $30.00 (includes most materials; a complete materials list provided upon registration). Karen is a counselor, artist & expressive arts facilitator who loves fooling around with words and images.

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Thursday, August 14 ... Join us at 7:00 p.m. for a reading and release party celebrating Jonathan Ludwig's first chapbook of poetry and short stories, FALSE STARTS, FRAGMENTS & FALSEHOODS (2008, Throwback Books). Ludwig is a member of the Bend Poetry Slam Team. Either everything in this new chapbook is a lie or the title is--it is tough to tell. The content is difficult to believe: buying bits of a woman's body, making molotov cocktails for our generation out of Hostess Pink Snowballs and chopsticks, late night bottles of booze that have more of a social life than the author. But each becomes difficult to discount after reading these maybe-autobiographical stories. Typed in the font of a classic Oliver No. 5 with its butterfly falling keys, these textured stories will have you rereading each cryptic line to try to find a lie or a truth within it.

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Thursday, August 21 ... THIRD THURSDAY WORDS in the store at 7:00! We'll have in a fantastic group of talented local poets: Pete Lovering, John Martin, Judy Montgomery and Ellen Waterston. They will read nothing but short poems (their own and others')--from haiku to limerick to sonnet. Peter is celebrating the publication of a new hand-produced book of haiku, INNERVOICE/OPEN SPACE. John, inspired by a month-long poetry residency at Caldera, will read new work and poems from his chapbook, NICK OF TIME. Ellen will read from her prize-winning chapbook, I AM MADAGASCAR, and give us a taste of work from her soon-to-be-published new book of poems. And Judy, just returned from a poetry getaway, will read some of her new poems and work from her recent chapbook, PULSE & CONSTELLATION. Join us-and if you'd like, bring a short poem (yours or one of your favorites) to read aloud!

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STORY TIMES ... summer has thrown off our story time schedule a bit; and with so many people traveling during our warm months we've cut down on our Story Times. But things will get back to a regular weekly schedule come September. For now, mark your calendar for the following:
August 6 @ 3:00 p.m. ... dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs!
August 20 @ 3:00 p.m. ... all things pink and princess-ey! We've done the truck story time, now it's time for the girls' stories and craft.

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BOOK CLUB ... Our pick for August is THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER by Luis Alberto Urrea. With this pick we're kicking off our support of THE NATURE OF WORDS, Central Oregon's premier literary event. Urrea is a featured author for the 2008 event, as are Ursula LeGuin, Pam Houston, Judith Barrington, Patricia Smith, Craig Childs, Charles Bowden, and Ekiwah Belendez. For August - November we will read a book each month by a NATURE OF WORDS author. Here's the schedule:
August: THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER, Luis Alberto Urrea (read for book club and get 15% off)
September: LAVINIA, Ursula LeGuin (read for book club and get 30% off)
October: THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES: UNCOMMON ENCOUNTERS IN THE WILD, Craig Childs (read for book club and get 30% off)