Greetings, book lovers ….

Just a brief update on Book Club as well as upcoming events and storytimes at Camalli Book Company.

On Monday, June 30, at 6:00 the Camalli BOOK CLUB discusses our June pick, Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves (6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.). Join in for the discussion or just be honest about it, say you didn’t read the book, and join us for a glass of wine anyway … that’s okay, too. Our July pick is The Thirteenth Tale.

Tuesday, July 15, 3:00 p.m. … special story time! Local authors/illustrators June Atsuko Martel and Sandy Beelmann share their new children’s book, In My Day. June will also do a paper craft with the kids after the story. In My Day follows two children, one in Japan and the other in America, through a typical day in the early 1900s.

For THIRD THURSDAY WORD in July (7/17) we have Jason Graham coming in. Jason is a local artist/poet/musician … you may have read the article about him in the Bulletin back in January. Join us on July 17th for an evening of spoken word and for the grown-ups, a glass of wine or beer.

Saturday, July 19, at 2:00 children’s book author and illustrator Todd Parr visits the Tower Theatre. Camalli will be there selling his books. Admission is by free ticket, available at all Deschutes Public Libraries beginning July 5.

July Story Times … We went on a brief hiatus, but will resume story times starting Wednesday, July 2, at 3:00. Because of summer schedules, we are unable to do morning story times for awhile. Here’s the story time schedule for July:

-Wednesday, July 2, 3:00 p.m., Theme: The Moon
-Tuesday, July 15, 3:00 p.m. … special story time! See above.
-Wednesday, July 16, 3:00 p.m., Theme: Gardens
-Wednesday, July 23, 3:00 p.m., Theme: Trucks
-Monday, July 21, at 6:00 author Steven T. Wax comes to Camalli to discuss his new book Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, A Public Defender’s Inside Account. Here’s what Publisher’s Weekly had to say about the book (you also may have heard Wax on OPB a couple of weeks ago):

“Federal public defender Wax” masterfully delivers a harrowing story of the erosion of civil liberties after the September 11 terrorist attacks in a powerful testimony that reads like a thriller. Wax follows the stories of two men he represented, both victims of post-9/11 counterterrorism measures. The first—American citizen and fellow lawyer Brandon Mayfield—was arrested by the FBI as a suspect in the Madrid train station bombings in 2004, after the FBI claimed that a latent fingerprint found on the scene matched Mayfield’s. The second story revolves around Adel Hamad, a Sudanese-born hospital administrator arrested in Pakistan while doing refugee relief work. Imprisoned for six months in “a fetid hell” for alleged connections with al-Qaeda, Hamad was hooded and shackled and transferred to Guantánamo Bay, where he has languished for the past four years. With considerable finesse, the author narrates these two gripping stories in alternating chapters through each stage of his clients’ cases. Wax offers personal insight and professional outrage; his is a powerful voice that deserves to reach all Americans.”

Happy Reading!

Tina

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