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Welcome to the new online home for Read Between the Lynes. We've redesigned the site to offer new and exciting features, including a larger list of books and reviews, up to date staff picks and reviews and an online store featuring a large collection of eBooks and other products that you can order from the comfort of your own home.

 

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World Book Night Reception

Thursday, April 18 — 4:30 to 5:30 pm

Join us for a special tribute to our WBN Book Givers! If you've registered, plan to join us and pick up your books. If you simply want to learn more about World Book Night, come and learn about this remarkable effort to introduce more people to the value of reading. Since it's also "Poem in Your Pocket Day", you may bring a poem to share with the group and you'll receive a special give-away. Goodies, prizes and refreshments for all.

Meet Storyteller Tim Tingle

Saturday, April 20th — 10 am

Storyteller Tim Tingle joins us featuring Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner.Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in 1864 Navajo county when United States soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep, capture his family, and force them all to walk at gunpoint to an Army fort far from their homeland. This forced exodus of the Navajo people was called the Long Walk of 1864, and during the journey, Danny is labeled a troublemaker and given the name Fire Eye. Refusing to accept captivity, he is sent to Fort Davis, Texas, a Civil War prisoner outpost. There he battles bullying fellow prisoners, rattlesnakes, and abusive soldiers, until he meets Jim Davis. Davis teaches Danny how to hold his anger and starts him on the road to literacy. In a stunning climax, Davis — who builds coffins for the dead — aids Danny in a daring and dangerous escape. Set in troubled times, Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner is the story of one boy's hunger to be free and to be Navajo.

 

Dinner Presentation

Kelly O'Connor McNees - In Need of a Good Wife

Monday, April 22 — 7 pm

Plan to join us for a rich and fascinating evening with Keely McNees, author of In Need of a Good Wife, a richly detailed, vivid, and unforgettable novel about three women challenging the American West — and unpredictable fate — for a future only the most daring can secure.

For Clara Bixby, brokering mail-order brides is a golden business opportunity — and a desperately needed change to start again. If she can help New York women find husbands in a far-off Nebraska town, she can build an independent new life away from her own loss and grief.

Tickets: $35 (includes dinner and one copy of the book); $28 (dinner only). Call Read Between the Lynes to reserve your place. (815) 206-5967.