French LessonsTuesday, February 146:00 pm at The Reader's Loft 
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A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.
Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world. As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves. |
Abraham Louis ClarkThursday, February 236:30 pm at The Reader's Loft 
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Running Water A Thirst Quenching 2,960 Mile Solo Run Across America Clark started his 136 day run on
February 15, 2010 from the Pacific coastal town of Through determination and a passion for
helping those in need, Clark was able to raise close to $90,000.00 for Living Water International, a non-profit
Christian organization that has coordinated clean water initiatives in 24
impoverished countries. The funds raised by Running Water is an amazing look at Abe Clark’s inspirational journey. At times it seemed the encounters and events Abe faced were a fabricated story, but this was no fiction story. I could not put it down, in fact the only time I did was to go train. Finished it in one day. Abe’s odyssey across the country sheds light on all kinds of cultures across America and equally shines light on a great cause for an important and necessary primal need, Living Water International. I would recommend this book to anyone, readers and non-readers alike. - Chris Solinsky – 8x Wisconsin high school state champion, 5x NCAA Division 1 champion, first non-African to break the 27-minute barrier in the 10,000 m setting the American record at 26:59.60“ |
AAUW Women discuss Day After NightTuesday, February 283:00pm at The Reader's Loft 
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In her most moving and powerful novel ever, Anita Diamant portrays richly imagined female characters in a haunting fictionalization of the post-Holocaust experience. Atlit is a holding camp for "illegal" immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans with a band of partisans. Leonie is a Parisian beauty. Tedi is Dutch, a strapping blond who wants only to forget. Zorah survived Auschwitz. Haunted by unspeakable memories and too many losses to bear, these young women, along with a stunning cast of supporting characters who work in or pass through Atlit, begin to find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience, as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves and discovering a way to live again. |
An Evening With Jodi PicoultSaturday, March 107:00pm, Doors open at 6:00pm at Radisson Hotel, Green Bay, Wi 
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The Reader’s Loft is proud to present internationally acclaimed author Jodi Picoult March 10, 2012. Tickets are 38.00 and include a hardcover copy of Jodi’s latest novel, The Lone Wolf – due for release February 28, 2012. Books will be available for pickup at the show. Jodi will perform a reading from her work; conduct a Q&A with the audience, followed by a personal signing of The Lone Wolf. Pictures are permitted; however, posing with Jodi is not. A Reader's Loft representative will be available to work cameras for guests while Jodi is signing their book, which will allow for guests to be in the shot. Click the link below to purchase tickets. The Reader’s Loft is proud to present internationally acclaimed author Jodi Picoult March 10, 2012. Tickets are 38.00 and include a hardcover copy of Jodi’s latest novel, The Lone Wolf – due for release February 28, 2012. Books will be available for pickup at the show. Jodi will perform a reading from her work; conduct a Q&A with the audience, followed by a personal signing of The Lone Wolf. Pictures are permitted; however, posing with Jodi is not. A Reader's Loft representative will be available to work cameras for guests while Jodi is signing their book, which will allow for guests to be in the shot. A life hanging in the balance...a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family, love, and letting go. Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. When he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara, he is suddenly expected to rejoin the family. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision? "Lone Wolf "explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it's meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart? Another tour de force from Jodi Picoult, "Lone Wolf "examines the wild and lonely terrain upon which love battles reason. An evening with friends? Book club field trip? Mother-daughter date? |
The Bird SistersTuesday, March 136:00 pm at The Reader's Loft 
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When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who've brought them. These spinster sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health. But back in the summer of 1947, Milly and Twiss knew nothing about trying to mend what had been accidentally broken. Milly was known as a great beauty with emerald eyes and Twiss was a brazen wild child who never wore a dress or did what she was told. That was the summer their golf pro father got into an accident that cost him both his swing and his charm, and their mother, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, finally admitted their hardscrabble lives wouldn't change. It was the summer their priest, Father Rice, announced that God didn't exist and ran off to Mexico, and a boy named Asa finally caught Milly's eye. And, most unforgettably, it was the summer their cousin Bett came down from a town called Deadwater and changed the course of their lives forever. Rebecca Rasmussen's masterfully written debut novel is full of hope and beauty, heartbreak and sacrifice, love and the power of sisterhood, and offers wonderful surprises at every turn. |
AAUW Women discuss Cleopatra: A LifeNot Open To PublicTuesday, March 27 - 3:00pm 
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Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. |
