Monday, September 6   The Bookworm will be closed for Labor Day.

 

Tuesday, September 7 / 6:30 p.m. Benjamin Herson and Jeff Deck will sign The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (Harmony, $23.99). Armed with markers, chalk, and correction fluid, they circumnavigated America, righting the glaring errors displayed in grocery stores, museums, malls, restaurants, mini-golf courses, beaches, and even a national park. Jeff and Benjamin championed the cause of clear communication, blogging about their adventures transforming horor into horror, it's into ts, and coconunut into coconut. Beneath all those misspelled words and mislaid apostrophes, Jeff and Benjamin unearthed deeper dilemmas about education, race, history, and how we communicate. Ultimately their typo-hunting journey tells a larger story not just of proper punctuation but of the power of language and literacy--and the importance of always taking a second look.

 

Thursday, September 9 / 6 p.m. Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids (Aardbaark) will discuss The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (Puffin, $7.99). In this award-winning debut novel, 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father, but no one will tell her exactly where he is. It is 1943 and her destination is New Mexico, where scientists are working on the Manhattan Project.

 

September 10 and 11  The Bookworm will sell books at the Omaha Lit Fest.  See omahalitfest.com for more information. 

 

Saturday, September 11 / 10 a.m. The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss "The Speckled Band", a short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin, $14). All Sherlockians, old or new to the canon, are welcomed. And if you don't know the difference between the canon and a pastiche, don't worry, just an enjoyment of the game is all that's needed.

 

Saturday, September 11   The Bookworm will sell books at An Evening with Anthony Bourdain at the Holland Performing Arts Center. Call 345-0606 or see http://www.bourdainlive.com/ for more information

 

Sunday, September 12 / 11 a.m. The new book discussion group Books and Bagels will discuss Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.99). During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small town. Part thriller, part historical novel, this novel is a riveting exploration of the darkest--as well as the best--parts of the human heart. Please sign up at the sales desk or by phone, 402-392-2877.

 

Sunday, September 12 / 1 p.m. Nancy Rips will sign High Holiday Stories (Frederick Fell, $14.95). The High Holidays are the most important festivals of the Jewish year, and all Jews have their own memories of these special days. It’s a time to remember, a time to be with families, and a time to tell stories about past generations. And you don’t need to be Jewish to appreciate this, because the 21st century is a much smaller world, with many different faiths coming together. High Holiday Stories is filled with 101 heartfelt holiday remembrances, from famous people, and some only known in their own circle of family and friends. They recount varied Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur experiences, from observing the holiday in the Colorado Rockies to Army bases in Iraq, even online. The stories come from people of all ages, all professions, from New York to California, New Zealand to England.

 

September 14, 15, 16   The Bookworm will sell books at events featuring Rosanne Cash and Daniel Levitin at Kaneko.  See thekaneko.org for more information.

 

Thursday, September 16  Discover great new books for your book club during The Bookworm's ANNUAL BOOK CLUB OPEN HOUSE. Representatives from publishing houses will join Diana and The Bookworm staff in sharing great new suggestions for book clubs. Tom Leigh from Macmillan and Jon Mooney from Penguin Putnam will give presentations at 6:30 p.m. Registered book club members will receive 20% off purchases. Please save the date on your calendar and contact Diana Abbott for more information, 402-392-2877.

 

Thursday, September 16 / 6:30 p.m. The As the Worm Turns Book Discussion Group will discuss Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (Scribner, $16). A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own. George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed. Lee Myers will facilitate the discussion. Space is limited, so please call to reserve your place.

 

Saturday, September 18 / 1 p.m. Laura Daniel will sign Web of Truths (Xlibris, $13.95). In Web of Truths, Daniel has woven a plot of secrets held, and secrets revealed, with all of their conflicts and consequences. As the story opens with a tragic shooting and suicide at the local school, conflicts emerge within the Shugate family. When Ethan Shugate learns that his boy, Toby, proves not to be a victim of the shooting, after a case of mistaken identity, he resolves to turn his life around, realizing how fragile life can be.

 

Saturday, September 18 / 1 p.m.  The Bookworm will sell books at Countryside Community Church as Ann Kidd Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd present Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey and France.  This event is sponsored by the Center for Faith Studies - call 391-0350, extension 121 for more information.

 

Tuesdays, September 21 / 6:30 p.m.  The International Intrigue Book Discussion Group will discuss The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell (Vintage, $14.95).  On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into routine once more, until suddenly, he is called to Riga and plunged into an alien world where shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive.

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 22 / 6 p.m. David Herlihy will sign The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26). Frank Lenz dreamed of cycling around the world. In the spring of 1892 he set out west to cover twenty thousand miles over three continents as a correspondent for Outing magazine. Two years later, after having survived countless near disasters and unimaginable hardships, he disappeared in eastern Turkey. Herlihy's gripping narrative captures the soaring joys and constant dangers accompanying the bicycle adventurer in the days before paved roads and automobiles. This untold story culminates with efforts to bring Lenz's accused murderers to justice, even as troubled Turkey teetered on the edge of collapse.

 

Thursday, September 23 / 7 p.m.  The Bookworm will sell books at Countryside Community Church as Phyllis Tickle presents The Great Emergence: Why the biggest shift in Christianity in 2,000 years is happening now.  This event is sponsored by the Center for Faith Studies - call 391-0350, extension 121 for more information.

 

September 23, 24, 25….It’s Teacher Weekend. Beginning Thursday, September 23 at 3:30 p.m. The Children's Department will have lots of free ‘stuff’ for teachers, counselors and librarians. Your teacher discount will apply to anything in the store and we will have a drawing for some special door prizes. Stop by and see us

 

Saturday, September 25 / 1 p.m. Greg Hall will sign Traffic Control (Mokuhina, $7.99). A fatal accident destroys former rock star Carl Patterson's quest to turn his life around and make peace with his estranged daughter. His search for answers uncovers a secret worth killing for, putting him on a collision course with a man that does whatever it takes to win

 

Monday, September 27 / 2 p.m.  The World War II History Book Discussion Group will continue their discussion of OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency by Richard Smith (Lyons, $16.95).  The Office of Strategic Services, headed by William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan, carrying out some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted. Smith, an ex-CIA hand, documents the controversial agency from its conception to reconfiguration as the CIA. 

 

Sunday, September 25 / 1 p.m. Lawson McDowell will sign Omaha Gold: A Story of the Transcontinental Railroad (RAWR, $17.99).  When Steve Brandon discovers a mysterious brass box on the Omaha riverfront, he sets out to learn the box’s past.  He is soon immersed in historical lore and an adventure that sends shockwaves through Omaha.

 

Wednesday, September 29 The Bookworm will sell books by Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason (Vintage, $15.95) at the Holland Performing Arts Center.  Call 345-0606 or see www.omahaperformingarts.org  for more information.

 

 

Thursday, September 30 / 7 p.m. Mary Helen Stefaniak will sign The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia (Norton, $24.95). Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new, well-traveled young schoolteacher turns a small Georgia town upside down. Miss Grace Spivey believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar, transforming the lives of everyone around her. Populated by unforgettable characters--including three impressive camels--The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris (and back again) in an entrancing feat of storytelling.

 

Saturday, October 2 / 1 p.m. David Krajicek will sign Murder American Style: 50 Unforgettable True Stories About Love Gone Wrong (Createspace, $16.95).  Each year about 2,000 Americans are killed by an intimate partner or blood relative.  The killers were motivated by lust and greed – what Krajicek call the “terrible twins” of the seven deadly sins.  From obscure husbands and wives to celebrities, Krajicek finds the absurdities in these murder plots.

 

Wednesday, October 6 / Noon - 1 p.m.   What Are You Reading? book chat. Join us to chat about favorite reads, books that changed our lives, or the book we just couldn’t put down.  No need to make reservations--just come and enjoy a little conversation about books.  Carol Lynch will facilitate the discussion.

 

Saturday, October 9 / 10 a.m.  The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss “The Engineers Thumb”, a short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Penguin, $14).  All Sherlockians, old or new to the canon, are welcomed.  And if you don't know the difference between the canon and a pastiche, don't worry, just an enjoyment of "the game" is all that's needed.

 

Saturday, October 9 / 11:30 a.m.  Linda Strnad Jensen will sign The Bow Wow Chronicles.  The memoir traces the life of a girl raised with three rough and tumble brothers in the 1940s and ’50s in Omaha. Laugh at imaginative games, goofy school experiences, and vacations with deer heads, fish, and wayward dogs. Yet, the narrator also meets a Holocaust survivor, befriends WW II immigrants, endures McCarthyism and the Korean War, learns about racism through pen pals, and watches mass murderer Charles Starkweather rampage across Nebraska. 

 

 

 

Sunday, October 10 / 11 a.m.   The book discussion group Books and Bagels will discuss The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain (Mira, $13.95). In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth, and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies...  Please sign up at the sales desk or by phone, 402-392-2877. 

 

Thursday, October 14 / 6 p.m.  Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids (Aardbaark) will discuss Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams (Scholastic, $7.99).  14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society.

 

Tuesday, October 19 / 6:30 p.m.  The International Intrigue Book Discussion Group will discuss The Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Picador, $14).  When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavik, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archeological dig. Bone by bone, the body is unearthed, and the brutalizing history of a family who lived near the building site comes to light along with it. Was the skeleton a man or a woman, a victim or a killer, and is this a simple case of murder or a long-concealed act of justice? As Erlendur tries to crack this cold case, he must also save his drug-addicted daughter from self destruction and somehow glue his hopelessly fractured family back together. 

 

Thursday, October 21 / 6:30 p.m.   The As the Worm Turns Book Discussion Group will discuss Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (Harvest, $14).  Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman.  Krisann Blake will facilitate the discussion.  Space is limited, so please call to reserve your place. 

 

Saturday, October 23 / 1 p.m. Sandra Brannan will sign In the Belly of Jonah (Greenleaf, $14.95). Liv Bergen becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of Jill Brannigan, a summer intern at the limestone mine Liv manages near Fort Collins, Colorado, a breathtaking setting that unwittingly becomes an accessory to crime. In doing so, she inadvertently puts her friends, her family, and herself at risk of being swallowed in the belly of a madman bloated with perverse appetites for women, surrealistic art, and renown.

 

Monday, October 25 / 2 p.m. The World War II History Book Discussion Group will discuss Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen Ambrose (Simon & Schuster, $18). Ambrose follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

 

Monday, October 25 / 7:30 p.m.  The Bookworm will sell books at An Evening with David Sedaris at the Holland Performing Arts Center.  Visit TicketOmaha.com or call 866-434-8587 for more information.

 

Postponed: Omaha photographers Tracy Raver and Kelley Ryden will sign Sleeping Beauties: Newborns in Dreamland (Sellers Publishing, $29.95). The sister’s photographs of babies at rest, nestled in soft surroundings, are pure magic. Their lens has captured newborns as they inhabit that magical place - a world where past and future dreams come together in an ethereal realm. In most instances, the babies portrayed are brand new and on their way home for the very first time. It is in this state of newness, of transition from their warm cocoon of the past nine months to their journey of a new life, that they capture the newborns as they slumber, dream, and awaken to their new surroundings

 

　

Pet adoption programs

The Bookworm welcomes well-behaved pets on leashes. We host the following pet adoption programs with the Nebraska Humane Society http://www.nehumanesociety.org/, Hearts United for Animals, http://www.hua.org/ and local rescue groups http://www.nebraskaanimalrescue.org/.

Golden Retriever Rescue – first Saturdays at 10 a.m.

Doberman Rescue – third Saturdays at 11 a.m.

Greyhound Rescue - fourth Sundays at Noon

Nebraska Humane Society - first, second and fourth Thursdays at 11 a.m.