Events

For children ages 3-5

Pack up your brown bag lunch and join your friends at the Penguin Bookshop for a lunch-hour story time. Munch on lunch while Miss Penguin and Mrs. Wilson read. Then try a make- and-take activity.

Join us for Monday Night at the Lectures with author Barry Lopez. The
Penguin Bookshop is the exclusive bookseller at this event. For
information and/or ticket sales call 412-622-8866 or visit PITTSBURGHLECTURES.ORG

NATURAL WONDER

One of America’s most loved and respected nature writers, Barry Lopez is best known for his National Book Award winner, Arctic Dreams,
an eloquent, compelling defense of the Arctic wilderness. The author of
six books of nonfiction and eight books of fiction, his work examines
the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture.
“There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions,”
Lopez says. “You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy
expression of leaning into the light.”

For more information about Barry Lopez, click on these links:

barrylopez.com
januarymagazine.com
barclayagency.com
arts.envirolink.org

Evening Readers (Formerly Pot-Luck Bookclub)
Wednesday Feburary 10th at 7:00PM the Evening Readers will be discussing the Piano Teacher

come into the store to sign up or email us your registration. booklovers@penguinbookshop.com!

Good Morning Bookclub
Thursday, Feburary 18th at 10:00AM the Good Morning Bookclub  will be discussing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Meet the cast of Quaker Valley Middle School's production of The Sound of Music.  There's no charge but DO make reservations by calling us at 412-741-3838 or e-mailing booklovers@penguinbookshop.com.  (In your e-mail please let us know how many will be joining us and their ages.)

A Beckoning of Game Lovers Event
Family Game Night
BananaGram-a-Rama-Pajama Party
Friday, February 19th, Following Catch a Rising Star (around 6 PM) 

If cabin fever levels are reaching all time highs at your house, come on over to Penguin Bookshop tonight and join our Banana-Gram-a-Rama!  We'll be playing BananaGrams with Dingy and Robin from Party Ants, eating Robin's banana bread and making mini banana splits.  Banana Grams is a Penguin Staff favorite game.  Come whether you are a skilled player or novice!  Players should be able to read but if you have young children, never fear, we will have a special storytime and craft for the little monkeys.  Kids are encouraged to wear their pajamas. There is no  fee for this event but please give us a call or send us an e-mail to let us know you are coming so we can be prepared. P.S. If  your kids need new PJ's, head for Monday's Child on the corner of Beaver and Broad!

At 2:00 PM we will welcome: David Belczyk author of the collection of poems titled, Sometimes Form sometimes Vessel, J.L. Beck author of Royal Injustice, Jennifer Keating-Miller author of Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature.

At 4:00 PM come meet two authors with close ties to Sewickley Tripp Clarke and Prentiss Orr.  They will present Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred and Beyond, a discussion of the book they co-authored and their exciting new ventures.  Word Around Pittsburgh (Tripp) and Boyd& Blair Potato Vodka (Prentiss).  We'll have copies of the book for purchase and signing and samples of the vodka to taste and enjoy.

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Jodi Beck

Royal Injustice

Jodi Beck is a single mother in Poland,
OH she wrote this book for someone very close to her. Royal Injustice is the story
of a father’s struggle to gain his rightful time with his children after a
nasty divorce.

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David Belczyk

   Sometimes
Form Sometimes Vessel

Call It Perpetual

   David Belczyk grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He earned his Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame
and his Juris Doctorate with honors from The George Washington University Law
School. He spent two years in Chicago and has now returned home, and to the
roots of his art.

http://www.davidbelczyk.com/

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Jennifer Keating-Miller

Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary
Irish Literature

Jennifer
Keating-Miller was born in Cobh, Co. Cork Ireland and moved to Santa Monica,
California as a child.  She attended the
University of Rochester, NY as an undergraduate and the University of
Pittsburgh for a Ph.D. in English Literature.  She currently teaches for Carnegie Mellon
University and lives in Sewickley with her husband, Billy, and son, Liam.

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Tripp Clarke

Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred

Tripp
Clarke grew-up in Sewickley and currently resides in Aspinwall with his wife,
three kids, a dog and a cat. He is President of ETC Creative Group, a sales and
marketing consultancy firm. His more creative pursuits include producing the
series of critically-acclaimed radio documentaries American Soundways for
public radio (americansoundways.com).  He recently
co-authored “Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred” for the Heinz History Center and
he is now working on a photography project Word Around Pittsburgh (wordaroundpittsburgh.com) that spells
various neighborhoods with iconic images found in those neighborhoods.

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C. Prentiss Orr

Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred

A veteran of Pittsburgh ad agencies and
founder of Outlook Advertising, Prentiss Orr has been marketing Pittsburgh and
Pittsburgh companies for more than 30 years. 
He conceived the idea of Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred while serving
as Vice President of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce.  About that time, he was also thinking of
making vodka, especially from Pennsylvania-grown potatoes.  In 2008, both came to life.  To date, Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred has
sold some 5,000-plus copies, and Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka is now the #5
best-selling super premium vodka in Pennsylvania.

Join us for Monday Night at the Lectures with author Elizabeth Alexander. The
Penguin Bookshop is the exclusive bookseller at this event. For
information and/or ticket sales call 412-622-8866 or visit PITTSBURGHLECTURES.ORG

INAUGURAL POET

Elizabeth Alexander’s very public poem, Praise Song for the Day,
written for the Obama inauguration, put poetry in the media spotlight.
Dr. Alexander is chair of African American Studies at Yale University.
She is also a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York
City and raised in Washington, DC. Alexander has written four books of
poems and her most recent, American Sublime, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

“… Poetry (here I hear myself loudest) / is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?”

For more information about Elizabeth Alexander, click on these links:

elizabethalexander.net
cnn.com
elizabethalexander.net/events
poets.org
newsweek.com