Newsletter

Brown Bag Lunch Bunch

Sugar Snow
Monday, March 8th
12:00 - 12:45.
Bring your lunch!

March 4th ALL DAY
Montessori Children's Community in store book fair.

Press B for Basement Level!

Can't find a convenient place in Sewickley to make black-and-white or color copies for your book club, scout troop, or business? Check out the lower level of Penguin Bookshop. You'll find our brand new coin-fed copier available to you NOW!

PRICES
.15¢ for black and white
.50¢ color
$1.00 local fax
$1.50 non-local fax

"B" is where you'll find:
* Specially Priced Items
* Reduced Priced Books
* School Supplies

Don't forget we often put hardcover books that recently came out in paperback on sale in the basement.

New This Week!

The Pacific
by Hugh Ambrose
Published by Nal Caliber

Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire!
by Jane O'connor & Robin Preiss Glasser
Published by Harper Collins

BOOKCLUBS
The Penguin Bookshop Evening Readers
March 16th at 7:00PM
The Help
Oops! We made an error and The Help is the March Evening Reader book. We will be reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in April.

The Penguin Bookshop Good Morning Bookclub
Thursday, March 18th 10:00
Cutting for Stone

Edgeworth Elementary Writer's Workshop Celebration
Saturday, March 6th, 11AM
Stop by and celebrate our young local authors and reporters. Students will be reading their personal stories, poems, and news articles that they wrote during Edgeworth Elementary's Writing Workshop.
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International Children's Theater
Henry and Mudge

Stop in to pick up a copy of your favorite Henry & Mudge book and come to see us at the following shows...

Thursday, March 11, 5:30PM & 7:30PM &
Friday, March 12 at 7PM
at Marshall Middle School

Sunday, March 14 at 2PM
at Seneca Valley Intermediate High School

Advance Single Tickets Just $9.50

Call or Order Online! 412-456-6666

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Brigid of Kildare
Meet the author Heather Terrell, Saturday, March 13th, 4PM
Rich in historical detail, Heather Terrell's mesmerizing novel Brigid of Kildare is the story of the revolutionary Saint Brigid and the discovery of the oldest illuminated manuscript in the annals of the Church, a manuscript that contains an astonishing secret history. Read an article featuring Heather online at the Tribune Review.

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James McGrath Morris Author Visit

Monday, March 15th, 7:30PM
Author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power
"While Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media."

"Morris has given us everything we could have asked for in his new biography of Joseph Pulitzer. Greacefully written and thourgouly researched, his biography is easily the best we have on this remarkable man who so proufoundly influenced the worlds of politics and publishing." --David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie

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Lidia Bastianich Visit

Saturday, March 14th, 12:00PM
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich came to the United States from Istria -- a peninsula now part of Croatia that is about 90 miles northeast of Venice -- when she was 12 years old with her parents and her brother Franco. Lidia is now the co-owner, with her son Joseph, of Felidia and Becco restaurants in New York and Lidia's in Kansas City and Pittsburgh. She is also the star of Lidia's Italian American Kitchen and Lidia's Italian Table and she's coming to the Penguin Bookshop to sign her cookbooks!
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Sharon Flake

Saturday, March 20th
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 10:30AM
Coretta Scott King award-winning writer Sharon Flake delves into the African American experience with her books geared toward teens. The latest from this powerful Pittsburgh author is The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street.

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Audrey Niffenegger
Monday, March 22, 2010
Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30PM

Best selling author of the Time Traveler's

Wife, "a soaring love story," Audrey Niffenegger is out this fall with her highly-anticipated second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, projected to be another big hit with the book club crowd. A visual artist, Niffenegger has also written and illustrated two graphic novels compared in style to Edward Gorey's work: The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She is a professor at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts. The film version of Time Traveler's Wife is due for release in August 2009.
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The Zen and Mindfulness Bookclub

April 12th at 7:00PM
The first meeting of the Zen and Mindfulness Bookclub will be held at Penguin Bookshop on April 12th at 7:00 This book club will focus on how we can be fully present and engaged in key areas of our life such as work, family, and health. We will be reading some of the best recent books that address these questions from the perspective of Zen practice and mindfulness. The club is open to the public. Discussion will be facilitated by members of the Zen Center of Pittsburgh. The first book is ZBA: How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life by Mark Lesser.