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SUMMARY:Nathan Harris will be Signing his new novel : Amity
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 2nd   7:00 to 8:00 pm \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister\, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom\, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage. \nNew Orleans\, 1866. The Civil War might be over\, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they’ve been promised. Two years ago\, the siblings were separated when their old master\, Mr. Harper\, took June away to Mexico\, where he hoped to escape the new reality of the postbellum South. Coleman stayed behind in Louisiana to serve the Harper family\, clinging to the hope that one day June would return. \nWhen an unexpected letter from Mr. Harper arrives\, summoning Coleman to Mexico\, Coleman thinks that finally his prayers have been answered. What Coleman cannot know is the tangled truth of June’s tribulations under Mr. Harper out on the frontier. And when disaster strikes Coleman’s journey\, he is forced on the run with Mr. Harper’s daughter\, Florence. Together\, they venture into the Mexican desert to find June\, all the while evading two crooked brothers who’ll stop at nothing to capture Coleman and Florence and collect the money they’re owed. As Coleman and June separately navigate a perilous\, parched landscape\, the siblings learn quickly that freedom isn’t always given–sometimes\, it must be taken by force. \nAs in his New York Times bestselling debut The Sweetness of Water\, Nathan Harris delves into the critical years of the Civil War’s aftermath to deliver an intimate and epic tale of what freedom means in a society still determined to return its Black citizens to bondage. Populated with unforgettable characters\, Amity is a vital addition to the literature of emancipation.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/nathan-harris-will-be-discussing-his-new-novel-amity/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:You're Invited to Wiley’s World Book Reading & Release Party! Featuring The Month-Long Magic Noodle Hunt!
DESCRIPTION:Friday September 5th 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nStep into the wild\, wonderful\, and totally noodle-crazy world of Wiley’s World — a magical new book series created by local author & illustrator Shields Bialasik. \n What’s Happening at the Party? \n\nStorytime with Wiley – Hear the hilarious (and kinda true!) tale of how Wiley went from pasta maker to time-traveling keeper of the Magic Noodles.\nDraw Your Own Pirate Chicken! – Shields will teach kids (and kids-at-heart) how to sketch the mischievous crew from his brand-new spin-off series Pirate Chickens.\nOriginal Art & Prizes – Win one-of-a-kind Wiley art pieces you can keep forever.\nBig Announcement – Be the first to hear the rules for the month-long Magic Noodle Hunt across Ashland! Hidden noodles\, secret prizes… and maybe even a few surprises.\n\n Plus: Book signing\, meet & greet\, and a chance to become an official Citizen of Wiley’s World. \n Don’t miss this chance to join the adventure where it all begins.\nFrom mischievous Pirate Chickens to magical pasta machines\, there’s something for everyone. \n FREE & OPEN TO ALL AGES \nBring your family\, your friends\, and your imagination. \nhttps://www.WileysWorld.com
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/youre-invited-to-wileys-world-book-reading-release-party-featuring-the-month-long-magic-noodle-hunt/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ashland author Bruce McConnell explores Crows Calling: An Inspiring Journey into our Better Natures
DESCRIPTION:Monday September 15th 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nSpecial Pre-Release Event for Crow-Admirers (and Anyone who Loves the Earth)! \nAshland author Bruce McConnell explores Crows Calling: An Inspiring Journey into our Better Natures\, his uplifting novel about our relationships with the natural world and each other in the face of climate change. \n“A parable of wisdom and kindness told through the eyes of the living world.” —Paul Hawken \nEarth’s animals are fed up with humanity’s mindless damage to our common home. Will a young girl and her family heed their call? \nTen-year-old Luz sets out on an overnight camping trip\, accompanied by her spiritual mentor. Peering through a canopy of California redwoods\, Luz witnesses a council of animals confronting the menace of climate change. Led by a lustrous—and talkative—crow named Koro\, the animals weigh their options. Some\, like Koro\, want to collaborate with humans. Others doubt humanity’s good intentions. The conversation compels young Luz\, innately in tune with the natural world\, to fight passionately in its defense. \nAt once a work of fact-based activism and a moving coming-of-age\, Crows Calling immerses the reader in a richly drawn family and community who\, despite their differences\, decide to dedicate their lives to the care of Grandmother Earth. They are not alone. Rather\, they are accompanied by a colorful cast of savvy planimals—trees\, coyotes\, chickens\, and even lichens—with long memories and ancient ways of healing. \nSome damage cannot be undone. Natural disasters\, public apathy\, and greed threaten everything that Luz and her friends are working for. Can the cross-species alliance find unity and resolve the climate crisis? \nBruce McConnell is an agile shapeshifter\, having flourished as a poet\, roofer\, artist-blacksmith\, engineer\, tenor\, consultant\, national security official\, non-profit executive\, and peacemaker. He sings in the Rogue Valley Peace Choir.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/ashland-author-bruce-mcconnell-explores-crows-calling-an-inspiring-journey-into-our-better-natures/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hillary Tiefer discusses her new novel The Secret Ranch
DESCRIPTION:Monday September 22nd  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nAfter a journalist takes an interest in eighty-five-year-old Jean Warner’s experience as an enemy code interceptor during World War II\, Jean reflects upon her past\, which was often challenging and painful. \nJean relives her experiences during the war when she was in the Women’s Army Corps and did grueling secret work deciphering enemy Morse Code at Two Rock Ranch Station\, near Petaluma\, California. During this time\, she has a challenging friendship with another WAC\, pursues a rocky relationship with a soldier\, and constantly fears for the lives of her two brothers who are fighting in the war. As difficult as it has been to dwell on her past\, Jean eventually realizes that she has acquired insights that have helped her understand herself and strengthened her relationship with her troubled daughter\, who has assumed that her mother conducted her life perfectly. \nHillary Tiefer has a PhD in English and has taught at Southern Oregon University and other colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Her short stories have been published in Descant\, Red Rock Review\, Mission at Tenth\, Blue Moon Literary Review\, Gray Sparrow Journal\, Poetica Magazine\, Poydras Review\, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine\, JuxtaProse\, The Literary Nest\, Smoky Blue Literature and Art Magazine\, Five on the Fifth\, The Opiate\, The Manifest-Station\, Pennsylvania Literary Journal\, and Minerva Rising Press’s The Keeping Room \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/hillary-tiefer-discusses-her-new-novel-the-secret-ranch/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker - Nicholas O'Connell Talks About His Experience
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 23rd 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nIn Crush Nicholas O’Connell provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world’s most prestigious wineries on the West Coast. This insider’s view of the wine world includes the intense competition for the best grapes\, the bizarre lingo of the tasting rooms\, and the visionary winemakers who magically transform grapes into high-end wine. It is a world that includes not only romance and refinement but long hours\, backbreaking labor\, mind-numbing repetition\, and fanatical dedication to quality. Such devotion resulted in the 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet that won the best red wine at the 1976 Judgment of Paris and transformed the U.S. wine industry. \nO’Connell’s quest to master the art of wine making begins in his garage. From there he embarks on an apprenticeship at Betz and DeLille Cellar and other great wineries in California\, Oregon\, and Washington. He provides a first-person\, ground-up view of a business not yet fully explored despite record interest in wine. O’Connell also includes conversations with some of the world’s most gifted vintners\, including Warren Winiarski\, former owner of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/crush-my-year-as-an-apprentice-winemaker-nicholas-oconnell-talks-about-his-experience/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Louisa Morgan talks about her new novel The Faerie Morgana
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 6th 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nIn this atmospheric and bewitching novel\, Louisa Morgan reimagines the story of Morgan Le Fay\, one of the most enigmatic and powerful women in Arthurian legend.  \nTo the other priestesses of the Nine\, a powerful council at the Lady’s Temple\, Morgana is haughty and arrogant as she performs feats of magic no human should be capable of. Rumors start that she must be a fearsome fae.\nTo King Arthur\, Morgana is a trusted and devoted advisor\, but his court is wary of her and her prodigious talent at divination. But his wife sees Morgana as a rival and a malevolent witch.\nMorgana doesn’t know why she’s so different from everyone else\, and she doesn’t much care. But when she aids Arthur to ascend the throne before his time\, she sets off a series of events that will change everything Morgana believes about her power. \nLouisa Morgan now lives and writes and rambles with her Border Terrier in beautiful\, friendly southwest Oregon. A musician and a yogini\, she finds time to teach writing workshops here and there and she loves visiting bookstores and book clubs. \nShe has also written other popular novels: The Age of Witches\, A Secret History of Witches\, and The Great Witch of Brittany among others.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/louisa-morgan-talks-about-her-new-novel-the-faerie-morgana/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Glenn Hill talks about his new Ghostly Ashland Shakespeare Mystery - "The Devil Wore White"
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 13th  7:00 to 8:00\n\n“The Devil Wore White”\nA Ghostly Ashland Shakespeare Mystery – Book Two\n\nA spring wedding in Ashland’s flower-filled Lithia Park should be a dream come true. But when the radiant bride plunges to her death from the 9th-story window of the historic and haunted Globe Springs Hotel\, the celebration turns chillingly tragic.\n\nWas it an accident\, or something darker blooming beneath the surface?\n\nFormer antiquities inspector William Mills and his spirited partner Carol Lindsey\, with the aid of Dante the ghost cat\, are swept into a mystery that winds through heirloom secrets\, suspicious relatives\, and a controversial exhibit of ancient Egyptian and Biblical artifacts. One centerpiece—a gold and gemstone necklace said to carry a deadly curse—seems to be waking something long dormant within the hotel’s walls.\n\nWith the ghostly Blue Lady whispering warnings\, and the hotel’s shadowed past refusing to stay buried\, William and Carol must untangle a ritual half-forgotten and a legacy someone will kill to protect.\n\nSecrets blossom\, ghosts stir\, and danger blooms in the quaint Shakespearean town of Ashland\, Oregon.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/glenn-hill-talks-about-his-new-ghostly-ashland-shakespeare-mystery-the-devil-wore-white/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ashland Mystery Fest - October 16th - 19th 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 3rd year of the exciting Ashland Mystery Fest! From innovative author panels\, a mystery to solve around town and author meet and greets to a sleuth dinner with the authors and murder mystery dinners\, join us for a fully immersive celebration. The 2025 Event Registration Package includes the opening and closing receptions and 7 panels all at the Historic Ashland Armory.  Click on Event Registration here to purchase or above to learn more. 14 Authors have been announced. \nAngela Sanders will be doing a pop up at Bloomsbury Books  9am – 10am on Friday\, Oct. 17th. This is a casual meet up – chatting and signing her books. \nBooks for all the authors are available at Bloomsbury Books.  Events are all over town. \nAshland Mystery Fest – 2025
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/ashland-mystery-fest-october-16th-19th-2025/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pop-Up Mingle with Mystery Author Angela Sanders - October 17th @ 9am
DESCRIPTION:Meet mystery author Angela Sanders who will be doing a Mystery Fest pop-up at Bloomsbury Books  from 9am – 10am on Friday\, Oct. 17th. This is a casual meet-up where you can mingle with festival goers\, stock up on Mystery Fest books\, and chat with Angela who will be signing! \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/pop-up-mingle-with-mystery-author-angela-sanders-october-17th-9am/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kathy Watson author of "Orphans of the Living" in conversation with  Shirleen Holt
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 20th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nHood River author Kathy Watson will be at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland  to read from her debut novel\, Orphans of the Living. Watson will be joined in conversation by Shirleen Holt of Medford. \nWatson and Holt worked together at Oregon Business magazine in the 1990s\, where Watson was editor in chief and Holt was managing editor. The two will talk about how Watson adapted her mother’s family story for this novel\, what is sometimes called “autofiction.” They’ll talk about how Watson created scenes in the long-ago town of Maxville\, OR\, in the Wallowa Mountains. They’ll discuss what it’s like to be writing and selling a novel in the chaotic world of book publishing\, with nearly 2\,000 new books coming out each week. \nOrphans of the Living  follows the Stovall family’s early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they encounter racism\, poverty and inequality across the American South and West. \nThe novel is a 2025 Literary Titan Book Award Gold Medalist in Fiction. Early reviews include this one from Willy Vlautin\, winner of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and author of eight novels\, including The Horse: \n“Orphans is a stunning debut. Where has this writer been hiding? It’s all blood and soul and heartache and survival. A story of the powerful and the powerless. I can’t recommend it highly enough and I can’t wait to see what she does next.” \nWith the publication of her first novel\, Orphans of the Living\, Watson is returning to her first love: fiction. She lives in Hood River\, where she writes\, leads a chefs collective\, and runs and hikes the Columbia River Gorge with Stu and Satchel\, the world’s best dog. \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/kathy-watson-author-of-orphans-of-the-living-in-conversation-with-shirleen-holt/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:At the Ashland Library: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner in a conversation about his new book\, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
DESCRIPTION:Saturday October 25th 3:00 to 4:00 pm at The Ashland Library in the Gresham Room \nJoin author and playwright Daniel Pollack-Pelzner in a conversation about his new book\, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist. This biography is an intimate and captivating exploration of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s artistic journey\, revealing how the creator of the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights found his unique voice through bold collaborations\, redefining the world of musical theater. \nDrawing on interviews with Miranda’s family\, friends\, and mentors—and many conversations with Miranda himself—Daniel Pollack-Pelzner delves into the formative experiences that shaped Miranda as an artist\, from his early musicals in high school and college to the creation of his Broadway and Hollywood triumphs. With full access to Miranda’s inner circle\, this behind-the-scenes origin story is sure to captivate his legions of fans and beyond. \nDaniel Pollack-Pelzner has written about theater and contemporary culture for The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and The New York Times. Born and raised in Oregon\, he teaches theater history at Portland State University and is the scholar-in-residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project. He lives in Portland with his wife\, whom he met in a fifth-grade production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and their two children.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/at-the-ashland-library-daniel-pollack-pelzner-in-a-conversation-with-barret-obrien-about-his-new-book-lin-manuel-miranda-the-education-of-an-artist/
LOCATION:Ashland Library\, 410 Siskiyou Blvd\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Three local poets will read their original work.
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 27th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nEDEN ORLANDO is a local poet\, artist\, bookmaker\, songwriter\, and fashion designer.  She will be reading from her three illustrated poetry memoirs\, Seed Pearls: Kauai Poems (2020)\, My Perfect Offering: A Novel in Poems (2021)\, and The Ojai Poems: Best Poems (2025).  The Ojai Poems details her stay at a spiritual retreat center when she was 22 years old\, where she met a mentor who saved her life. \nBlaine Lindsey is a living love poem. He has been writing and performing poetry in the Rogue Valley for more than a decade. He is also a chef\, event host\, and social worker. His poetry is emotional\, observational\, rhythmic\, and full of visuals. You can find his debut book of poems\, “How to Weep in Public Places\, privately.” on the Blurb.com bookstore. \nNisha LeBaron\, is a mother of 4\, and a long-time social justice activist. She enjoys gardening and mushroom cultivation\, has a past in the chocolate and coffee industry\, as a Vegan chef\, and as an in-home health care assistant. In her spare time\, she enjoys writing and poetry.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/three-local-poets-will-read-their-original-work/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heal Your Mental Disorder: The Doctors' Step-by-Step Program for Conditions from Dementia to Schizophrenia with Author Ambuja Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Thursday October 30th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nAmbuja Rosen presents her new book Heal Your Mental Disorder: The Doctors’ Step-by-Step Program for Conditions from Dementia to Schizophrenia. \nReaders are invited to join the many thousands of people who  have been cured of mental disorders. Ayurveda\, the oldest known  system of medicine\, has been curing people for thousands of  years\, without side effects.   \nIn this hands-on manual\, a psychiatrist and six other doctors  explain how to remove the plaques that cause mental disorders— with gentle therapies like herbs and minerals. Scientists have  found plaques like these on the brains of Alzheimer’s and autism  patients.  \nIt’s a simple science: Everything is cause-and-effect. Remove  the cause\, and the effect goes away. Babies aren’t born with  schizophrenia or panic attacks. Something causes these  disorders: trauma\, bad diet\, etc. The program in this book  removes the cause\, and the effect—the disorder–disappears.   \nThe main doctor in the book\, Jaya Ramanuja Raju\, has trained  thousands of doctors. He says\, “I’ve cured thousands of people  of schizophrenia\, Alzheimer’s\, and other mental disorders. All  their symptoms went away. And if they were taking psychiatric  drugs\, they no longer needed them.” He estimates that at least  sixty percent of his mental patients are cured.  \nThis program cures many people of addiction\, too. When they  listen to healing music\, meditate\, or do massage\, for example\,  they make their own pleasure chemicals (like endorphins). They  get so much pleasure that way that they don’t need the alcohol  or drug “high” anymore.   \nThe doctors in the book also recommend:  \n\nA healthy diet \nPositive thinking \nPurification procedures (to remove plaques) \nAromatherapy\, sound therapy\, and color therapy \nExercise \nLifestyle changes \n\n…and more.  \nReaders can fill out a questionnaire to get a customized plan.  \nThere are also chapters of counselling\, and physical health  problems. The author cites hundreds of studies to back up the  doctors’ points.  \nAnd many people share their stories of how they were cured of  mental and physical disorders.  \nThis book is for healthy people too. It will keep them safer  from Alzheimer’s and other health problems. We now know that  heart disease can be prevented with lifestyle changes; mental  disorders can be prevented that way too.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/heal-your-mental-disorder-the-doctors-step-by-step-program-for-conditions-from-dementia-to-schizophrenia-with-author-ambuja-rosen/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dusty Roads: Meet the Hidden Figure Who Really Ignited the Women’s Movement
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 3rd  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nTake a trip back to the “Golden Age of Air Travel” with Elaine Rock’s lively slideshow through the 1950s–70s. Relive glamorous (and sometimes outrageous) uniforms\, memorable in-flight meals\, and the cultural shifts that transformed workplace rights. Hear the inspiring story of Dusty Roads—a stewardess\, union leader\, and one of the first female lobbyists to Congress—whose persistence challenged ageism\, sexism\, and unfair airline policies\, including marriage bans for women only and firing them at age 32. Her efforts throughout her career changed those rules and opened new employment doors for both women and men nationwide. Gloria Steinem put it simply to Dusty: “I should be thanking you for everything you’ve done. You’re the one who started it all!” \nBonus: Elaine will offer attendees a door prize: a free copy of the PBS American Experience “Fly With Me” DVD\, in which she and Dusty are featured. She will also provide handouts on What Women Couldn’t Do in the 1950s and ’60s and Expectations Imposed on Men in the 1950s and ’60s.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/dusty-roads-meet-the-hidden-figure-who-really-ignited-the-womens-movement/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T200000
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SUMMARY:Sharon Mehdi talks about her new book  "The Messages"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 6th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nWhat if a voice calling herself Our Lady of Chartres told you the world was in trouble? What if she said our only hope is to forgive\, and it is up to you to tell the world? \nWhat if you said you’re a Methodist and Methodists don’t believe in voices? \nSo she gave you a sign. A really BIG one\, What then?
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/sharon-mehdi-talks-about-her-new-book-the-messages/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T040113
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SUMMARY:The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Repopulated with Spunky Heroines\, Wise Women\, Brave Crones and Powerful Prophetesses
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 10th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nJoin us to celebrate a groundbreaking new book! \n In The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Repopulated with Spunky Heroines\, Wise Women\, Brave Crones and Powerful Prophetesses\, women take center stage. \nIn this innovative collection\, we’ve left plots and lessons intact\, while substituting  the leading male characters with females.  Local authors Debra Gordon Zaslow and Deborah Rosenberg will talk about the process\, tell stories\, and sign books.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/the-rooster-princess-and-other-tales-jewish-stories-repopulated-with-spunky-heroines-wise-women-brave-crones-and-powerful-prophetesses/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T040113
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SUMMARY:AshlandTrails.com: The Book: Jackson County Edition with Trail Maniac Jim Falkenstein
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 13th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nJim Falkenstein is a local trail maniac who has scoured Jackson County for every day-hike he can find. From 2 mile interpretive strolls to an 18 mile mountain bike ride around Applegate Lake\, Jim is always looking for variety. Don’t worry\, he is not an ex navy seal training to be a ninja warrior. He is 61 years old dad that could lose 20 lbs. All of these trails are “normal people friendly.” (wife’s note – change ‘All’  to ‘Most’) \nIn his book AshlandTrails.com: The Book: Jackson County Edition there are over 100 local trails from Union Creek to Grants Pass to Applegate and\, of course\, Ashland. In addition to maps and directions and trail descriptions there are QR codes for each trail. These QR codes connect your smart phone to the website www.AshlandTrails.com. \nThat’s right\, a book that connects to a website! And a website that has… Trail Videos. Jim declares that he is the originator of the Trail Video. Every trail in his book and on his website has a Trail Video with the driving\, parking\, and hiking directions. Imagine that if instead of an algorithm\, AllTrails had a soul. \nThis presentation at Bloomsbury Books on November 13th from 7:00pm to 8:00pm covers 18 trails in the Applegate Valley area. From the Sterling Mine trails over to the French Gulch area and the Bigfoot Trap. Then to the Thompson Creek area for Greyback Mountain and up to the Enchanted Forest. There will be slides and maps and stories and… a free raffle! \nMaybe you’ve seen Jim On The Trail on SOPBS or stumbled across his YouTube videos @AshlandJim or his facebook page Ashland Trails. Whether you already know his work or have never heard of him before\, this hour at Bloomsbury Books  will be a fun\, high-energy hour with plenty of very useful trail information specifically for the Applegate Valley and… from a real\, local\, human being. \nLooking forward to meeting you.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/ashlandtrails-com-the-book-jackson-county-edition-with-trail-maniac-jim-falkenstein/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T200000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Greer presents her new mystery - A Twisted Place
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 17th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nJournalist Whit McKenna and M.E. detective Katie Riggs pair up once again when a long forgotten serial killer returns for the hunt. McKenna’s news articles bring the killer too close to home and Riggs finds forensic evidence leads to a dead end. \nOn a snowy Christmas Eve journalist Whit McKenna is called to cover a murder. Friend Katie Riggs\, medical examiner detective\, is already at the scene of an apparent vigilante killing. Next to the body is an old tree house with a haunting history that leads Whit down a long-forgotten trail to a newly awakened serial killer. Katie is following the recent murder of a teenage girl that inexplicably ties to the vigilante’s victim\, but nothing is as it seems. Now another teen has been murdered\, and the forensic clues lead to a dead man. \nJennifer Greer has a degree in English literature and journalism and worked as a crime reporter for the Fresno Bee. She lived in London studying art and literature\, then traveled into the war regions of Croatia and wrote an award-winning article on the women and children refugees. \nHer debut novel\, A Desperate Place\, sold over 10\,000 copies the first year and received top reviews from Publishers Weekly\, Mystery Scene Magazine\, Seattle Book Review\, Red Carpet Crash\, Jeffery Deaver –bestselling author of the Bone Collector\, Southern Oregon Magazine\, 21st Century Reviews and more.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/jennifer-greer-presents-her-new-mystery-a-twisted-place/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251124T200000
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SUMMARY:John Michael Keating will be talking about and signing copies of his book\, Double Vision\, Waking Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 24th 7:00 to 8:00 pm\n\nCalifornia artist and writer John Michael Keating will be talking about and signing copies of his book\, Double Vision\, Waking Dreams\, on Monday\, 24 November at Bloomsbury.\n\n\nThis beautiful book of watercolors and oils is about visions and stories about them. There are landscapes\, cityscapes\, and dreams from Reykjavik to Barcelona to San Francisco and beyond. And stories about the images\, with references to William Blake and Rilke\, Virgil\, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.\n\nJoin us for an hour of sights and insights into the world of an unusual artist.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/john-michael-keating-will-be-talking-about-and-signing-copies-of-his-book-double-vision-waking-dreams/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251201T200000
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SUMMARY:Pamela Dehnke will be speaking about the latest book in her Court Reporter Mystery Series\, Merry Mayhem
DESCRIPTION:Monday December 1st  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nPamela Dehnke will be speaking about the latest book in her Court Reporter Mystery Series\, Merry Mayhem. It’s Christmas time in Santa Monica\, California\, and Addie Henkey\, Court Reporter\, has found herself in yet another hair-raising adventure as she reports the depositions in a 24-year-old cold case: the murder of Irv Castle\, Attorney at Law. Vietnam vet Francis LeTour testifies that Castle was suicidal\, and Castle’s family suspects that LeTour agreed to help him end his life. Was it LeTour who fired the fatal bullet? Castle’s wife was having an affair and was pregnant at the time of the murder. Could she have killed Castle in order to take control of the law firm and the money? Adding to the mayhem\, Addie’s scheming sister\, Missy\, has been kidnapped. Did Missy fake her own kidnapping to extort money from her father\, or is she being used as a pawn in a much larger scheme?  \nPamela Dehnke grew up in Santa Monica\, California\, which is the setting for her Court Reporter Mystery series. She enjoyed a career as a court reporter in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas. Upon retiring in 2014\, she purchased Nightingale’s Bed and Breakfast here in Ashland—a town she already knew and loved from many childhood visits—and began her new career as a novelist. She is the author of The Court Reporter Mysteries\, including the prequel\, Wrong Place\, Wrong Time; Book 1 in the series\, The Court Reporter Always Gets the Last Word; and Book 2\, Upon Further Examination; as well as Cabin 12\, a Sorority Sisters Mystery; and The Diary of An Extraordinarily Ordinary Woman. She is also the author of the popular blog Women of a Certain Age. Visit Pam at pamdehnke.com.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/pamela-dehnke-will-be-speaking-about-the-latest-book-in-her-court-reporter-mystery-series-merry-mayhem/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251204T200000
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Carlson Aesara will discuss her new novel Unwrapping Christmas
DESCRIPTION:Thursday December 4th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nKimberly Carlson Aesara will discuss how Christmastime led her to write a book with several characters seeking much of the same things: community\, hope\, and love. \nUnwrapping Christmas begins with a bold retelling of the original Christmas story. Then it tells the contemporary story of several individuals and families as they struggle to find meaning and community and love during the Christmas season. While it is a story told from several points of view\, each character is led to helping or knowing Josiah\, a twelve-year-old boy who gets lost in the mountains near Leavenworth\, Washington\, while watching his neighbor Gabriel’s dogs\, Blitzen and Vixen. As Josiah is forced to survive in subfreezing temperatures\, his father questions himself. Does he have the wherewithal to save his son when he wasn’t able to save his beloved wife from cancer? Finally\, it is Gabriel\, a famous classical guitar player\, who weaves all the stories together. Music\, like love\, touches all\, even the reader. Unwrapping Christmas is a story that holds hope as people reach for community and love during the Christmas season.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/kimberly-carlson-aesara-will-discuss-her-new-novel-unwrapping-christmas/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T200000
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SUMMARY:Paul Bannick presents his new book - Woodpecker: A Year in the Life of North American Woodpeckers
DESCRIPTION:Saturday December 13th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nWoodpeckers are the heart of North American forests in many ways. Their distinctive drumming sounds out a familiar rhythm\, while their presence supports owls and a myriad other creatures. They have evolved in ways that make them ecologically critical to forest health\, serving as keystone species in a variety of wooded habitats across the continent. \nIn this new presentation\, Paul explores  the often secret lives of woodpeckers from Alaska’s boreal forests to the oak woodlands of the West and Midwest and from the ribbon of Ponderosa Pine habitats that stretches from British Columbia through much of the Western states until they transition in southern Arizona to the Sierra Madre pine-oak that forms the spine of Mexico. Paul also explores the diversity in arid ecosystems straddling the US-Mexico border and the wet tropical habitats from Florida through the Caribbean Islands and southeastern Mexico. \nThrough first-hand experiences\, more than 200 never-before published photographs and the latest science\, Paul examines woodpeckers in every season: their courtship and nest selection in spring; life in the nest during summer; fledging and gaining independence in autumn; and the challenges of surviving the winter. \nPaul also takes a closer look at the most important woodpecker habitats in North America and what we can do to protect them. \nPaul is both the author and photographer of five books  including two best-selling bird books\, Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls and The Owl and The Woodpecker\, Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds as well as “Snowy Owl: A Visual Natural History” and “Great Gray Owl: A Visual Natural History” \nPaul’s photography won awards from several prestigious contests\, including those hosted by Audubon Magazine and the International Conservation Photography Awards.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/paul-bannick-presents-his-new-book-woodpecker-a-year-in-the-life-of-north-american-woodpeckers/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260108T200000
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SUMMARY:Rhiannon Theurer Talks about her book "The Neurodivergence Skills Workbook for Teens"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 8th   7:00 to 8:00 pm\n\n\n      Join Rhiannon Theurer\, local psychotherapist and author of The Neurodivergence Workbook for Teens\, for a discussion on neurodivergence. More and more people are exploring this empowering framework to better understand how their brains and bodies work. But understanding that you are neurodivergent is only the first step. How do you cope in a world that can be both too much and too little for your senses and emotions? How do you affirm yourself in a world that is often not supportive? Rhiannon’s new workbook draws upon Dialectical Behavior Therapy to offer concrete tools to help teens embrace their neurodivergence\, handle difficult emotions\, and improve relationships with others — while creating a life that is meaningful for you\, on your own terms. The workbook is also useful for parents\, teachers\, and clinicians who want to better understand neurodivergence.\n\n\n     Rhiannon is a neurodivergent licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked with teens and adults in a variety of settings\, from crisis work to schools. She runs a private therapy practice in Ashland.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/rhiannon-theurer-talks-about-her-book-the-neurodivergence-skills-workbook-for-teens/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260110T170000
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SUMMARY:At The Ashland Library - The Water Remembers - with author  Amy Bowers Cordalis
DESCRIPTION:Saturday January 10th  3:30 to 5:00 pm in the Gresham Room at the Ashland Library\n\nJoin Amy Bowers Cordalis to learn about her new book\, The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event\, courtesy of Bloomsbury Books. \nThe mighty Klamath River and its salmon are the lifeblood of the Yurok Nation in Northern California\, who have called the Klamath Basin home for millennia and have lived just as long in harmony with their environment. The health of the Klamath River and the people who have always lived there was severely impacted in the 20th Century by the construction of four dams along the Klamath\, denying fish access to hundreds of miles of historical habitat and resulting in increased water temperatures and toxic algae pollution\, which killed hundreds of thousands of salmon. For generations\, Amy Bowers Cordalis’ family has been at the forefront of the fight to remove the dams and restore the Yurok Nation’s rights to the River\, with her work as General Counsel for the Yurok Tribe directly resulting in the removal of all four dams in 2024 – the largest dam removal project in world history. \nA stunning blend of memoir\, activism\, indigenous history\, and family tradition\, The Water Remembers speaks passionately to environmental justice and conservation\, as well as responsible stewardship. Cordalis propels readers through generations of her family’s struggle\, where she learns that the fight for a survival is not only about fishing—it’s about protecting a way of life and the right of a species and river to exist. \nAshland resident Amy Bowers Cordalis is a mother\, fisherwoman\, attorney\, and a member and former General Counsel of the Yurok Tribe—the largest tribe in California.  Formerly a staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund\, she is the currently the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Ridges to Riffles Conservation Indigenous Group\, a nonprofit representing Native American tribes in natural and cultural resource matters where she works on advancing tribal sovereignty\, water rights\, fisheries\, and the undamming of the Klamath River. She is also the recipient of the UN’s highest environmental honor\, Champion of the World Laureate\, and has been named to the second annual TIME100 Climate list (2024)\, featuring the 100 most influential leaders driving business to real climate action. Cordalis has received awards for her work from The Equator Prize\, Conscious Media\, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development\, and Rachel’s Network. She’s a popular speaker at Stanford\, University of Oregon\, and University of Montana \nThis event is free to attend\, and we anticipate a full house so plan to arrive early to claim your seat.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/at-the-ashland-library-the-water-remembers-with-author-amy-bowers-cordalis/
LOCATION:Ashland Library\, 410 Siskiyou Blvd\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T040113
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SUMMARY:Local Author Robin Ann Martin talks about her new novel The Lake Story
DESCRIPTION:Monday  January 12th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nJoin author Robin Ann Martin to learn about how writing a book can become a journey of transformation and relationship building. She will share her own story about magical twists in the writing process. With the creation of this novel\, she transmuted a childhood trauma of sexual molestation into a fictional story designed to help others to recognize the healing power of story when told to a listener with real empathy.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/local-author-robin-ann-martin-talks-about-her-new-novel-the-lake-story/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T040113
CREATED:20251205T005929Z
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SUMMARY:UNFINISHED:  The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Emmy-award winning composer Lucas Cantor Santiago
DESCRIPTION:Monday  January 19th 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nFor most of his career\, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology\, he felt\, was moving too fast\, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition\, hard-won human wisdom\, and tried-and-true methods of mastery. \nThat changed\, however\, when Cantor Santiago was commissioned by Huawei\, one of the largest technology companies in the world\, to collaborate with artificial intelligence and finish Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony—a successful experiment that attracted international attention. Creating music in collaboration with a machine led him to question his long-standing assumptions about what music is\, what technology does\, and how the two have evolved together over the course of human history\, from the first bone flute to today’s landscape of constant innovation and change. \nDrawing on Cantor Santiago’s extensive experience in the arts and tech worlds and his ongoing experiments with AI-powered music-making\, Unfinished is an engaging and refreshingly optimistic meditation on the role of technology in music and the arts. What is the current state of the art? How did we get here? Where do we go now? This book provides an informed perspective on what is lost but what we also gain when we bring our machines ever further into the creation of art in its many different forms. \nLucas Cantor Santiago is a composer\, producer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and Emmy Award winner. He has collaborated on projects with Lorde\, The Wu-Tang Clan\, Spike Jonze\, Michel Gondry\, Warner Music\, DreamWorks\, Disney\, NBCUniversal\, Fox\, Netflix and many others. His music can be heard on the radio\, on television\, and in major feature films. \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/unfinished-the-role-of-the-artist-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-by-emmy-award-winning-composer-lucas-cantor-santiago/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T040113
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with authors Mark Novak and Barry Vitcov
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 22nd  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nMark Novak is a writer who works primarily from the San Francisco/Bay Area. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and Poetry from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in the “Monterey Poetry Review\,” “Miserere Review\,” “Lothlorien Journal of Poetry\,” and “Bards West\,“ His work\, ‘The Vagabond Quothe Shakespeare’ was the 6th place finalist in the Writer’s Digest National Poetry Awards (2017). He is both a voice talent for readings and a contributing writer for the poetry database\, Voetica.com. His chapbook\, ‘Sonnets For Agnodice’ was recently picked up by Finishing Line Press in their annual 2025 Open Chapbook Contest\, and is due to be published by their publishing house in May of 2026. \nBarry Vitcov lives in Ashland\, Oregon with his wife and exceptionally brilliant standard poodle. His poetry and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications\, including: “EAP: The Magazine\,” “Literary Yard\,” “The Scarlet Review\,” “Fiction on the Web\,” “Labyrinth\,” “Mobius Blvd.\,” “Black Sheep\,” “Dark Horses\,” “Jefferson Review\,” and “The Rapids: An Art & Literature Journal of Southern Oregon.” He has had four books published by Finishing Line Press\, a collection of poetry\, “Where I Live Some of the Time” (2021); a collection of short stories\, “The Wilbur Stories & More” (2022); a chapbook collection of poems “Structures” (2024); and a novella “The Boy with Six Fingers” (2025). In addition to his chapbook “Boychik Poems\,” FLP will be publishing a collection of short stories “Unknown & Other Stories” in early 2026.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/poetry-reading-with-authors-mark-novak-and-barry-vitcov/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T040113
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SUMMARY:Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg
DESCRIPTION:Friday January 23rd  6:30 to 8:00 pm \nRick Fröberg was an accomplished artist and musician born in Southern California who spent most of his early creative years in San Diego before moving to New York\, and then back to San Diego toward the end of his life. While juggling both of his creative outlets\, he established a meaningful\, urgent\, vital\, and powerful platform. Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg represents the many chapters and layers of his visual art practice. All of the different bodies of work he made are examined in detail–presenting the viewer with a well-rounded survey of his life’s work\, mostly in chronological order. \nOne of the most compelling and fascinating aspects of this volume is the physical progression of Fröberg’s line work and brushstroke\, and his eventual adaptation to digital means. His artwork was often featured on the record covers of his own bands\, as well as other groups he met on the road\, and much of his early work also appeared on posters\, flyers\, ads\, skateboard graphics\, logos\, and T-shirt designs\, before eventually progressing to illustrations in magazines\, books\, and newspapers. Fröberg’s paintings\, drawings\, etchings\, and prints were also shown at art exhibitions throughout his career. \nPlenty for All is the first look at his visual artwork in book form. It will be of great interest across the globe to his many fans (he played in a range of popular bands\, including Pitchfork\, Drive like Jehu\, Hot Snakes\, and Obits). Fröberg’s work has become very influential\, and an inspiration to quite a large group of people in both the art and music worlds. He is sadly missed and mourned\, but this volume will no doubt further his creative legacy. It includes short essays by curator Rich Jacobs and musician/artist Sohrab Habibion. \n  At this event there will be a panel discussion followed by a short musical set. Featuring:\n\n\nSohrab Habibion (Obits\, Savak)\nJohnny Temple (Girls Against Boys)\nAlexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys)\nBobby Arellano (Bonnie Prince Billy)\nJodie Jean Marston\nCraig Wright
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/plenty-for-all-the-art-of-rick-froberg/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:MaryAnn Shank discusses her book "Sor Juana\, My Beloved"
DESCRIPTION:Monday January 26th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nSor Juana\, My Beloved won the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book of the Year\, 2025 Finalist\, awarded by the International Latino Book Association. \nSor Juana Ines de la Cruz\, the brilliant 17th century Mexican nun\, the poet\, the philosopher\, the dramatist\, fell passionately in love with the Viceroy’s wife. Yet\, when she dared to challenge the Archbishop of Mexico\, he threw her before the Inquisition\, where she stood\, alone. \nSor Juana was both mystical and profoundly human. Her poetry\, her passion for Maria Luisa\, and her fearless defiance of ecclesiastical authority make her more than just a historical figure; they make her a timeless icon of courage\, artistry\, and love. Sor Juana’s poetry and dramas are still studied today\, 400 years later\, especially her mystical poem “First Dream.” \nChallenging the lies that build up around an icon like Sor Juana is no small undertaking. Tonight we discover the Why and Wherefor\, and delve into the love that commanded Sor Juana’s imagination for decades. \nMaryAnn was pleased to discover that Sor Juana had been raised near Guanajuato\, Mexico\, Ashland’s sister city\, making Sor Juana’s writings even more personal. \nMaryAnn Shank\, a 15-year resident of Ashland\, regrets only that she didn’t come to Ashland sooner. This vibrant environment has inspired her writings in poetry and novels\, where she has won awards and accolades in both disciplines.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/maryann-shank-discusses-her-book-sor-juana-my-beloved/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sweet Revenge (Ghostly Ashland Shakespeare Mystery series) with Author Glenn Hill
DESCRIPTION:Monday February 9th\, 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nWhen chocolate turns lethal\, ghosts—and secrets—refuse to stay buried.\nA week of chocolate tastings. A charming Oregon town. And absolutely no plans to solve another murder. William Mills and real estate dynamo Carol Lindsey arrive at the Ashland Chocolate Festival hoping for indulgence\, relaxation\, and perhaps a little romance. \nBetween wine pairings\, theatrical events\, and far too much chocolate\, this is supposed to be a peaceful getaway. But when a famously competitive chocolatier falls ill—and is later found dead in a most unfortunate chocolate-related accident—the festival takes a troubling turn.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/sweet-revenge-ghostly-ashland-shakespeare-mystery-series-with-author-glenn-hill/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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