Just Books
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Book Signing

Kerie Boshka – “If God Cares So Much Why Do I Still Hurt?”

 Greenwich Arts Council and
Alliance Francaise of Greenwich
Just Books and Greenwich Library
at Greenwich Library
101 W Putnam Ave
Greenwich, Connecticut

203-629-1340
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
at 5:00 pm 

DISCUSSION GROUP

 MARCEL PROUST’S

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: VOLUME 1, SWANN’S WAY 

 Open to all Proust Lovers!  In this book discussion group, you don’t choose the book, the book chooses you! Discussions are in English. Second Tuesday of each month at Greenwich Library, 2nd floor

 If you are a Proustian or like to be one, join the club for a discussion of the famed Marcel Proust books, In Search of Lost Time (Penguin Classics; $16), starting with the first book, Swann’s Way.  Call the library: 203-629-1340 or contact Fereshteh Priou: 203-918-1238.

 You may join the discussion group at any time and participation is open to all.  Books on sale at Just Books.  Fees are $50 per semester; $40 for GAC members.  Upcoming discussion group dates are: 2nd Tuesday of each month at Greenwich Library, 2nd Floor.

The French In English Book Club of The Alliance Francaise & Just Books will be featuring the new translation of Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”

French in English Book Club, Thursday, January 13th at 7PM

Highly regarded translator Lydia Davis, well known for her brilliant translation of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” has just published the new translation of Madame Bovary.

Discussion with wine and cheese at a private home

Free to AFG members, $10 to non-members.

Conversation facilitated by Susie Carter of Just Books.

For more information, call Renee Ketcham, 203-531-9101 or e-mail: amory777@aol.com

“Madame Bovary” in English is available for purchase at Just Books, Old Greenwich, 203-637-0707

A Greenwich Library & Just Books Event
Greenwich Library
Cole Auditorium
101 W. Putnam Avenue
Thursday, October 28, 2010
7:00pm

Author Talk & Book Signing;  Free and Open to the Public

Mona Simpson’s My Hollywood

The Greenwich Library and Just Books welcome award-winning author Mona Simpson as she reveals the secrets behind her most cherished work when she discusses My Hollywood, as part of the AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary.

Tuesday, November 2, 7:00 PM

The Greenwich Library and Just Books welcome Colman Andrews, a Greenwich resident and acclaimed cookbook author and co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Saveur, as he discusses and signs copies of his latest novel, Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food.  No other chef in history has been interviewed, written about, and parsed more than Ferran Adrià. And perhaps no other chef has given of his philosophy, recipes and revolutionary techniques as freely.

Award-winning food writer Coleman Andrews was given two years of unrestricted access to Adrià’s El Bulli kitchen, dining room, Barcelona workshop, family friends and associates. The result is a defining and revealing portrait of the chef in a historical and culinary context that addresses both his genius and the salient criticisms leveled against him. FERRAN demystifies, exalts, and thoroughly examines the man known as “the greatest chef in the world.”  The El Bulli restaurant is located in the Catalan coastal hamlet of Cala Montjoi, near Spain’s boarder with France.  Each year, 8,000 lucky dinners from around the world are able to eat at the restaurant – another 1 million are turned away from the 30-course revolutionary experience.  Dinner at the restaurant, with its year-plus wait list, is arguably the toughest reservation in the world to score. Coleman Andrews was the cofounder and a former editor in chief of Saveur, and is the author of four acclaimed cookbooks, including Catalan Cuisine, which introduced the now-trendy cooking of Catalonia, Ferran Adrià’s home region, to American food-lovers. The recipient of numerous honors (including six James Beard Foundation awards), he was most recently the restaurant columnist for Gourmet. He divides his time between New York City and Connecticut.

Just Books
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Saturday, September 18, 2010
11:00am

GALE STEVES
RIGHT SIZING YOUR HOME: HOW TO MAKE YOUR HOUSE FIT YOUR LIFESTYLE

Book Signing; Free and Open to the Public

Just Books welcomes Gale Steves, former editor of Home magazine, and an established authority on everything to do with the home, as she introduces her newest book, Right-Sizing Your Home: How to Make Your House Fit Your Lifestyle.

Gale Steves shows how to make sense of those spaces rarely used and no longer suited to the way we live today. Unlike most home design books, each chapter in this beautifully illustrated book centers on a function in the home–such as bathing, relaxing, or eating–and helps readers assess their individual style and approach to each. Steves takes them through the entire process of Right-Sizing: providing worksheets to examine the uses and requirements of space, dimension guides to illustrate different spatial arrangements within rooms, the right way to measure, how to create a floor plan, and even a clever use for old grocery bags. Additionally, there are tons of inspiring ideas, hundreds of products that can help readers Right-Size on any budget, and a comprehensive list of resources making it easy to find everything featured in the book–everything needed “to make your house fit your lifestyle.”

The National Association of Home Builders has recognized Steves’ outstanding contribution to the building and remodeling field with a Certificate of Merit. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women and was most recently inducted into the YWCA’s Academy of Women Achievers. Steves’ consumer magazine experience includes key editorial positions at Ladies Home Journal, American Home, and Woman’s Day, among others. She is also the author of several books, including Weekend Cooking and Home Magazine’s Best Little Houses.

Just Books
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Sat, June 19, 2010
10am

THE RAGE OF ACHILLES
Terence Hawkins “THE RAGE OF ACHILLES”

Book Signing – Open to the public

Blood. Guts. Pride. Wrath.
The ancient clash of armies outside the walls of Troy is a cornerstone of Western literature. In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins brilliantly reimagines that titanic encounter. His stunningly original telling captures the brutality of the battlefield, the glory and the gore, in language that never relents. Raw and compelling, The Rage of Achilles tells the story of Achilles, a monstrous hero, by turns vain and selfish, cruel and noble; of Paris, weak and consumed by lust for his stolen bride; of Agamemnon, driven nearly to insanity by the voices of the gods; and of Trojans and Achaeans, warriors and peasants, caught up in the conflict, their families torn apart by a decade-long war. The Rage of Achilles is an exhilarating story that has captured the imaginations of readers for thousands of years restored to immediacy.

About the Author:

Terence Hawkins was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, into a family of coal miners. He graduated from Yale, where he was publisher of the Yale Daily News. After a year as a VISTA volunteer, he attended law school at the University of Wisconsin, and now works as a trial lawyer in Connecticut. Since 1995, his work has appeared in
Keyhole, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), Pindeldyboz, Eclectica, Megaera, and Ape Culture. He is a frequent contributor to the New Haven Register, and his work has appeared on Connecticut Public Radio. The Rage of Achilles is his first novel.

Just Books
at Arcadia Cafe
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Ken McAdams “Bon Courage”

Rediscovering the Art of Living in the Heart of France
Ken McAdams

Two years and one home-renovation from hell into their marriage, Ken McAdams and Marian ‘Bing’ Bingham, head to the French countryside in an effort to renew their sanity and to celebrate their long-delayed honeymoon. Their destination: an off-season two-month rental tucked in the small village of La Montagne Noire (the Black Mountain) not far from Toulouse.

BON COURAGE is the story of that trip – one that extended way beyond two months and would change their lives in a way that two people already a ways down the road of life could not possibly have imagined.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ken McAdams is a graduate of Yale and a former Marine Corps Naval Aviator who broke four world records and received decoration as the first civilian volunteer to fly Marines into Iraq. Pan Am’s youngest Divisional Chief Pilot, he was later appointed national Transportation Safety Board investigator and became Chief Operating Officer KIWI International Airlines before retiring to write full time. He lives in Greenwich, CT and France.

Just Books
at Arcadia Cafe
28 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Monday, May 24, 2010
7:00pm

Dennis Vaughn “The Price of Revenge”

David Fox has a life anyone would envy-a flourishing career as a lawyer, a condo in Denver, and a beautiful girlfriend, Ellen-until he begins investigating a lawsuit against the Denver City Ballet. It seems like a commonplace allegation of misspent funds at first, but soon David finds himself caught in a web of blackmail, betrayal, and dark secrets. To escape, he’ll have to answer some uncomfortable questions: Who was responsible for the embezzlement, and how far will they go to cover it up? What precisely is Ellen discussing in those sessions with her psychiatrist? And is telling the truth worth losing everything? The Price of Revenge follows David across boundaries both professional and personal as he tries to find his way out of the maze of intrigue into which he has stumbled.

Just Books
at Arcadia Cafe
20 Arcadia Road
Old Greenwich
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
7:00pm

Free and open to the public

MIMI DOE & DR. MICHELE HERNANDEZ
DON’T WORRY YOU’LL GET IN: 100 WINNING TIPS FOR STRESS-FREE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS

Just Books welcomes Mimi Doe and Dr. Michele Herandez, who together have more than 10 books published.  Dr. Michele Hernandez and Mimi Doe co-founded Application Boot Camp® LLC after publishing their best-selling book, Don’t Worry: You’ll Get In in 2005. Application Boot Camp is a company devoted to empowering high school students from around the world in the college admissions process.

Mimi Doe is a nationally recognized parenting expert and author of several books, including the award-winning 10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting and Busy but Balanced. Doe is featured weekly on The Hallmark Channel’s New Morning TV and writes an online newsletter with over 40,000 subscribers. She lives with her family in Concord, Massachusetts.

Dr. Michele Hernandez is known as America’s premier college consultant through her work with high school students and her best selling books: A is for Admission, The Middle School Yearsand Acing the College Application. Hernandez has been featured in hundreds of newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs including Newsweek, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Atlantic Monthly, The Today Show, CNN, and MSNBC. As an assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College for four years and the academic dean of a private high school in South Florida, Hernandez has crafted a unique angle for assisting students gain admission to the most selective colleges, incorporating her “inside perspective” on the admissions adventure.

Don’t Worry, You’ll Get In: 100 Winning Tips for Stress-Free College Admissions, combines parenting advice with top college admissions advice, and breaks down the complicated admissions process into 100 simple yet effective tips that show you exactly what you need to do to get into the school of your choice and how to tackle each step with confidence and less stress. Doe and Hernandez cover every aspect of the admissions process.