Book Club Meeting

Second Tuesday of Every Month: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon

Everyone discusses a favorite author/book or recent read;
meets people with similar and different interests in books;
and makes plans to fine-tune the club to meet their needs!

Conversational Spanish

Every Wednesday : 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Informal chat session using various books, flash cards, etc.

No instructor.

Contact Barbara Koca: 480-488-5332.

AUTHOR'S PODIUM

Meet Your Favorite Authors!

Whether it’s mystery or history, fiction or reality... you’re in for a treat.

Our guest speakers are experts in their genre. They’re entertaining,
thought-provoking... always interesting and sometimes controversial.

There is no fee to attend and everyone is welcome.

for the series 2009 please click here

LITERARY SALON

Join us for coffee and conversation at the Literary Salon
hosted by Louis Michalski and Melanie Lee and sponsored by the Arizona
Authors' Association. Topic for discussion is "Food in Literature".

An As summer beckons, our thoughts turn to this month's Salon topic: Travel.
Most have growing-up memories, fond and maybe otherwise, of summers
spent either traveling, attending camp, hanging out at the pool or best
of all we think, long stretches of uninterrupted time to pursue reading
and the books we love.

There are many avenues of approach to the subject of "Travel in
Literature", from classics like Homer's "Odyssey and Marco Polo's
entertaining and amazing accounts of strange lands in strange times.
There are also fictional and non-fiction travelogues such as Jules
Verne's fantastical "Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea" , Jonathan
Swift's classic satire "Gullivers' Travels", the whimsical Pulitzer
Prize finalist offering by Anne Tyler "The Accidental Tourist" and on to
Pico Iyer's provocative essays on the art and spirit of the postmodern
experience of travel in "Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shoppng Malls and the
Search for Home." And it wouldn't do at all to forget to mention the
special category of explorations of America  penned by the likes of
Steinbeck ("Travels with Charley: In Search of America"), Kerouac ("On
the Road"), Least Heat Moon ("Blue Highways : A Journey Into
America")and....well, surely you know others you'd like to celebrate!?

Please do join us for the May 13, 2009 Literary Salon, sponsored by the
Arizona Authors' Association and hosted by Louis Michalski and Melanie
Lee. We meet at the Desert Foothills Library in Cave Creek, AZ on the
second Wednesday or each month, October-May from 10:30 a.m. to Noon. For
more information contact us at izzybeam@earthlink.net or 480/991-1510.