(and there are a lot this week!)

The Best of All Seasons
By Dan Aadland
Saturday, July 14, 2007 — 2:00 PM
Barnes and Noble
530 S 24th Street West
Billings, MT 59102
406.655.9500
Author appearance, reading and book signing.

Branch Rickey
By Lee Lowenfish
Thursday, July 19, 2007 — 7:05PM
Lee Lowenfish is throwing out the first ball at a New York Penn League game: Hudson Valley Renegades home game (at Dutchess Stadium, about 80 miles from NYC) versus State College Spikes! The game will take place near Newburgh, NY. Check back at this blog for updates after the game, including photos of Lee pitching that first ball. Good luck, Lee!
Forever Fat
By Lee Gutkind
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Gist Reading Series 7th Annual Cookout Extravaganza
Simons Sculpture Studio
305 Gist Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Author appearance and reading.

In the Shadow of Memory
By Floyd Skloot
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Gist Reading Series 7th Annual Cookout Extravaganza
Simons Sculpture Studio
305 Gist Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Author appearance and reading.

Just Breathe Normally
By Peggy Shumaker
Friday-Saturday, July 13-14, 2007
Alaska Book Festival
University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
Fairbanks, AK
Author appearance.
Sunday-Tuesday, July 15-31, 2007
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Author appearance and Peggy Shumaker will be teaching along with Marvin Bell, Scott Olsen, and Ann Pancake.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 — 5:30 PM
University of Alaska Museum of the North
907 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775
907.474.7505
Author appearance, reading and book signing. Special guest writers Jennifer Brice, Derick Burleson, Marjorie Cole, Amber Flora Thomas. No admission charge.

The Last Street Before Cleveland
By Joe Mackall
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Gist Reading Series 7th Annual Cookout Extravaganza
Simons Sculpture Studio
305 Gist Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Author appearance and reading.

The Middle of Everything
By Michelle Herman
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Gist Reading Series 7th Annual Cookout Extravaganza
Simons Sculpture Studio
305 Gist Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Author appearance and reading.
By Doug Feldmann
Foreword by Don Kessinger
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 — 7:30 PM
Borders Books
2221 Richmond Road, Route 31
McHenry, IL 60050
815.578.9330
Author appearance and book signing.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 — 7:30 PM
Borders Books
2520 Sycamore Rd
DeKalb, IL
815.758.8771
Author appearance and book signing.

Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Monday, July 9-31, 2007
ArtsCorr
3200 East Highway 34
Pierre, SD 57501
Author workshops and reading.
By Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown
Foreword by Ferguson Jenkins
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 — 7:00 PM
Borders
6670 Sawmill Road
Columbus, OH 43235
Ferguson Jenkins, Hall of Fame pitcher, together with authors Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown, will be autographing copies of Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story. Borders will be donating a portion of the profits of book sales to the Fergie Jenkins Foundation and the Mordecai Brown Legacy Foundation.

Tin God
By Terese Svoboda
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Gist Reading Series 7th Annual Cookout Extravaganza
Simons Sculpture Studio
305 Gist Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Author appearance and reading.

What Becomes You
By Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 — 7:00 PM
A Different Light
489 Castro St
San Francisco, CA 94114
415.431.0891
Where the Trail Grows Faint
By Lynne Hugo
Saturday-Saturday, July 7-14, 2007
Antioch Writers’ Workshop
405 Corry Street
(Glen Helen Building)
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Author appearance, reading and booksigning. The author will also be teaching a memoir writing course.



