Harry W Schwartz Bookshops (events)

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Rachel Buff with Christine Neumann-Ortiz

Monday, November 17, 2008

7pm talk

Contributors to Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. Editor Rachel Buff and author Christine Neumann-Ortiz discuss the subject

Their new book brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement

The collection's contributors look at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements in various communities throughout the United States

Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee

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Paul Salsini ~ Author of Sparrow's Revenge

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

7pm reading

Milwaukee's Paul Salsini follows up his novel, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany, with its sequel, Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany

A Resistance fighter whose code name was Sparrow relentlessly pursues the collaborator of one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy during World War II

But in the treacherous and mysterious land of the Garfagnana, he discovers something he has long hidden within himself

Sparrow's Revenge is a tale of retribution, guilt and, finally, forgiveness

Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee

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Joshua Jay ~ Author of Magic

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

7pm program

Lots of kids want to learn how to perform magic tricks, but learning how isn't always easy

Joshua Jay, who was crowned champion at the World Magic Seminar when he was 16, has written a book that combines expertise, photographs, step-by-step directions, and a DVD that demonstrates 75 tricks

Jay breaks down each trick into Effect, the Secret, the Set-up, and the Performance

He teaches aspiring magicians what to say, how to direct the audience's attention, where to keep your hands, and more

Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 17145 W Bluemound Rd, Brookfield

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Adam Shepard ~ Author of Scratch Beginnings

Thursday, November 20, 2008

7pm talk

Shepard graduated from college in 2006 feeling disillusioned by the apathy he saw around him

He was incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, which gave him a feeling of hopelessness over the state of the working class in America

He set out to see if he could make something out of nothing and prove her wrong

He started with $25 and the clothes on his back in a city he chose out of a hat.

But from the start things didn't go as he had planned.

Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee

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The Journey of the Italians in America

Sunday, November 23, 2008

2pm talk

Vincenza Scarpaci, author, takes you on a photographic tour of Italians in America, from the immigrant of the 1880s to today's statesman, movie star, Supreme Court justice, or businessperson

Through hundreds of photos, she celebrates the contributions Italians have made in the areas of cuisine, the arts, agriculture, industry, religion, sports and politics

Beginning in the late 1870s, this work examines Italian-American hardships and successes through the present day

Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwa

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The All-American Sport of Bi-Partisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings from a Ragi

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

7pm talk

Will Durst, author

With the sacred cows of American politics practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, Durst hits them where it counts

This equal opportunity offender swats political piñatas from both sides of the spectrum upside their heads

From the utter incompetence of the Bushies and Dick Cheney's destruction of the Constitution to the spineless antiwar posturing of the Congress and Hilary Clinton's ability to play with the truth, everyone takes their licks

Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee