WHEN: Sunday, January 23, 2:00-5:00 pm

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: ANDRE DUBUS III. Read about this well-known and accomplished author at his Web site.

OUR OWN SPECIAL SPEAKERS: Mid-party, we'll have a reading at which six of the 2010 authors will each give us a 5-minute tease of the flavor of their books.

1. Leslie Brunetta, co-author of Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating (Yale University Press). Perfect for gardeners, science fans, and lovers of Charlotte's Web.
   
   
2. Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (University of North Carolina/Lookout Books). The thirteen stories are on the themes of young love, old love, thwarted love, and love denied; of Jews and their dilemmas, of marriage, family, death and betrayal. The settings are Maine, Central America, Hungary, Tsarist Russia, and a Boston suburb.
   
   
3. Kitty Beer, Human Scale (Plain View Press). Beer's second eco-thriller takes place in 2062, when Boston is mostly under water. In response to climate change chaos, an authoritarian theocracy is tearing families apart and demolishing human rights. How will love survive?
   
   
4. Leslie Wheeler, Murder at Spouters Point (Five Star Publishing). The grisly murder of a visiting yachtsman to a seacoast town tests the loyalties of a white woman and her Native lover. Features Miranda Lewis, a workaholic writer of books about American history, and her boyfriend, a hot-tempered former American Indian Movement activist.
   
   
5. Maria Termini, The Artist and the Spy (Winter Garden). Memoir of an art student's unsettling six-year relationship with a mysterious military officer who tried to leave the world of combat spying to seek a peaceful civilian life but was pressured to return to covert operations, which swept him into a spiral of depression paranoia and poverty. The author struggled to survive as the mother of twins and as to fulfill her calling to be an artist, clinging to hope for a better future, which came at a high cost.
   
   
6. Mark Schafer, translator, Belen Gopegui's The Scale of Maps (City Lights Books). Sergio Prim is a geographer who is thrown into a psychological crisis by the romantic advances of Brezo Varela. He seeks refuge from his fears in an obsessive metaphysical quest: mapping the route to a place where love never results in disillusionment. The novel is a mercilessly revealing examination of a meager and fearful life challenged by desire.
   

Please bring some party food, since refreshments are potluck. We'll bring juice and soda to go with the food. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE NOT ALLOWED UNDER THE TERMS OF OUR RENTAL CONTRACT. Bring your writer friends, as well.

Authors will be selling their books so bring cash or checks − or, if you're an author, some books. (Some authors may be able to take credit cards.)

In fact, everyone is welcome to use our display tables to put out (and potentially sell) your books, articles, copies of poems, brochures, leaflets and business cards.

We'll be needing volunteers to set up and clean up. Contact your Webmaster to volunteer.