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Gina Holsopple & Matt Wood return to the river's end for the holidays!
Acoustic Guitar and Great Vocals
This energetic and dynamite duo are two of our favorite local artists. CDs are available at the river's end.
 Concinnity
Oswego's unique female vocal ensemble
Performing music for the holidays
Enjoy refreshments!
A river's end reading
Featuring local authors and musicians
presenting new and daring work
 Poet Sarah Browning will be the special guest at the next installment of the river’s end reading series, a regular event showcasing some of Oswego’s finest writers and edgiest musicians.
Sarah Browning is the founder of D.C. Poets Against the War and co-editor of the collection of the same name. She is a recipient of the People Before Profits Poetry Prize and has led creative writing workshops for low-income women and youth. She will be reading from her new collection, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden.
Linda Germain, author of A Common View: With Affection, Hope and Humor, Reflections on the Port City of Central New York
Booksigning
Linda will donate a percentage of the book sales to the Oswego Public Library.
 Dr. Harry Nash , author of Brain Views, Essays on the Brain
 Booksigning
A collection of enlightening and informative essays that discuss the everyday events that influence the way the brain functions and address a wide range of topics including anatomy, phobias, humor, addictions, and more. Brain Views is written in a way that will help readers gain a better perspective of their brain and its many functions.
 Booksigning by William Cope Moyers, author of Broken
After the bookstore signing, Mr. Moyers will appear at The American Foundry in Oswego as a special guest for the Farnham Family Services' Second Annual Changing Lives Celebration. For ticket information, call Farnham at 342-4489.
Annual Banned Book Reading
Join the staff and community members as they read excerpts from recently banned or challenged books. Come help us celebrate the freedom to read!
Mara Sapon-Shevin, author of Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms (Beacon)
Booksigning and discussion
Please join author Mara Sapon-Shevin for a discussion on how we can change the way we organize our classrooms, talk about difference, and teach. Mara, a professor of education at Syracuse University, speaks widely on issues of diversity and social justice. She is the author of Because We can Change the World. For more information on the author, visit her web site at www.marasapon-shevin.org
A river's end reading
Featuring local authors and musicians
presenting new and daring work
Nick Mazzeo, Candice Granata, & Victoria Pennington - Poetry
Mark Chwalek & Michael Morrissette - Acoustic guitar composition
John Hamm, Jackie Lalande & Mark Mazzoli - Nonfiction
Nicole Johnson - Paintings
Come hear the freshest voices from your hometown - the best and brightest lights of Thursday night are at the river's end!
The great outdoors takes center stage!
Booksigning and discussion by three Central New York authors
 Susan Peterson Gateley, Passages on Inland Waters, Ariadne's Death and many others
 Joseph Gunther, author and
Sue Sabiston, illustrator of The Bluff
David J. Pitkin, The Highest Mountain: Death and Life in the Adirondacks
 Oswego YMCA presents the 7th Annual Harborfest Kids Fun Run
sponsored by the river's end bookstore
Registration forms available at the bookstore and Oswego YMCA. You must pre-register ($2 fee). The first 100 entrants will receive a T-shirt!
GET FIT AND LITERATE!
a river's end reading
This series was started to give promising up-and-coming writers, musicians, and visual artists a chance to present their creative work to the Oswego community.
Always a great evening!
Romance at the river's end. . .
Four of Central New York's finest romance writers will read from and sign copies of their latest works. Come meet:
Nancy Henderson, author of Ghost of a Chance
Gwyneth Bolton, author of Sweet Sensation and
Divine Destiny
Ellen Hartman, author of Wanted Man
Chris Wenger, author of Not Your Average Cowboy
   
"Inventing Sound" CD Release Party
 Gina Holsopple and Matt Wood introduce the unique musical sounds created by budding musicians at Camp Hollis
 Mary E. Mitchell, author of Starting Out Sideways
(St. Martin's Press)
Reading & booksigning
When Rosie’s incredible husband turns out to be an incredible putz—running off with her best friend Inga—her life goes from Seventh Heaven to Jerry Springer in the blink of an eye and the tip of a wine glass. Alone and deceived, but with her sense of humor still intact, Rosie turns to her wonderfully wacky mother to help her bounce back. Of course, Ma’s recipe for mental recovery leaves much to be desired. And after Rosie discovers a painful family secret, hidden behind years of lies, she must set out to find herself and what really matters in life.
 Lou Sorendo, author of bigbad 119 (Publish America)
Booksigning by local author
A son's struggle told through the voice of his father, bigbad 119 relays the personal account of a family dealing with a sudden disease. Sorendo tells the emotional story of a family drawn into a sudden crisis when one of its members, his son, learns that he needs a heart transplant. Sorendo also talks of the invaluable generosity of the Oswego community during the family's most challenging days.
 Lewis Turco, author of Fearful Pleasures: Complete Poems 1959-2006
Reading, discussion & booksigning
This is the long-awaited collection of Lewis Turco's poems, comprising a dozen books in one. Rhina P. Espaillat, poet, concludes her Foreword to the book with these words: "And how fortunate the reading public is to have this wealth of writing by one of the country's most interesting poets now in one volume, not so much a book as a library of books, composed by the many persons who inhabit this haunted and perceptive poet! It belongs on the bookshelf of every reader willing to risk the joy and anguish of hearing the world, having it speak to him as vividly, ambiguously and honestly as it speaks to Lewis Turco."
a river's end reading
 Featuring Jeffrey Ethan Lee, guest poet from Colorado and author of Identity Papers
The river’s end reading series was started to give promising up-and-coming writers, musicians, and visual artists a chance to present their creative work to the people in their community.
Featured readers will include Mark Mazzoli and Mark Chwalek, joined by Nick Mazzeo and Jackie Lalande.
 Tim Green, author of American Outrage (Hachette)
Bestselling author and Central New York native returns for a booksigning to benefit the Oswego Public Library
Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the TV news show American Outrage, inhabits a world of sensational trials and crazed celebrities. One of the nation's top television journalists, he's used to dragging himself through the dirt to get to the truth. When his adopted son, Sam, asks him to use his muckraking talents to find his birth mother, Jake is stunned by the ugly secrets he unearths: an international crime syndicate, a horrifying child trafficking ring, and a corrupt politician, the patriarch of an old New York financial dynasty.
The river's end bookstore will donate 20% of American Outrage sales to the Oswego Public Library Capital Campaign Fund.
 Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak returns to the river's end for a booksigning of her newest release, Twisted (Viking Children's Books- Age 12 and up)
 Known for her keen insight into and honest portrayal of adolescent life in her young adult novels, in Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson blends both serious issues and humor – much like real life – and reveals her authentic insight into the power struggles of high school society. A refreshing change from all of the downbeat and insubstantially fluffy teen fiction cramming the shelves, both male and female readers will be captured by Tyler’s pitch-perfect, funny voice, the surprising narrative arc, and the thoughtful moral dilemmas that are at the heart of all Laurie's award-winning and best-selling work.
Visit Laurie at www.writerlady.com
 Alan J. Foster, author of Haunted Dreams: Righting the Wrong at Gettysburg (Publish America)
Discussion & Booksigning
This is the fictional story of Alexander Gatewood, whose dream from the time he was a small boy was to go to West Point and become an army officer and follow in his father’s footsteps. His dream becomes a reality when he is accepted and attends West Point in 1857. His dream is then somewhat shattered when, in his fourth year, the South attacks Fort Sumter and he and his Southern classmates leave the “Point” to join the Confederacy. He fights alongside General Longstreet at Gettysburg and questions Lee’s strategy. More than thirty years later, he is still haunted by a dream of those three days. Now, as he travels back to his then-beloved West Point, he recalls his life.
Come listen to the sounds of the Oswego Jazz Project!
 Featuring SUNY Oswego Profs Rob Auler on keyboards, Eric Schmitz on drums, Trevor Jorgensen playing saxophone and music major Max McKee on bass
You won't want to miss this unique opportunity to hear some of Oswego's finest jamming at the bookstore!
CDS AVAILABLE AT THE RIVER'S END!!
 Oswego's Art Tirrell pens first novel . . .
The Secret Ever Keeps
Discussion & Booksigning
A Godfather-like billionaire tycoon nears the end of his long life of “shady” dealings, lost love and failed relationships. He is unexpectedly given one final chance to atone when a granddaughter, who doesn’t know he exists, comes into his life.
Founder of Tirrell Appliance Company and longtime sailing enthusiast, Art launches his writing career at the river's end bookstore. Please join us in celebration of Art's latest accomplishment.
Visit: www.arttirrell.com
Barry Lyga, author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Booksigning
Bright, sardonic, and the habitual punching bag of a particularly abusive bully, the narrator of this terrific book is also the author/artist of a graphic novel. Working on the novel provides an outlet for his creativity and an escape from his miserable schooldays and life with his clueless, pregnant mother and her husband, whom our narrator refers to as “the step-fascist.” When a bizarre-looking and hugely quirky classmate – “Goth Girl,” also a fan of graphic novels – enters his life, they begin a wary journey of change and discovery. Unexpected twists and turns, vividly rendered characters and some moments of edge-of-your-seat suspense make this wonderful read for both teens and adults. Come meet the author on April 1st! Visit:www.fanboyandgothgirl.com
a river's end reading
Showcasing some of Oswego's finest writers
and edgiest musicians
The river’s end reading series was started to give promising up-and-coming writers, musicians, and visual artists a chance to present their creative work to the people in their community.
Featured readers will include Tiera Barnes, John Hamm, Nick Mazzeo, and Matt Shenko. Music will be performed by Michael Morrissette, and jazz chanteuse Candice Granata will perform. Mark Chwalek will join Mark Mazzoli to perform poetry accompanied by acoustic guitar. There will also be visual art on display by Nicole Johnson.
 Jim Bruno, author of Permanent Interests
Booksigning
Corrupt White House officials sell out to the Russian and American mobs to re-elect a weak U.S. President at all costs. Diplomat Bob Innes teams up with a beautiful Russian escort to powerful men, to bring down the President’s inner circle. Bruno’s novel of suspense authentically captures political intrigue, greed and treachery in the highest levels of government. And it all comes crashing down in face of relentless pursuit of the truth by the system’s would-be victims.
James Bruno was a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department, a military intelligence analyst at the Pentagon and a news reporter with CBS-News and UPI. He is currently a member of the Diplomatic Readiness Reserve. Drawing on his experiences, Mr. Bruno’s novel possesses a sense of realism rarely matched in his genre.
 George A. Reed, author of
Fort Ontario: 250 Years of History, 1755-2005
Discussion & Booksigning
Reed’s second book on Oswego’s Fort Ontario covers all periods of the fort’s history from the French and Indian Wars through WWII and its present role as an historic site. Overlooking the city of Oswego, Fort Ontario was built in 1755 to protect the fur trading settlement. Destroyed by the French in 1756, it was rebuilt three years later. New images of the fort are included with Reed’s compilation of its history.
 An Evening for (Book) Lovers
This evening brings together readers from the store’s staff and other members of the community, reading prose and poetry on love in all its various forms. One of the great joys of this event is the incredible variety of subjects and styles our readers choose. Some read pieces they’ve written themselves, but most read excerpts from their favorite books. Please join us for what’s bound to be a fascinating collage.
Thanks to John, Heidi, Mark, Ian, Jackie, Zake, Banna, Laurie, Mary, Ranjit, Katie and Anne for a great read!
a river's end reading
Featuring local authors and musicians
presenting new and daring work
February’s installment of the river’s end reading series will include new poetry by audience favorites Bekah Puccia and Matt Shenko, as well as a new essay by the esteemed John Hamm. Michael Morrissette will play some new and delicate instrumental pieces for guitar. Mark Mazzoli and Mark Chwalek will deliver a few new spoken word arrangements. Don’t miss a display of visual art by Jackie Lalande. This reading will be recorded for an upcoming cd project.
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