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Children's Author Day
A real treat for your child! Stop in and enjoy chatting with the authors while you enjoy the refreshments!
Jim Farfaglia, author of Camp Hollis: The Origins of Oswego County's Children's Camp (History Press) - co-authored with Alysa Koloms and Jane Ann Sullivan Spellman
Discussion & booksigning
 On the shores of Lake Ontario, the fires of Camp Hollis have been burning brightly for sixty-two years, ever since Judge Eugene Sullivan opened the camp for the youth of Oswego County. This collection of nostalgic images from summers past takes readers back to the classic days of hiking, swimming and marshmallow roasting. The images are a glowing testimony to the success of Sullivan's vision, the profound impact on the lives of Oswego County youth and the power of role models who want to make a difference.
Jim Farfaglia attended Camp Hollis as a child and worked there as a counselor and site director while in college, where he earned a teaching degree. He is currently employed by Oswego County as Camp Hollis's year-round director.
 Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Wintergirls
Discussion & booksigning
Anderson’s newest novel, Wintergirls searches to find meaning behind the pain women hold inside themselves. The author gives a terrifying glimpse into a young girl’s struggle with an eating disorder that grows into horrible self-mutilation. Anderson’s handling of this alarming topic is both enlightening and inspiring.
 Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of several wonderful picture books and numerous highly acclaimed novels, including Chains, Speak, Prom and Fever 1793. Visit Laurie at www.writerlady.com
 Dennis Connors, author of Historic Photos of Syracuse (Turner Publishing)
Discussion and booksigning
Named for Syracuse in Sicily, Italy, Syracuse, New York enjoys a history that reflects both a united and progressive spirit and a unique culture that are the foundation of the city’s present-day prosperity and overwhelming popularity.
With fact-filled photo captions and chapter introductions by Dennis J. Connors, Historic Photos of Syracuse rediscovers the city’s fascinating past through nearly 200 rare photographs selected from the Onondaga Historical Association, showcased with exceptional clarity and beauty.
Musician Gina Holsopple and bass guitarist Matt Wood return to help us celebrate our 11th anniversary!
 Acoustic Guitar and Great Vocals
Their music CDs are available at the river’s end. For more information on Gina's music, visit www.ginaholsopple.com
Her meandering melodies and winsome voice are sure to make your foot tap, head bob, and lips open wide with a smile. - Brad Crescenzo, MuzikReview.com
 A river's end reading returns!
with special guest poet, Christopher G. Kennedy, director of Syracuse University’s MFA program in Creative Writing
Regional writers, musicians, and artists present new and daring work. Poetry and prose by Chris Leonard, Tim Gallogly, Viktoria Valenzuela-Pennington, Jon Hamm, and Mark Mazzoli. Music by Closer Still. Art by Drew Stellmack and Autumn. Always a special and unique evening!
Dick Case, author of Remembering Syracuse (History Press)
Booksigning
 The character of a place is written in the stories of the people who live there, and no one knows this better than Syracuse Post-Standard columnist Dick Case. For fifty years, his “Neighbors” columns have chronicled the ups and downs of the Syracuse community, bringing into the spotlight the names, traditions and landmarks that might otherwise have slipped through the cracks of history.
Stop in and meet one of Syracuse's finest storytellers!
Derek McKown, author of Arrows in Hand (Greenhouse Review Press)
Reading & booksigning
 Arrows in Hand reveals those moments of clarity and mystery that shape and define our conscious lives. Mastering an impressive range of forms and strategies, McKown consistently identifies those details, dark as well as shining, that hold us forever at the edge of love and lament--a profound love for family, for the world. McKown follows those threads from their first glimmerings in childhood to the difficult turns an adult life will take, yet always with great compassion. And, as the best poetry always does, Arrows in Hand transforms loss to arrive at a willingness to step finally into a light beyond the self"
- Christopher Buckley
McKown taught creative writing for ten years at the University of California, Riverside before moving back to Syracuse where he received an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University.
Georgia Popoff, author of Doom Weaver (Main Street Rag Pub.)
Reading & booksigning
 Georgia Popoff is is a community poet, performer, educator, spoken word producer, and senior editor of The Comstock Review (www.comstockreview.org). A teaching poet in schools and community settings, she is the Writer in Residence for the Middletown, NY school district and provides professional development to many districts and conferences throughout NYS and the United States. She has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and web publications.
Steve Abbott & John Fountain, authors of O.R.
Discussion & booksigning
 A newspaper article from 1964 appears mysteriously one day in an Oswego, New York hospital operating room. It's an obituary describing the bizarre suicide of a young nurse, found dead in a hospital lounge, hooked up to an anesthesia machine. Retired police detective A.C. LaFleur is asked to find out why the article has appeared again, after all these years--and what really happened that day?
Steve is a Colorado native, and lives with his wife and cat in Boulder. He graduated from the University of Colorado, where he and John were roommates for several years. He is currently working part-time as a support engineer for a large software company. A few years ago he returned to school to obtain a Master's degree in English Literature, which turned out to be more fun than software engineering. This is his first novel.
Dr. John Fountain has been providing first-rate anesthesiology services to Oswego Hospital for nearly twenty-five years. Always adventurous, after graduating from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, John traveled overseas to do his residency - he first spent two years in New Zealand, then two years in Perth, Scotland (where he met his wife, Sandy), before returning to the U.S. to do a third residency in anesthesiology in Lexington, Kentucky. John is an avid tennis player, skier, and as anyone who knows him can tell you, a fine storyteller.
 Philip Memmer, author of Lucifer: A Hagiography (Lost Horse Press)
Reading & booksigning
Philip Memmer is the author of three books of poems, most recently Lucifer: A Hagiography, which was awarded the Idaho Prize from Lost Horse Press. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Epoch, Tar River Poetry, and many others. His work has also appeared in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins.
 Memmer is the director of the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse, where he founded the Downtown Writer's Center in 2001. He is the editor of Two Rivers Review, associate editor for Tiger Bark Press, and the current poetry editor of the journal Stone Canoe. For additional information, visit www.philipmemmer.com.
Rachel Guido deVries, author of The Brother Inside Me (Guernica Ed.)
Reading & booksigning
 Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of Rachel's beloved brother, the dementia that claimed her father, and the inevitable bodily changes that come with age. Experimenting with traditional forms such as elegies and dirges, the poems keep coming back to the paradoxes of love and loss. Finally, though, solace comes in shimmering poems that connect with deVries’s two earlier collections and celebrate the beauty of rural upstate New York.
Rachel, a much-published poet, children’s book author, and novelist grew up near Paterson, NJ, and has lived in central New York since 1970. She taught creative writing through Syracuse University's Humanistic Studies Program for twelve years, and she currently offers workshops and readings at colleges, universities, libraries and community centers. Rachel frequently visits the Oswego City Schools, instructing students in the power of poetry.
 An Evening for (Book) Lovers
Our annual Valentine's Day celebration has attracted a wide variety of readers over the years.
Readers have been selected from our community to read prose and poetry of their own choosing, occasionally of their own composition, all of it on the theme of love in its many and varied forms. As in the past, some bookstore staff members will be part of this evening’s reading. Please join us for what's bound to be a fascinating collage.
Refreshments will be served!
Tom Adessa, author of Butternuts for Rexford
Reading & Booksigning
Tom Adessa, a lifelong resident of central New York is a lover of nature and the Adirondacks. At the age of 12 he found a squirrel that had fallen out of its nest and hand raised it. That childhood experience and time spent in the Adirondacks have been woven into this story for children. A truly heartwarming and fun tale, Butternuts for Rexford will help children learn about the power of friendships, nature and how to deal with personal challenges.
This event is part of Warm Up Oswego Festival, a collaborative effort by Oswego businesses and not-for-profit organizations to celebrate Oswego in the middle of winter. Beginning at noon, listen to indoor entertainment, participate in outdoor events, visit the bookstore at 2:00pm and stick around for the fireworks at 6:00pm!
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