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Start: 3:00 pm
Left Bank Books and The Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association cordially invite you to a book signing and honey tasting! C. Marina Marchese is founder and owner of Red Bee Honey, which sells honey and natural products to gourmet food shops and fine restaurants all over the United States. Certified by the American Apitherapy Society, she has trained as a honey judge at the University of Georgia and serves on the board of Back Yard Beekeepers Association of Connecticut. Marina has written for Bee Culture magazine and The Journal of the American Apitherapy Society, and Red Bee Honey was the cover story of the American Bee Journal in 2004. Marina lives and tends bees in Weston, Connecticut. | 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Geoffrey Canada created the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem, tohelp change the lives of poor children. Paul Tough, an editor at the New YorkTimes and one of America's foremost writers on poverty, education and theachievement gap, presents an inspired portrait of Geoffrey Canada and the parents and children who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds, in Whatever It Takes. What would it take to change the lives ofpoor children--not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide?The question led Geoffrey Canada to create the Harlem Children's Zone, where heis testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time. | 13
Start: 7:00 pm
Out of ragtime, out of jazz, out of big band music and beyond, American music came into its own due to the talents and experiences of the musicians at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Included with the illustrated pages is a special compact disc of rare--and often some of the last recorded performances--recordings by St. Louis legends, including early blues masters Barrelhouse Buck, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes, and many more. Devil at the Confluence tells the untold story of the profound connection between these historical blues artists and their ties to St. Louis. Artist Kevin Bellford combines years of scholarly research and discovery with his renowned artwork to present a book that chronicles various legendary talents that built the base for what is now called American popular music. | 14
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Start: 7:00 pm
Two authors join us to discuss the gangster history of St. Louis. Voted "Best Book by a Local Author" in the 2008 Riverfront Times "Best of St. Louis" edition, Ray Flynn's narrative reveals his experience with mob warfare in North St. Louis during the depression and prohibition and eventually into St. Louis's bloodiest underground crime war. His son, Mike Flynn, published his father's memoir, Confessions of a Mob Hitman, fulfilling one of his last requests. Mike writes, "This is the true story of St. Louis and Southern Illinois in the old days that no one else knew like my father." John Auble has been covering news and feature stories in St. Louis since 1967 when he came to work for the old St. Louis Globe. After a number of other media jobs in St. Louis, he joined the staff of FOX 2 in 1988. His book A History of St. Louis Gangsters is a chronology of mob activity in St. Louis, on both sides of the river, ranging from the Egan Rats to the last mob leader on record. Start: 7:30 pm
Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to Saint Michael's Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can't be snuffed out so easily: screwy brain chemistry holds the key to Desiree's madness. Combining the spark of Michelle Tea, the comic angst of Augusten Burroughs, and the warmth of Sandra Cisneros, Mexican American author Myriam Gurba has created a territory all her own. Dahlia Season not only contains the title novella, but also several of Gurba's acclaimed stories. | 16
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