Bookends on Main

214 East Main Street
Menomonie, WI 54751
715-233-6252               

Email: info@bookendsonmain.com

Website: www.bookendsonmain.com

Author Events

Dec. 8, Thursday, 5:00 Kelly McCullough

Please stop by to talk with Kelly about his new book The Broken Blade. This is the first of a three-part series.

 

Dec. 9, 12:00 - 2:00 Christopher Knutson

will be at the bookstore to present his new fantasy book based on Norwegian fork tales.

 

Bookends on Main, Menomonie proudly hosts readings and book signings by local and regional authors. The bookstore provides a comfortable setting for writers to share their recent work.  To schedule a bookstore event or to suggest services the bookstore can provide, please call (715) 233-6252 or email info@bookendsonmain.com.

Past Bookstore Events

May 11, 1:00 Sara Krill will talk about her book My friend Lou,

the story of a dog and its owner.  Krill is a Milwaukee writer.

 

May 15, 1:00 Meagan Frank will talk about her book about marriage,

Choosing to Grow. This is a special Sunday event.


April 7, 3:00 - 8:00 Ladies Spring Fling: Downtown Shopping and Socializing.  Register at 26 businesses for gifts worth $1000. 

Ten percent discount on books by women authors at Bookends on Main.

 

April 13, 5:00 Jeanne Foley, author of Shooting Two will talk about her book featuring girls' basketball, freindship and competition.  

A UW-Stout math professor, Foley has also coached basketball at Princeton.


Poetry Reading

JOhn Tottenham, author of  "inertia variations."

Wensday, October 13, 4:00PM


"When I ask someone what they are doing and they tell me

They are doing nothing, they are, in fact, usually doing something.

Whereas if someone asks me what I am doing, and I tell them I am doing nothing, I, am, in fact, actually doing Nothing. Few people, outside jails or hostpitals, have spent more Time lying on a bed looking at a wall. Or on a sofa, or in a chair, or on a floor. Or looking at a floor, or a cealing. Or with eyes shut."




*September 22, 4:00PM*

Two Immigrant Stories about families who came to Minnesota and Wisconsin.


Diane Dettmann's  Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants

Diane will be reading from her book about her aunt growing up in northern Minnesota and signing copies.

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Terje Nordberg's A Giant Step

Charlotte Lee will be reading from the book about her grandparents who immigrated 

from Magesas, Norway, north of the Arctic Circle to Granstburg, WI



August 3, 4:00 P.M.
Ira Sukrungruang
will read from her latest book, a memoir titled Talk Thai: The Adventures of a Buddhist
Ira has also edited two literary anthologies on the fat experience.
http://sukrungruang.com/site/media/

July 13, 4:30-5:30

Local science fiction writer Kelly McCullough reads from his latest--his fifth--novel and signs copies of SpellCrash.


May 10 , 4:30 P.M.  A group of students will read their family history and immigrant narratives. The students will provide an interesting  younger-generation perspective on subjects intersting to many, maybe all, of us.

 

May 11 7:00 P.M. Chris Weiner, the Chippewa Falls "Ghostbuster" will talk about his research on ghosts and paranormal events around Chippewa Falls and other nearby places.  He has written two books on the subject.  These will be on sale and available for signing. It should be a fun evening.


February 11, 7:00 P.M

Bookends on Main, Menomonie

Local Authors Debut

Children's Writer Andy Cochran and Nature Writer Joe Knight

will read from their recent work.

 

February 11, 11:30 A.M.

Bookends on Main, Menomonie is participating in

the Big Read this year with a

discussion of Sherman Alexie's

The Absolutely True Diary of a

Part-time Indian

Free copies of the book, supplied by the Public Library,

will be available at the bookstore,

first come, first serve.

 


November 12, 4:00 - 5:00

Bill Schulman

Memories of an Aging Artist/Poet

Bill, whose art and writing are intertwined,

read from his work and talked about his paintings and drawings that pair with his poems.

Poets' Reading

 

October 8, 2009 4:00 - 5:00
Menomonie poets Pat Zontelli and Warren Lang
Pat featured many poems from her collection Red Cross Dog

and Warren shared poems written about his favorite summer spot on Lake Superior.

September 10, 2009 Reading  
Poetry and Prose about the Magical in Everyday Life  Sandy Lindow, Steve Bechkal, Don Melcher, Dina St. Louise read from their recent work: Touched by the Gods, All of This and Robins Too, Merrilan, Zebra
on the beauty and joy of the ordinary and everyday life.

 
Science Fiction Reading
August 21, Kelly McCullough 
read from his latest science fiction novel MythOS and his new novel to be published soon.
Kelly and Bookends on Main
are enjoying mutual advertising as an image of MythOs in vivid green and Bookends on Main in terra cotta festoon the sign above the front door of the store.
 
Bookends on Main Presents Its First Reading
August 17, 2009 Jean Winstead
read from her historical novel
Das Americanische
based on stories of her grandfather, a German immigrant who started a new life in Minnesota in the 1860s.