The Toadstool Bookshops of Keene, Milford, and Peterborough, NH

Area authors of all genres meet each Friday evening here at the store to share, critique, and explore their craft of writing.

Your host is Tammy. Please give her a call for more details as space is limited, or email her: tammyattoadstool@aol.com

The SF&F group meets the 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to talk about the books they have read recently.

Open to older teens and adults.

Just for kids! Join fellow readers and take home free (yes, free!) books to review for the following meeting. Many of these titles are compliments of the publishers, in advance of the official 'on sale' date.

Sign up is required; please ask for Sue. Meetings are usually on the second Thursday each month. Did we mention snacks?

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EDIE CLARK signing and discussing STATES
OF GRACE: ENCOUNTERS WITH REAL YANKEES . The “Yankee Magazine” writer’s
newest book is a collection of profiles of over 30 extraordinary New Englanders
“with one deep abiding passion at the center of their lives”, “each of them
living in a state of grace”.

Bring your knitting and join hostess Patty Poisson for an informal evening of knitting, chatting and tea on the 2nd Monday evening each month.

Exquisite tea is generously provided by Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline, NH. www.thecozyteacart.com

Please note that this group is open to all experienced knitters.

A new group! Please join us and our host, April Coughlin for rousing discussions on foreign policy.

You'll be engaged in a variety of issues revolving around international relations - subjects to be determined by the group.

They will meet every 3 weeks on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.

Whether building new, adding onto, or remodeling your existing building, come learn about the many different options in environmentally friendly building products and construction techniques. Many manufacturers these days are claiming that their products are green ... but how green are they?

Christina O'Brien, AIA, and Doug Stewart, AIA, LEED AP, will start out their discussion by clarifying the difference between "green" and "sustainable" products (and, yes, there is a difference). They'll also focus on the importance of a well-designed building envelope (foundation, insulation, windows, roofing).

The book Green $ense for the Home by Eric Corey Freed and Kevin Daum will be highlighted during the discussion.

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MARY CATHERINE BATESON – autographing & discussing COMPOSING A FURTHER LIFE: THE AGE OF ACTIVE WISDOM a follow
up to her 1991 best seller Composing A Life. The new book is an
exuberant exploration of a new stage in the life cycle, “Adulthood 2”, created
by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources.

Rich and Sandra Wallace, husband and wife, will sign and talk about their books for young readers, Little Joe, Kickers 01: Ball Hogs, Sports Camp, and Winning Season: Second-String Center.

Welcome to our monthly meeting for teens, where YOU become the star!

The group will select FREE books (many in advance of publication) and review them the following month. It's a great way to meet fellow readers, try something new, and polish your editorial skills. Perhaps one day soon we'll be reading YOUR book!

Our host is Sue Carita, give her a call and sign up to reserve your place at the table. Meetings are usually held on the fourth Thursday each month.

The Classics Crowd meets every other month on the THIRD Thursday to discuss titles voted on by concensus. New readers of timeless literature are encouraged to join. Snacking is welcome!

Month and selection (so far)...

September 23 is the FOURTH Thursday: "Frenchman's Creek" by Daphne du Maurier.

November 18: "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham. 

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HOWARD MANSFIELD signing and discussing TURN
AND JUMP: HOW TIME AND PLACE FELL APART . In the days before “Standard
Time” towns kept their own time pegged to the sun. With the rise of the
railroads time needed to be synchronized to make scheduling possible and the
hour no longer reflected the exact position of the sun overhead. In a series of
essays Howard examines what time has meant to us in New England, from the days
of continuous vaudeville, to Swanzey’s famous “Old Homestead” play that
depicted chores “measured by the task, not by the hour”, to the long years of
Derby’s department store in Peterborough.