Edward's Bookstore hosts two book signings this month
SPRINGFIELD - The Edwards Bookstore will feature two author events.
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Dr. Jay Unger, author of Bringing Magic to Life, will sign copies of his book and work a few acts of magic Nov. 3 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Edwards Books, Tower Square, 1500 Main St.
The event is open to the public free of charge. To reserve a signed copy of Bringing Magic to Life, phone the bookstore at 413-736-6844 or email info@edwardsbooks.com
An internist and geriatrict specialist at JGS Family Medical Care in Longmeadow, Unger is a lifelong afficianado of slight of hand who calls his book "a unique mix of prescriptions for infusing magic into one's life and life into one's magic." The "Magical Thoughts" portion of the book offers personal reflection on life, vocation and avocation. The "Act-ions" portion describes two dozen of Unger's favorite trick.
Parking in the Tower Square garage will be free of charge with validation from the bookstore.
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Greek-American writer Nicholas Gage, sportswriter Bill Reynolds and short story author Lewis Robinson will read from their books Nov. 10 at 6:30 during the annual Open Books for Open Pantry benefit event at Edwards Books, Tower Square, 1500 Main St.
The event is open to the public free of charge. Book proceeds will benefit Open Pantry Community Services,a Springfield-based private, non-profit social service agency that provides comprehensive services to people who are homeless, hungry or disadvantaged (www.openpantry.org).
Gage, a resident of central Massachusetts, is best known for the memoir Eleni, which was made into a 1985 movie starring John Malkovich.
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and grew up to become a top New York Times investigative reporter, honing his skills with one thought in mind: to return to Greece and uncover the one story he cared about most: the story of his mother. Eleni takes the reader into the heart a village destroyed in the name of ideals and into the soul of a truly heroic woman.
Gage has also written Greek Fire; A Place for Us; and Greece: Land of Light.
His daughter, Eleni Gage, has just published North of Ithaka, which tells of her journey back to the family's ancestral village in Greece and her efforts to rebuild her grandmother's home. It is a kind of companion piece to Eleni, and though Eleni Gage will not be at the signing, her book will be available for sale.
Reynolds, a resident of Providence, R.I., and coauthor of Success Is a Choice with Rick Pitino, has won numerous awards for his columns in The Providence Journal. He is the author of books including Fall River Dreams , Glory Days and the newly published Cousy: His Life, Career and the Birth of Big-Time Basketball. In that highly acclaimed biography, Reynolds chronicles Cousy's birth in 1928 to immigrant parents (he spoke only French for the first five years of his life), to his childhood in the poverty-ridden tenements of New York City that molded him forever, to his college days at Holy Cross, to his career as a Boston Celtic.
Robinson, a professor at Deerfield Academy and the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program, is the author of Officer Friendly, a short
story collection set in his beloved state of Maine. With humor, a piercing eye, and a sense that danger often lies just around the corner, Robinson gives us a variety of vivid characters, wealthy and poor, delinquent and romantic, while illuminating the mythic, universal implications of so-called ordinary life. As enthused the New York Times, "Robinson has that rare power . . . to make a setting breathe, to invest it with a vitality that seems as authentic and intense as the pulse beats of his characters."
To reserve a signed copies of any of the authors' books, phone the bookstore at 413-736-6844 or email info@edwardsbooks.com
Parking in the Tower Square garage will be free of charge with validation from the bookstore.
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