Mark your calendars!
 Friday, August 17
7 pm
Edgewood professor Steven Davis discusses his book In Defense of Public Lands.
“Hardly a month seems to go by without the emergence of new threats to our public lands, whether in the guise of radical state and federal legislation to privatize, declassify, or transfer public land, or the seizure of public land facilities … by armed militants,” Davis writes in the book’s preface.
In Wisconsin, Davis noted in an interview with Isthmus editors, state lawmakers in recent years ordered the sale of 10,000 acres of public land and “there’s nothing to stop them from doing more of it.”
Davis’ book offers strategies for pushing back, including his call to frame public lands as a “patriotic imperative” and build broad coalitions across diverse interest groups.
 Saturday, August 18 -- Tales of Crime and Cookery!
2 pm
Rhonda Gilleland will be at Mystery to Me to share stories from the second volume of Cooked to Death. The new volume, subtitled Lying on a Plate, features short mysteries by fifteen different authors. So, as the back of the book notes: If you're looking for a recipe so good it's to die for, search no further. We've got fifteen of them.
Friday, August 24 - Please RSVP by clicking here!
7 pm
 William Kent Krueger returns to Mystery to Me for the sixth time! This time he'll be talking with us about his newest Cork O'Connor mystery, Desolation Mountain.
Cork and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic plane crash of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences of which go far beyond what father or son could ever have imagined.
Krueger skillfully combines the otherworldly setting of the Minnesota wilds with Native American lore to create a winning mystery with more than a few surprises. -- Publishers Weekly
Monday, August 27
2 pm
Spark author Andrea Debbink and illustrator Emily Balsley will begin our SPARK event at Mystery to Me where they'll talk about the development of their book and throw in a little creative spark too. We'll then venture down the street to Bloom Bake Shop where we'll get to design our very own Bloom Popsicles!
A wonderful book for all ages and particularly designed for creative kids!
The author and illustrator will also visit the Bloom Bindery in Middleton on Wednesday, August 29 from 4pm to 6pm.
Thursday, August 30 -- A Wisconsin Book Festival Event!
7 pm
 Karen Slaughter will be at the Madison Public Library to celebrate her newest book, Pieces of Her.
The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter—a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she’s written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all . . . ?
PARKING QUESTIONS?
 Monroe Street is getting better and better every day. Amen...
Please. Don't. Despair.
There is free parking next to the Monroe Street branch of the Public Library. There is metered parking directly across the street in a city parking lot (next to Trader Joes). There is plenty of parking on the side streets surrounding Monroe Street AND, there are a few spots behind the store (and the Pharmacy) -- first come, first served.
See you soon!
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