Social Painting Party Monday 4/30 6-8pm

ASPIRING ARTISTS TO SWARM AT BEEHIVE BOOKS ON APRIL 30

            A new art-as-entertainment concept called "Social Painting" has arrived in Delaware and will be launched at Beehive Books on Monday, April 30, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

           

            "I can assure you that no artistic talent is needed,” said Kay Carroll, owner of Art Nest, the studio hosting the party. “Our featured artworks are chosen to promote spontaneity, skill development and excellent outcomes. It's a lot of fun and a unique opportunity to surprise yourself and keep the evidence.” 

            Social Painting Studios have emerged throughout the nation and have become a popular alternative to more typical destinations for an evening out. Studios host short workshops, often referred to as parties, for those hoping to get to know their inner artist, said Carroll. Party goers receive all supplies, aprons and instruction from a professional art Instructor.

            Guidance is offered to guests through each phase in the completion of their own acrylic painting on canvas, which is theirs to keep. 

           

            The cost is $25 per person, payable by cash or check at the event. To register or receive more information, contact Kay from Art Nest Studios at 614-832-8246 or email yournest4art@yahoo.com. 

Anne Tyler fans UNITE! at 2pm this Saturday 4/7

Join us for a reading from Anne Tyler's new novel (No, sorry, she won't be here) but fans are invited to read a selected passage from her new book and stick around to discuss her books and your favorites among them. 

Robert Olmstead Reading and Book Signing Tuesday 3 April @ 7pm

Join us for a special reading with Robert Olmstead on the day his new novel, The Coldest Night, is released.   A book signing and wine reception will follow the reading.

Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young Mercy’s disapproving father threatens Henry’s life, Henry runs as far as he can—to the other side of the world.

The time is 1950, and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir—the turning point of the war—completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever faced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.

Robert Olmstead’s riveting new novel is not only a passionate story of love and war, it is a timeless story of soldiers coming home to a country with little regard for, and even less knowledge of, what they’ve confronted. Through his hero, Olmstead reveals an unspoken truth about combat: that for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, electric, and extraordinary experience of their lives.



Robert Olmstead is the author of seven previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award, and was a #1 Book Sense pick and a Border’s Discover pick. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant, and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Songs Worth Singing, A Night With Steve Stockman

Wednesday, March 28th @ 8:00 PM

A special after-hours event- Come explore the power of folk music to address the big questions of life, the human condition, and faith. Rev. Steve Stockman, author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 will discuss various folk artist like Over the Rhine, Mumford and Sons, and Chrisy Moore. Moore s...ings in his song North and South of the River, "some songs are not worth singing". This evening will examine songs that do provide thoughtful reflection on ourselves and the world around us.

Songs performed LIVE by "For Crying Out Loud". Refreshments will be served.

Robert Flanagan Reading Monday 3/26 @ 7pm

Please join us on Monday, March 26 at 7 p.m. as Delaware author Bob Flanagan reads from his new short story collection, Fight Night.

Flanagan is the author of the acclaimed Marine Corps novel Maggot and the short story collections Naked to Naked Goes and Loving Power. Born in Toledo, he studied at the University of Chicago and served as Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing program at Ohio Wesleyan University, retiring in 2010. He lives in Delaware with his wife, Katy, and works out in a basement gym featuring a heavy bag, a peanut bag (“speed bag”) and a boom-box.

Nan Byrne, a writer and producer, has high praise for Fight Night. “Like a perfect left hook hitting America’s mid-section, Flanagan’s new collection of stories packs a powerful wallop,” she said. “Inside this book you will find spit and towel tales of the bruised and battered, jammed-fingered, broken-down and bloody-nosed, but still-resilient souls who come out swinging in that “cap down and collar up” corner of the universe where glory dreams collide with the hard-knock life. From the salty reminisces of a worn-out prize fighter to the liquid dreams of a youngster steeling for his first schoolyard fight, Flanagan’s brutally-honest prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee sent straight to the heart.”

Fight Night was recently published by XOXOX, located in Gambier, Ohio.

Thursday 3/22 @ 7pm Book Talk & Signing Wisdom Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Please join us for a book talk and discussion with biblical scholar and MTSO Faculty member John Kampen.

He will speak on the Dead Sea Scrolls and his recent book Wisdom Literature.

Wisdom Literature is the first comprehensive commentary on the wisdom texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Kampen relates the body of wisdom literature discovered at Qumranto the larger wisdom tradition, to apocalyptic literature, to the Hebrew Scriptures, and to the New Testament, and he shows how these texts fit into and enhance our understanding of the complex social and intellectual history of Second Temple Judaism.

John Kampen is the Dunn Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. A recognized scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, he is the author of The Hasideans and the Origins of Pharisaism: A Study of 1 and 2 Maccabees and coeditor of a number of research volumes, the best known of which is (with Moshe Bernstein) Reading 4QMMT: New Perspectives on Qumran Law and History. He also is the author of numerous research articles and has served as co-chair of the Qumran Studies section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

For reviews for his book check out:    Eerdmans John Kampen

Thurs 2/23 @ 7pm In or Out? Talk & Discussion

In or Out?

Discussions about faith tend to hover around this sort of a question - are you in?  Or maybe, more real for most of us - are you out?  If that's the primary way we think about faith and/or religion, then we are required to define and defend boundaries in order to determine who's on the inside and who's on the outside.  That kind of discourse is incredibly hostile and divisive - and ultimately not very helpful to anyone.  BUT, what if there was a different way to consider faith.  What if the boundaries weren't the primary way by which we should consider a life of faith?  What if there was a more authentic way to talk about our spiritual journeys as individuals and communities?  What if that way even provided a framework for humble discussion?  Come and find out....

Join in the discussion led by Robb Morgan of the Delaware City Vineyard Pastoral Team.

New Delaware Book! Book Signing & Talk Friday 2/10 @ 5-7pm

It's here!  The new book about Delaware has finally arrived and we are celebrating with a book signing and talk with Author Jeff Darbee.  Mr. Darbee and the folks from the Delaware County Historical Society will be at the Beehive Friday 2/10 from 5-7pm to sign books.                                                                                       Mr. Darbee will give a brief talk about the book at 7pm.



Please join us to welcome this wonderful new book about our fair city recently published by Arcadia Press as part of their Images of America series.  It has wonderful old photographs and tells the story of our city and county.  A great gift for friends and family or for your local history-loving sweetheart!

If you liked the Hunger Games check this out

Review of Legend by Marie Lu

By Erin MacLellan, Beehive Staff

So you’ve finished the Hunger Games series, and after that thrilling, heart-rending ride, what do you read now?

There are plenty of dystopian young adult novels out there, but it’s taken me a long time to find one that captured my interest. And here it is: “Legend” by Marie Lu, a fast-paced blend of action and science fiction, with characters you care about: 15-year-old Day, an outlaw fighting the government, and 15-year-old June, a brilliant soldier hired to hunt down Day. It’s the first in a planned trilogy, and even if the writing is not as stellar as The Hunger Games, it’s still an exciting read.

The futuristic story is set in Los Angeles in the Republic of America, ruled by a dictator who wages war against the eastern Colonies. The poor live in plague-stricken slums, and the rich live sheltered and apart, in a society where the highest calling is to serve the military. At age 10, every child is tested in the Trials, and those who score well go off to military school while those who fail are dispatched to labor camps or worse.
June is the only person to have made a perfect score on her Trials, so she is trained in an elite military school and given every advantage. Day, meanwhile, failed his Trial and ran away, living in the shadows so he can watch over his family and launch attacks against the repressive Republic.

Their two fates collide after June’s brother is killed in an attack led by Day, and June is sent to track Day and bring him to justice. The story, told in alternating chapters by June and Day, has plenty of pulsing action to keep you turning the pages, but there’s also a sweetness and complexity to both characters that saves them from being superhero caricatures. Eventually romance blossoms between June and Day, but their different causes ensure that they’ll be ripped apart – even as they learn devastating secrets about their families and the Republic that make them question everything they are working for.

I wanted to love this book like I adored the Hunger Games, but it just doesn’t have the superb writing and emotional depth of that book. In fairness, Lu is a first-time author who is 27 years old, and Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games, is a long-time writer with many books to her credit. Still, I’ll be waiting to read the next installment in the Legend series, and knowing that the movie rights are already sold, I’ll be eager to see the film, too.

From Ethiopia to Palestine - Wed 1/25 @ 7pm -- Farewell Claire!

Join us as Claire Everhart, Global Village Collection intern, gives a quick recap of her Run Across Ethiopia (2011), including a few highlights from the documentary made of this endeavor: When We Run, AND discusses her upcoming Run Across Palestine (Feb 2012) and 6 month internship in Jenin. Come with questions about Palestine - she will answer them in her blog!  This will be an informal setting and some refreshments will be served. Wednesday, Jan 25th, 7pm, Beehive Books & Global Village. 

Most of all, it's a chance for us to thank Claire for her good work in our community, wish her well in her new endeavors, and stay in touch and learn through her new experiences as she goes global!

Check out more info about the Run Across Palestine at onthegroundglobal.org

Christmas Week Hours

12/19  Mon   9a-8p  (Open Early)
12/20  Tues   9a-8p  (Open Early)
12/21  Wed   9a-8p   (Open Early)
12/22  Thurs  9a-8p   (Open Early)
12/23  Fri      9a-9p   (Open Early & Late!)
12/24  Sat     9a-4p   Christmas Eve
12/25  Sun    Closed      Merry Christmas!
12/26  Mon   10a-8p  (regular hours until New Year's Eve)

Shop Local.....it's fun, it's convenient, you can see all your friends & neighbors, and keep your dollars in the local community!

• We can still order many books and have them before Christmas (order by Wed 12/21-call or stop by to check availability).  
• We have lots of wonderful books & gifts in stock.
• A Beehive Giftcard always makes the perfect gift!

Have a wonderful Holiday Season!

BOND, JAMES Reading Wenesday 11/30 @ 7pm

Michelle Disler OWU Professor & Author of
[Bond, James] alphabet, anatomy, (auto)biography

What do MFK Fisher, William Hazlitt, Gertrude Stein, and James Bond have in common?

Three are writers whom Michelle Disler counts as influences and one is the subject of her new book, [BOND, JAMES]. The book is a series of prose poems and essays deconstructing 007 as model masculinity in world culture. Join us for a reading, Q & A, and book signing.

Check out Joe Blundo's column on Michelle from this Sunday's Dispatch:   Dispatch Joe Blundo Column

Shop Local - Thanksgiving Weekend Hours

Want a more relaxing, more impactful Holiday Shopping experience this Thanksgiving Weekend? Shop Downtown Delaware!
Have a unique, engaged experience, find some fabulous gifts, and keep your dollars in the local economy.

Hours:
Wednesday 11/23 10a-6p
Thursday 11/24 Closed
Friday 11/25 9a-8p
Saturday 11/26 10a-8p
Sunday 11/27 Noon-4p

Have a safe & wonderful Thanksgiving and THANK YOU for shopping at Beehive Books.

Community Forum Thursday 11/17 @ 7pm

World Issues Community Forum:  from Egypt’s Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street. 
What the new worldwide protest movements mean for America.

Join us for a conversation about events and issues around the world, with emphasis on the ongoing Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and political protest movements worldwide.

Hear a discussion with Ohio Wesleyan University Professor of Politics and Government Sean Kay, and Ohio Wesleyan University Professor of History Michael Flamm, moderated by Ohio State University Humanities Institute Associate Fred Andrle.

You are invited to take an active part in the event with your comments and questions.

This event is co-sponsored by the Ohio State University Humanities Institute and Beehive Books, as a part of the Institute’s series “Conversations in the Humanities.”

Reading Dogs are Back! Thursday 11/3 @ 4pm.

Come read with the friendly, specially-trained dogs from Acme Canine.  For those kids who could not come to our Reading Dogs last August, NOW is your chance!  The dogs will be paired with children ages 6 to 12 to share a story and practice reading skills. Please call us at 740-363-2337 or e-mail us at readers@beehiveat25.com to reserve a spot for this program. Reservations are requested, but walk-ins are welcomed.
The dog-friendly program will feature Woofie, other canine pals along with their owners. The pets and owners have been trained by Acme Canine of Lewis Center, which is presenting the program.

Laura Pakis, owner of Acme Canine, said, "We've held reading sessions at a number of libraries in Columbus, and it's been a huge hit. Children love spending time with attentive, furry friends who won't judge them if they stumble over a word or don't understand a passage. Reading improves as the child relaxes, and the adults are there to help with pronunciation and comprehension.

For more about Acme Canine go go http://www.acmecanine.com/

Book Talk with Artist Matt Kish Thursday Oct. 20th @ 7pm

Inspired by one of the world's greatest novels, Ohio artist Matt Kish embarked on an epic voyage of his own, and the result is Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick.

Join us for a reading, discussion of the project, and signing. Plus, hopefully, Matt can draw some pictures in your book.


Kish said he felt as foolhardy as Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, and as obsessed as Captain Ahab in his quest for the great white whale. “I see now that the project was an attempt to fully understand this magnificent novel, to walk through every sun-drenched word, to lift up all the hatches and open all the barrels, to smell, taste, hear, and see every seabird, every shark, every sailor, every harpooner, and every whale.”


Kish spent nearly every day for 18 months toiling away in a small closet he converted into an art studio. To share the work with family and friends, he started the blog “One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick,” where he posted his work on a daily basis.

Kish lives in Dublin, Ohio and works full-time as a librarian for the Dayton Metropolitan Library. For more details, check out his blog at http://www.everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/.   And Tin House Matt Kish

Life is Good in Delaware, Ohio

Sometimes when you plan an event at an independent bookstore in Delaware, Ohio on a Tuesday evening in late September, you think to yourself---It's a good date. What else could possibly be going on?

It turns out there was a lot going on in Delaware last night.  Our event with the poetry group House of Toast was one of 3 other events that I knew of within a 1/2 mile radius of our store (walking distance).  And we had a full house of people listening to an incredible group of poets.

Among the other events were OWU professor Sean Kay, whose book launch of Celtic Revival we hosted back in June with a discussion led by Fred Andrle, who was a featured poet at our House of Toast event last night.  Kay spoke about Africa's Wars and Global Security at OWU's Benes Room for the Sagan National Colloquium, at 7pm.

I also learned that the talented and dynamic OWU music professor Nancy Gamso was giving a performance at Sanborn Hall at 7pm.  She has played at the Beehive many times with groups of her amazing students.

And at Andrews House across the street Alec Johnson, a Beehive customer and supporter, was giving a presentation about his experience with the Tar Sands Activists in Washington DC, at 7pm.

I'm sure that all of these events were as well-attended as ours and I wish I could've been at each one. 

I love that on a cool and misty autumn evening on a Tuesday in a seemingly sleepy little town, that there is a hell of a lot of stuff going on.

If you did miss our poetry event last night, please stop in to check out our selection of books from the poets.

And mark your calendar for our next event with artist Matt Kish on Thursday October 20 at 7pm.  His forthcoming book, Moby-Dick in Pictures, will be published in early October by Tin House.  He started documenting his project on his blog http://everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/ which we have been following for several years.  Check it out!


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House of Toast September 27 @ 7pm

House of Toast, an eclectic assemblage of Central Ohio poets, will give a poetry reading on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. at Beehive Books.


Poet and playwright Fred Andrle, the former long-time host of WOSU’s “Open Line” talk show, will be one of the featured poets along with Linda Fuller-Smith, MJ Abel, Jerry Roscoe, Jacquelin Smith and Charlene Fix.

The House of Toast poets have been widely published and have won many literary awards. Members Roscoe and Andrle’s poems have been featured on Garrison Keiller’s public radio series, “The Writer’s Almanac.”  Read their poems here:  Andrle on Writer's Almanac  ;  Roscoe on Writer's Almanac

House of Toast was founded in 1995 as a vehicle to critique and support the members' work and poetry in general. The group has evolved into a troupe of performers known for their engaging, audience-friendly readings.

Andrle’s current poetry collection is "Love Life," published by XOXOX Press in Gambier, Ohio. He has received playwriting and poetry fellowships from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and his one-act play, “The Eternal Brunch,” was staged by CATCO, the Contemporary American Theater Company (Columbus) in 2000. He has received Ohio Public Broadcasting and Regional Emmy awards . For his radio and television programs and taught courses in mass media at Ohio Wesleyan University and Ohio Dominican University.

Fuller-Smith has been published in The Heartlands Today, Urban Spaghetti, Pudding Magazine and several anthologies.

Abell is a two-time winner of Thurber Treat humorous essay contest and has published a chapbook titled Below the Waterline.

Smith is the author of several books, including My G-Rated Life, which won the Chiron Review Chapbook Contest.

Roscoe’s collection Mirror Lake was published in Two Midwest Voices, which won the 2002 Ohioana Book Award. His poem “Illustration” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his poems “Adequate Love” and “Bouquet” were read by Garrison Keillor on his show.

Fix is chair of the English and Philosophy department at Columbus College of Art Design. She has won poetry fellowships, and her chapbook Mischief is available from Pudding House.  Read more about Fix and her dog-inspired poetry collection here:  This Week article

Leslie Noyes Mass Book Talk Thursday 9/15 @ 7:00pm

Leslie Noyes Mass author of the newly published book Back To Pakistan: A Fifty-Year Journey will give a presentation about the book Thursday 9/15 @ 7pm at Beehive Books.

In 1962, Mass graduated from college and joined the fledgling Peace Corps. She was assigned to Pakistan to start an educational program in a small Muslim village, where she was the only Westerner and only Peace Corps volunteer. She left after a year, feeling she had not made an impact.


50 years later, she returned to find a much-changed Pakistan and a village that still remembered her. In her book, she deftly interweaves journal entries from her Peace Corps experience with her current volunteer work training female teachers for a Pakistani non-governmental organization.

In a series of interviews with Pakistanis from every social class, Mass gives voice to those who are taking responsibility for their country’s educational problems and addressing challenges within the tradition, culture and religious understanding of their people.

Mass also is the author of “In Beauty May She Walk,” about her experience hiking the Appalachian Trail at age 60. She earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University in early and middle education and was director of the Early Childhood Center at Ohio Wesleyan University, from which she retired in 2007.

Mass is donating her proceeds from the sale of the book to The Citizens Foundation, a Pakistani NGO that supports education for girls in Pakistan.

Dogs Days of Summer - 2 Free Kids Events in August

Thursday Aug. 4 @ 4pm
Kids Writing Workshop
w/ Author Nancy Roe Pimm
http://beehivebooksdelaware.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html


Thursday Aug 11 @ 4pm
Reading Dogs
Read with Woofie, Stella, and Aston
for kids 6-12

Reading will go to the dogs at Beehive Books, when specially trained dogs will be paired with children ages 6 to 12 to share a story and practice reading skills. Please call us at 740-363-2337 or e-mail us at readers@beehiveat25.com to reserve a spot for this program. Reservations are requested, but walk-ins are welcomed.

The dog-friendly program will feature Woofie, Stella, Aston and another canine pal, along with their owners. The pets and owners have been trained by Acme Canine of Lewis Center, which is presenting the program.

Laura Pakis, owner of Acme Canine, said, "We've held reading sessions at a number of libraries in Columbus this summer, and it's been a huge hit. Children love spending time with attentive, furry friends who won't judge them if they stumble over a word or don't understand a passage. Reading improves as the child relaxes, and the adults are there to help with pronunciation and comprehension."

For more about Acme Canine go go http://www.acmecanine.com/