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Together, We Did It!
Anniversary Celebration and Benefit Re-cap
The months and days preceding Women & Children First’s 30th anniversary celebration were often frenzied—meeting, planning, and then executing all the various tasks involved. The work of everyone who made generous donations of time and talent resulted in a wonderful evening: everyone we talked to said, “I had a wonderful time and could have partied on for hours!”
Besides wanting to share an evening of entertainment and community, we also had a fundraising goal--$1000 for each of W&CF’s 30 years. We are thrilled to say that we met that goal, netting $30,000 for the Women’s Voices Fund.
We met our goal because of all of you who spent hours and hours working before and during the event; all of you who purchased tickets, sponsored the event, and urged your friends to do likewise; all of you who spent time on the stage and playing music that evening; all of you who donated auction items; all of you who prepared, donated, and served food and drink; those of you who donated the space and those of you who made it look enchanting; those of you who spent the evening capturing people and events on film and video; those of you who worked on gathering material for the Women & First archive and for a project on the Women’s Movement in Chicago.
We at Women & Children First have full hearts and an enormous sense of gratitude for all your help and support. Thank you.
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Signed Copies Available Now
(get them while they last)
Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alson Bechdel
American Romances Essays by Rebecca Brown
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Hardball by Sara Parestsky
The Mere Future by Sarah Schulman
Ties That Bind by Sarah Schulman
Commencement by Courtney J. Sullivan
Call the store to order or leave a comment in the "Notes" section of your online order that you are requesting a signed copy
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Upcoming Events Title of Event: Nancy Werking Poling
When: Friday, November 20, 2009 7:30 PM
Location: Women & Children First
Description: Out of the Pumpkin Shell
Poling’s lovely, funny novel of friendship, aging, and reconciliation introduces Hat and Elise, two lifelong friends whose teaching careers end, simultaneously, in spectacular style. Facing menopause, and not liking what they see, the two women undertake a journey that forces them to face and ultimately accept the hard truth that memory can be misleading. For both friends the trip becomes a pilgrimage into the past, into the lives of women, into truth, into sisterhood, and most of all, into new possibility.
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Women & Children First has a long history and a reason for being--in addition, of course, to loving books and wanting to get the right ones into the right hands. We have also established The Women's Voices Fund to help support feminist programming at Women & Children First. Read about us to learn more.
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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The House of Paper
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Dominguez, Carlos Maria,
Sis, Peter,
Caistor, Nick
"I was utterly charmed by this short, lyrical, literary, almost otherworldly mystery of bibliomania taken to its extreme. With illustrations by Peter Sis." --Dale Szczeblowski, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA |
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