Weekend Book Events Sampler

There are a lot of book-related events planned for this weekend in New Hampshire. Here are a few for you to consider attending:

• On Friday, 10/8/10 at 6pm Water Street Bookstore will be hosting a reception for Elizabethe Plante, beloved manager of the bookstore, who is moving on to her next adventure. (Good Luck Elizabethe, I'll miss you!)
  
• MainStreet BookEnds of Warner will be hosting lots of events this weekend as part of the Warner Fall Foliage Festival. Things kick off at 11am on Saturday 10/9/10 with a reading by David Elliott and continue through the weekend.
  
• Jud Hale, of Yankee Magazine, will be at Toadstool Books, Peterborough at 11am on Saturday, 10/9/10 discussing Inside New England.
  
• Browsing Through the Leaves, the NH Statewide Library Book Sale Tour is this weekend
  
• Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Further Life, will be at Toadstool Books, Keene at 2pm on Saturday 10/9/10.
  
• Geraldine Brooks will accept the Sarah Josepha Hale Award in Newport at 8pm on 10/9/10 at the Newport Opera House on Main Street.
  
• The Village Book Store begins a month-long celebration of spooky New England with the presentation Spirits of the Granite State by bestselling author Roxie Zwicker who will take participants on a search of the legends and ghosts of New Hampshire. This free presentation will take place at the store on Sunday, 10/10/10 at 3 pm.
  
• Sunday, 10/10/10 beginning at 3pm the Frost Farm will host New Hampshire Dead Poets Rememberance Day.
  
• RiverRun will host a Local Authors Night with Kimberly Alexander, Jamie LaFleur, and Patricia Wall on Monday, 10/11/10 starting at 7pm.