The Double Bind is also Great Neck Library’s community read project. Their website has a lot of great ideas for programs and links about the book. See any ideas for programs you think would work in the Mount Washington Valley? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Chris Bohjalian’s The Double Bind, with an author visit on Thursday, October 29, 2009. Check back for a calendar of events relating to the themes in the book.  There will be book discussions at each participating public library and at White Birch Books, too–plenty of opportunities to participate.

Kate Braestrup, author of this year’s One Book, One Valley community read, Here If You Need Me, will be speaking this Thursday (Nov. 13th) evening at 7 pm at the Lutheran Church of the Nativity in North Conway. If you’ve read the book or not, this is your chance to see a dynamic, thoughtful, funny speaker and have a chance to ask a few questions and even buy a copy of the book and have it signed.

Last evening, the Madison Library held its book discussion of Here If You Need Me. Comments included “This is an important book,” and “I loved this book!” One reader had marked his favorite passages, even though he could not come to the discussion. One thing that was clearly evident in both Kate Braestrup’s book and at the presentation by NH Fish and Game officers earlier in the month is that the people in the Warden Service or Fish & Game really love their jobs.

What did your book group discover? Leave a comment below.

Have you picked up your copy of Here If You Need Me yet? Stop in a local library to borrow one, or White Birch Books if you’d like to own a copy (author Kate Braestrup will be signing books at valley-wide event on November 13th.)

Discussions will be held next week (Tuesday, Oct. 14th) in Fryeburg and Effingham. And, next Wednesday, October 15th, the first “Search and Rescue in NH’s Forests” program presented by Fish & Game Officer Brian Abrams will take place in Madison at 7 pm.

Feedback from readers so far has been positive: “funny,” “real,” “not preachy,” and “lots to talk about.”

Here If You Need Me book cover

Copies of Here If You Need Me will be available to borrow from local libraries the second week of September. If you’d like to purchase a copy, White Birch Books has plenty available now. Books will be available for sale and signing at the author lecture on November 13th.

An audio book version of Here If You Need Me, read by author Kate Braestrup, is available in downloadable format from local libraries that belong to the NH Downloadable Audio Books program (more info here). White Birch Books has audio books for sale.

Kate Braestrup will visit the Mount Washington Valley on Thursday, November 13th for an evening presentation about her book, her writing, and her work as a Chaplain for the Maine Game Wardens.

Kate Braestrup, author of Here If You Need Me, is author of this year’s One Book One Valley community read. We’ll be posting a lot of links with info about the author and the book shortly, but for now here’s a YouTube link to start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58shzAUwGq4

Imagine if folks throughout Mount Washington Valley read the same book. Then talked about it. And THEN invited the author here and got to meet him or her. Well, this is one daydream that’s come true. In 2006, the book was A Stranger in the Kingdom and the author was Howard Frank Mosher. In 2007, the book was The Old American, the author was Ernest Hebert. The program is 1 Book 1 Valley. And it’s happening again this fall.