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Friends of the Library, Southeast Steuben County Corning, New York CORNING BECOMES BOOK TOWN FOR A DAY August 27th, 2005. from 10am to 4pm, Corning’s Civic Center will be humming. The Friends of the Library, Southeast Steuben County, is sponsoring the second “Celebration of Books”, while the Library is hosting an “End of Summer Fun Day”. The joint event, to be held at the Rink, Library and adjacent Civic Center Plaza, will bring together booksellers, authors, readers and families for a day of browsing and buying, listening and conversing, food and fun. There will be 25 booths filled with booksellers whose wares range from self-published works for children and adults to specialized reference works for birders, cooks, ceramicists and glass enthusiasts, via general used or antiquarian fiction and non-fiction. Other genres to look out for are military, Americana, local interest, sci-fi, humor, mystery. thriller, Christian, first editions, philosophy, religion, art and nature. For children, there will be book fairs from Reed Street Books (a division of Scholastic) and Usborne Books, specialists in books for pre-schoolers. Visitors can also watch and meet bookbinder Jim Meyer of Auburn, NY as well as try their hand at making a sheet of paper. They can bid on collectible items in a silent auction or try their luck with raffle items. They can stop for coffee in the “Authors’ Lounge” and listen to more than a dozen authors read short passages from their books. These will be available for purchase from the “Lounge Store”. Look out for prolific writer of somewhat eerie fantasies for older kids, Vivian Vande Velde, picture book authors Stu Smith, Robin Pulver and Marsha Hayles; memoirists John Senka and Nina McPhilmy, kids joke expert Jackie Horsfall, historian Kirk House, kids story writer Elizabeth Whitehouse and adventure writer Alan de Wolfe. Authors will be easily, and creatively, identified and will happily autograph and talk about their books. Entertainment will be provided by the Doc Possum band and the Mad Hatter Story Tellers. Look, too, for magic and animal shows.
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