"The Winds of Dune" is a science fiction novel written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Scheduled for release on August 3, 2009, it is the second book in the Heroes of Dune series. This event will be limited to 100 people. RSVP at Just Books, 203-637-0707

It has been many years since the authors have toured the East Coast and this will be their first appearance in Greenwich, CT.

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.

Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paul's former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. Herbert and Anderson's newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia.

SANDY EHLERS, a native of Hoboken, NJ, is a comedienne/writer who performs stand-up all over the tri-state area. Her television credits include ABC's "The View" and "Jane Hanson's New York." She also performs for charity events such as Gilda's Club (NY & NJ) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.

Jane Condon -- Greenwich's own JANE CONDON has been called "an upper-crust Roseanne" by the New York Daily News. The New York Times says, "Condon had the audience cackling, guffawing and in hysterics as she sliced through marriage, husband, kids, politics and other topics." She will be at Gurney's in Montauk on July 8th, the Greenwich Hospital (NICU) fundraiser on July 10th, the Nantucket Comedy Festival on July 29th, and Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham, Massachusetts on August 21st.

Headlining the show will be 2008 MAC Award nominee for "Best Stand-Up," BECKY DONOHUE. This hilarious headliner (fasten your seat belts) has over a decade of stand-up comedy experience performing at clubs and colleges all over the country, as well as abroad. TV appearances include Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Premium Blend, Shorties Watchin' Shorties, A&E's 15 Films About Madonna. Becky has also appeared as a commmentator on TLC's Trading Spaces, Comedy Central's Weekly Evil, and MTV3. Check her out in movie theaters this summer a part of STANDUP 360!

A great night of comedy. Tickets cost $20. Reservations are required - please call 203-637-8766 or email Jenny Lawton, as the show usually sells out. If you need a laugh, please join these three very fine comedians.
The landmark Arcadia Cafe, owned and operated by Jenny Lawton and her new partners Rob and Amy Guerrieri, is located in the heart of historic Old Greenwich, Conn. The recently renovated interior is a highly regarded exhibit space for local artists. In addition to coffee, tea, and its treasured desserts, Arcadia Cafe offers artisanal cheeses, gourmet sandwiches and salads, and a European-style cafe menu. Arcadia also rents its space in the evenings for private parties and meetings. Arcadia, which means paradise, simplicity and contentment, is a haven that reflects its name. Arcadia Cafe is located at 20 Arcadia Road in Old Greenwich, Conn. For more information on Arcadia or any of its offerings, please call 203-637-8766

After years of research and emotional journeys to Italy , I was ready to tell the lost story of good amidst evil in a war-torn Italy . A story of Italian concentration camps, families torn apart and re-united. A story of survival and goodness in a World War II Italy and miraculous discoveries in the New York City area over six decades later. "It Happened in Italy " is newly published and I can't wait to tell the story.

Elizabeth Bettina is a native New Yorker who lived in Italy . Elizabeth graduated from Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts . Presently, she works in marketing in New York .

Wake Up! Wake Up! The Testimony of a Layman is the account of author Thomas Balderston's struggle with faith and his attempt to alert readers to the world and the opportunities the Triune God has made possible. The author's GPS, containing many strategic dots - that, when connected, opened his eyes to the truth - was the Word. The resurrection was the highest peak on the many mountains he crossed. The Testimony of a Layman is the honest chronicle of how one man's heart and mind were opened. Take a ride with the author; the scenery may be enough to remind readers that even with pain, there is beauty and love inside and outside their windows.

GREG ZUCKERMAN

Greg Zuckerman "The Greatest Trade Ever" Dec 14 Just Books Event at Arcadia Cafe @ 7PM

About the author: GREGORY ZUCKERMAN has been a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for the past twelve years. He writes the widely read "Heard on the Street" column about hedge funds and big financial trades, and he appears on CNBC twice a week. He was part of a team that won the New York Press Club Journalism Award and is a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the credit crisis and other financial stories. Visit: www.gregoryzuckerman.com

PRAISE:

"Greg Zuckerman's book is much, much more than a brilliant account of Paulson's trade of the century; it also provides a highly enjoyable and lucid journey through the analytical and emotional maze that constituted the financial markets on the eve of the Great Recession. The book is compulsory reading for those looking for exceptional insights on the complex forces that interconnect Wall Street, hedge funds, and Main Street ."

-Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of Pacific Investment Management Company and bestselling author of When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

"Gregory Zuckerman takes us to Wall Street's heart of darkness, where mushroomed a $1 trillion subprime mortgage market that only the few, the brave, the smart dared short. The story of John Paulson and the few colorful contrarians who made outsized bets and outrageous profits on the subprime implosion is at once a great page-turner and a great illuminator of the market's crash."

-John Helyar, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

"Greg Zuckerman was the first to tell the world about John Paulson's sensational trade...He's written the definitive account of a strange and wonderful subplot of the financial crisis."

-Michael Lewis, bestselling author of Moneyball and Home Game

"I couldn't put it down. All I can say is, WOW! What a story! Incredibly illuminating."

-Whitney Tilson, hedge fund manager and author of More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

"...Zuckerman has a story to tell, a thread to follow, and it just happens to turn out that by following the saga of John Paulson, Zuckerman reveals all kinds of fascinating perspectives on complex finance, the real estate bubble and Wall Street and Washington 's difficulties in putting the two together."

-TheDeal.com

The Greatest Trade Ever

The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History

By Gregory Zuckerman

Published by Broadway Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc.

Hardcover; $26.00; 304 pages; on sale: November 3, 2009

www.gregoryzuckerman.com

Exhibit starts on Monday, December 7, 2009 and closes at the end of January 2010.

Enzo's opening reception on Thursday, January 14, 2009. Book signing and author's night with the bookstore next store scheduled for the same night. Showcasing the art work of Enzo Russo and author book signing and discussion of "Oil Painting Principles and Techniques --- Lessons of Enzo Russo" by Robinson, Peter S.; Renton, David M.; De Jonge, Eline;

Visit the Artist's website at http://www.enzorussofineart.com/

BalanJANE CONDON AND FRIENDS presents MICHELE BALAN! Back by popular demand, Michele Balan appeared at Arcadia before she hit it big as The Last Woman Comic Standing on NBC's Last Comic Standing! You loved her then, and you'll love her even more now. Balan is known as a brash New York standup comedian who has headlined all over the country and in all the top comedy clubs, theaters, cruises, country clubs, private events and festivals, including the prestigious Montreal Comedy Festival. From the West Coast (The Improv in Hollywood) to the East Coast (Caroline's on Broadway), Balan is a beloved comedian among comedians.

She has made many TV appearances, including Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, her own special on LOGO TV and as a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Grab your girlfriends, husbands, and significant others, fasten your seat belts, and get ready to laugh with this rapid-fire comedian.

Also appearing will be Jane Condon (Audience Favorite on NBC's Last Comic Standing, ABC's The View and Lifetime TV's Girls' Night Out). Called an "uppercrust Roseanne," Condon will be performing her new one-person show (Janie Condon: Raw & Unchained) at Rye Arts Center on March 12th and at the Unitarian Church in Nantucket on March 29th. But she'll be back in Greenwich at Arcadia Coffeehouse, 20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, with her friend Michele (and one other special guest) on Friday, March 26th, at 7:30 PM.

A great night of comedy. Tickets cost $20. Reservations are required - please call 203-637-8766 or email Jenny Lawton, as the show usually sells out. If you need a laugh, this is the place to be.
The landmark Arcadia Cafe, is located in the heart of historic Old Greenwich, Conn. The recently renovated interior is a highly regarded exhibit space for local artists. In addition to coffee, tea, and its treasured desserts, Arcadia Cafe offers gourmet sandwiches and salads, and a European-style cafe menu. Arcadia also rents its space in the evenings for private parties and meetings. Arcadia, which means paradise, simplicity and contentment, is a haven that reflects its name. Arcadia Cafe is located at 20 Arcadia Road in Old Greenwich, Conn. For more information on Arcadia or any of its offerings, please call 203-637-8766

Come learn about modular construction from the experts!

Dave Wrocklage of Epoch Homes and Jim Hines, a local builder will discuss various aspects of prefab construction and talk about how to construct it "Green"

Award winning author Sheri Koones will also speak and will sign copies of her latest book - Prefabulous + Sustainable: Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy Efficient Home.

The entrance fee is $25, which includes Sheri's book.

Reservations are required at Just Books - 203-637-0707.

The first 20 callers will get a $5 reduction in the cost of the book/admission.

BON COURAGE
Rediscovering the Art of Living in the Heart of France
Ken McAdams
Illustrations by Marian 'Bing' Bingham

Two years and one home-renovation from hell into their marriage, Ken McAdams and Marian 'Bing' Bingham, head to the French countryside in an effort to renew their sanity and to celebrate their long-delayed honeymoon. Their destination: an off-season two-month rental tucked in the small village of La Montagne Noire (the Black Mountain) not far from Toulouse.

BON COURAGE (Moyer Bell/Beaufort Books/June 2010/$22.95) is the story of that trip - one that extended way beyond two months and would change their lives in a way that two people already a ways down the road of life could not possibly have imagined.

Upon arrival at La Montagne Noire, a village off the beaten tourist path, Ken and Bing strive to leave their past baggage behind and begin their new life together while pursuing their individual passions. Ken, a former airline pilot and business executive, writes full time and Bing already an acclaimed artist, finds inspiration in the surrounding lush landscapes and further hones her craft.

In time the village captures their hearts, which leads to them buying yet another wreck that needs massive renovations. Little did they anticipate what lay at the end of that rainbow.

McAdams' recounting of the mishaps and misadventures of their daunting renovation and how it begins to threaten their new marriage forms the center of the book. Misunderstandings lead to knock downs, but fortunately not knockouts. Picking themselves and their relationship back up, the project ultimately brings Ken and Bing closer to each other and to finding a place in the community they have grown to love.

McAdams concisely captures the essence of French village life, the awkwardness of being foreigners in a close-knit town and the struggles they face to fit in. We too come to know the inhabitants: the shopkeepers, the gypsies across the street, the shadowy figure known only as - L'agent secret, the elegant Madame Fontaine who bravely fought with the Resistance, Michel Bond the owner of the Brasserie and an (unwitting) "Fascist" and other villagers who come to embrace Ken and Bing as two of their own.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ken McAdams is a graduate of Yale and a former Marine Corps Naval Aviator who broke four world records and received decoration as the first civilian volunteer to fly Marines into Iraq. Pan Am's youngest Divisional Chief Pilot, he was later appointed national Transportation Safety Board investigator and became Chief Operating Officer KIWI International Airlines before retiring to write full time. He lives in Greenwich, CT and France.

BON COURAGE
Rediscovering the Art of Living In the Heart of France
Ken McAdams
Illustrations by Marian 'Bing' Bingham
June 2010
$22.95 Moyer Bell, an imprint of Beaufort Books
ISBN: 978-1-55921-398-1