Sponsored by the Biology Department and the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College. To be held in Haledman 041.

The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, the HeLa cell line is still alive today, though Henrietta Lacks has been dead for more than sixty years and her family did not learn of the experiments using her cells until more than twenty years after her death. Science journalist Rebecca Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks, her children and grandchildren, the multi-million dollar bioengineering industry, the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.

(Free and open to the public, reservations not required. The Norwich Bookstore will be providing books for sale at the event; author signing to follow lecture.)

Co-sponsored by and held at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT

In this wonderful pairing of words and images, Sarah Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle tell the story of Amelia Earhart’s triumphant crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 from the perspective of a young female journalist. With a powerful introduction, historical discussion points, and a bibliography and suggested reading list, this graphic biography will be a great addition to any library.

(Free and open to the public, reservations not required. The Norwich Bookstore will be providing books for sale at the event.)

A Norwich Bookstore event to be held at the Hanover Inn, pre-registration required, $35.

The Norwich Bookstore is honored to host the premier reading by Jodi Picoult of her new novel on the day is is released. House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works - or doesn’t - for different styles of communicators.

The non-refundable registration fee covers entry at the event, refreshments (coffee, juice and pastry), and a copy of the new book – to be signed by the author after the reading.

(Please call the bookstore to register, the seats will fill quickly!)

A "First Friday" reception 6-8, author talk at 7.

Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of 20th-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and vivid colors, R. Sikoryak’s parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield.

(Reservations are not necessary for this gathering. For more information, please call the bookstore, 802-649-1114 or the CCS, 802-295-3319.) 

A Norwich Bookstore event to be held at the Marion Cross School

This stunning and lyrical Civil War novel by Howard Frank Mosher is a story of brotherhood and survival, action and adventure. While searching for his lost brother, the protagonist encounters a fantastical array of characters, including a weeping elephant, a pacifist gunsmith, a woman who lives in a tree, a blind cobbler, and a beautiful and intriguing slave girl. At the same time, he wrestles with the choices that will ultimately define him: how to reconcile the laws of nature with religious faith and how to temper justice with mercy.

(This event will be held in the multi-purpose room to accommodate the author’s slide presentation. Reservations are recommended.)