June Events Calendar
Saturday, June 1
- 3 PM Piano Recital by Students of Kelly Schmitt
Sunday, June 2
- 2-3 PM Family & Friends: Play our games & receive a discount on any that you purchase
Monday, June 3
- 2 PM Avalon Book Club
- The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Tuesday, June 4
Wednesday, June 5
- 5:45 PM Wednesday Evening Book Club
- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Thursday, June 6
- Afternoon Great Harvest delivery
Friday, June 7
- 6:30 -9 PM FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
- Music by Bill & Lin O’Connor
Sunday, June 9
- 2-3 PM Family & Friends: Play our games & receive a discount on any that you purchase
Tuesday, June 11
- 6:30 PM WDBA meeting
Thursday, June 13
- Afternoon Great Harvest delivery
- 12:30 PM Lost Faculties Book Club
Friday, June 14
- 6:30 -9 PM FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
- Music by Mike & Kathy Gallenberger
Sunday, June 16
- 2-3 PM Family & Friends: Play our games & receive a discount on any that you purchase
- YOU + 1 (or MORE!)begins this week
- Summer Activities for Kids – check out our offerings and register now!
Monday, June 17
- 10:30 AM Monday Morning Book Club
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Thursday, June 20
- Afternoon Great Harvest delivery
- 1:30 PM No Tears, No Fears Book Club
- Varina by Charles Frazier
Friday, June 21
- 6:30 -9 PM FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
- Music by Big Kenny & Friends
Sunday, June 23
- 2-3 PM Family & Friends: Play our games & receive a discount on any that you purchase
Thursday, June 27
- Afternoon Great Harvest delivery
Friday, June 28
- 6:30 -9 PM FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
- Music by Fair Webber
Sunday, June 30
- 1 PM Author Event featuring Charlotte Avery & her first publication of poetry, THE SUITCASE – (The public is welcome to attend)
TWO NEW BOOKS ABOUT LES PAUL!
LES PAUL GUITAR GENIUS
This is the story of how Les Paul created the world's first solid- body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor? A few tools, a lot of curiosity, and an endless faith in what is possible. Featuring richly detailed, dynamic illustrations by Brett Helquist, this unforgettable biography will resonate with inventive readers young and old.EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SEQUELS...
MOLOKA’I
It has been over fifteen years since Alan Brennert penned his novel MOLOKA’I in which a girl named “Rachel Kalama at age seven discovers she has leprosy while growing up in Honolulu during the 1890s. Despite being part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, her dreams of meeting her father are shattered when she is sent to live in a leper colony.” Mr. Brennert’s sequel tells the story of Ruth, “the daughter that Rachel Kalama was forced to give up at birth. Ruth is adopted by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California. She marries, but is unjustly interned at Manzanar Relocation Camp during World War II. After the war, she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth's birth mother, Rachel.”WISHTREE
WISHTREE is a children’s book written by Katherine Applegate that has now been published as an adult paperback. In similar fashion to Lois Lowry’s THE GIVER, this is a story that transcends specific age groups. Ms. Applegate’s novel illustrates the need for tolerance and acceptance in today’s world, now more than ever.
“Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . .
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"--people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming; Red's experience as a wishtree becomes crucial.”
Martha Merrell's Community Involvement
Martha Merrell’s Books is a community-minded independent bookstore, meaning that we host, participate, or are involved in many community events.
Examples of the depth of our commitment to Waukesha and the community include:
Event and Community
- Waukesha Downtown Business Association
- Waukesha Friday Night Live
- ProHealth Care RiverWalk for Breast Cancer, 1st Saturday in May each year
- Alzheimer’s Walk, 1st Saturday in September each year
- Waukesha’s Friday Night After Dark Music Series (indoor music from October – December)
- Downtown Trick or Treating on the Saturday before Halloween
- Holiday Stroll featuring Author Mania (before the Christmas Parade)
- Christmas Clearing Council
- Silver Bells activities during the Christmas season
- Santa’s Breakfast Workshop on Saturdays from Thanksgiving to Christmas
- Art Crawls on the 1st Saturday in March, May, August, October & December
- Waukesha JanBoree
Other Community
- Waukesha Farmers’ Market on the RiverWalk
- Waukesha GuitarTown Project (a public art project with Gibson Guitar Company)
- Waukesha County Reading Council
- Waukesha Reads Program each October
- Wisconsin State Reading Association
If at all possible, we try to be supportive of any proposals brought to our attention.
Norm and Eve Bruce
Check Out Martha Merrell’s Facebook Page Feed on our website!
A special group is always playing at the Martha Merrell's Books Stage, part of Waukesha's Friday Night Live. Also stop in and say thank you to Karen White at the Little Swiss Clock Shop honor her 51 years of service to downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin and surrounding area.The FNL weather & music forecast looks perfect! ⏰Join us as we celebrate “51 Years of Timeless Memories” at the Little Swiss Clock Shop @ 6:30! 🇺🇸Magellan’s will be collecting used instruments for Veterans.🇺🇸
This Saturday at Waukesha Farmers' Market 10am SUMMERFEST TICKETSJoin CW18 & My24 TV at the Farmers Market in Downtown Waukesha Saturday (06.15.19) at 10am to score FREE Summerfest Tickets & more!
Check out our website (www.marthamerrellsbooks.com/) or our front door 🙂 to see what activities we are offering for kids this summer.
We have a variety of fun classes that are affordable, fun and meant to fit your individual schedule!
YOU + 1 (or MORE!)
Summer Activities at Martha Merrell’s
For YOU and a Friend (or Friends)
-You decide the dates/times we meet-
CALL 547-1060 for more details & to register!
READERS,
* (Grades 1-3) Choose any of the titles in the Humphrey’s Tiny Tales series by Betty Birney to read and discuss and enjoy related activities
* (Grades 3-5) Choose any of the titles in the Humphrey original series by Betty Birney to read and discuss as well as enjoy related Humphrey activities
* (Grades 5-6) Choose one of these titles to read and discuss and then learn how to play SCRABBLE or become an expert!
You Go First by Erin Kelly OR The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman by Meg Wolitzer
WRITERS and READERS,
* Read and discuss Gone Camping: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Wissinger before we try creating our own original poems in the different styles found in the book!
PERFORMERS and READERS,
* (Grades 2-5) Be a part of our Readers’ Theatre group that tries out different short plays and possibly tries writing an original one of our own!
* Cost per activity: the price of the related book
MATH FANS,
* Choose an area that you want to practice or become an expert in:
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Graphing, or Algebra
* (Grades 1-5) Besides working on math activities, we will be making and playing math games for you to take home!
PUZZLE LOVERS,
* You get to choose from a variety of puzzles: jigsaw, crossword, sudoku, word search, mazes, logic, hidden pictures, or dot-to-dot
* (Grades 2-5) Whatever kind of puzzle you enjoy, that is what you will be challenging your brainy self with!
GAME LOVERS,
* (Grades 2-5) You will be playing both old favorites and games that you haven’t yet tried. Best of all, you will also make some games that you can play with your friends and family!
* Cost per activity: the price of the related book and/or the price of supplies
CALL 547-1060 for more details & to register!
Waukesha's Friday Night Live schedule is out, check Martha Merrell's Books line up for this year.Friday Night Live is just one week away!!!
Stephanie Bruce's promotion to Associate Professor at Alverno College on May 21st.
Mom & Dad are very proud of her accomplishment and looking for her next WOW moment. She also will be doing an International Nurses Conference as a presenter this Summer in California.
Oh my , what a proud moment for all ..... so excited for her !
Please come to our shop this Sunday at 4pm to discuss The Giver quartet of books.
Join us next Friday as BIG KENNY & FRIENDS take the stage at Martha Merrell's from 6:30 - 9pm featuring Dan & Deb Aukofer.
As part of their Dinner & Live Music series, your hosts Norm and Eve Bruce will also be laying out a great dinner spread you won't want to miss so please call ahead to reserve a table or seat: 262-547-1060.
Here's what's for dinner:
* Entree: BBQ Pork Sandwich
* American Potato Salad
* Pasta Salad
* Veggies with Dip
* Rhubarb Desserts
* Choice of Beverages
Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM,
Join us for a conversation about THE GIVER as a book and as the Civic Theatre's current production.
This is open to all that are interested in attending.
Store owner Norm Bruce interviews Guitar Genius author Kim Tomsic about her new book and how it came to life.
Fair Webber / Barb and Tom Webber Singer-Songwriter Fan Page are at Martha Merrell's Books tonight until 9pm
