
Present Tense Copies of Ghostbread, the award-winning memoir by Sonja Livingston, are now available at Present Tense. Sonja will be here at 2pm on Saturday, November 21 as part of our Holiday Open House to sign copies and discuss her book. The book, which has been called the American Angela's Ashes, is set in western New York including chapters within the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge and the Seneca Reservation.
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Present Tense Shop locally this season! Check out our 2009 Holiday Catalog
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Present Tense November Indie Next Picks
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Located in Batavia, NY, halfway between the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, Present Tense is a locally-owned independent bookstore that unites an intimate, vintage atmosphere with the intellectual stimulation only books can provide.

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Celebrate local at the Holiday Open House at Present Tense! This year from noon to 2:00 pm Santa will visit and Art Ah La Carte will provide holiday crafts. Award-winning memoirist Sonja Livingston will sign copies of her new book, Ghostbread, which is set in Western New York, at 2:00 pm. The Genesee County Historians ...will be here throughout the day to sign copies of their local history books, discuss their research, and answer your questions. Get started on your holiday shopping, get signed copies of books for your family and friends, and enjoy great refreshments at your local, independent bookstore!Read More

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Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She
paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also
of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and
persecution.
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Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.

Present Tense We're reading The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent for our November meeting. (Note that this month we are meeting a week early, on Wednesday the 18th, due to the Thanksgiving holiday).

Present Tense Things Librarians Fancy
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If you just said “no”, I can’t hear you. If you just said “yes”, then today, my friend, is your lucky day. Cribbing heavily and blatantly from another website which shall remain nameless, I bring you Things Librarians Fancy.

Present Tense Karla Linn Merrifield (left) and Sally Bittner Bonn (right) after their Fall into Poetry reading at Present Tense on Saturday, October 17. Signed copies of their books are still available!

Present Tense We'll be at the library tomorrow at noon to review The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan as part of the Book Sandwiched In series.
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Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, The Day the Falls Stood Still is an epic love story as rich, spellbinding and majestic as the falls themselves.

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Press release about Etowah River Psalms, the new book of poetry by Karla Linn Merrifield who, along with Sally Bittner Bonn, will be reading at Present Tense on Saturday, October 17 at 2 pm. http://karlalinn.blogspot.com/2009/10/le t-your-river-journey-begin.html
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Over the past 15 years, I have been creating a body of poems rooted in place. To write these poems, I first experience specific habitats (e.g., the Everglades, Badlands, Okefenokee Swamp, Utah Canyonlands, ...




























