No.

Date

Title

Speaker(s)

32

9/2012

Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy

Besty Cussler, discussion leader

31

6/2012

Carmella Tursi Hobbins, Celebrations with Carmella

Carmella Tursi Hobbins, Author

30

3/2012

Emily Meier, Clair Loving, novellas and short story collections

Emily Meier, Author; Readers: Paulette Bates Alden, Jesmia Avery, Peter Brown, Brian Felland, Gregory Hewett, Eileen Hunter, Julia Hunter, Kathleen Jesme, Warren Lang, G.E. Patterson, Cheri Register, Richard Solly, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen and Bonnie West.

29

3/2012

Sujata Massey, Rei Shimura Mysteries, Samurai's Daughter

Sujata Massey, Author

28

11/2011

John Reimringer, Vestments

John Reimringer, Author

27

10/2011

Doug Ohman and Nancy Carlson, Libraries of Minnesota

Doug Ohman, Photographer

26

9/2011

Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

Laura Goode, Author; Betsy Cussler, Interviewer

25

9/2011

Sheila O'Connor, Sparrow Road

Shelia O'Connor, Author; Betsy Cussler, Interviewer

24

6/2011

Minnesota Authors and Edina Reads Summer Party

Patrick Coleman, Curator, Minnesota State Historical Society

23

3/2011

Laurie Hertzel, News to Me:  Adventures of an Accidental Journalist

Laurie Hertzel, Author

22

3/2011

Dr. John Najarian, The Miracle of Transplantation:  The Odyssey of a Transplant Surgeon

Dr. John Najarian, Author

21

9/2010

Views from the Loft

Jocelyn Hale, Executive Director, The Loft; Sandra Benitez, Shannon Olson, Katrina Vandenburg and Pamela Holt, Authors

20

7/2010

Jim Klobuchar, Heroes Among Us, Pursued by Grace, etc.

Jim Klobuchar, Author

19

6/2010

Jude Nutter, I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman

Jude Nutter, Author

Maureen Millea Smith (New fiction)

18

3/2010

Nicole Helget, The Turtle Catcher and A Summer of Ordinary Ways

Nicole Helget, Author

17

1/2010

Fred Senn, Juicing the Orange: How to Turn Creativity Into a Powerful Business Advantage

Fred Senn, Author

16

10/09

Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer

Kao Kalia Yang, Author

15

8/09

A Good Walk Spoiled:  Golf and Literature

Chris Fishbach, Tom Prin & Dan Smith

Dick Crockett, Moderator

14

7/09

New Fiction

Jude Nutter & Maureen Millea Smith, Authors

13

5/09

Alison McGhee, Julia Gillian and the Art of Knowing

Alison McGhee, Author

12

10/08

The Africa Experience

Jeff Dykstra, Joanna Johnson & Jerry Strauss;  Tim Murphy, Moderator

11

10/08

Pen Pals Intergenerational Discussion

Alexandra Fuller, Author

10

9/08

Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

Addie Ingebrand, Discussion Leader

9

9/07

Twin Cities by Trolley

John Diers and Aaron Isaacs, Author

8

9/07

Stanley Gordon West, Until They Bring the Streetcars Back

Stanley Gordon West, Author

7

10/06

What Makes Great Literature?

Authors David Bengsten, Rosanna Saffa, Maureen Millea Smith, & Dick Crockett, moderator

6

9/06

Family Memoir Writing Workshop

Jacey Choi. Leader

5

9/06

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Concert and Intergenerational Dialogue

Evelina Chao, Viola

Mary Brindle, Dialogue leader

4

9/06

Evelina Chao, Yeh-Yeh’s House

Family Decisions That Have Shaped Our Lives

Evelina Chao, Author

3

12/05

Khaleed Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Pen Pals Intergenerational Discussion

Khaleed Hosseini, Author

2

10/05

Understanding Cultural

Diversity in Edina

Ghafar Lakanwai, Ph.D.

1

10/05

Khaleed Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Character and Courage in Personal and Professional Life

Michael O’Rourke, Author,

Emily Triggs, EHS Varsity Athlete,

Pamela Alexander, Hennepin Co. Dist. Judge

Dick Crockett, moderator