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SUMMARY:This is About Running.  This is Not About Running.
DESCRIPTION:From Nike Running’s Global Head Coach Chris Bennett comes a bold\, welcoming book for runners\, non-runners and everyone in between. Rooted in the coaching philosophy that has helped millions take their first steps forward\, it’s about finding the courage to cross the starting lines in your life. \nThis Is About Running. This Is Not About Running is a deeply motivating\, funny\, and unexpectedly moving book about what happens when we dare to step up to the starting lines in our lives. Drawing on the philosophy that has inspired millions around the world\, Coach Bennett reframes running not as a test of speed\, distance or competition—but as a practice in showing up\, moving forward and discovering what’s possible when you take a chance on yourself. \nWith his signature mix of positivity\, pop-culture wisdom\, and back-to-basics insight\, Bennett strips away the pressure that keeps so many people stuck. Instead\, he offers a refreshing invitation: you don’t have to be fast\, fit\, or fearless to be a runner. You just have to start. And once you do\, running has a way of teaching you about far more than running: about resilience\, confidence\, self-trust\, and the quiet power of momentum. \nWhether you’re lacing up for the first time\, returning after years away\, or simply looking for a new way to think about progress\, this book is a reminder that forward is forward\, and that something extraordinary can happen when you take that first step. \nBecause the best running isn’t really about running at all. It’s about life. \nRegister for this event here on the Ridgefield Library website.
URL:https://booksonthecommon.com/events/this-is-about-running-this-is-not-about-running/
LOCATION:Ridgefield Library\, 472 Main Street\, Ridgefield\, CT\, 06877\, United States
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SUMMARY:In the Time of Sonic Booms
DESCRIPTION:Five years in the writing\, In the Time of Sonic Booms from Ridgefield Poet Laureate Emerita Barb Fulton Jennes is a collection of poems evoking an upbringing in “a podunk town east of Albany” in the Fifties and Sixties. \nBut as poet Sean Thomas Doughtery notes in his blurb\, “Don’t be fooled. There is no nostalgia here. These are brutal narratives. A boy who shot his brother. A father who ‘thought of guns and knives as children’s gifts.’ A violence so common it is almost matter of fact. This is a landscape of work and getting by.” Poet Charles Raffterty adds\, “Every house we encounter is hiding something both dark and commonplace.” \nStill\, there is goodness and love. Patrick Donnelly\, another award-winning poet\, writes\, “Most thrilling in these poems are the stories in which these folks\, harried by life and bad luck\, carve out small moments of hand-me-down\, unkempt tenderness. I come away from this book loving these insufferable people\, doing for one another the best they could\, though it was far from enough.” \nThe poems of Barb Fulton Jennes appear widely in literary journals and anthologies. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Blinded Birds\, which received the 2022 International Book Award; FLOWN\, an elegy-in-verse to her late sister; and Dirty Bird & Myrt\, just released by dancing girl press. Her debut full-length collection In the Time of Sonic Booms was praised by poet Patrick Donnelly as “…a passionate evocation of a small-town\, mid-century American childhood made dangerous by hapless parents\, ignorant neighbors\, cruel children\, canting churches\, and the occasional escaped criminal.” The poet laureate emerita of Ridgefield\, Jernnes directs the Poetry in the Garden festival each summer and hosts “Poems from Connecticut’s Four Corners\,” a monthly online reading series hosted by Ridgefield Library. \nJoin Barb as Ridgefield Library plays host to the launch of this startling new collection. \nRegister for this event here on the Ridgefield Library website.
URL:https://booksonthecommon.com/events/in-the-time-of-sonic-booms/
LOCATION:Ridgefield Library\, 472 Main Street\, Ridgefield\, CT\, 06877\, United States
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SUMMARY:The English Problem
DESCRIPTION:Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review; Ploughshares; Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American\, eds. Gillan (1999); Growing Up Ethnic in America\, eds. Gillan (2000); The Lifted Brow (2008); World Literature Today and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo\, MacDowell\, Ledig House/Writers Omi\, Hawthornden Castle\, Jentel Arts and Hedgebrook. A former senior editor for the Penguin Group\, she taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades and was presented an award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel. \nhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212806722-the-english-problem \nThis event is co-sponsored with Ekta Community Center\, a secular nonprofit organization based in Ridgefield with a mission to nurture and promote public interest in Indian and Indo American culture and affairs. Its goal is to serve as a hub for community building\, enrichment\, volunteering and support services. \nRegister for this event here on the Ridgefield Library website.
URL:https://booksonthecommon.com/events/the-english-problem/
LOCATION:Ridgefield Library\, 472 Main Street\, Ridgefield\, CT\, 06877\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ricochet: Guns\, Greed\, and the American Way of Violence
DESCRIPTION:Three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Mike McIntire delivers the definitive story of the forces that shape gun culture and the American way of violence. \nNot too long ago\, you could still envision a future for America not marked by gun idolatry\, blood-stained classrooms\, and empty offers of thoughts and prayers. Yet a witches’ brew of politics\, money\, and ideology has warped gun culture in the United States\, hijacking the Second Amendment and allowing fear and insecurity to drive the reckless marketing of powerful weapons. How did our country come to have more guns than people and become one in which just pulling into the wrong driveway can get you shot? \nIn Ricochet\, Mike McIntire provides a bold new road map for understanding our fraught relationship with guns and violence in America. McIntire crafts a gripping narrative of how the imperatives of war\, slavery\, crime\, commerce and politics intertwined with the development of ever-more lethal firearms\, leaving the country divided and traumatized. He shares explosive new revelations about the NRA’s accumulation of power and turn to radicalism; Wall Street’s efforts to turbocharge the market for assault weapons and online gun sales; the gun lobby’s secretive campaign to change public attitudes by indoctrinating children; and how dark money\, questionable scholarship\, and front groups are being used to knock down gun laws. At once a cautionary tale of unfettered liberty\, swagger and free markets contributing to our violent undoing\, Ricochet also delivers a prescription for how we might yet save ourselves. \nA work of deep\, revelatory investigative reporting\, powerful storytelling\, and incisive analysis\, Ricochet is in essence a story about America\, an excavation of the cultural and political dynamics that are at the root of our contemporary crises. \nRegister for this event here on the Ridgefield Library website. \n 
URL:https://booksonthecommon.com/events/ricochet-guns-greed-and-the-american-way-of-violence/
LOCATION:Ridgefield Library\, 472 Main Street\, Ridgefield\, CT\, 06877\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Two Saddest Kitchens
DESCRIPTION:#1 New York Times bestselling\, award-winning author Roz Chast teams up with her fellow New Yorker cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein to take on a hugely relatable subject—kitchen anxiety. Together\, they rip the Tupperware lid off what’s really going on in their kitchens. \nThe kitchen is the “heart of the home\,” or at least it’s supposed to be. But wait! What’s that lurking under the sink? Behind the cabinets? In the back of the refrigerator?! When celebrated New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein confessed to each other that their kitchens were far from Martha Stewart perfect\, they knew they couldn’t be the only ones cracking under the pressure of their pressure cookers. \nIn The Two Saddest Kitchens\, Roz and Jason combine their hilarious cartoon sensibilities to take (chicken) stock of everything from tragic pantries to the secret double life of Mr. Clean. Let Roz and Jason guide you through their divine kitchen comedy as they ponder the fancy utensils that will never be used\, the recipes that will never be followed\, and the dream kitchens that exist only on the astral plane\, which is maybe for the best. \nRegister for this event here on the Ridgefield Library website.
URL:https://booksonthecommon.com/events/the-two-saddest-kitchens/
LOCATION:Ridgefield Library\, 472 Main Street\, Ridgefield\, CT\, 06877\, United States
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