Day: February 20, 2012

Karen Pischke submits-

Enjoy a cup of coffee and ‘Joy’ at the Lone Gull this month! The month of February the Lone Gull on Main Street, Gloucester is hosting work by Gloucester photographer Michael Chamness of Wings & Waves. His series of ‘backyard birds’ gives you an ‘up close and personal’ view. I particularly like the ‘Love Doves’ and the Baltimore Oriole. If you look close at the breast of the Oriole you’ll see a ‘heart.’ As an ‘Animal Totem’, the Oriole represents ‘Joy’ and is thought to bring ‘positive change’ and ‘a renewed sense of joy’ into your life.

Gloucester resident, Nanci Milone Hill’s first book will be published by Libraries Unlimited on March 28th. 

Women’s fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of women—friendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships. For this reason, the genre is a hotbed of engaging subjects for book group discussions. Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women’s Fiction brings together information on over 100 women’s fiction titles, providing everything a book group needs to encourage focused, stimulating meetings.

Reading Women marshals information that has been, up to this point, either nonexistent or scattered in book club guides. Readers will learn the difference between women’s fiction, romance, and chick lit, as well as why these genres provide a rich trove of discussion topics for book groups. Specific entries cover titles from all three genres, offering an author biography, a book summary, bibliographic material, discussion questions, and read-alike information for each book.
Nanci currently serves as the Director of the Boxford Town Libraries.  She writes bi-monthly columns for Public Libraries and Library Journal.  She is a regular contributor to NoveList, an EBSCO Readers’ Advisory database.

On the next Cape Ann Profiles show host Rich Sagall interviews Mike Rogers and Kathleen Toomey, founder of Bike Gloucester, a non-profit that encourages and promotes bicycling in Gloucester. In addition, they accept unused bicycles for distribution to those unable to afford one.
Cape Ann Profiles can be seen on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Friday, February 24 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, February 26 at 2:00PM. It repeats on Friday, March 2 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, March 4 at 2:00PM.
Rich Sagall is a physician and the president of NeedyMeds, a national non-profit that provides information on programs that help people unable to afford their health care costs. He also publishes Pediatrics for Parents, a children’s health newsletter.