PAST EVENTS

PELICAN GIRLS WITH JULIA MALYE
Wednesday May 15 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - The Red Wheelbarrow

Julia Malye will be joining The Red Wheelbarrow to discuss her novel Pelican Girls. Inspired by a true story, this stunning story captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, along with the dozens of other women aboard La Baleine, have no knowledge of what lies ahead and no control over their futures. Strangers brought together by fate, these brave and fierce young women will face extraordinary adversity—pirates, slavedrivers, sickness, war—but also the private trauma of heartbreak and unrequited love, children born and lost, cruelty and unexpected pleasure, and a friendship forged in fire that will sustain through the years.

Glorious Exploits with Ferdia Lennon & Nafkote Tamirat
Thursday May 16 2024 - 7:00 p.m.
Told in a contemporary Irish voice and as riotously funny as it is deeply moving, Glorious Exploits is an unforgettable ode to the power of art in a time of war, brotherhood in a time of enmity, and human will throughout the ages. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot.

BOOK LAUNCH! MISS MORGANS BOOK BRIGADE WITH JANET SKESLIEN CHARLES
Thursday June 6 2024 - 7:00 p.m.
In WWI France, just miles from the front, an international group of women band together to rebuild villages and save civilians when bombs start to fall. Librarian Jessie Carson changes the literary landscape of France by bringing solace and children's libraries to war-torn areas as well as to Paris.

June 06, 2019

Sunday 16th of June 3:30pm - 5pm / Story Time, Drawing, and Book Signing with Jeanne B. de Sainte Marie

June 06, 2019/ Penelope Fletcher

Join The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore on June 16th for a special story time with Jeanne B. de Sainte Marie, Illustrator of the fabulous children’s book Marielle in Paris. Check out the Facebook invite for more information!

Marielle the mouse is a dressmaker and she makes her home in an upside-down flowerpot in Paris. One day, the elegant Madame de Sooree asks Marielle to make nine dresses for her nine daughters—Berenice, Babette, Belle, Bernadette, Blanche, Blondelle, Brie, Brigitte, and Beatrice—for their birthday party.

Marielle tours the city, looking for creative inspiration. But with only ten days until the party, will she be able to deliver the dresses on time? Even after a big wind whooshes through her workroom? Her friend Pierre the pigeon can help, but only if Marielle can overcome her fear of heights to take a wild ride over Paris!

cecilia woloch, Marielle in Paris, 6/16/19

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PAST EVENTS

PELICAN GIRLS WITH JULIA MALYEWednesday May 15 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - The Red Wheelbarrow

The Red Wheelbarrow

PELICAN GIRLS WITH JULIA MALYE
Wednesday May 15 2024 - 7:00 p.m. - The Red Wheelbarrow