Barnes & amp;Noble events

Barnes & amp;Noble events
BOARDMAN -- Upcoming activities planned at Barnes & amp;Noble Booksellers in The Shops at Boardman Park, 381 Boardman-Canfield Road, include:
Delta Zeta Book Group meeting, 7 p.m., Thursday. This month's selections will be the books of Will Hobbs, guest author at Youngstown State University English Festival: "Far North," "Jackie's Wild Seattle" and "The Maze.
Book signing, "The Irish in Youngstown" by Robert E. Casey and Jim Dunn, 7 p.m. Thursday.
Children's storytime, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
Greenhaw receivesHarper Lee Award
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Author Wayne Greenhaw has been named the 2006 recipient of the Harper Lee Award, given in recognition of a writer's significant body of work. Greenhaw has published 16 books of fiction and nonfiction, including "The Thunder of Angels," (Lawrence Hill Books) a recently released history of the Montgomery bus boycott that he co-wrote with Donnie Williams.
The winner is selected by the executive committee of The Alabama Writers' Forum, a statewide literary arts service organization, from nominations submitted from the field. The award is conferred at the annual Alabama Writers' Symposium, hosted by Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville, May 4-6.
Greenhaw is the ninth recipient of the award, named in honor Harper Lee, author of "To Kill A Mockingbird." Previous winners include Albert Murray, Madison Jones, Helen Norris, Sena Jeter Naslund, Mary Ward Brown, Rodney Jones, Sonia Sanchez and Andrew Hudgins.
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