BOOKSHOP MANIFESTO WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK. We believe in quieting the noise and listening to the stories. We believe in traveling far and wide between paper pages. We believe in touching the words, scribbling in the margins, and dogging the ears. We believe in surrounding ourselves with books long finished and books not yet read; in revisiting our younger selves each time we pull old favorites off the shelf. We believe in five-year-olds inking their names in big letters on the flyleaf. We believe in becoming someone else for four hundred pages. We believe in turning off the screens and unplugging the networks once in awhile. We believe in meeting the author, reading the footnotes, looking up the words and checking the references. We believe in holding our children on our laps and turning the pages together. We believe in standing shoulder to shoulder in comfortable silence with our fellow citizens before a good shelf of books; we believe in talking face to face with friends and strangers in the aisles of a good bookstore. We believe that together, readers, writers, books and bookstores can work magic. If you believe, please join us: SAVE THE WORLD. BUY A BOOK.

Friday, September 10, 6:30 pm Jim Culp will host an introductory workshop at Gallery Bookshop on Making Family Histories.

Friday, September 17, 6:30 pm Kathryn Hall will be at Gallery Bookshop to talk about her new book, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden. Kathryn Hall is a writer, a passionate gardener, a devoted mother, a keen Nature observer and an animal lover who also maintains a gardening blog online. Read her entry about Gallery Bookshop and Mendocino at http://plantwhateverbringsyoujoy.com/?p=4382. Not available online. To order, call or visit Gallery Bookshop, or send email to info@gallerybookshop.com.

Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 pm Author Martin Keogh will visit Gallery Bookshop to discuss his book, Hope Beneath Our Feet. "In a time of environmental crisis, how can we live right now?" Hope Beneath Our Feet creates a space for change with stories, meditations, and essays that address that question, written by diverse contributors to this anthology. This collection provides tools, both practical and spiritual, to those who care about our world and to those who are just now realizing they need to care. Martin Keogh is a contact improvisation dance educator and author.