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10:00 to 10:45 am
Parenting Panel
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Hal Runkel - Scream Free Parenting
Award-winning author and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Hal Runkel is quickly becoming America's greatest expert on human relationships. With an impressive academic and social science background, he has developed the revolutionary ScreamFree Living methodology. Published author and now seen by millions on iVillage Live (NBC) and CW's nationally syndicated The Daily Buzz, Runkel is the founder and president of ScreamFree Living, Inc., as well as the voice behind the groundbreaking ScreamFree Living book series. ScreamFree Parenting offers a revolutionary new option: by inviting parents to focus on themselves, grow themselves up, and calm themselves down. The ScreamFree Parenting principles will lead parents of all ages (with kids of all ages) to create and enjoy the family relationships they've always craved – starting now. |
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Dr. Marvin Berkowitz - Parenting for Good
Dr. Berkowitz is the McDonnell Professor of Character Education and Co-Director of the Center for Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is author of Parenting for Good a new book of essays in which Dr. Marvin Berkowitz, one of character development's leading educators, offers his wit, wisdom, and experiences on the joys and surprises of raising children. He is co-editor of the Journal for Research in Character Education. Dr. Berkowitz received the Sanford N. McDonnell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Character Education Partnership in 2006. |
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11:00 to 11:45 am
Women's Health
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Barbara Kantrowitz - Is it Hot in Here
Newsweek senior editor, Barbara Kantrowitz, discusses her new book Is It Hot In Here? Or Is It Me? Her book, states that it’s not your mother’s menopause. Some women live through it and never miss a beat. Others suffer so many symptoms— severe hot flashes, sleeplessness, mood swings—that they have trouble functioning. But what all women have in common is a need to know what to expect and how to understand this phase for its inherent promise: as a grand beginning to the second half of life.
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12:00 to 12:45 pm
Business Panel
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Don Kornblet - Business Success Secrets
Kornblet turned a chance consulting project into Business Response, Inc. (BRI), a $25 million dollar company, growing from 10 employees to over 1,000 employees in 15 years. While building his firm, which he sold to an international company in 2000, Mr. Kornblet used the 10 keys shared in Business Success Secrets. BRI was twice named to Inc. magazines’ list of the top 500 fastest growing privately held companies and also named by Inc. as an innovator in the technology area. Kornblet is currently a business instructor with the St. Louis Community College System.
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1:00 to 1:45 pm
Chuck Wills - Lincoln: The Presidential Archives
Chuck Wills will unveil his most recent work, Lincoln – The Presidential Archives. There is no better treatment for the life of the great President Abraham Lincoln than this interactive, "museum-in-a-book," which includes accessible text, photography, and removable documents that, combined, provide an educational and entertaining reading experience for the whole family. This full biography covers Lincoln's childhood, his early political career, the Civil War, and his traumatic assassination.
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2:00 to 2:45 pm
Featured Author
Lt. Col. Steve McAllister - Afghanistan Diary
Now-retired Lieutenant Colonel Steve McAllister, USAF will share his powerful collection of essays that were written while he was stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan The book began as a compilation of emails sent home. Going beyond the simple “Dear folks, today I . . .” letter, the author writes about his observations and personal impressions. Some observations are humorous, because despite its best efforts, the military can’t help but be silly at times. Some are quite emotional. In a war zone with people being killed on a daily basis, emotional events are a common occurrence. And others are very personal and introspective. The sum is a revealing look at the military and our role in Afghanistan.
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3:00 to 3:45 pm
Poetry Panel
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Mary Jo Bang - Poems: Elegy
Mary Jo Bang is the author of four books of poetry, including Louise in Love and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. Her fifth book of poems, Elegy, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October of 2007. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, she is currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. |
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Carl Dennis - Unknown Friends
Carl Dennis , born in St. Louis, wrote Practical Gods, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dennis has received several prizes for his poetry in addition to the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, including a Fellowship at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (1988), and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2000). |
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Sally Van Doren, 2007 Walt Whitman Award Winner
Sally Van Doren was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including Barrow Street, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, LIT, Margie, Parthenon West Review, Poetry Daily, and Pool. The Academy of American Poets awarded Sally Van Doren the 2007 Walt Whitman Award, one of the most prestigious book contests in the country for her book-length collection of poems Sex at Noon Taxes, which will be published in the spring of 2008 by Louisiana State University Press.
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4:00 to 4:45 pm
Featured Author
Clifton Taulbert - The Journey Home: A Father's Gift to His Son
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Clifton L. Taulbert will read from his most recent book, The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son, a story about a father dedicated to showing his son what life was like for him while growing up during segregation. “I want to set the stage about why coming home is so important to me and so important to me to bring my son, and what it means to come home,” Taulbert said. Taulbert speaks throughout the world on the critical issue of building community, a set of emotionally satisfying relationships, within all the places of our living...creating an environment branded by Respect, Affirmation and Inclusion. He is also the author of the internationally acclaimed book, Eight Habits of the Heart, a book that provides the framework on which to build, maintain and sustain a powerful, effective and caring Community. |
Book Signings immediately following each event.
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