This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (Public Affairs)
by Susan Wicklund
Monday, February 11th at 6pm

In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. This is the story of Susan's love for a profession that means listening to women and helping them through one of the most pivotal and controversial events in their lives. Hers is also a calling that means sleeping on planes and commuting between clinics in different states—and that requires her to wear a bulletproof vest and to carry a .38 caliber revolver. This is also the story of the women whom Susan serves, women whose options are increasingly limited.

Wallingford Irregulars Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 21 at 7pm

Local poets read from their work

War Journal of Lila Ann Smith (Pleasure Boat Studios)
by Irving Warner
Thursday, February 28 at 7pm

In 1942, the Japanese military invaded America. They occupied the Aleutian island of Attu for nearly two years. Some of the occupants of the island were killed during the invasion; the rest were removed to an island off Japan and held there for the remainder of the war. This much is fact, although most Americans don't know about it. The War Journal of Lila Ann Smith is a work of fiction. It is, however, based on extensive research and study of this historical event. The author has interviewed several of the survivors of the invasion. Lila Ann Smith is based on a real person, the only Caucasian woman living in Attu at the time of the invasion. Irving Warner ist he author of In Memory of Hawks, and Other Stories From Alaska. He is a former professor in U of Alaska system and a former Fish & Game employee.