WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARY

SUNDAY, September 15th @6PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

Mary Norton, author of THE BORROWERS series, takes us on a magical trip to the English countryside village of Much Frensham in Bedfordshire to meet Miss Price, Apprentice Witch. Into Miss Price's life enters something totally unexpected - three inquisitive children. That's when the magic really starts!

Caledonia Skytower Live, in voice.

SUNDAY, September 14th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES! Grabba a cuppa and join them at the fireside for another thrilling adventure. THIS WEEK (Really): "The Adventure of Black Peter."

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

Presented Live in Voice.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, September 15th at 1:30pm - TEA TIME at Baker Street ~ with Caledonia Skytower & Corwyn Allen

Monday, September 16th at 7 p.m. - Sci-Fi Shorts: "Wait It Out" and "Twonky" with Gyro Muggins

Tuesday, September 17th at 7 p.m. - Drabble Duet with Derry McMahon & Caledonia Skytower

Wednesday, September 18th at 7 p.m. - A Year in Tulfarris with Caledonia Skytower

Thursday, September 19th at 7 p.m. - PIRATES!!! - with Shandon Loring & Caledonia Skytower

And Join Us for these Outreach events:

Sunday, September 15th at 6 p.m. - MAGICLAND STORYTIME: with Caledonia Skytower

All stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray on Imagination Island, unless otherwise noted. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life is sometimes.

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to Second Life (c) Residents. Guests are welcome to join us in donating to our September - October featured charity, Water for People (www.waterforpeople.org) Have questions? IM or notecard Caledonia Skytower.

Want to get schedule information and reminders in-world? Feel free to join the Seanchai or Stories Unlimited! subscribers. They are located in the library, just run in and touch them.

THURSDAY, September 12th at 7pm: LEGACY LOST

Image from Elemental Awakening

Grom is a mer-prince, pledged to marry the mermaid princess of an opposing kingdom in an effort to unite the lands under the waters. He dreads this arrangement until meets the princess Nalia – both beautiful and smart, she’s everything he ever wanted. But just when their connection grows deeper, tragedy strikes.

From the world of The Syrena Legacy by Anna Banks

Shandon Loring, Live in Voice.

TUESDAY, September 10th @ 7PM: SCI-Fi SHORTS - Take 2!

Now that the LLabs Voice Servers seem to be back up, Gyro again digs deep into his amazing library of classic Science Fiction and emerges with more jewels to share.

THIS WEEK:

"Kindness" ~ In a world of intuitive geniuses Danny, with an IQ not even 200 can't even understand kid's comic books. With a little kindness, he'll have a chance for a life of self respect. From "The Last Man on Earth."

"Second Class Citizen" ~ No matter how hard he tries Pete, a dolphin, is no more than a second class citizen in a world of humans. One day, the tables get turned.

Presented Live in Voice.

MONDAY, September 9th at 7:00pm: A YEAR IN TULFARRIS ~ Part 1

What if your spouse walked in and said, "My boss was wondering if I'd be up for working in Dublin for a year. What would you think of moving to Ireland for a year?"

So began the adventure, chronicled by his photographs and her written musings, as they explore monuments and meet people (and animals) who will leave an indelible mark on them and their children forever. But be warned: while prepared for an adventure, they didn't know they would fall in love. Which makes coming "home" that much more bittersweet.

The essays of Caitilin Walsh, read by Caledonia Skytower live in voice, with the photography of Alfred Hellstern.

Sunday, September 8th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES! Grabba a cuppa and join them at the fireside for another thrilling adventure. THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of Black Peter."

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.
Presented Live in Voice.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, September 8th at 1:30pm - TEA TIME at Baker Street ~ with Caledonia Skytower & Corwyn Allen

Monday, September 9th at 7 p.m. - A Year in Tulfarris with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, September 10th at 7 p.m. - Sci-Fi Shorts: "Kindness" and "Second Class Citizen" with Gyro Muggins

Wednesday, September 11th at 7 p.m. - TBA

Thursday, September 12th at 7 p.m. - More Adventures and Legends - with Shandon Loring

THURSDAY September 5th at 7pm: THE WITCH OF DUVA

THE WITCH OF DUVA

There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls. It's been many years since any child was taken. But still, on nights like these, when the wind comes cold from Tsibeya, mothers hold their daughters tight and warn them not to stray too far from home.

A Classic Faery Tale

from Fierce Reads

ASIN: B0085UCSZC

WEDNESDAY, September 4th at 7pm: THE RANDOM JOY OF POETRY

With the passing last week of noted poet Irish Seamus Heaney, will enjoy more poetry from around the world plus some of Mr. Heaney's much beloved work. We'll use the Poetry Foundations Poetry Out Loud Online Anthology again.

Join the celebration of words! Presented live in voice.

TUESDAY, September 3rd at 7:00PM: SCIENCE FICTION Short Stories with Gyro!

Gyro digs deep into his amazing library of classic Science Fiction and emerges with more jewels to share.

THIS WEEK:

"Kindness" ~ In a world of intuitive geniuses Danny, with an IQ not even 200 can't even understand kid's comic books. With a little kindness, he'll have a chance for a life of self respect. From "The Last Man on Earth."

"Second Class Citizen" ~ No matter how hard he tries Pete, a dolphin, is no more than a second class citizen in a world of humans. One day, the tables get turned.

Presented Live in Voice.

MONDAY, September 2nd @ 7:00pm: Rudyard Kipling's JUST SO STORIES

The Just So Stories are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works.

The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.

These stories were so much fun recently at Magicland Park, that Cale will share more of them tonight on the Seanchai Story Floor.

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, September 1st at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

Corwyn and Caledonia crack open yet another case from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES! Grabba a cuppa and join them at the fireside for another thrilling adventure. THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of the Priory School."

Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the kidnapping of one of his pupils
The boy's father, the Duke of Holdernesse, has offered a reward of £5000 to anyone who can tell him where his son, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, is, and a further £1000 to anyone who can tell him who his kidnappers are.

Presented Live in Voice.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, September 1st at 1:30pm - TEA TIME at Baker Street ~ with Caledonia Skytower & Corwyn Allen

Monday, September 2nd at 7 p.m. - Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, September 3rd at 7 p.m. - Sci-Fi Shorts: "Kindness" and "Second Class Citizen" with Gyro Muggins

Wednesday, September 4th at 7 p.m. - It's A Surprise! with Caledonia Skytower

Thursday, September 5th at 7 p.m. - More Adventures from the Mabinogion - with Shandon Loring

THURSDAY, August 29th at 7:00pm: WHEN HARLIE WAS ONE

Shandon's RL home is still inundated with smoke from the wildfires in his region and, breathing being an essential to storytelling, is having to reschedule yet another week.

But our dear Gyro is kicking in with a great Sci-Fi story. Part of a larger work that stands alone ...“When Harlie Was One” by David Gerrold: H.A.R.L.I.E. an experimental A.I. program is now one year old. The story begins with him asking his human mentor, “What will I be when I grow up?”

Presented Live in Voice.

WEDNESDAY, August 28th at 7:00pm: VACATIONLAND Wraps Up!

Tonight we take our last trip to Naledi Lodge, and the holiday doings around Hatchet Lake. As the summer winds down, so we wind down our trip through the memoried past of summers that once were, and the lives that were affected forever.

"Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice."

Kayden Oconnell and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

TUESDAY, August 27th at 7:00pm: TIME FOR GIRL TALK!

Our Derry is back on the story floor! Join her for some great chick lit! It's been ages since we have seen what Lisa Scottoline and her daughter have been up to; and caught up with Connie Schultz. Pour a martini, grab a cupcake and settle on down for some fun stories.

Live in Voice!

MONDAY, August 26th at 7:00pm: THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE!

Holmes and Russell are in pursuit of the kidnappers of American Senator Simpson's daughter, Jessica. Though her parents are understandably a mess, the clues along the trail show that young Jessica has her wits about her, and is doing all she can to leave a trail to be followed by her rescuers. Will they find her in time?

Caledonia continues with this delightful celebration of the Holmesian detective story by author Laurie R. King. While she will not get through the entire book, she will conclude this adventure and we shall return to more adventures later in the year.

Live in voice.

SUNDAY, August 25th at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME - "Just So Stories"

Cale returns to Magicland with a horse of a different color. Or is it "How the Leopard got its Spots"? Or "How the Elephant got his Trunk"? What if it was a "she"?

The Just So Stories are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works.

The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, August 25th beginning at Noon:BARD IN THE VIRTUAL BEACH!

It's not a Seanchai event, but you'll see a lot of your Seanchai friends there!

Stories unlimited! presents the 3rd Annual Virtual Festival Celebrating Shakespeare! Scenes, Sonnets, and other Shakespeare inspired performances all in an outdoor setting on scenic Nowhereville Beach.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/75/177/22

Two hours of diverse virtual performances coming from all over the world! It's like your local "Shakespeare in the Park" without the bugs!

Presented Live in Voice.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, August 25th at Noon - BARD ON THE VIRTUAL BEACH - A Celebration of Shakespeare. Not strictly speaking a Seanchai Event, but you'll see a lot of your Seanchai friends there!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/75/177/22

Monday, August 26th at 7 p.m. - More from The Beekeeper's Apprentice ~ with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, August 27th at 7 p.m. - Time for Girl Talk - with Derry McMahon

Wednesday, August 28th at 7 p.m. - Vacationland Concludes with Kayden and Caledonia

Thursday, August 29th at 7 p.m. - Peredur, Son of Efrog, Part 1 from the Mabinogion - with Shandon Loring

And Join Us for these Outreach events:

Sunday, August 25th at 6 p.m. - MAGICLAND STORYTIME: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories with Caledonia Skytower

All stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray on Imagination Island, unless otherwise noted. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life is sometimes.

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to Second Life (c) Residents. Guests are welcome to join us in donating to our July-August featured charity, Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org) Have questions? IM or notecard Caledonia Skytower.

Want to get schedule information and reminders in-world? Feel free to join the Seanchai or Stories Unlimited! subscribers. They are located in the library, just run in and touch them.

THURSDAY August 22nd at 7pm: PEREDUR, SON OF EFROG pt1 (from the Mabinogion)

WEDNESDAY, August 21st at 7pm: More from VACATIONLAND!

Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as “unexpected and moving” by the Chicago Tribune and “a well-paced feast” by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.

Kayden and Caledonia continue the story, Live in Voice

TUESDAY, August 20th at 7pm: A TRIO OF MY FATHER'S TALES - Finally!

Cale finally has published the collection she has been working on all summer. Come and enjoy "Flying Down to Couer D'Alene" once more, and hear "The Skunk War" in its entirety.

In Flying Down to Couer D'Alene, and The Skunk War the scene is the west coast and life stateside in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. In these two individual tales, the rigor of Army life meets the ebb and flow of different men from all over the country, different concepts of authority, and what it really takes to be a leader.

Presented live in voice.

MONDAY, August 19th at 7:00pm: THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE Continues

Holmes and Russell are in disguise as gypsies! Will they find the Senator's missing daughter and catch the clever and devious malefactor who has kidnapped her? This week, we continue as the young apprentice moves into her own as a partner in detection in the Great Detective in "A Vagrant Gypsies Life."

Caledonia continues with this delightful celebration of the Holmesian detective story by author Laurie R. King.

Live in voice.

SUNDAY, August 18th at 6PM: MAGICLAND STORYTIME

TONIGHT: The Conclusion of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" ... Wilbur and Charlotte are at the Fair, and the final moments of cementing Wilbur's future are at hand. What will happen?

Come enjoy the emotional and touching conclusion of this beloved tale from a classic author! Caledonia Skytower, Live in voice.

SUNDAY, August 18th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street

THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" from THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in her and her mother’s lives. Violet’s father has recently died, and left his wife and daughter rather poor. However, a notice appeared in the newspaper not much later inquiring as to their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a churl and a bully. They had come from South Africa, where they had known Violet’s uncle Ralph Smith, who had now also died in poverty and apparently wanted to see that his relatives were provided for. This struck Violet as odd, since she and her family had not heard a word from Uncle Ralph since he'd gone to South Africa 25 years ago. Carruthers and Woodley explained that before dying, Ralph had heard of his brother’s death and felt responsible for his survivors’ welfare.

Carruthers began by offering Violet a job as a live-in music teacher for his ten-year-old daughter at £100 a year, about twice the going rate. She accepted after Carruthers said that she could visit her mother on weekends. That went well until Mr. Woodley came to stay for a week. He made the most oafish, clumsiest sexual advances and boasted that if Violet married him, she would have a life of luxury. He even grabbed her and demanded a kiss, precipitating expulsion by his host, Carruthers. Violet has not seen Woodley since.

Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower live in voice

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, August 11th at 1:30 p.m. - Tea Time at Baker Street: "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" - with Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower

Monday, August 19th at 7 p.m. - The Beekeeper's Apprentice ~ Part 5 with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, August 20th at 7 p.m. - Treasure at the Heat of the Tanglewood - Continues with Faerie Maven-Pralou

Wednesday, August 21st at 7 p.m. - More Vacationland with Kayden and Caledonia

Thursday, August 22nd at 7 p.m. - Peredur, Son of Efrog, Part 1 from the Mabinogion - with Shandon Loring

And Join Us for these Outreach events:

Sunday, August 18th at 6 p.m. - MAGICLAND STORYTIME: Charlotte's Web - Concludes, Caledonia Skytower

All stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray on Imagination Island, unless otherwise noted. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life is sometimes.

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to Second Life (c) Residents. Guests are welcome to join us in donating to our July-August featured charity, Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org) Have questions? IM or notecard Caledonia Skytower.

Want to get schedule information and reminders in-world? Feel free to join the Seanchai or Stories Unlimited! subscribers. They are located in the library, just run in and touch them.

HEIFER INTERNATIONAL DONATION RECEIVED!

Another great effort by Seanchai Library Staff and Supporters. Money off to Heifer International in support of that Llama! All kidding aside, another great example of virtual activity with real world impact! Thanks One and All!

THURSDAY August 15th at 7pm: GWYDION & PRYDERI (from the Mabinogion)

As Pryderi is governing Dyfed, Gwynedd is ruled by Math, son of Mathonwy.
Math's nephew Gilfaethwy has fallen in love with Math's beautiful foot-maiden Goewin. Gwydion, a magician, conspires to start a war so Gilfaethwy can be with her.
Gwydion steals some special pigs, a gift from the king of the Other World, from Pryderi to give them to Math. He then turns toadstools into 12 horses and 12 hounds, which he swaps for the pigs, though the following day they turn back into toadstools. The cheated Pryderi assembles his army to get his pigs back from Gwydion.
Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love. The storytelling world of Medieval Wales is presented by Shandon Loring for your pleasure.

ISBN 978-0-19-921878-3

WEDNESDAY, August 14th at 7PM: More from THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE

Caledonia continues with this delightful celebration of the Holmesian detective story by author Laurie R. King.

This week, we find out who stole the money and the hams from the The Monk's Tun as Mary Russell solves "A Case of My Own." Then, we move into a new section of the book with a fresh adventure, as the young apprentice moves into her own as a partner in detection with the Great Detective in "A Vagrant Gypsies Life."

Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

TUESDAY, August 13th at 7pm: POETRY OUT LOUD

In 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud - a National Recitation Competition that encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.

Caledonia reads dangerously and randomly from the Poetry Out Loud Online Anthology. Live in Voice.

MONDAY, August 12th at 7PM: More from VACATIONLAND

"What a marvel! Stonich, as always, hits a home run with this chain of short stories or chaptered novel. With her keen observing eye that spares no one, with her air-tight sentences and her seamless introductions of the past, Stonich creates complex characters that are familiar yet surprise you."
~ Kathryn Kysar on GOODREADS

"There's something so appealing about an old resort closed down for the season, or closed down forever. As we wander among the cabins and faltering foundations, past the lodge and the camp store, peering into the windows as we go, we always imagine more good times than bad. You can almost hear the ghosts of family vacations -- cook-outs, fishing trips, summer romances, and children squealing joyfully as they run through the long summer nights, well past their bedtimes."
~ 'Jeanette' on GOODREADS

Kayden and Caledonia with a new installment this week, live in voice.

SUNDAY, August 11th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help.

Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk visits Sherlock Holmes and gives him a piece of paper with this mysterious sequence of stick figures. The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie to distraction.

Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower live in voice.

BARD ON THE VIRTUAL BEACH ~ August 25th

Storyfest Events will once again be holding their annual Celebration of Shakespeare with Bard on the Virtual Beach, scheduled for Sunday August 25th and Noon SLT at Nowhereville Beach.

A Call for Performers is currently open, with an August 12th deadline.

More information can be found on the StoryFest Blog site

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, August 11th at 1:30 p.m. - Tea Time at Baker Street: "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" - with Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower

Monday, August 12th at 7 p.m. - Vacationland ~ Continues with Kayden Oconnell and Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, August 13th at 7 p.m. - Treasure At the Heart of the Tanglewood - Continues with Faerie Maven-Pralou

Wednesday, August 14th at 7 p.m. - The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Continues with Caledonia Skytower

Thursday, August 15th at 7 p.m. - Mabinogion - Part 3 with Shandon Loring

All stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray on Imagination Island, unless otherwise noted. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life is sometimes.

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to Second Life (c) Residents. Guests are welcome to join us in donating to our July-August featured charity, Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org) Have questions? IM or notecard Caledonia Skytower.

Want to get schedule information and reminders in-world? Feel free to join the Seanchai or Stories Unlimited! subscribers. They are located in the library, just run in and touch them.

THURSDAY, August 8th at 7PM: More from the MAGINOGION

Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history. Eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. Gwydion the shape-shifter who can make a woman out of flowers; Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; the hanging of a pregnant mouse and hunting of a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love. The storytelling world of Medieval Wales is presented by Shandon Loring for your pleasure, Live in Voice.

Tonight: BRANWEN AND THE KING OF IRELAND

WEDNESDAY, August 7th at 7PM: More from VACTIONLAND

Kayden and Caledonia return to that lake in northernmost Minnesota, where you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories.

Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as “unexpected and moving” by the Chicago Tribune and “a well-paced feast” by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. "Vacationland" is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.

Live in Voice

TUESDAY, August 6th at 7PM: TREASURE AT THE HEART OF THE TANGLEWOOD Begins!

Faerie Pralou-Maven begins a new, magical adventure from author Meredith Ann Pierce.

First she is Brown Hannah, a drab healer living in the enchanted Tanglewood. Then, when she challenges the magician who holds her captive, she becomes Green Hannah. Next, she is Golden Hannah traveling through the land, with talking animals and birds by her side. And, finally, Russet Hannah, when she makes the long journey back to where she first grew, and learns her true story.

Live in voice.

MONDAY, August 5th at 7PM: More from THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE

It is time for "The Great Detective" Sherlock Holmes and his unlikely apprentice, Mary Russell, to work together on their first case.

A cloud of doom hangs over the local manor house, as its master is subject to unexplained and debilitating fits of illness. Strangely, these "fits" come upon him when the weather is fine and clear. The lady of the house - not wanting to believe her husband is deceiving her, but wanting the truth - comes to Holmes to unravel the strange and unexplainable in "Mistress of the Hounds."

From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries: Under the reluctant tutelage of the Great Detective, a very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. Caledonia live in voice.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Monday, August 5th at 7 p.m. - The Beekeeper's Apprentice ~ Part 3 with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, August 6th at 7 p.m. - Treasure at the Heat of the Tanglewood - Begins with Faerie Maven-Pralou

Wednesday, August 7th at 7 p.m. - More Vacationland with Kayden and Caledonia

Thursday, August 8th at 7 p.m. - Mabinogion - Part 2 with Shandon Loring

All stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray on Imagination Island, unless otherwise noted. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life is sometimes.

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to Second Life (c) Residents. Guests are welcome to join us in donating to our July-August featured charity, Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org) Have questions? IM or notecard Caledonia Skytower.

Want to get schedule information and reminders in-world? Feel free to join the Seanchai or Stories Unlimited! subscribers. They are located in the library, just run in and touch them.

THURSDAY, August 1st at 7PM; RHIANNON from Mabinogion

WEDNESDAY, July 31st at 7PM: More Microfiction from Brokali!

Micro Fiction, by nature, is defiant. It defies length, boundaries, and expectations. But tight, provocative fiction requires analysis and editing. Taking an idea and distilling it into a “micro”- cosm of its original self is challenging.
~ Camile Renshaw from "The Essentials of Microfiction"

Come and enjoy more from the Blue Man's store of wonderful original microfiction tales: pointed, poignant, and thought provoking. Brokali brings a smile to your face with his humor, and may even cause you to sigh a bit.

Presented live in voice.

TUESDAY, July 30th at 7PM: RUFFLES ON MY LONGJOHNS Concludes

Faerie concludes Isabel Edward's adventures in remote Bella Coola Valley in British Columbia with her pioneering husband. Through cold, wind, wet, and unexpected wildlife, the author endures a wild in ways she never expected.One winter turned into fifty!

"Mrs. Edwards has a natural talent for spinning yards about those early days. The people and the land come alive through her reminiscences of a place where lifelines to the "outside" were few and communication with others was often based on need and nearness. It is a delightful tale of how a couple coped with homesteading; a warm and sensitive story by a woman who still lives that peaceful wilderness-edge existence."

Faerie Maven-Pralou live in Voice.

MONDAY, July 29th at 7PM: THE BEEKEEPER'S APRENTICE Continues

The year is 1915. Young Mary Russell has just begun a remarkable relationship with the legendary Detective Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective.

In their first case together, they must track down a kidnapped American senator's daughter and confront a truly cunning adversary--a bomber who has set trip wires for the sleuths and who will stop at nothing to end their partnership.

Full of brilliant deductions, disguises, and dangers, this first book of the Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes mysteries is "wonderfully original and entertaining . . . absorbing from beginning to end" (Booklist).

Caledonia Skytower, Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, July 28th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" continues this week with THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only the day before and asked him to draw up his will in legally appropriate terms. McFarlane saw to his surprise that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary, and heir to a considerable bequest at that. McFarlane could not imagine why, although Oldacre claimed that it was due to a prior relationship with McFarlane's mother, which gave him reliable knowledge that McFarlane could be trusted, and a lack of any biological relatives for him to leave his assets to.

Presented Live in Voice with Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower.

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

WELCOME TO THE SEANCHAI LIBRARY ON IMAGINATION ISLAND!
"We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Events in the Seanchai Library this week - all stories told in open voice, all times SLT:

Sunday, July 28th at 1:30 p.m. - Tea Time at Baker Street: "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" - with Corwyn Allen and Caledonia Skytower

Monday, July 29th at 7 p.m. - The Beekeeper's Apprentice ~ Part 2 with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, July 30th at 7 p.m. - Ruffles on My Longjohns - Part 4 with Faerie Maven-Pralou

Wednesday, July 31st at 7 p.m. - More Microfiction with Brokali

Thursday, August 1st at 7 p.m. - Mabinogion - Part 1 with Shandon Loring

All stories in voice and take place at Seanchai Libray on Imagination Island, unless otherwise noted. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life is sometimes.

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to Second Life (c) Residents. Guests are welcome to join us in donating to our July-August featured charity, Little Kids Rock (www.littlekidsrock.org) Have questions? IM or notecard Caledonia Skytower.

Want to get schedule information and reminders in-world? Feel free to join the Seanchai or Stories Unlimited! subscribers. They are located in the library, just run in and touch them.

THURSDAY July 25th at 7pm: THE BEASTLY BRIDE

BEASTLY BRIDES

What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. The Beastly Bride brings together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors. From Finland to India, the Pacific Northwest to the Hamptons, shapechangers are part of our magical landscape.

ISBN 0670011452

WEDNESDAY, July 24th @7:00pm: VACATIONLAND Begins!

On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images “reflected across the mirrors of memory and water,” much as the linked stories of "Vacationland" cast shimmering spells across distance and time.

Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as “unexpected and moving” by the Chicago Tribune and “a well-paced feast” by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. "Vacationland" is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.

Kayden and Caledonia Live in Voice

TUESDAY, July 23rd at 7:00pm: THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE

From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes--and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective.

Caledonia live in voice.

MONDAY, July 22nd @ 7PM: LET'S EXPLORE DAVID SEDARIS (with Avatars!)

Crap Mariner mounts an expedition to explore the world of David Sedaris, modern American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor who was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Sedaris has been described as "the rock star of writers." He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries" and has published numerous books of essays including the recent "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls."

Presented Live in Voice.

SUNDAY, July 21st at 6:00pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME!

Caledonia returns with Part 3 of E.B. White's beloved classic.

Charlotte has worked a miracle! She's begin the process of transforming the Zuckerman's view of Wilbur to ensure he does not become just another pig waiting for slaughter. She needs to work some more magic to ensure that the plan works and that Wilbur endures for many seasons to come - what spell will she weave to make this wish come true?

Presented Live in Voice

SUNDAY, July 2ist at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street Returns!

Not only Tea Time returns, with Corwyn and Caledonia, but Sherlock Holmes returns to the Seanchai fireside for the newest Tea Tim series.

"The Return of Sherlock Holmes"a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of the Empty House."

In April 1894, Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then drops his disguise - it is Holmes. Sherlock Holmes, thought to have dies with Professor Moriarty at Riechenbach Falls has returned, very much alive!

Presented live in voice.

Pages