Members of the Actors' Theatre production Mr. Marmalade will be on hand to discuss the show.

Learn more about the services and community outreach programs available through this local non-profit.

Learn more about the services and community outreach programs available through this local non-profit.

Learn more about the services and community outreach programs available through this local non-profit.

This Japanese Strategy Game group is open to the public. Join in the fun!

Come hear some of the finest historic jazz music around.

Our Italian Language group meets, led by Rina Sala-Baker.

Join us for a discussion on the Human Energy System of Chakras, Meridians, and Fields of Consciousness. You'll also learn some simple energy-boosting exercises to support your daily health. Deborah has been studying and working in the healing arts for over 20 years and teaches classes on various subjects relating to healing, consciousness and metaphysics. She is also a certified teacher for the International Network of Esoteric Healing. Don't miss an event guaranteed to start your new year off right!

Join us for a meeting of our monthly Comic Discussion Group, exploring and investigating the publishing industry's biggest boom medium - comics and graphic novels! This month's title is the first volume of Vertigo series Y the Last Man: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra.

Open to the public. Grab your instrument and work through the music writing process with other area songwriters.

Meet local poets Greg Bliss and Katherine Marty at our featured poetry night!

The Zombie Pin-ups that served as the focal point of our first annual Zombie Party this past October were a huge hit, so now we are celebrating the release of Beauty and Brains, a 2010 calendar featuring the striking photography of Lansing's own Jena McShane! The beauties will be on hand to sign their pin-ups, plus music by DJ Tor2 and refreshments.

Beauty and Brains is the brainchild of Jena McShane, who paired her love of pin-up photography with a fondness for the undead in this 12-month calendar featuring models from the Lansing area.

Jena McShane grew up in the Midwest, four different states to be exact, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan. She has passion for all types of photography, traveling and music and is currently in the Lansing Community College Photography program. After she graduates, she plans on starting her own business. She resides in Lansing, Michigan with her husband.

Hosted by Mayumi Balfour of Sister Cities International.

John's new book, Beyond Doubt! Spiritual Mystic, explains how a person can overcome negativity and doubt in order to experience inner peace through four simple steps! Some people have a tendency to fill their minds with negative thoughts and judgments, blaming outside forces for internal turmoil. Sometimes it seems almost impossible to see a negative outcome as something positive. Is it really that difficult to respond in a positve and compassionate way to all the negativity surrounding and pressuring the world today? John Murphy's critically-acclaimed author of business and inspirational books shares how one can experience a life of inner peace and equanimity in the eternal now, despite circumstances. In Beyond Doubt, he offers a simple, practical, four-step model that forms "The Ring of Peace," a tool anyone can use to cultivate peace and joy in everyday life.

January is national Get Organized month so come out and meet clutter fighting  expert Rita Wilhelm of Cluttergone. With simple tips and examples, Rita will help us get and stay organized for a new year!

Schuler Books has teamed up with the Lansing Community College Science Department to bring you Cafe Scientifique, a monthly science discussion group. Join LCC professors for an animated discussion of the important science issues of the day! This months topic: Corn, Verbs, and Spit. Scientists weave together a variety of data that make it possible to discover relationships between what we see in the present and what happened in the past. We will look at a few particularly intriguing examples that reveal much about life in America before Columbus and in Polynesia before the arrival of Westerners. Along the way we will chat about how these techniques can be used in many other settings, from the origins of the universe to the history of life on earth.

This Japanese Strategy Game group is open to the public. Join in the fun!

Join us for a monthly book club starting this, sponsored by the Michigan State University Association for Women in Science (MSU AWIS). We will be discussing Part 1 of Mosthers on the Fast Track: How a Generation Can Balance Family and Careers, by Mary A. Mason. MSU AWIS is an organization that advocates for and provides a network, resources and information for women in science with the goal to help them achieve their full potential. Our membership is open to men and women at any career stage who advocate for or want to learn more about women in science.

Join us in the Chapbook Cafe on the third Thursday of each month for our Bananagrams night! Fans and novices alike are welcome to play the hot new word game tht pits you in a timed race to see who can take their lettered tiles and most quickly create a crossword grid of connecting and intersecting words.

Meet Michigan author Laura Kasischke at the first Girls' Night Out of the new year! The widely acclaimed novelist and poet whose "writing... shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it" (New York Times Book Review) offers a prescient and chilling depiction of lives turned upside down by the threat of a global plague in her new and compelling novel, In a Perfect World. As the "Phoenix flu" spreads far beyond its origins in the American southwest, killing millions, one family, already struggling with an imperfect, fractious home life, must set aside petty differences in order to unite in the face of the ultimate test: to survive. Don't miss this night of great women's fiction, complete with refreshments and a grab bag book giveaway!

Local author Dr. Oren Mason's new book, Reaching For a New Potential is about Adult Attention Deficit Disorder which affects every part of the lives of those who have it. Is there a "best treatment?" What about natural cures? Aren't medications dangerous? Which experts can be trusted? This is the book people need when first diagnosed with ADD. The treatment of ADD can improve your life as well as your family's. A book this small can't tell you everything you need to know for your journey, but it can help you start. If ADD has brought you discouragement, it is possible to start finding your full potential through this exciting book.

Amy is a fresh spirited performer who incorporates elements of rock, pop, folk, light jazz and blues; always melodic and self-assured.

Horror readers unite! This month the Schuler horror reading group is looking at the humor-laden thriller Vampire A Go Go by Victor Gischler. Each Monthly selection is 20% off.

Schuler's favorite knitting instructor, Lynn Hershberger, will be showing us the tricks of the knitting project she designed for use in the fantastically fun book The Joy of Sox! The book is filled with 30-plus designs, a variety of techniques, tips, and playful trivia from those in the know. With their tantalizing cables, intricate lacework, and intriguing color work, the patterns represent the very best in sock design. There are revamped classics, bold new styles, and even a few themed socks - like the diamond lace thigh-highs and toeless pedicure socks. Don't miss this chance to learn from one of the creators!

Start Thinking of Spring as Connie Dickhaut of Talisman Jewelry comes to the store to show her beautiful pieces made of rocks found on the shores of Michigan lakes. She'll share with us her tips for finding the most extraordinary stones and how to identify all the beautiful rocks found on the beaches and coasts of Michigan.

Our staff-facilitated reading group meets. Open to the public!

A night of blues, old classics, and music from the heart!

Join us for a Girls’ Night Out encore event with New York Times-bestsellingauthor Kimberla Lawson Roby. Kimberla visited us in 2008 for the release of her stand-alone novel One In a Million; now she’s coming back to celebrate the eighth book in her best-selling Reverend Curtis Black series, Love, Honor and Betray. This time around, Curtis and Charlotte find themselves at total odds with one another as the end of their marriage now seems inevitable. Don’t miss this fantastic event, complete with our traditional Grab Bag Book Giveaway!