Great Lakes Book Awards Presentation
11:45-1:30, Friday, September 27, Marquis Ballroom
Ticket Required: $23 (includes $3 for literacy)
Master of Ceremonies: TK
Featured Speakers: Winning Authors will be present.
Our celebration of the best of the previous year's writing about our region. Winners will be announced in mid-August. The winners will participate in the autographing following the luncheon. A complete list of finalists for this year's awards can be found at the GLBA website, www.books-glba.org.

Bibilo-Imbibers: Cash Bar, Free Talk
6-7 p.m., Friday, September 27
A great time to meet friends - or make new ones - drinking up talk of books and the book world, this event provides a good wind-down from a day setting up exhibits or attending workshops and the fantastic new Authors Feast, which begins at 7:00.

Authors Feast
7-9 p.m. Friday, September 27, Hubbard Ballroom
Ticket Required: $39 (includes $3 for literacy); wine by the bottle available for purchase
Master of Ceremonies: TK
Keynoter: TK
New this year, the Authors Feast will feature twenty or more authors who will participate in a "moveable feast." There will be an author at each table and they will change tables as dinner courses change. This is a great opportunity to talk with working writers and to take home good memories and lots of signed copies as well.

Midnight Snacks
9 p.m., Friday, September 27
Following the Authors Feast, join your friends and Michael Rosen to continue your chats and have a snack.
Food compliments of Broadway Books, publisher of Midnight Snacks, by Michael Rosen. Cash Bar

Breakfast with the Board
The GLBA Annual Meeting and Town Meeting
8-9:30 a.m, Saturday, September 28
Free continental breakfast with the meeting.
Introduction of the new board members and officers, plus review of the annual report. Other items include revision of GLBA's strategic plan, and new programs such as regional Advance Access, the new Connectivity Package, and the Midwest Independent Bestseller List! This is your chance to contribute to the direction of the association.
Sponsor: Baker & Taylor

ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA
Introduction of new board members and officers
Recognition of outgoing board members
Reports, including written annual reports
Strategic Plan revisions
Reports on new programs
Old business
New business
Adjourn

New Voices Reading Room
6:15-7:15, Saturday, September 28
Stearns/Knight
Host: Carol Rueger, Wooster Book Company
Authors: Mike Perry, Population: 485 (HarperCollins); Bonnie Jo Campbell, Q Road (Scribner); Nancy Zafris, Metal Shredders (Blue Hen)

Booksellers Banquet
7:30 p.m., Saturday, September 28
Ticket Required: $39 (includes $3 for literacy); wine by the bottle available for purchase
Master of Ceremonies: TK
Featured Speakers: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (FSG); Erik Larson, Devil in the White City (Crown), Jennifer Crusie, Faking It (St. Martins)
Preceded by Author & Rep Reception & Reading Room (6-7:30)
Sponsored by Ingram Book Company

Children's Book & Author Breakfast
7:45-9:30 a.m., Sunday, September 29
Ticket Required: $22 (includes $3 for literacy)
Master of Ceremonies: TK
Featured Speakers: Pam Munoz Ryan, When Marian Sang (Scholastic), Jerry Pinkney, Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream (Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam), Lois Lowry, Gooney Bird Greene (Houghton Mifflin)