Name: Dasher: Saturday Storytime with Matt Tavares
Start: 2026-11-14T10:30:00-06:00
Location: The Book Stall

The Book Stall

We are so excited to welcome back to the store Matt Tavares for a very special holiday Saturday Storytime featuring his picture book, Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever. Return to the beloved Christmas story of Dasher—now with exclusive additions featuring art from the Disney Jr. and Disney+ animated special! Mr. Tavares will be hosting a fun storytime and drawing demo with a book signing to follow. 
Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life—one where there is snow beneath her hooves and the North Star above her head. One day, when the opportunity arises, Dasher seizes her destiny and takes off in pursuit of the life she wants to live. It’s not long before she meets a nice man in a red suit with a horse-drawn sleigh—a man named Santa. And soon, with the help of a powerful Christmas wish, nothing will be the same.

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Dasher: Saturday Storytime with Matt Tavares

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Jane Hamilton’s novels have won literary prizes, have been made into films, and have been international bestsellers, and two of them,&nbsp;The Book of Ruth&nbsp;and&nbsp;A Map of the World, were selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Her nonfiction has appeared in the&nbsp;New York Times;&nbsp;The Washington Post;&nbsp;Allure;&nbsp;O, The Oprah Magazine;&nbsp;Elle; and various anthologies. She lives on an apple farm in Wisconsin.
Michael Druzinsky grew up in Chicago and is the composer-in-residence for the Avant Symphony Orchestra (formerly the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago) which makes its home at DePaul University, since 2011. This orchestra, led by Mina Zikri, regularly performs his works, most recently a waltz from his Suite for Strings in June. Michael also occasionally accompanies jazz singer Bonnie Watts.

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Money is about so much more than numbers... it’s about confidence, choices, freedom, and the life we want to create.
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Come with your thoughts, questions, and an open mind. This isn’t a lecture—it’s a conversation among women about money, life, and what it means to own your wealth. No financial expertise required - just a willingness to join the conversation. $25 entrance.

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Julianna Glasse is a former Christian pop star and the founder and CEO of This Is What Happens When Women Read, a global organization dedicated to the liberation of women through education and safe community. She holds a master’s degree from the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, with which she has created a partnership to provide scholarships to educate, support, and empower women who have left restrictive religious communities. She currently resides in New York City.
Hannah Pittard is the author of six books, including the memoir We Are Too Many and the novel If You Love It, Let It Kill You. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell fellow (‘12, ‘23, ‘25), and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. She lives with her boyfriend and stepdaughter in Lexington. Much of her family lives nearby.&nbsp;

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Paul Agase a retired broadcast executive and a devoted father of four, has a deep passion for storytelling, especially about real-world events that have shaped his family. In Harry the Cat, Paul happily shares the lessons learned through loving his family's four-legged members. This journey of love and growth reflects his dream of inspiring creativity and wonder in children.

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