The L'l Bookshop will be closed on Friday, January 17.  We will open again on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.  Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience.

A big thank you to the Third Thursday group of folks who shared stories in the bookshop today.  A special thank you to Doris Kienitz and her father Alfred for generously sharing with us their personal family experiences.  Doris is the author of East Germany and the Escape: Kitchen Table Memoirs.  Friesen Press.

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Note:  Thank you for bearing with us while our server is frequently and sporadically not available;  our software, programs, files -- including e-mail messages and addresses -- are somewhere.  Somewhere out of order.  (I am assured that they are safe!)  If we have not replied to your inquiries or followed up on promised information, we are working on it and hope to be up and running soon. ~ lbw

From Alice Mason ~

Friendship is that rarest of treasures to hold

It cannot be purchased with mountains of gold.

It's being protective when hope tumbles down

A fault that's forgiven, a smile for a frown.

Encouragement offered when the going is rough...

It's a hand set to help when the job is too tough.

Friendship is the essence of faith, deep and strong.

It's a poem unwritten...

A beautiful song.

Alice Mason (1904 - 1971) American abstract painter