From BookBalloon: Prince of Thorns has been heralded as the fantasy debut of 2011. On September 20 and 21, author Mark Lawrence will be visiting the BookBalloon forum, where you’ll have your chance to find out what the fuss is all about. Prince of Thorns is the first volume in a planned trilogy about Prince [...]
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From the University of Mary Washington: BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHER APPOINTED TO GREAT LIVES SERIES The University of Mary Washington announces the appointment of noted biographer Charles J. Shields as associate director of the University’s popular Great Lives public lecture series. Shields is the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (2006) the first biography of [...]
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Sharing an announcement from JRML: P.G. Kain, author of the popular series The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts, will be at the Northside Library on Saturday, August 6 at 11:30 am. Come meet him, ask questions and get your books signed. Learn more about his hilarious series at tweenink.com.
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Louisa native Robert Duke will present a program on his new book, Aunt Patsy: A Collection of Favorite Columns, Advice, Poems and Recipes. Aunt Patsy’s column appeared in the Central Virginian for many years during the mid-twentieth century. The program will be Friday, August 12 from 5-7pm at the Louisa County Library. After the program, [...]
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BookBalloon Reading Club August Selection The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford “Eight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league with each other against the stodgy and stupid routines of school and daily life; against their prim mother and prissy older sisters; against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself. One [...]
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Q and A with Katharine Weber July 26 It’s a story with enough glamour, intrigue, romance, and heartbreak for a dozen Broadway musicals, but every word of it is true. The Memory of All That is Katharine Weber’s memoir of her remarkable, maddening, fascinating family – from her father, a philandering filmmaker, to her influential [...]
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Coming to WriterHouse: TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011, 5:00 pm An Impromptu Literary Salon with Eleanor Henderson Ten Thousand Saints (HarperCollins 2011) author Eleanor Henderson talks about the challenges she encountered in writing her just-released critically-acclaimed novel. The novel is set in the 1980s’ straight-edge music scene, an underground youth culture powered by the paradoxical aggression [...]
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Having Your Cake & Eating It Too: The Benefits and Challenges of Mixed-Genre Fiction Thursday, May 19, 2011, 7:00pm, at WriterHouse Join Moondogs author Alexander Yates as he discusses the pleasures and challenges of incorporating genre writing into literary fiction and the obstacles he faced while writing and publishing his mixed-genre debut novel. Moondogs is a [...]
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At WriterHouse: 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville Thursday, May 12, 2011, 7-9pm Join us for a celebration of WriterHouse member Kathryn Erskine’s National Book Award for “Mockingbird.” (This was postponed due to snowstorms in December.) Meet Kathy, meet other writers and fans. Refreshments, books available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public. Related [...]
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[Headline corrected] Teaching Peace to the Conquered: Jefferson and His Slaves Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow Henry Wiencek Tuesday, May 10, at noon, Charlottesville City Council Chambers This lecture is free and open to the public. Henry Wiencek Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow Henry Wiencek will conclude this spring’s series of downtown C’ville [...]
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New Dominion Bookshop 404 East Main Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-295-2552 Reading and Book-signing at New Dominion Bookshop Friday, May 20 at 5:30 PM Registered Dietician Wendy Vigdor-Hess will discuss Sweetness Without Sugar: A Resource Guide for Delicious Dairy-, Egg-, and Gluten-Free Treats Made with Healthy Sweeteners by Wendy Vigdor-Hess, R.D. In the United States, [...]
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Second Saturdays Series at Scottsville Library: “Making a Nature Friendly Garden” will be presented on Saturday, May 14 at 4pm by naturalist Marlene A. Condon, who is the author and photographer of The Nature-friendly Garden: Creating a Backyard Haven for Plants, Wildlife, and People.
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CELEBRATE KATHY ERSKINE’S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THURS. MAY 12 at 7PM We tried to celebrate way back in December, only to be thwarted by fickle winter weather, so we’ve rescheduled. Join WriterHouse in congratulating Kathy on her well-deserved prize! LITERARY SALON WITH ALEXANDER YATES, MAY 19 AT 7PM Join Moondogs author Alexander Yates as he [...]
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Reading and Book-signing at New Dominion Bookshop: Friday, May 13 at 5:30 PM Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman will present selections from Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman Originally self-published as In the Lion’s Den, this compelling debut was praised by the director of the prestigious Langum Prize as “very well [...]
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Saturday, May 7 · 2:00pm – 3:00pm Louisa County Library Local author, Linda Salisbury, will be reading from her books and doing a book signing on Saturday, May 7 at 2pm at the library. Join us for fun with the Bailey Fish Adventure series which is set in Central Virginia.
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