Mark Lawrence at BookBalloon.com September 20-21

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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BookBalloon September reading club selection: The Sisters Brothers

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

BookBalloon Reading Club September Selection: The Sisters Brothersby Patrick Dewitt”If Eli and Charles Sisters come after you, brush up your will. Run and they’ll find you. Deal and they’ll trick you. Draw and they’ll shoot you. They’re the fabled assassins at the center of this bloody buddy story set on the West Coast in 1851. [...]

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Mark the date: WriterHouse Book Sale August 27-28

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

From WriterHouse: Need more books? Of course you do! And we want to help you feed your need for the printed stuff, so to facilitate the habit, WriterHouse will be holding a book sale on Saturday, August 27 from 8am-4pm and Sunday, August 28 from noon-4pm.

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Meet author P. G. Kain at Northside Library August 6

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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 Library to host Robert Duke August 12

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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 August Reading Club selection: The Mountain Lion

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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 at BookBalloon

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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BookBalloon Reading Club July Selection: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

BookBalloon Reading Club July Selection The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet draws us into the redolent atmosphere of those grand 19th-century epics by Melville, Dumas and Sir Walter Scott. Japan remains a favorite subject for this peripatetic author, who began writing fiction in his [...]

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Eleanor Henderson at WriterHouse June 28

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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BookBalloon June Reading Club Selection: Corrigan

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

BookBalloon Reading Club June Selection Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood “Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband’s death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has had only her trips to his grave to look forward to. Her raucous housekeeper’s conversation, and cooking, are best forgotten. Nadine, [...]

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Upcoming events at WriterHouse

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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Celebrate National Book Award winner Kathy Erskine at WriterHouse

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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Wendy Vigdor-Hess at New Dominion Bookshop May 20

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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Marlene A. Condon, Scottsville Library, May 14

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

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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BookBalloon Reading Club: May Selection

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

BookBalloon Reading Club May Selection Galore by Michael Crummey “As the title promises, Michael Crummey’s newest novel, Galore, delivers great abundance: of personalities, history, folklore, and vernacular. It is a yarn in the best sense of the word, unspooling over the course of a century in a small Newfoundland fishing village to give us not [...]

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