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Tour of 3 old cemeteries in Swannanoa Valley, May 25

Swannanoa Valley Cemeteries Tourfrom press releaseOn Saturday, May 25, 2013, in honor of Memorial Day weekend, the Swannanoa Valley Museum will hold a three-hour tour of some of the oldest cemeteries in the valley, beginning 10 a.m. Local experts Robert Goodson and Bill Alexander will take participants through the Piney Grove, Tabernacle, and Ingram cemeteries while sharing the history of these sacred places as well as the lives of the people buried within them. Piney Grove Cemetery, associated…See More
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Barefoot in the Snow by Julia Nunnally Duncan

Marion poet cradles the individuals in her lifeby Rob NeufeldReview of: Barefoot in the Snow by Julia Nunnally Duncan (World Audience trade paper, Apr. 2013, 67 pages)             “The Loving Child” might be an alternate title for Julia Nunnally Duncan’s new book of poems, “Barefoot in the Snow.”  Her title poem…See More
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Vandercooked Poetry Nights at Asheville BookWorks at Asheville BookWorks

June 1, 2013 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Asheville BookWorks Inaugurates Broadside & Reading Series: Vandercooked Poetry Nights Asheville BookWorks, a community resource for print and book arts, introduces Vandercooked Poetry Nights, a reading series that offers the public the opportunity to print letterpress broadsides at the series events. The first Vandercooked Poetry Night is Saturday, June 1, 2013. Printing begins at 7:00 p.m. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Asheville BookWorks will…See More
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Celia Miles' new novel, sequel to Sarranda, is available in paper and Kindle

http://www.celiamiles.comSarranda's Heart: A Love Story of Place is now available in regional independent bookstores and on Kindle, soon on Amazon.See More
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Montreat College Friends of the Library--Tommy Hays, speaker at Montreat College Gaither Fellowship Hall

June 15, 2013 from 12pm to 2:30pm
June 15, 2013 Annual luncheon of the Montreat College Friends of the Library.  Tommy Hays will be speaking about his novel The Pleasure Was Mine and previewing his upcoming  What I Came to Tell You.  Lunch at 12:00 noon in Gaither Fellowship Hall.  $15.00 for lunch and speaker.  Speaker only at 1:00 pm in adjacent Gaither Chapel $10.00.  Annual dues: $15.00Reservations:  828-669-8012 Ext. 3502 or 3504See More
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Joe Perrone Jr. posted a blog post

As the Twig is Bent is Available Now in Audiobook

As the Twig is Bent, the original book in the Matt Davis Mystery Series by Joe Perrone Jr, is now available as an audio book from Audible.com and iTunes.  Opening Day and Twice Bitten, the second…See More
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May 17, 2013 from 1pm to 7pm
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Celia Miles' new novel, sequel to Sarranda, is available in paper and Kindle

http://www.celiamiles.comSarranda's Heart: A Love Story of Place is now available in regional independent bookstores and on Kindle, soon on Amazon.

Added by Celia Miles on May 18, 2013 at 2:47pm — No Comments

As the Twig is Bent is Available Now in Audiobook

As the Twig is Bent, the original book in the Matt Davis Mystery Series by Joe Perrone Jr, is now available as an audio book from Audible.com and iTunes.  Opening Day and…

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Added by Joe Perrone Jr. on May 17, 2013 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Audio Book Complete

The production work on  the audio book edition of my first Matt Davis Mystery, As the Twig is Bent, is complete.  The audio book should be available on Audible.com within the next two weeks.

Added by Joe Perrone Jr. on May 3, 2013 at 12:06pm — No Comments

My home invasion -- immortalized in print

My first creative nonfiction publication "Rules of Engagement" is now live at Superstition Review. It's a personal essay about my home invasion that occurred several years ago here in Asheville.

 

http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue11/nonfiction/caralyndavis

Added by Caralyn Davis on April 26, 2013 at 2:57pm — No Comments

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail Across North Carolina at Accent on Books

I like to think that the Mountains-to-Sea Across North Carolina is an

important book about our state trail.

 

Tomorrow, Friday April 26, I'll be at Accent on Books at 6 pm to talk

about the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. What is it like to walk

across our state, once you leave the mountains?

 

This will be my last appearance in Asheville. I've gone to Raleigh and Charlotte…

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Added by Danny Bernstein on April 25, 2013 at 1:25pm — No Comments

Choose by Casey Long

New book with WNC connection:

Choose by Casey Long (Tate trade paper, January 2013, 266 pages, $20.99).

Author event: 1 p.m., Sat., Apr. 27 at Sam's Club, 645 Patton Ave., Asheville

Debut Christian thriller novel by a Candler resident:

A young woman, the victim of a brutal assault, searches for a missing child and steps into the realm of the supernatural. Will she be able to escape her captor, or will she die for her beliefs?

Added by Kristina Blackford on April 24, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The books that people are trying to ban, 2012

Most-banned books & the state of libraries

The American Library Association’s 2013 State of America’s Libraries Report was released April 16, during National Library Week, April 14 – 20 and it included the Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books, compiled by …

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Added by Rob Neufeld on April 17, 2013 at 10:36pm — No Comments

Pulitzer Prizes; Granta awards, April 2013

Pulitzer Prizes awarded Mon., Apr. 15

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson won for fiction;  Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds for poetry; Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall for non-fiction; and The Black Count: Glory,…

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Added by Rob Neufeld on April 17, 2013 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Wordless Picture Books

I have been extremely happy to help a couple of different customers in the last few weeks who have come in to the bookshop specifically looking for wordless picture books. Why so happy? Because over the last eight years I have generally found that wordless picture books, no matter how visually stunning, hilarious or touching or award-winning, can be a really tough sell.

And that's a shame.

Now, I should be quick to point out that there is no lack of interest in these books on…

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Added by Spellbound on April 17, 2013 at 2:45pm — No Comments

5th Annual Blue Ridge Bookfest May 17-18

We invite all readers and writers to BRCC on May 17 and 18 for this free event. Once again the Bookfest will feature forty authors. Presenters and exhibitors from many writing genres will be there. For details www.BlueRidgeBookfest.org

Our volunteers and the college hope you will come. We promise you a good time. 

Added by Bill Ramsey on April 16, 2013 at 7:51am — No Comments

Gary Carden presents “Madison,” April 26, 7 p.m.

Master storyteller Gary Carden of The Liars Bench presents “Madison,” a monologue honoring the life of Western Carolina University founder Dr. Robert Lee Madison, on Fri., April 26 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Franklin.



Carden, assisted by Pam Meister, curator of the Mountain Heritage Center at WCU, tells the life story of Dr. Madison, a man who promoted the idea of a school that would…

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Added by Kristina Blackford on April 13, 2013 at 6:04pm — No Comments

Civil War genealogy workshop, April 13, 10 a.m., Raleigh

Members from NC’s Government & Heritage Library and the State Archives of North Carolina will discuss the top 10 questions regarding Civil War ancestors asked by researchers, including information on Confederate and Union records and U.S Colored Troops, on April 13 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium at the State Archives Building, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh.

The Genealogy Research Room will be open from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. that day for any…

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Added by Kristina Blackford on April 6, 2013 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Asheville BookWorks May-July 2013 workshops

Asheville BookWorks, a community resource for print and book arts, presents their listing of May-July workshops:

 

Bookbinding Basics with Bridget Elmer

Sat.-Sun., May 4-5, 10-5 p.m.; $217 + material fee

This two-day weekend class covers the basics of bookbinding, providing students with a strong foundation from which to depart. We will explore the essentials of paper grain, successful paper prep, folding…

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Added by Kristina Blackford on April 6, 2013 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Writers' Workshop meets and classes

THE WRITERS' WORKSHOP--Meets and classes

387 Beaucatcher Road, Asheville, NC 28805

Workshop members are invited to these events free of charge.  Please RSVP at least 48 hours in advance:  writers@gmail.com - or call 828-254-8111.…

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Added by Rob Neufeld on April 2, 2013 at 10:46am — No Comments

State budget proposal includes big cuts in public library support

Another slash--public libraries threatened

            The Fontana Regional Library has put out the word about a 4.8% in state spending on public libraries.  This plan is part of a trend to minimize the role of the arts, literature, and the humanities in our lives.  The reasons given are both false, I believe.  

            One is the focus on jobs: and by jobs, technical jobs are indicated.  A look at job growth trends in the…

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Added by Rob Neufeld on March 30, 2013 at 12:45pm — No Comments

Blue Ridge Bookfest coming in May!

Hi folks:

       The 5th annual Blue Ridge Bookfest is coming up on May 17-18, 2013.  We have a great line-up of speakers and exhibitors, and I can do no better than to repeat the press release sent out today by the BR Community College's Lee Anna Haney.

Jim Loy

Program Chair

2013 Blue Ridge Bookfest

     

Blue Ridge Bookfest Features Author Wiley…

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Added by James D. Loy on March 28, 2013 at 9:32pm — No Comments

Prize-winning poet Schultz talks about dyslexia Apr. 3

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Schultz, at April 3 event for memoir about dyslexia

From press release

Philip Schultz will read from his memoir My Dyslexia on April 3 at 7 p.m. at the Lenoir-Rhyne University Center for Graduate Studies in the Chamber board room at 36 Montford Avenue. The event is …

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Added by Rob Neufeld on March 25, 2013 at 12:36pm — No Comments

Thanks for supporting your bookstore and your state trail

Thank you so much to all the people who came out last night (Friday March 22) to hear about the Mountains -to-Sea Across North Carolina.

 

According to Malaprop staff, over 50 people were there to support their local bookstore-- and me. Karen Chavez wrote a wonderful article about the trail and my book a couple of weeks…

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Added by Danny Bernstein on March 23, 2013 at 10:50am — No Comments

Cathryn writing -

Montford Newsletter articles

Added by Cathryn McLeod on March 22, 2013 at 11:34am — 1 Comment

Shelia Kay and Marvin Cole appear at Liars Bench

The Liars Bench will kick off its third year with guest appearances from Shelia Kay Adams and Marvin Cole.  Gary Carden will be there with a "Belled Buzzard" tale and William Ritter will play an old fiddle tune about the winged harbinger of doom.  Lots more.

This is scheduled for Thursday night, March 28th at the Mountain Heritage Center auditorium at 7:00.  Come early.

Added by Gary Carden on March 21, 2013 at 8:43am — No Comments

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