Quail Ridge Books & Music

Frances Richey's moving memoir, THE WARRIOR, gives a mother's perspective as her son fights in Iraq.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.
Photo ... (more)by Michael Fisher

Jenifer Fox discusses YOUR CHILD'S STRENGTHS: DISCOVER THEM, DEVELOP THEM, USE THEM. This is an essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children's individual strengths create success. The event is open to the public; note the St. Mary's venue.
To request a signed or personalized copy, ... (more)call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Cary humor columnist Sharon O'Donnell shares her HOUSE OF TESTOSTERONE: ONE MOM'S SURVIVAL IN A HOUSEHOLD OF MALES. Her HOUSE is updated with new essays.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for ... (more)email) to check availability.

Information is power, and you'll have it after this evening with P. Murali Doraiswamy and Lisa Gwyther. Their THE ALZHEIMER'S ACTION PLAN: THE EXPERTS' GUIDE TO DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT FOR MEMORY PROBLEMS is a comprehensive, up-to-date, compassionate and empowering guide by an internationally renowned ... (more)Alzheimer doctor from Duke, and one of the founders of the national Alzheimer's Association.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The Agatha-winning author presents her new novel, THE BODY IN THE GALLERY. This is a treat for those who love traditional Christie-style mysteries.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours ... (more)in advance for email) to check availability.

Join us for a special evening with LIVING IN STORMS: CONTEMPORARY POETRY & THE MOODS OF MANIC DEPRESSION. Editor Thom Schramm and contributors Gerald Barrax and Richard Krawiec will be here. There will also be performances by FLEUR DE LISAS, a Durham a cappella group singing the poems by NC authors.
To ... (more)request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join local author Melissa Delbridge with her new FAMILY BIBLE. From Reynolds Price: "Her memories are accurate, hilarious, and tragic and will surely prove enduring as a guide to the Deepest South."
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or ... (more)contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Nortin Hadler, MD, presents WORRIED SICK: A PRESCRIPTION FOR HEALTH IN AN OVERTREATED AMERICA. A professor of medicine at UNC-CH, Hadler exposes problems and offers solutions for our health care system.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Kevin Duffus knows the Carolina coast. The author of SHIPWRECKS OF THE OUTER BANKS presents his new THE LAST DAYS OF BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE. His discoveries promise to change pirate history and the story of
Blackbeard.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact ... (more)orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Dawn Shamp debuts her new novel, ON ACCOUNT OF CONSPICUOUS WOMEN. Lee Smith says it is "...so funny and entertaining that its surprise depth may sneak up on you...Shamp is a major talent."
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Greg Barrett presents THE GOSPEL OF FATHER JOE: REVOLUTIONS AND REVELATIONS IN
THE SLUMS OF BANGKOK. You're sure to be awed & inspired by the works of this amazing man.
Three decades ago, Father Joe declared a revolution and is now
responsible for more than 30 preschools educating 4,200. The book features ... (more)a foreward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

What's behind your actions? Find out when Prof. Dan Ariely visit with his new PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS. This is an engaging and insightful examination of human behavior by a Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT and visiting professor at Duke.
To request ... (more)a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Award-winning author Miriam Herin joins us with her novel, ABSOLUTION. In one reviewer's words, it "...grips and holds like popular fiction, but its themes and complexity encourage the reader to slow down."
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

If you enjoy wine, Neal Rosenthal has your dream job. Hear Neal Rosenthal discuss his REFLECTIONS OF A WINE MERCHANT and see why. A leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon ... (more)the changes in the world of wine.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Do you realize what a musical state you live in? Ann Wicker, editor of MAKING NOTES: MUSIC OF THE CAROLINAS does. Come here these lively, readable stories about the music and musicians with roots in the Carolinas—and how that musical legacy continues to grow and thrive today.
To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Elizabeth Wiegand comes to us with THE OUTER BANKS COOKBOOK: RECIPES AND TRADITIONS FROM NC'S BARRIER ISLANDS. As with many of our cookbook events, there will be samples!
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours ... (more)in advance for email) to check availability.
Samples!

Some lives take unique turns, and Ben Jones has chronicled his. The actor famed for playing "Cooter" on TV's Dukes of Hazard shares his memoir, REDNECK BOY IN THE PROMISED LAND: THE CONFESSIONS OF A CRAZY COOTER. From TV to Georgia Congressman, this is a warm, witty portrait of a quietly ... (more)extraordinary American life.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Come to a party celebrating one of fiction's favorite 3rd graders: Judy Moody. We'll have surprises, special guests, and snacks as we have fun with different aspects of the Judy Moody books. Suggested for ages 6 and up. Note: this is not an event with the author.
Consider staying on and joining our ... (more)Elementary Book Club at 2 p.m. as we talk about JUDY MOODY: AROUND THE WORLD IN 8 1/2 DAYS.

SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT! Signing line tickets are available with the purchase of Gene Hackman's book.
Yes, THAT Gene Hackman. Did you know the actor was also an established author? Two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan present their third collaboration, ... (more)ESCAPE FROM ANDERSONVILLE. This talented duo dramatize a prison escape by Union Capt. Nathan Parker, who vows
to return to save his soldiers. It is a rousing take on familiar territory.
The authors will personalize and photography is allowed. Remember your cameras!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The Malibu Book Group will be reading and discussing Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. This event is free and all are welcome to attend.

Virginia Willis brings us BON APPETIT, Y'ALL: RECIPES AND STORIES FROM THREE
GENERATIONS OF SOUTHERN COOKING. Her book contains 200 recipes for great Southern home cooking, imbued with contemporary
sensibility and classical French techniques.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or ... (more)1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Lewis Shiner joins us with his new novel, BLACK AND WHITE. Jonathan Lethem describe is as a
novel ".. both a page-turner and an urban documentary."
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Get the inside perspective on Wake County Schools' spectacular growth and change from two in the know. Former Wake Co. School Superintendent Bill McNeill (pictured) and school board member and business leader Tom Oxholm present A SCHOOL DISTRICT'S JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE: LESSONS FROM BUSINESS & EDUCATION. ... (more)They blend business principles with excellent leadership to create a remarkable tool for educators and communities.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The fourth entry in Stephenie Meyer’s hugely popular vampire series is available at midnight, Saturday, August 2. Reserve your copy now and come to party as we count down to midnight. Costumes highly encouraged! Fun and activities for all.

Watch for more info to come about our Breaking Dawn Release Party.

Save money and be kind to the environment. Stephen & Rebekah Hren present their THE CARBON FREE HOME; 36 REMODELING PROJECTS TO HELP KICK THE FOSSIL-FUEL HABIT. Learn how you can turn your existing house into an environmental asset.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Save money and be kind to the environment. Stephen & Rebekah Hren present their THE CARBON FREE HOME; 36 REMODELING PROJECTS TO HELP KICK THE FOSSIL-FUEL HABIT. Learn how you can turn your existing house into an environmental asset.
To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel's Malibu Book Group will be gathering to discuss The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson. All are welcome!
For more on Eric Larson, click here

William "Bill" Curry comes to us with TEN MEN YOU MEET IN THE HUDDLE: LESSONS FROM A FOOTBALL LIFE. He snapped balls to Namath, Starr, Unitas and is now a college football analyst for ESPN. For him, football is a metaphor for life and he tells the story with great passion.
To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

William "Bill" Curry comes to us with TEN MEN YOU MEET IN THE HUDDLE: LESSONS FROM A FOOTBALL LIFE. He snapped balls to Namath, Starr, Unitas and is now a college football analyst for ESPN. For him, football is a metaphor for life and he tells the story with great passion.
To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Baby may have started as a puppy mill victim, but this three-legged bundle of energy is now the charming "spokesdog" for puppy mill rescues. Hear of her story (and encounters with famous celebrities in her quest) when Jana Kohl presents A RARE BREED OF LOVE.
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Bob Moser presents BLUE DIXIE: AWAKENING THE SOUTH'S DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. He builds a powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democratic Party.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (more)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join Diesel Bookstore as investigative journalist & author, Nena Baker presents and signs her compelling new book, The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being.

Nena spent a quarter century in the trenches of journalism before writing THE BODY TOXIC. ... (more) She began her career in New York as a copy editor for GQ magazine, later moving on to positions at TV Guide and a jewelry trade magazine, where she exposed the illegal disposal of toxic chemicals by retail jewelers.

She also worked as a reporter and editor on the national financial desk of United Press International in New York before returning to her home state of Oregon, where, as an awrd-winning staff writer for The Oregonian, she was the first U.S. reporter to investigate deplorable conditions at Nike's Indonesian factories.

Her writing has appeared in SELF, Town & Country, Seventeen, and Mademoiselle. A graduate of Lewis & Clark College, Baker currently lives in Portland, OR, where she is a licensed private investigator specializing in interviewing, database, and public-records research.

Robinson Everett and The Gothic Bookshop cordially invite you to meet Judge Eugene Sullivan.

Eugene Sullivan is a Federal Judge(Senior Status), a graduate of West Point and a Vietnam Veteran. He has served as an Army Ranger Instructor, a White House lawyer, a Dept. of Justice trial attorney, and the ... (more)General Counsel of both the U.S. Air Force and the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office, America's Spy satellite Agency. Currently, Judge Sullivan is a senior partner of the global judicial/law enforcement consulting firm, The Freeh Group International.

Copies of Judge Sullivan's second novel, The Report to the Judiciary, described by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci as " a page-turner with a true insider's knowledge" will be available for purchase at this time.

Renowned storyteller Lloyd Arneach treats us to his LONG AGO STORIES OF THE EASTERN CHEROKEE, an insightful look into the folklore and lives of the Cherokee past and present.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Cyma Rubin presents her unique THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, THE CIVIL WAR
TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. The book includes 116 enlarged photographs (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) dating back to the Civil War and the dawn of the photographic era. This is an intimate and historical ... (more)look into the lives of America's fighting forces.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Cyma Rubin presents her unique THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, THE CIVIL WAR
TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. The book includes 116 enlarged photographs (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) dating back to the Civil War and the dawn of the photographic era. This is an intimate and historical ... (more)look into the lives of America's fighting forces.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Here's an afternoon treat for young, aspiring writers. Diane Berry presents her new novel, PORT CITY PIRATES, about teens who set about solving a centuries' old haunting on the N.C. coast. She also discusses the writing process. For ages 9 and up. Why the unusual time for the program? Her ... (more)program "bridges" the meetings of the Elementary and Battle of the Books clubs. You don't have to be attending either club to come to Diane Berry's program. But if you're in either club, consider adjusting your departure or arrival time accordingly.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Dr. Paul Austin gives us medicine from the doctor's perspective in SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN: ONE DOCTOR'S ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE ER. You see an eye-opening account of life in the ER by a Durham doctor.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Dr. Paul Austin gives us medicine from the doctor's perspective in SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN: ONE DOCTOR'S ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE ER. You see an eye-opening account of life in the ER by a Durham doctor.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Christopher Paolini's hugely popular INHERITANCE cycle continues in the eagerly anticipated BRISINGR. It's available just after midnight on Saturday, September 20. So we're counting down the final moments in style with our fabulous party at 11! Come see real expert swordplay, courtesy of NBS GYM of ... (more)Raleigh! Reserve your copy of BRISINGR now.

Join Little Bookworms to celebrate the release of Brisingr, the highly anticipated 3rd installment of the Inheritance Cycle. Activities will include: Breakfast food Trivia Sword-fighting Costume Contest Dragon egg hunt
Ancient language quiz There's no need to stay up until midnight when Little Bookworms ... (more)is planning another great event!
Pre-order your book today and get a free Eragon mouse pad (while supplies last).

Diesel Bookstore is proud to welcome back Irvine Welsh, the bestselling author of Trainspotting as he presents his newest book, Crime.

As Welsh's very first novel set in the U.S., CRIME is a shocking and gripping story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul, and the possibilities for redemption.

Bob Moser presents BLUE DIXIE: AWAKENING THE SOUTH'S DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. He builds a powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democratic Party.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (more)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Bob Moser presents BLUE DIXIE: AWAKENING THE SOUTH'S DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. He builds a powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democratic Party.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (more)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

How does a minor character in a book get the author to give him more limelight? You'll get to ask William Conescu that when he presents his new novel, BEING WRITTEN, a swift and nicely structured dark comedy from a new N.C. writer.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, ... (more)call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Anna Hayes joins us with her biography WITHOUT PRECEDENT: THE LIFE OF SUSIE MARSHALL SHARP. With unrestricted access to Sharp's papers, Hayes uncovers the story of a brilliant woman who not only transcends the limits of her time but also had a rich and unsuspected private life.
Can’t ... (more)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Anna Hayes joins us with her biography WITHOUT PRECEDENT: THE LIFE OF SUSIE MARSHALL SHARP. With unrestricted access to Sharp's papers, Hayes uncovers the story of a brilliant woman who not only transcends the limits of her time but also had a rich and unsuspected private life.
Can’t make it? ... (more) To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT; receive a ticket with the purchase of LIBERTY.
The host and author of Prairie Home Companion brings a new tale of Lake
Wobegon as it's always been—good loving people who drive each other crazy! Hear about LIBERTY, the latest Lake Wobegon novel. ... (more) Garrison Keillor is signing back list books and personalizing. Photography is allowed, so bring your camera!
Tickets are $5 each. Or, receive a free ticket with the purchase of LIBERTY. The program ticket also serves as your signing line ticket.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

It was the largest drug bust in U.S. history, and it happened here. Learn the story from Doug McCullough when he presents SEA OF GREED. This NC Court of Appeals judge tells the true story of the investigation and prosecution of Manuel Noriega and the largest drug ring in US history that stretched from ... (more)the NC coast to Panama.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Comic Jeremy Greenberg presents RELATIVE DISCOMFORT: THE FAMILY SURVIVAL GUIDE — just in time for the holidays! There are many how-to books. Finally, here is a book on how to laugh your way through any and every stressful family encounter. Jeremy will be here before his evening stand up comic gig.
Can’t ... (more)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Two great arts are mixed in Lenard Moore's A TEMPLE LOOMING: POEMS. Old black and white photographs are brought to life through beautifully rendered poems.
Can't make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (more)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Tom Joyner has never been at a loss for words. Come here the former WPTF talk radio host take on a discussion on race.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to ... (more)check availability.

Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival GuideJeremy Greenberg’s new book, Relative Discomfort revolutionizes the ways in which people deal with the stress of seeing family.

Let this holiday season be the first in which you don’t dread seeing your loved ones.

Under the guise of a “guidebook,” ... (more)Jeremy delights readers with hilarious, original, smart perspectives on the family dynamic. Readers will laugh out loud, and come away with a richer understanding of what exactly makes their families tick, and what about their families ticks them off.

An internationally headlining stand-up comedian, columnist and author, Jeremy Greenberg writes a column entitled “Eastside: Center of the Universe,” which celebrates the elevated status of suburban Seattle. He has been a contributor to the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes , a joke writer for Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, and has written for MSN, Geek Monthly, Twins Magazine, and Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine. When not traveling and writing, Jeremy is home with his wife and twin sons in Kirkland, Washington.FUN READING and BOOK SIGNING:Saturday, October 11 at 2 p.m.

Dine well and safely on road trips with D.G. Martin's INTERSTATE EATERIES (2nd edition). Come for the fun as Quail Ridge Books & Music owner Nancy Olson turns the tables on D.G. and interviews the host of NC Bookwatch.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or ... (more)1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Do you stare into the fridge every night, wondering what to make for dinner? Help is on the way. Hear Liz Edmunds with THE FOOD NANNY RESCUES DINNER: EASY FAMILY DINNERS FOR
EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. You'll learn how to easily put together a complete meal plan for busy families. There will also ... (more)be a French bread demonstration. Brown bag your lunch and come on in!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join Diesel Bookstore for a green event with Van Jones, author of Green Collar Economy!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All, based in Oakland. The mission is to help build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. Van ... (more)is a tireless advocate, championing "green-collar jobs and opportunities" for disadvantaged people. He is committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming.

He's worked to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Under the slogan "green-collar jobs, not jails," he is calling for green economic development in urban America.

As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes, he has won many honors, which include the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship.

He's also served on the boards of numerous national environmental organizations. Presently, he is a board member of the National Apollo Alliance, which advocates for clean energy jobs. He is also a founding board member of 1Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change.

In 2007, Van helped the City of Oakland pass a "Green Jobs Corps" proposal; the City allocated funds to train Oakland residents in eco-friendly "green-collar jobs."

At the national level, Van worked successfully in 2007 with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-MASS) to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007. That path-breaking, historic legislation authorized $125 million in funding to train 35,000 people a year in "green-collar jobs." Van is also a co-founder of a new national coalition that promotes the idea of a national "Clean Energy Jobs Corps." This multi-billion-dollar federal initiative would put hundreds of thousands of people to work rewiring and retrofitting the energy infrastructure of the United States.

In 2005, Van produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration. UNWED 2005 drew dozens of mayors from around the world to San Francisco, where they developed policies promoting the concept of "Green Cities."

In 1996, Van co-founded (with Diana Frappier) the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, now located in Oakland, California. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the award-winning Center promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration. The Center, for which Van serves as board president, incubated Green For All in 2007 and spun it off in 2008.

His many media appearances includes the popular Peabody award-winning show, The Colbert Report.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH – PEAK INTO PETERBOROUGH – events throughout the town for all ages –come and enjoy!
AT 2 PM – NICKOLAS LUPININ introducing and signing THE RUSSIAN CENTURY: A HUNDRED YEARS OF RUSSIAN LIVES a new book he has co-edited with George Pahomov, composed of first person accounts ... (more)painting a vivid portrait of the Russian people through the turbulent years of the collapse of the Soviet Union

Join Clare Langley-Hawthorne at Diesel Bookstore as she presents the second book in her fantastic new historical mystery series! Featuring the strong, outspoken, intelligent and sassy Ursula Marlow, THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION is a thrilling story of scandal and betrayal that's richly detailed and ... (more)action-packed.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in England and Australia. She practiced law in Melbourne until 1995 when she emigrated moved to the United States and began work as a health economist. Clare has since put her pursuit of a PhD on hold to focus on her career as a writer. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and twin sons. This is her second novel.

For more information, visit her web site at www.clarelangleyhawthorne.com

Cyma Rubin presents her unique THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, THE CIVIL WAR
TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. The book includes 116 enlarged photographs (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) dating back to the Civil War and the dawn of the photographic era. This is an intimate and historical ... (more)look into the lives of America's fighting forces.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Louella Bryant presents her real-life story, WHILE IN DARKNESS THERE IS LIGHT: IDEALISM AND TRAGEDY ON AN AUSTRALIAN COMMUNE. Come hear the story of a well–researched and straightforward coming of age story of five young men that recaptures some of what what most inspiring and some of what was most ... (more)heartbreaking about America in the early 1970s.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Howard Lee presents his THE COURAGE TO LEAD: ONE MAN'S JOURNEY IN PUBLIC SERVICE. He chronicles a journey that began on a sharecropper's farm and led him to be elected the first black mayor of Chapel Hill and first black member of a governor's cabinet.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or ... (more)personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Book signing by the author and Christopher himself.

Christopher Cote and Genevieve Simermeyer will be at the bookstore from 4:00 to 6:00 pm to sign books and visit with all interested persons.

"Meet Christopher: An Osage Indian Boy from Oklahoma" introduces readers to Skiatook eighth-grader ... (more)Christopher Cote. Part of the Smithsonian series "My World: Young Native Americans Today", this is as fully illustrated book in color with pictures of Christopher and his family and friends in school, scouts, church, taking Osage language classes at the library and fishing at the lake.

N.C. State professor and economist Michael L. Walden presents NORTH CAROLINA IN THE CONNECTED AGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A GLOBALIZING ECONOMY. He has written in lively style a guide to the history of our economy and what the future might hold.
Can’t make it? To request ... (more)a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

N.C. State professor and economist Michael L. Walden presents NORTH CAROLINA IN THE CONNECTED AGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A GLOBALIZING ECONOMY. He has written in lively style a guide to the history of our economy and what the future might hold.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or ... (more)personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

What happens when a veterinarian has a patient too big to fit in the office? Find out the wild adventures of some special vets when Greg Lewbart and Michael Stoskopf present THE RHINO WITH GLUE-ON SHOES: AND OTHER SURPRISING TRUE STORIES OF ZOO VETS AND THEIR PATIENTS. This collection of personal ... (more)essays from zoo and wildlife vets includes NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine faculty members.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Karen Levin Coburn, co-editor of Letting Go, describes Writin' on Empty: Parents Reveal the Upside, Downside, and Everything in Between When Children Leave the Nest perfectly in her glowing review: "This collection of essays about the universal experience of children leaving home is guaranteed to strike ... (more)a chord—to make you smile and laugh out loud—and yes, even shed some tears. It will confirm what you've been thinking as well as challenge you to think a bit differently."

Now, DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is proud to welcome local authors and editors of Writin' on Empty, Risa Nye, Joan Taylor Cehn and Julie Renalds, to the store as they discuss a topic that is sure to pull at the heartstrings of every parent out there, whether you've already gone through this experience yourself or are about to.

Head down to DIESEL, A Bookstore on Thursday, October 30 at 7pm and mingle & meet other parents in the perfect opportunity to share your own stories at this wonderful event!PURCHASE OF THE BOOK RESERVES YOU A SEAT AT THE EVENT!

Murder and food make for an interesting combination. Jon us when Krista Davis presents THE DIVA RUNS OUT OF THYME, a new mystery in the Domestic Diva series.
Murder and recipes! There will be snacks. We promise — no poison.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Malibu is excited to welcome legendary surfer and Malibu resident, Laird Hamilton to the store! As one of the most famous big-wave surfers today, Laird is known for his physical and mental toughness when out on the waves, and has achieved worldwide fame for his accomplishments.

He'll ... (more)be joining us to discuss and share from his highly anticipated book, Force of Nature, and open a window into the unique physical regimens, mental strategies, and spiritual beliefs that has allowed him to do what he loves, while being surrounded by family and radiating peak health and fitness.

We'll see you there!

Book Group #1 discusses Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This book is group is free and all are welcome.

From the editor of Bon Appetit comes a new cookbook, THE BON APPETIT COOKBOOK: FAST EASY FRESH. And as is often the case with our cookbook programs, there will be samples!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

From the editor of Bon Appetit comes a new cookbook, THE BON APPETIT COOKBOOK: FAST EASY FRESH. And as is often the case with our cookbook programs, there will be samples!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Best-selling author David Baldacci comes to Quail Ridge with his newest thriller, DIVINE JUSTICE. Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in Baldacci's most surprising thriller yet.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Come celebrate the eighth book of poetry for this award-winning Raleigh poet when Gibbons Ruark reads from STAYING BLUE.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to ... (more)check availability.

Joe Flora gives us READING HEMINGWAY'S MEN WITHOUT WOMEN: GLOSSARY AND COMMENTARY, a guide to understanding this short story collection by one of America's finest authors.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Kate Betterton presents her novel WHERE THE LAKE BECOMES THE RIVER, winner of the 2008 Novello Literary Award. Set in the Mississippi Delta, this is a story on growing up southern, secrets & ghosts, black-'n-white blues, & the truth about life after death.
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

John Shelton & Dale Volberg Reed bring their HOLY SMOKE: THE BIG BOOK OF NORTH
CAROLINA BARBECUE to Quail Ridge. This is a comprehensive and entertaining exploration of the Tar Heel barbecue
treadtion. And what would a book on barbecue be without samples?
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

John Shelton & Dale Volberg Reed bring their HOLY SMOKE: THE BIG BOOK OF NORTH
CAROLINA BARBECUE to Quail Ridge. This is a comprehensive and entertaining exploration of the Tar Heel barbecue
treadtion. And what would a book on barbecue be without samples?
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

A delightful talk about Charles Dickens and Christmas, as only Elliot Engel could give. A portion of sales goes to the Great Ormond St. Children's Hospital which Dickens helped found in 1858. If you've never heard Dr. Engel, it's a treat; you'll be enthralled.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

In the season of thinking of others, Betsy Greer presents KNITTING FOR GOOD: A GUIDE TO CREATING PERSONAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL CHANGE STITCH BY STITCH. Learn stories, tips and projects to benefit charities in the community and across the globe.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The mesmerizing Dr. Elliot Engel will put you in the Christmas spirit with his story behind this Charles Dickens' classic. If you've never heard Dr. Engel, well, it's a treat not to be missed.

Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact ... (more)orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Get ready for a set of HANDsome fairytales with KNUCKLE HEADS, Joan Holub's latest. The author of over 120 (!) children's book presents her new "fractured fairytales" collection. For ages 4 and up. This is also a View From Tuesday event, ideal for teachers and media specialists.
Can’t make it? ... (more) To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Have you eaten today? For some, it's not a given. Joel Berg joins us with ALL YOU CAN EAT: HOW HUNGRY IS AMERICA?. There is hunger in America. Berg offers a spirited call to action with practical solutions.
Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Food Shuttle.
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Get expert advice in DESIGNING YOUR PERFECT HOUSE: LESSONS FROM AN ARCHITECT with William Hirsch. Architectural guru Sarah Susanka calls it "an excellent guide for anyone wanting to design the house of their dreams."
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join Rob R. Dunn as he presents his new EVERY LIVING THING: MAN'S OBSESSIVE QUEST TO CATALOG LIFE, FROM NANOBACTERIA TO NEW MONKEYS.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for ... (more)email) to check availability.

Oakland Book Group #3 meets and discusses Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge. This event is open to the public and free to attend. Books will be available for purchase at the store.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to welcome local stylist & author, Allen Edwards, as he discusses and signs his new book, Shear Force: An Image-Maker's Memoir. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Beauty industry icon and hair guru Allen Edwards is an internationally renowned image-maker and business leader. ... (more)Allen has styled some of the world’s most glamorous and fashionable women and is the creator of the Farrah Fawcett layered cut, a trend that still exists today. He also engineered Assistant District Attorney Marcia Clark’s new ‘do during the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial. He turned hair shows into rock venues and changed the world of beauty, armed with shears, a blow dryer and the force of his personality. With over 1000 television appearances including OPRAH and REGIS, Allen Edwards has stayed at the top of his game for over 30 years.

Find out how to get a better handle on the changing economic picture when Monique Tilford presents YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE: 9 STEPS TO TRANSFORMING YOUR
RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY AND ACHIEVING FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE: REVISED
AND UPDATED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or ... (more)personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Think tropical this season! NC gardener and author Pam Baggett presents TROPICALISMO! SPICE UP YOUR GARDEN
WITH CANNAS, BANANAS, AND 93 OTHER EYE-CATCHING TROPICAL PLANTS. Get hundreds of ideas for turning gardens, decks, and patios into a visual fiesta.
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Did your New Year's resolutions include anything about getting a project done, a book written? Find out what Betsy Jordan has to say when she presents SEVEN ABSOLUTE KEYS TO CREATE ANYTHING. This is the book for anyone who is interested in enhancing their power to create.
Can’t make it? ... (more)To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes back Susie Bright as she discusses and signs her newest collection of erotic literature, X: The Erotic Treasury. ABOUT THE BOOK:
If there's only room for one book on your bedside table, this should be it. The reigning mistress of erotica, Susie Bright, has expertly ... (more)chosen 40 of the hottest stories ever written: breathtaking new stories as well as the most sought-after stories from The Best American Erotica series. Designed in a "gotta-touch-it" slipcase with a cloth-covered book, the package cultivates the quality and taboo satisfaction of the ­stories themselves. Luminaries like Carol Queen and Robert Olen Butler contribute to the stories about all kinds of lovers: heartbreakers, foxes, maniacs, romanticists, hell-raisers, and utter bandits. This delicious collection is certain to satisfy.

Get a new prescription for living. Duke Divinity Prof. Stanley Hauerwas presents LIVING GENTLY IN A VIOLENT WORLD: THE PROPHETIC
WITNESS OF WEAKNESS. Prof. Hauerwas examines how fragility, friendship and the witness of people with disabilities might transform the Christian church.
Can’t make it? ... (more)To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome the editors of the Project Censored series, Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, as they discuss and sign Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome the award-winning author, Yiyun Li, as she discusses and signs her beautiful new novel, The Vagrants. The San Francisco Chronicle named Yiyun's previous book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers the "Best Book of 2005", and her newest novel is set to ... (more)be just as intriguing. Don't miss your chance to meet this highly-acclaimed author as she presents her fantastic new novel!

Bob & Judy Fisher present LIFE IS A GIFT: INSPIRATION FROM THE SOON DEPARTED. They've collected the stories of 104 people "living" under hospice care and the remarkable displays of courage, achievement, and celebration they have chosen to pursue in their final weeks on earth. Co-sponsored by Hospice ... (more)of Wake County.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join Anne Morrison Welsh as she presents HELD IN THE LIGHT: NORMAN MORRISON'S SACRIFICE FOR
PEACE AND HIS FAMILY'S JOURNEY OF HEALING. This event is sponsored by the Religion and Ethics group.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact ... (more)orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Malibu Book Group meets to discuss David Dickinson's Goodnight Sweet Prince. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Book Group #1 meets to discuss Samuel Richardson's Pamela. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Leonard Todd presents CAROLINA CLAY: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF THE SLAVE POTTER DAVE. Known only as Dave, this slave, owned by the author's ancestors, became
one of the singular artists of the 19th century.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The Raleigh Write 2 Publish group meets monthly, moderated by NC State Professor Stacey Cochran. This month features a panel discussion on TO SELF-PUBLISH OR NOT TO SELF-PUBLISH with Adam Shepard and Elisa Lorello. Adam Shepard is the author of SCRATCH BEGINNINGS. This event is free to attend, and newcomers ... (more)are welcome.

NPR panelist and advice columnist Amy Dickinson presents THE MIGHTY QUEENS OF FREEVILLE: A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER AND
THE PEOPLE WHO RAISED THEM. She spins her mistakes into a remarkable story.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more)(at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

DIESEL, A Bookstore is pleased to welcome San Francisco author & resident, Debra Gwartney as she joins us to discuss her remarkable story of love lost and regained. With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney made the decision to move halfway across the country to Oregon ... (more)for a new job and what she hoped will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 15, and Stephanie, 13, are intensely linked, and come to blame their mother for the divorce, their absent father’s misery, and their family’s isolation. The two run off together — first to the streets of their own city, then jumping freight trains to Portland, then San Francisco, then utterly gone. LIVE THROUGH THIS: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love is the story of Gwartney’s frantic effort to recover the beautiful, intelligent daughters she cherishes. She paints a vivid picture of the American runaway subculture, with its random violence, dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden shelters —none of them interested in a parent’s grief. Gwartney resorts to an ex-LA cop to find her daughters, then to foster families and a tough-love wilderness program to keep them from running again. This memoir takes place in the late 1990s and is a pitch-perfect rendering of the scene: from the hole-in-the-wall clubs happy to let in underage girls, to the cutting and the music, the Manic Panic hair color and black hoodies.

Please join DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland for acclaimed author Daniyal Mueenuddin, as he reads and discusses his wonderful new collection of stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Please note that this event starts earlier than normal, at 1 pm.

History comes alive with this true story. Tom Robisheaux brings us THE LAST WITCH OF LANGENBURG: MURDER IN A GERMAN VILLAGE. This fascinating study of an accused witch is written with the pace and emotional pitch of a novel.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

William Lobdell presents LOSING MY RELIGION: HOW I LOST MY FAITH REPORTING ON
RELIGION IN AMERICA — AND FOUND UNEXPECTED PEACE. The former LA Times journalist's courageous memoir speaks both to the doubts of believers and yearnings of doubters.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The great Lemony Snicket returns with his musical mystery, THE COMPOSER IS DEAD. Greet Mr. Snicket & be entertained at our Open House from 4–8 p.m. There is no program; Mr. Snicket likes to interact with his victims (we mean fans) more one-on-one. Tickets are required for the signing line; only 300 ... (more)will be distributed. Receive a ticket with the purchase of COMPOSER. Prepaying is encouraged because of the limited number of tickets. You may come at any time convenient for you during the 4–8 p.m. period.

Join Anne Morrison Welsh as she presents HELD IN THE LIGHT: NORMAN MORRISON'S SACRIFICE FOR
PEACE AND HIS FAMILY'S JOURNEY OF HEALING. This event is sponsored by the Religion and Ethics group.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact ... (more)orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Return to a famous game in NCAA history when Seth Davis presents WHEN MARCH WENT MAD: THE GAME THAT TRANSFORMED BASKETBALL. The
CBS sports announcer and Sports Illustrated columnist brings the drama of the 1979 NCAA season and the championship game between Magic Johnson
and Larry Bird to life.
Can’t ... (more)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Vegan cooking gets big-time attention when Linda Long presents GREAT CHEFS COOK VEGAN. Get the latest recipes from 25 of today's greatest chefs. Will there be samples? We'll let you know. There will be a special guest, Chef Phil Evans, former executive chef at the Umstead Hotel.
Can’t make ... (more)it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

KORN's Fieldy signs his memoir "Got the Life" at Russo's Books.

Looking for inspiration for changing your home decor? Hear Tim Schelfe with VISIONS OF DESIGN: AN INSPIRED COLLECTION OF NORTH AMERICA'S FINEST INTERIOR DESIGNERS. Local designer Schelfe is featured in the book and will discuss design.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join us in welcoming Matthew Vollmer with his FUTURE MISSIONARIES OF AMERICA. This is a superb collection of short stories written with great wisdom, insight and humor.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more)(at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

This is no April Fool's Day joke— the legendary Arthur Frommer visits and gives you the latest info to make travel fun and safe. He discusses his new ASK ARTHUR FROMMER: AND TRAVEL BETTER, CHEAPER, SMARTER.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is very happy to present Pico Iyer as he reads, discusses and signs the paperback release of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.About the Author:
Pico Iyer is the author of several books about cultures converging, including Video Night in Kathmandu, ... (more)The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and, most recently, Abandon. His articles appear often in such magazines as Harper’s, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He lives in suburban Japan. About the Book:
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration — for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike — of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Moving from Dharamsala, India — the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile — to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, where the Dalai Lama’s pragmatism, rigor, and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon.

There's a full, fantastic evening ahead for you as three poets share their work. Delana Dameron reads from HOW GOD ENDS US; Raina Leon shares CANTICLE OF IDOLS; and award-winning poet Lenard Moore reprises THE TEMPLE LOOMING.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

We've had drought; we've had tropical storms. Learn how to garden with whatever moisture Mother Nature throws our way. Helen Kraus & Anne Spafford present RAIN GARDENING IN THE SOUTH: ECOLOGICALLY
DESIGNED GARDENS FOR DROUGHT, DELUGE, & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, a colorful, how-to guide to going green in ... (more)the garden. With advice from NCSU
horticulturists, you know you'll be fine.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

All are welcome to join the Religion & Ethics group tonight. Guest speaker Jimmy Creech discusses his selection, Homosexuality is Not a Sin, from the book CRISIS: 40
STORIES REVEALING THE PERSONAL, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS PAIN AND TRAUMA OF GROWING UP GAY IN AMERICA.
Can’t make it? To request a ... (more)signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

History comes alive with this true story. Tom Robisheaux brings us THE LAST WITCH OF LANGENBURG: MURDER IN A GERMAN VILLAGE. This fascinating study of an accused witch is written with the pace and emotional pitch of a novel.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to welcome Kathy Ireland to the store to discuss and sign her new book Real Solutions for Busy Moms: Your Guide to Success and Sanity. This event is free and everyone is encouraged to attend!About the Book:Kathy Ireland communicates with moms every day: online, ... (more)at the grocery store, at church, at speaking engagements, and on her company website. She is grateful that her conversations don't center around beauty tips or requests for autographs or advice on how to dress. Rather, she has the honor of hearing from real women who struggle with balancing the responsibilities of marriage, raising children, managing a household or career or both, and finding any time left to take care of themselves.As the involved mom of three very active children, the supportive wife of an emergency room doctor, and a dynamic businesswoman, Kathy knows of these struggles firsthand. She credits her strong faith in God and her parents' love and support for any success she has today and dedicates her days to finding the solutions that can make life easier for busy moms in all phases of life. As she tackles the tough financial concerns families feel today and many other issues, Kathy offers empathy and encouragement. She shares stories from her own life and wisdom she has gained through her years from teenager with a paper route to successful supermodel to mom to entrepreneur with a dream for big business.About the Author:
Supermodel turned supermom and entrepreneur, Kathy Ireland lives in Santa Barbara where she is a supportive wife to her doctor husband, and mother of three children.

Set in an eastern NC nursing home, this debut novel by Todd Johnson offers a bittersweet
and often humorous depiction of the way in which people leading unremarkable lives can have a tremendous impact on those around them.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

QUINCY WHITNEY discussing and signing THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE an intriguing compilation of 60 stories about unique New Hampshire history, many of which are “firsts in the nation”.

Hear about ADVENTURES IN PEN LAND: ONE WRITER'S JOURNEY FROM INKLINGS TO INK. Marianne Gingher, a UNC-CH Professor of English, gives a candid and irreverent memoir about a writer's resilience and dedication to her craft. Co-sponsored by Raleigh Write 2 Read. Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

We're still celebrating National Poetry Month in style. Take in two NC poets today. Harry Calhoun presents his I KNEW BUKOWSKI LIKE YOU KNEW A RARE LEAF. Sarah Lindsay reads from her TWIGS AND KNUCKLEBONES.
Can’t make it? To
request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Do you love baseball, or perhaps baseball movies? Co-author Brett Friedlander presents CHASING MOONLIGHT: THE TRUE STORY OF FIELD OF DREAMS' DOC GRAHAM. Learn the truth about the at-bat that never came and the rest of a fascinating life.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Need some help handling it all? Hear Amy Teimann as she presents MOJO MOM: NURTURING YOURSELF WHILE RAISING A FAMILY. Here's the guide for you, to juggling kids, life, and a mom's own needs. Learn how to come out feeling like you're at the top of your game!
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Join Bruce Foxworthy as he retells stories from his new book, "Making Do and Hanging On: Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression

Chapel Hill author Wells Tower brings us EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED, a collection of short stories. With praise from Pulitzer and Hugo-award winning author Michael Chabon like this, you don't want to miss it. "...these stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular - violent, ... (more)funny , bleak and beautiful. You need to read them, now." — Michael Chabon
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is delighted to present Columbia University Press author and local resident Siddharth Kara to discuss and sign his new book, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. This event is free and all are welcome!About the Book:
Every year, millions of women and ... (more)children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, the female body requires no such "processing" and can be repeatedly consumed. In this first-of-its-kind journey, Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll. Drawing on his background in finance and economics, Kara provides a rare business analysis of sex trafficking, focusing on the local drivers and global macroeconomic trends that gave rise to the industry after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kara supplements his analysis with a riveting account of this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. The author will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the organization Free the Slaves.About the Author:Siddharth Kara is a former investment banker and business executive with an MBA from Columbia University. He set aside his corporate career to pursue anti-slavery research, advocacy, and writing, and, more recently, a law degree. He currently serves on the board of directors of Free the Slaves, an organization dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide. In 2005 he was invited to testify on contemporary slavery to the United States Congressional Human Rights Committee.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is please to welcome store-favorite Barry Gifford to the shop to discuss and sign, The Imagination of the Heart: Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!About the Book:
The Imagination of the Heart is ... (more)the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the "Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South." Their story began in Barry Gifford's novel Wild at Heart, which in 1990 was made into a Palme d’Or–winning feature film by David Lynch. Following Sailor’s death at the age of sixty-five in New Orleans, Lula moved back to her home state of North Carolina. This novel begins fifteen years later when Lula, at age eighty, decides to write a memoir in diary form, reflecting on her life with Sailor while also keeping a journal describing her last road trip: a journey with Beany Thorn, her best friend since childhood, back to New Orleans.
Like a contemporary book of Revelations, dutifully recorded by Lula as a dialogue between self and soul, it becomes a bittersweet, often dangerous journey into the imagination of the heart, and what may lie beyond.About the Author:
The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, Barry Gifford is an American writer in the European tradition, and one of the few contemporary American writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the world. He has also received awards from the ALA, PEN, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Laugh? Cry? Maybe a little of both when Jo Maeder visits with WHEN I MARRIED MY MOTHER: A DAUGHTER'S SEARCH FOR WHAT MATTERS — AND HOW SHE FOUND IT CARING FOR MAMA JO. It's a hilarious, poignant story of going to the Bible Belt to care for her ailing mother, and a great book for daughters ... (more)and care-givers.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Lise Funderburg brings us PIG CANDY: TAKING MY FATHER SOUTH, TAKING MY FATHER HOME. She gives us a life exposed with intelligence and feeling in this new memoir from the author of BLACK, WHITE, OTHERN.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or ... (more)contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

David Taylorbrings us SOUL OF A PEOPLE: THE WPA WRITERS' PROJECT UNCOVERS DEPRESSION AMERICA. Authors such as John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel were among the emerging writers who described American in a series of WPA guides in the 1930s. This is the story ... (more)of their experiences and the communities in which they lived.
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Joanne Seiff presents FIBER GATHERINGS: KNIT, CROCHET, SPIN AND DYE MORE THAN 20 PROJECTS INSPIRED BY AMERICA'S FESTIVALS. Meet the people, sample the flavor, and experience the kinship through 11 unique events and more than 25 inspiring projects; co-sponsored by Twisted Threads discussion group. Everyone ... (more)is welcome.
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Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is turning over in its grave with excitement to present Seth Grahame-Smith as he discusses and signs his sure-to-one-day-be-a-cult-classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
Seth Grahame-Smith is a film & television writer/producer living in America's Heartland - Los Angeles, ... (more)CA. He's the founder of The Department of Homeland Apology, a grassroots initiative demanding an apology from President George W. Bush for the offenses of his two terms. He's also founder of the groups: Democrats for Levi Johnston, Progressives Against Progress, and Please, Steve Doocy, Commit Suicide Already. In addition to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, he is also the author of Pardon My President: Ready-To-Mail Apologies for 8 Years of George W. Bush, How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills, The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Traning Manual, and The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies.

Bring your knitting project and join hostess Patty Poisson for an informal evening of chatting, knitting and tea. Exquisite tea is generously provided by Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline. (www.thecozyteacart.com). Please note that the group is open to all experienced knitters. They ... (more)meet on the 2nd Monday each month.

Raleigh author Diane Chamberlain presents her SECRETS SHE LEFT BEHIND, the much anticipated sequel to BEFORE THE STORM. Come early, Diane's many fans come out in force when she's here!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more)(at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is excited to present NPR's This American Life contributor Cheryl Wagner to the store to discuss and sign her new memoir about returning home to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around.The cliché "New Orleans gets into people's blood" happens ... (more)to be very true - just not always convenient. For Cheryl Wagner (along with her indie-band boyfriend, a few eccentric pals, some ne'er-do-wells, and two aging basset hounds) abandoning the city she loved wasn't an option.Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around is the story of Cheryl's disturbing surprise view from her front porch after she moved back home to find everything she treasured in shambles...and her determined, absurd, and darkly funny three-year journey of trying to piece it all back together again.
In the same heartfelt and hilarious voice that has drawn thousands of listeners to her broadcasts on public radio's This American Life, Wagner shares her unique yet universal story of rebuilding a life after it's flooded, dried, and died...and then the copper thieves moved in...
Listen to Cheryl Wagner on the radio.
And check out this piece from Large Hearted Boy, including songs hand-picked by the author to listen to while you read the book. Awesome!

General Hugh Shelton presents his SECRETS OF SUCCESS: NORTH CAROLINA'S VALUE-BASED LEADERSHIP. His book examines leadership from the perspectives of 35 men and women with unique NC connections.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome David Carr as he discusses and signs The Night of the Gun: A Reporter investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
"There may be no memoirist who has more skillfully used journalistic tools to reconstruct his own life than New York Times media ... (more)columnist David Carr in his remarkable and harrowing book, The Night of the Gun....A."
-- Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly
"The Night of the Gun is in part a writerly exercise in defense and disarmament--memoir in the throes of an existential crisis. But that does not prevent it from being a great read. This is largely because, in using his reporter's chops to investigate his own past, Carr taps the very skills that propelled him to survive. His method, as much as his madness, is the story."
-- Time "The Night of the Gun is about as dark and murky as dark and murky get. And though it is one of the most eloquent accounts of the seduction and snare of addiction, what's gotten lost in the water-cooler discussion about Carr's misadventures -- including drug peddling as well as his bout with cancer -- is that this book, in its sharp, serrated prose, is a meditation on how memory works (but mostly how it doesn't), a man's obsessive effort to get at his life's true narrative using the skills he's honed as a reporter, the one piece of his life that didn't combust."
-- George Lynell, L.A. Times

Jeffery Crow, Karen Blum, Dale Talbert, William Price, and Willis Whichard present LIBERTY AND FREEDOM: NORTH CAROLINA'S TOUR OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS. Here is a celebration of the return of our copy to North Carolina, a look at that legal process, and what the Bill of Rights means to us.
Can’t make it? ... (more)To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

This is the regular meeting of the Classics Group. Reading choice for June: "Three Daughters of Madame Liang" by Pearl Buck. New readers are always welcome to join!

Bring your lunch and have a great hour with Maggie Sefton, New York Times bestselling author. Her new book is Dropped Dead Stitch, a mystery set in the fictional town of Fort Connor, although you might recognize spots like the Back Porch Café or the Lambspun Knitting Shop.

Danny Bernstein brings us HIKING NORTH CAROLINA'S BLUE RIDGE HERITAGE. He gives us the best of western NC's spectacular hiking trails, and an inside look at the heritage behind the trails.

Jim Morrison, author of BROKEN FEVER, brings us SAID AND DONE: STORIES. It's an artful, often suspenseful, collection of stories by a former NCSU professor.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (more)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Brian Ray brings us THROUGH THE PALE DOOR, winner of the South Carolina First Novel Prize. DOOR has been described as "such flight of imagination! Such a fine ear for comic dialogue!"
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (more)(at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

The SF&F discussion group, meets every 2nd
& 4th Wednesday monthly, talks about the books they have read recently. Open to older teens and adults. Ends around 8:30 p.m.

For several on staff, one of our favorite novels of last year was Garth Stein's THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN. Love, tragedy, redemption, danger, and --most especially, the canine
narrator Enzo. If you missed Garth (and his creation, Enzo), you have another chance as he returns here for the paperback ... (more)release.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

It's one of our great Sunday poetry events with three NC poets to make your day. Sara Claytor presents her HOWLING ON RED DIRT ROADS. David Rigsbee brings us his TWO ESTATES. Maureen Sherbondy reads from PRAYING AT COFFEE SHOPS.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Bring your knitting project and join hostess Patty Poisson for an informal evening of chatting, knitting and tea. Exquisite tea is generously provided by Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline. (www.thecozyteacart.com). Please note that the group is open to all experienced knitters. They ... (more)meet on the 2nd Monday each month.

Diane Leslie's Book Group meets to discuss Shilpa Agarwal's Haunting Bombay. Around 6pm, Ms. Agarwal will join in the discussion! There is a $20 entry fee for this event.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents Dean Kuipers as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, an insider's look at the environmental movement's radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
Dean Kuipers is an editor at ... (more)the Los Angeles Times. Burning Rainbow Farm, about the 2001 FBI shooting of two libertarian pot activists on a farm in Michigan, was published in 2006. His work has also recently appeared in the 2008 titles, The Contenders, in which he wrote on Al Gore, and Red State Rebels, where the Rainbow Farm book is excerpted. He is the co-author of I Am A Bullet, a collaboration with photographer Doug Aitken on the acceleration of global culture. As a former editor at Spin and Raygun magazines, he wrote extensively on radical movements and rock’n’roll, with cover stories on Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, the Rolling Stones and many others. As author and editor of the 1997 graphics/pop culture book, Ray Gun Out Of Control, he worked with contributors David Bowie, REM's Michael Stipe, cyberpunk writer William Gibson and the world's foremost graphic designers. His work has appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Spin, LA Weekly, and others.

This is the regular meeting of the Classics Group. Reading choice for July: "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson, and August is TBA. New readers are always welcome to join!

Roy A. Cooper, Jr presents BETWEEN THE CREEKS: MY SAPONY ADVENTURES, a page-turning account of his boyhood in Nash County. OUR STATE magazine says, "His 24 stories of life as an only child born to tobacco-farming parents recount the trials and physical labors of farming, the mystery of fishing with a ... (more)'fish whisperer,' ghostly encounters of Brinkley Hill, and a ride to meet the school bus on a mule's back one snowy morning... BETWEEN THE CREEKS draws from the days when families gathered to tell and retell generations worth of stories. Life lessons passed from father to son... "
A born and bred North Carolinian, he is a retired lawyer and will be introduced by his son, our current Attorney General.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum (co-author with Chris Mooney) brings us UNSCIENTIFIC AMERICA: HOW SCIENTIFIC ILLITERACY THREATENS OUR FUTURE, with a discussion of the dangers of misunderstanding and mistrust, and proposals to reverse the trend.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call ... (more)828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

JIM KATES discussing and signing WHEN A POET SEES A CHESTNUT TREE, with his translations and the first collection in English of the poems of the French poet JEAN-PIERRE ROSNAY.

Ben White talks about his ISRAELI APARTHEID: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE, a succinct explanation of the roots of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and how apartheid applies to today's situation in Palestine. "This book deals rationally and cogently with a topic that almost always generates considerable heat..."—Archbishop ... (more)Desmond Tutu
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Lucille Lang Day's new book of poems is The Curvature of Blue; Alicia Ostriker enthuses about it, "Intelligence enjoying itself, awareness at play, attentiveness dancing through life's minefields smiling at itself in its new black car. . . a wonderful book and I feel lucky to have read it." Lucille Day ... (more)has published four previous books of poetry, including Infinities, Wild One, and Self-Portrait with a Hand Microscope, her first, for which she won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, a literary press in the Bay Area. Roz Spafford's new book of poems is Requiem, winner of the 2008 Gell Poetry Prize, with a foreword by Carl Dennis: "All the poems in Requiem may be read as attempts to confront the presence of death in our lives. . . What is remarkable about this steady focus, which offers no easy consolations, is that it leads to a book that is more challenging than it is querulous or elegiac. . . a book that confronts our limitations in a way that makes us feel larger rather than diminished." Spafford has been a writer, teacher, and activist for the last three decades. She wrote book reviews and a newspaper column of media and cultural criticism called 'Mediations' for much of that time. Her poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary magazines.

Erica Eisdorfer presents THE WET NURSE'S TALE, in which a plucky, somewhat randy, always sympathetic and certainly never boring professional wet nurse, Miss Susan Rose, tries to escape her lower-class lot in Victorian England.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Carolyn Wall presents SWEEPING UP GLASS, a debut novel with unforgettable characters. "The suspense is gripping, the danger is very real, and the reader gets caught up in this powerful, moving debut."—from starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Literary Journal.
Can’t make it? To request ... (more)a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Aaron Newton delivers A NATION OF FARMERS: DEFEATING THE FOOD CRISIS ON AMERICAN SOIL. He examines the limits and dangers of a globalized food system and how returning to basics is our best hope. This is an important program for those wanting to stress a local economy.
Can’t make it? To request ... (more)a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

We're sorry to announce that our evening with Pat Conroy has been canceled due to his health. But we anticipate having signed copies of his new SOUTH OF BROAD. To request a signed copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com . SOUTH OF BROAD will be available mid-August.

Scott Calhoun brings us his DESIGNER PLANT COMBINATIONS: 105 STUNNING GARDENS USING SIX PLANTS OR FEWER. Get great ideas for garden design in simple elegant pieces, for beginning and expert gardeners alike.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Here's a truly multimedia event. Gerald Elias presents his DEVIL'S TRILL, a tale of greed, lust, power, and murder ... and classical music! It's an evocative debut mystery about the theft of a priceless violin by the concertmaster of the Utah Symphony. Elias will also perform Tartini's Devil's Trill!
Can’t ... (more)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Erica Eisdorfer presents THE WET NURSE'S TALE, in which a plucky, somewhat randy, always sympathetic and certainly never boring professional wet nurse, Miss Susan Rose, tries to escape her lower-class lot in Victorian England.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 ... (more)or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

R. Dwayne Betts presents A QUESTION OF FREEDOM: A MEMOIR OF LEARNING, SURVIVAL, AND COMING OF AGE IN PRISON. This is the memoir of a young man who, at 16, went to prison for 10 years but emerged ready for college and to deliver his message of hope. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

William Lassiter and Danya Perry bring us the important PREVENTING VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN AMERICA'S SCHOOLS: FROM PUT-DOWNS TO LOCK-DOWNS. Lassiter is Director of Communications for the Dept. of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention. Perry works for Community in Schools, which addresses the needs ... (more)of at-risk youth. Based on years of experience, they offer analysis of the problems and real-life examples of how youth violence can be prevented.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Glen Browder presents THE SOUTH'S NEW RACIAL POLITICS: INSIDE THE RACE GAME OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. The former U.S. representative from Alabama and current professor explores how blacks & whites in today's South engage in the political process.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized ... (more)copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Mama's fixin' to get hitched to Husband #5. But first, she coerces her daughter, Mace, to saddle up for some country-gal bonding on the Florida Cracker Trail. The trek takes a deadly turn when Lawton Bramble—wealthy rancher and one-time beau of Mama's—keels over in his Cow Hunter Chili. Lawton had ... (more)a horde of enemies and a famously bad ticker. Could a grudge-wielding rival have "spiced" the cattleman's chow? With (or maybe despite) the help of her sisters and her sexy ex-beau, Detective Martinez, Mace sets out to corral a low-down varmint who's determined to kill again.

From the author of ABLE WAS I comes a new novel about exile, forgiveness and acceptance. Join us when Drew Banks presents ERE I SAW ELBA. We guarantee you'll know what a palindrome is by the end of the night.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (more)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Bacon as he discusses and signs the paperback release of his new book, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants.
For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between ... (more)labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.

David Vine brings us the non-fiction ISLAND OF SHAME: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE U.S. MILITARY BASE ON DIEGO GARCIA. The story of the U.S. base on Diego Garcia, and the cruel displacement of the island's people "...is impeccably and thrillingly told as he brings justice to a forgotten corner of the tropical ... (more)world."— Simon Winchester.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Chaz McGee (also known as mystery writer Katy Munger) brings us DESOLATE ANGEL, the first in her new Dead Detective series. She's also our good friend!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours ... (more)in advance for email) to check availability.

Come meet local children's book illustrator Jill Weber with her new book, "Even Higher, a Rosh Hashanah Story" written by Eric Kimmel.

Local author and Union Leader columnist, John Clayton will be speaking about his lastest book, "Remembering Manchester: Towering Titans and Unsung Heroes

Michael Taeckens (editor) brings us LOVE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD: TRUE STORIES OF BREAK-UPS, BAD RELATIONSHIPS, AND BROKEN HEARTS. He's joined by contributors Margaret Sartor and Wendy Brenner. LOVE contains 23 true & moving stories, including three cartoon/graphic essays.
Can’t make it? To request ... (more)a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

On Sunday, Sept. 20, starting at 2:00 p.m., Katrina Kenison will sign and talk about her new book, The Gift of an Ordinary Day, an intimate memoir of a family in transition - boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace ... (more)- in a small New England town. If you've experienced the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers or the desire to hold on while needing to let go, you'll certainly appreciate this.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to have local author Dylan Landis as she discusses and signs Normal People Don't Live Like This. This event is free and all are welcome! Normal People Don't Live Like This will be published Sept. 8 by Persea Books. It is a debut collection of ten linked stories—praised ... (more)by Janet Fitch, Elizabeth Strout and Lisa Glatt— about the hidden lives of a teenager and her mother, and how they struggle to negotiate emotional damage and open themselves to love. The girl, Leah, yearns for belonging and worships the most delinquent girls at school, while her mother, Helen, secretly rents a welfare hotel room that she obsessively decorates. The stories – quirky and darkly humorous -- mostly center on Leah, but they're also about the disturbing, sometimes transformative lives of the girls and women she knows. These stories have appeared in anthologies such as Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House; Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003; Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles; and Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, among others, and in literary magazines such as Tin House, Bomb, the Santa Monica Review and others. All were written while she lived in LA, from 2000 to 2008.

The SF&F discussion group, meets every 2nd
& 4th Wednesday monthly, talks about the books they have read recently. Open to older teens and adults. Ends around 8:30 p.m.

The Triangle has many fine restaurants, and here's your chance to get the back story. Ann Prospero brings us CHEFS OF THE TRIANGLE: THEIR LIVES, RECIPES, AND RESTAURANTS. We'll have some great guest chefs here as well (to be announced)!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, ... (more)call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Chaz McGee (also known as mystery writer Katy Munger) brings us DESOLATE ANGEL, the first in her new Dead Detective series. She's also our good friend!
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours ... (more)in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to welcome local author and professor of history Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo to the store to discuss and sign Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture.
It was a sign of the sixties. Drawn by the promise of spiritual and creative freedom, thousands ... (more)of women from white middle-class homes rejected the suburban domesticity of their mothers to adopt lifestyles more like those of their great-grandmothers. They eagerly learned “new” skills, from composting to quilting, as they took up the decade’s quest for self-realization. “Hippie women” have alternately been seen as earth mothers or love goddesses, virgins or vamps—images that have obscured the real complexity of their lives. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo now takes readers back to Haight Ashbury and country communes to reveal how they experienced and shaped the counterculture.
Featuring photographs and poster art that bring the era to life, Daughters of Aquarius provides both an inside look at a defining movement and a needed corrective to long-held stereotypes of the counterculture. For everyone who was part of that scene—or just wonders what it was like—this book offers a new perspective on those experiences and on cultural innovations that have affected all our lives.
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo is professor of history at St. Mary’s College of California. She is author of Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women in the East Bay Community and coauthor of Competing Visions: A History of California.

Come for a special Story Time with Tisha Duncan, Raleigh author of MY DIRTY CAT MUTT. Ages 3 and up will enjoy this tale of her daily adventures of her cat.
Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (more)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is delighted to host an afternoon with psychological horror and suspense writer Richard Christian Matheson as he discusses and signs Dystopia, Created By, and Scars.
Richard Christian Matheson is an acclaimed novelist, short story writer and screenwriter/producer. He has ... (more)written and co-written feature film and television projects for Richard Donner, Ivan Reitman, Joel Silver, Steven Spielberg, Bryan Singer and many others. To date, Matheson has written and sold twelve original, spec feature scripts, considered a record. He has written pilots for comedy and dramatic series for SHOWTIME, FOX, NBC, ABC, TNT, HBO, FOX, SPIKE and CBS and served as head writer and Executive Producer for thirty network comedy and dramatic series. Matheson has had seven feature films produced, including the critically hailed, paranoid satire Three O'Clock High.
Matheson is considered a cutting-edge voice in surreal, psycho-logical horror fiction and master of the short story. His critically lauded fiction has been published in major, award-winning anthologies, including multiple times in Years Best Horror, Years Best Fantasy as well as Penthouse and OMNI magazines.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to present Daniel Silberberg as he discusses and signs Wonderland: The Zen of Alice.
Hang on, for you're heading down the rabbit hole. Daniel Doen Silberberg uses the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland as a jumping-off point for conveying the Zen concept of ... (more)"One Mind." With riffs on everything from Detroit to the Diamond Sutra and Kill Bill to ketchup, this is a funny, thoughtful, irreverent contribution to contemporary American Buddhism. Silberberg is a trained psychologist and musician who has been studying Buddhism for thirty years and leads an international Zen community. With stories from his own life as well as from the larger cultural swirl around him, Silberberg reflects on the differences between how we perceive the world around us and the way it actually is. He offers important ideas on how to live fully and happily in the Wonderland we're all living in.
Daniel Doen Silberberg is a Zen Teacher and founding director of Lost Coin Sangha in the White Plum Lineage that descends from both the Rinzai and Soto schools. Born in Bad Hartzburg, Germany in 1947, his parents soon moved to New York City. Silberberg began formal Zen practice under Abbot Maezumi Roshi and resident teacher, Daido Roshi, at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York. He received a B.A. in English literature, and a Ph. D. in psychology.

The Socrates Cafe, hosted by Rick Branch, meets for thoughtful reflection on the first Wednesday each month. Drop-ins always welcome. Call or stop by for details.

Terrence Holt, a Raleigh resident and physician, brings us IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS. This collection of one novella and 7 stories leaps across genres and millennia, from small-town America to the depths of space -- exploring the dark corners of human nature.
Can’t make it? To request a signed ... (more)or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author Taije Silverman to the store to celebrate the publication of her first book of poetry, Houses Are Fields.
Taije Silverman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, ... (more)and other journals. The recipient of the 2005–2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she is now Assistant Visiting Professor at Ursinus College, outside of Philadelphia. Her first collection of poems, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009, and selected as the debut book in their Sea Cliff Series. Thrice nominated for the Puschart Prize, she has received the Anais Nin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and her book has just been translated into Italian. Her own translations of Italian poetry are forthcoming in Pleiades.

Learn how a story is taken successfully from the page to the stage. The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby co-director and PlayMakers associate artist Tom Quaintance will lead the discussion along with Company Members Scott Ripley and Jeffrey Meanza, who will read selections from the novel and play. ... (more)Come in to enter a drawing for free tickets to the production.

Internationally renowned antiques and collectibles expert Judith Miller celebrates her passion for chairs in this special collection.
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Holly Goddard Jones brings us GIRL TROUBLE. These geographically linked stories create the composite image of life in Roma, Kentucky.
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Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers take us on ONE FANTASTIC RIDE: THE INSIDE STORY OF CAROLINA BASKETBALL'S 2009 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. Get the unique access and insights from the authors who were there at every stage of the season.
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David Wroblewski arrives with one of Nancy's favorites, THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE. A grand saga about family, a boy, dogs, and growing up that will keep you reading all night and make you wish that it hadn't ended. This 2008 Oprah book club selection will be out in paperback.
Can’t make it? ... (more)To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to welcome Mark Weiss to the shop to discuss and sign the anthology of poetry he edited, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally ... (more)large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world - among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar-and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets - both on and off the island - have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Swanson as he discusses and signs his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and ... (more)as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.