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"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!Book group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Melissa Delbridge's memories of her early life are dead-accurate,
hilarious, and tragic and will surely prove enduring as a guide to the
Deepest South: a place and a culture that continue to prove alarmingly
vital. I mean to keep this book handy, for pleasure and real
guidance. --Reynolds Price

This group is full. Please check other groups for availabilities.

Book Group #3 will be discussing Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. All book groups are free and everyone is welcome.

For more on Vladimir Nabokov, click here

Into Thick Air is a travelogue of a series of bicycle trips to the lowest points on earth - from Cairo to the Dead Sea. The stories, in journal form, first appeared on Discovery Channel Online. Barbara Kingsolver wrote: "I've followed all of Jim's amazing and hilarious journeys, and am happy to claim ... (more)him as one of my favorite writers." JIM MALUSA has reported on assignments for The Discovery Channel and Natural History, including travels to Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, the Atacama
Desert in Chile, and Three Gorges Dam in China. A botanist and a lover of
maps, his specialty is the biogeography of southern Arizona flora. Malusa
lives in Tucson with his wife and their two children.

David A. Price is the author of Love and Hate in Jamestown, a New
York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today,
Investor's Business Daily, and Forbes. He was raised in Richmond,
Virginia, and educated at Cambridge University, ... (more)the College of William
and Mary, and Harvard Law School. He lives with his family in
Washington, D.C.

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!Book group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This group is full. Please check the site for other groups.
To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us!

Rob Walker will be signing stock sometime on this day. He will also be dedicating and signing pre-ordered books. Make your requests now!Photo credit: Ellen Susan

Christopher Catherwood is a British author internationally based in Cambridge, England and Richmond, Virginia. He has taught for the Institute of Continuing Education in Cambridge and has taught for many years now for the School of Continuing Education at the University of Richmond. He has been associated ... (more)each summer with the University of Richmond's History Department, where he is their annual summer Writer in Residence, where most of his recent books have been written.

Short Attention Span Book Group reads collections of short stories and essays. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll ... (more)join us!

Book group is limited to 10 people.

Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's. This group is ideal for you restaurant workers out there!

Author Amy Stewart talks about gardening, life with chickens, and her latest book, Flower Confidential. Women’s Book Night is a free after-hours series that brings reading women together in a convivial atmosphere with compelling speakers and enticing extras. The June event will feature wine and nibbles, ... (more)an edible-flower tasting, and (yes!) free chair massage.

Flower Confidential is a globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers. Stewart follows a rose from the remote Ecuadoran greenhouse where it's grown to the American retailer where it's finally sold, and visits a huge, stock-exchange-like Dutch flower auction. These present-day adventures are interspersed with fascinating histories of the various aspects of flower culture, propagation and commerce. Stewart's floral romanticism-she admits early on that she's "always had a generalized, smutty sort of lust for flowers"-survives the potentially disillusioning revelations of the flower biz. By the end, the book is as lush as the flowers it describes.

Robert Schimmel, named one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Comics, has had Showtime and HBO specials, bestselling CDs, a Fox TV pilot, and consistently sold-out club dates. A recipient of the Celebration of Life Award from the Lymphoma Research Foundation, he lives in Los Angeles.

Book Group #1 will be reading and discussing The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This event is free and all are welcome to attend.

We are so excited about this event!!!!!!Chris Jones was a sportswriter at the National Post, where he won an award as Canada's outstanding young journalist. He joined Esquire as a contributing editor and sports columnist, and became a writer at large when he won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Feature ... (more)Writing for the story that became the basis for this book. His work has also appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Fantastic first fiction for June! This group is full. Please check our other groups for space.

One of our favorite authors and our favorite people...back with a powerful and enchanting horse novel for readers 10 and up.

Fantastic first fiction for June! This group is full. Please check our other groups for space.

Hey, you know, sometimes if you wish hard enough.....June 26th is my birthday and I decided when I read the preview of Marriage of True Minds that my summer would not be complete unless the author came here to visit and I could share this wonderful book with all of you. As luck would have it, ... (more)I've managed to give the event to myself as a birthday present. Join us for cake and an evening with this marvelous new talent!-Kelly Justice, Proprietor, The Fountain BookstoreStephen Evans has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for most of his life and lives now in Silver Spring, MD. Though he works as a computer analyst, he’s long been in theater, writing his first play in 1990. He is co-author of a children’s musical, The Talent Machine, which ran each summer for a number of years in Annapolis, MD, and eventually spawned a theater company of the same name. His latest play is entitled Spooky Action at a Distance—a Las Vegas comedy. The Marriage of True Minds is the author’s debut novel.

Lord Carrett Brett Leake Steven Evans....repectively.Find out how professional comedy writers choose their words and pack zingers into punch-lines. Join Lord Carrett, Brett Leake, Stephen Evans, and your host, JRW board member Kelly Justice, as they discuss what works and what tanks ... (more)in the business of being funny. It's all about making audiences cry … laughing.

Thursday, June 26, 2008
6:30-8:30 pm
$10 in advance
$12 at the door
$5 students

Register and Pay Online!In demand on syndicated radio, Lord Carrett handles adult topics gently -- a strength that led The Baltimore Sun to describe him as "a cross between Sid Caesar and Sid Vicious." He's made appearances on the Bob & Tom Radio Network, The Tom Leykis Show, and The Joey Reynolds Show. XM Satellite Radio plays his CDS almost daily; and recently XM gave him his own comedy special. In 2007, he performed in The New York Underground Comedy Festival, and just wrapped his second tour of European clubs and theaters. He writes for both Punchline Magazine and ComedyFilmNerdsDotCom.com and was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal article, "Comedy Comes Clean."
Brett Leake worked as a standup comic from 1983 until 1997 when he began working as a sit-down standup comic: in 1991, he became the first disabled comic to appear on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He's also performed at the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and Wolftrap. Corporate clients include IBM, Toyota, and Ford. In 2003, public broadcasting stations around the country began running his hour-long comedy special "Laughing Matters with Brett Leake."
Stephen Evans is co-author of a children's musical, The Talent Machine, which ran each summer for a number of years in Annapolis, MD, and eventually spawned a theater company of the same name. His latest play is entitled Spooky Action at a Distance -- a Las Vegas comedy. The Marriage of True Minds is the author's debut novel. He is co-author of a children's musical, The Talent Machine, which ran each summer for a number of years in Annapolis, MD, and eventually spawned a theater company of the same name. His latest play is entitled Spooky Action at a Distance -- a Las Vegas comedy. The Marriage of True Minds is the author's debut novel. Stephen is a native of the Washington, D.C. area and lives now in Silver Spring, MD.

Hey, you know, sometimes if you wish hard enough.....June 26th is my birthday and I decided when I read the preview of Marriage of True Minds that my summer would not be complete unless the author came here to visit and I could share this wonderful book with all of you. As luck would have it, I've managed ... (more)to give the event to myself as a birthday present. Join us for cake and an evening with this marvelous new talent!-Kelly Justice, Proprietor, The Fountain BookstoreStephen Evans has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for most of his life and lives now in Silver Spring, MD. Though he works as a computer analyst, he’s long been in theater, writing his first play in 1990. He is co-author of a children’s musical, The Talent Machine, which ran each summer for a number of years in Annapolis, MD, and eventually spawned a theater company of the same name. His latest play is entitled Spooky Action at a Distance—a Las Vegas comedy. The Marriage of True Minds is the author’s debut novel.

With Elizabeth Cauthorn, Frannie Douglas, Mary Earle and Sylvia Maddox who returned earlier this month from a 10-day pilgrimage in Scotland with Philip Newell. Philip is the author of many books on Celtic spirituality and is well known to many of our customers. Elizabeth, Frannie, Mary, and Sylvia ... (more)will share some of their experiences while in Scotland. Following their presentation, you are welcome to join us for a "picnic lunch" in the Gallery which may be purchased from Denise's Cafe or you may bring a sack lunch. Beverages will be provided. There is no charge for the presentation.

From the author:

After a year of chronicling research, travel, field experiments, and the findings that surprised even me, Haunted Battlefields: Virginia's Civil War Ghosts is rapidly approaching its release!

The book documents my search for proof of some of Virginia's most famous (and most obscure) ... (more)paranormal phenomena reported at Civil War battlefields, field hospitals, and even U.S. Grant's headquarters.

Join me in my attempts to capture audio recordings, photographic evidence, and experience first-hand some of the legendary haunts at Cold Harbor, Manassas, Fredericksburg's Sunken Road, Appomattox Manor, and many more!

"Cooling the South introduces readers to an era that helped shape the American South, yet that many remain unaware of. The story is fresh, the modern and historic photos are engaging, and the combination of historical facts and personal recollections is fascinating. Cooling the South is, quite literally, ... (more)a very cool piece of work."
- - Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick, author of "Mississippi Impressions

Beach to Bluegrass: Places to Brake on Virginia's Longest RoadThe Marble and Other Ghost Tales of Tennessee and VirginiaVirginia Beach native Joe Tennis is discussing his two latest books, including “Beach to Bluegrass: Places to Brake on Virginia’s Longest Road,” and signing copies on July 12, ... (more)10 a.m.

Featuring more than 100 photos, “Beach to Bluegrass” follows the path of U.S. Highway 58 from Hampton Roads, across the Dismal Swamp, and on to the Blue Ridge Mountains at Mabry Mill and the Cumberland Gap.

This trail of tales explores legends and lore of Cape Henry; Portsmouth’s Commodore Theatre; stories of the Elizabeth River; the April Fool’s Day joke that went awry at Mount Trashmore; the ghost of Adolph Coors at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach; the “Wreck of the Old ‘97” at Danville; Civil War stories from Suffolk, Emporia, Norfolk, and Portsmouth; Bacon’s Rebellion on the Roanoke River; Mount Rogers and the Appalachian Trail; and old-time mountain music on “The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail.”

In Port Folio Weekly (June 10), writer Bill Ruehlmann noted: “There are 58 vivid chapters in 'Beach to Bluegrass.' The one on Johnny Cash, June Carter and their Clinch Mountain home alone is worth the price of admission. The book succeeds as a geographical journey, a compendium of local lore and an adventuresome motorist’s guide.”

On July 12, the author is also discussing and signing copies of his recently released collection of Appalachian ghost tales, “The Marble and Other Ghost Tales of Tennessee and Virginia,” published by Backyard Books. This spirited collection explores the legend of Andrew Jackson walking the streets of Jonesborough,. Tenn.; whether a ghost can be seen smoking cigarettes in Honaker, Va.; how the founder of the Barter Theatre might still be lurking in Abingdon, Va.; and how a ghost allegedly communicates with young children at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

A graduate of Radford University, Joe Tennis writes regularly for the Bristol Herald Courier. He is also the author of Southwest Virginia Crossroads: An Almanac of Place Names and Places to See.

Discussion and Book Signing: Saturday, July 12 at 10 a.m.

Short Attention Span Book Group reads collections of short stories and essays. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!

Book group is limited to 10 people.

Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us!Book ... (more)group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

You wouldn't believe what it's taken to get this author here, but we love this book so much we simply would not take no for an answer. Thank you to Jonny and Houghton Mifflin for making this possible.So let's show him some Richmond love, people! Watch this space for more details on this major event! ... (more) We love this book!!!

Kate Clifford Larson teaches history at Simmons College. Her first book, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero, was described as "brilliant" (Smithsonian Magazine), "astonishingly good, a better debut than any author has the right to wish for" (Dallas Morning News), ... (more)and "an extraordinary achievement" (Baltimore Sun). Larson lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.

A hot title for hot July!This group is full. Please check our other groups for space.

Short Attention Span Book Group reads collections of short stories and essays. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!

Book group is limited to 10 people.

Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's>

DOMNICA RADULESCU was born in Romania and came to the United States in 1983. She holds a PhD in French and Italian Literature from the University of Chicago, and is currently a Professor of Romance Languages and Chair of the Women's Studies program at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. ... (more)She has written and edited books and scholarly articles on European and Eastern European literature, and has also worked in theater for two decades, directing plays by Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Fernando Arrabal, and Jean Tardieu. She is a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright grants. "Train to Trieste "is her first novel.

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!

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us!Book ... (more)group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This group is full. Please check our other groups for space.Silly summer reading...Author signing on 8/14. See Kelly for special offer for Books and Brews members at the event.

Jayne Pupek is the author of one volume of poetry, Forms of Intercession (Mayapple Press, 2008) and two chapbooks: Primitive (Pudding House Press, 2004) and Local Girls (published online at The Dead Mule, 2007). Her first novel, Tomato Girl ,is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in the fall of 2008. Jayne's ... (more)poems and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, both print and online. Her work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Jayne resides near Richmond, VA with her husband, children, and a menagerie of animal companions.

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.

Short Attention Span Book Group reads collections of short stories and essays. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!

Book group is limited to 10 people.

Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Watch this space for details on this interactive event!JoAnne Richmond is a graduate of Penn State University with over 20 years experience in the image consulting and fashion merchandising fields. Since 1996 she has been associated with Color Me Beautiful as an independent fashion consultant. She lives ... (more)in Fairfax, Virginia.

Watch this space for details on this interactive event!JoAnne Richmond is a graduate of Penn State University with over 20 years experience in the image consulting and fashion merchandising fields. Since 1996 she has been associated with Color Me Beautiful as an independent fashion consultant. She lives ... (more)in Fairfax, Virginia.

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us!Book ... (more)group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

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.

This group is full. Please check our other groups for space.

Short Attention Span Book Group reads collections of short stories and essays. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!

Book group is limited to 10 people.

Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's>

Diesel Bookstore and KPFA are proud to present bestselling author, political consultant & third-wave feminism advocate, Naomi Wolf as she shares more from her new book, AMERICA: A REVOLUTIONARY'S HANDBOOK.

Please note this event is NOT taking place at Diesel Bookstore, but instead will be located at ... (more)First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.

Books will be available for sale courtesy of DIESEL BOOKSTORE.

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us!Book ... (more)group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

The book won the 2007 Southwest Writers Award for nonfiction and follows the

friendship of five American men who became expatriates in Australia during the

Vietnam War. Watch a video!

Susan McCorkindale was born and raised in New Jersey. She loves Bruce Springsteen, the New York Giants and the Jersey Shore. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, Susan spent five long, hard minutes pursuing and acting career before making a detour into marketing. She has held top spots at Family ... (more)Circle and Popular Science magazines, and today writes advertising copy on a freelance basis from the comfort of her farmhouse in Virginia.

The mother of two suns and wife of one very patient and understanding apprentice farmer, Susan spends her free time pulling deer ticks off the dogs, playing the piano and wishing she had hands the size of Bruce Hornsby, and planning elaborate dinner parties at which the main dish is chicken.

Susan McCorkindale was born and raised in New Jersey. She loves Bruce Springsteen, the New York Giants and the Jersey Shore. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, Susan spent five long, hard minutes pursuing and acting career before making a detour into marketing. She has held top spots at Family ... (more)Circle and Popular Science magazines, and today writes advertising copy on a freelance basis from the comfort of her farmhouse in Virginia.

The mother of two suns and wife of one very patient and understanding apprentice farmer, Susan spends her free time pulling deer ticks off the dogs, playing the piano and wishing she had hands the size of Bruce Hornsby, and planning elaborate dinner parties at which the main dish is chicken.

We love art. We love Noah. We love skulls. Could there be a more perfect book in the world?!?A graduate of the NYU Tisch School of The Arts, Noah is a lifelong activist (whose first protest marches were spent in a stroller and then on roller skates).The former art director of independent ... (more)movie studio Troma Entertainment and international clothing company Avirex, Noah used his experience with youth marketing and passion for grassroots activism to create his own ethically driven firm.

Noah's work at ALR has gained international exposure in over a dozen books and is frequently featured in design publications, including How Magazine's "Good Company" cover story Jan/Feb 2006. Noah also developed a course on socially conscious design for Virginia Commonwealth University and founded a long running community supported agriculture group in Richmond, Virginia.
(Photo by Mark Mitchell)

Spooky book for Halloween...
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DIESEL, A Bookstore is excited to welcome legendary surfer, Laird Hamilton to the store! He'll share more 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 ... (more)surrounded by family and radiating peak health and fitness.

Short Attention Span Book Group reads collections of short stories and essays. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us!

Book group is limited to 10 people.

Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's>

Tom Wells is the author of The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam, among other books. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. An expert in false confessions

We welcome back the Salmons!

Come learn all about the world of surfing with Australian surfing champion, Nat Young, as he discusses and signs, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF SURFING, a comprehensive book covering nearly everything you'd want to know about its history.

Nat will be doing a special slide presentation for the book, so it's ... (more)sure to be an enjoyable Sunday afternoon of literature and surfing!

Kelsea Habecker received her MFA in poetry from Bennington Writing Seminars and her BA from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. She was a finalist for the 2003 Ruth Lilly Fellowship and received the 2003 John Haines poetry award. She is working on a volume of poetry that explores imagery and themes pertinent ... (more)to the Arctic, as well as a narrative nonfiction book about the five years she lived as a teacher in an Inupiat Eskimo village in northern Alaska.

Meet 8 poets and hear them read their work collected in this latest anthology.

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us!Book ... (more)group is limited to 10 people.Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Come celebrate the publication of A Platter of Figs and other recipes by David Tanis, chef of the legendary California restaurant Chez Panisse, at Hamilton's Grill.

Meet David, buy a book and have him sign it, enjoy a glass of wine and taste some of his delicious recipes.

RSVP to figplatter@aol.com

A Native Virginian, Louis Briel has achieved international recognition as an American portraitist. Schooled in the Classics, he refined his painting style while earning degrees from Hampden-Sydney College as first-honor graduate and Harvard University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. His art training includes ... (more)a certificate from the American Academy in Rome and study in Boston with Ann Tabachnick and Morton Sacks. The Smithsonian Institution In 1993 acquired Briel's portrait of tennis great Arthur Ashe for the National Portrait Gallery. In 1995 the U. S. House of Representatives added his portrait of Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Chairman of the Commerce Committee, to its Collection. Briel's haunting portrait of Princess Diana accompanied Elton John on his 1997-98 World Tour and is now part of the singer's personal collection. It is featured in the new book, "Diana in Art", compiled by Mem Mehmet (Chaucer Press 2007). Most recently, Briel has worked with Carol Burnett on a posthumous portrait of her daughter Carrie Hamilton, which hangs in the newly renamed Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse.

This book club is full...please check out our other groups.

Sample different chilis prepared by our foodie booksellers while they last! Vote for your favorite to be entered in a contest to win something for free that we have yet to determine!

Join us for hot cider and cookies and local Richmond writers signing books about Richmond including David Ross! People are buying Richmond books in stacks! Great stocking stuffers! Keep Richmond unique by buying this book from a locally-owned business!

Matthew Goodman's nonfiction writing has appeared in The Forward, The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Brill's Content, and The Utne Reader. Goodman also received an MFA from Vermont College; his short stories have appeared in leading literary journals, including the Georgia Review, the New England ... (more)Review, and Witness. He is a lifetime New Yorker and lives in New York City with his wife and children.

Meet the authors of our latest local blockbuster!

Sample different chilis prepared by our foodie booksellers while they last! Vote for your favorite to be entered in a contest to win something for free that we have yet to determine!

This group is full...watch for new groups forming at the first of the year.

Nothing says Christmas like killer faeries!If you've been jonesing for a a Stephanie Meyer fix, look no further, we've found your next fave. Come by and get autographed copies for everybody on your list."This beautiful and out-of-the-ordinary debut novel with its depiction of Celtic Faerie lore and dangerous ... (more)forbidden love in a contemporary American setting, will appeal to readers of Nancy Werlin's Impossible and Stephanie Meyers's Twilight series." - Booklist, Starred review "Stiefvater brings to her story several layers of romance, a knowledge of Irish music and a talent for plot twists. She is also unafraid of taking plot developments to their logical outcomes even when they mar the characters' happiness. Vibrant and potent." - Publisher's Weekly, Starred review

"YA for MA" stands for Young Adult literature for Mature Audience readers. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us! ... (more)Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

The Oakland Book Group #1 meets and discusses Call Me By Your Name. This event is open to the public and free to attend. Books will be available for purchase at the store.

The Malibu Book Group meets and discusses Out Stealing Horses by Per Peterson. This event is open to the public and free to attend. Books will be available for purchase at the store.

Jeffrey Zaslow is a columnist for The Wall Street
Journal and co-author of the current international
bestseller “The Last Lecture”. Zaslow attended the
final lecture of dying Carnegie Mellon Professor
Randy Pausch and will be speaking about his
experience in writing the book. A book signing
will ... (more)follow Mr. Zaslow’s talk. Co-sponsored by the
University of Richmond Recreation & Wellness
Department, The Jefferson Hotel and Fountain
Bookstore, Inc.
$7 Member / $10 Non-Member / $5 Student
For tickets call 285-6500

(Jeffrey Zaslow pictured with Randy Pausch).Jeffrey Zaslow is a columnist for The Wall Street
Journal and co-author of the current international
bestseller “The Last Lecture”. Zaslow attended the
final lecture of dying Carnegie Mellon Professor
Randy Pausch and will be speaking about his
experience ... (more)in writing the book. A book signing
will follow Mr. Zaslow’s talk. Co-sponsored by the
University of Richmond Recreation & Wellness
Department, The Jefferson Hotel and Fountain
Bookstore, Inc.
$7 Member / $10 Non-Member / $5 Student
For tickets call 285-6500

This 6 month group meets monthly, reads mysteries and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This month Farley's Book Club will be reading John Fowles's The Magus.
We will be meeting one week later than usual. As usual, please meet in the back room of Farley's for stimulating discussion and light refreshments!

This group is full...watch for new groups forming at the first of the year.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome Congresswoman Barbara Lee as she discusses and signs her book, Renegade for Peace and Justice. ABOUT THE BOOK:
Barbara Lee's willingness to stand on principle earned her unsolicited international attention when she was the only member of Congress to ... (more)vote against a resolution giving President George Bush virtually unlimited authority to wage war against nations he personally deemed capable of terrorism. Some praised her vote as heroic and inspirational, others called for her death. But this was not her only profile in courage. In addition to being one of Congress' most vocal opponents to the war in Iraq, Lee has been a leader in promoting policies that foster international peace, security, and human rights. Her principled stands include disavowing the doctrine of preemptive war, offering legislation to create a cabinet level Department of Peace, and leading the bipartisan effort in Congress to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur. But this autobiography is about more than politics. In this candid and self-effacing book, Lee chronicles the challenges she overcame to break the cycle of multi-generational domestic violence, and her rise from being a young, single mother of two to being one of the most progressive, respected voices in Congress. Renegade for Peace and Justice dispels the myth that all members of Congress have led gilded, charmed lives. In this book you'll learn about the work of Congress in the days that followed September 11, 2001, and you'll also be inspired by the story of an African American woman, who rose from segregation and public assistance to become a member of Congress with a deep commitment to peace and improving the lives of the underprivileged.

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.

This 6 month group discusses graphic novels, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope ... (more)you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

We are really looking forward to this event!
Watch the trailer for Kept Man
The Short Story:Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels, books, television, and urban life for Jane, Print, New York, Nylon, Radar, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon, Plenty, ... (more)Nextbook, Time Out NY, eWeek, and others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Spork, and Bullfight Review. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior and Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. Her debut collection of stories, INSTANT LOVE, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. The long version: Jami believes in the power and importance of independent publishing and self-publication, whether online or in print. She has been published by a number of zines, and her chapbook, DELI LIFE, was published by Austin upstart So New Media in 2003. INSTANT LOVE was originally a zine series which she sold primarily on her website, whatever-whenever.net. Her site has been in existence in various forms since 1998. Jami has lived in the following cities: Buffalo Grove, IL (where she established herself amongst her peers as "the kind of girl who wears black a lot" and "always has her head in a book" and is "kind of cranky."); Ithaca, NY (summer school program for geeks, in case you hadn't figured out she was a geek yet); Baltimore, MD (where she got a degree from Johns Hopkins University in Writing Seminars); Norwich, UK (where she smoked a lot of hash); Fairfax, VA (where she worked as a hostess at a Ruby Tuesday's in a mall); Tampa, FL (where she bartended at a lesbian bar on Pass-A-Grille Beach and worked on a NOW march); Washington, DC (where she waited tables at Polly's Cafe on U Street and lived for a six months in a room that had a gigantic hole in the floor); Seattle, WA (where she worked in a nursing home and performed awful erotic poetry in cafes); the East Village of New York City (interactive advertising work, eight years and counting); Napa, CA (where she wrote INSTANT LOVE), and finally Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. So if you think you've met her before, you're probably right.

Check back for details about this event!!!!!!We love Adriana!!!!!!!!!!

Fearless, empathetic, all-encompassing in scope, Charles Bock’s debut novel BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN delivers a masterful panorama of Las Vegas and the web of lonely children and suffering adults who struggle under its glimmering lights—homeless teenagers, strippers, comic book illustrators, pawn brokers, ... (more)musicians, video store clerks. At the center of this rich Dickensian universe is a missing boy, and the search for him leads to a swirling climax of heartache and brittle redemption. Don't miss this bestselling author as he joins us to discuss the paperback edition on Sunday, February 22 at 3pm!

This 6 month group meets monthly, reads mysteries and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

We are really looking forward to this event!
Watch the trailer for Kept Man
The Short Story:Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels, books, television, and urban life for Jane, Print, New York, Nylon, Radar, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon, Plenty, ... (more)Nextbook, Time Out NY, eWeek, and others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Spork, and Bullfight Review. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior and Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. Her debut collection of stories, INSTANT LOVE, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. The long version: Jami believes in the power and importance of independent publishing and self-publication, whether online or in print. She has been published by a number of zines, and her chapbook, DELI LIFE, was published by Austin upstart So New Media in 2003. INSTANT LOVE was originally a zine series which she sold primarily on her website, whatever-whenever.net. Her site has been in existence in various forms since 1998. Jami has lived in the following cities: Buffalo Grove, IL (where she established herself amongst her peers as "the kind of girl who wears black a lot" and "always has her head in a book" and is "kind of cranky."); Ithaca, NY (summer school program for geeks, in case you hadn't figured out she was a geek yet); Baltimore, MD (where she got a degree from Johns Hopkins University in Writing Seminars); Norwich, UK (where she smoked a lot of hash); Fairfax, VA (where she worked as a hostess at a Ruby Tuesday's in a mall); Tampa, FL (where she bartended at a lesbian bar on Pass-A-Grille Beach and worked on a NOW march); Washington, DC (where she waited tables at Polly's Cafe on U Street and lived for a six months in a room that had a gigantic hole in the floor); Seattle, WA (where she worked in a nursing home and performed awful erotic poetry in cafes); the East Village of New York City (interactive advertising work, eight years and counting); Napa, CA (where she wrote INSTANT LOVE), and finally Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. So if you think you've met her before, you're probably right.

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.

This group is full...please check out the other store sponsored groups or ask Kelly how to start one of your own.

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.

Anne D. LeClaire is the author of eight novels, including the critically acclaimed Entering Normal and The Lavender Hour, and her work has been published in twenty-four countries. She is a former reporter, radio news broadcaster, and newspaper columnist whose work has appeared in publications such as ... (more)Redbook, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.She has a lot of chickens.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome Clive Matson to discuss and sign Mainline to the Heart. This event is free and all are welcome!
About the Book:
This new edition of Clive Matson’s early poems includes all of Diane di Prima’s “Poets Press” version -- 1,000 copies were sold ... (more)out in 1966-67 -- and adds significant uncollected pieces from the same period. At once obstreperous and innocent, these poems celebrate a place where emotion, sex, and religion come together with overwhelming intensity. In the 50s and 60s, Beat Generation writers were revisiting this edgy, full-blooded romantic tradition and Matson joined the exploration with youthful energy. But the quest was fraught with tension. Mainline to the Heart and Other Poems expresses a confluence of personal and historical forces. Clive Matson was coming of age at the same time the culture was at the height of its 1960s explosion. While the poems cast a sobering light on Beat exuberance, Matson’s vibrant imagery makes the personal, visionary, and sexual excitement impossible to deny.
About the Author:
Clive Matson arrived on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1960, a fresh-faced adolescent with a blank notebook under his arm. He quickly fell in with the Beat Generation – his first event was a reading at the Tenth Street Coffeehouse, where he met Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Diane di Prima. Matson and his first wife Erin Black immersed themselves in sex, hard drugs, and psychedelics of 1960s Bohemian life. Eventually Matson became overwhelmed and returned to the West Coast. He worked for Taxi Unlimited, a producers’ cooperative in Berkeley; briefly for the Free Clinic and for MOVE (men overcoming violence); and learned the craft of printing from Clifford Burke at Cranium Press. Psychotherapy, Vipassana meditation, and twelve-step programs became fixtures in his life. That Matson ultimately emerged drug-free and healthy gave him full appreciation for 1960s passion and honesty. These qualities are crucially important, he thinks, for the current era. “Coming to terms with my youthful, energetic voice has been a challenge,” he admits. “It helps that I hear, in these poems, both an urgent need to connect and full cognizance of the difficulties.” Mostly Matson writes from the itch in his body, and says he always has. He likes playing basketball, table tennis, and collecting minerals in the field. He lives in Oakland, California, where he helps bring up his eleven-year-old son, Ezra.

CPT McGovern spent four years in the NFL and left to go to law school. After a successful four years in the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan, he joined the U.S. Army Reserves. After September 11th, he felt he could contribute more by joining the Army fulltime. He has prosecuted over 400 terrorists ... (more)in Iraqi courts and penned his life story in the nationally recognized book, ALL AMERICAN: WHY I BELIEVE IN FOOTBALL, GOD AND THE WAR IN IRAQ. He will be available for book signing following his presentation. This event is free, family friendly and open to the public in a 200 seat auditorium. Free parking. For more information, please call 804-786-2060 or email Candi Shelton at cshelton@vawarmemorial.org.

Let's dance! Maryann will join us for a big book release party to celebrate
"My Dance Recital". Grab your tutu and head on down here for a signed copy.

This 6 month group discusses graphic novels, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope ... (more)you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

March 1st marks the 15th anniversary of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning open gays from the military. New attention has focused on this explosive culture war issue, as Democrats renew promises to lift the ban, perhaps as soon as this year.
 
With UNFRIENDLY FIRE: How the Gay Ban Undermines ... (more)the Military and Weakens America, Dr. Nathaniel Frank, the mostly widely-recognized expert on gays in the military and the writer who broke the story of the firing of gay Arabic linguists, has written the definitive story of “don’t ask, don’t tell” at a pivotal moment in the debate on gay service.  Dr. Frank, an historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center, has spent ten years explaining the ins and outs of this policy on television, radio, blogs and in print, and now more than ever, his expertise is in demand to help the nation understand this complex, fast-moving issue.
 
Based on hundreds of exclusive interviews, this much-anticipated book reveals behind-the-scenes discussions by the top players responsible for the current policy, and shows how a campaign of misinformation by military officials and the religious right conspired to steamroll the gay ban into place. UNFRIENDLY FIRE also answers pressing questions people are now asking about what lies ahead: How is the current policy really working? How do gay and straight troops currently get along? What happened when other nations lifted their gay bans? What will happen if the U.S. follows suit?  And more.
The new book shows that:
·         Military officials admit they misrepresented the threat posed by gays to unit cohesion, while minimizing the true source of resistance to gay service: religious and cultural opposition to homosexuality.
·         Evidence was repeatedly concealed or suppressed by the military when research concluded there was no rationale for the gay ban.
·         The team of military generals that created “don’t ask, don’t tell” did not even understand what “sexual orientation” meant when they were tasked with formulating the policy. The general who headed that team now opposes the policy and admits in the book that the group “didn’t have any empirical data” about gay service and its position was based on fear, politics and prejudice.
·         The former Navy Judge Advocate General reversed his support for a gay ban and now calls the policy a “moral passing of the buck.”
·         Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated an inflammatory anti-gay video produced by the religious right, and used it to argue that openly gay service would undermine the military.
 
Clearly and lucidly argued, UNFRIENDLY FIRE is a lively and compelling narrative that is sure to play an important role in the debate over this policy.  As a new presidential administration takes office, and our country’s military commitments around the globe continue to expand, the issue of gays serving in the military is certain to be a key topic of debate. Join Dr. Frank at Lambda Rising in DC as he answers your questions and discusses his insightful work on this vital issue. NATHANIEL FRANK is a senior research fellow at the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and teaches history on the adjunct faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  His publications on gays in the military and other topics have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, the Los Angles Times, The Huffington Post, and other publications.  His research and opinions have been cited on the Congressional floor and in syndicated columns, the blogosphere, the New York Post, The National Review Online, the AP, and other venues.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan White graduated from Brown University and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the James Purdy Prize for outstanding fiction. In 2007 she was awarded a fellowship at the Hambidge Center, ... (more)an artist colony in the north Georgia mountains. Her debut novel, Bound South, is forthcoming from Touchstone / Simon and Schuster in February 2009. An excerpt from Bound South was published in Atlanta magazine’s May 2007 fiction issue. Currently Susan is working on her second novel. She lives near downtown Atlanta with her husband, Alan Deutschman, dog Raney, and cats Moses and Zippy. Recently Susan and Alan tore up the grass in their front yard and replaced it with a vegetable garden that Moses loves to patrol.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan White graduated from Brown University and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the James Purdy Prize for outstanding fiction. In 2007 she was awarded a fellowship at the Hambidge Center, ... (more)an artist colony in the north Georgia mountains. Her debut novel, Bound South, is forthcoming from Touchstone / Simon and Schuster in February 2009. An excerpt from Bound South was published in Atlanta magazine’s May 2007 fiction issue. Currently Susan is working on her second novel. She lives near downtown Atlanta with her husband, Alan Deutschman, dog Raney, and cats Moses and Zippy. Recently Susan and Alan tore up the grass in their front yard and replaced it with a vegetable garden that Moses loves to patrol.

This 6 month group meets monthly, reads mysteries and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join ... (more)us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This group is full...please check out the other store sponsored groups or ask Kelly how to start one of your own.

If you're from 'away' you need this hilarious yet indispensable insider's guide to the Granite State. From the words we use, to our people, places and culture, Becky's got a spin on it all. Come meet an NH original and we'll serve the pie.

At the height of their career, just off their successful tour with Green Day, Pansy Division dropped by Lambda Rising’s DC bookstore, set up their instruments in our front window, and honored us and our customers with a raucous, rocking free concert. Now founding Pansy Jon Ginoli returns to Lambda ... (more)Rising to meet his fans, sign his new book, and maybe even play a song or two. Join us for this exciting event! The Inside Story of the First Openly Gay Pop-Punk Band Just a few short years ago, the stereotype for gay men involved loving disco and show tunes. Jon Ginoli decided to do something about it. Deflowered is Jon Ginoli’s journey of self-discovery, musical passion, and drive to become the founding member of Pansy Division, the first out and proud queer core punk rock band to hit the semi-big time. Set against the changing decades of music, we follow the band from their inception in San Francisco, to their search for a music label and a permanent drummer to their current status as indie rock icons. We see the highs--touring with Green Day--and the lows--homophobic fans--of striving for acceptance and success in the world of rock. Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs and replete with the requisite tales of sex, drugs, groupies, band fights and label battles, this rollicking memoir is also an impassioned account of staying true to the artistic vision of queer rock'n'roll. Jon Ginoli is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member of Pansy Division, a punk rock band whose cd's include Undressed, Deflowered, Wish I'd Taken Pictures, and more. An Illinois native, he's played both dive bars and arenas, and his favorite color is purple. When not on tour with the band he lives and works in San Francisco.

This 6 month group discusses graphic novels, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope ... (more)you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Dr. Cliff Edwards has an education that spans East and West. He earned his Ph.D. is from Northwestern University in Comparative Religion. He did graduate and post-graduate work at Strasbourg University in France, Neuchatel University in Switzerland, the Hebrew Union School of Bible and Archaeology in ... (more)Jerusalem, and Daitokuji Zen Monastery in Kyoto Japan. Dr. Edwards teaches Bible as Literature, Zen Buddhism, and a variety of courses in Religion and the Arts. Among his books are two works on the Japanese haiku, and two works on the spiritual journey of Vincent van Gogh.

We welcome back one of our favorite guests, Richard Nunnally. Don't forget to write down some questions for him before you get here!

The author will speak from 10:30-11:30 and sign afterward! See you in the sunshine (hopefully)!

More on this event including a finalized time as we find out! See you in the sunshine (hopefully)!

This 6 month group discusses graphic novels, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope ... (more)you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

We will be donating a portion of sales to the library.

Audiences across the country have been entertained by the comic energy of Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson and their brainchild, "Jewtopia" - one of the most successful off-Broadway comedies
of all-time. The New York Times hailed the show as “Unstoppable! One of the biggest and most improbable hits!”. ... (more)On the stage, Fogel
and Wolfson present their hilarious, highly entertaining, and sometimes irreverent "Jewtopia’s Guide to Being All That Jew Can Be!" with show-stopping scenes from their play, stunning visual aids, and excerpts from their book. And of course, they address many of the important questions that we wrestle with on a daily basis.To purchase tickets, click here!

David Sanger
Tania James Pam Jenoff Dan Baum Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough Jean Hanff Korelitz Click here to purchase tickets!

Rockridge resident, mother, former children's book editor and longtime Diesel customer Jennifer Riggs Vetter reads, discusses and signs her debut picturebook, Down By the Station. Come cheer her on!! Down by the depot, early in the morning
See the yellow school buses all in a row
See the school bus driver ... (more)warming up the engine
Vroom vroom beep beep! Off we go! Jennifer Riggs Vetter is a former children's book editor who has always loved to read. She lives with her husband and two sons in Oakland, California. This is her first book.

Anne D. LeClaire is the author of eight novels, including the critically acclaimed Entering Normal and The Lavender Hour, and her work has been published in twenty-four countries. She is a former reporter, radio news broadcaster, and newspaper columnist whose work has appeared in publications such as ... (more)Redbook, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.She has a lot of chickens.

Marc Fitten was born in Brooklyn in 1974. He has been published in several American publications, and has published a napkin online at Esquire. He is a PhD student at Georgia State University and received the Paul Bowles Fellowship for Fiction. He is currently the editor of The Chattahoochee Review, ... (more)Atlanta’s oldest journal. Valeria’s Last Stand, published by Bloomsbury in May 2009, is his first novel.

Marc Fitten was born in Brooklyn in 1974. He has been published in several American publications, and has published a napkin online at Esquire. He is a PhD student at Georgia State University and received the Paul Bowles Fellowship for Fiction. He is currently the editor of The Chattahoochee Review, ... (more)Atlanta’s oldest journal. Valeria’s Last Stand, published by Bloomsbury in May 2009, is his first novel.

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.

We've been trying to get Karen here since January, so please come by and see this wonderful new National Geographic book for young Poe fans! It's a pictorial biography and contains many bits of information that would enhance a weekend field trip to the Poe museum. Come meet her between 12:30 and 2:30.

This book is a must-read if you are pregnant, or thinking about conceiving!
At this event, I will conduct a workshop about how spirits communicate with human beings and how you can build your ability to better "hear" what they are trying to tell you! I will also channel for random members of the audience ... (more)and you can ask a question on any topic! Join us on May 9, and you'll be entered into a drawing to win a FREE one hour private telephone channeling session by Kim O'Neil—to be given away at the end of this event! Kim was voted Best Psychic in Houston by Houston Press Magazine

David H. Jones was born and raised in West Virginia and has been a lifelong student of the Civil War. His research took him into the swamps of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to rediscover the lost location where a pivotal event in the book took place. A graduate of Kentucky Military Institute and Babson ... (more)College, former Navy officer, and entrepreneur, he currently lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

David H. Jones was born and raised in West Virginia and has been a lifelong student of the Civil War. His research took him into the swamps of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to rediscover the lost location where a pivotal event in the book took place. A graduate of Kentucky Military Institute and Babson ... (more)College, former Navy officer, and entrepreneur, he currently lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

This 6 month group discusses graphic novels, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope ... (more)you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Join us as CSPAN Book TV films David A. Taylor on his latest book. Please join us in welcoming back this multi-talented author.

This 6 month group discusses mysteries, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll ... (more)join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This is a date change!!!!
This group is full...please check out the other store sponsored groups or ask Kelly how to start one of your own.

This 6 month group discusses mysteries, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll ... (more)join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This is a date change!!!!
This group is full...please check out the other store sponsored groups or ask Kelly how to start one of your own.

The location of this event is TBA

This 6 month group discusses graphic novels, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope ... (more)you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This book is available in paperback. We are attempting to correct the database, meanwhile, you may order by calling the store. 804-788-1594. The paperback is $14.This 6 month group discusses Mysteries, meets once a month and will conclude in June. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain ... (more)Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Fritz Knapp has taught and coached extensively in the Richmond area and worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia as the director of a statewide mentoring initiative known as Virginia's Future and as a gang reduction specialist. He is currently the Executive Director of the Virginia Association ... (more)of Soil & Water Conservation Districts and is the founder of Blue Sky Fund, an organization which serves at-risk students in the Richmond area. 20% of the author's royalty from sales of this book will serve at-risk students through the Blue Sky Fund.

Fritz Knapp has taught and coached extensively in the Richmond area and worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia as the director of a statewide mentoring initiative known as Virginia's Future and as a gang reduction specialist. He is currently the Executive Director of the Virginia Association ... (more)of Soil & Water Conservation Districts and is the founder of Blue Sky Fund, an organization which serves at-risk students in the Richmond area. 20% of the author's royalty from sales of this book will serve at-risk students through the Blue Sky Fund.

This group is full...please check out the other store sponsored groups or ask Kelly how to start one of your own.

Bring your book club!!!

O. H. Bennett is the author of a previous novel, The Colored Garden. He lives in northern Virginia.We are very excited to have him here at Fountain!

This 6 month group discusses contemporary Southern books, meets once a month and will conclude in December. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book ... (more)group, so we hope you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

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This group is full. Please check out Sci Fi and Kudzu book clubs!

This 6 month group discusses contemporary Science Fiction books, meets once a month and will conclude in December. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love ... (more)book group, so we hope you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

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.

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.

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.

This 6 month group discusses contemporary Southern books (with a special emphasis on the novels of Ron Rash), meets once a month and will conclude in December. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. ... (more)Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love book group, so we hope you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

This 6 month group discusses contemporary Science Fiction books, meets once a month and will conclude in December. To join book group, purchase of the book from the Fountain Bookstore is required. Please sign up via email or by calling Kelly at 804-788-1594. Ages 21 and over only, please. We really love ... (more)book group, so we hope you'll join us! Book group is limited to 10 people. Meetings are held in the non-smoking section in the back of Rosie Connolly's.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

This group is full. Please check out Sci Fi and Kudzu book clubs!

As featured on the Today Show!From the authors:"Life is such a rich, complicated, joyous, mysterious, wild ride. Everyone has stories to tell and lessons to pass on, and what better way to do that than when you're alive? It was your life; your funeral is the one time you should do and say absolutely ... (more)whatever you want."Fountain Bookstore is proud to welcome Sue Bailey and Carmen Flowers for a talk about this most important topic. This community discussion open to the public. We'd love to see some of our friends in the hospice, grief and pastoral care professions as well!

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

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.

Book Group #1 meets to discuss Ivan Klima's No Saints or Angels. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Part of a five-week tour all across the country, award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer’s in-store appearance coincides with the release of his new Booklife: Strategies & Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer, the first book to blend traditional career and creativity advice with the best ways to ... (more)thrive in our new internet-based world without losing your mind. Funny, blunt, practical, and humane, Booklife is the perfect gift for you or the writer in your life. Says Publishers Weekly, “With anecdotes from VanderMeer's own life as a writer, reviewer and blogger, as well as input from agents, editors and publicists, this guide will surely help writers traverse the often difficult journey from first draft to finished product.” Come out to meet the author and talk about the writing life. How can a Booklife help you? A writer for the New York Times Book Review, Huffington Post, and Washington Post, VanderMeer is the best-selling author of cult classic City of Saints & Madmen. Jeff’s new novel Finch, a noir fantasy thriller that’s gotten rave reviews from the likes of NYT Bestsellers Stephen R. Donaldson and Tad Williams will also be available.