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Charis Books & More is hosting the event Amy Andrews Feminist Bookstore Concert Tour to Benefit Charis Circle! on 09/28/2012 (12849)
David Menconi will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 09/28/2012 (12666)
Emily Colin  , author of The Memory Thief, will be appearing at Fiction Addiction, 09/28/2012 (12681)
Kyle Willaims, author of The Stranger in the Room, will be appearing at Eagle Eye Book Shop, 09/28/2012 (12688)
John Shelton Reed will be appearing at Octavia Books, 09/28/2012 (12728)
Kristen Iversen, author of GROWING UP IN THE NUCLEAR SHADOW OF ROCKY FLATS, will be appearing at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, 09/28/2012 (12747)
Wyclef Jean, author of Purpose , will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 09/28/2012 (12794)
Paul Leonard, author of Where is Church, will be appearing at Park Road Books, 09/29/2012 (12814)
Judy Hogan, author of Killer Frost, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 09/29/2012 (12667)
Rick Veal, author of The Master of Whitehall, will be appearing at Fiction Addiction, 09/29/2012 (12682)
Carmen Deedy will be appearing at Eagle Eye Book Shop, 09/29/2012 (12689)
Terry Roberts, author of A Short Time to Stay Here, will be appearing at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, 09/29/2012 (12748)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event Saturday Storytime on 09/29/2012 (12759)
Kat Zhang, author of What's Left of Me, will be appearing at Parnassus Books, 09/29/2012 (12760)
Deon Davis, author of Beanie and the Bully, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 09/29/2012 (12795)
Charis Books & More is hosting the event Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance on 09/30/2012 (12850)
Stella Subeman, author of The GI Bill Boys, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 09/30/2012 (12668)
Angela Halfacre, author of A Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry , will be appearing at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, 09/30/2012 (12749)
Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 10/01/2012 (12824)
Charis Books & More is hosting the event T&F Transitionz: A Project of Feminist Outlawz on 10/01/2012 (12851)
Colin Meloy, author of Under Wildwood, will be appearing at Parnassus Books, 10/01/2012 (12761)
Paul Tough, author of , will be appearing at Avid Bookshop, 10/01/2012 (12788)
Dr. Brian Weiss, author of Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories , will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/01/2012 (12796)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event ArtsCenter Stage's 44 Plays for 44 Presidents on 10/02/2012 (12825)
Ray Glier, author of How the SEC Became Goliath, will be appearing at Eagle Eye Book Shop, 10/02/2012 (12844)
Cavalier House Books is hosting the event Book Club Meeting - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic on 10/02/2012 (12614)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event Let's Talk Books with Donna Nicely and Judy Turner on 10/02/2012 (12762)
Michael Chabon will be appearing at Parnassus Books, 10/02/2012 (12763)
Dr. Brian Weiss, author of Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories , will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/02/2012 (12797)
Jonathan Kozol, author of Fire in the Ashes, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/02/2012 (12798)
Martin Llorens will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/02/2012 (12799)
Joel Nickels, author of The Poetry of the Possible, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/03/2012 (12800)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event Sacrificial Poets Touchstone Open Mic on 10/03/2012 (12826)
Fred Thompson, author of Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/03/2012 (12859)
Kresley Cole, author of Poison Princess, will be appearing at Garden District Book Shop, 10/03/2012 (12868)
John Krontiras, author of Beloved Family Recipes, will be appearing at Alabama Booksmith, 10/03/2012 (12624)
Joseph Bathanti, author of This Metal, will be appearing at The Fountainhead Bookstore, 10/03/2012 (12431)
Harvey Simon, author of The Madman Theory , will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/04/2012 (12801)
Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of Short Sentences About Writing , will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/04/2012 (12802)
Julia Scatliff O'Grady, author of Good Busy, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 10/04/2012 (12827)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event Pre-School story time & activity on 10/04/2012 (12828)
Nightbird Books is hosting the event First Thursday After-Party with Rival Colors Photography on 10/04/2012 (12839)
Jamala Rogers, author of The Best of , will be appearing at Charis Books & More, 10/04/2012 (12852)
David Menconi, author of Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/04/2012 (12860)
William J. Cooper, author of We Have The War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861, will be appearing at Garden District Book Shop, 10/04/2012 (12869)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event After School Story Time on 10/04/2012 (12764)
Bill Ivey will be appearing at Parnassus Books, 10/04/2012 (12765)
Avid Bookshop is hosting the event Read for the Record: LadyBug Girl and the Bug Squad ~ Special Story Time on 10/04/2012 (12789)
Naomi Duguid, author of Burma, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/05/2012 (12803)
Tara Fuller, author of Inbetween, will be appearing at Park Road Books, 10/05/2012 (12815)
Pam Durban, author of The Tree of Forgetfulness, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 10/05/2012 (12829)
Nightbird Books is hosting the event Bayard Godsave & George McCormick on 10/05/2012 (12840)
David Cecelski, author of The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slave?s Civil War, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/05/2012 (12861)
Literary BookPost is hosting the event LBP's Reading Betweens the Wines Book Club on 10/05/2012 (12669)
Page & Palette is hosting the event Grand Festival of Arts & Books on 10/05/2012 (12772)
Watt Key will be appearing at Page & Palette, 10/05/2012 (12774)
Dan Rosenburg, author of The Crushing Organ, will be appearing at Avid Bookshop, 10/05/2012 (12790)
Books & Books Inc is hosting the event Meet & Greet Signing: Zane -- Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava 3 on 10/06/2012 (12804)
Books & Books Inc is hosting the event Zane -- Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava 3 on 10/06/2012 (12805)
Mary Netreba, author of Rosemary for Remembrance, will be appearing at Park Road Books, 10/06/2012 (12816)
Nathan Kotecki, author of The Suburban Strange, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 10/06/2012 (12830)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event Saturday Morning Story Time on 10/06/2012 (12831)
Nightbird Books is hosting the event Poetry Reading by Adam Clay, Johnathon Williams, Keith Newton, and Jessica Baran on 10/06/2012 (12841)
Phil Sandusky, author of New Orleans: Impressionist Cityscapes, will be appearing at Garden District Book Shop, 10/06/2012 (12870)
Catherine Hollan, author of Virginia Silversmiths, Jewelers, Clock and Watchmakers, 1607-1860, Their Lives and Marks, will be appearing at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, 10/06/2012 (12632)
Christa Hedrick, author of We Were Army Wives, will be appearing at That Bookstore in Blytheville, 10/06/2012 (12691)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event Saturday Storytime on 10/06/2012 (12766)
Page & Palette is hosting the event Grand Festival of Arts & Books on 10/06/2012 (12773)
Rick Riordan will be appearing at Page & Palette, 10/06/2012 (12775)
Avid Bookshop is hosting the event Banned Books Bash! on 10/06/2012 (12791)
Books & Books Inc is hosting the event Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena on 10/07/2012 (12806)
Hedy Goldsmith, author of Baking Out Loud, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/07/2012 (12807)
Pam Cable, author of Televenge, will be appearing at Park Road Books, 10/07/2012 (12817)
Erika Marks , author of The Mermaid Collector, will be appearing at The Fountainhead Bookstore, 10/07/2012 (12821)
Avid Bookshop is hosting the event Snoozapalooza Pajama Party on 10/07/2012 (12792)
Avid Bookshop is hosting the event Kids' Book Club: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 1, The Mysterious Howling on 10/07/2012 (12793)
Stacy London, author of The Truth About Style, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/08/2012 (12808)
Claire and Mia Fontaine, author of Have Mother, Will Travel, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/08/2012 (12809)
Chris Cleave, author of Have Mother, Will Travel, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/08/2012 (12810)
Charis Books & More is hosting the event Writing With Intent on 10/08/2012 (12853)
Pam Durban, author of The Tree of Forgetfulness, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/08/2012 (12862)
Slade Rushing, author of Southern Comfort: A New Take on the Recipes We Grew Up With, will be appearing at Garden District Book Shop, 10/08/2012 (12871)
Carlos Andres Gomez Gomez, author of Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/09/2012 (12811)
Michael Morris will be appearing at Park Road Books, 10/09/2012 (12818)
Susan Snowden, author of Southern Fried Lies, will be appearing at The Fountainhead Bookstore, 10/09/2012 (12822)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event UNC Humanities Spotlight on Scholars: Plants, Animals, and Climate Change: Who Wins? Who Loses? on 10/09/2012 (12832)
Julie Williams, author of A Rare Titanic Family, will be appearing at FoxTale Book Shoppe, 10/09/2012 (12847)
Regulator Bookshop is hosting the event 2nd Annual Great Durham Pun Championship on 10/09/2012 (12863)
Judy Goldman, author of Losing My Sister, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/09/2012 (12864)
Blue Ridge Books & News is hosting the event Mountain Writers Group on 10/09/2012 (12612)
Michele Gillespie, author of Katharine and R. J. Reynolds Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South, will be appearing at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, 10/09/2012 (12631)
John McCusker, author of Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz, will be appearing at Octavia Books, 10/09/2012 (12729)
Caroline Kennedy, author of Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of JFK, will be appearing at Parnassus Books, 10/09/2012 (12767)
Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House, will be appearing at Parnassus Books, 10/09/2012 (12768)
Patti Rose, author of Cultural Competency for Health Administration and Public Health, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/10/2012 (12812)
Kathleen Flinn, author of The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, will be appearing at Books & Books Inc, 10/10/2012 (12813)
Marion Ellis, author of An Independent Profession: A Centennial History of The Mecklenburg County Bar, will be appearing at Park Road Books, 10/10/2012 (12819)
Judy Goldman, author of Losing My Sister, will be appearing at Flyleaf Books, 10/10/2012 (12833)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event UNC Humanities in Action (ticketed): The World is Fat: Current Patterns, Trends, and Controversies on 10/10/2012 (12834)
Nightbird Books is hosting the event Poetry Book Club: The Best American Poetry of 2012 on 10/10/2012 (12842)
Rosie Pope, author of Mommy IQ , will be appearing at FoxTale Book Shoppe, 10/10/2012 (12848)
Janet McAdams, author of Red Weather, will be appearing at Charis Books & More, 10/10/2012 (12854)
Island Bookstore is hosting the event Star Wars Reads Day on 10/10/2012 (12618)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event Nashville Reads Book Discussion: The Handmaid's Tale on 10/10/2012 (12769)
Jim and Joyce Lavene, author of Treacherous Toys, will be appearing at Park Road Books, 10/11/2012 (12820)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event Pre-School story time & activity on 10/11/2012 (12835)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event Flyleaf Poetry Series Halloween Party & Contest Winners readings & Open Mic on 10/11/2012 (12836)
Avid Bookshop is hosting the event Free Thursday Story Time on 10/11/2012 (12845)
Charis Books & More is hosting the event God Carlos by Anthony C. Winkler at Auburn Ave Research Library on 10/11/2012 (12855)
Tony Reevy, author of Steam Trains!, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/11/2012 (12865)
Stephen Pastis, author of Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury, will be appearing at Garden District Book Shop, 10/11/2012 (12872)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event After School Story Time on 10/11/2012 (12770)
Margaret Cunningham, author of Always Charlie, will be appearing at Page & Palette, 10/11/2012 (12776)
E.O. Wilson will be appearing at Page & Palette, 10/11/2012 (12777)
Enid Shomer, author of The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, will be appearing at Inkwood Books, 10/11/2012 (12780)
Susan Boyer, author of Low Country Boil, will be appearing at Literary BookPost, 10/12/2012 (12670)
Jan Brett will be appearing at Inkwood Books, 10/12/2012 (12781)
Fred Thompson, author of Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate, will be appearing at Alabama Booksmith, 10/12/2012 (12280)
Flyleaf Books is hosting the event Prompt Writing Class with Nancy Peacock on 10/13/2012 (12837)
Calvin White, author of The Rise to Respectability, will be appearing at Nightbird Books, 10/13/2012 (12843)
Carol Bland Dolson, author of Hattie and the Higgledy-Piggledy Hedge, will be appearing at Avid Bookshop, 10/13/2012 (12846)
William Chafe, author of Bill and Hillary, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/13/2012 (12866)
Adrienne Palma, author of Roza Sanchez, will be appearing at Island Bookstore, 10/13/2012 (12619)
Parnassus Books is hosting the event Saturday Storytime on 10/13/2012 (12771)
Jan Brett, author of Mossy, will be appearing at Page & Palette, 10/13/2012 (12778)
Octavia Books is hosting the event Octavia Books Science Fiction Book Club on 10/13/2012 (12783)
Dianne de Las Casas will be appearing at Octavia Books, 10/13/2012 (12784)
Fred Thompson, author of Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate, will be appearing at Garden District Book Shop, 10/14/2012 (12873)
That Bookstore in Blytheville is hosting the event George Singleton Book Signing on 10/15/2012 (12838)
Bill Finch will be appearing at Alabama Booksmith, 10/15/2012 (12625)
Laurie Bakke, author of Laurie Bakke's Cookbook, will be appearing at The Fountainhead Bookstore, 10/16/2012 (12823)
JOhn Batchelor, author of Chefs of the Mountains, will be appearing at Regulator Bookshop, 10/16/2012 (12867)
Page & Palette is hosting the event J.K. Rowling Live Webcast on 10/16/2012 (12779)
Octavia Books is hosting the event Brain Quest Challenge! on 10/17/2012 (12785)
Inkwood Books is hosting the event BOOK GROUP NIGHT on 10/18/2012 (12782)
Kim O' Donnel, author of The Meat Lover's Meatless Celebrations, will be appearing at Nightbird Books, 10/21/2012 (12247)
Kevin Gillespie, author of Fire in My Belly, will be appearing at Alabama Booksmith, 11/06/2012 (11562)
Sheila Ingle , author of COURAGEOUS KATE, A DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and FEARLESS MARTHA, will be appearing at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, 11/10/2012 (12201)
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Authors Round the South
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 Dearest readers,
In 1965, the year before her ladyship was born, Mr. Robert Penn Warren published Who Speaks for the Negro? — a collection of conversations with people in the Civil Rights  Movement, along with Mr. Warren’s own reflections on the people and the times. In his research for the book, the author and first United States Poet Laureate traveled throughout the country, toting a massive reel-to-reel tape recorder which he used to record the conversations he had with both leaders in the movement--people like Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.-- and also people in the “trenches,” such as Ms. Clarie Collins Harvey, a woman from Louisa, Mississippi who helped organize a series of safe houses for civil rights workers and worked to register black voters.
This summer Vanderbuilt University has made the digitized recordings of Mr. Warren’s interviews available in an online archive: http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/
Her ladyship lost an entire day listening to these tapes. It is both eerie and humbling to hear these voices out of a past that should not be thought “distant.” “I’ve never heard him just talk. You only hear (recordings of) King preach or give a speech,” comments Mona Frederick, executive director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt.
 There is a sense of immediacy listening to these people “just talk” to Mr. Warren. Listing to Ms. Septima Poinsette Clarke as she remembers her struggle to establish literacy programs in Tennessee (work that caused her to be arrested and put on trial), or to the group of students at Tougaloo College as they discuss the trial of Byron de la Beckwith (the man accused of murdering Medgar Evers), which had just ended in a hung jury. Mr. Warren asks the students if they believe the trial was rigged. The students are uncertain, disillusioned, and skeptical about the kind of “progress” that would be evidenced by the fact that the state of Mississippi would take the trouble to rig a trial that a few years earlier might not even have made it to court.
The book Who Speaks for the Negro? is out of print. But the words of the people Mr. Warren took the trouble to talk to—they ring in our ears even now.
Happy Reading!
her ladyship, the editor
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Southern Indie Bestsellers
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For the week ending September 23, 2012
Columbia, SC -September 27, 2012 - The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound.org and SIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 23, 2012. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.org.
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Titles in red are SIBA Book Award winners and finalists!
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1. Winter of the World
Ken Follett, Dutton, $36, 9780525952923
2. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364
3. Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon, Harper, $27.99, 9780061493348
4. A Wanted Man
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333
5. This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487361
6. The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom, Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401322786
7. Severe Clear
Stuart Woods, Putnam Adult, $26.95, 9780399159848
8. Gone
Randy Wayne White, Putnam Adult, $25.95, 9780399158490
9. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $25, 9781451681734
10. The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316219365
11. Zoo
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316097444
12. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $35, 9780553801477
13. Man in the Blue Moon
Michael Morris, Tyndale House, $19.99, 9781414373300
14. The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655464
15. Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670023486
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1. No Easy Day
Mark Owen, Dutton, $26.95, 9780525953722
2. The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781451651102
3. Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $30, 9780812992786
4. Mortality
Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, $22.99, 9781455502752
5. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307592736
6. The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385527200
7. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
Jen Campbell, Overlook, $15, 9781468301281
8. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
9. Wheat Belly
William Davis, Rodale, $25.99, 9781609611545
10. How Music Works
David Byrne, McSweeney's, $32, 9781936365531
11. Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice
Woody Durham, John F. Blair Publisher, $26.95, 9780895875778
12. I Could Pee on This
Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle, $12.95, 9781452110585
13. A Wilderness of Error
Errol Morris, Penguin Press, $29.95, 9781594203435
14. I'm Your Man
Sylvie Simmons, Ecco, $27.99, 9780061994982
15. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $28, 9780805093070
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1. Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803481
2. Fifty Shades Darker
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803498
3. Fifty Shades Freed
E.L. James, Vintage, $15.95, 9780345803504
4. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307947727
5. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, $16, 9781250014764
6. The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $15, 9780307744432
7. Rules of Civility
Amor Towles, Penguin, $16, 9780143121169
8. Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, Random House, $15, 9780375507250
9. State of Wonder
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049810
10. Man in the Blue Moon
Michael Morris, Tyndale House, $13.99, 9781414368429
11. The Shoemaker's Wife
Adriana Trigiani, Harper, $15.99, 9780061257100
12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $14, 9781451696196
13. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $15, 9780743273565
14. Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, Picador, $16, 9780312429980
15. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
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1. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $15.99, 9780316056878
2. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Broadway, $16, 9780307408853
3. Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie, Random House, $20, 9780345408778
4. The Swerve
Stephen J. Greenblatt, Norton, $16.95, 9780393343403
5. Unleash!
Perry Noble, Tyndale House, $15.99, 9781414366791
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
7. Eat to Live
Joel Fuhrman, Little Brown, $15.99, 9780316120913
8. Call the Midwife
Jennifer Worth, Penguin, $16, 9780143123255
9. F for Effort!
Richard Benson, Chronicle, $9.95, 9781452113227
10. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013
Old Farmer's Almanac, $6.95, 9781571985736
11. The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $16.95, 9781572245372
12. Boomerang
Michael Lewis, Norton, $16.95, 9780393343441
13. 1493
Charles C. Mann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307278241
14. Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz, Picador, $18, 9780312429263
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Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307949332
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1. A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553582024
2. A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553573428
3. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553593716
4. A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345535429
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
6. Fall of Giants
Ken Follett, Signet, $9.99, 9780451232854
7. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345339683
8. Zero Day
David Baldacci, Vision, $9.99, 9780446573023
9. Kill Shot
Vince Flynn, Atria, $9.99, 9781416595229
10. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, $5.99, 9780743477123
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1. Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
Ian Falconer, Atheneum, $17.99, 9781442450271
2. Llama Llama Time to Share
Anna Dewdney, Viking, $17.99, 9780670012336
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. Creepy Carrots!
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), S&S, $16.99, 9781442402973
5. Room on the Broom Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Sheffler (Illus.), Dial, $6.99, 9780803738416
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Jan Brett, Putnam, $17.99, 9780399257827
7. My Brave Year of Firsts
Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061441554
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. The Care & Keeping of You
Valorie Lee Schaefer, Norm Bendell (Illus.), Pleasant Company, $9.95, 9781562476663
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Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $16.99, 9780803736801
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1. The Diviners
Libba Bray, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316126113
2. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Dutton, $17.99, 9780525478812
3. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 9780440237686
4. The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140385724
5. Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum, $6.99, 9781416971719
6. Star Wars Origami
Chris Alexander, Workman, $16.95, 9780761169437
7. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $15.99, 9780375869020
8. Number the Stars
Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $6.99, 9780547577098
9. The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $12.95, 9780810989955
10. Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb Books, $15.99, 9780385737432
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1. Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023511
2. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023498
3. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
4. Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers
Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, $9.99, 9780545175340
5. The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda, #3)
Tom Angleberger, Amulet, $12.95, 9781419703928
6. Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall, Chronicle, $5.99, 9780811849098
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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Lady Banks' Commonplace Book
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Noteworthy poetry and prose from her ladyship's bedside reading stack.
 Mr. Bass, the school teacher
Although a school-teacher from his youth, Mr. Bass, I believe, hated teaching and learning by textbook. He would sit on the edge of his chair as though about to leap up, and flop his knees together very fast as if a grasshopper’s sound-box ought to be between them, and you knew he wanted to dart off somewhere and you knew going with him would be much more interesting than staying anywhere. Further, you had a definite hunch where he longed to be going—to his garden. It was the worst-looking garden I ever saw, with no design, no order, really no sense, a hodge-podge of flowers and vegetables. But everything grew there and throve and bloomed as it did nowhere else. He had no preferences: a carrot was as dear as a peony, a black-eyed Susan as a rose; it only mattered that they were living things mysteriously standing in the earth and reaching for the sun. The mystery was everything to him. I never knew a heart so capable of wonder, though of an earthy unmaudlin sort. When soaked with sweat and dabbed with dirt from digging, his ugliness rather resembled Pan’s—not the maligned Pan of the nymphs, but that gaunt mysterious god of flocks and herds, of crops and weathers that rustics worshipped. The rustic Pan in him made his garden for use, not looks. Any morning, if you were an early riser, you could catch a glimpse of him hatless, dirty, untidy, a basket bulging with green things under his arm, and on the run. He dropped into people’s front yards unbeknownst and planted unpredictable things—iris and tulips of course, but just as likely salvia against a brick wall. Even more secretive were his vegetable errands. Before anyone was out or up, he’s leave heaps of them—tomatoes, corn, okra, and the like—on the back steps of his friends or preferably of the unknown and sensitive poor. Many a family he half supported whose name he never knew.
—William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee (Louisiana State University Press, 9780807100721)
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"The appointment of Roger Hodge as editor of The Oxford American will begin an exciting new era for the magazine," said Warwick Sabin, publisher of The Oxford American. "He brings impeccable literary credentials as well as a rigorous experience editing Harper's Magazine. Roger is a son of the South, having been born in Texas and educated at Sewanee. Roger has an intuitive understanding of the unique spirit and character of The Oxford American, and he is the perfect person to shepherd it in a rapidly evolving publishing landscape." Roger Hodge appointed editor of Oxford American Magazine
Nancy Pearl, the well known NPR librarian reviewer developed a list called Books to Read Before You Die. These are 12 good reads set below the Mason Dixon line. Nancy Pearl’s Southern Fried Fiction List
The ninth chapter of the Louisiana Book Festival will open Oct. 27 on the grounds of the State Capitol and nearby buildings, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne said this week. More than 125 authors have been invited to sign their books and participate in panel discussions, Dardenne said. The event also will include music, food booths and activities for children. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free. Louisiana Book Festival
Tom Kealey and Jacquelin Gorman are this year's winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
 In his beautifully crafted, exhaustively researched and well-argued “The Fire of Freedom,” Durham’s David S. Cecelski underscores the central role that people of color played in overthrowing slavery and assisting Union armies in suppressing the rebellion. Focusing on Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70), Cecelski provides a clear window into the emancipation process. “Galloway’s Civil War,” he writes, “was a slave insurgency, a war of liberation that was the culmination of generations of perseverance and faith. It was ultimately the slaves’ Civil War.” How a former slave helped build the road to freedom
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 Featured: M.M. LeBlanc
Author of Evangeline: Paradise Stolen
Award-winning author, screenwriter, and filmmaker M. M. Le Blanc grew up in Louisiana Cajun Country and the French Quarter of New Orleans and has lived all over the world including the USA, France, Monte Carlo, Canada, Russia, New Zealand and more! Ms. Le BLANC now lives in Northwest Florida and travels extensively for book signings, readings, and events. 7 unique facts to know about M. M. Le Blanc: 1. Won 2012 BEST BOOK IN LOUISIANA and 2012 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARD for EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN, her 560-page historical fiction inspired by her Cajun and French ancestors and true events of the Deportation of the Acadians in 1755. 2. Won prestigious Writing Fellowship with the La Napoule Art Foundation of France and lived in a medieval château on the French Riviera. 3. Holds J.D. and M.B.A. graduate degrees. 4. Makes a picante (Hot!) Cajun jambalaya! 5. Not tall enough to be a prima ballerina, she high-kicked with the LSU Tiger Golden Girls instead. 6. Speaks 7 languages - fluent English and French, some Spanish, less Italian, a little German, a smattering of Russian and two words in Mandarin Chinese. 7. Formerly living in Hollywood, she won awards for screenplays as well as for writing, directing and producing an award-winning PBS network documentary film on her renowned Acadian historian-author grandfather who inspired her with their family oral histories and genealogy to write EVANGELINE: PARADISE STOLEN.ce! sigh)," "Meet Christopher Nolan (genius!)," and “Visit New Zealand.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything —trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” – Statement at the University of Mississippi, 1947 Best Life advice from William Faulkner
 One reason we write, said William Faulkner, is to “say no to death.” On afternoons and evenings decades and centuries hence, readers will hold in their hands books with the name Betts on the spine, and they will find, when they reach the last six words of Souls Raised from the Dead, their hearts in their throats, and they will gasp as we did at the state trooper's heartbreaking courage and endurance. They will follow Violet, The Ugliest Pilgrim, on her unusual journey of hope; and they will travel back to the year 1968, to a place called Pickle Beach, and then and there fall in love with one of fiction's finest femmes, the vivacious Bebe Sellars. Bland Simpson on the legacy of Doris Betts
Robert Penn Warren and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. met on March 18, 1964, in King’s Atlanta office. They chatted warmly about King’s father, desegregation and the future of the movement King was leading. Through the work of archivists at Vanderbilt University, their conversation and many others Warren recorded with leading civil rights figures are now preserved in a digital exhibit available online. “I’ve never heard him just talk. You only hear (recordings of) King preach or give a speech,” said Mona Frederick, executive director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt. “It’s pre-YouTube and social media.” Vanderbilt University posts historic Robert Penn Warren tapes
Who Speaks for the Negro
 STARS Authors on tour:
What are "STARS" authors? These are authors listing in the Southern Traveling Authors Registration Service--a directory of authors who live in, or are traveling in the South and are interested in meeting with book clubs, civic groups, classrooms, and readers of all kinds. The STARS directory is brought to you by Southern Indie Booksellers, who want to connect readers with their favorite writers.
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Kala Ambrose ,
Cary, NC 09/27/2012 - 09/27/2012
New Orleans, LA 10/13/2012 - 10/13/2012
Hester Bass ,
Birmingham, AL 10/19/2012 - 10/21/2012
Tuscaloosa, AL 10/31/2012 - 11/03/2012
Brandon, MS 01/16/2013 - 01/19/2013
Carole Bellacera ,
Russell Springs, KY 10/16/2012 - 10/19/2012
destin , FL 12/24/2012 - 12/26/2012
Kimberly Brock ,
Dahlonega, GA 11/09/2012 - 11/11/2012
Mark Jarman ,
Nashville, TN 10/12/2012 - 10/12/2012
M.M. LeBlanc ,
Lafayette, LA 10/14/2012 - 10/14/2012
Pensacola, FL 10/19/2012 - 10/19/2012
Baton Rouge, LA 10/26/2012 - 10/27/2012
Key West, FL 11/14/2012 - 11/15/2012
Miami, FL 11/16/2012 - 11/18/2012
Pamela Bauer Mueller ,
Jekyll Island, GA 11/9/2012 - 11/11/2012
Nancy Naigle ,
Lynchburg, VA 09/28/2012 - 09/30/2012
Rocky Mount, NC 10/01/2012 - 10/31/2012
RIchmond, VA 10/19/2012 - 10/21/2012
Elena Passarello ,
Atlanta, GA 10/18/2012 - 10/19/2012
Durham, NC 10/20/2012 - 10/20/2012
Charlotte, NC 10/22/2012 - 10/22/2012
David Taylor ,
Baton Rouge, LA 10/26/2012 - 10/27/2012
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Octavia Books
New Orleans, Louisiana
 I recall this now in an attempt to explain just what it felt like to walk through the door of Octavia Books on a Saturday evening in November 2005, just shy of three months after the frightful storm and the criminal levee collapse that we call “Katrina.” Octavia was the first bookstore in New Orleans to reopen, and on this night there were hundreds of people crowded into a small, rectangular, shelflined room. The occasion was a reading for Why New Orleans Matters, a book-length treatise that was written in a white heat by my friend Tom Piazza. My Bookstore, Octavia Books
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A new bookstore on the second floor of Brevard Court is open, adding another independent bookstore to Charlotte, months after one of uptown’s stalwarts closed. Poor Richard’s Book Shoppe opened in August, moving from Gastonia. Co-owner Bryan Borges said he plans to expand into the adjacent space and add a wine and beer bar. Poor Richard’s Book Shoppe opens in Charlotte
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 Okra Picks: Come August, Come Freedom
An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as "Prosser's Gabriel" inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man's life.
In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage and intellect, plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers armed with refashioned pitchforks and other implements of Gabriel's blacksmith trade. The revolt would be thwarted by a confluence of fierce weather and human betrayal, but Gabriel retained his dignity to the end. History knows little of Gabriel's early life. But here, author Gigi Amateau imagines a childhood shaped by a mother's devotion, a father's passion for liberation, and a friendship with a white master's son who later proved cowardly and cruel. She gives vibrant life to Gabriel's love for his wife-to-be, Nanny, a slave woman whose freedom he worked tirelessly, and futilely, to buy. Interwoven with original documents, this poignant, illuminating novel gives a personal face to a remarkable moment in history.
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 Telegraph Avenue: A Novel, by Michael Chabon
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“On the surface, Telegraph Avenue is the story of Archy and Nat — longtime proprietors of Brokeland Records, a community staple in the variegated neighborhoods of Oakland, California — who face an invasion of Walmart proportions. But intertwined with their struggle is an exploration of so much more: love, in all its forms; race; gentrification; modern medicine; blaxploitation films; vinyl records; and the absolute greatness of jazz and funk. I don’t think there’s a writer alive who can structure a sentence the way Chabon does, and he’s given us yet another masterful, unsparing novel whose vivid characters will inhabit your heart long after the final page.” — Amanda Hurley, Inkwood Books, Tampa, FL
 Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards, by Jan Reid
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 Those We Love Most: A Novel, by Lee Woodruff
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