Frederick Zeier will be in the store Saturday, May 15th to sign copies of his thriller Before You Seek Revenge from 1-3 p.m.
Fiction: June 7th
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Nonfiction: May 21st
Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennnis Covington
Elementary: May 28th
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Middle School: May 28th
The Sorceress by Michael Scott
June 8th – Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
July 13th – Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin
August 10th – The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
September 14th – Diet For A Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
October 12th – The Good Life by Scott and Helen Nearing
November 9th – Living Like Ed by Ed Begley
December 14th – Closing the Food Gap by Mark Winne
January 11th – The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
February 8th – Plan B 4.0 by Lester Brown
March 8th – One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
April 12th – The Town That Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
Book signing with Cindy Boerma and Deena Eberhardt, teachers at Athens Academy. The book is a hilarious compilation of saying compiled by the two of their four-year-old students. Cindy and Deena will be signing books from 1-3 p.m.
Author Don Rhodes is coming to the bookstore Thursday night, April 22nd at 7 p.m. to discuss his latest book Georgia: Mysteries and Legends. The book discusses 14 tales from Georgia including that of strongwoman Lula Hurst (above) of Madison, The Georgia Wonder. Don will discuss Lula and then answer questions with a wine and cheese reception.
Non-fiction: Friday, April 16th – 7 p.m.
Kids: Friday, April 23rd – 6-7 p.m.
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Middle School:
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Film Series: Sunday, April 25th: 6 p.m.
Fiction: Monday, May 3rd: 6 p.m.
Food and Sustainability: Tuesday, May 11th: 7 p.m.
In celebration of Earth Day, local herb grower Curtis Yaun, purveyor of fine herbs and salts, will be creating a container herb garden for kids on the porch all morning, Saturday, April 17th. Children must bring their own container (a pot, gallon jug, etc.) and Curtis will provide the herbs and the know-how. The cost is $15 for the first child and $5 for additional children. Curtis will be working from 10 am until 1 or 2, so feel free to drop by at any time as the workshop will be ongoing.
At long last, the latest and greatest book on this fair city of ours will be released to the public the weekend of April 10th. After a release party at the Cultural Center on Friday night, the book will be available at Dog Ear Books all day on Saturday, April 10th. Stop by an grab a copy if you haven’t already pre-ordered the book. The book is a wonderful work by William R. Mitchell, Jr. with photography from Van Jones Martin and James R. Lockhart. Here’s a look at the cover:
Local author Barbara Pomarolli will be in the store Saturday, April 10th to sign copies of her book, The Adventures of the Quarter Slot Sisters from 1-3.
From Barbara’s web site www.barbarapom.com:
In recent years there have been countless books turned into Hollywood movies about “Southern Belles”, the majority of whom are played by Yankee actresses with fake southern accents and even in the case of Scarlett O’Hara by a British actress. I will say that Vivien Leigh did a better impersonation than most of the other so called southern actresses. These actresses sit around in beauty parlors perpetuating the stereotypical idea of what a “southern belle” really is. We don’t hate men and all want to be prom queens riding on floats and blowing kisses to the adoring crowds (Sweet Potato Queens); we don’t subscribe to the theory that the higher the hairdo the closer we are to heaven (Steel Magnolias); we don’t drink too much and mess up our daughter’s lives (Ya Ya Sisterhood)….you get the picture.
This list could be endless but the point I want to make is that the sordid stories you’re read or the Hollywood movie versions you’ve seen aren’t the real portrayals of what is meant by the term “southern belle”. The stories I am going to tell are the real deal…right from the Peach state…true life accounts from the “Quarter Slot Sisters” .
Our story is not the typical saga of girls who knew each other from childhood or met in college and formed an immediate life long bond. You see our friendship didn’t start until our husbands retired and we all moved from various parts of the country to a little remote section of central Georgia which we refer to as Paradise.