The Oxford Exchange is one of the most unique bookstores in the country. Boasting one of the Tampa Bay Area's top restaurants, a curated gift and lifestyle store, and a state-of-the-art workspace in a breathtaking white brick building, the literary events held at OE are one of a kind and truly unforgettable.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1
6:30pm
STUART EIZENSTAT
President Carter: The White House Years
Speaking & Signing
Octavia Books is an independent, locally-owned bookstore located uptown in New Orleans. We hope you will stop by soon to see our great hand-picked selection of books, meet our owners & staff, talk about the latest books or find your favorite author.
Lisa Sandlin - THE BIRD BOYS
Event date:
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 6:00pm
Event address:
Octavia Books - 513 Otavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115
Emily Guendelsberger discusses her book On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
Emily Guendelsberger discusses her book On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a call center, a place where even bathroom breaks were timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a San Francisco McDonald’s, narrowly escaping revenge-seeking customers who pelted her with condiments.
Across three jobs, and in three different parts of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. workplace. On the Clock takes us behind the scenes of the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce to understand the future of work in America – and its present. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest – and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity.
On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans.
Emily Guendelsberger has worked at Philadelphia City Paper, the Onion’s A.V. Club, Philadelphia Weekly, and the Philadelphia Daily News, and has contributed to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, Politico magazine, and Vice.
Fred Chappell presents As If It Were: Poems with Susan Chappell
Fred Chappell presents As If It Were: Poems with Susan Chappell
Inspired by ancient, modern, and contemporary writings, Fred Chappell's sprightly new collection of verse, As If It Were, presents tales, anecdotes, pointed stories, and aphorisms to spark the conscience of readers young and old. Playful and even zany, the humor in these poems pulls readers into a world filled with noble lions, crafty foxes, predacious wolves, longsuffering asses, and fashionable peacocks. Chappell illustrates how the fable offers a timeless form of wisdom, surprising us with revelations that challenge what we think we already know, along with fresh observations of daily experiences. With its informal, even nonchalant tone of address and lush, polished language, As If It Were endows homespun materials with alchemical insights.
Fred Chappell is the author of more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose. He has received the Bollingen Prize, the T. S. Eliot Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. His fiction has been translated into more than a dozen languages and received the Best Foreign Book Award from the Académie Française. He was the poet laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002. He will perform his poems with his wife, Susan Chappell.
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Event date:
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 6:00pm
Event address:
Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
Philippa Gregory Talk and Signing for Tidelands
Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of a civil war between a renegade king and a rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands—the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.
Carla Zaplana
August 1 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Books & Books in Coral Gables, 265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134 United States
Presenta Come limpio Carla Zaplana te invita a embarcarte en un viaje hacia el cambio profundo de tus hábitos alimenticios. En este libro, la autora comparte su filosofía «come limpio» y te propone tomar las riendas de tu salud mediante un reto que pasa por tres fases: la dieta omnívora, la vegetariana y la raw (alimentos crudos). En este proceso irás suprimiendo progresivamente las sustancias que cargan el organismo y le restan vitalidad.
Jeff Carroll presents Black Sci-Fi
August 1 @ 8:00 pm
Books & Books in Coral Gables, 265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134 United States
About The Harlem Shake: No Where to Run Two lovers are reunited by the storm of the century.. Just when New Yorkers were given a wakeup call into the realities of Global Warming by way of Hurricane Sandy, Harlem becomes host to yet another one of Mother Nature’s catastrophic lessons. There was an inactive fault line under the village of Harlem.
Timothy & Brendan McNulty, The Meanest Man in Congress: Jack Brooks and the Making of an American Century
Timothy and Brendan McNulty, The Meanest Man in Congress: Jack Brooks and the Making of an American Century
Thursday, August 1, 7pm
A native of Beaumont, Texas, and a World War II veteran, Jack Brooks represented Texas's Ninth District for forty-two years in the U.S. Congress. One of the most influential congressmen you've never heard of, the indefatigable Brooks is finally getting his due in this first full biography. The Meanest Man in Congress chronicles in fascinating detail not only a remarkable lawmaker's career―spanning the tenures of ten U.S. presidents―but also the epic sweep of American history in the latter half of the twentieth century, from the Kennedy assassination to the Iran-Contra affair. Packed with anecdotes based on Brooks's personal correspondence, interviews with his peers and family members, and more, this meticulously researched biography traces the incredible life and times of a true public servant, a man who applied his tenacious will to practical, across-the-aisle governance for the good of his constituents and his country. At a time when Brooks's brand of selfless service is in short supply and American politics has become a zero-sum game, distinguished authors Timothy McNulty and Brendan McNulty bring into high relief the character of a man who knew how to compromise and bargain, negotiate and cooperate to get things done.
Author Timothy McNulty’s long career in journalism includes years as a national, foreign, and White House correspondent for the Chicago Tribune; he and co-author Brendan McNulty approach their subject with the verve and rigor of veteran reporters.
Conscious Aging Book Club discusses Falling Upward and The Sage's Tao Te Ching
Conscious Aging Book Club discusses Falling Upward and The Sage's Tao Te Ching
The Conscious Aging Book Club will conduct a series of meetings at Parnassus Books for individuals in the Nashville area who aim to age well. The club's meetings, featuring non-fiction and memoir titles, will be led by author Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. Each meeting is free and open to the public; buy the book, read the book, and join the conversation! This month the club will be reading and discussing Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr.
About Falling Upward:
"A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life. In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think of the second half of life as largely about getting old, dealing with health issues, and letting go of life, but the whole thesis of this book is exactly the opposite.? What looks like falling down can largely be experienced as "falling upward."? In fact, it is not a loss but somehow actually a gain, as we have all seen with elders who?have come to their fullness. Explains why the second half of life can and should be full of spiritual richness Offers a new view of how spiritual growth happens loss is gain Richard Rohr is a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines This important book explores the counterintuitive message that we grow spiritually much more by doing wrong than by doing right."
About The Sage’s Tao Te Ching:
The tenth anniversary edition of William Martin's free-verse interpretation of the "Tao Te Ching, " written expressly for those coming into the fullness of their wisdom
Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching," one of the world's most widely read books of wisdom, reminds its readers that the sage has been venerated in China for thousands of years. In this free-verse interpretation of the "Tao," William Martin subtly and powerfully captures the complex emotions connected with growing older. He encourages today's sages to recognize their inestimable worth in a youth-centric world that often goes astray: "Will I be able to harvest my life in compassion and love for the world? Will I find in my own heart the wisdom for which I long? This question trumps all others for me. I suspect it is the same for you."
Event date:
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 10:30am
Event address:
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14
Nashville, TN 37215
A feisty, fun group discussing romance novels (focusing mainly on diversity in the genre) monthly.
Ages 21+ only.
Purchase of book from Fountain either in paper, ebook, or audio is required.
Holy Mountain Top Removers Live at Grimey's
Thursday, August 1, 2019
6:00 PM 7:00 PM
Grimey's New and Preloved Music (map)
Imagine Jodorowsky and Morricone meet up in rural Tennessee. What you'd get is Holy Mountain Top Removers - an eclectic mix of delicate melodies, spacious interludes, and crushing devastation. The Nashville band is set to release its 2nd album, Tonight The Machete Dreams, on local indie label Centripetal Force, run by WXNA DJ and host of Psych Out!, Mike Mannix. Together since their days in Hellbender, the trio of Mikey Allred (keys/bass/trombone), Edmond Villa (drums) and Anthony Ford (guitar/vocals) have developed into a band that defies categorization. Their strength is the ability to combine elements of style from a variety of genres, ranging from soundtrack-like interludes to thundering outbursts and even moments of meditative ambience. The new album also sees Holy Mountain Top Removers retire their all-instrumental approach and incorporate vocals on two tracks. Come out for a free, all ages in-store performance to celebrate the new album! Holy Mountain Top Removers will also play at Drkmttr on August 3rd.
Suniland Spanish Storytime
August 1 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Books & Books at Suniland Shops, 11297 South Dixie Highway
Pinecrest, FL 33156 United States
Every Thursday at 4 PM in Suniland! Join us for a new SPANISH storytime in Suniland! Every week a new guest will conduct the reading. Hasta pronto!
Join us at Page After Page Bookstore on August 2nd from 5pm-7pm to meet our featured First Friday ArtWalk author, Charles Alexander. He will be debuting his new poetry book "Through the Looking Glass," signing copies, and answering any questions. Admission is free and free refreshments will be provided as well. We hope to see you there!
Page 158 Books welcomes Karin Wiberg and Dawn Marie Rozzo for a haiku-off and discussion of their book CHICKEN HAIKU.
This delightful book is the perfect gift for chicken lovers. Its 24 haiku and complementary full-color illustrations are both sophisticated and humorous to appeal to adults and children alike.
The poems incorporate traditional haiku elements with a playful twist. Each haiku captures a moment in time--from droll to wistful, revelatory to whimsical.
Many of the illustrations are collages that entail painting on papers reassembled from discarded books, with clever, layered details that lend to the reading of the poem. Pencil and watercolor also help convey the nature of these endearing creatures.
The two arts play off each other charmingly, as in this haiku that matches the cover image:
Scratch, scratch, scratch,
digging for gold flecks--
when do dreams hatch?
Backyard chicken owners will recognize their own hens on these pages, and readers less familiar with chickens' entertaining personalities will come to see them in a whole new light.
More sample poems and images can be found on chickenhaiku.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Originally from Iowa, Karin Wiberg now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she and her husband tend a flock of five hens in their urban backyard. Karin's poetry has been published in a number of literary magazines; her day job is helping business professionals write and publish books. She holds an MBA from the University of Iowa, and regularly volunteers as an arts grant panelist and a judge for student essay contests. She can be found online at clearsightbooks.com and karinwiberg.com.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Dawn Marie Rozzo's paintings can be found in private collections across the United States. When Dawn isn't in the studio, she's working in her flower garden accompanied by her two nosey cats. Her lifelong love of nature informs her semi-abstract collages and landscapes. Dawn has also been an art educator for over 25 years. For the past 15, she's focused on providing art-related programming for the elderly and those living with dementia. Dawn and her art can be found online at dawnrozzo.com.
Lauren McDuffie - Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest
Friday, Aug 02, 2019 6:30 PM
Location:
A Cappella Books
208 Haralson Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
Lauren McDuffie, writer of the award-winning food blog Harvest and Honey, showcases the flavors and modern cooking techniques of her native Appalachia in the cookbook, "Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest."
About the Book
With over 70 delectable recipes and 80 stunning photographs organized by seasons, "Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest" is an evocative cookbook rooted in Appalachian ingredients and flavors that takes readers and cooks deep into the heart and soul of America. Lauren McDuffie uses modern cooking techniques to transform traditional comfort food with a mountain sensibility into inspired meals and menus for anyone.
Each chapter opens with storytelling that echoes the folklore and tall tales of the region. Beautiful color photographs capture mouthwatering dishes for all occasions—from morning beverages to a show-stopping berry buckle—as well as the tools, fruits, flowers, and scenery of life in the Mountain South. From the mountains of southwestern Virginia, Lauren McDuffie is a writer, food stylist, photographer, and creator of the blog Harvest and Honey.
Menu suggestions and wine pairings encompass a variety of meal occasions, from small plates to soups, salads, mains, sides, drinks, dessert, along with tips and techniques on canning, pickling, and preserving. Mouthwatering recipes include Shaved Summer Squash Salad with Pickled Pepper Vinaigrette, Slow-Roasted Onion and Golden Apple Soup, Baked Pork Chops with Cran-Apple Moonshine Compote, Drunken Short Ribs with Smoky Gouda Grits and Mountain Gremolata, Pan-Seared Carrots with Bourbon-Maple Glaze, Triple Orange Cake with Honey-Lavender Buttercream, and many more.
About the Author
Lauren McDuffie is an Appalachian born and bred freelance writer, food stylist, photographer, and creator of the blog Harvest and Honey. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Alyssa Maxwell presents Murder At Crossways
A Gilded Newport Mystery / Kensington Books
Friday, August 2nd at 5 pm
In late August 1898, reporter Emma Cross attends the final fête of the Newport social season and discovers the party's over for a visiting prince . . .
The days are getting shorter as summer's end approaches, which means it's time for the Harvest Festival, the last big event of the season, held by Mamie Fish, wife of millionaire railroad tycoon Stuyvesant Fish, at their grand "cottage," Crossways. The neocolonial mansion is decked out in artificial autumn splendor, and an extravagant scavenger hunt will be held. But the crowning jewel of the evening will be the guest of honor, Prince Otto of Austria.
As acting editor-in-chief of the Newport Messenger, Emma had hoped to leave her days as a society reporter behind her. But at the last moment, she must fill in and attend the Harvest Festival. With nearly every eligible daughter of Newport high society in attendance, Emma can almost hear romantic dreams shattering like glass slippers when the prince fails to appear. The next morning, he is found dead in the side garden at Crossways, making it clear a murderer crashed the party.
The prince has been stabbed in the same manner as another man, recently found on nearby Bailey's Beach—who strongly resembles Emma's half-brother Brady's father, presumed dead for nearly thirty years after a yachting mishap. As Emma investigates a connection between the two victims, she is joined on the hunt by Mamie Fish herself. But they must hurry—before the killer slips away like the fading summer . . .
Miriam McNamara presents An Impossible Distance to Fall
Miriam McNamara presents An Impossible Distance to Fall
It's 1930, and Birdie William's life has crashed along with the stock market. Her father's bank has failed, and worse, he's disappeared along with his Jenny biplane.
When Birdie sees a leaflet for a barnstorming circus with a picture of Dad's plane on it, she goes to Coney Island in search of answers.
The barnstorming circus has lady pilots, daredevil stuntmen, fire-spinners, and wing walkers, and Birdie is instantly enchanted--especially with a girl pilot named June. Birdie doesn't find her father, but after stumbling across clues that suggest he's gone to Chicago, she figures she'll hitch a ride with the traveling circus doing what she does best: putting on a convincing act and insisting on being the star of the show.
But the overconfidence that made her belle of the ball during her enchanted youth turns out to be far too reckless without the safety net of her charmed childhood, and a couple of impulsive missteps sends her and her newfound community spinning into freefall.
Former Ashevillian Miriam McNamara earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she won the Norma Fox Mazer award for a historical young adult manuscript work-in-progress. An Impossible Distance to Fall is her second novel. Her first novel, The Unbinding of Mary Reade is now available in paperback.
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Event date:
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 6:00pm
Event address:
Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
Fiona Davis
Author of The Chelsea Girls
Date: August 02, 2019
Event:
Luncheon at 11:00 AM at Inlet Affairs- 4024 US-17 BUS, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
Book Signing at Litchfield Books at 2 PM
ISBN – 9781524744588
Author event with Jim Noles author of Undefeated
Parnassus Books welcomes Jim Noles author of Undefeated: From Basketball to Battle: West Point’s Perfect Season 1944.
In 1943, the West Point basketball team, the Cadets, had only managed a 5-10 record, and for the 1944 season coach Ed Kelleher’s hopes in reversing Army’s fortunes rested on his five starters. They consisted of three seniors – team captain “Big Ed” Christl, John “Three Star” Hennessey, and class president Bobby Faas – and two juniors, Dale Hall and Doug Kenna. At the academy, Kelleher molded his cadets into a new kind of team, and, as the new season opened in January of 1944, Kelleher’s strategy paid handsome dividends. By the end of January, West Point was 6-0; by the end of February, the team boasted a 13-0 record. Of course, during those weeks, it only took a glance at the newspaper headlines to be reminded that there were far bigger contests than intercollegiate basketball afoot in the winter of 1944.
The cadets would not be able to play in the NIT or NCAA national tournaments for a likely national championship. The world was at war, the U.S. Army needed its finest on the front line more than on the court, and the three seniors were soon destined for other battles. Hennessey endured weeks of front-line fighting, battling from the waist-deep snow of Alsatian forests to the bombed-out rubble of German cities. Christl, a fearless forward observer for his field artillery battalion, made it all the way to Austria, where he would lose his life in the final week of the war in Europe. Three months later, Faas was shot down over Japan and forced to bail out over the Pacific Ocean. Coach Kelleher would die overseas on his own special assignment with the Army.
In the years that followed, the Army's basketball team would never again have a chance to play in the NCAA tournament and, in the modern era, few remember West Point's perfect 1944 season. Although West Point's home basketball court is named the Edward C. Christl Arena, and the National Invitational Tournament's trophy is named after his coach, Edward A. Kelleher, too few people fully appreciate why.
Jim Noles graduated from United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1990 with a degree in International History. Commissioned in the Army’s Aviation Branch, Jim served at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he became a pilot-in-command in UH-1H Huey helicopters. Jim is a prolific author and his books include two WWII histories Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944, and Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay (University of Alabama Press). In addition to his books, Jim's articles and opinion pieces have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Birmingham News.
Event date:
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 6:30pm
Event address:
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14
Nashville, TN 37215
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