Join us for a book signing with Blane Bachelor author of On Being a Bachelor\: Thoughts on Dating\, Mating and Relating.
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Blane Bachelor is an internationally published writer and author of On Being a Bachelor\: Thoughts on Dating\, Mating and Relating\, based on her popular and long-running column in The Sunday Paper\, an alternative weekly newspaper in Atlanta. Blane has written hundreds of articles and columns about dating\, relationships and pop culture for outlets including Marie Claire\, Women’s Health\, People.com\, Modern Bride\, Zink!\, the Christian Science Monitor and USA Today. And yes\, Bachelor is her real last name. Visit her website at www.askabachelor.com.
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If These Stones Could Talk.
Col.Calvin G. (Jerry) Lyons\, USA (Retired) has recently published a book titled If These Stones Could Talk. Col. Lyons was moved to write the book after visiting the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France. While there\, he saw a WWII Veteran emerging from the chapel in tears\, probably remembering his friends who had died on the beaches or in the hedgerows of Normandy. The book contains over 35 vignettes about World War II veterans\, most of whom are buried in overseas cemeteries in eight foreign countries and Hawaii or are listed as Missing in Action or Buried at Sea.
The book\, which took over six years to research\, write and publish\, vividly portrays the manner in which those men were killed\, tells of the families who lost their husbands\, sons\, and fathers\, and considers what the men might have become.
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The Carpe Tuesday Book Group discusses The Housekeeper and the Professor. Newcomers welcome!
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He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a
traumatic head injury\, he has lived with only eighty minutes of
short-term memory.
She is an astute young Housekeeper\, with a
ten-year-old son\, who is hired to care for him.
And every
morning\, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each
other anew\, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that
begins to erase itself every eighty minutes)\, the Professor’s mind is
still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers\, in
all of their articulate order\, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to
both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of
discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the
Housekeeper’s shoe size--and the universe at large\, drawing their lives
ever closer and more profoundly together\, even as his memory slips
away.
The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting
story about what it means to live in the present\, and about the curious
equations that can create a family.
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work
of Charles Dickens\, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and
corruption\, dignity and heroism\, of India. The time is 1975. The place
is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State
of Emergency\, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow\, a
young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station\, and two tailors
who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust
together\, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain
future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from
friendship to love\, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama
of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100904T005245Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100918T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100918T180000Z UID:http://www.carpelibrumbooksellers.com/event/jim-minick-author-blueberry-years URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.carpelibrumbooksellers.com/event/jim-minick-author-blueberry-years SUMMARY:Jim Minick author of Blueberry Years DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book signing with Jim Minick author of Blueberry Years.
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This memoir is about our pick-your-own\, organic blueberry farm in Virginia\, and recently\, it was picked by Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance as one of the best new books for the summer.
Of this book\, Ron Rash has said\: “There is so much to praise in this beautifully written memoir\, but what I admire most is Jim Minick’s utter lack of self-righteousness. In these pages we are given a wisdom that has\, at its center\, a quiet and abiding humility. What a fine\, fine book The Blueberry Years is.” Robert Morgan has called this book\, “an intimate visit to a delightful place with an inspired guide.” Sharyn McCrumb\, Nina Planck\, and Steven Hopp also praise this book\, and Naomi Wolf calls it “delicious reading.”
A brief synopsis of the book\: The Blueberry Years captures our experience creating\, operating\, and eventually selling one of the mid-Atlantic’s first certified-organic\, pick-your-own blueberry farms. For a decade\, Sarah\, my wife\, and I planted\, pruned\, and picked while also opening the field to hundreds of people who came to harvest berries. These pickers shared blueberry-flavored moonshine and sober religion\, warm hugs and cool hats\, and always bushels of stories. To give a larger context to our story\, I include brief chapters on national issues such as organic foods and new farmers. I also include short interludes on all things blueberry\, like the fruit’s many health benefits\, the woman who domesticated this plant\, or the blueberry in literature. Ultimately\, this book tells the story of a young couple pursuing their blueberry dream.
A brief bio\: In addition to the forthcoming memoir\, The Blueberry Years\, Jim Minick is the author of two books of poetry\, Her Secret Song and Burning Heaven\, winner of the Book of the Year Award from The Virginia College Bookstores Association. Also he has written a collection of essays\, Finding a Clear Path\, and edited All There Is to Keep by Rita Riddle. Minick has won awards from the Appalachian Writers Association\, Appalachian Heritage\, Now and Then Magazine and Radford University\, where he teaches writing and literature. His work has appeared in many publications including Shenandoah\, Orion\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Encyclopedia of Appalachia\, The Sun\, Appalachian Journal\, Bay Journal\, Wind\, and The Roanoke Times. He lives in the mountains of Virginia with his wife and four dogs.
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