Wed 5/16  7pm CHOP NC Meeting  (Third Wednesdays): Culinary Historians of Piedmont NC.  Guest Speaker: John Shelton Reed, author of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue talks about the development, diversification, and destiny of American barbecue. More info: www.chopnc.com

 

 

 

 

Thur 5/17  10:30am Pre-School story time & activity (every Thursday)

Thu 5/17 7pm Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power.  Co-editor Kathe Schaaf will lead a conversation on the power of women’s spiritual leadership and its emerging patterns of transformation.

 

 

 

 

Fri 5/18 5:30pm **note time!**
Emily St. John Mandel reads from and signs her new novel The Lola Quartet
Unbridled Books $24.95 hc  9781609530792
The Lola Quartet is a suspense novel that pays homage to literary noir and jazz, Django Reinhardt, economic collapse, love and loss, Florida’s exotic wildlife problem, crushing tropical heat, the leavening of the contemporary world, compulsive gambling, and the unreliability of memory.

 

 

 

Sat 5/19 10:30am Saturday Morning Story Time  (1st & 3rd Saturdays)

Sun 5/20 2pm Tom Spector talks about his book: Our Two Gardens: How to Cultivate Healing. or over 35 years, Tom Spector has been sharing his special gift for helping people resolve issues of stress, worry, anxiety, fear, guilt, and chronic pain, and restore self-esteem and inner peace. This book evolved from Tom’s teachings.

Tue 5/22  7pm Book Lovers Club at Flyleaf discusses this month’s book: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha. For more info: www.meetup.com/flyleafbooklovers/

Wed 5/23 7pm Marly Youmans prose/poetry reading. Marly Youmans will be reading from two new books, starting with her 2011 book of poems, The Throne of Psyche, and will follow with her 2012 novel, Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, the inaugural winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction (Mercer University Press.)

 

 

 

 

Thur 5/24  10:30am Pre-School story time & activity

 

Sat 5/26  2pm Carol Eckerman discusses her memoir Lessons in Simply Being: Finding the Peace within Tumult. "Lessons in Simply Being is the memoir of my life as a recovering control addict who finds meaning after the collapse of all I had clung to. As I walked through much of what I had armored myself against—abandonment, aloneness, physical disability, my mother’s dementia and dying, my children’s bouts with cancer—I found a mysterious loving presence that permeated even these dark places. I lived what I had never imagined possible."  Carol Eckerman is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. A developmental scientist by training and a spiritual pilgrim by birthright, she currently serves as a spiritual director and writer, helping others to uncover their soul’s story.

 

Wed 5/30 5:30pm-7pm  UNC Humanities: Election Series (ticketed). Race and Immigration Issues in the 2012 Elections

 

Thur 5/31  10:30am Pre-School story time & activity

Thur 5/31  7pm Tayari Jones reads from the paperback release of her novel Silver Sparrow. With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed “one of the most important writers of her generation” (The Atlanta Journal Constitution).

 

 

 

PITCHAPALOOZA at Flyleaf Books

Attention Writers! Come Pitch Your Book
Sat 6/23 2pm-4pm

Pitchapalooza with Arielle Eckstut & David Henry Sterry, authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published

WHAT: Twenty writers will be selected at random to pitch their book. Each writer gets one minute—and only one minute!  

WHO: Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry are co-founders of The Book Doctors, a company dedicated to helping authors get their books published.

HOW: At Pitchapalooza, judges will help you improve your pitch, not tell you how bad it is.

PRIZE: At the end of Pitchapalooza, the judges will pick a winner. The winner receives an introduction to an agent or publisher appropriate for his/her book.

PRICE OF ADMISSION: To sign up to pitch, you must purchase a copy of The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published from Flyleaf Books. Of those that purchase the book, 20 will be selected at random to give their pitch.  Anyone who buys a copy of receives a FREE 20 minute consultation, a $100 value. If you don’t want to pitch, the event is FREE.

More info: www.flyleafbooks.com/pitchapalooza

 

 

 

Welcome! Flyleaf Books is a full-service, community-oriented independent bookstore. We are locally-owned by three long-time Chapel Hillians (Jamie Fiocco, Land Arnold & Sarah Carr) and aim to play to our strengths: our love and knowledge of books, our commitment to providing stellar customer service, and our experience in the book trade.

Flyleaf Books is mostly new books, but we do feature select used books and a few rare titles. We also carry a selection of cards, jewelry, gifts and book-related products, mostly created by local artisans. We have a large childrens' and young adult section as well.