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Thursday

03/04/10  10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

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Thursday

03/04/10  7:00pm
Michele Murdock discusses  A Journey of Courage:  The Amazing Story of Sister Dorothy Stang

Sister Dorothy Stang, an American missionary, was
murdered in 2005 in the Brazilian forest. Sister Dorothy was no stranger to
violence. For 40 years she had dedicated her life to bringing faith and justice
to the peasant settlers of

Brazil. She taught them how to form communities, to farm
for their living, to defend their human rights, and to work for social justice.
She helped to build more than thirty schools and chapels. And, she challenged
the land-greedy, illegal ranchers who were destroying the Amazon rain forest.
These ranchers threatened farmers, burned homes and even killed those who stood
up to them. They wanted her dead. They succeeded. A Journey of Courage tells
the story of Dorothy Stang’s extraordinary life, from a childhood in Ohio to
her tragic death in a faraway country that she loved.  In December 2008, Sister Dorothy Stang was
awarded the United Nations Human Rights Prize, posthumously, on the 60th
anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.

Michele Murdock, a graduate of Trinity College,
Washington D.C., is President of Murdock Communications, a media developer and
producer.

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Friday

03/05/10  7pm-8pm

Dr. Donnell Scott
discusses Workplace Politics: Survive and Advance

Workplace
Politics: Survive and Advance

Dr. Donnell Scott will be on hand to discuss his book Workplace Politics: Survive and Advance,
which teaches the reader how to successfully navigate through office
politics.  Though the book is ideal for
individuals just starting out in their careers, the book is not necessarily
geared towards any particular group of working adults.

Dr. Scott, after a long career with the IBM Corporation,
sought new challenges that have led him to his present position, Director of
the Executive Master of Public Administration Program (EMPA) at North Carolina
Central University (NCCU) in Durham, NC. 
Dr. Scot is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Public
Administration at NCCU, where he teaches Administrative Leadership and Ethics
in the Master of Public Administration program. He has conducted numerous
professional development workshops aligned with politics in the workplace. Dr.
Scott designed and taught Non-Profit Workplace Politics for the Duke University
School of Continuing Education, and created and implemented the Real World
Workplace Experience Initiative for the School of Graduate Studies at North
Carolina Central University. He has conducted Twenty- First Century Public
Administration workshops in Ghana for the University of Ghana, Legon Campus,
and created and implemented Central Government Internships for EMPA students for
the Liberian Government in Liberia. 

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Saturday

03/06/10  9:30am-11:00am

Writers Support
Group Meeting: Voice to the World

The goal of the group is to encourage budding and already
published writers to finish their writing projects by providing support,
encouragement, and constructive critiques.   
The meeting is coordinated by Vonyee Carrington, who has written since a
teenager but has recently published a book of women's writings called Steps for Destiny: Poems, Stories and
Experiences of Women.  This meeting is open to the public and is free
of charge.

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Saturday

03/06/10  2:00pm-3:00pm

Sonja Lillvik discusses and shares food from her cookbook memoir: The Painted
Fish and Other Mayan Feasts

Sonja Lillvik has lived 25 years as an expatriate on the
Yucatan peninsula with her Mayan fisherman husband, Armando Lopez.  Together they opened the rustic tourist
destination  known as Cuzan Guest House
in Punta Allen, Mexico. Cuzan’s restaurant features fresh seafood and other
Yucatec Maya meals.

Lillvik has written The
Painted Fish and Other Mayan Feasts, an edible memoir from the back roads
and beaches of the Yucatan a deliciously romantic Riviera Maya cookbook.  Drawing on her intimate knowledge of
contemporary Maya cuisine, she translated authentic thousand-year-old recipes
as well as modern Maya fare for the ease and convenience of the
English-speaking cook.  Throughout the
cookbook, Lillvik reveals culinary tips and “Maya Secretos” including the truly
burning issue of Chile Safety!

Tracing the lives of Sonja and Armando through recipes,
drawings and photos will give you a glimpse of the riches of the daily life of
these two adventures that pioneered eco-tourism in Punta Allen, Mexico.  Cuzan Guest House, their home base for twenty
five years, attracts the intrepid traveler and lures saltwater fly-fishing
enthusiasts to this remote fishing village located in the world biosphere of
Sian Ka’an Reserve, a UNESCO Historic Heritage Site.

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Tuesday

03/09/10  11:30-am-12:30pm

Martha Dow
Fehsenfeld, co-editor, discusses The
Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol 1, 1929–1940

Martha “Marty” Dow Fehsenfeld will discuss the critically
acclaimed collection she co-edited of Samuel Beckett’s letters.

The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and
1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark
the gradual emergence of Beckett’s unique voice and sensibility.

The only authorized publication of Beckett’s selected
letters, this volume offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters
of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000
extant letters, they include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as
well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of
literature and theatre. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature
and theatre this edition is essential reading.

Praise for The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol 1,
1929–1940:

'It would hardly seem possible were the evidence not
right here: Samuel Beckett, that most taciturn and private of 20th-century
writers - the man who said 'every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence
and nothingness' - was in fact one of the century’s great correspondents. …
reading it is far from homework: the Beckett we meet in these piquant letters,
most written when he was in his late 20s and early 30s, is rude, mordantly
witty and scatological yet often (and this is perhaps the biggest surprise)
affectionate and wholehearted. … There are many moments in these letters when
it seems Samuel Beckett can’t go on. But as we await Volumes 2, 3 and 4 of his
busy correspondence, it’s exceedingly clear that, happily, he will go on.' The
New York Times

'This is an extraordinary work of scholarship … the
taciturn youth who became an artist of studied silences turns out to have been
an inveterate letter writer - and, what's more, a fine one, which can't be said
for many authors … The correspondent who so frequently signs himself 'Sam'
emerges from these letters a fully fleshed human being, by turns arrogant and
kindly, depressed and determined.' Los Angeles Times

'What this selection of letters reveals is not the great
writer to come but an extraordinarily brilliant, tormentedly self-conscious and
unhappy young man with a compelling urge to write. … Beckett knew too much and
felt too much about what he knew. … This first of a promised four volumes (to
include 2,500 out of a total 15,000 items of correspondence) represents already
a heroic achievement by the editors who embarked on the project nearly a
quarter of a century ago. … The editorial team deserves all our thanks for
their patience, their stamina and their scholarly rigour. Tom Stoppard is
quoted on the back cover saying 'one must hope to stay alive until the fourth
volume is safely delivered'. Agreed – we must wait on for the later, greater
Beckett.' The Irish Times

‘For Beckett enthusiasts, these letters are crammed with
unexpected treasures.’ The Sunday Times Culture '… an edition more sumptuous
than one ever imagined …' The Washington Post

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Public Meeting in the Flyleaf Events Space:

Transition Carrboro – Chapel Hill (www.transitioncch.org)  is a group of individuals and organizations
growing a pathway towards a positive local future that meets our needs in the
context of the twin challenges of climate change and the end of cheap oil.  We are part of an international, grassroots
network called The Transition Network. 
We follow the Transition Towns Model developed by Rob Hopkins in his
book The Transition Handbook.  Transition Carrboro – Chapel Hill is
composed entirely of volunteer
members from the Chapel Hill and Carrboro community. Our members are concerned
about the local community, and are interested in making a difference in some
small way.

Today’s meeting will include two
20-minute videos from the Powerdown Show, which is a 10-part TV series that
takes a fresh and engaging look at the community responses to the converging
challenges of climate change and peak oil. A discussion period will follow the
film showings.

The Transition Handbook and The Transition Timeline will be available for purchase at Flyleaf
books but pre-ordering by 5pm Sunday 3/7 is recommended to ensure you have a
copy for this meeting.

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Thursday

03/11/10  10:30am
Pre-School Storytime & Activity

Please join us for pre-school storytime and activity every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

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Thursday

03/11/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Main Street Rag Publishing
Co Reading & Open Mic Series (every 2nd  Thursday)
Featured Authors: Jason Mott & Maureen Sherbondy

Main Street Rag Publishing Company have joined together  as the newest location for the Main Street Rag
Reading Series.  Every Second Thursday at
7pm, co-hosts Debra Kaufman and Stan Absher will start the evening by introducing
two of our authors as featured readers, followed by an Open Mic.  Readers, writers and appreciators of poetry,
short fiction and creative non-fiction are invited to join in.

The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, a bindery and a
publisher based in Charlotte, has published a quarterly print magazine since
1996. Among its features are poetry, short fiction, photography and graphic
images, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons and commentary.  MSR also publishes poetry through their
annual chapbook and full-length poetry collection contests.  They also help writers self-publish their
works; from design, layout and printing to shipping the books out.

Jason Mott received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Creative
Writing from UNC Wilmington.  His fiction and poetry has been published in
journals such as The Thomas Wolfe Review, Chautauqua and Measure.  He was
also recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Poetry.  When he's not
writing poetry about the subject of love, he spends his time writing poetry
about the subject of superheroes.

Maureen Sherbondy received a BA degree from Rutgers
University. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies,
13th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and
the Raleigh News & Observer. Her poems have won first place in: The Deane
Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, The Lyricist
Statewide Poetry Contest, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award from Kent
State University. Main Street Rag published her first book, After the Fairy Tale, in 2007. Praying at Coffee Shops was published in
2008. Her short story collection, The
Slow Vanishing, was released in 2009.

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Friday 3/12  7pm-8pm

Gen Kelsang Tilopa,
resident teacher of Kosala Buddhist Center, will give a talk “The Source of
Happiness” based on the book 8 Steps to
Happiness by Kadampa Meditation Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

This event is
sponsored by the Kosala Buddhist Center of Chapel Hill (meditationinchapelhill.org)

"Eight Steps to Happiness" is a commentary on a
12th Century poem which describes the complete path to pure peace and happiness
to be found only within our mind.

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but
very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We tend
to look for happiness outside ourself.

We spend almost all our time adjusting our external world,
but we still fail to find pure and lasting happiness.

If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy regardless
of our external circumstances, but if it 

is unpure and unpeaceful we can never be happy no matter how
hard we try to change our external circumstances.

Gen Kelsang Tilopa will explain the meaning of this eight
verse poem, and show how to engage in the practice of "Eight Steps to Happiness".

Prompt Writing with Nancy Peacock

Serious writing begins with playful writing. Please join this unique ongoing group of supportive adult writers and play your way into the possibilities of the written word.

Based on the work of Natalie Goldberg (WRITING DOWN THE BONES, WILD MIND) we set a timer for fifteen minutes and write using prompts as our launch pads. This class is free and open to the public.Come early, grab a coffee at Foster's and get a good seat!

Nancy Peacock’s first book LIFE WITHOUT WATER was published and chosen as a New York Times ON WRITING, HOUSECLEANING, AND LIFE.  Nancy lives in Chatham County and runs writing workshops in her studio and this Prompt Writing class every second Saturday at Flyleaf Books.
Notable Book. It was followed a few years later by another novel HOME ACROSS THE ROAD and most recently by a work of nonfiction, A BROOM OF ONE’S OWN: WORDS

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Saturday

03/13/10  2pm-3pm 
*Kids Event*  Ages 9-12

John Claude Bemis:
The Nine Pound Hammer: Book 1 of The
Clockwork Dark

In his debut middle grade adventure, former elementary
school teacher John Claude Bemis asks the question “What if the legendary John
Henry had a son?” THE NINE POUND HAMMER: Book 1 of the Clockwork Dark offers
young readers a fresh approach to epic fantasy, unearthing characters from
American folklore and sending them on a wild ride through the post–Civil War
South.  The misty magic of Appalachia
lends both the history and the mystery to the first book in this riveting
trilogy.   

In his debut novel, John Claude Bemis takes American tall
tales and reinvents them in a fresh and exciting manner. The Ramblers,
defenders of the natural world, must take up arms in the 1890s South against
their ancient foes: industry and machinery. This series harkens back to time
when man was one with the soil beneath his feet, a fascinating topic to tackle
in today’s environment of green awareness. While young readers will recognize
the timeliness of this subject, they will also be entertained by the medley of
sideshow performers—the fire-eater, the sword swallower, the strong man, and
the crocodile-riding queen of pirates!

John Claude Bemis grew up in rural North Carolina, where
he loved reading the Jack tales and African American trickster stories, as well
as fantasy and science fiction classics. A songwriter and musician in an
American roots band, John found inspiration for his fiction in old-time country
and blues music and the Southern folklore at its heart. John lives with his
family in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he was an elementary school
teacher for 11 years before becoming a full-time writer.

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Sat  3/13 
4-5pm

Ages: Kindergarten
to adult

Passover Story
time featuring Tilda Balsley and her book Let
My People Go!

The Passover story will come alive when Let My People Go! author Tilda Balsley
is performed at this special story time. With clever rhyme and zany pictures, the
saga of the ten plagues is presented in a Readers' Theater format, sure to
enlighten and amuse readers young and old as the audience is encouraged to
participate. From the Burning Bush to the crossing of the Red Sea, the
imaginative retelling features parts for a Narrator, Moses, Pharaoh, the
Egyptians, and a chorus.  

The telling of
other Passover stories will be told after the feature presentation.

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Wednesday 

03/17/10  

6:30pm-8:30pm

Sacrificial Poets
Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed)  Open to all ages

The Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to
provide a community wide open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share
or listen to poems, prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an audience
of open minds and ears. 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youth
Performance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel
Hill-Durham area. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) and
required to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Now
in their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment;
learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learn
how to become community opinion leaders and change makers in the
community.  Sacrificial Poets recently
formed a partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage
Center in Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets
summer camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals at
Youth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plus
teams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawa
and Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Green
competition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets,
the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth as
human beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate the
power of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.

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Thursday

03/18/10  10:30am
Pre-School storytime & activity

Please join us for pre-school storytime and activity
every Thursday morning at 10:30am

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Thursday

3/18/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Andrew Park
discusses BETWEEN A CHURCH AND A HARD PLACE: One Faith-Free Father’s Struggle
to Understand What it Means to be Religious (or Not)

When his three-year-old son first said the word “God,” panic
erupted over Park’s face. Teaching his children about ethics, good manners,
penmanship and the perfect free throw were no problem for Park. But when his
son started asking about religion, he was stumped. Raised without a religious
tradition in a family where teenage rebellion meant being born again as an
Evangelical Christian (as his brother did), Park always believed he’d be a
nonbeliever. But when his children confronted him with questions, Park knew it
was time to find the answers.

In BETWEEN A CHURCH AND A HARD PLACE Park takes
readers along on his tour through religion in America on his quest to find a
comfortable middle ground for himself and his family.  Colorful and
though-provoking, Park chronicles his explorations through the varied and often
contradictory influences of religion in his life so far ― his great-grandfather’s pioneering role in the
Pentecostal movement of the early 20th century, his liberal
intellectual parents’ rejection of the Protestant faiths in which they were
raised, his childhood in the Bible Belt city that produced Billy Graham and Jim
Bakker, and witnessing his older brother’s rebellious immersion in a
Charismatic church.

Along the way, Park grapples with what it means to be
irreligious in an exceptionally religious society and whether peaceful coexistence
with people of faith can ever truly be achieved. With the perfect blend of
humor and humility, he uncovers what it means to embrace religion–or not–while
still being a good role model, and most importantly, still being true to
himself.

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Friday

03/19/10 7pm-8pm

Karen Zacharias
discusses Will Jesus Buy Me A Double-Wide?: Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma
TV   

What does it really mean to be blessed by God? With
Southern charm and razor-sharp wit author Karen Spears Zacharias shows how the
"prosperity" gospel has led us astray from true Christianity and
helped create people and churches focused on greed. Zacharias unpacks story
after story of families and individuals using the name of God as a means to
living their own "good life." Discover churches that have modeled
themselves on Wall Street and unbridled materialism, and see what is happening
to them now. Is this the good life? You'll also meet some unlikely folks who
live with genuine biblical integrity. 

After her father died in the Vietnam War, Karen Spears
Zacharias moved into a single-wide trailer with her mother, ailing grandfather
and two siblings. Her family moved that trailer five times in six years. Corner
lots in the trailer parks were the most coveted because they usually had the
biggest yards. The very rich lived in double-wides.

Zacharias is a former editorial writer and columnist for
the Fayetteville Observer in Fayetteville, N.C. 
She is a contributing writer to the Burnside Writers Collective, an
online magazine started by author Donald Miller as a home for young,
progressive Christian writers and thinkers to share their ideas.  Zacharias served as an adjunct professor of
journalism at Central Washington University and as an author-in-resident for
the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama.  She is author of Where's Your Jesus Now? and the nationally-acclaimed After the Flag Has Been Folded.  A mesmerizing speaker and a midnight-blogger,
her work has appeared in the New York
Times, Newsweek and on National Public Radio’s All Things
Considered and Morning Edition.

One of the chapters of the book -- The Marine – is based
on a Raleigh resident and the ministry that I highlight in the book and to
which some of the proceeds go is Love Wins, a Raleigh ministry.

Here's an article from NewsOK/The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City where Karen is passing through on her book tour: http://www.newsok.com/seeing-want-in-prosperity-gospel/article/3444157?c...

We're  holding our first Flyleaf Member Appreciation Sale all day on Saturday 3/20 9am-9pm...
you can become a member on the spot ($15 gets you 10% off new books for
a year) and enjoy 20% off the entire store on Saturday. 

We'll be
serving complementary coffee in the morning and a glass of wine
after 5pm. 

Educators with valid school ID get a free membership.

You CAN join on the spot and enjoy the savings!

The fine print:

The 20% discount is on items in the store on Saturday, sorry but we cannot apply the discount to special orders we've placed for you already or on orders we place on this day.  The discount is 20% total, not additional to the regular member discount although some items will be discounted even more.

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Sun 3/21  2pm-3pm

Gaines Steer:

A
Story Worth Tellin’: A Documented Memoir

Gaines Steer talks about his unconventional book, his
memoir: A Story Worth Tellin’.  Written
over a period of 58 years, the book presents Steer’s unusual style of “trustory
 tellin’,” his personal blend of
remembered facts along with the stories that have taken on a life of their
own.  Lavishly illustrated in the style
of The Whole Earth Catalog, with hundreds of documentarty-style graphic items,
Steer supports his life’s stories with hard evidence: letters, photographs,
school report cards, newspaper articles, journal entries, recording of dreams,
and the actual notes taken by his Jungian therapist. 

By distilling one hundred brief “chapters” into nine
Passages, Steer provides a poignant depiction of his life and times, inviting
the reader to observe and participate as the man emerges from the boy searching
for healing, purpose, and meaning.   His story
is universal, presented with a definite Southern story-tellin’ style.

Gaines Steer is the leader of the Your Story Writer’s
Group which meets every fourth Saturday 10am at Flyleaf Books.

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Mon 3/22  7pm-8pm

Andrew Young: The
Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency
and the Scandal That Brought Him Down

*if you are planning on attending this event we strongly recommend you preorder a book by calling Flyleaf at 919-942-7373 to ensure you get a copy. Only books purchased at Flyleaf will be signed*

The underside of modern American politics -- raw
ambition, manipulation, and deception -- are revealed in detail by Andrew
Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and
scandalous fall.  Like a non-fiction
version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly
disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed
by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.

Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for
the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidate’s
right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Young’s responsibilities
grew.  For a decade he was this
politician’s confidant and he was assured he was ‘like family.”  In time, however, Young was drawn into a
series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to
help conceal the Senator’s ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential
primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world
that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter,
who was actually the senator’s mistress. While Young began a life on the run,
hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards
continued to pursue the presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future
Obama administration.

Young had been the senator’s closest aide and most
trusted friend.  He believed that John
Edwards could be a great president, and was assured throughout the cover-up
that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth
and protect his aide’s career. Neither promise was kept.  Not only a moving personal account of Andrew
Young’s political education, The
Politician offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the
ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him
down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams in ashes.

After earning a bachelor’s degree at the UNC- Chapel Hill
and a law degree at the Wake Forest University School of Law, Andrew Young was
a volunteer for John Edwards’ winning campaign for U.S. Senate. Hired in 1999,
Young became Edwards’ longest serving and most trusted aide. He raised more
than $10 million for the politician’s various causes and played a key role in
Edwards’ efforts to become President of the United States. Now a private
citizen, he lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Cheri and their three children.   

Reviews:

"A book worth reading for its larger drama. With a
title that ultimately works like a shiv in the ribs, Mr. Young’s book examines
what a politician really is:  the value
of his words... the extent of his feelings of entitlement, the outrageousness
of his ego...and the gap between his public convictions and private behavior"
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Mesmerizing...This is not a political memoir. It’s a
morality tale with the chill of Hitchcock.” ---Tina Brown, The Daily Beast

“Replete with colorful anecdotes and vignettes, this
forceful memoir offers a familiar, if a bit slippery, tale of lost youthful
innocence.” --The New York Times Book Review

“How often does the quest for the White House become an
unhealthy obsession, not just for a candidate and his spouse, but for the
people around them?” --The Boston Globe

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Wednesday

03/24/09  7pm-8pm

Alan DeNiro reads
from Total Oblivion, More or Less

What’s a girl to do when her world is invaded by warriors
from the ancient world? That’s the problem faced by sixteen-year-old Macy, who
sees her quiet, normal life in suburban Minnesota turned upside down when
things that should never be possible begin to transform the landscape all
around her. The cable stops working, the phone lines die–and then the horsemen
come to town. It’s not the same America that she last went to sleep in.

Ticketed to a refugee camp by the marauding Scythian
armies, Macy and her family come to believe that heading down the Mississippi
by boat is their one escape from the encroaching madness. But as they make
their way downriver, Macy’s world just keeps getting stranger, and the wooden
submarines, wasp-borne plagues, and talking dogs are the least of her problems:
For in this upside-down world, old identities warp and family bonds are sorely
tested.

Acclaimed writer Alan DeNiro has fashioned a completely
original, utterly beguiling melding of the surreal and the everyday.  Alan DeNiro was born in Erie, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from the College of Wooster and received an MFA in poetry writing
from the University of Virginia. His collection of short stories, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead,
was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a
finalist for the Crawford Award. His short fiction has appeared in One Story, Crowd, Interfictions 2, Strange
Horizons, and elsewhere. He lives outside St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife
Kristin, a dog, and three cats.

Storytime with Sarah!

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Thursday

03/25/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Jennifer
Frick-Ruppert discusses Mountain Nature:
A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians

The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly
diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher
plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black
bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain
Nature is a lively and engaging account of the ecology of this remarkable
region. It explores the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians and the
webs of interdependence that connect them.

Within the region's roughly 35 million acres, extending
from north Georgia through the Carolinas to northern Virginia, exists a mosaic
of habitats, each fostering its own unique natural community. Stories of the
animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians are intertwined with
descriptions of the seasons, giving readers a glimpse into the interlinked rhythms
of nature, from daily and yearly cycles to long-term geological changes.
Residents and visitors to Great Smoky Mountains or Shenandoah National Parks,
the Blue Ridge Parkway, or any of the national forests or other natural
attractions within the region will welcome this appealing introduction to its
ecological wonders.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert is associate professor of ecology
and environmental science at Brevard College in Brevard, North Carolina.

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Friday

3/26/10  7-8pm

Ursula Vernon:
author of the Dragonbreath series for kids (ages 8 & up)

Dragonbreath is a very popular children's book
series from Ursula Vernon. A combination of text and graphic novel, the Dragonbreath
books tell of the adventures of Danny Dragon, a young dragon attending a school
for reptiles and amphibians. Join Danny and his best friend Wendell the Iguana
as they travel under the sea outwitting bullies, fending off giant squid, meet
giant heron, run from ninjas,and fight were-hotdogs, all the while trying to
avoid getting an F in Science!

It’s not easy for Danny Dragonbreath to be the sole
mythical creature in a school for reptiles and amphibians—especially because he
can’t breathe fire like other dragons (as the school bully loves to remind him).
But having a unique family comes in handy sometimes, like when his sea-serpent
cousin takes Danny and his best iguana friend on a mindboggling underwater
tour, complete with vomiting sea cucumbers and giant squid. It sure beats
reading the encyclopedia to research his ocean report . . .

Ursula
Vernon is the author and illustrator of "Nurk," "Digger,"
and a number of other projects. The daughter of an artist, she spent her youth
attempting to rebel and become a scientist, but eventually succumbed to the
siren song of paint (although not before getting a degree in anthropology,
because life isn't complete without student loans, right?). Her work has been
nominated for an Eisner award, "Talent Deserving of Wider
Recognition" and a number of Webcomics Choice Awards.

Saturday

1/23/10  10am-12pm

Your Story
Writer’s Group (meets every 4th Saturday)

The focus of this informal group is personal writing and
memoir prep.  Sessions will use focused
writing, micro-instruction, prompts and critique.  This is an informal and open group and there
is no fee for participation. Facilitated by Gaines Steer, Personal Historian
and proprietor of Creative Writing Services in Orange County.

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3/27  3pm  (note
new time)

Fosters &
Flyleaf Easter Egg-stravaganza:

Cookie Decorating,

the Easter Bunny and

Storytime featuring Darren Farrell, author of Doug-Dennis and the Flyaway Fib 

Join us for a joint Fosters Market &Flyleaf Books
event: bring the kids for a fun time of Easter cookie decorating and a
storytime with the Easter Bunny and Darren Farrell, author of the new, very
fun, picture book Doug-Dennis and the
Flyaway Fib. 

Recommended for
Preschool and up, this event is free and open to all kids.

More about Doug-Dennis
and the Flyaway Fib:

When best friends Doug-Dennis and Ben-Bobby go to the
circus, something terrible happens.

Doug-Dennis eats all of his best friend's popcorn, and
then tells a fib (It wasn't me!), which grows and grows (Maybe monsters ate
it!), carrying Doug-Dennis away.

As the lie gets bigger, Doug-Dennis flies higher, until
he's floating in a land of lies—some of them big, some small, and some just
downright weird. Doug-Dennis misses his best friend, and realizes there's only
one way to come back down: by finally telling the truth.

This charming sheep is sure to become a favorite. (And
that's the truth.)

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Saturday

3/27/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Joanna Smith
Rakoff reads from A Fortunate Age

Instantly compelling and immensely satisfying, A
Fortunate Age details the
lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten
to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives
in Brooklyn during the late 1990s.

There’s Lil, a would-be scholar whose wedding brings the
group back together; Beth, who struggles to let go of her old beau Dave, a
onetime piano prodigy trapped by his own insecurity; and Emily, an actor
perpetually on the verge of success— and starvation—who grapples with her
jealousy of Tal, whose acting career has taken off. At the center of their
orbit is wry, charismatic Sadie Peregrine, who coolly observes her friends’
mistakes but can’t quite manage to avoid making her own. As they begin their
careers, marry, and have children, they must navigate the shifting dynamics of
their friendships and of the world around them—from the decadent age of dot-com
millionaires to the sobering post–September 2001 landscape. Smith Rakoff’s
deeply affecting characters capture a generation.

"An entertaining, updated look at artistic-minded
young people progressing toward adulthood in New York. As they experience
marriage, children, dot-com busts, infidelities, alcohol abuse, personal
tragedies, professional successes, and other common experiences of
twentysomethings in the mid-1990s, Rakoff objectively and deftly chronicles all
of it."

-- Library Journal

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A Community of Stories:  Come enjoy local writers
reading from their

freshly-minted work--about growing up,
relationships, struggles, work, play.

The first of several readings, this event is in memory of
Kit Stewart, a lively writer

of both fact and fiction whose tales and quirky voice we
sorely miss.  

Wine and cheese reception after the readings.

All the readers are from workshops led by Carol Henderson
www.carolhenderson.com

3 - 4:30 PM Sunday, March 28.

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Thursday

04/01/10  2pm

Robert Boisvert reads
and discusses his new short story collection Golgotha. 

Be sure to hear the author on WUNC radio’s The State of
Things earlier today.

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Robert Boisvert has
made a living as a stable manager, stockbroker, and magazine writer. Having
lived in New York City, Virginia, and for short stints in France, Spain, and
Portugal, he eventually settled in Charlotte, North Carolina where he works as
a news anchor.

“...Boisvert's characters largely dwell in a purgatory of
the heart, a warped world of painful personal decay en route to a new romantic
reality. His tales start in mid-hurdle and end on a thump”. 

--Mark Washburn, The Charlotte Observer

 “This is
Boisvert's debut novel, containing a trilogy of short stories titled "Love
Upon Reflection." The tales chronicle the passion, loathing and heartbreak
of a love triangle through the eyes of the people involved.”  -- Creative Loafing

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Thursday

04/01/10  7pm
Randi Davenport reads from The Boy Who
Loved Tornadoes

Randi Davenport's story is a testament to human
fortitude, to hope, and to a mother's uncompromising love for her
children.  She had always worked hard to
provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, despite the
challenges of having a son with autism and a husband whose erratic behavior
sometimes puzzled and confused her.   But
eventually, Randi's husband slipped into his own world and permanently out of
her family's. And at fifteen, her son Chase entered an unremitting
psychosis-pursued by terrifying images, unable to recognize his own mother,
unwilling to eat or even talk-becoming ever more tortured and unreachable.

Beautifully written and profoundly moving, this is the heartbreaking yet
triumphant story of how Randi navigated the byzantine and broken health care
system and managed not just to save her son from the brink of suicide but to
bring him back to her again, and make her family whole. In "The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes," she
gives voice to the experiences of countless families whose struggles with
mental illness are likewise invisible to the larger world.

Randi Davenport received her MA in creative writing from
Syracuse University as well as a PhD in literature. Her short fiction and
essays have appeared in publications like the Washington Post, the Ontario
Review, the Alaska Review, and Film/Literature Quarterly. She is the executive
director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at UNC-
Chapel Hill.

Sam Stephenson is a writer and instructor at the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University. He has written a beautiful
hardcover book, full of photographs, about W. Eugene Smith's
photographs and recordings of some of the biggest names in Jazz who
haunted a Sixth Ave loft in NYC in the late 50's... 

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"(A) landmark
book...An essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers, and those
interested in the history of New York." - Publisher's Weekly, starred
review.

"The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year...an elegiac stew of
sight and sound, and a singularly weird, vital, and thrumming American
document." - Dwight Garner, New York Times.

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"(A) landmark
book...An essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers, and those
interested in the history of New York." - Publisher's Weekly, starred
review.

"The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year...an elegiac stew of
sight and sound, and a singularly weird, vital, and thrumming American
document." - Dwight Garner, New York Times. 

n 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer,
walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying
job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four
children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated,
five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth streets) in New York City’s wholesale flower district.
Smith was trying to complete the most ambitious project of his life, a
massive photo-essay on the city of Pittsburgh.

821 Sixth Avenue was a late-night haunt of musicians, including some
of the biggest names in jazz—Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and
Thelonious Monk among them—and countless fascinating, underground
characters. As his ambitions broke down for his quixotic Pittsburgh
opus, Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the
loft and its artists. He turned his documentary impulses away from
Pittsburgh and toward his offbeat new surroundings.

From 1957 to 1965, Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft,
making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career,
photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on the streets
of the flower district, as seen from his fourth-floor window. He wired
the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels
(4,000 hours) of stereo and mono
audiotapes, capturing more than 300 musicians, among them Roy Haynes,
Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, and
Paul Bley. He recorded, as well, legends such as pianists Eddie Costa,
and Sonny Clark, drummers Ronnie Free and Edgar Bateman, saxophonist
Lin Halliday, bassist Henry Grimes, and multi-instrumentalist Eddie
Listengart.

Also dropping in on the nighttime scene were the likes of Doris
Duke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
and Salvador Dalí, as well as pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts,
thieves, photography students, local cops, building inspectors,
marijuana dealers, and others.

Sam Stephenson discovered Smith’s jazz loft photographs and tapes
eleven years ago and has spent the last seven years cataloging,
archiving, selecting, and editing Smith’s materials for this book, as
well as writing its introduction and the text interwoven throughout.

W. Eugene Smith’s Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds
of art, photography, and music for more than forty years, but until the
publication of The Jazz Loft Project, no one had seen Smith’s
extraordinary photographs or read any of the firsthand accounts of
those who were there and lived to tell the tale(s) . . .

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Saturday

04/03/10  9:30am-11:00am

Writers Support
Group Meeting: Voice to the World  (Meets on 1st Saturday of the month)

The goal of the group is to encourage budding and already
published writers to finish their writing projects by providing support,
encouragement, and constructive critiques.   
The meeting is coordinated by Vonyee Carrington, who has written since a
teenager but has recently published a book of women's writings called Steps for Destiny: Poems, Stories and
Experiences of Women.  This meeting is open to the public and is free
of charge.

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This will be the first special event for
Carrboro Chess Club, it should be a lot of fun. Alan Casden, a professional
chess coach, will be giving a short lecture on the topic of developing your
chess skills. Following this, he will give an instructional simulation for all
attendees, where he will play each attendee on their own board while giving
commentary on their game.

For more information about Alan, you can see:

http://columbuschesslessons.com/background.html

A few things to note:

1) If you can, try to bring a previous game
that you've played. Alan would like to lead a discussion and analysis of a game
from a group member.

2) Please try bring a chess board--we will
need more than usual.

3) Note that this event is at a different
time and place than usual.

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Sat 4/3  7pm-9pm

CD Release party
with EIGHTwentythree and reading from Bluegrass
Is My Second Language: A Year In the Life of an Accidental Musician 

Named for the date the band first played together
(8/23/01), EIGHTwentythree is an extraordinary mix of musical influences from Bill Monroe to the Beatles. The
group consists of four very uniquely talented and gifted musicians playing together with joyful abandon, all for
the love of Bluegrass music.

Jeff Wiseman is a Master of the five-string banjo and
incorporates many different styles and delicate phrasings into the propulsive mix of mostly original material the band
performs. As a talented singer and songwriter the band profits greatly from both his songs and his vocal
abilities. Hearing him play will change the way you thinkof banjos forever!

Greg Eldred is a virtuoso guitarist and composer. Greg's
singing ability has made him a Triad legend and he carries most of the lead vocal chores for the band, often
even on songs other band members have written! Come to hear him sing, stay to watch his amazing guitar work!

John Santa sings and plays his sometimes traditional,
sometimes unconventional mandolin with a kind of reckless abandon while weaving his manic harmonica
throughout the songs of EIGHTwentythree. At times the harmonica mimics the fiddle lines of traditional
Bluegrass, other times it wails into Blues and Rock 'N Roll, butit is always evocative and effective. John is also the
author of “Bluegrass Is My Second Language: A Year In The Life Of An Accidental Bluegrass Musician”.

The group is anchored by the considerable musical talents
of Keith Carroll on acoustic (“doghouse”) bass and vocals. It is no easy job to keep the other musicians in
line and in time but Keith manages his task as the true Master he is, playing in his amazing and compelling style
while inspiring the band to greater musical heights. He is the true emotional center of the group and a real
treat to watch as he dances with his bass across the stage when the music lifts him up!

EIGHTwentythree will delight any audience member who has
a true love for music in general and Bluegrass Music in particular. The core of the groups' success is
the way all their songs, whether original or a cover performed with a distinct EIGHTwentythree twist, convey
the groups' deep respect for each other as people and musicians AND their respect and love for the Music they
perform.