Events

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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Saturday

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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. 

Happy Easter!

Flyleaf is open today

from 11am to 3pm.

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Mon 4/5  7pm-8pm

Suzy Barile reads
from and discusses Undaunted Heart: The
True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General

When a brigade of General Sherman’s victorious army
marched into Chapel Hill the day after Easter 1865, the Civil War had just
ended and President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated. Citizens of the
picturesque North Carolina college town had endured years of hardship and
sacrifice, and now the Union army was patrolling its streets. One of Sherman’s
young generals paid a visit to the stately home of David Swain, president of
the University of North Carolina and a former governor of the state, to inform
him that the town was now under Union occupation.

Against this unlikely backdrop began a passionate and
controversial love story still vivid in town lore. When President Swain’s
daughter Ella met the Union general, life for these two young people who had
spent the war on opposite sides was forever altered.

General Smith Atkins of Illinois abhorred slavery and
greatly admired Abraham Lincoln. Spirited young Ella Swain had been raised in a
slave-owning family and had spent the war years gathering supplies to send to
Confederate soldiers. 

But, as a close friend of the Swains wrote, when Atkins
met Ella, the two “‘changed eyes’ at first sight and a wooing followed.”  The reaction of the Swains and fellow North
Carolinians to this North-South love affair was swift and often unforgiving.

In Undaunted Heart:
The True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General, author Suzy
Barile, a great-great-granddaughter of Ella Swain and Smith Atkins, tells their
story, separating facts from the elaborate embellishments the famous courtship
and marriage have taken on over the generations. Interwoven throughout
Undaunted Heart are excerpts from Ella’s never-before-published letters to her
parents that reveal a loving marriage that transcended differences and scandal.

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Tues  4/6 
7pm-8pm

Connie Riddle
reads from her story in  A Cup of Comfort for a Better World:  Stories That Celebrate Those Who Give, Care,
and Volunteer

Connie Riddle’s story was selected from over 2000
submissions to be included in A Cup of
Comfort for a Better World:  Stories That
Celebrate Those Who Give, Car, and Volunteer. 
This collection celebrates those who give the special gift of their
time. Inside, you'll find fifty original, true stories that feature examples of
people whose good deeds make life a little bit easier--children on the other
side of the globe, next-door neighbors in a bind, or a friend staying brave in
the face of illness. 

Connie Riddle is a nurse at McDougle Middle School.  She and her family live in Apex.  In her free time Connie enjoys  long walks, bike rides, and hanging out with
her friends in the Triangle Writer’s Group. 
Her writing has appeared in professional journals.

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Wednesday 

04/07/10

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

04/8/10  10:30am
Pre-School Storytime & Activity

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

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Thursday

04/08/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Main Street Rag Publishing
Co Reading & Open Mic Series (every 2nd  Thursday)

Featured Readers: Ruth Moose & David T. Manning

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.

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Ruth Moose will
read from her new collection of poetry The
Librarian.  Ruth has been on the
faculty of the Dept of English at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1996. She has published
2 collections of short stories, 4 books of poetry. Individual stories appeared
in Atlantic, Redbook, Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review and other
places. Her work has been included in several anthologies, including Stories
about Teachers and Teaching. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Prairie
Schooner, Yankee, Christian Science Monitor and other places. Most recently she
was awarded a Chapman Fellowship to compile a work on North Carolina writers.  

“Ruth Moose is first and always a storyteller, and in Making the Bed she tells us the stories
of a life in terms of fairy tales, memories, and different beds: marriage beds,
birth beds, Penelope’s bed, single beds, death beds. Her spare lyrical language
dramatizes the search for significant acts, the spark of connections
made.”   --Robert Morgan

David Treadway Manning will read from his
new collection of poems The Flower Sermon.   A California native, Davod received his
Ph.D. in chemistry at Caltech, during which a required literature course
introduced him to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats. Following a 44-year career as an
industrial organic chemist he began a second life as a poet. A member of the
North Carolina Poetry Society, he won its Poet Laureate Award in 1996, 1998 and
2006. Dave is the current host of the Friday Noon Poets of Chapel Hill and
serves on the board of the Poetry Council of North Carolina. A Pushcart
nominee, his poems have appeared in Free Lunch, Main Street Rag, New Orleans
Review, Pembroke Magazine, 32 Poems Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Rattle,
Southern Poetry Review and other journals. He has five chapbooks: Negotiating Physics and Other Poems (1999) and Poets
Anonymous (2001), The Ice-Carver
(2004), winner of the Longleaf Chapbook Competition, Out After Dark (2003) and Detained
by the Authorities (2007).  Dave and
his wife Doris live in Cary, North Carolina.

“What a range of subject matter David Manning's The Flower Sermon illuminates! And yet
this collection is strongly bonded together by themes that join, combine and
recombine in constellations of bright thought and profound emotion--and the
whole is charged with a delighted wonderment. 
Here is one of the most engaging volumes of poetry I have ever come
across.” – Fred Chappell

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Saturday

04/10/10
10am-12noon  (held every second Saturday)

Prompt Writing
Class by Nancy Peacock

Prompt Writing: 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.

Nancy Peacock’s first book LIFE WITHOUT WATER was
published and chosen as a New York Times
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
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.

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Sat 4/10 2pm

Carolina Wren
Release Party

Phoebe Hoss
discusses All Eyes: A Mother’s Struggle to Save Her Schizophrenic Son

 “Families of
people with mental illness will want to read this book, if for no other reason
than to encounter a version of their own tale retold with clarity, compassion,
and amazing honesty. Though readers will have different children, with
different problems, and most hopefully, different outcomes, parents especially
will recognize their own daily struggles when they read about Phoebe Hoss’s
long fight to endure, to manage and to save her schizophrenic son. Her memoir,
set during the 1970s and ’80s, is especially relevant to those struggling with mental
illness today, because Hoss is graced and cursed with the perspective of
hindsight. This tale of love and loss is at once harrowing and redemptive, and
Hoss does not hold back—she lays bare the failings and miscues of American family
life, our communities, and our precarious health care system. —LYNN YORK,
author of The Piano Teacher

“This searing memoir unflinchingly probes the conflicts
and anguishing choices that can imprison a family trying to cope with the terrors of mental illness. That Phoebe Hoss
never gave up trying to help her son, not even in the face of insulting and destructive
mental health professionals, is a tribute to her intelligence, determination,
maternal commitment, and questing spirit. She has written a brave,
soul-searching book. All Eyes opened
mine.” —ALIX KATES SHULMAN, author of To
Love What Is

“A vivid and compelling read. A rare and poignant view of
a mother’s life with a schizophrenic child. The extraordinarily

heavy toll of a child’s illness and suicide on the entire
family is portrayed elegantly by an extraordinarily fine writer.”

—IRVIN YALOM, author of Love’s Executioner

PHOEBE HOSS is the author of two books for children, Noses are for Roses and Better Never Than Late. She was the
co-translator of The View From Afar by Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the editor of
two books of poetry: River Voices, by
the poets of Stuyvesant Cove Park, and Offerings
II, poems by the members of the Unitarian Church of All Souls, NYC.

About the press:  Carolina Wren Press publishes poetry, fiction,
nonfiction, and children’s books. The Press is committed to an ever-growing vision of the
audience for, and the producers of, contemporary literature.

Carolina Wren Press gratefully acknowledges the ongoing
support of the Durham Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council.

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Saturday

04/10/10

Thriller author
Bryan Gilmer and Sawyer-Goldberg band swing FELONIOUS JAZZ live

Author Bryan Gilmer reads from Felonious Jazz, a compulsively readable crime thriller set in
Raleigh. The reading will be accompanied Prairie Home Companion-style by the
Sawyer-Goldberg jazz band.

If you enjoy thrillers by the likes of Michael Connelly,
John Sandford, Lee Child or Carl Hiaasen, come discover author Bryan Gilmer,
whose darkly comic crime novels are set in the Triangle. One reviewer called
his FELONIOUS JAZZ, "one of the freshest novels I've read in some
time," while another wrote, "The twist at the end had me screaming
for more."

The Sawyer-Goldberg jazz band will accompany Bryan
Prairie Home Companion-style as he reads scenes. And the band will play
standards from Monk, Miles and other jazz greats as guests mingle and browse
and Bryan meets readers and signs books.

Synopsis: When a top client of an elite Raleigh law firm
comes home to find his McMansion burglarized -- and his new wife's dog dead in
the kitchen -- the man suspects his ex-wife. But legal investigator Jeff Davis
Swaine senses the killer is someone far more dangerous. From a stolen minivan,
washed-up jazz bassist Leonard Noblac watches as Swaine begins to investigate.
He's ready to perform his next crime to punish zeros in the soulless suburbs
and happy to have Swaine in his audience. Used to working from the shadow at
the back of the stage -- and drunk on waterless hand sanitizer -- Leonard intends
to put down a throbbing beat of crime and destruction he hopes will make him
famous: his perfect jazz album of felonies.

Bryan Gilmer has made his living as a writer for more
than 15 years, working first as a night-shift crime reporter for a Southern
newspaper before advancing to Florida's largest paper, the
Pulitzer-prizewinning St. Petersburg Times. Now he teaches newswriting at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and writes for institutional and
corporate clients in addition to his fiction. He lives with his wife, Kelly,
and their son, Quinn, in Durham, North Carolina. 

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Monday

04/12/10  7:00-9:00

A talk sponsored
by the Coalition for Peace with Justice

Anna Baltzer gives
a multimedia presentation on her book and DVD: Witness in Palestine:  A Jewish
American Woman in the Occupied Territories

Anna Baltzer is an American, granddaughter of Holocaust
survivors, graduate of Columbia University and a former Fulbright Scholar.  Her once unconditional support for Israel was
transformed by what she learned in the Middle East, and she became a tireless
advocate for change in Israeli policies. 
She has written Witness in
Palestine:  A Jewish American Woman in
the Occupied Territories, and has given her acclaimed presentation,
"Life in Occupied Palestine: 
Eyewitness Stories & Photos," in universities, schools,
churches, mosques, and synagogues throughout the United States.  She is a contributor to three upcoming books
on the Israel-Palestine issue and serves on the Middle East Committee of the
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and the Board of Directors
of The Research Journalism Initiative, Grassroots Jerusalem, and The Council
for the National Interest.

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Tues 4/13 

7pm-8pm

Malcolm Jones
reads from Little Boy Blues

Malcolm Jones, Cultural Editor at Newsweek magazine, has
written a memoir that provides a wonderful view into North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s:  A child surrounded mostly by grandparents,
aunts, and uncles born in the previous century, Malcolm Jones finds himself
underfoot in a disintegrating marriage. His father is charming but careless
about steady work, often gone from home and often drunk. His mother, a
schoolteacher and faded Southern belle, clings to the past while hungering for
respectability and stability. Jones vividly describes their faltering marriage
as it plays out against larger cracks in society: the convulsions of
desegregation and a popular culture that threatens the church-centered life of
his family. He also recalls idyllic times and the ordinary, easy moments of an
otherwise fraught childhood: discovering an old Victrola, attending a
marionette show—experiences that offer a portal to other worlds.

Richly evoking a time and place with rare depth of
feeling and a penetrating, often bittersweet candor, Malcolm Jones gives us the
fundamental stories of a life—where he comes from, who he was, who he has
become.

Malcolm Jones was born January 8, 1952 in Lancaster,
S.C., the only child of Malcolm Jones Sr. and Margaret Floyd Jones, with whom
he moved to Winston-Salem, N.C., when he was two.  When he was 12 years old, his parents
divorced, and thereafter he lived with his mother until he went to college,
first in Florida and then back in North Carolina, where he graduated from Wake
Forest University with a BA in 1974.

While still in college, he went to work for the
Winston-Salem Journal, starting as an intern writing obituaries and then as a
part-time reporter. For the next decade, he worked at several North Carolina
newspapers–the Twin City Sentinel in Winston-Salem, the Morning Herald in
Durham and the Daily News in Greensboro. For all those papers he wrote
editorials, feature stories and book reviews. In 1983, he moved to St.
Petersburg, Fla., where he created the book section for the St. Petersburg
Times. In 1984, he collaborated with the song writer and composer Van Dyke
Parks and the artist Barry Moser on Jump!, a retelling of several Brer Rabbit
stories. In 1989, he took a job writing book reviews and other stories in the
arts and culture section of Newsweek, where he has worked ever since.  In 1987, he married Robin Lawrence, with whom
he has two children, Susannah and Spencer. They live in Croton, N.Y., a small
town on the Hudson River not far from New York City.

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Thursday

04/15/10  10:30am
Pre-School storytime & activity

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

Thursday  4/15  6:30pm-8:30pm
Sacrificial Poets: Carrboro High School Poetry Slam
The Carrboro High School Poetry Club and Sacrificial Poets will be hosting a school wide poetry slam to select the 2010 Carrboro team at 6:30 p.m. on April 15th. The top ranking poets will be competing later this year in an area wide high school slam including teams from Jordan and Chapel Hill High. This will be an evening filled with amazing youth poetry. You do not want to miss it!

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Friday

4/16/10  7:00pm

Bland Simpson
reads from The Inner Islands: A
Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle

Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel
narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers,
and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in
the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which,
were it not for the buffering Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows
of the Atlantic. Instead they are home to unique plant and animal species and
well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an earlier human
history.

Bland Simpson is a member of the Tony Award-winning Red
Clay Ramblers and has collaborated on such musicals as King Mackerel, Kudzu,
and the Broadway hit Fool Moon. He teaches creative writing at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the 2005 Fine Arts recipient of the North
Carolina Award, the state's highest civilian honor. His books include Ghost
Ship of Diamond Shoals and Into the Sound Country, which also features
photography by his wife, Ann.  Ann Cary
Simpson is associate dean of the School of Government at UNC Chapel Hill.

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Sat 4/17  11:00 am
Jonathan Acuff discusses his book Stuff Christians Like

 Using the same humor and honesty that galvanized more than a million online readers from more than 200 countries, blogger Jonathan Acuff brings his insightful take on Christianity to the book world with Stuff Christians Like. From prayer shot blocks to Metro worship leaders, no stone is left unturned in this hilarious look at faith.

Two years ago, the son of a Chapel Hill preacher began a field guide blog to "all things Christian" gently poking the weird, the annoying and the “things you think but never say out loud in the Christian world.” Today, with over 7.5 million page views and readers from more than 200 countries, it’s clear his writing has hit a chord with people around the world. On Friday, April 2, 2010, Acuff was interviewed on CNN in a story about social media and the church. It seems his cult following has finally hit the main stream.

Acuff is the comedic genius behind the hit blog Stuff Christians Like which explores the funny things Christians do – including their love for side hugs, crock pots and metrosexual worship leaders.  Now, this pastor's kid, (son of Mark Acuff, pastor of The Gathering Church), with a mind for branding, a sarcastic mouth and a heart for God is challenging how we laugh about faith in a new book.

Beneath all the humor and insight, Acuff also has a philanthropic side, using his blog to raise $30,000in 18 hours to build a kindergarten in Vietnam. 24 days later, readers reached the $60,000 goal that will fund the building of two kindergartens.

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Charles Frazier called Cataloochee, Wayne Caldwell’s
acclaimed debut, “a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long
gone, a lost America.” Now, in Requiem by Fire, Caldwell returns to the
same fertile Appalachian ground that provided the setting for his first novel,
recalling a singular time in American history when the greater good may not
have been best for everyone.

In the late 1920s, Cataloochee, North Carolina, a settlement
tucked deep in the Great Smoky Mountains, is home to nearly eleven hundred
souls—many of them prosperous farmers whose ancestors broke the first furrows a
century earlier. Now attorney Oliver Babcock, Jr., has been given the difficult
task of presenting the locals with two options: sell their land to the federal
government for the creation of a national park or remain behind at their own
financial peril. 

While some of the area’s inhabitants seem ready to embrace a
new and modern life, others, deeply embedded in their rural ways, are
resistant. Silas Wright’s cantankerous unwillingness to sell or to follow the
new rules leads to some knotty and often amusing predicaments. Jim Hawkins,
hired by the Parks commission, has relocated his reluctant wife, Nell, and
their children to Cataloochee, but Nell’s unhappiness forces Jim to make a dire
choice between his roots and his family. And a sinister force is at work
in the form of the deranged Willie McPeters, who threatens those who have
decided to stay put.

    Requiem by Fire is a moving,
timeless tale of survival and change. With humor and pathos, this magnificent
novel transports readers to another time and place—and celebrates Southern
storytelling at its finest.

From the author:

My mother’s first cousin’s husband died mysteriously. My
first short story, “The Pact,” transplanted that incident into Cataloochee.

My great-grandfather was killed by a falling tree in
Cataloochee. Another short story, “The Burning Tree,” arose from this story.

A family relic, an Iver Johnson “owlhead” pistol, worked
its way into the hands of Ezra Banks, who, by then, lived in Cataloochee.

Thus my typical working pattern: begin by sketching a
fragment of a story, or an artifact: a dead man face up in a creek, a huge tree
limb atop a farmer, a pistol lying on a table. As details emerge – the wife
finds her dead husband, friends turn the limb over, a man orders the pistol
from a catalog – I discover why he fell in the creek, how the farmer’s funeral
will be conducted, what manner of man bought the pistol. Soon the material
begins to stand on its own. When it grows large enough to walk, and not
awkwardly, it finds life as a novel.

That’s how Cataloochee came to be.

Sat 4/17  6-8:30pm
Sacrificial Poets Last Chance Slam Qualifier

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Sunday

04/18/10  2:00-3:30pm (confirm time)

Poetry reading:
Richard Krawiec, Bruce Lader & Sara Claytor

Richard Krawiec's first novel, Time Sharing, was published by Viking Penguin. It was reviewed by
such luminaries as Michiko Kakutani, Richard Eder, and Jonathon Yardley. It was
featured in Publisher's Weekly
Recommended List, and the Village Voice
Real Life Rock Top Ten column. Multiple film options have been sold through the
years. He has also published a novel Faith
in What?, a short story collection, And
Fools of God, and four plays. His poetry book, Breakdown , published by Main Street Rag Publishers, was a finalist
for the 2009 Indy Book Awards in Poetry. His third novel, Almost Murder, is scheduled for publication in 2010.

Bruce Lader has published poems in many journals and
anthologies, including Poetry, the New York Quarterly, the Humanist, International Poetry Review, Harpur
Palate, New Millennium Writings, Margie, Poet Lore, and Asheville
Poetry Review. His first full-length collection, Discovering Mortality, was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell
Award. He is a former Writer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Colony,
recipient of an honorarium from the College of Creative Studies at the UC-Santa
Barbara, and founding director of Bridges Tutoring, an organization educating
multicultural students.

Sara Claytor is a native Tar Heel and former teacher of
literature, writing & communications at various NC universities and public
school systems. She holds two graduate degrees from UNC-CH. Winner of the 2000
Thunder Rain Award in poetry, she was the featured poet for L’Intrigue.
Recipient of numerous poetry prizes, two short stories have received first
place in Sensations Magazine
competition; also first place in short fiction at the Virginia Highlands
Festival and first place in The Charlotte Writer’s Club Elizabeth Simpson Smith
Award. Fiction and poetry have appeared in over 100 publications. She worked as
fiction editor for a small press specializing in mystery-suspense and as
co-editor of the former Internet literary journal The Moonwort Review. Pudding House Pubs. (2007) published her
chapbook, Reviving the Damsel Fish.  Her first full-length poetry book, Howling on Red Dirt Roads, was published
by Main Street Rag ( 2008). A full-length poetry book Keeping Company With Ghosts is under contract with Rock Way Press.
She and husband Robert Rutherford are attempting now to combine guitar and
keyboard with vocals of selected original poems or just to interject “light
notes.”

Sun 4/18  4pm-6pm
Sacrificial Poets Chapel Hill High School Poetry Slam