Stephen Messer reads from his new middle grade novel Windblowne\, from Random House Young Readers
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Kirkus Reviews calls Windblowne “an inventive debut fantasy\, set in multiple worlds linked by trees and winds….a tale that moves along at a powerful\, steady pace to a climactic faceoff.”
Also one of Parent &\; Child magazine’s top picks for fiction this spring
Windblowne is…
A high-flying fantasy adventure that will blow readers away!
Every kite Oliver touches flies straight into the ground\, making him the laughingstock of Windblowne. With the kite-flying festival only days away\, Oliver tracks down his reclusive Great-uncle Gilbert\, a former champion. With Gilbert’s help\, Oliver can picture himself on the crest\, launching into the winds to become one of the legendary fliers of Windblowne.
Then his great-uncle vanishes during a battle with mysterious attack kites—kites that seem to fly themselves! All that remains is his prize possession\, a simple crimson kite. At least\, the kite seems simple. When Oliver tries to fly it\, the kite lifts him high above the trees. When he comes down\, the town and all its people have disappeared. Suddenly the festival is the last thing on Oliver’s mind as he is catapulted into a mystery that will change everything he understands about himself and his world.
Inspired by the work of Diana Wynne Jones\, debut author Stephen Messer delivers a fantasy book for boys and girls in which the distance between realities is equal to the breadth of a kite string.
Blown into this world as a baby\, Stephen Messer spent his childhood flying kites on windswept hilltops in Maine and Arizona. He has lived in deserts and in megacities\, on alpine mountains and in lowland swamps. Nowadays he lives with his wife in an old house surrounded by oak trees in Durham\, North Carolina. Sometimes\, on windblown nights\, it seems like the house has been transported to another world.
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Saturday 7/31 6-7pm
Millennium\:
The Story\, a
one-hour documentary examining the extraordinary success of the famous Swedish
literary trilogy by Stieg Larsson
This movie is suitable for all ages. Run time is 1 hour.
The Millennium trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson is THE literary phenomenon of the last decade with 15 million books sold worldwide\, 25 translations in over 40 countries\, and a movie that is blasting box-office records in Scandinavia and several European countries. And the Millennium saga has only just begun…
This portrait of Stieg Larsson reveals the story of an outstanding success – a worldwide phenomenon who at the age of 50\, died from a sudden heart attack before his first novel was even published. This planetary triumph is analyzed by close friends and relatives of Stieg Larsson\; by his publisher\, his journalist colleagues and by various professionals who have worked on the films\, including Swedish Producer\, Soren Staermose\, and the leading actors Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist who play Elisabeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.
They have all been seduced by this 2000-page-long thriller trilogy that totally revisits the genre with freshly-defined characters and a reversal of sexual roles. It also offers well-documented and believable realism\, along with a powerful story set against a political backdrop.
Stieg Larsson’s life gives us an insight into how he became the author we have come to know. The child who grew up in a humble environment\, amid hostility and strife\, went on to become a dogged and forthright journalist. He published six books on particularly-cherished subjects\: democracy\, violence against women\, racism\, and death threats against journalists on account of their beliefs. This latter subject was particularly dear to him after he and a number of his colleagues were personally threatened after creating a magazine determined to combat the rise of the Extreme Right-Wing and racism.
Stieg Larsson stood his ground\, refusing to be silenced by fear. The only compromise he made was refraining from marrying his girlfriend in order to protect her. This decision affected her adversely after his death as it led to a highly publicized fratricidal inheritance war. Larsson would have probably looked down on such behavior as he had always advocated respect for others and fought against the corrupting power of money\, this becoming the only cloud cast on an otherwise amazing and unexpected Scandinavian success story of colossal proportions.
Wed 8/4 6\:30pm-8\:30pm
Sacrificial Poets Touchstone 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. This event is open to all ages.
The Sacrificial Poets are a 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.
Plenty of additional parking next door and across the street in the UNC lots after 5pm and all day weekends.
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Thurs 8/5 10\:30am-11\:30am
Pre-School story time &\; activity
Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday morning at 10\:30am\, with an art activity afterwards.
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Sat 8/7 2\:00pm-3\:00pm
2010 DK Star Wars Event at Flyleaf Books
Flyleaf Books will be hosting a 2010 DK Star Wars Event on August 7th at 2\:00 pm! The party is co-sponsored by Dorling Kindersley\, the publisher of the bestselling Lego Star Wars\: The Visual Dictionary\, Star Wars readers for elementary age children and many other specialty Star Wars books.
The event will include games and crafts for children\, a trivia contest for all ages\, free Star Wars souvenirs for the first 100 participants\, and a raffle to give away tons of Star Wars prizes. The highlight of the event will be a special appearance by several members of the 501st Legion\, a costuming organization whose members work to spread the magic of the Star Wars genre worldwide. The 501st has become the leading force in fan-based charity events.
Be sure to bring a camera to have your picture taken with one of the storm troopers!
Plenty of additional parking across the street and next door
after 5pm and all day on weekends.
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Thurs 8/12 10\:30am-11\:30am
Pre-School story time &\; activity
Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday morning at 10\:30am\, with an art activity afterwards.
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Thursday
08/12/10 7-8\:30pm
Rosecrans Baldwin reads from his debut novel You Lost Me There
A staff favorite! By turns funny\, charming\, and tragic\, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr. Victor Aaron\, a leading Alzheimer's researcher at the Soborg Institute on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Victor spends his days alternating between long hours in the sterile lab and running through memories of his late wife\, Sara. He has preserved their marriage as a sort of perfect\, if tumultuous\, duet between two opposite but precisely compatible souls.
Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of the popular website The Morning News\, host of the annual "\;Tournament of Books"\;. His work has appeared in New York magazine\, The Nation\, on NPR's All Things Considered\, and he currently writes "\;The Digital Ramble"\; for The Moment a New York Times blog. He lives in Chapel Hill.
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Main Street Rag Publishing Co Reading &\; Open Mic Series
(every 2nd Thursday) *this date is an exception*
Featured authors\:
Bill Griffin (Changing Woman) &\; Sally Buckner (Collateral Damage)
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.
Bill Griffin is a family physician in rural North Carolina\, where his “writer’s group” is a hawk swept footpath that wanders from Basin Creek up the Blue Ridge. Bill serves on the boards of the NC Poetry Society and Poetry Council of NC and organizes the annual Foothills Favorite Poem Project in his home town of Elkin. His first collection\, Barb Quill Down (Pudding House\, 2004)\, was a finalist in the National Looking Glass Chapbook Competition\; his poems have appeared in a number of regional and national journals\, and several have been set to choral arrangement by composer and conductor Mark Merritt.
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Woman Changing
Where the world ends
she stands at the highest point—
where the last Slickrock pebble
crumbles away before her feet
fearless at fearful openness
she takes the next step toward falling.
How far we have climbed\:
Little Santeetlah\, Saddle Tree Gap\,
the backbone ridge and gulf of sky\;
welcome sweat and thin air\,
swallowed in wildness\, her pace
as light as the towhee’s warning
that calls her higher
than I am willing.
Where the world ends
she straddles the abyss and turns\,
her face and the sun suddenly
uneclipsed—I see
only her reach\, the urge of her hand
pulling me toward her
up steep hesitation into
rarified possibility\, pulling
me to stand alongside where dawnlight
arouses the yawning valley\,
where Cheoah’s blue river eye
and her own awaken me . . . daybreak
where the world begins.
Sally Buckner is the winner of the R. Hunt Parker Award for contributions to North Carolina literature and has divided her professional life between teaching (all levels from kindergarten through graduate school) and writing (all regular genres and some hybrids). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals and anthologies as varied as Southern Poetry Review\, Main Street Rag\, Peace Is Our Profession\, and Voices from Home. She has also published a poetry collection\, Strawberry Harvest\, and edited two anthologies of North Carolina writing\: Our Words\, Our Ways\, designed to accompany eighth-grade studies of state history\; and Word and Witness\: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry. She and her husband live in the mushrooming former small town of Cary\, NC.
Mirage
Leaving headlines unread and coffee cooling\,
this unremarkable dawn I scan the Atlantic.
As sunlight blooms\, waves too placid to crash\,
fold themselves onto the smooth-swept shore\,
leaving shreds of lace for sanderlings
to stitch with needled toes. Snowy swarms
of gulls swoop the sky. No dorsal cleaves
the pearl-sleek water.
I can almost believe
in serenity\, almost claim to deserve it\,
ignore the blood pounding distant shores\,
the dorsals sundering skies and vincible bodies\,
the burden of fraternity and reproach.
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.
Plenty of additional parking next door and across the street in the UNC lots after 5pm and all day weekends.
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Saturday
08/14 10am-12noon (held every second Saturday)
Prompt Writing Class with 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.
Flyleaf Summer Reading Program Month Three\: August Party
Suggested ages 8-14
Hey kids\, looking for some fun reading this summer? Join the Flyleaf Summer Readers\: 3 Months\, 3 Big Picks\, 3 Theme Parties! Sign up for our program and receive a Summer Reading Card and 20% off all our summer book club picks. Each month we will read selected works that explore a special theme and then celebrate with a party!
Download the program flyer and complete monthly title listings from our website\: http\://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/kids-summer-reading-program-kickoff-pa...
June’s theme is Discover Ancient Civilizations. Read Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicle Book One) and any\, or all\, of our supplementary books and join us for a celebration on Saturday\, June 19th at 6pm.
Our supplemental picks for June are\:
* Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers [Ancient Egypt]
* Young Samurai\: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford [Ancient Japan]
* Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve [Ancient Britain]
* Ring of Fire (Century Quartet Book 1) by P.D. Baccalario [Ancient Rome]
* Middleworld (Jaguar Stones Book 1) by J&\;P Voelkel [Mayan Civilization]
Wondering what’s next?
* July’s Big Pick\: Theodore Boone\: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham. Our theme is law and justice.
* August’s Big Pick\: Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone. Our theme is Art Histories and Mysteries
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Book Lovers Club
This month's book\: Tinkers by Paul Harding
This is a casual and friendly book club that meets monthly to discuss contemporary fiction or nonfiction. We choose our books democratically via polls &\; book suggestions are always welcome and appreciated!
To RSVP\, participate in discussions\, or vote for future titles online\, please visit our meetup page http\://www.meetup.com/flyleafbooklovers/
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Sacrificial Poets Touchstone 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. This event is open to all ages.
The Sacrificial Poets are a 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.
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Pre-School story time &\; activity
Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday morning at 10\:30am\, with an art activity afterwards.
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Sat 8/21 10am-12pm
Your Story Writer’s Group (meets every 4th Saturday\, except for this month)
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.
Thurs 8/26 7pm-8pm
Joyce Allen reads from her novel Hannah’s House
Her divorce final\, Iris Layton wants to break with the past. But another past comes into her life when she finds remnants of an old farmhouse on her new subdivision lot and hears local legends about Hannah Davis\, the witch-ghost said to haunt the place. Iris doesn't buy the stories\, but she does find Hannah haunting her as she learns more about her unseen neighbor. And it is Hannah from whom Iris draws support when she faces a real-life threat that has nothing to do with ghosts.
"\;If you've ever laid your hands on the stones of an old foundation and felt the history in their mossy chill\, then Hannah's House is a book for you. Alternating between past and present\, Joyce Allen shows us how much we share with our ghosts\, and how our ghosts seek us out even in our spanking new houses. A fine read that will keep you turning the pages from first to last."\; Nancy Peacock - author of A Broom of One's Own
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Fri 8/27 7pm-8pm
Dave Tompkins discusses his book How to Wreck a Nice Beach\: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop-The Machine Speaks
Dave Tompkins\, a former columnist for The Wire\, writes frequently on hip-hop and popular music. His work has appeared in Vibe\, The Village Voice\, Wax Poetics\, and The Believer. Nearly a decade in the making\, this is his first book.
The history of the vocoder\: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon.
This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder\, invented by Bell Labs in 1928\, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers\, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink\, a double agent of pop and espionage.
In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase "\;how to recognize speech"\;—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin's gulags\, from the 1939 World's Fair to Hiroshima\, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets. The result is an amazing chronicle of postwar music and culture\, filled with unexpected and surprising encounters. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR\, Solzhenitsyn\, Stanley Kubrick\, Stevie Wonder\, JFK\, Eisenhower\, Neil Young\, Kanye West\, the Cylons\, Walt Disney\, Henry Kissinger\, and Winston Churchill\, who boomed\, when vocoderized on V-E Day\, "\;We must go off!"\; And now the device is a cell phone standard\, allowing your voice to sound human.
From T-Mobile to T-Pain\, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture\, illuminating the work of some of music's most provocative innovators.
“How to Wreck a Nice Beach is much more than a labor of love\: It’s an intergalactic vision quest fueled by several thousand gallons of high-octane spiritual-intellectual lust. Outside of\, say\, William Vollmann\, it’s hard to think of
an author so ravished by his subject... A hallucinatory stew of Rimbaud\, Tom Wolfe\, Lester Bangs\, and Bootsy Collins.”
—New York magazine
"\;Dave Tompkins is seven steps ahead of science and several leagues outside of time."\;
—Sasha Frere-Jones\, Pop Music Critic\, The New Yorker
Sat 8/28 9\:30am-12noon
Memoir Boot Camp with Alice Osborn
Cost\: $49
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In this intensive memoir workshop taught by writer Alice Osborn you'll generate memorable prose through lists\, images\, similes\, the senses and food\, and you’ll also learn road-tested techniques to keep up your writing practice after the class concludes. This class is best designed for students who have previous writing experience or who have been working on their memoirs
More about Alice Osborn\:
Alice Osborn\, M.A. helps passionate creative writers get published and helps small business owners improve their communication so they can build their brand and grow their business. Alice is the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba\, 2006)\; she is a professional editor\, freelance writer and speaker. A former high school English teacher\, Alice now works with the United Arts Council to bring writing to grades 4-12 in local schools. You may find her byline in the Raleigh News and Observer\, in The Pedestal Magazine and in Wake Living. Her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag\, the Raleigh Quarterly\, Soundings Review\, and more. Alice earned her M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition at NC State\, and her B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech. Alice lives in Raleigh\, NC with her family.
Visit her website at http\://aliceosborn.com.
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Sat 8/28 7pm-8\:30pm
Poetry &\; Photography on the Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Poet Katie Bowler with guest poets Ellen Bush and Michael McFee and photographer Donn Young
Emceed by Ross White of Bull City Press
Flyleaf Books and Bull City Press join together to recognize and honor the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a reading by Bull City Press poets\, emceed by Bull City executive director Ross White.
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Bull City Press recently published State Street\, Katie Bowler’s long poem about post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. The book chronicles Bowler’s journey with photographer Donn Young and an NBC “Nightly News” crew to salvage what could be saved from a 35-year collection of historic New Orleans photography. Subsequently\, Bowler and Young collaborated with the Louisiana State Archives to produce the largest and most well-attended exhibit in the history of the archives – a collection of the work of more than 100 artists telling the story of the rebuilding of New Orleans through multidisciplinary work including music\, theater\, sculpture\, fine art\, photography and more. Bowler will show selected artwork from the “40 Days and 40 Nights Collection.” Afterwards\, Poets Ellen Bush and Michael McFee will read from their works
Bull City Press is a Durham-based small press that publishes a chapbook series and a small quarterly magazine\, Inch. The press will host its first writing competition this year\, accepting first book of poetry manuscripts between April 1 and August 1.
Katie Bowler is the author of State Street (Bull City Press\, 2009). Bowler is assistant dean for communications at UNC School of Law. She has published poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction in The Carolina Quarterly\, Louisiana Literature\, The Louisiana Review\, The Times-Picayune\, Southern Neighbor\, and other publications. She is the editor of Carolina Law.
Ellen Bush is the author of Licorice (Bull City Press\, 2006) and is director of electronic marketing for UNC Press. Ellen earned her MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and her BA in English from UNC Chapel Hill.
Michael McFee is the director of the creative writing program in the UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature. He has published nine collections of poetry\, most recently The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press\, 2007)\, and a collection of essays\, The Napkin Manuscripts (University of Tennessee Press\, 2006). He edited This is Where We Live\: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers (UNC Press\, 2000)\, a companion anthology to The Language They Speak is Things to Eat\: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets (UNC Press\, 1994). He has earned numerous awards including the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South\, the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award\, and Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry.
Ross White is the executive director of Bull City Press (www.bullcitypress.com) and the editor of Inch\, a magazine of short poetry and microfiction. His poems have appeared in New England Review\, Poetry Daily\, The Collagist\, Carolina Quarterly\, and others. He lives in Durham with his wife and cats\, and works in the School of Education and teaches poetry writing at UNC.
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