The following authors are on the road and interested in doing events at or with independent bookstores. (You can click on a state to go directly to authors coming to your area)
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ALABAMA
Birmingham
from 10/17/2008
to 10/19/2008
Elizabeth O. Dulemba, author of
Paco and the Giant Chile Plant ~ Paco y la planta de chile gigante
Paco takes the familiar "Jack and the Beanstalk" tale and gives it more than a few new twists. Told as a fractured fairy tale, our hero, Jack, is now called Paco, and the story takes place in a beautiful desert setting in the American Southwest. The story is presented as an English text with embedded Spanish in rojo. A vocabulary page is included to jump start learning in either language
Mobile
from 11/7/2008
to 11/7/2008
Theodore Pitsios, author of
The Bellmaker's House Orange Beach
from 11/13/2008
to 11/13/2008
Theodore Pitsios, author of
The Bellmaker's House FLORIDA
Miami
from 10/20/2008
to 10/26/2008
Jesus Sanchez, author of
Max Science and the Burned Out Bulb Illustrated children's book that teaches the operation of the incandescent lamp
and
Building a Nation One Person at a Time This book is for people seeking meaning in their personal life. It is focused on revealing the maximum potential each individual has to offer.
Orlando
from 10/13/2008 to 10/19/2008
Jesus Sanchez, author of Max Science and the Burned Out Bulb
Illustrated children's book that teaches the operation of the incandescent lamp
and Building a Nation One Person at a Time
This book is for people seeking meaning in their personal life. It is focused on revealing the maximum potential each individual has to offer.
GEORGIA
Atlanta
from 10/1/2008
to 10/8/2008
Jesus Sanchez, author of
Max Science and the Burned Out Bulb Illustrated children's book that teaches the operation of the incandescent lamp
and
Building a Nation One Person at a Time This book is for people seeking meaning in their personal life. It is focused on revealing the maximum potential each individual has to offer.
from 11/7/2008 to 11/8/2008
Susan Spain, author of THE DEEP CUT
A teenager's struggle for his father's approval leads to unimagined heroism.
Lawrencville
from 10/18/2008
to 10/18/2008
Susan Spain, author of
THE DEEP CUT A teenager's struggle for his father's approval leads to unimagined heroism.
Norcross
from 10/3/2008
to 10/5/2008
Suzanne Adair, author of
Paper Woman (Patrick D. Smith Literature Award winner) As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, thirty-three-year-old widow Sophie Barton leaves her home in Georgia to investigate her father's murder and plunges into a hornet's nest of espionage, terror, treachery, and more murder.
And
The Blacksmith's Daughter As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, pregnant seventeen-year-old Betsy Sheridan, daughter of Sophie Barton (Paper Woman), leaves her home in Georgia to track down her Patriot spy husband and becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Camden in South Carolina.
And
Camp Follower As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, journalist Helen Chiswell, mistress of David St. James (Sophie Barton's brother from Paper Woman), becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
Savannah
from 10/9/2008
to 10/12/2008
Jesus Sanchez, author of
Max Science and the Burned Out Bulb Illustrated children's book that teaches the operation of the incandescent lamp
and
Building a Nation One Person at a Time This book is for people seeking meaning in their personal life. It is focused on revealing the maximum potential each individual has to offer.
NORTH CAROLINA
Black Mountain
from 9/17/2008
to 9/18/2008
Char Solomon, author of
Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya This is a biography of a pioneering woman archaeologist who broke into her field when it was a male-dominated, Ivy League profession.
Central Piedmont area
from 9/8/2008
to 9/30/2008
Jesus Sanchez, author of
Max Science and the Burned Out Bulb Illustrated children's book that teaches the operation of the incandescent lamp
and
Building a Nation One Person at a Time This book is for people seeking meaning in their personal life. It is focused on revealing the maximum potential each individual has to offer.
Chapel Hill
from 10/13/2008
to 10/17/2008
Al Manning, author of
The Curmudgeon's Book of Nursery Rhymes Beloved nursery rhymes told with a twist.
Concord
from 10/21/2008
to 10/21/2008
comments Scott Owens, author of
The Fractured World 2008 Collection of poetry
And The Persistence of Faith
1993 collection of poems
from 11/6/2008 to 11/11/2008
Ramona (Ronnie) Stone, author of A Year in the Sun
A book for lovers of the sea, armchair sailors, and incurable dreamers. At age 53, and with no prior sailing experience, Ronnie Stone moves from her armchair beside a dying fire to the deck of a small Voyager 26 to sail, for a year, the Intracoastal Waterway and the Bahama Islands. The book is the true, first-person narrative of that journey. Following the shattering loss of an adult son to AIDS in 1985, Ronnie accepts three spontaneous invitations that change her life. In so doing, she encounters the healing capacity of sea and sky, solitude and companionship, time and timelessness.
Gastonia
from 9/27/2008 to 9/27/2008
Scott Owens, author of The Fractured World
2008 Collection of poetry
And The Persistence of Faith
1993 collection of poems New Bern
from 1/23/2009 to 1/27/2009
Ramona (Ronnie) Stone, author of A Year in the Sun
A book for lovers of the sea, armchair sailors, and incurable dreamers. At age 53, and with no prior sailing experience, Ronnie Stone moves from her armchair beside a dying fire to the deck of a small Voyager 26 to sail, for a year, the Intracoastal Waterway and the Bahama Islands. The book is the true, first-person narrative of that journey. Following the shattering loss of an adult son to AIDS in 1985, Ronnie accepts three spontaneous invitations that change her life. In so doing, she encounters the healing capacity of sea and sky, solitude and companionship, time and timelessness.
Raleigh
from 9/17/2008
to 9/19/2008
Catherine Carter, author of
The Memory of Gills The Memory of Gills is altogether an astonishing, seductive, and finally irresistible book of poems. Carter is a skillful, imaginative, and witty visionary. Here is a poet who hears the voices of the sensate world calling, pleading, cajoling, and although she says, in 'Hearing Things,' 'I don't / know how to answer, what / to say,' don't believe her. She does know. And her poems say what she knows with a zest and inventiveness that no reader will soon forget."--Kathryn Stripling Byer
from 9/27/2008 to 9/27/2008
Suzanne Adair, author of Paper Woman
(Patrick D. Smith Literature Award winner) As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, thirty-three-year-old widow Sophie Barton leaves her home in Georgia to investigate her father's murder and plunges into a hornet's nest of espionage, terror, treachery, and more murder.
And The Blacksmith's Daughter
As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, pregnant seventeen-year-old Betsy Sheridan, daughter of Sophie Barton (Paper Woman), leaves her home in Georgia to track down her Patriot spy husband and becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Camden in South Carolina.
And Camp Follower
As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, journalist Helen Chiswell, mistress of David St. James (Sophie Barton's brother from Paper Woman), becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
from 10/26/2008 to 10/26/2008
Scott Owens, author of The Fractured World
2008 Collection of poetry
And The Persistence of Faith
1993 collection of poems
from 11/1/2008 to 11/30/2008
Karen Dodd, author of Carolina Comfort
Three generations of women from one family with grits, good humor, and crystal bowls full of garden grown flowers. Short stories about growing up in the fifties.
and Carolina Comfort II
Looking back over the past 50 years of life of losing parents and siblings, battling cancer and becoming a grandmother. Short story essays about life and always finding joy and its rewards. Dodd writes in different family voices in this memoir as seen through the eyes of her grandmother, father and granddaughter. Living aboard stories and some fiction with older protagonists also provide enjoyable reading. All the stories in this collection have won awards or been published elsewhere.
And Down East on Nelson Island
Rachel visits her grandfather on an island off the coast of NC and neither her grandfather or she has an idea of what to expect from this first time visit. When the crusty retired fisherman sees the girl in her white Mary Janes and fancy dress, the first thing he does is take her to the island consignment store to outfit her with clothes. She never been to a second hand store much less a yard salae! A pair of twins, an island recluse, a hurricane and a blooming romance turn Arthur Austin's summer into something he never thought he'd enjoy
And Begin Again, Quinn
Quinn Winslow wants to retire to her coastal home to volunteer, garden, cook family recipes and enjoy her new-found wealth, but an ex-husband, an old boyfriend and a new boyfriend have her wondering what is going on. Add to her dilemma the fact that members of her Investment Club are involved in tragic accidents and Quinn decides she must discover the problem before she becomes part of the death statistics.
from 11/13/2008 to 11/13/2008
Suzanne Adair, author of Paper Woman
(Patrick D. Smith Literature Award winner) As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, thirty-three-year-old widow Sophie Barton leaves her home in Georgia to investigate her father's murder and plunges into a hornet's nest of espionage, terror, treachery, and more murder.
And The Blacksmith's Daughter
As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, pregnant seventeen-year-old Betsy Sheridan, daughter of Sophie Barton (Paper Woman), leaves her home in Georgia to track down her Patriot spy husband and becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Camden in South Carolina.
And Camp Follower
As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, journalist Helen Chiswell, mistress of David St. James (Sophie Barton's brother from Paper Woman), becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Selma
from 11/7/2008 to 11/11/2008
Cree Forman author of Phil and The French Country Inn
It has the French blue, red and white stripes down the cover front with an oval picture of the restaurant in the center, between the blue and red stripe
And The French - Captured Completely Book has vertical blue, red and white stripes on front cover. At the top, in the blue stripe, is a picture of St. Jean Pied de Port, in the southwest of France
Salisbury
from 10/20/2008 to 10/20/2008
Scott Owens, author of The Fractured World
2008 Collection of poetry
And The Persistence of Faith
1993 collection of poems
Smithfield
from 2/5/2009
to 2/6/2009
Sherry Austin, author of
The Days Between the Years Southern fiction
and Where the Woodbine Twines
Southern fiction set in the SC lowcountry
and Mariah of the Spirits: and Other Southern Ghost Stories
Literary ghost stories set all over the South
Waynesville
from 9/27/2008
to 9/27/2008
Lorraine Tate, author of Going Home
A story within a story. A contempory saga affected by a Civil War story conveyed in epistolary form.
West Jefferson
from 10/16/2008
to 10/16/2008
Ramona (Ronnie) Stone, author of
A Year in the Sun A book for lovers of the sea, armchair sailors, and incurable dreamers. At age 53, and with no prior sailing experience, Ronnie Stone moves from her armchair beside a dying fire to the deck of a small Voyager 26 to sail, for a year, the Intracoastal Waterway and the Bahama Islands. The book is the true, first-person narrative of that journey. Following the shattering loss of an adult son to AIDS in 1985, Ronnie accepts three spontaneous invitations that change her life. In so doing, she encounters the healing capacity of sea and sky, solitude and companionship, time and timelessness.
Wilmington
from 10/25/2008
to 10/25/2008
and
from 11/15/2008
to 11/15/2008
Suzanne Adair, author of
Paper Woman (Patrick D. Smith Literature Award winner) As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, thirty-three-year-old widow Sophie Barton leaves her home in Georgia to investigate her father's murder and plunges into a hornet's nest of espionage, terror, treachery, and more murder.
And
The Blacksmith's Daughter As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, pregnant seventeen-year-old Betsy Sheridan, daughter of Sophie Barton (Paper Woman), leaves her home in Georgia to track down her Patriot spy husband and becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Camden in South Carolina.
And
Camp Follower As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, journalist Helen Chiswell, mistress of David St. James (Sophie Barton's brother from Paper Woman), becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
Wilson
from 3/16/2009
to 3/18/2009
Catherine Carter, author of
The Memory of Gills The Memory of Gills is altogether an astonishing, seductive, and finally irresistible book of poems. Carter is a skillful, imaginative, and witty visionary. Here is a poet who hears the voices of the sensate world calling, pleading, cajoling, and although she says, in 'Hearing Things,' 'I don't / know how to answer, what / to say,' don't believe her. She does know. And her poems say what she knows with a zest and inventiveness that no reader will soon forget."--Kathryn Stripling Byer
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston
from 1/27/2009
to 1/28/2009
Scott Owens, author of
The Fractured World 2008 Collection of poetry
And The Persistence of Faith
1993 collection of poems
TENNESSEE
Nashville
from 10/10/2008
to 10/12/2008
Elizabeth O. Dulemba, author of
Paco and the Giant Chile Plant ~ Paco y la planta de chile gigante
Paco takes the familiar "Jack and the Beanstalk" tale and gives it more than a few new twists. Told as a fractured fairy tale, our hero, Jack, is now called Paco, and the story takes place in a beautiful desert setting in the American Southwest. The story is presented as an English text with embedded Spanish in rojo. A vocabulary page is included to jump start learning in either language
and
Glitter Girl and the Crazy Cheese Lilly can't go out to play until she finishes her lunch, but what's she to do when the cheese jumps up from her sandwich and runs out the cat door?
And
The Prince's Diary Young Prince Stephen has a problem: how to find the girl he calls Cinderella. He has seen her from afar, but figuring out how to meet her proves difficult. In this charming version of the Cinderella story, take a peek at the Prince's personal diary as he tells the well-known story from his point of view.
Ready for Bed! "I don't want to go to bed!" If you're a parent of a preschool-age child, you've probably heard this before. And you probably know about the crying, fits, and complaining - by both of you - that can follow. Ready for Bed! offers healthy, lasting solutions.
With honesty and gentle humor, each book in the ParentSmart/KidHappy series shows parents how to handle daily transitions by giving encouragement, offering choices, and validating feelings. The result: you get through everyday challenges with less stress while building your child's emotional
Ready for the Day!
Getting a preschooler out the door in the morning can be a frustrating battle of wills complete with crying and complaining - by parents and kids alike. Ready for the Day! offers healthy, lasting solutions.
With honesty and gentle humor, each book in the ParentSmart/KidHappy series shows parents how to handle daily transitions by giving encouragement, offering choices, and validating feelings. The result: you get through everyday challenges with less stress while building your child's emotional
from 10/10/2008 to 10/12/2008
Stacey Kaye, author of Ready for Bed! A Tale of Cleaning Up, Tucking In, and Hardly Any Complaining
Ready for Bed! offers families emotionally healthy, lasting solutions to a common daily struggle: getting kids ready for bed.
Children will love the full-color pictures and tender story, and parents and caregivers will learn the language of positive parenting. With honesty and gentle humor, this book shows parents how to handle bedtime (and other daily transitions) by giving encouragement, offering choices, and validating feelings.
Ready for the Day! A Tale of Teamwork and Toast, and Hardly Any Foot-Dragging
Ready for the Day! offers families emotionally healthy, lasting solutions to a common daily struggle: getting kids ready to go in the morning.
Children will love the full-color pictures and tender story, and parents and caregivers will learn the language of positive parenting. With honesty and gentle humor, this book shows parents how to handle the morning routine (and other daily transitions) by giving encouragement, offering choices, and validating
from 10/10/2008 to 10/12/2008
Linda Lee Harper, author of Kiss Kiss
Winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Competition
VIRGINIA
Chincoteague
from 9/15/2008
to 9/19/2008
Karen Dodd, author of Carolina Comfort
Three generations of women from one family with grits, good humor, and crystal bowls full of garden grown flowers. Short stories about growing up in the fifties.
and Carolina Comfort II
Looking back over the past 50 years of life of losing parents and siblings, battling cancer and becoming a grandmother. Short story essays about life and always finding joy and its rewards. Dodd writes in different family voices in this memoir as seen through the eyes of her grandmother, father and granddaughter. Living aboard stories and some fiction with older protagonists also provide enjoyable reading. All the stories in this collection have won awards or been published elsewhere.
And Down East on Nelson Island
Rachel visits her grandfather on an island off the coast of NC and neither her grandfather or she has an idea of what to expect from this first time visit. When the crusty retired fisherman sees the girl in her white Mary Janes and fancy dress, the first thing he does is take her to the island consignment store to outfit her with clothes. She never been to a second hand store much less a yard salae! A pair of twins, an island recluse, a hurricane and a blooming romance turn Arthur Austin's summer into something he never thought he'd enjoy
And Begin Again, Quinn
Quinn Winslow wants to retire to her coastal home to volunteer, garden, cook family recipes and enjoy her new-found wealth, but an ex-husband, an old boyfriend and a new boyfriend have her wondering what is going on. Add to her dilemma the fact that members of her Investment Club are involved in tragic accidents and Quinn decides she must discover the problem before she becomes part of the death statistics.
Williamsburg
from 12/7/2008
to 12/7/2008
Suzanne Adair, author of
Paper Woman (Patrick D. Smith Literature Award winner) As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, thirty-three-year-old widow Sophie Barton leaves her home in Georgia to investigate her father's murder and plunges into a hornet's nest of espionage, terror, treachery, and more murder.
And
The Blacksmith's Daughter As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, pregnant seventeen-year-old Betsy Sheridan, daughter of Sophie Barton (Paper Woman), leaves her home in Georgia to track down her Patriot spy husband and becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Camden in South Carolina.
And
Camp Follower As the American Revolution batters the Carolinas, journalist Helen Chiswell, mistress of David St. James (Sophie Barton's brother from Paper Woman), becomes entangled in the chaos leading up to the bloody Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
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