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Join us for an evening of page-ripping fun! You'll learn about book selection, preparation and treatments and leave with pages of ideas and techniques to incorporate into your own altered books.
Johnny Folsom Four & the Canady Thomas Band (Country) – Part of the Wild Card Wednesday Series
We're delighted to host the Bull Spec third annual summer speculative fiction event, led by editor Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, on Saturday, August 3, at 7 p.m.
The authors of two new Savor the South cookbooks join us on Sunday, August 4, at 3 p.m.: Miriam Rubin with Tomatoes and Kelly Alexander with Peaches.
Anne Marie Pace presents Vampirina Ballerina Hosts a Sleepover on Monday, August 5, at 10 a.m. at a special Storytime.
She wears many hats: activist, attorney, writer, and award-winning author. With honesty, candor, and humor, Melody Moezzi now shares Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life with us on Wednesday, August 7, at 7:30 p.m. She chronicles her experiences as a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.
Balaban and Makuck: Double Event at Quail Ridge Books
Movies By Moonlight: SECRETARIAT at Booth Amphitheatre
He's back - both author Howard Owen and protagonist Willie Mays Black. Publishers Weekly wanted a sequel to Oregon Hill, and now both action and Willie are back in The Philadelphia Quarry. Find out what's new with this crime-investigating reporter on Sunday, August 11, at 3 p.m.
Taylor Mathis gets us in the mood on Thursday, August 15, at 7:30 p.m. with The Southern Tailgating Cookbook: A Game-Day Guide for Lovers of Food, Football, and the South.
Movies By Moonlight: LES MISERABLES at Booth Amphitheatre
Movies By Moonlight: PITCH PERFECT at Booth Amphitheatre
Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed-media works acquired by the Museum in the last 10 years.
Nancy Olson loved Marly Youmans' A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage - "Destined to be an American classic." Now Marly Youmans returns on Wednesday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. with the paperback edition. She'll also be reading selections from two new books of poetry!
Wilton Barnhardt Debuts Lookaway, Lookaway at Quail Ridge Books