Durham writer Nancy Henderson-James will read from and sign copies of her new book\, At Home Abroad\: An American Girl in Africa. In this memoir of growing up in colonial Angola with her missionary parents\, Henderson-James learns five languages\, goes away to school at nine\, and travels 1500 miles for high school in Rhodesia. And then when war breaks out in 1961\, she must find her way in an alien America (Tacoma\, Washington).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090827T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090827T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/valarie-schwartz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/valarie-schwartz SUMMARY:Valarie Schwartz DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090828T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090828T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/peters-pajama-party URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/peters-pajama-party SUMMARY:Peter's Pajama Party DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090904T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090904T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/peters-pajama-party-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/peters-pajama-party-0 SUMMARY:Peter's Pajama Party DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090909T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090909T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/katy-munger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/katy-munger SUMMARY:Katy Munger DESCRIPTION:Durham author Katy Munger will launch her two new mysteries with a reading and book signing. Bad Moon on the Rise is the new title in the Casey Jones series and Desolate Angel is the first in her new Dead Detective series\, written under the penname Chaz McGee. "\;Chaz McGee has an irresistibly rueful\, melancholy voice that invites readers to remember that we all make mistakes—and that we all deserve a shot at redemption. Also\: We all need to stop and smell the doughnuts\,"\; writes Laura Lippman.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090910T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090910T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/joanna-smith-rakoff URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/joanna-smith-rakoff SUMMARY:Joanna Smith Rakoff DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090915T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090915T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/mac-mccaughan-laura-ballance URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/mac-mccaughan-laura-ballance SUMMARY:Mac McCaughan & Laura Ballance DESCRIPTION:Founders of Merge Records in Durham\, Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance\, will discuss and sign copies of the new book they wrote with John Cook\, Our Noise\: The Story of Merge Records\, the Indie Label that Got Big and Stayed Small. “One of the most respected imprints in an often disreputable industry\, Merge has defied the odds by releasing some of the finest rock and pop music of the last 15 years\,” writes the Chicago Tribune. Mac and Laura are two of the members of the pop-punk band Superchunk. Mac and Laura will play some of their favorite Merge songs and show some slides—and we’ll offer beer and wine. (We’ll also play the 20th anniversary Merge Records sampler CD.) Check out the site\, www.ournoisebook.com.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090916T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090916T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/holly-goddard-jones URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/holly-goddard-jones SUMMARY:Holly Goddard Jones DESCRIPTION:Holly Goddard Jones will read from and sign copies of her new short story collection\, Girl Trouble. These geographically linked stories create a composite image of life in Roma\, Kentucky-haunting in its blankness-and address issues of compassion\, caretaking\, identity and growth. "\;Compelling and full of heartache\, these stories are so beautifully written you won't want them to end\,"\; writes Kim Edwards\, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090917T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090917T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/long-story-short-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/long-story-short-0 SUMMARY:Long Story Short DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090919T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090919T183000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/elders-writing-memoir URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/elders-writing-memoir SUMMARY:Elders Writing Memoir DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090921T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090921T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/good-reads-current-classic-fiction URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/good-reads-current-classic-fiction SUMMARY:Good Reads\: Current & Classic Fiction DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090922T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090922T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/mardy-grothe-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/mardy-grothe-1 SUMMARY:Mardy Grothe DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T082852Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090923T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090923T230000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/jill-mccorkle URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/jill-mccorkle SUMMARY:Jill McCorkle DESCRIPTION:North Carolina author Jill McCorkle will read from and sign copies of her new short story collection\, Going Away Shoes. "\;These stories provide what brilliant fiction always provides—insight\, felt life\, voices of others\, fascination—but more than anything else\, they give pleasure\,"\; writes author Richard Bausch. Award-winning McCorkle is the author of eight previous books—three story collections and five novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. She teaches writing at NCSU.
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