Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Kathleen Grissom and Independent Bookstore Day!

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Our events schedule this week is short...
but oh so sweet. Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening we host NY Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom (The Kitchen House), reading from her new novel, Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House.
 
Then Saturday we join more than 400 bookstores across the country in celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with prizes, music, free (temporary) tattoos and more!
 
Next week we welcome the month of May with events with two fine Durham writers.
 
See all the details below
Upcoming Events
KATHLEEN GRISSOM
Wednesday, April 27, 7:00 PM
Bestselling author Kathleen Grissom will discuss and sign her new book, Glory Glory Over Everything. Grissom's first novel, The Kitchen House, depicted the cruelty of slave owners and their overseers through the eyes of the young Irish indentured servant, Lavinia. "Glory Over Everything" revisits this 19th-century southern plantation life, yet works as a stand-alone novel with its focus on Jamie Pyke, a boy raised in the big house at Tall Oaks, who assumes he is white until his heritage is revealed and he escapes the plantation to avoid being sold into slavery.  Jamie grows up, finds a home with a silversmith's family in Philadelphia and mixes with the upper class as he continues to hide his identity-- until Pan, a small boy Jamie agrees to take on as a house servant, is kidnapped by unscrupulous slavers down at the town docks. Jamie's secret compels him to make a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad in a race to rescue Pan.
 
Kathleen Grissom is the New York Times bestselling author of "The Kitchen House." Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the plantation tavern they renovated.
 
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY -- JOIN THE PARTY!
Saturday, April 30, 10:00 AM -- 6:00 PM
YOU ARE INVITED! Celebrate "Independent Bookstore Day" with your IBDay 2016 friends at The Regulator. We are one of 400 Indie Bookshops celebrating nationwide!
 
10:30AM- 11:15AM: Storytime with Paul Clark (Nibbles the Squirrel) and other special guests

11AM -- 6PM: Hourly raffles for customers, with prizes from Vaguely Reminiscent, Durham Cycles, One World Market, Wavelengths Salon, and The Playhouse Toy Store.

12PM -- 4PM: Litograph's™ "World's Longest Tattoo Chain"-- featuring "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" temporary tattoos (as long as supplies last); http://tattoos.litographs.com

1PM -- 2:30PM: Strolling musicians: Jeremy Marcotte (banjo) and Friends
 
And special one-day-only merchandise for sale, such as a Neil Gaiman coloring book, a signed and numbered special edition of "Raimie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo, and "A $6 Story" by Ann Patchett, and more! See our website for details:
 
STUART ALBRIGHT
Tuesday, May 3, 7:00PM
Durham Public Schools "Teacher of the Year" Stuart Albright will discuss his new book, A World Beyond Home: the Education of a Poet, an Athlete, and a New Generation of Students, about student success.
 
Why do some students succeed while others do not?  A World Beyond Home, looks at student success through the eyes of two remarkable young people. George was a drug dealer at age 15; five years later, he was a world-famous spoken-word poet. Siddiq was a gang member who became a college football star with a passion for community service. How did this transformation take place?
 
A World Beyond Home follows George, Siddiq, and a host of other students who have succeeded (and failed) in Stuart Albright's classroom. Their stories illustrate the major obstacles students face in a public school, such as poverty, broken families, identity issues, racism, and finding a purpose in the larger world.  Success, the book argues, has little to do with ability and everything to do with purpose. A World Beyond Home is a call to action for teachers, parents, and an entire generation of students and demonstrates how everyday people can change the world in powerful ways.
 
Stuart Albright earned his B.A. in English and Creative Writing from UNC Chapel Hill and his M.Ed. from Harvard University. For the past 14 years, he has been an English teacher and football coach at Jordan High School. In 2006, Albright was named the Durham Public Schools Teacher of the Year. In 2008, he received the Milken National Educator Award, dubbed the "Oscars of Teaching" by Teacher Magazine. He lives with his wife and sons in Durham.
 
LUCIA POWE
Wednesday, May 4, 7:00PM
Author Lucia Peel Powe will be at The Regulator to read and sign her new book, The Osprey's View. Join us for cake and celebration!
What does an osprey diving for fish and causing an awful boating accident on the Roanoke River have to do with a romance years later in Richmond and Milan? Follow the sly stylings of Lucia Peel Powe in her novella The Osprey's View, as she reveals many keen observations of life and love, of surprises and reversals, in the World War II-era South. Featuring illustrations by Francis Speight, Emily Eve Weinstein, Pamela Henry Pate, Vita Jones, Myra Bowen, Christine Amory Long, and  Elaine O'Neil.
 
Lucia Peel Powe earned her BFA in speech and drama at Wesleyan Conservatory in Macon, Georgia, and later attended UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and East Carolina University for graduate work. Eastern North Carolinians remember her as "Miss Lucia" on the syndicated program, "Romper Room," produced in Greenville, N.C. Over the years she has taught creative writing, speech, drama, music and art history at both college and high school levels.
 
APS CAT/RABBIT ADOPTION EVENT
Sunday, May 8, 2:00 PM
Durham Animal Protection Society will hold a monthly cat and rabbit adoption event at the Regulator. Come visit our furry friends from 2:00 - 3:30. Note the time and date.

Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

Friday, April 22, 2016

Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale this Weekend!

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Shop Local! Shop Ninth Street!
Saturday and Sunday The Regulator will be joining with dozens of our fellow Ninth Street independent businesses in a big, old-time Sidewalk Sale.

Out front we'll have a cart full of "books for a buck, and our usual cart of specially priced books." In the store all the titles in our two newest sections, "Recent and Recommended Books in Translation" and "Blasts from the Past: Recommended Backlist Gems" will be 20% off.

Sidewalk Sale


Participating Businesses Include:
 
Barnes Supply                                                 Massage Envy
 
Bernard's Formal Wear                                  One World Market
 
Cotton Creek                                                   The Playhouse
 
Cozy                                                                  The Regulator Bookshop
 
Dain's Place                                                      Wavelengths
 
Durham Cycles                                                Vaguely Reminiscent
 
Elmo's Diner                                                    Vintage Home South
 
High Strung Music                                           Zola Craft Gallery
 
Hunky Dory                                                      Triangle Cellular Repair


The weather folks say the clouds and rain are gonna' roll away, so Saturday and Sunday should be beautiful days for a stroll down Ninth Street. Come join in the fun!


Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

Monday, April 11, 2016

Lee Smith, Fred Chappell, and more!

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Our cup runneth over these next two weeks...
with visits from Lee Smith (this Thursday), Fred Chappell (Tuesday April 19) and great writers on war, race, and hiking. And there's going to be a great Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale, Saturday and Sunday April 23rd and 24th.  Shop Local--Shop Ninth Street!
Upcoming Events
Monday, April 11, 7:00 p.m.
Join us for a discussion with Matt Gallagher (Youngblood) and Jessica Scott (Long Way Home: One Mom's Journey Home from War). Drawing on their own experiences in the military and as writers, they'll talk about why they write, who the audiences are for their writing, and the role of gender and genre in the production and consumption of military-focused novels.  This event is co-sponsored by the Duke Forum for Scholars and Publics.
Matt Gallagher is a former US Army captain and the author of the acclaimed Iraq War memoir Kaboom, based on the popular and controversial blog he kept while he was deployed. Gallagher's new book, Youngblood, is the story of a young lieutenant committed to doing the right thing while surrounded by precious few who share his vision. The New York Times calls Youngblood "an urgent and deeply moving novel."  Gallagher holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia and has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, among others. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.

Jessica Scott is the USA Today bestselling author of novels set in the heart of America's Army. She is an active duty army officer, a veteran of the Iraq war, the mother of two daughters, and wife to a retired NCO. She has written for the New York Times "At War" blog, War on the Rocks, PBS.org "Point of View" blog, Regarding War: Women and War, and has been featured in Esquire Magazine as an American of the Year in 2012. She holds an MA from Duke, a BA in Cultural Studies from SUNY, and she is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at Duke. She and her family are currently wherever the Army has sent her.


Tuesday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
Please join us for a talk by W. Jason Miller about his book,  Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric. In Origins of the Dream, Miller demonstrates how Langston Hughes's revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King's voice. Miller contends that by employing Hughes's metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet's subversive voice; by using allusion rather than quotation, King avoided intensifying the threats and accusations against him, while allowing the nation to unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind Hughes's poetry.

W. Jason Miller is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture.


Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 p.m.
Civil Right scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. will be at The Regulator to discuss his book, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Cobb describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.

"[A] bracing and engrossing celebration of black armed resistance."  - Publishers Weekly

Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and has taught at Brown University. An award-winning journalist, he is an inductee of the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. Cobb lives in Jacksonville, Florida.


Thursday, April 14, 7:00 p.m.
Dimestore New York Times bestselling author Lee Smith will read from her memoir, Dimestore: A Writer's Life. Set deep in the rugged Appalachian Mountains, the Grundy, West Virginia of Lee Smith's youth was a place of coal miners, mountain music, and her daddy's dimestore. It was in that dimestore--listening to customers and inventing life histories for the store's dolls--that she began to learn the craft of storytelling.

"You know how in Lee Smith's fiction there's always something so fresh, crazy, and loving? In Dimestore is the essence of Lee." -Roy Blount Jr., author of Save Room for Pie

Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and, most recently, Guests on Earth. She lives in Hillsborough with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.


Saturday, April 16, 10:30 a.m. (please note the time)
Courtney Saffie is a former preschool teacher and current dance educator in the Triangle. She is looking forward to sharing all of her favorite children's books with your children, ages 3 to 8. Courtney holds her cozy, inspired story-times every other Saturday morning at 10:30.


Tuesday, April 19, 7:00 p.m.
Fred Chappell will discuss his new book, A Shadow All of Light, a stylish, episodic fantasy novel that follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in a port city with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master shadow thief. A wry humor leavens this fantastical concoction, and the style is as rich and textured as one would hope for from Chappell, a distinguished poet as well as a World Fantasy Award-winning fantasy writer.

Fred Chappell is the award-winning author of more than 20 books of poetry and fiction, including I Am One of You Forever, Brighten the Corner Where You Are, and Look Back All the Green Valley. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

 
Thursday, April 21, 7:00 p.m.
Author Ken Ilgunas will discuss his new book, Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland. (You may remember Ilgunas as the student who lived in his van in order to graduate from Duke debt-free and wrote about his experience in Walden on Wheels.)
Told with sincerity and wit, Trespassing Across America is a fascinating account of one man's remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and as well as a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves-both physically and mentally. Trespassing Across America is a call to embrace the belief that a life lived not half-wild is a life only half-lived.

Ken Ilgunas has a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo in history and English, and an M.A. in liberal studies from Duke University. He is the author of the travel memoir Walden on Wheels and currently lives in Benedict, Nebraska.


NINTH STREET SIDEWALK SALE!
Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24
Take a spring stroll down Ninth Street as The Regulator joins our neighboring independent business for a big old-time sidewalk sale! We'll have lots of special deals out on the sidewalk and in the store.


TEEN LIT FEST
The Durham County Library - Main Library,  300 N. Roxboro St., Durham, NC 27701
Saturday, April 23, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (please note the time and location)
The Durham County Library hosts its inaugural Teen Lit Fest on Saturday, April 23 from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Main library. Meet and learn from popular young adult authors and poets by attending author talks and workshops. Free food, swag and activities throughout the day. Featured authors: Jen McConnel, Nathan Kotecki, John Claude Bemis, Jacqueline Thomas, J.J. Johnson, Deborah Wiles. Books will be offered for sale at the event.
Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/