Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day!

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We'll be joining hundreds of other independent bookstores
on Saturday to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day!

Here at The Regulator there will be a children's story time at 10:30, and we'll be raffling off a book bag full of free books every hour, starting at 11:00.

We'll have an "Oldest Discount Club Membership Card"
contest, with the winner getting a $50.00 gift certificate and two runners-up getting $25.00 gift certificates. (Check the date on your discount club card!). And from 4 to 5 there will be an Open Mic downstairs where folks can
share your favorite poem, story, or passage, or share your favorite Regulator Bookshop story or memory.

We'll be selling nifty Independent Bookstore Day canvas tote bags
(14" x 15"), with original artwork by Lisa Brown, for a mere $12.00.

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Come enjoy some independent spirit! We thank you! 
 
 Our Upcoming Events for the next two weeks.  

You can see our complete events calendar on our website

You are not going want to miss making the acquaintance of one Ms Ginny Moon on Thursday evening May 4th.  As our "friends" at Amazon put it, Ginny Moon is "The Coming of Age Novel Critics Are Raving About." But wait, Amazon will say anything if someone pays them to do it. But no one is paying me a dime to say that this is a wonderful, original, refreshing new novel! Come meet Ginny and her good friend, author Benjamin Ludwig. Refreshments will be served!

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY
Saturday, April 29, 2017, 10:00AM -- 6:00PM  
YOU ARE INVITED! Celebrate "Independent Bookstore Day" with your pals at The Regulator. We are one of 400 Indie Bookshops celebrating nationwide! For more information: http://www.indiebookstoreday.com
IBDay

Here are the events we are currently planning at The Regulator:
▴Kids Story Time with storyteller Amy Godfrey at 10:30AM  
▴Oldest Membership Card contest (customer who presents the oldest Regulator discount club membership card wins a gift-certificate to The Regulator)
▴ Final day IBOP* Field Guide passport-stamping *(Indie Booksellers of the Piedmont; https://www.facebook.com/IBOPNC/)
▴Hourly free raffle of book totes full of Advance Reading Copies
▴Open Mic at The Regulator from 4-5pm -- Read your favorite poem, passage, or share your favorite Regulator Bookshop story or memory
▴Free (digital) audio books from Libro.fm
The Regulator has partnered with Libro.fm and audiobook publishers to offer FREE audio books on Indie Bookstore Day! To receive the free offer, visit The Regulator Bookshop on April 29, 2017 to receive certificates from Libro.fm for a variety of free audio books. 

KEVIN McLAUGHLIN
Sunday, April 30, 4:00PM -- 6:00PM
Kevin McLaughlin comes to The Regulator for a reading and book signing of his new book, Innocent: A Spirit of Resilience. His co-author and the subject of the book, Opwonya Innocent, will attend the event via Skype from Uganda. Opwonya Innocent was born three years after unrest started in northern Uganda and three years before the formation of the anti-government Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony. At ten, Innocent was abducted by Kony's army and taken to a training camp for child soldiers, where brutality and violence became his new reality. Innocent: A Spirit of Resilience reveals, in his own words, Innocent's struggle to heal from the trauma he experienced and a growing awareness of a desire to help others and his tireless effort to realize meaningful, positive change.
 
Kevin McLaughlin has a background in policy and communications work at the local, state and federal government levels. McLaughlin lives in Durham, where he works with local government, nonprofit agencies, local businesses and religious institutions to address issues surrounding social justice, inclusivity and community development. He earned a BA from Miami University in public administration and American studies, and a Master of Public Administration from the UNC--Chapel Hill.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, May 3, 10:15 AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!
Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. Whether on the ground in a traditional storytime or in the air with her aerial storytelling troupe, she loves to bring the joy of books to kids of all ages. With 10 years of experience as a Children's Librarian, Amy Godfrey is known for her energetic musical story times and is bringing that fun to The Regulator every Wednesday!

BENJAMIN LUDWIG
Thursday, May 4, 7PM
The Regulator welcomes Benjamin Ludwig for a reading and book signing of his acclaimed debut novel, Ginny Moon.  
Ludwig See the world differently. Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager- but Ginny is autistic. Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It's a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up.

"Ludwig's excellent debut is both a unique coming-of-age tale and a powerful affirmation of the fragility and strength of families.... Ludwig brilliantly depicts the literal-minded and inventive Ginny."─ Publishers Weekly, starred review

A life-long teacher of English and writing, Benjamin Ludwig lives in New Hampshire with his family. He holds an MAT in English Education and an MFA in Writing. Shortly after he and his wife married they became foster parents and adopted a teenager with autism.  Ginny Moon is his first novel, which was inspired in part by his conversations with other parents at Special Olympics basketball practices. His website is available at www.benjaminludwig.com.

EDWARD BALLEISEN
Friday, May 5, 7:00PM
Professor Edward Balleisen comes to The Regulator for a talk about his new book, Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff.
In this sweeping narrative, Edward Balleisen traces the history of fraud in America-and the evolving efforts to combat it. Starting with an early 19th-century American legal world of "buyer beware," this unprecedented account describes the slow, piecemeal construction of modern regulatory institutions to protect consumers and investors, from the Gilded Age through the New Deal and the Great Society. It concludes with the more recent era of deregulation, which has brought with it a spate of costly frauds, including the savings and loan crisis, corporate accounting scandals, and the recent mortgage-marketing debacle. By tracing how Americans have struggled to foster a vibrant economy without enabling a corrosive level of fraud, this book reminds us that American capitalism rests on an uneasy foundation of social trust.
"Balleisen's lucid, engagingly written mix of institutional and legal history, behavioral economics, and entertaining anecdotes illuminates this land of bilk and money."--Publishers Weekly
Edward J. Balleisen is associate professor of history and public policy and vice provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. He lives in Durham.

KUMARINI SILVA
Monday, May 8, 7:00PM
Professor Kumarini Silva joins us at The Regulator to discuss her new book, Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State.  What is "brown" in-and beyond-the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? Kumarini Silva argues that "brown" is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity; it has also become a concept and strategy of identification-one rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood. Interweaving personal narratives, ethnographic research, Silva maps junctures where the ideological, political, and mediated terrain intersect, resulting in an appetite for all things "brown" (especially South Asian brown) by U.S. consumers, while political and nationalist discourses and legal structures conspire to control brown bodies and argues that the representation mediates and manages the anxieties that come from contemporary global realities, in which brown spaces, like India, Pakistan, and the Middle East pose key economic, security, and political challenges to the United States. While racism is hardly new, what makes this iteration of brown new is that anyone or any group, at any time, can be branded as deviant, as a threat.
 
Kumarini Silva is assistant professor of communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the coeditor of Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture.
 
NOAH BENEZRA STROTE
Tuesday, May 9, 7:00PM
Professor Noah Strote comes to The Regulator for Fascism and How to Overcome It: A Conversation and Book Launch.
Fascism is on everyone's minds. Our focus has been on identifying it and understanding its causes. History, though, provides another set of lessons about how to overcome it. In this talk and discussion, Professor Noah Strote will discuss his work on Germany's transition from fascism to democracy, with attention to the lessons it has for us today.
Noah Benezra Strote is assistant professor of European history at North Carolina State University. His new book, Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany is a bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the 20th century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction. A former fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Strote currently lives in Durham.
 
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, May 10, 10:15AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!
Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. Whether on the ground in a traditional storytime or in the air with her aerial storytelling troupe, she loves to bring the joy of books to kids of all ages. With 10 years of experience as a Children's Librarian, Amy Godfrey is known for her energetic musical story times and is bringing that fun to The Regulator every Wednesday!
 
DAVID BLEVINS
Wednesday, May 10, 7:00PM
David Blevins comes to The Regulator for a talk and signing of his new book, North Carolina's Barrier Islands: Wonders of Sand, Sea, and Sky.
Barrier Islands
Nature photographer and ecologist David Blevins offers an inspiring visual journey to North Carolina's barrier islands. Blevins has captured the incredible natural diversity of North Carolina's coast in singular detail. Featuring over 150 full-color images from Currituck Banks, the Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores, and the islands of the southern coast, North Carolina's Barrier Islands is not only a collection of beautiful images of landscapes, plants, and animals but also an appeal for their conservation.
David Blevins is a nature photographer and forest ecologist based in Raleigh,. His previous book is Wild North Carolina.
 
 
Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Discount Club Sale and Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale!

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Saturday!
Ninth Street and The Regulator are going to be THE PLACE TO BE this Saturday. Shops all up and down the street will be joining us in a big Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale all day long--rain or shine! There will be special deals available from Barnes Supply to Zola Craft Gallery. See a full list below.

Here at The Regulator all the books in the store will be 20% off for members of our discount club, and we'll have a cart full of great bargain books as well.
Shop early and shop often! Hey, even the parking is free on Saturdays! 
Spring sidewalk sale

 Our Upcoming Events for the next two weeks.  

You can see our complete events calendar on our website
  
BENJAMIN C. WATERHOUSE
Thursday, April 20, 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes Benjamin Waterhouse for a discussion about his new book Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States.
Land of Enterprise, a new, gripping history of America-told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present-reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom. Waterhouse's new book is not only a comprehensive look into our past achievements, but offers clues as to how to confront the challenges of today's world: globalization, income inequality, and technological change.

Benjamin C. Waterhouse is a historian of 20th century American politics, business, and capitalism. He is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
 
SPRING DISCOUNT CLUB SALE AND 9TH ST. SIDEWALK SALE
Saturday, April 22, 10AM -- 8PM
Join The Regulator and other fine 9th St. Merchants for our annual Spring Sidewalk Sale! Stroll the length of 9th St. in Durham on Saturday, April 22 for superior quality and value, and great finds!

PLUS, The Regulator's  20% OFF Discount Club Membership Sale is THIS SATURDAY (April 22). For members of our discount club, all books in the store will be 20% off. Come get your Mother's Day/Father's Day/Graduation Day shopping done early. Shop local!

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, April 26, 10:15AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!
Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. Whether on the ground in a traditional storytime or in the air with her aerial storytelling troupe, she loves to bring the joy of books to kids of all ages. With 10 years of experience as a Children's Librarian, Amy Godfrey is known for her energetic musical story times and is bringing that fun to The Regulator!

MICHEL STONE
Wednesday, April 26, 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes Michel Stone, author of the critically acclaimed debut The Iguana Tree, for a reading and book signing of her newest book, Border Child: A Novel. Stone tells the story of Hector and Lilia and their search for a young daughter lost three years earlier during a harrowing border crossing to America. Though their story begins in Mexico as the couple discover a clue revealing what may have happened to their child and ends with Hector forced to choose between two unbearable options that neither he nor Lilia ever imagined possible, their story is ultimately about hope, human dignity, the depth of paternal love, and the lengths to which a parent will go to ensure a child's wellbeing.

"A gripping and politically savvy look at the human impact of current immigration policy and an honest examination of the perils facing desperate immigrants as they travel north."-Kirkus (Starred Review)

Michel Stonehas published more than a dozen stories and essays in various journals and magazines. Her work has appeared numerous times in the Raleigh News & Observer's Emerging Southern Writers series. Stone is a 2011 recipient of the South Carolina Fiction Project Award. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY
Saturday, April 29, 2017, 10:00AM -- 6:00PM  
YOU ARE INVITED! Celebrate "Independent Bookstore Day" with your pals at The Regulator. We are one of 400 Indie Bookshops celebrating nationwide! For more information: http://www.indiebookstoreday.com
IBDay

Here are the events we are currently planning at The Regulator:
▴Kids Story Time with storyteller Amy Godfrey at 10:30AM  
▴Oldest Membership Card contest (customer who presents the oldest Regulator discount club membership card wins a gift-certificate to The Regulator)
▴ Final day IBOP* Field Guide passport-stamping *(Indie Booksellers of the Piedmont; https://www.facebook.com/IBOPNC/)
▴Hourly free raffle of book totes full of ARCs
▴Open Mic at The Regulator from 4-6pm -- Read your favorite poem, passage, or share your favorite Regulator Bookshop story or memory
▴Free (digital) audio books from Libro.fm
The Regulator has partnered with Libro.fm and audiobook publishers to offer FREE audio books on Indie Bookstore Day! To receive the free offer, visit The Regulator Bookshop on April 29, 2017 to receive certificates from Libro.fm for a variety of free audio books. 

KEVIN McLAUGHLIN
Sunday, April 30, 4:00PM -- 6:00PM
Kevin McLaughlin comes to The Regulator for a reading and book signing of his new book, Innocent: A Spirit of Resilience. His co-author and the subject of the book, Opwonya Innocent, will attend the event via Skype from Uganda. Opwonya Innocent was born three years after unrest started in northern Uganda and three years before the formation of the anti-government Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony. At ten, Innocent was abducted by Kony's army and taken to a training camp for child soldiers, where brutality and violence became his new reality. Innocent: A Spirit of Resilience reveals, in his own words, Innocent's struggle to heal from the trauma he experienced and a growing awareness of a desire to help others and his tireless effort to realize meaningful, positive change.

Kevin McLaughlin has a background in policy and communications work at the local, state and federal government levels. McLaughlin lives in Durham, where he works with local government, nonprofit agencies, local businesses and religious institutions to address issues surrounding social justice, inclusivity and community development. He earned a BA from Miami University in public administration and American studies, and a Master of Public Administration from the UNC--Chapel Hill.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, May 3, 10:15 AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!
Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. Whether on the ground in a traditional storytime or in the air with her aerial storytelling troupe, she loves to bring the joy of books to kids of all ages. With 10 years of experience as a Children's Librarian, Amy Godfrey is known for her energetic musical story times and is bringing that fun to The Regulator every Wednesday!

BENJAMIN LUDWIG
Thursday, May 4, 7PM
The Regulator welcomes Benjamin Ludwig for a reading and book signing of his acclaimed debut novel, Ginny Moon.  
Ludwig See the world differently. Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager- but Ginny is autistic. Told in an extraordinary and wholly original voice, Ginny Moon is at once quirky, charming, heartbreaking, and poignant. It's a story about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and about making sense of a world that just doesn't seem to add up.

"Ludwig's excellent debut is both a unique coming-of-age tale and a powerful affirmation of the fragility and strength of families.... Ludwig brilliantly depicts the literal-minded and inventive Ginny."─ Publishers Weekly, starred review

A life-long teacher of English and writing, Benjamin Ludwig lives in New Hampshire with his family. He holds an MAT in English Education and an MFA in Writing. Shortly after he and his wife married they became foster parents and adopted a teenager with autism.  Ginny Moon is his first novel, which was inspired in part by his conversations with other parents at Special Olympics basketball practices. His website is available at www.benjaminludwig.com.

EDWARD BALLEISEN
Friday, May 5, 7:00PM
Professor Edward Balleisen comes to The Regulator for a talk about his new book, Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff.
In this sweeping narrative, Edward Balleisen traces the history of fraud in America-and the evolving efforts to combat it. Starting with an early 19th-century American legal world of "buyer beware," this unprecedented account describes the slow, piecemeal construction of modern regulatory institutions to protect consumers and investors, from the Gilded Age through the New Deal and the Great Society. It concludes with the more recent era of deregulation, which has brought with it a spate of costly frauds, including the savings and loan crisis, corporate accounting scandals, and the recent mortgage-marketing debacle. By tracing how Americans have struggled to foster a vibrant economy without enabling a corrosive level of fraud, this book reminds us that American capitalism rests on an uneasy foundation of social trust.
"Balleisen's lucid, engagingly written mix of institutional and legal history, behavioral economics, and entertaining anecdotes illuminates this land of bilk and money."--Publishers Weekly
Edward J. Balleisen is associate professor of history and public policy and vice provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. He lives in Durham.
 
Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

This week: Two wonderful women writers, two nights in a row!

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Stephanie Powell Watts on Wednesday, Lee Smith on Thursday

Thursday evening we host the marvelous Lee Smith,
in celebration of the paperback release of her thoroughly enjoyable memoir, Dimestore: A Lee Smith 2.0 Writer's Life. If you have yet to spend some time with Lee, or if haven't spent time with her recently, or even if you just had dinner with her last night...you are in for a treat if you come to The Regulator Thursday night at 7:00. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lee Smith is one of our local treasures. See more on Lee and Dimestore in our events listing below.


On Wednesday, the night before Lee Smith's reading, we host a new writer whose first novel is getting incredible reviews from all quarters. No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts is a brilliant recasting of The Great Gatsby among African-Americans in a small town in North Carolina. But I am here to tell you that you don't have to know anything about Gatsby to be completely entranced with this great new novel.
 
Watts Stephanie Powell Watts can flat out write. Wednesday night you will have a chance to catch a remarkable new writer at the very beginning of her career. And you don't have to just take my word on this. Here are some of the early reviews of No One is Coming to Save Us:
 

"Watts is so captivating a writer ... (with) a prose style that renders the common language of casual speech into natural poetry, blending intimate conversation with the rhythms of gossip, town legend, even song lyrics ... What Watts has done here is more captivating than another retread about the persistence of a crook's dream. She's created an indelible story about the substance of a woman's life."
--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
 
"Watts writes about ordinary people leading ordinary lives with an extraordinary level of empathy and attention."
--Jade Chang, The New York Times Book Review
 
"In the best possible way, this is the kind of book that makes a reader yearn for her next one."
--Sarah Begley, Time
 
"It should not go unsaid that the central characters are African-American, a deliberate choice in a narrative that doesn't so much adapt as wink at a classic that kept those kinds of characters on the margins. For the most part, they are still on the margins. But No One Is Coming to Save Us pivots the default lens to spotlight their experience - the poverty surrounding them, the pain they harbor and the peace in letting that pain go. In the hands of a less competent author, this could have devolved into mere voyeurism into the traumas and triumphs of black people. Instead, Watts, with her knowing touch and full-bodied prose, delivers a resonant meditation on life and the comfort both in dreaming and in moving forward."
--Jaleesa M. Jones, USA Today
 
"Watts powerfully depicts the struggles many Americans face trying to overcome life's inevitable disappointments. But it's the compassion she feels for her characters' vulnerability and desires that make the story so relevant and memorable."
--Publishers Weekly

 Our Upcoming Events for the next two weeks. Poetry, sci fi, history, and a Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale!

You can see our complete events calendar on our website

STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS
Wednesday, April 12, 7:00PM
Stephanie Powell Watts joins Travis Mulhauser (Sweetgirl) in conversation about Powell Watts's debut novel, No One is Coming to Save Us --a brilliant recasting of The Great Gatsby among African Americans in the South. A story about the ghosts of the past and departed, as well as the lives of the living, the novel is a complex, post-integrationist tale that charts new territory in the New South. "Stephanie Powell Watts's inspired reimagining of the novel long regarded as the American masterwork of the twentieth century gives soul, body, and voice to those left out of Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American dream."-- Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind and Sempre Susan.
 
Stephanie Powell Watts is an associate professor of English at Lehigh University, and has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Southern Women's Writers Award for Emerging Writer of the Year. She is the author of the short story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need. Travis Mulhauser's novel Sweetgirl was long-listed for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, an Indie Next Pick, and winner of a Michigan Notable Book Award in 2017. He is from northern Michigan and lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife and two children.
 
LEE SMITH
Thursday, April 13, 7:00 p.m.
Bestselling author and Hillsborough darling Lee Smith will read from her memoir, Dimestore: A Writer's Life in celebration of its paperback release. 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.
 
"Smith delivers a memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity."-The New York Times Book Review
 
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.

ERDAĞ GÖKNAR
Saturday, April 15, 7:00PM
Turkish scholar Erdağ Göknar comes to The Regulator for a reading and book signing of his new collection of poetry, Nomadologies --
a significant literary and scholarly work of poetry on Turkish diaspora and Turkish-American cultural conflict. Nomadologies is an insightful collection for readers interested in Turkish and Islamic culture, those interested in questions of exile and definitions of home, and those who are looking for great new lyrical poetry.                  
"Göknar takes us on a dazzling virtual world tour encompassing history, aesthetics, and politics, from Bosnia to Chechnya to the Silk Road to Union Square and back to the place that was once the center of the civilized world, Istanbul/Constantinople." -Richard Tillinghast, author of An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul

Erdağ Göknar (MFA, Univ. of Oregon) is the award-winning translator of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's A Mind at Peace. A recipient of two Fulbright awards, he teaches Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke, and directs the Duke University Middle East Studies Center. Nomadologies is his first collection of poetry.  
   
JOHN KESSEL
Tuesday, April 18, 7:00PM
Science fiction writer John Kessel will read from and sign copies of his Moon and the other newest book, The Moon and the Other. One of the most visionary writers in the field, Kessel has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war.

"The future has seldom been imagined with such intensity of detail. John Kessel has shot the moon with this book."  Karen Joy Fowler

John Kessel lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, novelist Therese Anne Fowler. He is a professor and the director of creative writing at North Carolina State University. He is the author of The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories and Corrupting Dr. Nice.
 
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, April 19, 10:15AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator Bookshop. Free!
With 10 years of experience as a Children's Librarian, Amy Godfrey is known for her energetic musical story times and is bringing that fun to The Regulator on Wednesday mornings.
 
BENJAMIN C. WATERHOUSE
Thursday, April 20, 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes Benjamin Waterhouse for a discussion about his new book Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States.
The Land of Enterprise, a new, gripping history of America-told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present-reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom. Waterhouse's new book is not only a comprehensive look into our past achievements, but offers clues as to how to confront the challenges of today's world: globalization, income inequality, and technological change.

Benjamin C. Waterhouse is a historian of 20th century American politics, business, and capitalism. He is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
 
SPRING DISCOUNT CLUB SALE AND 9TH ST. SIDEWALK SALE
Saturday, April 22, 10AM -- 8PM
Join The Regulator and other fine 9th St. Merchants for our annual Spring Sidewalk Sale! Stroll the length of 9th St. in Durham on Saturday, April 22 for superior quality and value, and great finds!

PLUS, The Regulator's  20% OFF Discount Club Membership Sale is THIS SATURDAY (April 22). For members of our discount club, all books in the store will be 20% off. Come get your Mother's Day/Father's Day/Graduation Day shopping done early. Shop local!
 
Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/