"Happiness." At the bookshop Tuesday night!

A few words about a very special event The Regulator is hosting Tuesday evening   ...author Heather Harpham reading from and discussing her new memoir, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After.    Happiness tells the story of a struggle with a deadly illness, culminating, in the last half of the book, with most of a year spent at Duke Hospital. As anyone who has spent considerable time in hospitals knows, they are places of hope and fear, of life and death, of pain and suffering, of healings, endings and new beginnings ----- and Happiness encompasses all of this, made especially acute by the fact that the patient here is Heather Harpham's three-year-old daughter Gracie, whom she has brought to Duke to undergo a high-stakes but finally life-saving bone marrow transplant.   Heather Harpham will be joined Tuesday by Bobbie, the nurse who oversaw Gracie's (and Heather's) care. See you there.   "Utterly gorgeous. . .heartbreaking. . . staggering. . . If you're looking for a book to love, I recommend it. . . .[Happiness] is told in riveting, plot-twisting fashion. . . .But I'll say that it's also told with care and courage and humor, and it will deepen your understanding of not just life with a sick child, but life." -Chicago Tribune
Upcoming Events HEATHER HARPHAM in conversation with BOBBIE, RN Tuesday, August 22, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Heather Harpham in conversation with Bobbie, the Duke pediatric nurse featured in Harpham's new memoir, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After. Durham and Duke Children's Hospital figure prominently in this shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.   At first glance, Happiness is a wry, honest, captivating story about parenting a sick child and that would be enough. But it turns out that Harpham is up to something even more interesting here, exploring the complexities of love. Told with abundant charm and insight, this book is a beautifully drawn portrait of one family--its comforts, disappointments and, on the very best days, moments of grace." -Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, bestselling author of The Nest   "An extraordinary and bewitching book, Happiness has staked a claim among the most beautiful and moving portraits of parenthood and partnership." -Susan Cheever, bestselling author of Treetops: A Memoir and Home Before Dark Heather Harpham has written six solo plays, including Happiness and BURNING which toured nationally. Her fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in MORE Magazine and Water~Stone Review. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and SUNY Purchase and lives along the Hudson River with her family.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, August 23, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free! Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. 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!   DAWN RENO LANGLEY Thursday, August 24, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Dawn Reno Langley for a reading and book signing of her new book, The Mourning Parade: A Novel. Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two young sons were killed in a school shooting. Desperate to find relief from her unspeakable loss, she volunteers as a veterinarian on an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, but soon realizes she may be in over her head. Battling the memories that torment her day and night, Natalie must find a way to heal an angry, injured elephant named Sophie. Through love, acceptance, and gentle care, Natalie and Sophie heal together, finding new ways to enjoy life again. Dawn Reno Langley is a Fulbright scholar with an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Union College. She lives in Durham, NC. Reno Langley will donate a portion of her proceeds from The Mourning Parade to various animal sanctuaries in the United States and Thailand.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, August 30, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   JOCELYN OLCOTT Thursday, August 31, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Duke professor Jocelyn Olcott for a reading and signing of her new book, International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History.   Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was a watershed moment in transnational feminism that launched a new generation of activist networks that spanned continents, ideologies, and generations. How did organizers juggle geopolitical rivalries and material constraints amid global political and economic instability? International Women's Year looks at how these sometimes combative, unanticipated encounters at the conference generated the most enduring legacies, including women's networks across the global south, greater attention to the intersectionalities of marginalization, and the arrival of women's micro-credit on the development scene. Jocelyn Olcott is associate professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico and the co-editor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico.
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Discount Club Sale! Thursday through Sunday

All books in the store will be 20% off for members of our discount club--tomorrow (Thursday) through Sunday        We'll also be "giving away" (for a mere $2.00) an assortment of cloth book bags. (Which you will need to help you carry all the books you're going to buy...). Cheaper still, we'll have a big selection of snazzy book posters available for only $1.00 each. The sale discount applies to most special orders placed or picked up during the sale as well. If you can't make it to the store, the sale terms will be available for orders placed through our website. Shop early and often! And come by the store Thursday evening to hear our former staffer, Emily Colin, now a best-selling author, read from her new book. (See below). Thank you for your support of The Regulator, Durham's all-inclusive, open, welcoming, safe community gathering place for more than 40 years.
Emily Colin Thursday night EMILY COLIN Thursday, August 17, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes NYTimes bestselling author and former Regulator staffer Emily Colin (The Memory Thief) for a reading and signing of her new book, The Dream Keeper's Daughter, about an extraordinary time-bending journey from present-day South Carolina to historical 19th-century Barbados. Eight years after the unsolved disappearance of her boyfriend Max Adair, archaeologist Isabel Griffin has managed to rebuild with her young daughter, Finn -- her last tie to Max. But after a series of strange incidents, Isabel begins to wonder if Max might still be alive somewhere, trying to communicate with her. Max has slipped through time and place, landing on his ancestral family plantation in 1816 Barbados, on the eve of a historic slave uprising. As Isabel searches for answers, Max must figure out not only how to survive the violence to come, but how to get back to his own century, the woman he loves, and the daughter he has only met in his dreams. Emily Colin's debut novel, The Memory Thief was been a New York Times bestseller and a Target Emerging Authors Pick. Besides working for The Regulator, Colin's diverse life experience includes organizing a Coney Island tattoo and piercing show, hauling fish at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, roaming New York City as an itinerant teenage violinist, helping launch two small publishing companies, and serving as the associate director of DREAMS of Wilmington, a nonprofit dedicated to immersing youth in need in the arts. Originally from Brooklyn, she lives in Wilmington with her family.
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Book Therapy. Live Longer (and better) when you Read Books!

Get lost in a book. Pay (a little?) less attention to the news. You'll be more empathetic and you'll likely live longer as well.     I started out today to write about the therapeutic effects of "getting lost in a book" in this time of stressful political and social events. Then I stumbled on some published research that proved my case. To wit:   When researchers at Yale looked at 12 years of survey data about the reading habits and health of more than 3,600 men and women, those who read books for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 percent less likely to die over 12 years of follow-up than those who didn't read at all, and those who read more than that were 23 percent less likely to die. Book readers lived an average of almost two years longer than those who did not read at all. The researchers found a similar association among those who read newspapers and periodicals, but it was weaker. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/read-books-live-longer/?_r=0 And then there was the 2013 Dutch study in which students asked to read an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery showed a marked increase in empathy one week later, while students tasked with reading a sampling of news articles showed a decline. And a second study showed that reading literary fiction especially increased empathy.    So take a break from obsessing about the news and get lost in a good book. For lots of reasons, you'll be glad you did. Trigger Warning: What follows is an anti-Amazon rant! The research doesn't mention this, but we're pretty sure the positive effects of reading books are especially strong when the books have been purchased at an independent bookstore. Books purchased from Amazon likely come freighted with the negative after-effects of the inhumane working conditions in Amazon's warehouses--a "Darwinian culture" that was approvingly described as "like being in a slave camp" by Britain's Financial Times (hardly a raging leftist publication).https://www.ft.com/content/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a But if you want a raging leftist confirmation of the Financial Times report, see Jim Hightower's "Thinking of Amazon Workers This Holiday Season," which has details of actual working conditions in an Amazon warehouse. Who knew that Jeff Bezos was named the "World's Worst Boss" by the International Trade Union Confederation? So how do we feel about doing business with a company that treats people the way Amazon does? Good Reading From the looks of our bestseller list, our customers are of two minds about what they want to read these days: books about the current goings-on in our fair nation, or Anything But books about the current the current goings-on. I fall more into the "Anything But" category myself, though I am drawn sometimes to other side (see Nancy MacLean's book, below). In the Anything But category, our customers are reading: --Commonwealth by Ann Patchett --All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr --Today Will be Different by Maria Semple --The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben --Theft by Finding by David Sedaris   Our Current Goings-On bestsellers include: --Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean --On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder --No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein If you want to read some great novels that can enlarge your understanding of small town, working-class America, I highly recommend the work of Richard Russo and Elizabeth Strout, especially --Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo --My Name is Lucy Barton and Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout   Finally, the book I am reading right now is The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen, and I am finding it truly fascinating. Partanen is Finnish, but she moved to the U.S. in 2008, when she was in her early 30's. Her book is a thoughtful, judicious comparison of American and Nordic life and societies, and she makes a strong case that the Nordic approach allows their citizens to enjoy more individual freedom and independence than we have here in America.
Upcoming Events You can see our complete events calendar on our website   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME IS CANCELLED FOR TODAY Wednesday, August 9 SORRY! Story Time is CANCELLED for today. Our Storyteller is visiting Rapunzel... Don't worry, she will be back next week! SAVOR THE SOUTH with NANCIE MCDERMOTT and TEMA FLANAGAN Thursday, August 10, 7:00PM Critically-acclaimed cookbook authors Nancie McDermott (Fruit) and Tema Flanagan (Corn) come to The Regulator for a reading and signing of their newest cookbooks, part of UNC's Press's Savor the South® Cookbook series. With gorgeous photographs and expert recipes and commentary, these books make lovely gifts for the foodie, cookbook lover, new groom, or host in your life. Fruit collects a dozen of the South's bountiful locally sourced fruits in a cook's basket of 54 luscious dishes, savory and sweet -- from old-school Grape Hull Pie to Mayhaw Jelly-Glazed Shrimp, Fresh Fig Pie and Thai-Inspired Watermelon-Pineapple Salad. McDermott also illuminates how the South encompasses diverse subregional culinary traditions when it comes to fruit. Her recipes, including a favorite piecrust, provide a treasury of ways to relish southern fruits at their ephemeral peak and to preserve them for enjoyment throughout the year. Flanagan's treasury of 51 recipes in Corn emphasize seasonality. High summer calls for fresh corn eaten on the cob or shaved into salads, sautés, and soups. When fall and winter come, it's time to make cornmeal biscuits, muffins, cobblers, and hotcakes, along with silky spoonbread and sausage-studded cornbread stuffing. Flanagan's Corn also surveys corn's culinary history--its place in Native American culture, its traditional role on the southerner's table, and the exciting new ways it is enjoyed in southern kitchens today; dishes range from Southern classic, contemporary, to globally influenced. Without Corn--or Zea Mays-- Flanagan writes, the South would cease to taste like the South. Nancie McDermott (Fruit) is a North Carolina native, cooking teacher, and author of thirteen cookbooks, including her latest, Southern Soups and Stews: From Burgoo and Gumbo to Etouffee and Fricassee. Tema Flanagan (Corn) is a farmer at The Farm at Windy Hill, a sustainable production and teaching farm in Alabama. She cowrote, with Sara Foster, Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen. APS CAT ADOPTION EVENT Sunday, August 13, 2:00PM Durham Animal Protection Society will hold a monthly cat adoption event at the Regulator. Come visit our furry friends from 2:00 - 3:30. Note the time and date. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, August 16, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free! Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. 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!    NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (NFAA) Wednesday, August 16, 6:15PM -- 7:45PM For more information: http://www.meetup.com/Durham-Chapel-Hill-Chapter-Nonfiction-Authors-Association EMILY COLIN Thursday, August 17, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes NYTimes bestselling author and former Regulator staffer Emily Colin (The Memory Thief) for a reading and signing of her new book, The Dream Keeper's Daughter, about an extraordinary time-bending journey from present-day South Carolina to historical 19th-century Barbados. Eight years after the unsolved disappearance of her boyfriend Max Adair, archaeologist Isabel Griffin has managed to rebuild with her young daughter, Finn -- her last tie to Max. But after a series of strange incidents, Isabel begins to wonder if Max might still be alive somewhere, trying to communicate with her. Max has slipped through time and place, landing on his ancestral family plantation in 1816 Barbados, on the eve of a historic slave uprising. As Isabel searches for answers, Max must figure out not only how to survive the violence to come, but how to get back to his own century, the woman he loves, and the daughter he has only met in his dreams. Emily Colin's debut novel, The Memory Thief was been a New York Times bestseller and a Target Emerging Authors Pick. Besides working for The Regulator, Colin's diverse life experience includes organizing a Coney Island tattoo and piercing show, hauling fish at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, roaming New York City as an itinerant teenage violinist, helping launch two small publishing companies, and serving as the associate director of DREAMS of Wilmington, a nonprofit dedicated to immersing youth in need in the arts. Originally from Brooklyn, she lives in Wilmington with her family. HEATHER HARPHAM in conversation with BOBBIE, RN Tuesday, August 22, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Heather Harpham in conversation with Bobbie, the Duke pediatric nurse featured in Harpham's new memoir, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After. Durham and Duke Children's Hospital figure prominently in this shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices. At first glance, Happiness is a wry, honest, captivating story about parenting a (desperately) sick child and that would be enough. But it turns out that Harpham is up to something even more interesting here, exploring the complexities of love. Told with abundant charm and insight, this book is a beautifully drawn portrait of one family--its comforts, disappointments and, on the very best days, moments of grace." -Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, bestselling author of The Nest "An extraordinary and bewitching book, Happiness has staked a claim among the most beautiful and moving portraits of parenthood and partnership." -Susan Cheever, bestselling author of Treetops: A Memoir and Home Before Dark Heather Harpham has written six solo plays, including Happiness and BURNING which toured nationally. Her fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in MORE Magazine and Water~Stone Review. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and SUNY Purchase and lives along the Hudson River with her family.
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