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Brock Clarke will read from and sign copies of his marvelously titled novel, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England (now available in paperback). After spending 10 years in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson’s house and killing two people in the process, Sam Pulsifer ... (mere)is determined to start a new life. But when the houses of Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne start going up in smoke, Sam's past comes back to haunt him. In this comic, literary "whodunit," Clarke manages to skewer just about everything in today's literary culture—authors, fictional memoirs and factual novels, bookstores, reading groups, English professors, and even Harry Potter.

Screening of "Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound" with an introduction by filmmaker Martha King and "Let the World Listen Right" with an introduction by filmmaker Ali Neff. All events planned for outdoors in front of Wilson Library. In the event of rain, events will be held inside Wilson ... (mere)Library in the lobby and Pleasants Family Assembly Room. Refreshments and live music prior to screenings

Renowned storyteller Lloyd Arneach treats us to his LONG AGO STORIES OF THE EASTERN CHEROKEE, an insightful look into the folklore and lives of the Cherokee past and present. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com ... (mere) (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Duke physician Paul Austin will kickoff the publication of his new memoir, Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the ER, with a reading and book signing. Austin—"the ER doc you’d hope to get if something really bad happened"—provides a revealing account of the daily ... (mere)trials and tribulations of those who work in emergency rooms everywhere, and the toll this kind of work has taken on his own life.

Screening of "A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle" by Tom Davenport, Allen Tullos and Dan Patterson, with an introduction by Prof. Alvis Dunn. All events planned for outdoors in front of Wilson Library. In the event of rain, events will be held inside Wilson Library in the lobby and Pleasants ... (mere)Family Assembly Room. 7:00 pm Refreshments and live music prior to screenings

Reading by Anna Ragland Hayes from her biography of Susie Sharp, the first woman judge in North Carolina and the first woman in the United States elected chief justice of a state supreme court. Ms. Hayes explores the public and private life of a remarkable woman. 5:00 pm Reception, Melba Remig Saltarelli ... (mere)Room 5:45 pm Program, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library

Cyma Rubin presents her unique THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, THE CIVIL WAR TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. The book includes 116 enlarged photographs (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) dating back to the Civil War and the dawn of the photographic era. This is an intimate and historical ... (mere)look into the lives of America's fighting forces. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Quotation maven Mardy Grothe will discuss and sign copies of his new book, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes. Grothe, the author of Oxymoronica, Viva la Repartee, and Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You, is sure ... (mere)to entertain, educate, and inspire everyone who loves quotations.

Cyma Rubin presents her unique THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, THE CIVIL WAR TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. The book includes 116 enlarged photographs (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) dating back to the Civil War and the dawn of the photographic era. This is an intimate and historical ... (mere)look into the lives of America's fighting forces. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Here's an afternoon treat for young, aspiring writers. Diane Berry presents her new novel, PORT CITY PIRATES, about teens who set about solving a centuries' old haunting on the N.C. coast. She also discusses the writing process. For ages 9 and up. Why the unusual time for the program? Her ... (mere)program "bridges" the meetings of the Elementary and Battle of the Books clubs. You don't have to be attending either club to come to Diane Berry's program. But if you're in either club, consider adjusting your departure or arrival time accordingly. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Come find out what's on the itinerary for this month's Travel Book Club! We're off to Italy this September for a little football as John Grisham leaves the lawyers behind for Playing for Pizza. (But mostly we just eat!)

Buddhist meditation teacher and organic gardening mentor Wendy Johnson will read from and sign copies of her new book, Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World. Johnson, who has been gardening and meditating at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in northern California for ... (mere)thirty years, shares in this book both her practical knowledge and her insights into inner and outer growth.

Award-winning journalist Alan Weisman will discuss and sign copies of his new book, The World Without Us, which teases out the consequences of a simple thought experiment: What would happen if the human species were suddenly extinguished? Weisman's enthralling tour of the world of tomorrow explores ... (mere)what little will remain of ancient times, while anticipating—often poetically—what a planet without us would be like.

North Carolina author Dan Barefoot will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices: 220 Years of UNC History. This collection of first-person accounts of life at Carolina includes what men like Bill Friday or Frank Porter Graham said about their time there, as well as ... (mere)Andy Griffith telling about how he couldn't afford the tuition until disability aid for a bad back and work as a cafeteria bus boy allowed him to continue his studies.

Dr. Paul Austin gives us medicine from the doctor's perspective in SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN: ONE DOCTOR'S ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE ER. You see an eye-opening account of life in the ER by a Durham doctor. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (mere)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Lawyer Anna Hayes will discuss and sign copies of her new biography, Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp. Sharp's public life—which included being the first woman judge in North Carolina and the first female chief justice of a state supreme court—is an interesting story of feminism, ... (mere)lawyering, and party politics. But this book also tells a totally unexpected personal story, based on well-documented journals and letters, and revealing a life much more complex than Sharp's public persona.

Fresh off our summer fare of North Carolina mysteries, it's time for something a little more exotic! Come enjoy the East Regional Library's newest book club as we discuss John Burdett's Bangkok 8! It's going to be a wild ride through the seamy streets ... (mere)of Thailand!

Dr. Paul Austin gives us medicine from the doctor's perspective in SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN: ONE DOCTOR'S ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE ER. You see an eye-opening account of life in the ER by a Durham doctor. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 ... (mere)or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Katherine Min will read from and sign copies of her novel, Secondhand World, which is newly available in paperback. Isolation pervades this haunting debut, a depiction of a tragedy-beset Korean-American family living in upstate New York during the aftermath of the Korean War. Min's rendering ... (mere)of an outsider family's tight-knit alienation is spot-on. Secondhand World was a PEN/Bingham finalist.

Christopher Paolini's hugely popular INHERITANCE cycle continues in the eagerly anticipated BRISINGR. It's available just after midnight on Saturday, September 20. So we're counting down the final moments in style with our fabulous party at 11! Come see real expert swordplay, courtesy of NBS GYM of ... (mere)Raleigh! Reserve your copy of BRISINGR now.

Join Little Bookworms to celebrate the release of Brisingr, the highly anticipated 3rd installment of the Inheritance Cycle. Activities will include: Breakfast food Trivia Sword-fighting Costume Contest Dragon egg hunt Ancient language quiz There's no need to stay up until midnight when Little Bookworms ... (mere)is planning another great event! Pre-order your book today and get a free Eragon mouse pad (while supplies last).

Diesel Bookstore is proud to welcome back Irvine Welsh, the bestselling author of Trainspotting as he presents his newest book, Crime. As Welsh's very first novel set in the U.S., CRIME is a shocking and gripping story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul, and the possibilities for redemption.

Bob Moser presents BLUE DIXIE: AWAKENING THE SOUTH'S DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. He builds a powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democratic Party. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (mere)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Bob Moser presents BLUE DIXIE: AWAKENING THE SOUTH'S DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. He builds a powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democratic Party. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (mere)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

*Rescheduled from Sept. 2* Former Independent writer Bob Moser will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority, which details both the changes that have reshaped the Southern vote and how the Democratic Party can build a new progressive majority that ... (mere)includes the South. A native North Carolinian, Moser is an award-winning correspondent for The Nation.

David Leavitt will discuss and sign copies of his recent book, now available in paperback, The Indian Clerk. This richly imagined historical novel relates the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown and unschooled mathematical genius. The ... (mere)Indian Clerk was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award and a New York Times Notable Book.

How does a minor character in a book get the author to give him more limelight? You'll get to ask William Conescu that when he presents his new novel, BEING WRITTEN, a swift and nicely structured dark comedy from a new N.C. writer. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, ... (mere)call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

An evening with Tar Heel political ephemera collector Lew Powell and political reporter/historian Rob Christensen. Powell, also a reporter and editor for the Charlotte Observer, will talk about political memorabilia including favorite examples from his recent gift to the North Carolina Collection. Christensen, ... (mere)author of The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics (UNC Press, 2008), will share observations about the political history of the Old North State. 5:00 pm Reception, North Carolina Collection Gallery 5:45 pm Program, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library

Anna Hayes joins us with her biography WITHOUT PRECEDENT: THE LIFE OF SUSIE MARSHALL SHARP. With unrestricted access to Sharp's papers, Hayes uncovers the story of a brilliant woman who not only transcends the limits of her time but also had a rich and unsuspected private life. Can’t ... (mere)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Anna Hayes joins us with her biography WITHOUT PRECEDENT: THE LIFE OF SUSIE MARSHALL SHARP. With unrestricted access to Sharp's papers, Hayes uncovers the story of a brilliant woman who not only transcends the limits of her time but also had a rich and unsuspected private life. Can’t make it? ... (mere) To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT; receive a ticket with the purchase of LIBERTY. The host and author of Prairie Home Companion brings a new tale of Lake Wobegon as it's always been—good loving people who drive each other crazy! Hear about LIBERTY, the latest Lake Wobegon novel. ... (mere) Garrison Keillor is signing back list books and personalizing. Photography is allowed, so bring your camera! Tickets are $5 each. Or, receive a free ticket with the purchase of LIBERTY. The program ticket also serves as your signing line ticket. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

To top off Gay Pride events in Durham, Jeffery Beam will read from and sign copies of his new book, The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007. These poems from native North Carolinian Beam were originally published in many of the most important gay magazines and anthologies of the past ... (mere)decades, and include three longer poem sequences on love, friendship and spirituality.

J. Kameron Carter will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Race: A Theological Account. This study—-which demonstrates great intellectual range and theological imagination—-provides an insightful analysis of race as it has been constructed in modern philosophy and religion. Carter is an associate ... (mere)professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke University Divinity School.

William Conescu will read from and sign copies of his debut novel, Being Written, in which the hero of the story "hears the author’s pencil scratching away and starts performing drastic acts to win more page-time from the book's other characters... Ionesco, eat your heart out. I suppose you could ... (mere)argue the hero is simply nuts, but I'd rather argue that William Conescu is simply a genius," writes Wilton Barnhardt. Conescu graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and earned an MFA in creative writing at NCSU.

It was the largest drug bust in U.S. history, and it happened here. Learn the story from Doug McCullough when he presents SEA OF GREED. This NC Court of Appeals judge tells the true story of the investigation and prosecution of Manuel Noriega and the largest drug ring in US history that stretched from ... (mere)the NC coast to Panama. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Comic Jeremy Greenberg presents RELATIVE DISCOMFORT: THE FAMILY SURVIVAL GUIDE — just in time for the holidays! There are many how-to books. Finally, here is a book on how to laugh your way through any and every stressful family encounter. Jeremy will be here before his evening stand up comic gig. Can’t ... (mere)make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Stand-up comedian and writer Jeremy Greenberg will read from and sign copies of his new book, Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival Guide. If you've ever had a knot in your stomach before a family event, this is the book that will help you laugh your way through any and every stressful family ... (mere)encounter. Greenberg has written for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes, Comics Unleashed, Atlantic Business Magazine, and American Jewish Life Magazine.

Anderson will read from and sign copies of the book he recently co-authored with Brian Herbert, Paul of Dune. What happened during the twelve-year period between Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpieces Dune and Dune Messiah? Fans long intrigued with the enigmatic Paul Muad'Dib, heir to the ... (mere)House of Atreides, will find his younger years chronicled in this new novel and many questions answered.

Two great arts are mixed in Lenard Moore's A TEMPLE LOOMING: POEMS. Old black and white photographs are brought to life through beautifully rendered poems. Can't make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least ... (mere)48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Eric Roston will discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat. "With delightful verve and zest, Roston explores the awesomely cornucopian roles of carbon, ranging from cosmic to cellular, from climate to cancer. He also makes ... (mere)a compelling case that human destiny and carbon are now inextricably coupled," writes 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dudley Herschbach. Roston is a senior associate in the Washington, DC office of Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

Stand-up comedian and writer Jeremy Greenberg will read from and sign copies of his new book, Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival Guide. If you've ever had a knot in your stomach before a family event, this is the book that will help you laugh your way through any and every stressful family encounter. ... (mere) Greenberg has written for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes, Comics Unleashed, Atlantic Business Magazine, and American Jewish Life Magazine.

Environmental activist Diane Wilson will read from and discuss her "hot as hellfire" memoir, Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus. Holy Roller covers Wilson's early life, while her adult life is explored in her previous memoir, An Unreasonable ... (mere)Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.

Greg Melville will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, a Car Powered by Vegetable Oil, and a Cross-Country Trip in Search of a Greener World. Join Greg and his college buddy Iggy as they travel from Burlington, Vermont to Berkeley, California, stopping at all the ... (mere)green meccas along the way. Melville will be driving his beloved Greasecar to all his readings along the East Coast—-fueling up only on veggie-oil waste—-so The Regulator will be looking to local restaurants for donations!

Do you stare into the fridge every night, wondering what to make for dinner? Help is on the way. Hear Liz Edmunds with THE FOOD NANNY RESCUES DINNER: EASY FAMILY DINNERS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. You'll learn how to easily put together a complete meal plan for busy families. There will also ... (mere)be a French bread demonstration. Brown bag your lunch and come on in! Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Joe Bageant will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War. Mother Jones writes, "Dead serious and damn funny... Bageant writes with the ghosts of Hunter S. Thompson, Will Rogers, and Frank Zappa kibitzing over his shoulder... Takes Thomas Frank’s ... (mere)What's the Matter with Kansas to the next level.

Peter Manseau will read from and sign copies of his debut novel, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter. Known for his book Vows—a memoir of growing up the son of a former priest and nun—Manseau uses in this novel an alter ego to tell the story of fictional Yiddish poet Itsik Malpesh, born in the city ... (mere)of Kishinev. Manseau is also the co-founder of the award-winning online magazine, KillingTheBuddha.com, which publishes incisive new writing on religion.

Join Diesel Bookstore for a green event with Van Jones, author of Green Collar Economy! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All, based in Oakland. The mission is to help build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. Van ... (mere)is a tireless advocate, championing "green-collar jobs and opportunities" for disadvantaged people. He is committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty," while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. He's worked to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Under the slogan "green-collar jobs, not jails," he is calling for green economic development in urban America. As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes, he has won many honors, which include the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship. He's also served on the boards of numerous national environmental organizations. Presently, he is a board member of the National Apollo Alliance, which advocates for clean energy jobs. He is also a founding board member of 1Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. In 2007, Van helped the City of Oakland pass a "Green Jobs Corps" proposal; the City allocated funds to train Oakland residents in eco-friendly "green-collar jobs." At the national level, Van worked successfully in 2007 with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-MASS) to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007. That path-breaking, historic legislation authorized $125 million in funding to train 35,000 people a year in "green-collar jobs." Van is also a co-founder of a new national coalition that promotes the idea of a national "Clean Energy Jobs Corps." This multi-billion-dollar federal initiative would put hundreds of thousands of people to work rewiring and retrofitting the energy infrastructure of the United States. In 2005, Van produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration. UNWED 2005 drew dozens of mayors from around the world to San Francisco, where they developed policies promoting the concept of "Green Cities." In 1996, Van co-founded (with Diana Frappier) the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, now located in Oakland, California. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the award-winning Center promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration. The Center, for which Van serves as board president, incubated Green For All in 2007 and spun it off in 2008. His many media appearances includes the popular Peabody award-winning show, The Colbert Report.

Join Clare Langley-Hawthorne at Diesel Bookstore as she presents the second book in her fantastic new historical mystery series! Featuring the strong, outspoken, intelligent and sassy Ursula Marlow, THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION is a thrilling story of scandal and betrayal that's richly detailed and ... (mere)action-packed. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in England and Australia. She practiced law in Melbourne until 1995 when she emigrated moved to the United States and began work as a health economist. Clare has since put her pursuit of a PhD on hold to focus on her career as a writer. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and twin sons. This is her second novel. For more information, visit her web site at www.clarelangleyhawthorne.com

Join Clare Langley-Hawthorne at Diesel Bookstore as she presents the second book in her fantastic new historical mystery series! Featuring the strong, outspoken, intelligent and sassy Ursula Marlow, THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION is a thrilling story of scandal and betrayal that's richly detailed and ... (mere)action-packed. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in England and Australia. She practiced law in Melbourne until 1995 when she emigrated moved to the United States and began work as a health economist. Clare has since put her pursuit of a PhD on hold to focus on her career as a writer. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and twin sons. This is her second novel. For more information, visit her web site at www.clarelangleyhawthorne.comPURCHASE OF THE BOOK RESERVES YOU A SEAT AT THE EVENT!

Cyma Rubin presents her unique THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, THE CIVIL WAR TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. The book includes 116 enlarged photographs (including several Pulitzer Prize winners) dating back to the Civil War and the dawn of the photographic era. This is an intimate and historical ... (mere)look into the lives of America's fighting forces. Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Louella Bryant will read from and sign copies of her new book, While in Darkness There Is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune. During the Vietnam era, five young men—including Charlie Dean, brother of Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean—started a commune in Australia. ... (mere) Bryant tells a story full of virtue, commitment, and sorrow during a tumultuous time. She is a faculty member of Spaulding University’s MFA in Writing program in Louisville, Kentucky.