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Saturday we'll be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day, along with more than 500 other bookstores in the U.S. Bookstore Day gives us an opportunity to offer you a fun day with refreshments, give-aways, and programs for all ages (see below for details) along with some exclusive, limited-edition items created just for the day (my favorites are the laser-cut wooden pins of Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, James Baldwin and Margaret Atwood). It also gives us the chance to remind you that your dollars spent locally do so much to further the growth of our community and insure that the individuality and diversity of unique local businesses can continue. So thank you for supporting us and other small businesses--Saturday and everyday. Thank you for Shopping Local because it does matter!
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From Abbe :
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist,
Her
Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb (HMH $28). I could not put this fascinating memoir down. Lori Gottlieb, a therapist and advice columnist, finds herself on the other side of the couch. Simultaneously funny and serious, enlightening, engaging and profound; the minute I finished it - I wanted to read it again.
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From Amber:
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by Mallory O'Meara (Hanover Square $26.99). A fascinating investigation into the life and work of Milicent Patrick, a Hollywood trailblazer. One of Disney's first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood's classic movie monsters, Patrick had her legacy stolen by a male colleague, so she disappeared from society. O'Meara tracks down the truth in a compelling and relatable narrative, interweaving biography, history, and her own experiences working in the film industry as a woman today.
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Saturday, April 27th is Independent Bookstore Day! Join us 9 am–9 pm for fun and prizes.
It's a celebration of indie bookstores and their communities that takes place across the country on the last Saturday in April. Quail Ridge Books is celebrating with activities for kids and grown-ups all day long, with
exclusive day-of merchandise
for sale, prize giveaways on the hour, and more. Come join in the fun!
For Kids:
- Crafts, coloring, face-painting and slime-making
- Storytime with special guest Cat in the Hat
For Everyone:
- Drawings for gift bags every hour, for both kids and adults
- Free cookies all day
- A visit from Poetry Fox
- Purr Cup Cat Cafe is back by popular demand!
- Exclusive books and literary items for sale, in-store only, today only. Some items will be free, including David Sedaris Calypso pins.
- Claim free audiobooks on this day when you create your free Libro.fm account by April 27.
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QRB IS A FINALIST FOR BEST BOOKSTORE
Thank you to everyone who nominated us for Best Bookstore in Indy Week's Best of Triangle 2019! Anyone can participate in the final voting, going on through May 5, and we'd love your vote! It's at
Indyweek/BestOfTriangle
(find bookstores under the 'Shop' category).
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Tune into the
Bookin'
Podcast with QRB Marketing Manager Jason Jefferies
For the 24th episode of
Bookin'
, Jason is joined by Roger McNamee, author of
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
. Tech venture capitalist McNamee was an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and an investor in Facebook. He discusses the effects of social media on our lives.
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D.G. Martin is also host of
NC Bookwatch
on UNC-TV, airing Sundays at 11:00 a.m. and Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. His guest this week is Wiley Cash with
The Last Ballad
.
Find the full
Bookwatch
schedule and watch episodes online at
UNC-TV.org
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Tonight, April 24, 7:00 PM
ANNA QUINDLEN
Na
naville: Adventures in Grandparenting
In conversation with QRB's Mamie Potter
Seats may be reserved
Before blogs even existed, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of family, motherhood, and modern life, in her nationally syndicated column. Now she’s taking the next step and going full nana in the pages of this lively, beautiful, and moving book about being a grandmother. Come see the display of photos of our customers and staff with their nanas!
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Friday, April 26, 7:00 PM
JOSEPH FINDER,
Judgment
NYTimes
-bestselling author Finder visits with an explosive new thriller about a judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her–and her family’s–undoing. David Baldacci says, “This is an exquisite game of cat and mouse. Finder is fully in his groove here ...
Judgment
rocks.”
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Monday, April 29, 7:00 PM
BRYANT HOLSENBECK
The Last Straw: A Continuing Quest for Life Without Disposable Plastic
Bryant Holsenbeck is an environmental artist in Durham who makes art out of stuff people usually throw away. She had long wondered where is “away”? Realizing that what we discard never really goes away, she began saying NO to single-use plastic and spent a year discovering creative ways to live without it.
Holsenbeck's sculptures will be on display at the event!
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Tuesday, April 30, 7:00 PM
KATE T. PARKER
The Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood
In her international bestseller,
Strong Is the New Pretty
, professional photographer Kate T. Parker changed the way we see girls by showing us their truest selves—fearless, messy, wild, stubborn, proud. Now it’s time to talk about our boys--there’s a national conversation going on about what defines masculinity and how to raise sons to become good people. Parker turns her lens to boys from ages 5 to 18, with words from the subjects themselves enriching every photo.
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Wednesday, May 1, 7:00 PM
MATT LEE AND TED LEE
Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
In conversation with Raleigh chef and restaurateur Ashley Christensen
The Lee brothers are the authors of bestselling cookbooks and have won six James Beard and IACP Awards. Known for their modern take on Southern cooking, they steeped themselves in the catering business for four years.
Hotbox
reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Matt and Ted will be in conversation with Ashley Christensen, Beard Award winner and author of
Poole’s: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner
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Thursday, May 2,
6:00 PM
ADAM RUBIN,
High Five
An interactive picture books for ages 3+
Priority signing line tickets available
From the creators of the bestseller
Dragons Love Tacos
comes a rollicking, rhyme-tastic, interactive high five competition--starring YOU! Discover the lost art of the high five and improve your slapping skills just in time for the annual high five contest. From hand-limbering stretches to lessons on five-ing with finesse, readers are guided through a series of interactive challenges, each goofier than the next. Rubin and illustrator Daniel Salmieri have dreamed up another one-of-a-kind, laugh-out-loud book that kids will beg to read again and again.
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Friday, May 3, 7:00 PM
JACQUELINE L. JACKSON
Loving You, Thinking of You, Don't Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison
With JESSE JACKSON, JR.
Reserved seats/signing line tickets available
Jacqueline Jackson promised her son, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she would write him every day during his 30-month incarceration in federal prison. This book is an inspiring and moving selection of those letters. The two will discuss what writing and receiving these letters meant to each of them. The discussion will be lead by
April Smith
, local marketing agent, friend and former NC A&T University classmate of Jessie Jackson, Jr.
We have a limited number of early signed copies available.
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COME SHOP THE SPRING READERS' CLUB SALE!
Friday through Monday, May 3–6
Find great gifts for Mother's Day, graduates, and teachers! We've got the best books, literary-themed totes, t-shirts and prints, booklights, games, puzzles, socks, scarves and more. Giftwrapping is always free.
During the sale, Readers' Club members take 20% off most books, magazines & merchandise; 15% off music CDs. Shop in-store, by phone,
by email
, or
shop online
. Not a member?
Join now
and enjoy the sale, then save for a full year. Annual RC membership is $15, but is complimentary to those age 60 or better, and to educators preschool–12th grade. The regular RC discount is 10%, and members always take 30% off current
NYTimes
bestsellers.
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Book Clubs and Groups - Everyone Welcome!
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Thursday, Apr. 25
7:00 PM
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Triangle Origami
Folders United
Saturday, Apr. 27
7:00 PM
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The QRB
Book Club
Sunday, Apr. 28
4:30 PM
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Mystery
Monday, May 6
7:00 PM
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Open Discussion Project
Wednesday, May 8
7:00 PM
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Find the schedule for all of our groups
here
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Mondays -Saturdays - Sundays
10:30 AM
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For Young Adults with
developmental disabilities.
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QRB Teen Writers Collective
for info.
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Quail Ridge Books
34 Years of Independent Bookselling
919-828-1588
“
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
”~~Virginia Woolf
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