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1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5 Greenville, SC 29607
864-675-0540 www.fiction-addiction.com
Store Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-6pm - Sun 12pm-4pm
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Please come by next week on Wednesday or Thursday (October 15th or 16th) to say goodbye to Kathleen. She is leaving us so she will have more free time to enjoy her first grandbaby. We are hiring to replace Kathleen and will introduce you to our new employee in our next newsletter.
We will be closing at 5:00 on Friday, October 31st. Happy Halloween!
-Jill
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If you are unable to make one of our author events, you are welcome to reserve signed copies by contacting us in advance, by email at info@fiction-addiction.com or by phone at 864-675-0540. Personalized copies will need to be prepaid.
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Riley MacPherson confronts a family secret twenty years in the making in The Silent Sister (St. Martin's Press, hardcover, $26.99; a Fall 2014 SIBA Okra Pick), a new mystery from internationally bestselling North Carolina author Diane Chamberlain. *Note: Ticket price includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.
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If your kids (or the kid in you) are Star Wars fans, come celebrate Star Wars Reads Day at Fiction Addictionon Saturday, October 11th, from 12:00pm - 2:00pm. We will have Star Wars story time, a costume contest and other activities. We will be serving Star Wars-themed refreshments. In the past we've had imperial storm troopers, imperial biker scouts, and a jawa visit us at the store.
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Meet debut Southern novelist Sarah Creech as she discusses her first book, Season of the Dragonflies (Morrow, hardcover, $25.99; a Summer 2014 SIBA Okra Pick), along with South Carolina author Jamie Langston Turner, with her new novel,  To See the Moon Again (Berkley, paperback, $16.00). *Note: Ticket admits one and includes a $10 book voucher. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.
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Celebrate Teen Read Week with New York Times bestselling young adult author Rick Yancey! He will be discussing his latest book, The Infinite Sea (Putnam, hardcover, $18.99), the riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave. *Note: $20.13 ticket guarantees a seat, admits one, and includes one copy of the featured book. $10 ticket is standing room only, admits one, and includes a $10 book voucher. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.
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Southern poet Rowena Carenen will be celebrating the launch of her debut poetry collection, In the Meantime (Neverland Publishing, paperback, $8.99), a collection that focuses on life, loss, and love and how those three concepts work together in order to create an experience of a full existence. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
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Southern author Kimberly Cross Teter will have a book talk and signing to celebrate the launch of her debut young adult novel, Isabella's Libretto (Excalibur Press, paperback, $14.95). The book, for ages 10 through adults, explores a fascinating footnote of history rooted in Venice, Italy, in 1715, when visitors from all over Europe flocked to the enchanting floating city to see a remarkable, all-female orchestra directed by Antonio Vivaldi. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served. Furman student musicians will provide chamber music. Fiction Addiction will have books for sale at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Greenville author Shirley Proctor Twiss will celebrate the launch of her new novel, From Myra to Laura (Xlibris, paperback, $19.99), which takes Myra into her later years where she must find a new life without her husband by her side and make a new home. This event is free and open to the public. Fiction Addiction will have books for sale at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Meet five mystery authors for a book talk, followed by Q&A and a book signing. Authors include: Wendy Tyson (author of Killer Image and its sequel, Deadly Assets), Bryan Robinson (author of Limestone Gumption), and South Carolina authors Susan M. Boyer (Agatha Award-winning author of Lowcountry Boil and its sequel, Lowcountry Bombshell), John Carenen (author of Signs of Struggle and its sequel, A Far Gone Night), and David Burnsworth (author of Southern Heat). *Note: Ticket includes a $10 book voucher. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.
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Greenville author Jessica Leake will celebrate the launch of her debut novel, Arcana (Talos, hardcover, $24.99), a romantic, suspenseful, genre-bending debut set in Edwardian London. This event is free and open to the public. Table 301 will provide Edwardian Era hors d'oeuvres, and there will be a cash bar. Fiction Addiction will have books for sale at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Love reading? Considered becoming a writer? Ever wonder, "How did the author come up with THAT?!" Come talk about your favorite bestselling YA novels and build a story with six YA authors in an interactive audience-participation event. Authors include: Martina Boone (author of Compulsion), Kimberley Griffiths Little (author of Forbidden), S.E. Green (author of Killer Instinct), Claudia Gray (author of A Thousand Pieces of You and the Evernight and Spellcaster series), Beth Revis (author of The Body Electric and the Across the Universe series), and Meagan Spooner (author of Lark Ascending, the final book in the Skylark trilogy, and co-author of the Starbound trilogy). *Note: Ticket includes a $15 book voucher. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540. Ask about our $50 VIP tickets!
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New York Times bestselling North Carolina author Wiley Cash will be discussing his latest book, This Dark Road to Mercy (William Morrow, paperback, $14.99), a Southern tale of poverty, tragedy, personal failur, and the elusive second chance. *Note: $10 ticket admits one and includes a $10 book voucher. $15.89 ticket admits two and includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.
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Greenville children's author Frederick Baus will be signing copies of his debut children's picture book, Oh, Those Holiday Lights! (paperback, $12.95), an imaginative account of the inspiration for the Roper Mountain Holiday Lights, a Greenville, SC, holiday tradition. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
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Greenville author Lockhart Moon will be signing copies of his new novel, Tutem's Pool (paperback, $19.99), about a successful attorney who sustains severe injuries in a car crash and must remember what task he must finish before someone tries to destroy him again. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
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Claudia Gray
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Beth Revis
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Meagan Spooner
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*Additional ticket options available for select events. See event details for more information.
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Fiction Addiction Cookbook Clubs
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Fiction Addiction's Cookbook Clubs each meet monthly. We will be preparing recipes from and discussing Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi at the 3rd Monday Cookbook Club at Fiction Addiction. If you're interested in joining either of our cookbook clubs, please email us at info@fiction-addiction.com or call us at 864-675-0540 for more information or to sign up. You can preview the club agreement here.
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Join us for storytime every Thursday morning at 10:30am. We will be reading the following titles during October: |
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Paperback - $6.99
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Hardcover - $15.99
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Hardcover - $16.99
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Hardcover - $16.99
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Hardcover - $17.99
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Do You Have Your Kobo Yet?
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Or select one of the following options to install the Kobo app on your desktop or mobile device, and support Fiction Addiction in the process!
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Signed First Editions Club
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October 2014
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Hardcover - $27.00
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Hardcover - $26.00
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Hardcover - $27.95
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Our Signed First Editions Club makes it easy to become a collector! We pick great books -- past picks have included a National Book Award Winner and an Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel -- and you get one signed first edition every month. Our picks run the gamut from memoirs to popular fiction, cookbooks to mysteries. All you have to do is provide us with payment information and commit to purchasing at least 10 of the 12 books picked each year. Collect for fun or for profit -- our club members have seen their books increase in value since they purchased them! A club membership also makes a great gift for the book lover in your life.
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Every Litograph design emerges from the text of a book. Just as the words on the pages of your favorite novel come alive in your imagination, Litographs products are designed to illustrate the memorable characters and scenes rooted in text and imitated on stage. They work closely with professional artists to create a new visual experience for classic and contemporary works alike. From a distance, the artwork illustrates a theme, character, or setting from each book's descriptive pages. Move closer and the text becomes fully legible. We are now carrying 12" x 16" prints and 18" x 24" posters of popular Litographs. These are great decorations for book lovers!
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Over 20 years after Riley MacPherson's older sister Lisa committed suicide, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina, cleaning out his house when she finds evidence that Lisa is alive and living under a new identity. But why was she on the run, and what secrets are being kept? Riley's discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality, in this engrossing mystery from international bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.
St. Martin's Press - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $26.99
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In the genre-bending stories in Julia Elliott's debut collection, teetering between the ridiculous and the sublime, Elliott's language-driven fiction uses outlandish tropes to capture poignant moments in her humble characters' lives. Without abandoning the tenets of classic storytelling, Elliott revels in lush lyricism, dark humor, and experimental play.
Tin House Books - Release Date: 10/14/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $15.95
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Cynthia L. Copeland distills all-new wisdom from her lifelong love of dogs. This is tender, funny, warm, and utterly inspiring. Pairing an irresistible photograph with just the right sentiment, every page delivers a life lesson that appeals as much to our hearts as our minds. It reminds us again and again of what's important, like love, compassion, perseverance, a healthy sense of self, living in the present moment, and that happiness is a choice.
Workman - Release Date: 9/23/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $12.95
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General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident -- and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
Henry Holt & Co. - Release Date: 9/23/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $30.00
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Brian Little explores questions that are rooted in the origins of human consciousness but are as commonplace as yesterday's breakfast conversation. He considers what our personalities portend for our health and success, and the extent to which our well-being depends on the personal projects we pursue. Through stories, studies, personal experiences, and entertaining interactive assessments, Me, Myself, and Us provides a lively, thought-provoking, and ultimately optimistic look at the possibilities and perils of being uniquely ourselves, while illuminating the selves of the familiar strangers we encounter, work with, and love.
PublicAffairs - Release Date: 10/14/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $26.99
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With the mordant wit and clever wordplay of Edward Gorey or Shel Silverstein, Stephin Merritt has written an original four-line rhyming poem for each of the 101 two-letter words included in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. Here are poems about familiar words as well as obscure ones. And every one of the 101 poems is accompanied by a full-color illustration by the incomparable cartoonist Roz Chast. Perfect for any language lover or Scrabble player (it may even improve your score!).
W.W. Norton & Co. - Release Date: 10/6/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $19.95
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Ten memorable scenes -- in clear and colorful Scanimations, with smooth-flowing, detailed images -- are brought to life, each accompanied by the inspiring words of wisdom from Charles M. Schulz that make Peanuts so special. It's Peanuts -- funny and wise and beloved, forever a part of our lives -- like you've never seen before.
Workman - Release Date: 9/23/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $14.95
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Ocean is like being on a dive. Open the book, and the reader is swept into the magic of an underwater world, face-to-face with a floating Yellow-Banded Sweetlips; with a glow-in-the-dark Deep-Sea Anglerfish; with a Sea Horse swaying in balletic motion; with a Sand Tiger Shark gliding along the ocean floor, its gaze haunting, its hook-toothed mouth gulping open and closed. The Photicular process uses an innovative lenticular technology, sliding lenses, and original four-color video imagery. The result is like a movie in your hands-the dance of life in a book.
Workman - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $25.95
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The inspiring and revelatory autobiography of the defense secretary and CIA director who led the intelligence war that killed Bin Laden, among many important roles in a legendary career. Like his career, Worthy Fights is a reflection of Panetta's values. It is imbued with the frank, grounded, and often quite funny spirit of a man who never lost touch with where he came from. It is also a testament to a lost kind of political leadership, which favors progress and duty to country over partisanship. Throughout his career, Panetta's polestar has been his belief that a public servant's real choice is between leadership or crisis. Troubles always come about through no fault of one's own, but most can be prevented with courage and foresight. As always, Panetta calls them as he sees them in Worthy Fights. Suffused with its author's decency and stubborn common sense, the book is an epic American success story, a great political memoir, and a revelatory view onto many of the great figures and events of our time.
Signed First Editions Available!
Penguin - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $36.00
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Finkel follows the men from The Good Soldiers as they return home and struggle to reintegrate. He is with them in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, creating an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like. It is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for?
Picador - Release Date: 9/23/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $16.00
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In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.
Simon & Schuster - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $35.00
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With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, the authors assay the art and science of giving, identify successful local and global initiatives, and share astonishing stories from the front lines of social progress. We see the compelling, inspiring truth of how real people have changed the world, upending the idea that one person can't make a difference. A Path Appears offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face today. Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.
Alfred A. Knopf - Release Date: 9/23/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $27.95
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Paperback - $16.99
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General & Historical Fiction
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In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell's bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House to join forces with his sister, Serena, dispatch Grandpa Samuel to a graduated living facility, sell off the house and property for development, divide up the profits, and live happily ever after. But Trevor soon discovers there's a ghost with an agenda of his own living in Riddell House. Trevor's willingness to face the past holds the key to his family's future.
Simon & Schuser - Release Date: 9/30/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $26.95
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Hardcover - $36.00
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Hardcover - $26.00
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Shelf Awareness Email Newsletter
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 Would you like to learn about even more great books and book-related news? Shelf Awareness sends out a twice-weekly email newsletter filled with book reviews, book lists, author interviews, and more. If you're interested in subscribing to the Shelf Awareness email list, please email us at info@fiction-addiction.com.
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October 2014 Indie Next List
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Hardcover - $28.95
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Hardcover - $23.95
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Fall 2014 SIBA Okra Picks
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Family tragedy and guilt are too much for 16-year-old Jensen Reilly to handle by herself, but that is what she tries to do for 13 years. She abandons everything that defines her and starts a new life as an artist and model, eventually eloping with her art professor. Jenson is finally forced to face her past, her old friends, her family, and her first true love when her father is diagnosed with a brain tumor and she returns home to help care for him. Night Blindness is at times both achingly sad and uplifting, filled with a joy of life and love. It is a story of first love, family, grief, guilt, forgiveness, and how the truth can truly set one free. I loved every page and couldn't put it down.
Thomas Dunne - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $25.99
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I loved everything about this book, which surprised me as it is not historical fiction, romantic suspense, or a thriller, my typical genres. I was engaged within the first ten pages and did not stop reading until I finished the book. Mara and Scott, the two main characters, are faced with very different situations, but both are strong characters, and their flaws and struggles are quite real. The book is heart-wrenching, but such a representation of the struggles we face in life and how they define us should not be missed.
Amy Einhorn - Release Date: 9/9/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $26.95
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Similar kind of concept as The Darwin Elevator, but came off feeling more real.
Pyr - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $17.00
A little more grown up than Impulse. I look forward to every new Jumper book.
Tor - Release Date: 9/9/14 - Format: Hardcover - Price: $25.99
Natural disaster or vampires? Why choose. Worst vacation ever.
Simon & Schuster - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Ebook - Price: $4.99
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Volunteer Picks Now in Paperback...
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One of the most unusual and gripping psychological thrillers I have ever read. When Christine wakes up every morning, she remembers only what she does or is told during the day, but then after sleep, she starts all over again with no memories. We share Christine's confusion and her fears as she goes through a roller coaster of emotions reading her journal each day, not knowing what she's remembered or what she's imagined. She doesn't know who to believe or who to fear. We are carried right along for the ride by the brilliant writing and the vehicle that Watson has chosen to tell his story.
Recommended in hardcover by Nancy.
Read it before you see the movie starring Nicole Kidman.
HarperCollins - Release Date: 9/30/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $15.99
A stunning story about poverty in North Carolina in the early 1960s. Ivy and Mary Ella live with their Grandmother in a workers' cabin on a tobacco farm. Jane, a recent graduate and bride, becomes their social worker, a job for which she has virtually no qualification other than compassion, which is not viewed as an asset by her co-workers. The story is based on a historical US eugenics program and would be a perfect book club selection.
Recommended in hardcover by Jackie.
St. Martin's Press - Release Date: 10/7/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $15.99
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 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
After the death of its deities, the cities of the Continent struggle to find a reality unsustained by the miracles that made them, and its citizens struggle to make a new way of life with a censored history and not a single mention of anything divine. An accomplished spymaster for the rival nation and new world leader Saypur, Shara Thivani comes to the capital city of Bulikov to investigate the murder of a controversial historian and instead stumbles into a game of religious and political intrigue she'd never imagined in her wildest dreams...and the players might be more divine than anyone thought possible. An interesting philosophical look at the interaction of organized religion and politics as played out in a fantastical world in which gods can die at the hands of mortals and miracles can be outlawed.
Broadway - Release Date: 9/9/14 - Format: Paperback - Price: $15.00
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Holocaust Remembrance Week
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 Greenville Technical College will present a Holocaust Remembrance Week from November 9 - 13, 2014 at the Barton Main Campus in downtown Greenville, SC. Events will include film and discussion, scholar presentations, and a live talk from two Holocaust survivors. The goal of Holocaust Remembrance Week is to keep the awareness of the Holocaust alive through a variety of events that will educate Greenville's general public as well as students and faculty of Greenville Technical College. Partners in this effort include the Jewish Federation of Greenville, Congregation Beth Israel, the Temple of Israel, and the Greenville County Library. Five events commemorating the Holocaust are planned for the remembrance week. |
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International Center of the Upstate
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 The International Center invites you to join their 2014/15 International Book Club Season. Meet one Monday during the month at Coffee Underground (1 E. Coffee St., Greenville) from 7:00-9:00pm for sparkling discussions around interesting stories. The book club is open to all International Center members.
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Fiction Addiction is Open on Sundays!
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To help meet your book-buying needs in 2014, we have decided to open the store on Sundays from Noon-4:00pm. Stop by and say hi to Cynthia and grab a book, perfect for passing time on those lazy Sunday afternoons!
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Two Ways to Earn FREE Books!
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Spend $50 in one transaction on in-stock merchandise (event tickets excluded), and pick a free "advance reading copy" from our selection!
Or volunteer and help us at the store! Our volunteers receive a free "advance reading copy" for every three hours worked, and a 20% discount on all merchandise. If you're interested in volunteering at Fiction Addiction, please email Jill at info@fiction-addiction.com or call 864-675-0540.
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Thanks for your continued patronage!
Sincerely,
Jill Hendrix, Owner
Fiction Addiction
1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5 Greenville, SC 29607 864-675-0540
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