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(Date change)
Book Group on Wednesday, October 23 7pm

Discussing Sugaree Rising by J. Doublas Allen-Taylor

November 17
Erin Dealey
with her new picture book Deck the Walls! A Wacky Christmas Carol

December 11

An event for the cookbook Share; The Cookbook that Celebrates our Common Humanity
(details to come!)

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  The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester $29.99   How did America become "one nation, indivisible"? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. Winchester treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today's United States.

Chickens in the Road by Suzanne McMinn $28.99 

Suzanne McMinn, a former romance writer and founder of the popular blog chickensintheroad.com, shares the story of her search to lead a life of ordinary splendor in Chickens in the Road, her inspiring and funny memoir.

Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots, McMinn packed up her three kids, left her husband and her sterile suburban existence behind, and moved to rural West Virginia. Amid the rough landscape and beauty of this rural mountain country, she pursues a natural lifestyle filled with chickens, goats, sheep-and no pizza delivery.

 

 

 And here are the first two of Amanda Kyle Williams' mysteries.  We have plenty of the first, but only a few of the second so get in here!  

 

The Stranger You Seek  $7.99  In the sweltering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point, preying on the unsuspecting, writing taunting letters to the media, promising more death. Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer, A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser turns to the one person he knows can penetrate a deranged mind: Keye Street, an ex-FBI profiler and former addict who now picks up jobs where she can get them. But the last thing Keye wants is to be pulled into the firestorm of Atlanta's worst nightmare. And then it suddenly becomes clear that the hunter has become the hunted-and the stranger she seeks is far closer than she ever dared imagine.

 

Stranger in the Room  $26  Tapped by the Atlanta Police Department to help solve a serial murder case involving apparently random victims, Keye Street learns that her cousin is possibly being stalked by the killer, a situation that is complicated by a grisly discovery upstate, turmoil in Keye's relationship with Aaron and her struggles to keep sober.

 

 

 

    

 

October 23   Sugaree Rising by J. Douglas Allen Taylor  

 In a riveting story by the author of "The Poisonwood Bible, " a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee experiences something she cannot explain. Her discovery energizes various competing factions, trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world.