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Asheville author and Wordfest Director Laura Hope-Gill and local photographer John Fletcher, Jr. will share their new book, The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians. Fletcher’s photography beautifully compliments Hope-Gill’s poems and reinforces the vision of poetry as a conversation between inner and outer worlds. Laura Hope-Gill, who is also the marketing director for Grateful Steps Publishing, is an avid proponent of poetic therapy and works to illustrate poetry’s relevance in everyday life.

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Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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Join award-winning authors Mary Akers and Clifford Garstang as they each present their own collection of short stories. Akers will read from and sign Women Up On Blocks, which features 13 stories that explore the prices women must pay when they allow their roles as mother, wife, daughter, or lover to define them. Garstang will present In An Uncharted Country, a series of linked stories that portray ordinary men and women struggling to find their identities in a small Virginia town.

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55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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Join us as Rich Rennicks from Unbridled Books recommends some fantastic books for your bookclub and offers a preview of forthcoming titles you won’t want to miss! The event includes a wine and cheese reception, so bring your bookclub members and join the fun!

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55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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Join us as Rich Rennicks from Unbridled Books recommends some fantastic books for your bookclub and offers a preview of forthcoming titles you won’t want to miss! The event includes a wine and cheese reception, so bring your bookclub members and join the fun!

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55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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UNC Asheville’s Craft Campus welcomes Suzanne Ramljak, a writer, art historian, and curator, and current editor of Metalsmith magazine. Ramljak will speak about the UNC Center for Craft Creativity and Design exhibition Different Tempers: Jewelry & Blacksmithing, curated by Ramljak.

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Asheville author Jennifer Elizabeth Daigle will read from and sign her debut novel, The Knowing, in which a young healer must enter the darker side of the city-and her own mind-to unravel the mystery behind her mentor’s disappearance. Daigle draws upon her experience as a psychotherapist to create vivid characters and realistic tensions. “The Knowing is a sophisticated and insightful venture, replete with well-crafted scenes, engaging characters, and a plot intricate enough to keep you guessing through most of the book.” –author Terry Mancour

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55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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Malaprop’s is honored to welcome former North Carolina Poet Laureate and 2005 Thomas Wolfe Prize winner Fred Chappell, who will read from his book, Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories. Chappell, who was born in nearby Canton, is acclaimed for both his fiction and his numerous essays and works of poetry, and is a master of rendering Southern society and tradition. Come early to get a good seat! The reading will be followed by a wine and cheese reception. “Anybody who knows anything about Southern writing knows that Fred Chappell is our resident genius, our shining light, the one truly great writer we have among us." -Author Lee Smith

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Join us in welcoming author Jennifer Niven, who will present her first work of fiction, Velva Jean Learns to Drive. Set in Appalachia before World War II, it tells the story Velva Jean Hart, a spirited girl whose tumultuous romance with delinquent-turned-preacher Harley Bright forces her to choose between her new life and her dreams. Niven’s first work, The Ice Master, was an Entertainment Weekly top ten nonfiction book of the year and was featured in documentaries on the History Channel and Discovery Channel.

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55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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Join us for our monthly Writers at Home series with host Tommy Hays. This month’s featured writers are Cheryl Dietrich and Catherine Reid.

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Malaprop's Boosktore/Cafe
55 Haywood, Asheville, 28801
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What acclaimed author was chosen to finish Robert Jordan’s internationally best-selling Wheel of Time series after Jordan’s unfortunate death? For what crime did Henry David Thoreau spend his famous night in jail? Test your knowledge of all things book-related at Malaprop’s Literary Trivia night hosted by Lauren, Seth, and Stella Harr.

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New members are always welcome to our poetry group for women. Women on Words is a gathering where the members inspire and critique the presented poems.

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www.malaprops.com, Asheville, 28801
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oin the creative team behind the new Freaks of Asheville Calendar as they present the story of this remarkable work that showcases some of Asheville’s most eclectic cultural creatives. Project manager Kitty Love, photographer Michael Traister, editor Jon Elliston, and featured freaks Meat, Michael Mooney, and Justina Prenatt will share their roles in this unique collaboration.

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55 Haywood St, Asheville, 28801
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Local historian George Ellison and his wife, watercolorist Elizabeth Ellison, will present Horace Kephart’s “lost” novel Smoky Mountain Magic, now in print for the first time 80 years after its completion. Kephart is the author of several classic regional books, including Our Southern Highlanders and Camping and Woodcraft. He, along with friend George Masa, was instrumental in establishing Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Canton author George Ivey will read from and sign his book, Up River: A Novel of Attempted Restoration. Up River explores themes of loss, recovery, and renewal through protagonist Peter Bailey’s struggle to save the endangered Akwanee River. “Up River shows what it is like to go against the stream in a good cause. George Ivey gives us a fascinating story, filled with folks friendly and threatening, cheery and cranky. The subjects this fast-paced novel addresses are as important as they are plentiful. Everyone who has ever been a stranger in a new place will sympathize with Peter Bailey; everyone who has tried to beat long odds will cheer for him. And anyone who reads Up River will learn how perilous is the balance of nature—and human nature. Entrancing.” -Fred Chappell

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