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  • May 23, 2012 (All day) - June 27, 2012 (All day)

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Wednesdays at 11am
Storytime with Hannah
Bring your preschooler or playgroup by for a fun storytime with our very own Miss Hannah. Check out the cows and new baby goats, grab a juice and a coffee, and smell the flowers. It is the perfect morning outing!

Wed, May 23, 6:30pm
McIntyre’s Author Event: James Minick
James Minick discusses The Blueberry Years, a mouth-watering and delightful memoir based on his trials and tribulations as an organic blueberry farmer.

Sat, May 26, 11am
McIntyre’s Author Event: Marly Youmans
Marly Youmans reads from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage. Following a death at the White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy, Georgia to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding.

Sun, May 27, 2pm
NCPS Series Reading: Gail Peck, Blynn Field & Barry Reece
Gail Peck is the author of three full-length collections and three chapbooks, most recently Counting the Lost, poems about WWII and the Holocaust. Blynn Field, a Kentuckian by birth and a North Carolinian for the last forty years, has reclaimed her love of reading and writing poetry since her retirement from high school French teaching. Barry Reece is author of two chapbooks of poetry and co-author of a book of poems written by members of the Fearrington Village Poets’ Corner group.

Tue, May 29, 6:30pm
McIntyre’s Author Event: Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson visits to read from As The Crow Flies. Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has a more important matter on his mind than cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married to the brother of his undersheriff, Victoria Moretti. Walt and old friend Henry Standing Bear are the de facto wedding planners and fear Cady’s wrath when the wedding locale arrangements go up in smoke two weeks before the big event.

Sat, Jun 2, 11am
McIntyre’s Author Event: Leonard Pitts
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald. He is the author of the novel Before I Forget, the memoir Becoming Dad, and Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009.

Thu, Jun 7, 6:30pm
McIntyre’s Author Event: Jay Leutze
Jay Leutze reads from Stand Up That Mountain. This is a great underdog David vs. Goliath story with lots of good guys you love, and bad guys you love to hate. Trained as an attorney, he has become a leading voice for state and federal conservation funding for investment in public lands. He is a Trustee for Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, one of the nation's most established land trusts.

Sat, Jun 9, 11am
McIntyre’s Author Event: William Price
William Price discusses his brother Reynold’s unfinished memoir, Midstream. When Reynolds Price died in January 2011, he left behind one final piece of writing—two hundred candid, heartrending, and marvelously written manuscript pages about a critical period in his young adulthood. Picking up where his previous memoir, Ardent Spirits, left off, the work documents a brief time from 1961 to 1965.

Fri, Jun 15, 2pm
McIntyre’s Author event: Gabrielle Donnelly
Gabrielle Donnelly reads from The Little Women Letters. Vibrant, fresh, and intelligent, The Little Women Letters explores the imagined lives of Jo March’s descendants - three sisters who are both thoroughly modern and thoroughly March. As uplifting and essential as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Gabrielle Donnelly’s novel will speak to anyone who’s ever fought with a sister, fallen in love with a fabulous pair of shoes, or wondered what on earth life had in store for her.

Sat, Jun 16, 11am
McIntyre’s Author Event: Karen White
McIntyre’s welcome Karen White to read from Sea Change. For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she doesn’t realize is that her marriage will take her on an unexpected journey into the deep recesses of her past that will transform her forever…

Sun, Jun 24, 2pm
NCPS series: Malaika King Albrecht, Caroline York, and Susan Lefler
Malaika King Albrecht’s chapbook Lessons in Forgetting was published by Main Street Rag and was a finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and received honorable mention in the Brockman Campbell Award. Her newest book Spill was also published by Main Street Rag. C. Pleasants York has been an educator for 40 years, teaching all levels from Project Head Start to community college. She is the author of two poetry books, Susan Lefler’s poems have appeared in Icarus International, Appalachian Heritage, Pinesong, Asheville Poetry Review, Wind, Passager, Main St. Rag, Pembroke Review, Pisgah Review, and Kakalak among other journals. Her short story, The Spirit Tree, first published by Appalachian Heritage, was anthologized in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, 2010.

Wed, Jun 27, 6:30pm
McIntyre’s Author Event: Jesmyn Ward
McIntyre’s is thrilled to welcome Jesmyn Ward to read from Salvage The Bones. A stunning new voice from the gulf coast delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.

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