The Heights by Peter Hedgesat Georgia Center for the BookMon\, Mar. 22\, 20107\:15 PM Synopsis\:
We invite you to a special evening with Peter Hedges\, the Academy
Award-nominated author/director of the films What Eating Gilbert
Grape?\, Pieces of April\, Dan in Real Life and About a Boy. He
has written a wonderful new novel\, The Heights\,
the story of a private school history teacher and his relationships\, a
book about love and challenge\, at once light of touch and yet packed
with emotion and depth of character. Hedges wrote both the novel and
the screenplay for What's
Eating Gilbert Grape.
When Gay People Get Married by Lee Badgettat Georgia State UniversityRoom 201 Urban Life Building12\:00 PM About the Author\: M. V. Lee Badgett is the research director of the Williams Institute for
Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law. She
also directs the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Synopsis\: While the summer of 2008 may have been the summer of love for American
same-sex couples\, as thousands flocked to California for marriage
licenses\, the summer of 2009 may go down in history as a time of
profound contention and confusion over Proposition 8\, which revoked
those couples' right to marry. Still\, as Badgett\, the research director
of the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
at UCLA\, argues\, the transformation of the policy landscape for gays and
lesbians was nothing short of remarkable\, considering the very real
possibility of a constitutional amendment to ban it just a few years
earlier. Despite her optimism about gay unions\, however\, Badgett sets
out to examine their potential impact in the U.S.\, using European Union
countries\, specifically the Netherlands—where same-sex couples have had
the right to marry since 2001—as her rainbow-hued road map. Badgett's
cogent and comprehensive study of the societal implications of same-sex
marriage is learned and persuasive\; gays and lesbians who once again
pick up their protest signs and banners might do well to bring along
Badgett's book as well.
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Pynk reads Sexaholics
at Outwrite Bookstore &\; Coffeehouse
Thursday\, March 25\, 2010
7\:30 PM
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About the Author\:
Marissa Monteilh\, writing as Pynk\, is a former model\, television news reporter\, and commercial actress.
Born and raised in Los Angeles\, she now resides just outside of Atlanta\, Georgia.
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Synopsis\:
Miki\, Valencia\, Teela Raye\, and Brandi share one thing...they are all addicted to sex. United through Sexaholics Anonymous\, these women try to recover from their dependence on wild\, spontaneous\, and even sometimes\, dangerous sex. From whips and chains\, to sex in public\, they have done it all! Led by Dr. Rachel Cummings\, each woman takes the first step to recovery by sharing her biggest sexual act with the group. SEXAHOLICS takes readers through the outrageous experiences of four women on their long path to success.
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*This Is a Line
Ticketed Event. Tickets are free with purchase of the book and are
numbered in order of purchase. Buy your book early &\; get a great
place in line!
Synopsis\:Get ready for big laughs as Chelsea Handler lets loose with more comic
personal essays. In this new\, no-holds-barred account of life on the
ridiculous side\, Chelsea mines the wealth of material that is her
family\, her sex life\, her career\, and her distinctively outrageous
worldview. Here is young Chelsea discovering "\;The Feeling"\; during a
third-grade sleepover and getting shafted by clueless parents over
Cabbage Patch dolls...and grown-up Chelsea at the mercy of the remote
control\, Lean Pockets\, and Sex and the City —but still managing
to convince her boyfriend that there are Swiss Army knives in the soles
of her $16\,000 shoes. Through it all\, Chelsea never lets anyone off the
hook\, even herself\, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor\,
biting wit\, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment. Bio\:Chelsea Handler is an accomplished stand-up comic and actress\, as
well as the bestselling author of My Horizontal Life. She is the
star of her own late-night show on E!\, Chelsea Lately\; was one
of the stars of Girls Behaving Badly\; has appeared on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman\;
and has starred in her own half-hour Comedy Central special. Chelsea
makes regular appearances in comedy clubs across America and lives in
Los Angeles.
Photo Courtesy\: Parker Smith Photography The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullenat Outwrite Bookstore &\; CoffeehouseMon\, Mar. 29\, 7\:30 PM
Synopsis\:
The largely unknown story of female Renaissance painter Sofonisba
Anguissola (c. 1532–1625) is beautifully imagined here in YA novelist
Cullen's sparkling adult debut. In a page-turning tale that brings to
life the undercurrent of political\, romantic\, and interfamily rivalries
in the court of Spanish King Felipe II\, the author shines a light on
Sofonisba\, who is brought under the tutelage of Michelangelo and later
appointed as a lady-in-waiting for the king's 14-year-old wife\,
Elisabeth\, to whom she becomes a close confidante. The author offers an
intriguing vision of what life was like for women of different economic
and political stations at that time\, and she also takes care to not
short-shrift the specifics of Sofonisba's art and methods. Cullen has
found a winning subject in Sofonisba\, whose broken heart as a young
woman colors her perceptions and judgment about the queen and her
imperious husband\, as well as the young Elizabeth's attraction to the
king's brother\, and Elizabeth's odd relationship with the king's son
from his first marriage. Ongoing references to the Spanish Inquisition
and the life of the controversial Michelangelo add depth to this rich
story.
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David McConnell reads The Silver Heartedat Outwrite Bookstore &\; CoffeehouseMonday\, April 12\, 20107\:30 PM About the Author\: David McConnell is Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. He is a researcher and practitioner of networked e-learning and was one of the first people in the United Kingdom to be active in the field. Synopsis\: Set against a background of revolution and profiteering of an unnamed port town\, the story’s unnamed narrator is hired to protect a vast sum of money shadowy investors have entrusted to him. Literally chests of silver coins\, this fortune must be protected at all costs. He turns for assistance to a naïve sailor\, beautiful and young\, who helps the narrator evacuate his money from a trading emporium overrun by violent mobs. With a hopeless fondness\, the boy wants acknowledgement that lives have been destroyed for the sake of money. Unfortunately the ruthless calculus of profit and loss has an eerie appeal the narrator can’t shake\, and the mobs are closing in. And he again has to get his fortune out of the city he’s found uneasy shelter in.
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Christopher Rice reads The Moonlit Earth
at Outwrite Bookstore &\; Coffeehouse
Tuesday Aril 13\, 2010
This is the latest new novel from Christopher Rice!
Synopsis\:
When a young flight attendant disappears during a terrorist bombing in Hong Kong\, his sister must brave a series of conspiracies to clear his name.The central characters are Megan Reynolds and her petulant brother Cameron. Newly unemployed\, Megan is holed up with their socialite mother when Cameron shows up at her birthday party\, where they get into an argument about their long-gone father. Soon after\, Megan starts working for Lucas\, a wealthy cousin who sets her up as head of a nonprofit environmental organization. Her plans are derailed when a massive explosion rips through Cameron's hotel in Hong Kong\, and a video camera catches him fleeing the scene with a Middle Eastern fixer. Following her brother's trail to Hong Kong\, Megan meets a young Saudi prince named Aabid\, who explains at interminable length about his involvement with Cameron. Uncharacteristically\, her brother had rejected the prince's advances\, and he'd also threatened to expose the bloodthirsty relationship between Aabid's wealthy family and Zach Holder\, a ruthless American mogul who is one of Lucas' biggest clients.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100319T113038Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100415T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T003000Z UID:http://www.outwritebooks.com/event/todd-johnson-signing-sweet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.outwritebooks.com/event/todd-johnson-signing-sweet SUMMARY:Todd Johnson signing \\"The Sweet By & By\\" DESCRIPTION:
Todd Johnson reading &\; Signing The Sweet By &\; Byat Outwrite Bookstore &\; CoffeehouseWed\, April. 15 at 7\:30 PM Johnson Bio\:
Todd Johnson was born and raised in North Carolina. Following a career as a teacher and studio singer in New York City\, he received a Tony Award nomination as a producer of The Color Purple on Broadway. He studied history at UNC-Chapel Hill and holds a master's degree from Yale Divinity School. He lives in Connecticut. This is his first novel.
Book Synopsis\: Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina\, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret\, droll and whip smart\, has a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does\, while Bernice\, an avid country-music fan\, is rarely lucid. Irreverent and brazen at every turn\, they make a formidable pair at the home where they live\, breaking all the rules and ultimately changing the lives of those around them. Lorraine\, their churchgoing\, God-questioning nurse\, both protects and provokes them while they are under her watchful eye\, as her daughter\, April\, bright and ambitious\, determinedly makes her way through medical school. Rounding out the group of unlikely and often outrageous friends is Rhonda\, the Bud-swilling beautician who does the ladies' hair on her day off and whose sassy talk hides a vulnerable heart\, one that finally opens to love.
Weaving this tightly knit and compelling novel in alternating chapters\, each woman gets to tell her story her own way\, as all five learn to reconcile troubled pasts\, find forgiveness\, choose hope\, and relish the joy of life. Rich with irresistible characters whose uniquely musical voices overflow the pages\, The Sweet By and By is a testament to the truth that the most vibrant lives are not necessarily the most visible ones.
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