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Join Cathy on Monday, February 8th at 6:30 for a reading of Clifford's First Valentine's Day. Children ages 4-7 will make a special valentine during the event.
Join us Wednesday, February 10th at 5PM to celebrate our first year on Salem Street. Ribbon Cutting sponsored by the Apex Chamber of Commerce.
Saturday, February 13th at 2PM. Enjoy funny, true stories by a professional groomer. We are lining up animal talent to bring to the event to watch Jennifer in action.
by Joel Schnoor on Saturday, Feb 20th at 2PM. This book is intended to teach students, writers and adults who want a funny way to learn and apply correct grammar.
by Roland Smith. Mr Smith will be joining us at All Booked Up on April 7th at 7:00PM. For grades 5th-9th. Multiple titles and copies available. By yours now to read before the event and learn more about the author and his books during the event!
by Melissa B. Rooney. Children's event. For ages 4-12. Hands on experiments and book reading on Saturday, March 2nd at 2PM.
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Savannah Adams
About the Author
Savannah Joy Adams, the illustrator is the granddaughter of the author. This book was dedicated to Savannah when the poem was originally penned in 1999. Her illustrations display her personal insight into the true meaning of Christmas. She is an avid swimmer and soccerplayer. She lives with her parents and sisters, Elizabeth and Emma near Cary, North Carolina. This is the first book she has illustrated, however her artwork was featured on the cover of a previous book, published by her 1st grade classroom in Cambridge, Maryland.
About the Book
This is a story depicting the biblical based true Christmas story set to the same meter and rhyme as the original classic The Night Before Christmas. This poem was written 9 years ago by author Timothy Penland for his granddaughter Savannah Joy Adams. Savannah at nine years of age is the illustrator for this work.
Careful attention to every detail of this hard bound first edition has resulted in a book to be treasured by the entire family. The book is bound in a rich navy cover with silver foil lettering and a deluxe dust cover. The full color illustrations and large-print text insure enjoyable reading and sharing.
Children/Young Adult
Dakota Lee
Flash of Freedom...Thanks to her parents' jobs as house designers, Tara Chandller moved around way too much for her liking. It was so hard to find friends at every new place that Tara had quit trying. But Green River, Tennessee was different. She met two new girlfriends who had the shared interest of horses. Tara didn't really want to be their friend. But when they introduced her to Freedom, a half wild, unhappy yearling, she decided to stay with them.
With a little work Tara and Freedom create an amazing and unbreakable bond. For Tara, life was at its best. But then the unthinkable happened to Freedom, leaving Tara devastated. Tara would do anything to get things back to normal, but she had no idea how far that promise would take her...
Roland Smith
Roland Smith is a former zookeeper and leading expert on red wolves as well as an author. He lives on a small farm near Portland, Oregon.
Cryptid Hunters...Grade 5-8 When their parents disappear, twins Marty and Grace, 13, are taken in by their Uncle Travis, who searches the world for supposedly mythical creatures. After a parachute fall from an airplane, the kids find themselves in the middle of the Congo, where a surviving dinosaur may still exist. While their conservationist uncle tries to rescue the children, an evil cryptid hunter who kills species rather than saving them pursues the creature. Marty and Grace each have distinct, if not terribly complex personalities, and their adventures are quite absorbing.
Childrens
Melissa B. Rooney
After receiving undergraduate degrees in English and Chemistry from the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA), Melissa Rooney attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She studied electrochemistry under the direction of R. Mark Wightman, and was awarded her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UNC in 1998. From 1999-2002 she conducted electrochemistry research in the laboratory of Alan M. Bond at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for 2000-2003. In 2002, she returned to North Carolina to raise her family with her husband, Mike Rooney. Melissa believes that society underestimates our children's interest in what we consider 'complicated' scientific subjects, and that we underestimate our children's ability to understand many basic scientific concepts. She is confident that the sooner we expose our children to these ideas, the less intimidated they will be by such subject matter in the future. Whether or not they understand everything is beside the point. What's important is whether or not they are interested. Thus, presenting scientific subjects to our young children in an entertaining way lays important groundwork for their future and the future of our society, on the whole. Melissa, her husband Mike, and their two young children happily reside in Durham, NC.
Eddie the Electron...Eddie the Electron is trapped in a helium balloon with his dull orbit-mate, Erwin. Will you help him escape? Wait a minute...What exactly, is an electron, or a helium atom for that matter? This book is a wonderfully entertaining way to introduce children (kindergarten through 4th grade) to the concepts of atoms, protons, and electrons. Even adults may have something to learn from funny little Eddie...
Childrens/Young Adult
Clay Carmichael
Award-winning author and illustrator Clay Carmichael's new novel "Wild Things" is a 2010 American Library Association Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2009, winner of the 2009 North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award and a National Association of Parenting Publications Gold Award (NAPPA). Carmichael lives and works in Carrboro, North Carolina with her husband, sculptor Mike Roig. She teaches writing and illustrating and gives talks about about her publishing process and the exotic life of the author. Her picture books are available in many languages.
Eleven-year-old Zoë is a survivor. Her fiery independence has seen her through a series of adults who dont stick, and she trusts no one, including Uncle Henry, who has just taken her in after the death of her neglectful mother. Henry is a renowned sculptor of what Zoë skeptically calls wild things. Other wild things slip through Henrys North Carolina woods unnoticed until Zoës arrival catapults them into the spotlight, with life-changing consequences for everyone.
Mystery
Margaret Maron
MARGARET MARON is the author of twenty-five novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity), her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature and have been translated into 15 languages. She has served as president of Sisters in Crime, the American Crime Writers League, and Mystery Writers of America.
Sand Sharks..Discovering a murdered colleague isn't quite the adventure Deborah Knott anticipated during her getaway/conference in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., but as fans of Maron's Edgar- and Anthony-winning series know, trouble seems to cling to her like cornmeal on hush puppies. Her 15th outing (after 2008's Death's Half Acre) finds the feisty judge agreeing to aid local investigators with discreet inquiries among her fellow conventioneers. She quickly encounters plenty of folks none too distressed by the victim's demise, including one of her own exes, and escalating danger. Unfortunately, as the pace quickens the plot starts to fall apart, culminating in a pell-mell scramble to a rather unconvincing denouement. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Thriller
Alexandra Sokoloff
Alex is a California native and a graduate of U.C. Berkeley. She is the Bram Stoker, Anthony, Black Quill and Thriller award-nominated author of the supernatural thrillers, THE HARROWING, THE PRICE, and the just-released THE UNSEEN. As a screenwriter she has sold original suspense and thriller scripts and adapted novels for numerous Hollywood studios. Her adaptation of Sabine Deitmer's thriller COLD KISSES was filmed in Germany. She's just finished her fourth thriller for St. Martin's and is working on a paranormal thriller for Harlequin Nocturne.
The Unseen...In Sokoloff's serviceable supernatural thriller, two Duke University psychology professors, Laurel MacDonald and Brendan Cody, stumble on suppressed findings of an inquiry into poltergeist activity conducted under the auspices of Duke's Rhine parapsychology lab nearly half a century earlier. All the participants appear to have died, disappeared or, in the case of Laurel's enfeebled uncle, gone mad. Determined to advance their academic careers, the pair corral two students with strong paranormal potential to camp out at the spooky Folger House, site of the original experiment. No sooner do they begin their study than they're confronted with uncanny phenomena that suggest they've awakened a malignant presence that pervades the house. Sokoloff (The Price) keep her story enticingly ambiguous, never clarifying until the climax whether the unfolding weirdness might be the result of the investigators' psychic sensitivities or the mischievous handiwork of a human villain. (June)
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True Crime
Amanda Lamb
Amanda Lamb is a mother, investigative reporter and author. She is also a veteran crime reporter for award winning WRAL in Raleigh, NC.
Deadly Dose...To love, honor and poison. The true story of a wife brought to justice.
For four months, arsenic consumed the body of promising young pediatric AIDS researcher Eric Miller. No one thought that his wife could be capable of such a horrible crime except for veteran homicide investigator Chris Morgan, a man who would spend the next four years in his pursuit of justice.
Evil Next Door...On May 21, 2002, the body of twenty-three-year-old Stephanie Bennett was found in her North Raleigh apartment. Despite ample DNA evidence, investigators could find no matches. But detectives refused to give up. They scoured the case files again and hit the streets, re-interviewing witnesses until they found a man fitting the description of the killer who had lived in Stephanie's neighborhood at the time of the murder. When he refused to give up a DNA sample, a heated cat and mouse game started with police. This is the gripping story about how a team of aggressive detectives tracked down a suspected serial killer and found justice for an innocent young woman more than three years after her death.
Smotherhood...
Amanda's first book, Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years, a collection of hilarious anecdotes about parenting in the 21st century was published in August 2007. As featured on The TODAY Show, it relates the mothering journey in a raw, edgy, in-your-face manner that will make you laugh until you cry. It is a must read for mothers who are yearning for a fresh voice that reflects what they are dealing with in their everyday lives.
History
Sherry Monahan
Local author and historian Sherry Monahan was attracted to Apex because of its charm and interesting history. She has four published books about the Old West and has applied the same tenacity in researching Apex. She interviewed town locals with deep family roots and sifted through dusty archive books to paint Apex's vivid history.
Images of America, Apex...This quaint, picturesque community has an interesting history. For years it was a rural hamlet with a nearby pond, simply called Log Pond. It later became Apex, and the pond was eventually drained in the name of progress. Apex appeared on the map because of the coalfields in Chatham/Lee County. The coal companies needed to get their coal to Raleigh, and around 1870, the Chatham Railroad was chugging along, right by Log Pond. It officially became Apex with the establishment of a post office. Apex put the railroad to use immediately and shipped lumber, tar, turpentine, and pitch. Early on, Apex passed a few ordinances that some might find in the Wild West, including those dealing with whiskey, gambling, and prostitution. The town suffered two fires in the early 1900s, but its residents persevered, and ApexÃÂs small-town charm is still enjoyed today.
J. Christy Judah
J. Christy Judah, M. Ed., is a retired educator who works to preserve historical sites in southeastern North Carolina. She resides in the Supply, NC area.
The Two Faces of Dixie..White Gloves and Lace. Rice Fields and Rags. Plantations and Slaves. These are the faces of Dixie and they come alive in this factual account of the settlement of eastern North Carolina. The witnesses to the era speak out through actual testimony collected from Last Wills and Testaments, Deeds, Photographs, Sketches, Newspaper Accounts, Court Minutes and Pleas, and personal Slave Narratives. The reader will experience plantation life with its extensive labor demands, a need that was filled by enslaving Indians, whites and Africans. Dixie provides a comprehensive view of life during the pre-civil war era helping the reader to better understand the past and move into the future with a wisdom based in an appreciation for the hardships and dreams of all who bridged the era from slavery to freedom. It lists hundreds of plantations, planters, politicians, and slaves who settled North Carolina, and provides a picture of a by-gone era in a way that no other work has attempted.
Suzy Barile
Undaunted Heart
Romance
Deb Marlowe
Deb Marlowe grew up in Pennsylvania with her nose in a book. Luckily, shed read enough romances to recognize the true modern hero she met at a college Halloween partyeven though he wore a tuxedo t-shirt instead of breeches and tall boots. They married, settled in North Carolina and produced two handsome, intelligent and genuinely amusing boys. Though she spends much of her time with her nose in her laptop, for the sake of her family she does occasionally abandon her inner world for the domestic adventure of laundry, dinner and carpool. Despite her sacrifice, not one of the men in her family is yet willing to don breeches or tall boots. Shes working on it. Deb loves to hear from readers! You can contact her at deb_debmarlowe.com
Her Cinderella Season..She's been taught that pleasure is sinful . .
Now Miss Lily Beecham is determined to find out for herself!
A chance meeting with a viscountess, and Lily is invited to the ball. Freed from dowdy gowns and worthy reading, Lily charms Society. Except for the cold, aloof--and wildly handsome--Mr. Jack Alden.
Lily soon learns that Jack's cool demeanor is belied by the warmth of his kiss. But at the end of the Season she must return to bleak normality. Unless wicked Mr. Alden can save her from a future of good behavior . . .
Joyce Hope
Joy Comes in the Morning...Libby Prescott's life becomes a nightmare after the Civil War, when her husband, a Union soldier, grows addicted to morphine and whiskey and begins abusing her. Begging God for help, she receives a solution unlike any she imagined. Libby awakes one day in the Southern home of the Chambers family with no memory of who she is or how she has arrived there. The Chambers begin a search for anyone with a connection to the lost and battered woman. Libby finds friendship with Clary, but their discussions incite haunting memories from her youth. The mystery deepens when the Chambers receive Libby's rings and learn of a ragged, indigent woman searching for her. As Libby's presence begins to change their lives, the Chambers will call into question everything they know, especially Justin, whose engagement to Susanna becomes less appealing as the days pass. And Libby, who has been confiding in Justin, must confront her past while fighting her growing feelings for him and her uncertainty concerning what happens next. With the themes of hope and justice, along with a lesson in history, Joyce Hope takes readers on an amazing adventure through the darkest hours of night, promising that Joy Comes in the Morning.
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