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Blacksburg's Independent Bookstore is Back
Help spread the word, we're back! Our phone number is the same (540-552-BOOK) and you'll see familiar faces stocking shelves. Come see us in our new location:
801 University City Boulevard
University Mall, Blacksburg
Adjacent to The Easy Chair Coffee Shop
2/16/2008
Open University at YMCA course - Fiction Writing
Open University at YMCA is offering a Fiction Writing Basics class this semester that starts March 4th and goes through April 15th at the Blacksburg Public Library. The course is $35 and all proceeds go to benefit the YMCA's Community Programs.
For more information, please visit http://www.vtymca.org/Courses.asp.
Previous News Items from BlacksburgReads.com:
Great Gifts for Moms and "Daddy"s!
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Judith Clarke, Author of That's All She Wrote
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J.D. Stahl, Author of Climbing Daddy Mountain
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On Saturday, December 8th the Easy Chair Bookstore was pleased and proud to host local authors J.D. Stahl (Climbing Daddy Mountain, 2007 Pocahontas Press, illustrated by Joni Pienkowski) and Judith Clarke (That's All She Wrote, 2007 Pocahontas Press) for a lovely afternoon of conversation and book signing. We are, as always, grateful to the Blacksburg community for coming out to support local business and local authors. Signed copies of both books are still available, though supplies are limited.
Thank You, Book Angels!
 | Easy Chair customers are the best! During the month of November, our customers donated over $2,000 worth of children’s books to The Montgomery County Christmas Store through our Book Angel Program. More than 100 of you participated by choosing some of your favorite books or by making a cash contribution and leaving the selection to our staff. Whether you dropped change or bills into the collection can at the coffee shop, climbed the stairs to the children’s section to select books, or were one of our several $100 benefactors, we want to thank everyone who helped us share the gift of reading with local children! |
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Also, we take this opportunity to recognize Emily Keown, the local artist who created our lovely, vibrant Book Angel graphic. We look forward to using it next year and in years to come. Thanks so much, Emily, for contributing your talent to the project!
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Finally, we appreciate the book clubs who challenged their members to buy books for the Christmas store. Several clubs took up the challenge, including The Crazy Eights, a brand new parent-child group that recorded 100 percent participation. We promised to reward the club that made the largest donation, and congratulations go out to our winners, the members of the AAUW (American Association of University Women) Book Group! Honorable mention is awarded to runners-up the Just Desserts Book Club.
Click here for photos from our skinny scarf knitting event!
Thank You For Making Sock Monkey Day So Much Fun!
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On November third the Easy Chair Bookstore hosted local Author Cece Bell for a fantastic day of reading and sock monkey decorating. At the same time, local artist Emily Keown lead a workshop in sock monster making. We wish to thank the community for their continued support of our bookstore, and for making such wonderful sock creations!
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Thank You For Making Our Author Event a Success
Outside, was a dark and rainy night. Inside, author Laura Benedict illuminated our fiction room with a discussion and reading of her debut novel Isabella Moon. Asked about her creative process, she revealed that once she had created the characters, the story "wrote itself." Ms. Benedict's second novel will be completed later this year and is due to be published in 2009. A few autographed copies of Isabella Moon are still available.
Be a Century Supporter
We are still offering Century Supporters Gift Certificates for purchase at the bookstore or coffee shop. The certificates have a $100.00 face value, redeemable for coffee or books. $10.00 from every Century Supporters Gift Certificate sold will benefit The Literacy Volunteers of the New River Valley. The cash raised will help us add new inventory and fixtures, and offset the costs of the physical move. Century Supporters will receive a VIP invitation to our grand opening event and discounts on selected new releases. Most importantly, you will know you are a significant part of sustaining Blacksburg's only independent bookstore.
Thursday, February 1st, 7:00 PM
Scholastic Sets Release Date for Deathly Hollows
J .K. ROWLING'S SEVENTH AND FINAL HARRY POTTER NOVEL, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, TO BE PUBLISHED ON JULY 21, 2007
New York, NY (February 1, 2007) -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, the seventh and final book in the best-selling series, has been scheduled for release at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007, it was announced today by Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company.
In making the announcement, Lisa Holton, President of Scholastic Children's Books said, "We are thrilled to announce the publication date of the seventh installment in this remarkable series. We join J.K. Rowling's millions of readers - young and old, veterans and newcomers - in anticipating what lies ahead."
In making the announcement, Lisa Holton, President of Scholastic Children's Books said, "We are thrilled to announce the publication date of the seventh installment in this remarkable series. We join J.K. Rowling's millions of readers - young and old, veterans and newcomers - in anticipating what lies ahead."
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling's sixth Harry Potter book, was released on July 16, 2005, and was the fastest-selling book in history, selling 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours. All six Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been number one bestsellers in the United States, the U.K., and around the world. There are currently over 120 million copies of the Harry Potter books in print in the United States alone. (from publisher's press release)
For more information about Scholastic, visit: www.scholastic.com.
Doug Hoekstra: BOTHERING THE COFFEE DRINKERS
"Music runs like a liquid vein through these 80-proof experiences. Hoekstra pours it out with a Dylan-esque fervor, giving us a sputtering catalog of beauties and terrors"
Live Music Performance by the Author
Book Discussion and Signing to Follow
Thursday, March 29, 7:00 PM
The Easy Chair Coffee Shop
University Mall
801 University City Boulevard, Blacksburg
540-951-1628
To reserve a copy of this book, please email us at:
Saturday, March 31st, 4:00 PM
Book Signing and Discussion
The Easy Chair Coffee Shop, University Mall
801 University City Boulevard
540-951-1628
Canaan
A Novel of Post-Civil War America
A Novel of Post-Civil War America
A saga of post-Civil War America, from the defeat of the Confederacy to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Canaan fills a vast canvas stretching north, south, and west from Appomattox. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street, where men who did not fight the war make fortunes speculating on its consequences; a Virginia plantation--familiar to readers of the author's critically acclaimed Jacob's Ladder--where the ruin of the South is written in wrenching detail; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer--Yellowhair--rides to his fate against Sitting Bull's warriors.
This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate, and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud's banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn.
Canaan fills a vast canvas stretching north, south, and west from Appomattox. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street, where men who did not fight the war make fortunes speculating on its consequences; a Virginia plantation--familiar to readers of the author's critically acclaimed Jacob's Ladder--where the ruin of the South is written in wrenching detail; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer--Yellowhair--rides to his fate against Sitting Bull's warriors.
This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, red, ex-Union, and ex-Confederate, and the principal narrator is a Santee woman, She Goes Before, who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud's banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn.
Donald McCaig, the author of Jacob's Ladder, lives in rural Virginia, where he raises sheep and trains sheepdogs." (Excerpted from Publisher Website)