We Love Durham NC

Durham Library Book Sale

We made it out to the library bag sale at the Main Branch on Sunday. People were grabbing paper bags and stuffing them with armloads of mainly novels for $7 a bag. Outside, under the tent, non-bag sale items were available for $.50 per paperback and $1 per hardback. The children’s section was slim, but I bet on Friday there was a much fuller selection.

I snagged several books of photography, an inspirational Circus Techniques guide, one from the eighties titled Ventriloquism Made Easy (aka Dummies for Dummies), a book on trees, a St. Louis Cardinals baseball card guide, and a delightful spiral-bound collection of essays by an Ellen Holmes Baer, a local in perhaps Rougemont?, called Lessons from Apple Trees, Rainy Days, and Johnny Woodchuck. A very soothing read. I’m surprised she hasn’t published more.

Local Author Reads Book

Ask me how much restraint it took not to put “Cary Serial Killer” as the title of this post.

“North Carolina author Bill Floyd will read from and sign copies of his new thriller, The Killer’s Wife…”

Thatcher Forest Publishing

…has a website now, featuring the book “Search for the Flaming Chalice.” Middle-school aged readers will enjoy this story about some martens. Now you want to know what a marten is, huh? Read the book!

A (currently) short list of more Durham authors on the main WLD site.

Durham Poetry

Haven’t read a lot of poetry lately, but I received a little volume called Licorice from Bull City Press, and it was a charmer.

Horse and Buggy Press

Ooo, pretty.