Independent Bookstore Day!
Join us for a day of surprises and fun! Be sure to follow us on social media for event details.
Earth Day Sunday Signing with Dana Klisanin
As part of Dana’s event, she will host a “future-thinking” writing workshop where young people would write a message - sending a message of hope to the future - and place it in a time capsule together.
Sunday Signing with Christina Edmondson for Faithful Anti-Racism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change
This is a follow-up to Christina’s event at the Fayetteville Public Library on Saturday, April 13.
https://www.faylib.org/event/9804729
Sunday Signing: Ginny Myers Sain
About One Last Breath:
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark & Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatural thriller filled with murder, romance, and a decades long mystery that haunts a small Florida town. The perfect blend of Natasha Preston, Krystal Sutherland, and Delia Owens, with a paranormal twist.
Mount Orange, Florida, is famous for two things: Cerulean freshwater springs, ideal for free divers who aren't afraid of lurking gators. And the gruesome cold case murder of best friends, Bailey and Celeste, twenty years ago.
Bailey and Celeste's murders cast a permanent darkness over sunny Mount Orange. Tru has always lived in that shadow. Now she's supposed to head to FSU in the fall with her boyfriend, but those unsolved murders -- and the death of her own sister -- invade her every thought. It’s only in the shadowy deep of Hidden Glen Springs that she can breathe.
When a strange girl named Rio rolls into town, hell-bent on figuring out who killed Bailey and Celeste, Tru can't resist entangling herself in the thrill of solving the decades old mystery any more than she can resist her familiar, aching attraction to Rio.
As the summer heat ignites, so does the spark between Tru and Rio...along with their other-worldy connection to Bailey and Celeste. But when someone begins stalking them, the girls become convinced the killer is back in town. And if they keep digging into the past, Tru and Rio know this time, it could be their blood that makes the springs run red.
About Ginny:
Ginny Myers Sain is the New York Times bestselling author of Dark & Shallow Lies and Secrets So Deep. She lives in Florida and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings.
Follow her on Twitter @stageandpage and on Instagram @ginnymyerssain or find her on her website at ginnymyerssain.com.
Sunday Signing: Arleen Olson
--About Orchids’ Allure: Intimate Portraits--
From the moment I photographed orchids up close at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, I was captivated by their unusual beauty and intriguing personalities. After years searching for the most unusual and expressive orchids, I want to share my discovery and fascination of these unique flowers with all orchid enthusiasts and encourage them to look up close and personal, as I did. With my macro lens aimed at their reproductive system (the lip and the column) I was astounded at what I saw.
The orchids’ diversity and extravagant sexual display is how they attract pollinators to ensure their reproduction. Here is my focus, where orchids reveal their spirit, the animating force within all living things. To my eye, they take on characteristics of human, animal, and even other-worldly forms. Angels emerge from their petals.
Each alluring orchid is an invitation to wonder!
Contains over 20 different genera of orchids
8X10 | 88 pages | Soft cover | $24.95
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--About Arleen Olson--
Arleen graduated from Kean University, NJ with degrees in English and Art.
She has been a professional photographer for most of her life and her work has been exhibited widely. Her photographs have been published in environmental newsletters, college publications, catalogs, newspapers, magazines, brochures and books. A compilation of her photographs is part of the permanent collection of Women Photographers in Humboldt County, 1850-2000, which resides in the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
She is author of Humboldt Wild, a visual journey through Southern, Central and Northern Humboldt along the spectacular Pacific Coast in NW California. The book concludes with a chapter highlighting Humboldt’s numerous renowned local events.
Writers Night Networking
Join us for an easy-going night of chatting with other NWA writers!
Book Launch for Caroline Jennings and an opening Reading by Floyd Collins
A book launch for Caroline Jennings' work of Poetry "Stop and Smell the Fractals (and Everything In Between)! Our evening will feature an opening reading by Floyd Collins.
Praise for "Stop and Smell the Fractals":
Caroline Jennings’ Stop and Smell the Fractals (And Everything In Between) is a striking chapbook. Jennings’ poetry innovatively explores everyday life through the lens of one of our world’s strongest foundations: mathematics. From equations to odes, poems approach complex moments with calculated candor. In “Life as a Function Where x=Time,” the poet tracks a young nephew’s life along the X-axis. In “Asymptote, a spine mimics a graphed line, blending the body with geometry. Stained glass windows appear as personified “octagonal geometry” in a cathedral. People’s “laughter blends into one uniform wave function.” This chapbook embarks on a gorgeous quest for the world’s patterns and solutions while acknowledging the forces that complicate them. Caroline Jennings is a poet with a mathematician’s eye and a generous artist’s heart. Stop and Smell the Factals (And Everything In Between) is an important chapbook to read.
–Elizabeth Muscari
Tormenting geese, a stolen parking spot, stain glass from a cathedral’s windows, the lack of precision in a nautilus shell, poor posture: in this chapbook, Caroline Jennings delivers a disarmingly earnest and often humorous study of a mind obsessed with the perfection proposed by mathematical equations. By the end, we learn her way of tolerating and trusting the insights of all that refuses to add up. As Jennings so movingly puts it in one these marveling poems, “but I search anyway.”
–Geffrey Davis, author of One Wild Word Away
About Caroline:
Caroline Jennings is the author of Stop and Smell the Fractals (and Everything in Between). Her poems have appeared in The Diamond Line, Tupelo Quarterly, Black Moon Magazine, and elsewhere. A native of Arkansas, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Arkansas, both of which influenced this collection. She currently works as a regulatory affairs consultant in the medical space but makes time to write any chance she gets.
About Floyd:
Floyd Collins earned his M.F.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas. He has published two book-length critical studies, Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity (Delaware UP 2003) and The Living Artifact (Stephen F. Austin State UP 2021). His latest volume of poetry is titled My Back Pages: The Teresa Poems (Stephen F. Austin State UP 2022) and is available for pre-orders on Amazon. His poetry and critical prose appear regularly in The Arkansas Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Sewanee Review. He was awarded The Allen Tate Poetry Prize in 2007.
Pearl's Bookclub
March Book: The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts
UPDATE: The March pick is now Come and Get It by Kiley Reid!
Sunday Signing: Quarantining Hate with Kerrie Taber
Kerrie Taber provides biographical background for the story when she discovered that her beloved grandfather was a war criminal who engaged in the murder of thousands of Jews in Lithuanian.
Her story describes how the knowledge of her grandfather's actions has affected her life and relationships. On a broader sense, she realizes that society is faced with choices, one being similar to COVID-s9; society needs to quarantine hate.
Author Event: Chase Dearinger
This New Dark, by Chase Dearinger
True Grit meets Twin Peaks in this genre-bending debut novel by Chase Dearinger. This New Dark explores the haunted, broken hills of Eastern Oklahoma, where over the course of just two cold days in November, the residents of Seven Suns will each face their own kind of weird. There’s Wyatt, a dope-growing Muscogee whose obsession with a black cougar that shouldn’t exist begins to uproot his life. The teenager who lives with him—Randy—is outraged at the world, confused about his sexuality, and haunted by the bones of his mother. And there’s Esther—a dutiful, God-fearing court bailiff who finds herself thrust into the position of county sheriff, forced to find the missing girl whose disappearance sets everything in motion. Inexorably bringing them all together is a nameless cowboy junky who may or may not be some ancient shape-shifting evil. All of them must overcome this new dark while dealing with the violent undercurrents of family, religion, addiction, and death.
About Chase:
Chase Dearinger is an Oklahoma native who now lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines around the country, including Bayou, The Southampton Review, Short Story America, and Heavy Feather Review. He currently serves as the Chief Editor of Emerald City, a quarterly online fiction magazine, and directs the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize, an annual poetry chapbook contest. He is a professor of creative writing and literature at Pittsburg State University. This New Dark is his first novel.
Children's French Story Time
Bethany Meadows is a former French teacher who now gives individual lessons under her tutoring business French with Bethany, and we're so excited for her upcoming story time at Pearl's!
This will be a fun afternoon, of reading, and an activity.
Silent Book Club at The Graduate Hotel
An introvert’s dream! Simply bring whatever you’re reading to The Graduate Hotel lobby for an evening of solitude among fellow book lovers.
Gathering of the Groups at FPL
For details and to register: https://www.faylib.org/event/10066728
Local Author Event: Ty Carlson & Ray Niblock
Join us for an evening of reading, Q+A, and book signing with local authors Raymond L. Niblock and Ty Carlson!
About Ray:
Raymond L. Niblock is a practicing trial lawyer when he's not writing or flying airplanes. He draws from a rich military, law, and philosophy background to craft his debut novel, exploring a future where political and legal systems teeter on the brink of collapse. Educated at the New Mexico Military Institute and the University of New Mexico, his disciplined approach to life infuses his writing with power plays and tactical maneuverings. With a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law, he brings raw authenticity to his work as a practicing lawyer, navigating the corridors of political and legal schemes. Raymond, an astute observer of contemporary socio-political discourse, invites readers to explore thought-provoking "what ifs" in his stories. He resides with his husband, Jesse, in Northwest Arkansas, where they share a love for flying, travel, and adventures with their two dogs.
About The Last Independence Day:
Protagonist Jon Freeman endeavors to save his nation from dystopia in "The Last Independence Day." Set in Arkansas, which turned extremist after the 2022 midterms, Freeman confronts his nemesis, Governor Suzy Brandy 'Buckshot' Landers, and the "New Law" to prevent secession and civil war.
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About Ty:
Ty Carlson is a sci-fi writer who delights in the unseen strangeness and wonder of “what if.” Growing up in the Ozarks of Arkansas gave him and his three siblings plenty of room to play knights and dragons or jungle explorers, igniting his imagination early on. Ty started writing at a very young age and his passion has only grown over time. He loved to read so much that he once was grounded from reading, a fact that his brothers tease him about to this day. He hopes readers discover new ways to see the world through the perspectives offered in the stories he tells.
About Convergence of Gods:
What makes someone human?
Is it their ability to feel grief, a crisis of faith, or impotence? The ability to trudge onward even when life becomes unbearable?
Or is it how they act when they become something … greater?
From Jonas, who wakes in the wreckage of his car to find his world infested by gargantuan bugs; to Ramón, who must conquer his greatest fear; to Mick, who pretends he is a psychic as a money-making scheme, Convergence of Gods follows three men faced with impossible circumstances. Their fate, and the fate of the world, may come down to what they’re willing to tolerate—or sacrifice.
Pop-Up at the That's What She Said Show
We’ll be slingin’ books at this very fun Valentine’s Day show! Hope you can join us!
Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-valentines-day-potluck-you-never-know-what-youll-get-tickets-775631062387?aff=oddtdtcreator.
