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Blanchett is a fan of Hough’s writing, commenting: “Lauren’s perspective on the world at large is so startling that one can’t unsee, unhear or unread it. Her writing is a bugle call for the human spirit. Much like the woman herself. My conversations with Lauren over the last several years have been honest, raw and sidesplittingly funny, and I treasure her friendship and her penship beyond measure. It’s been a journey, indeed, from first reading her tweets and articles through to ingesting the galleys for Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing. But speaking her words aloud was perhaps the greatest revelation of all. I well understood Lauren’s hypnotic power as a storyteller, but in speaking her words, I truly understood the rhythmic heartbeat alive in every phrase. Aching to connect. Aching to be heard.”Continue Reading

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Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café Presents A Special Speakeasy Event With Karen Abbott, author The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, in Conversation with Denise Kiernan, author of The Last Castle, at Little Jumbo Cocktail Bar, on Tuesday, August 27,Continue Reading

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Award-winning author and business/life coach, Angie Mattson Stegall is presenting a 3-hour workshop, NOTES FROM NATURE, for business owners and professionals on Saturday, January 12, 2019, to teach and convey the concepts in her latest book Notes from Nature: Gentle Instructions for Nurturing Your Relationship with the Natural World. ParticipantsContinue Reading

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Do possums fly? They can, if you ask singer/songwriter Grant Maloy Smith, whose new song “Fly Possum Fly” is also a children’s Christmas storybook. Smith will sign copies of the book and perform songs courtesy of Spellbound Children’s Bookshop in Asheville on Friday, November 9, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. The eventContinue Reading

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ACCESSORY TO WAR: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military  By Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang Narrated by Courtney B. Vance   “Indispensable and mind-blowing. . . . This book deserves not only to be read, but to become a guide for those who hope for a better, survivableContinue Reading