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Janice Hardy!

And the latest in
The Healing Wars Trilogy:

DARKFALL

It's always a pleasure to have this phenomenal author of young adult fiction in the store.  As a special treat: those who attend can buy Darkfall before it officially goes on sale on October 4. Plus there will be food, fun, and prizes.

Ms. Hardy's previous titles are:  The Shifter and Blue Fire.  This is a free event open to all Janice Hardy fans, young and old! 

Click here to visit the website and read all about the trilogy! You'll want to order all three!


 


Lisa Patton
reads and signs
Yankee Doodle Dixie
Saturday, October 1
 at 1:00 PM


A laugh-out-loud romp around Memphis, with the heartwarming truths about coming home, Yankee Doodle Dixie is a testament to women, mothers, family and friends—in snow or sunshine, alike. Once a happy, well-adjusted wife with a personality some might consider doormatish, newly singled mom, Leelee Satterfield learns how to stand up for herself again, although this time she makes sure to trade her snow boots back in for sandals.

 "Southern to the core…funny to the bone. In Lisa Patton's new novel she proves that we can go home again, and in many cases we should."— Fannie Flagg

"Not a beat missed when we head below the Mason-Dixon Line and pick up with Southern belle Leelee Satterfield on her ofttimes riotous but always touching quest for home, friendship and love. In this charming sequel to Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'Easter, Lisa Patton's voice leaves us laughing, crying, and definitely wanting more!"—Susan Gregg Gilmore, bestselling author of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen.

Bring your BGF and don't miss this one!

 


WOOF! WOOF!
Make tracks to the Cobb Energy Center

Sunday October 2 at 7 p.m.
for "the Dog Whisperer"
CESAR MILLAN

Cesar Millan is the world's most renowned dog behavioral specialist, garnering a world-wide following from the success of "Dog Whisperer" on the National Geographic Channel. His best-selling books, DVDs and CDs have made Cesar an internationally acclaimed pop culture icon seen on The Tonight Show, Oprah and others. 

Tickets for this event must be purchased through Cobb Energy, but FoxTale is the official bookseller for the event.  If you want a signed book from Cesar Millan, talk to the foxes at FoxTale!

AND... because FoxTale is the bookseller sponsor, here's our gift to you!

Get $5 off compliments of FoxTale Book Shoppe when you order tickets to see Cesar Millan below and use password: MILLAN

You're so welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

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FoxTale Book Shoppe is the place to be for all kinds of events, too. Authors have found a warm audience at FoxTale and readers have enjoyed meeting and conversing with well-known writers.

Recent visits include Mary Kay Andrews, Rick Bragg, Sonny Brewer, Steve Doocy, Silas House, Joshilyn Jackson, Terry Kay, Charles Martin and Kathryn Stockett and Dorthea Benton Frank. We even packed the park with Duane "Dog" Chapman fans.


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Other events include Jewelry Workshops, Children’s Tea Parties, Journaling Classes, Dream Workshops, Holiday Parties, and Children’s Birthday Parties. There's always something happening at FoxTale!

 

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MEMOIR WRITING: 8 Week Course with Becky Kraegel Becky Kraegel has been an inspiration to aspiring writers — both at FoxTale and Kennesaw University — because she is chock full of encouragement and rock solid teaching techniques.  If you’ve often thought of writing your own memoir, now is the time, and FoxTale is the place!  Starting Sept. 20, Kraegel will base her new class on Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg.  

“To write memoir, we must first know how to remember. Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, the text  guides you to the attentive state of thought in which you discover and open forgotten doors of memory.”  Along with the help of Natalie Goldberg, Becky welcomes aspiring writers of all levels and encourages them to find their unique voice to tell their stories.  If you’ve got a story, it deserves to be told! 

$145
 


TuESDAYS
10:30- 12 Noon
Beginning Beginning
September 20

 
Janice Hardy, Launch Party for DARKFALL
We are thrilled to have Janice back to introduce the latest in the Healing Wars TrilogyDetails at left


SATURday
SeptEMBER 24 3:00 PM

 
Lecture by Robert Hicks and Nell Dickerson
LOCATION: Cobb COunty Central Public Library,
266 Roswell Street in Marietta

Photographer/architect Nell Dickerson joins acclaimed novelist Robert Hicks (The Widow of the South) to talk about ”The Role of Women in the Historic South,” a lecture that is part of the 75th anniversary observance of the publication of Gone With the Wind. Dickerson, a native of Mississippi. is the creator of the recently published book Gone: A Photographic Plea for Preservation, which presents an eloquent case for saving some of the most important but decaying historic structures around the South. Hicks wrote a Foreword for that book and is also the author of the novel A Separate Country. The program is free and will take place at the Cobb County Central Library.
 

 

Thursday, September 29 7:00 pm

 
Lisa Patton READS and Signs Yankee Doodle Dixie
A laugh-out-loud romp around Memphis, with the heartwarming truths about coming home, this will be another fun book-signing at FoxTale. Details at left. 


Saturday
October 1
1:00 PM

 

Cesar Millan At the cobb Energy Center
Cesar Millan is the world's most renowned dog behavioral specialist and FoxTale is THE official bookseller sponsor for this event. Details and discount at left.


Sunday

October 2
7:00 PM

 

Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain—Nellie Clay married Hobbs Pritchard without even noticing he was a spell conjured into a man, a walking, talking ghost story. But her mama knew. She saw it in her tea leaves: death. Folks told Nellie to get off the mountain while she could, to go back home before it was too late. Hobbs wasn't nothing but trouble. He'd even killed a man. No telling what else. That mountain was haunted, and soon enough, Nellie would feel it too. One way or another, Hobbs would get what was coming to him. The ghosts would see to that. . .

Told in the stunning voices of five women whose lives are inextricably bound when a murder takes place in rural Depression-era North Carolina, Ann Hite's unforgettable debut spans generations and conjures the best of Southern folk-lore—mystery, spirits, hoodoo, and the incomparable beauty of the Appalachian landscape. 

"The authentic voice of Nellie Pritchard, who comes to Black Mountain as a new bride, wraps around you and pulls you deep into this haunted story. Ann Hite delivers an eerie page-turner that I couldn't put down." –Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints
 



Tuesday
 October 4
 7:00 pm,

 

FoxTale's 4th Anniversary Party AND the Grand Opening of Indigo Fox, Our New Parisian Flea Market! 

Mark your calendars because you sooo want to be there! Details soon!


Saturday
OCTOBER 15

 
A Southern Poets Reading Evening with
Janisse Ray, John Lane & Thomas Rain Crowe
Decatur Library Auditorium (Georgia CTr for the Book)

"A Southern Poets Reading” evening presents three remarkably gifted writers well-known throughout our region and beyond: Janisse Ray, John Lane and Thomas Rain Crowe. All three are acclaimed for their lovely, insightful writings about nature and the environment. Janisse is a native Georgian whose books include Ecology or a Cracker Childhood and Drifting Into Darien, and her new poetry collection, A House of Branches, is informed by her life-long interest in wilderness preservation.

John Lane is a South Carolinian who writes powerfully about the woods and wilds in many books and whose new volume of poetry, Abandoned Quarry, marks him as ”the finest Southern landscape poet we have today.” Thomas Crowe is a native North Carolinian and author of a dozen books of prose and poetry, and his just-published book of poems Crack Light illustrated by photographs speaks movingly to the ties between humans and the earth in his western North Carolina hill country.  

'See you at the Decatur Library Auditorium or contact FoxTale to order your signed books from these talented authors and poets.
 

 

TUesday
October 18
7:15 pm

 

Crystal Cook, Casserole Queens CookbookCrystal Cook  and Sandy Pollock make a mean Chicken Pot Pie, elevating the classic recipe with white wine and fresh tarragon. Their recipe won them such a following in Texas that Bobby Flay took notice and challenged them to a Throwdown. It turns out that the Casserole Queens, as the duo is known, are much more than one-hit wonders of the one-dish dinner. They have built an entire business around revamping the ultimate quick-fix dinner for modern tastes.

In The Casserole Queens Cookbook, they share their fresh, updated, from-scratch recipes for traditional dishes. Tuna Noodle is brought up a notch with a homemade cream sauce and a kick of cayenne pepper; Halibut Enchiladas with Salsa Verde are surprisingly light and vibrant; Mandarin Meatloaf has a sweet orange flavor that recharges a beloved weeknight staple. There are home-style desserts, like Gooey Apple Butter Cake, and great brunch dishes, such as Frenchy Toast Casserole. The Queens have thought of everything, providing advice on scaling and freezing casseroles so that anyone can stock the freezer with go-to dinners.

The Casserole Queens Cookbook

Saturday, October 22
 1:00 pm

 
LAUNCH PARTY ALERT!!! 
Karen White's The Strangers on Montagu Street
Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns - only to be greeted by a house full of lost souls. She's still restoring her Charleston house and doesn't expect to have a new houseguest, a teen girl named Nola. But the girl didn't come alone, and the spirits that accompanied Nola don't seem willing to leave...

The foxes are absolutely in love with Karen White’s ghostly series set in Charleston. Will Jack and Melanie ever get together???  Join us for this FUN launch party! 
 

Sunday, October 30
1:00 PM

 
Adam Lazarus: Super Bowl Monday is a thorough retelling of Super Bowl XXV, the epic January 1991 showdown between the New York Giants and the Buffalo Bills. Great characters and a gripping finish to the closest episode in Super Bowl history made for a wonderful conclusion to the game's Silver Anniversary. But what establishes that day as a special moment in American sports history was the cloud of war hanging over the game and the nation.

Ten days before the Giants defeated the Bills 20-19 in Tampa Stadium, the United States had authorized Operation Desert Storm and begun the Persian Gulf War. The book is entitled Super Bowl Monday because the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who were able to watch the Giants vs. the Bills did so on Arabic Standard Time, several hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. For those men and women on duty in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, Super Bowl XXV took place early Monday morning. Super Bowl Monday features original research from newspaper and video archives in addition to lengthy interviews with many of the game's stars.
 


Friday
November 4 6:30 pm

 
Children's Story timE is every Monday and Saturday at 11:00 am in the Children's Room at the FoxTale Book Shoppe.  We read books appropriate for the child's age, and there is no age limit (really).  There is a dance/sing period following the reading, followed by tattoos and stickers before the children leave. We love the kids and they have a lot of fun-- We know WE do!


Mondays and Saturdays
11:00 am

 


Join a Book Club at FoxTale!
Meetings are free and you'll receive 10% off of book club picks.
 

 
CLASSICS BOOK CLUB   Every 2nd Wednesday at noon is Classics Book Club.  Bring a lunch with you, and join us for lively discussion of some “oldies but goodies.”  For September 14, we’ll be reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. Haven't you always wanted to read that?!?!?!!?


Second
Wednesday
Of The Month
At Noon

 
FoxTalk Book Club  meets the second Thursday of every month at 6:30 pm.  This is a very active group, and boy do they have opinions!  Our September 8 selection is Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. This book comes highly recommended by Karen and Ellen. If you've already read this amazing novel, come to book club and let us know what you thought. Only books without batteries allowed at book club so be sure to purchase your copy at FoxTale where you’ll receive 10% off.


SEcond
Thursday
of the Month
6:30 PM

 
The Next Chapter Book Club (Ages 6-12)(formerly the JV book club)  meets the second Friday of every month at 4:30 pm.  Under the direction of Maritza Ray, kids can’t help but have fun!  Book club comes with discussion, activity and a snack.  Kids get their own book club card for 10% off of book club picks.  What fun!  For September 9, the read is The Book of Elsewhere: The Shadows by Jacqueline West. Everyone is welcome!


Second Friday
of the month
4:30 PM

 
The Young Adult Book Club meets the third Friday of every month at 4:30 pm.  For September 16 we’ve picked Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick, a “searing story of redemption.”  Don’t miss it!


THIRD FRIDAY
of the month
4:30 PM

 

As always, our visiting authors will sign only their books
purchased at FoxTale Book Shoppe.
 

Thanks

for buying local and supporting Woodstock
and Independent Booksellers!
 

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