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141 E Trinity
Decatur, Georgia 30030
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St. Vincent [free instore]
St. Vincent, the touring/recording name of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark, is a one-woman phenom. Formerly a member of joyous indie pop collective The Polyphonic Spree, as well as...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-10 20:00:00
ReShonda Tate Billingsley Book Signing
One of today's most exciting and emergent African-American women writers, ReShonda Tate Billingsley's Rachel Jackson Adams books are the perfect opportunity for mothers and daughters t...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-07-14 14:00:00
Glenn Ruffenach & Kelly Greene Book Signing - "The Wall Stre...
Retirement. The subject looms in everybody’s mind, all the time, but too often it sneaks up and catches working-class folk unaware, leaving them unprepared. Local authorities on the subject Kelly Gr...
Category: Media, 13:00:00, 2007-07-28 13:00:00
William Miller Book Signing - "The Gospel According to Sam"
William Miller discusses and signs his collection of "animal stories for the soul" featuring Sam, a lovable "wounded healer" of a dog who survived a fire that burne...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-07-28 19:30:00
Stephanie Bond & Todd Sentell Book Signing - Body Movers: 2 ...
Two local authors of bawdy, righteously funny fiction, Stephanie Bond and Todd Sentell, join forces for a laugh-out-loud night at Wordsmiths Books.
Stephanie Bond’s first Body Movers book was a pie...
Category: , 19:30:00, 2007-07-31 19:30:00
My Brightest Diamond - Acoustic Performance
Shara “My Brightest Diamond” Worden is a multi-instrumentalist-singer-songwriter-composer. A former member of indie folk-pop legend Sufjan Stevens’ touring band, her debut solo album Bring Me Th...
Category: Music, 16:00:00, 2007-08-01 16:00:00
Local Songwriters-in-the-Round with Amy Lashley, Julia Carro...
Join Wordsmiths Books for what will be the first of many great evenings spotlighting local music talent on the Wordsmiths stage. For the inaugural night, we’re pleased to present locals Amy Lashley,...
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-08-10 19:30:00
Local Songwriters-in-the-Round with Amy Lashley, Julia Carro...
Join Wordsmiths Books for what will be the first of many great evenings spotlighting local music talent on the Wordsmiths stage. For the inaugural night, we’re pleased to present locals Amy Lashley,...
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-08-10 19:30:00
Judith Kolberg Book Signing/ADD Workshop - "ADD-Friendly Way...
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life addresses the specific challenges that adults with ADD face. Judith Kolberg, a professional organizer whose specialty is helping people with ADD and other chron...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-08-18 14:00:00
Open Mic Night at Wordsmiths Books
Are you a singer? Songwriter? Poet? Show your stuff at the inaugural Wordsmiths Books Open Mic Night, hosted by Decatur's own up-and-coming singer, songwriter, and poet, Marina Day. Sign-up is...
Category: Other, 19:30:00, 2007-08-24 19:30:00
Breather Design Conference Presents Alan Messer
Wordsmiths Books is pleased to participate in the first ever annual Breather Design Conference, an interdisciplinary creative conference in Decatur. Breather brings together artists, architects, inter...
Category: Other, 10:00:00, 2007-08-31 10:00:00
futureTense Panel Discussion & One Hand Loves the Other Conc...
Wordsmiths Books presents futureTense, a wry look at the future of media as seen by Atlanta's d@mn dirty bloggers: including BabyGotBooks; authors Karin Gillespie and Laurel Snyder; and Wordsm...
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-09-01 19:00:00
One Hand Loves the Other @ Wordsmiths Books
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Category: Other, 21:00:00, 2007-09-01 21:00:00
Judith Kolberg Book Signing/Workshop - "Organize for Disaste...
SEPTEMBER IS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS MONTH--Learn what busy families can do to prepare for natural (and unnatural!) disasters, and have FUN doing it. You'll know what to put in a "grab ...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-09-08 14:00:00
Patricia Henritze Monologue Performance - "Learning to Talk"
From Nightingales to Twizzlers, Patricia Henritze's dark humor skims the murky waters of family life, marriage and art. As part of Working Title's Playwrights And…Series, she perform...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 19:30:00, 2007-09-12 19:30:00
Bill Osinski Book Signing - "Ungodly"
Ungodly, by Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist Bill Osinski is the true, strange, and shameful story of how a street kid declared himself a god and was thus granted immunity for a long career of ...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-13 19:30:00
Daniel J. Levitin Book Signing - "This Is Your Brain on Musi...
In This Is Your Brain on Music, neuroscientist and professional musician Daniel J. Levitin presents a fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind--and the role of melodies i...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-15 19:30:00
Jenni Ferrari-Adler & Phoebe Nobles Book Signing - "Alone in...
Sooner or later, everyone faces the challenge of eating alone, and Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant provides the perfect set of instructions. In this unique collection edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adl...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-20 19:30:00
Open Mic Night at Wordsmiths Books
Back by popular demand, Wordsmiths Books Open Mic Night. Singers, songwriters, essayists, poets, anyone and everyone with something to say, do, or share are invited to appear on the Wordsmiths stage. ...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-21 19:30:00
Stuart Woods Book Signing - "Shoot Him If He Runs"
In Shoot Him If He Runs, the newest addition to Stuart Woods' bestselling series, Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise where very little is...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-25 19:30:00
David Leavitt Book Signing - "The Indian Clerk"
David Leavitt discusses and signs his new historical fiction novel that recounts the relationship of mathemeticians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, The Indian Clerk. Wordsmiths Books, 141 E. Trin...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-26 19:30:00
Fonzworth Bentley Book Signing - "Advance Your Swagger"
Manners + Confidence + Style = Swagger. And swagger describes the suave and stylish Fonzworth Bentley. The hip hop artist, entertainer, fashion designer, and former personal assistant to Sean &quo...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-09-28 19:30:00
Christopher Moore Book Signing
Christopher Moore, the bestselling author of You Suck, A Dirty Job, Lamb, and several other hilarious and outrageous novels, visits Wordsmiths Books to speak and sign his books. This will be Moore&...
Category: Media, 19:45:00, 2007-09-29 19:45:00
Erik Fisher & Diane Fivaz Wichman Book Signing - "The Art of...
Local psychologist Erik Fisher and co-author Diane Fivaz Wichman discuss and sign The Art of Empowered Parenting.
The Art of Empowered Parenting by local psychologist Erik Fisher and Diane Fivaz Wichm...
Category: Other, 19:30:00, 2007-10-02 19:30:00
J. L. Miles Book Signing - "Cold Rock River" and "Roseflower...
Wordsmiths Books is proud to present Georgia author J .L. Miles. Her debut novel, Roseflower Creek, has been called, "A powerful, extraordinary novel," by Earl Hammer, creator of The...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-10-06 14:00:00
Toni McGee Causey Book Signing - "Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, ...
Toni McGee Causey's exceptional debut novel, Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day, is a fast-paced and hysterically funny caper, starring Bobbie Faye--a gutsy, spirited, and t...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-11 19:30:00
Tina Brooks McKinney Book Signing - "Lawd, Mo' Drama"
Lawd, Mo' Drama by Georgia author Tina Brooks McKinney is the sequel to All That Drama. The new book finds mother of three Leah struggling with her husband's wandering eye, her child&a...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-13 19:30:00
Rob Riggan Book Signing - "The Blackstone Chronicles"
The Blackstone Commentaries is the new novel by Rob Riggan. When Charlie Dugan, tough but fair-minded sheriff of Blackstone County in western North Carolina, receives a call to investigate a shooting ...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-18 19:30:00
Carol D. O'Dell Book Signing - "Mothering Mother"
Compelling and heartrending, this personal memoir chronicles author Carol D. O'Dell's decision not to put her mother, who has Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, in &a...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-19 19:30:00
Wendy Call Book Signing/Workshop - "Telling True Stories"
Wendy Call, writer-in-residence at the Richard Hugo House, Seattle’s literary center, and co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard Unive...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-10-20 14:00:00
Michael Largo Book Signing - "The Portable Obituary"
Here at last is the definitive source book on the true causes of death of public figures––providing the ultimate demise of heroes and icons, politicians and celebrities, inventors and explorers, b...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-20 19:30:00
Derek Nikitas Book Signing - "Pyres"
Beloved by Joyce Carol Oates AND the staff of Wordsmiths Books (Dea Anne, Alice, and Russ actually all agree on a book for the first time ever), Georgia native Derek Nikitas' first novel, Pyre...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-10-21 14:00:00
Kim Zimring & Lars Edwards Book Signing - "L. Ron Hubbard Pr...
Created more than two decades ago by L. Ron Hubbard, the Writers of the Future Contest and its resulting anthology has provided the best new science fiction and fantasy short stories from around the w...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-23 19:30:00
Open Mic Night at Wordsmiths Books
Wordsmiths Books Open Mic Night, now a monthly institution in Decatur, provides a stage, a mic, and little bit of momentary fame to all singers, poets, essayists, writers, and musicians. We'll...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-10-26 19:30:00
Poetry Atlanta Presents Thomas Lux, Travis Wayne Denton, & T...
Join us as Poetry Atlanta presents three distinguished poets performing on the Wordsmiths Books stage. Thomas Lux has written several books of poetry, including The Cradle Place and The Streets of Clo...
Category: Media, 14:00:00, 2007-10-27 14:00:00
Dedra Johnson ("Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow") & Preston L....
Wordsmiths Books presents two authors of African-American fiction discussing and signing their books, Dedra Johnson and Preston L. Allen.
Set in 1970s New Orleans, Sandrine's Letter to Tomorro...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-11-03 19:30:00
Amy Lashley & Steph Taylor
Again gracing our stage is local singer/songwriter Amy Lashley, whose last performance at Wordsmiths Books packed the house. On this special evening she’s joined by the smolderingly soulful, emotion...
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-11-10 19:00:00
Hal Edward Runkel Book Signing - "Screamfree Parenting"
Family therapist Hal Edward Runkel discusses and signs his parenting book, Screamfree Parenting.
Hal Edward Runkel, a family therapist and the father of two, takes an entertaining yet profound look at...
Category: Other, 14:00:00, 2007-11-17 14:00:00
Brock Clarke Book Signing - "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers'...
Brock Clarke discusses and signs his bestselling novel, "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England."
One of the hottest books right now is Brock Clarke&am...
Category: Other, 19:30:00, 2007-11-19 19:30:00
Sidney Perkowitz Book Signing - "Hollywood Science"
In Hollywood Science, Emory University physicist Sidney Perkowitz discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred films, including scientific biographies and documentaries. Beginning with ...
Category: Media, 19:30:00, 2007-12-01 19:30:00
Kathy L. Patrick Book Signing - "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-...
Kathy L. Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, discusses and signs "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing Book-Sharing Guide to Life."
When licensed cosmetologist ...
Category: Other, 14:00:00, 2008-01-13 14:00:00