The Country Bookshop Upcoming Author Events Call 910.692.3211 for more information
Saturday, July 6 at 1 pm At The Country Bookshop Brad Herzog FRANCIS AND EDDIE: THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA’S UNDERDOGS
A book for 8-12 year olds and golf lovers of all ages. A century ago, in 1913, the world’s finest golfers gathered at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, to compete in golf ’s national championship: the U.S. Open. Joining them was a little-known amateur, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet, who lived across the street from the course and taught himself to play by sneaking onto the fairways with the only golf club he owned. His caddie? Ten-year-old Eddie Lowery, who stood only four feet tall.
Saturday July 13 at 2 pm At The Country Bookshop Kevin Maurer and Mitch Weiss
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HUNTING CHE: HOW A U.S. SPECIAL FORCES TEAM HELPED CAPTURE THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS REVOLUTIONARY
Sunday July 21 at 2 pm At The Country Bookshop Anne Russell and Melton McLaurin
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THE WAYWARD GIRLS OF SAMARCAND: A TRUE STORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH In 1931, 16 teenage girls faced the death penalty for setting fire to 2 dormitories at Samarcand reform school a half hour from Southern Pines. Several girls were sterilized in the guise of appendectomies. THE WAYWARD GIRLS OF SAMARCAND is a nonfiction novel by UNCW professors Anne Russell and Melton McLaurin, who grew up in eastern North Carolina.
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Thursday July 11 at 11 am call 910.692.3211 for info. Mary Alice Monroe The Summer Girls
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Thursday, July 18 at 5 pm At The Country Bookshop Dorie Clark R EIN V ENTIN G YO U : DEFINE YOUR BRAND, IMAGINE YOUR FUTURE
Clark provides a step-by-step guide to help people assess, build, and reinvent their personal brands.
Monday July 22 at 4:30 pm At The Country Bookshop Susan Crandall
Whistling Past The Graveyard
For fans of Southern stories such as THE HELP and THE KITCHEN HOUSE, WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD is a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine year old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a black woman traveling alone with a white baby, and embarks on a road trip that changes both of their lives forever.
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