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World Book Night is a campaign to find light or non-readers in the community and hand them each a book. Sign up by February 1 to be a book giver on World Book Night! All you need to become a giver is a little time, a love of books, and the desire to give something to your community.
Twelve authors based in or near Western North Carolina celebrate Malaprop's 30th Anniversary with their contributions to the serial collaborative novel, Naked Came the Leaf Peeper. John P. McAfee, Susan Reinhardt, Vicki Lane, Tommy Hays, Wayne Caldwell, Fred Chappell, Alan Gratz, Annette Clapsaddle, Gene Cheek, and Linda Marie Barrett outdid themselves as they built upon a story arc brilliantly imagined in the first chapter by Brian Lee Knopp and brought to a laugh-out-loud finish by Tony Earley.
In addition to reading books and selling books, Jean Potter also enjoys binding them by hand. A newer employee of the bookstore, she showcases her hard earned bookbinding skills at work by enthusiastically folding paper and "printmaking" with rubber stamps.
She is a huge fan of gritty southern writers, clever children's books, and well-researched novels. Also a fan of the abc's, beets, biscuits, bikes, and babies.
In addition to reading books and selling books, Jean Potter also enjoys binding them by
