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THE LONGTIME PARTNERS TO THE STORE

THREADS OF GRACE

Have now replaced their winter fare with offerings more appropriated for Spring

Come see the remarkable knits, weavings, and fabric creations now.  

Saturday Morning Parents Read to Children

EVERY Saturday at 10:30am

We are changing the nature of our Saturday morning storytime. Our attendees have turned out to be very young children who actually need to be in a lap, most appropriately the lap of mom or dad. Although we occasionally will have guest readers and storytellers for any older children, we believe this will work best as a time for parents to come and read to or read with their children.

So each Saturday we will set aside some recommended readings for parents to explore with children and if you like what you see here's a deal, 20% off your first purchase and 10% off any other selection you buy from us.

We have a fine selection of books for all ages and we are getting ready to stock the shelves with new books. Come see what we have!

Book Reading/Signing: D. A. Winstead             

Saturday, May 11th 1:30PM

Join us for a reading/signing by an author with local connections. The book is Southern Crosses: An African Ghost Story by D. A. Winstead, a native of Bunn, NC. He is a graduate of NC State and has traveled extensively throughout the world and writes stories based on those experiences.
Southern Crosses is set in South Africa during the early apartheid years and is a story filled with old African folklore, superstition, ritual, suspense and inspiration. The book keeps the readers guessing about the story of the ghost named Mary Margaret.

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The Northern Wake Storyteller’s Circle

 We're Back !!!!!!!!!! Next Story Circles are May 9th at 7:00 PM and May 19th 3:00PM

Whether we are sitting around the kitchen table or speaking at a conference, the world is filled with stories. The Storyteller's Book Store hosts The Northern Wake Storytelling Circle, an open group of storytellers, students and listeners, who love a good story. Facilitated by Claire Ramsey, The Northern Wake Storytelling Circle meets twice a month. For more information, contact Claire at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 919-556-3903.

The Remembrance of Things Past Book Club

            Sunday, May 12th, 3PM    

Our selection for May is The Dark Side of Innocence by Terri Cheney, her memoir about her bipolar disorder that began very early in her life. She is praised for her ability to "put herself back in the mind of a child" and "an informative first-person account" of childhood bipolar disorder.

Those familiar with the controversies surrounding the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children will be informed by her now adult insider's views on the topic.

As usual, our meeting will be on the second Sunday in the month, May 12th, when we gather at 3PM for a half hour of meet and greet, then an hour of discussion of our selection. While we are not a therapy group or support group the participant should find a friendly atmosphere for sharing our thoughts about this remarkable genre of psychological memoir or first person accounts of mental illness and troubled families.

Club selections are available through the store at a discount and although there is no membership fee, we do ask those who attend to make a book purchase or a $5 contribution to the financial health of the bookstore.

Threads of Grace

Threads of Grace is a community based charitable outreach organization existing to support women in the creative arts and women in need through the sale of handmade goods. We are a non-profit with a three-fold purpose. 1) To provide a place for women to gather and be creative 2) to provide instruction and opportunity to produce and sell high quality hand made items 3) to provide for those in need in our community through the sale of these items. We offer monthly workshops to learn how to make lovely products that are woven, sewn, knitted, and felted. We offer studio hours three times a week.
 
Our membership is open to all women and costs $25 to join. The fee includes all workshops and materials. Please visit our website for more information about our next workshop, how to contact us directly, and to answer any questions www.threadsofgrace.org.

 
Kids and Teens Grief Support Groups

Grief support groups for kids and teens! Carolyn Zahnow and Lauren Bridges welcome you to learn more about two grief support groups that meet monthly. Carolyn has just finished up a series of sessions for teens at Franklinton High School and hopes to have teens attend the ongoing group. Sharing and projects are important pieces to helping kids recover from and understand their grief. Please call Carolyn at 919-368-6286 to further discuss attendance into one of the groups, and for more information about the location and time of the meeting. 
She can also answers questions via email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

“Angels from Above”

Local Authors Who Have Given Presentation in the Store and Who Have Books For Sale in the Store 

Anita Stone is a retired science education teacher, a reading specialist, an author, freelancer, naturalist and a certified Master Gardener.  

As a second career, after completion of the Certified Master Gardener Program, Anita combined teaching and horticulture.  She taught horticulture to health care workers at Montgomery College and became a garden/wellness columnist for The Pilot and has contributed regularly to The News & Observer, Fifty + Magazine, Dog Fancy, Carolina Woman, Countryside, Grit, The Herb Quarterly, Herb Companion, Backhome, Bark Magazine, Acres USA, North Carolina Signatures,  House, Home and Garden, Hobby Farms and contributes to The Sandhills Guide yearly.  One of her latest accomplishments is writing for Military Officer Magazine, educating readers to military gardening in Afghanistan and community gardening for the troops and their families. She is currently teaching a horticulture curriculum at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC.

 Anita has spoken at a variety of clubs and societies.  She teaches adults and groups methods and importance of nature, gardening, animal and human wellness through use of the environment and sustainability via traditional and modern methods.  She has initiated and implemented a program for public and private school teachers.  And she has taught health care workers how to enhance seniors through a variety of learning experiences and care programs. 

 Her book, “I Never Met a Flower I Didn’t Like” is currently available. 

Debbie Seger-Winkler - “Writing is my life and my life is writing…blah, blah, blah. You’ve read this sort of stuff in many author’s bios, so I’m not going to bore you with my compulsion to vomit the strange tales rattling around in my head out onto paper.”     

“I’d like to introduce myself to my future fans and readers. I grew up in the beautiful Hudson Valley in New York. Upon High School graduation I moved to Pennsylvania, then Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana and currently I reside in Raleigh, North Carolina. People and places have become a somewhat muddled mess in my mind, but my travels have enabled me to meet a slew of characters and some of them have become great fodder for my stories.”

Jeannine Johnson is the daughter of a nurse turned rehabber.  She grew up learning to care about, and for, the weak and injured,  She has seen special needs children and animals all her life, and has been inspired to write books for children and young adults to help them bridge the gap and understand that handicapped and special needs people and animals are just like everyone else.

John Suddath, also called  "The Word Man," is a writer, and reporter with decades of experience.  John has written articles for magazines and newspapers, and edited content for many publications. He has written 3 books that are available through various book sources.

John has an active blog and social media presence as well.  Many enjoy his way with words and his philosophy and rants as he practices his favorite past time… writing.

John also has a love of photography.  Though many pictures are worth a thousand words, some pictures are much better with the words John uses to caption and describe each photo.

L.E Dunay is a state and  federally licensed wildlife caretaker and rehabber in NC .  She cares for birds of all types.   L.E. along with her family put up with constant phone calls and  emergency rescue calls to try to help the wildlife.  During baby season, often she has to bring boxes of baby birds everywhere she goes because they need to be fed every 20 minutes or so or they will die!.   Many animals in central NC have been saved  by her work.   L.E. is a proud grandmother, mother and wife, and lives happily caring for her human and wildlife  family.

Roselyn N. Kachuck (Rozzy) was born New Years Day 1947. Her father was the leader of a band and her mother was a country girl. Rozzy's career includes a wide range of experiences. She's been a resort manager, fortuneteller, beautician, counselor and real estate broker (among other things). Rozzy has been a business owner in a restaurant, a vending company and a custom drapery supplier.

She was in California in the sixties but she was back upstate New York at the Woodstock Festival. Her mother's family farm, where she spent her childhood summers, was walking distance from Yasgur's Farm where the Woodstock Festival took place.

For fun and inspiration, Rozzy cycled across Zimbabwe, Scandinavia and much of America. She cherishes time spent cycling, backpacking, swimming laps and jogging.

Today she lives with her husband, as she has since 1966. Rozzy has been a volunteer, visiting women in nursing homes.

S.A. Stone and Anitra Morgan are the pen names for Steven Stone writing with story editing and changes by his wife Anitra Morgan Stone. Contemporary romances are written under the S. A. Stone  name, while darker urban fantasy romances are written under the Anitra Morgan name.  Being a male romance writer is one of the unique parts of his personality. Steve started writing romances after seeing too many sad endings in wildlife rescue. The need for happy endings made him shift his focus from nonfiction to gritty fiction with an ultimate good / happy ending. Steve has been writing since the 1970's. He's had several articles, poems, and stories published in magazines, newspapers and local publications. He has also written nonfiction and text books. Now Steve has concentrated his writing on romance and paranormal romance.

Steve is a wildlife caretaker and educator, and the pastor of an alternative religion church. He is often in the news for either animal rescues, educational programs, or some sort of charity works. Steve has written articles on vampires  for national magazines and gaming companies supplements.  As a certified prisons volunteer, he has also written prison guides to Paganism, helping prison officials learn how to deal with  prisoners of Wiccan and several Celtic Pagan faiths.  He also ran 2 different  paranormal investigation groups, and was a professional member of the Rhine center for several years.

Tuan Phan  was born and lived in South Vietnam and became a soldier in The Vietnam War. He lived in it from birth to age twenty-three. H served and witnessed the turmoil.  In that deadly, political war. In the chaos at the war's conclusion, he escaped by helicopter and unknowingly became a lonely, Vietnamese Refugee in the USA. He overcame many obstacles, rebuilt his life, sponsored my family and reunited with them.

II) Books that will be here:

Anita Stone: 

          “I Never Met a Flower I Didn’t Like”  ( horticulture and folk wisdom)

Filled with down-home knowledge and colorful stories, this book is a gardeners way to learn about growing, cultivating, and living with plants in natural and economical ways.

Debbie Seger-Winkler:

          “Deadly Letters” (suspense action with romantic elements)

Cindy Royster always chose the wrong men, only this time her choice brings about her death. Letters she and three of her former roommates have been writing to each other causes her killer to seek his revenge on the other women, for what he considers their involvement in Cindy's ultimate betrayal. Sheriff Robert Collins gets involved and is hot on the trail of the murderer, trying to save the other women from this madman's wrath. But when Robert falls in love with one of the intended victims, he soon discovers that it's not easy to stop a killer and keep someone you love safe from harm. DEADLY LETTERS explores the far reaching effects domestic violence can have beyond the perpetrator and the victim's boundaries.

Jeannine Johnson:

          “Freddie’s New World” (children / preteen, wildlife)

Based on a rehabbed bird by this author’s mother, Freddie the Flycatcher shows readers the various emotions Freddie experiences while socializing with the world around him. Always aware of his handicap, but never letting it hinder him, Freddie seeks out friends and embarks on thrilling adventures that will leave the readers laughing and rooting for him through each encounter.

John Suddath:

“Goodbye God, We’re Going to Texas”  (biographical, Christian, medical)

The biography of a truly vibrant woman, whose life spanned a successful career, dedication to her Christian religion, survival in the lean years of the Great Depression, activism in her community, and more. Her biography is unique in that each chapter also makes note of a different health care issue, from the spectre of tuberculosis that loomed over her early years to her Alzheimer's in her final chapter of life. 

          “Neither Here Nor There”  (biographical, Christian and gay cultural)

A journey of self exploration and emotion. How do you become yourself, when everyone around you and your very moral code tells you that you can not be who you feel you are?  How do you live a life in fear of discovery?  Guilt, fear and self image clash in a battle of decades of soul searching as the reader joins one man's insights into survival against the conflicts of the soul.

Linda Dunay:

          “Forest: Saved By a Rehabber”  (children, wildlife)

A story of a wildlife rescuer / caretaker (rehabber) and the owls she cares for.  The story shows how their lives entwine with other free wildlife animals while housed in a specially designed cage in the "yard".  L.E. gives an interesting insight to the wildlife's way of coping and surviving involving both owls and their friends.

Roselyn Kachuck:

          “The Memory Lingers” (fictional biographical, Jewish cultural)

From the seashore at Coney Island, a wild excursion, told in flashbacks, recalls the drama of her life against a background of the tumultuous twentieth century. From Anna's point of view, the trip is a rite of passage and not a debilitating disease. Alzheimers affords her an expanded portal into the experiences of this life and other reincarnations like a dreamer drifting in and out of a restless sleep.

Steve Stone:

          “Riske’ Run” (action/adventure, romance)

Heiress Jaelie Jaeger’s brother was kidnapped and killed when she was 2. Her parents kept her a prisoner in a gilded cage to keep her safe. Pregnant and afraid, Jae ran away for her daughter. Now she lives a double life, a made up marriage to an overseas soldier as a public face, and secretly a topless dancer to make ends meet. Then she met her “husband” and things began to fall apart.

Bodyguard Cliff McKay trusts no one.  After years as an antiterrorist operative, he can smell lies a mile away, and that woman wears it like a perfume. Why does his boss insist that  she be protected? Why does everyone in Jamesville think Cliff McKay has a wife and daughter? 

Forced together, Cliff and Jae have to protect Jae’s daughter from an unknown killer who seems to be everywhere.

She hid for years to protect her daughter, but her past finally caught up with her.  Can her make believe husband  save her?

          “Cabin In The Woods” (romance, wildlife, action / adventure)

Sukidi Byrnes is happier writing her books than living a real life. Real life has given her nothing but pain and fear. With a stalker ex-boyfriend terrorizing her and serious money problems, she hopes something will change with her trip south to a romance convention.

Joe Proctor, retired military policeman and survival instructor for the Army hides from the world in his cabin in the woods. As far as he's concerned, leave him and the wild animals he rescues alone, and the world is just fine. 

When a freak ice storm and traffic accident forces Suki off the main roads, she crashes into Joe's world. Joe, the disillusioned hermit meets Suki, the scrappy cynical romantic. Annoyance quickly turns to respect as they are forced to share the meager accommodations of "A Cabin In The Woods."

Life improves for them both as they learn what it means to share their lives and help each other. Everything goes well, until the stalker finds them...

          “Magick’s Bounty” (modern pulp, sardonic comedy)

Terra Summers has spent her life living from day to day. As a bounty hunter, Terra faces death on a daily basis, and really doesn't care. Since growing up on the streets, she considers herself damaged goods.

Lon Donaldson is the son of the most powerful witch in the world. He's spent his life dodging status seeking and power hungry women that don't even care who he really is. When he sees Terra, is it love at first sight? Can he care for a human? Could she survive in his world? 

This book is a mature action adventure romance novel. Like the old pulp detective stories, this story is told in present tense from the point of view of the main character, whose dry sarcastic wit and tongue in cheek approach to life gives everything a unique perspective.

"Magick's Bounty," is the story of tough and independent bounty hunter Terra Summers, and her unique immunity to magick.  Terra deals with a real life that is suddenly changed when the only magick she is not immune to is her new lifemate, the prince of the witches..  Adventure and sarcasm in a world of magick.

          “Rise of Dawn” (urban fantasy, vampire action adventure romance)\

“The Queen of the Damned falls in love with Van Helsing.”

Owl Night was tired of her cursed unending life. She just wanted to rest. Trying to outsmart the curse with magic of her own just made things worse. Centuries of horror and torment ended when she met Jason Wilder. He changed her life, she started out as a dark creature of the night, but soon became the beauty of Dawn. 

Detective Jason Wilder protects the world. He spends most of his life fighting criminals and monsters that most people can't even imagine. From terrorists to serial killers, he has hunted them all. He is good at his job. Jason never once failed to stop his enemy. Then he met Dawn. She was a creature of the night that he never expected to meet. She was a vampire; yet even though she was a monster, he could never destroy her.

“The Queen of the Damned falls in love with Van Helsing.” - Birgit Davis-Todd 7/29/2006

          “Shadow of Dawn” (urban fantasy, vampire action adventure romance)

Now that Dawn is once more loose in the world, things steady, but was something else released with her, or is Dawn herself the one attacking all those she holds dear? 

Detective Jacob Webster never expected to get caught up in the secret world of the vampires. Even worse, he never thought he would have to keep his life a secret from the love of his life. Now, suddenly, his body starts to change, and his secrets threaten to destroy his entire life.

Social worker Katie Webster thought she had the perfect man. Unlike all the husbands of the women at the shelter, Jacob would never cheat and lie to her. Now Jacob is getting into fights, and keeping secrets. When he finally shares his secrets with her, she has to wonder whether he is insane or her world is all a shadow of the truth. 

Tuan Phan

          “You Must Live” (biography, Vietnam cultural, Vietnam war)

is a memoir. It gives personal insight into Vietnam's history, culture, education, military, government and politics and how they affected my life. During the war years, losing my father to a treatable disease. My mother, struggling to feed seven small children, was wounded by shrapnel entering our home one night in cross fire.  A chilling journey collecting my brother-in-law's corpse during the Tet Offensive. Losing my beloved sister as she miscarried due to curfew laws.

I faced multiple near death experiences during the War. I came to America with sixteen cents, handed down from an American soldier. Overcoming the language barrier, I built my home with my own hands and sent my two children to college. I brought fifteen members of my family to America. When my Mom passed away, I carried her body back to her homeland for burial beside my Dad. I got stranded there during the 9/11 crisis with my American wife on her first trip to a third world country.

People who love to read stories that touch on war, history, culture, politics and perhaps foremost survival, would, I believe, appreciate You Must Live. Above all, it's a story of human resilience from a country so many Americans died trying to protect. The story has only been told by the American Media and the Communists. Shouldn't the world also have the opportunity to experience the story through the eyes of one member of the South Vietnamese military, America's ally?

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