So we've had a couple of people ask us why we keep putting notices up on Twitter and Facebook about movies renting our books, "Over and over - like, big deal! We know already!"

Pod Cast Time! How about a bed time story about a Contract Killer? Read aloud by Gwenyfar. Check it out here....

http://www.prx.org/p/96967

If you like what you hear, please pass it along - Thanks!

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David Gessner is kinda a rock star around here. (www.davidgessner.com)We’re pretty excited that he is coming back to see us again! So here’s what’s going on: Valerie Robertson of Cape Fear’s Going Green Magazine (www.goinggreenpublications.com) has invited Gessner to come speak at the next Going Green book Club meeting. This month’s book is the a must read for birders! But if you like what you hear that day we have all of Gessner’s other books, too!

Spring is here and things are looking better. That might sound like an odd way to start a blog update, but 2013 got off to a pretty bad start. January was all about Daddy’s poor health. February was just bleak. It felt like being trapped in a marathon that would never end. Then in March the tide began to turn very slowly, just a little. Now in May Daddy is stable, my foot/ankle issues are moving in a good direction, my writing work is going well - very excited to work with Salt, the WHQR Commentaries are a dream realized, and of course I love, love, love getting to be part of Encore!

This week's cast is up:

http://www.prx.org/p/95895

Please, if you like it, pass it along. Thank you for listening!

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How about a bedtime story?
Gwenyfar reads the first chapter of The Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper aloud:
http://www.prx.org/pieces/94766-contract-killer-memoirs-of-a-reluctant-r...

First appeared in Print in Encore Magazine: http://www.encorepub.com/welcome/the-contract-killer/

We will post new chapters every other week.

Just in time for Father's Day - an event for golf lovers! We are very excited to welcome James Dodson to Old Books!

His books include:
Final Rounds, The Road to Somewhere: Travels with a Young Boy Through an Old World, Faithful Travelers, The Dewsweepers, A Golfer's Life (with Arnold Palmer), Ben Hogan: An American Life, Beautiful Madness, The Story of Seminole, A Son of the Game, American Triumvirate

Still trying to figure out how to get the player to embed and pop up on this page. Until then, let's try this link to the Live Local Podcast!

http://www.prx.org/p/94817

Does anyone remember Frank Slaughter? Did you know he grew up North Carolina and graduated from Duke? His books were on the best seller lists for years - but almost nobody reads him anymore. We literally have yards and yards of his books in the store - mostly we rent them out to movie sets to fill book shelves.

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman