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TAYLOR BOOKS is an independent bookstore housing over 20,000 titles. We invite you to take advantage of our broad selection of books and wide variety of hard to find magazines.
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BOOK SIGNINGS
Kettle Bottom
Poetry by Diane Gilliam Fisher
Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 pm
Kettle Bottom consists of fifty-one poems divided into three sections, narrated by twenty different speakers. These speakers appear, disappear and reemerge throughout the loosely structured narrative, but their distinctive voices and precisely rendered perspectives are consistent and recognizable; there is no confusion for the reader as to who is the speaker in each poem. Kettle Bottoms human cast includes the miners and their families; the towns schoolteacher, whose poems are in the form of journal entries; several black miners who are given the most dangerous jobs in the mine, and their families, who are segregated from the white community; men who are brought in as scabs during a strike; a family of Italian immigrants who have been tricked into working and living in coal country; and even the mine owners. This world is compassionately and believably rendered by Fisher, who does not flinch in the face of its historical and human complexity." - Catherine MacDonald
Diane Gilliam Fisher's family was part of the Appalachian outmigration from Mingo County, West Virginia, and Johnson County, Kentucky. Her first book, One of Everything, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2003, and her chapbook,
Recipe for Blackberry Cake, was published in 1999. Fisher lives in Akron, Ohio.
No Strings Attached
by Russ Weeks
Thursday, May 15th, 11:30 am- 1:30 pm
Former state Senator Russ weeks is a lifelong West Virginian who served in the Navy, where he was directly involved with the Cuban Missile Crisis. After a career in private business, he was elected to the West Virginia Senate.
With No Strings Attached, Russ Weeks offer a riveting first-hand account of his experience in West Virginia government.
Gazette Mail Monday Book Club
Last Monday of the Month
6:00-7:00 pm
The 2008 selection of books are all author's second books and can be purchased for 20% off in the store.
May 19: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
June 30: Changing Places by David Lodge
July 28: The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
Aug. 25: Headlong by Michael Frayn
Sept. 29: Carn by Patrick McCabe
Oct. 27: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nov. 24: Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie
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