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Fountain Bookstore, Inc.

1312 E Cary St.

Richmond, VA 23219

(804) 788-1594

fountain.bookstore@verizon.net

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Mon-Thurs 10-8

Fri-Sat 10-9

Sunday 12-5

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One of my favorite books of 2009 is now in paperback!

Ender's Battle School has relocated to Hogwarts and Narnia-obsessed Holden Caulfield is one of the new star pupils. Need I say more...?

Quentin Coldwater is an incredibly smart and unhappy young man in his senior year of high school. He has spent his entire life feeling like he doesn't belong, wishing he were somewhere else, so when he finds out that magic is real and he is one of those rare people that can learn to wield it.... well, he leaps at the opportunity. The problem is, though, that magic does nothing to cure ailments of the soul, and despite getting so many of the wondrous, fantastic chances he has wished for all his life, Quentin's biggest problem isn't a giant demon or an evil wizard, but his own inability to recognize happiness. Grossman borrows from a number of well-established fantasy franchises, sure, but this is something original- the ultimate flip side of the gold coin, if you will. I wish I could go back to the past and read this again for the first time.

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« February 20, 2010 - March 22, 2010 »

02 / 20 Alix Dobkin Reading and Signing My Red Blood, with Concert to Follow Start: 3:00 pm End: 9:00 pm 3-5 PM Reading 8-9 PM Concert For More Info call The Gay Community Center at 804 266-4313 "Womyn's music legend..." — Spin "biting...inventive...uncompromising... imaginative" — New Age Journal "Her wit, razor-sharp patter and quick-on-her-feet manner have made her one of the most important and controversial figures in the women's movement since before it was called that... important for her insight and catalytic energy to bring people together and get things done." — Oakland Express "Dubbed 'the original Riot Grrrl...still a hellraiser, she keeps spreading affirmation and empowerment to all women (and even men, if they can take it)" — Metro, Santa Cruz more info
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02 / 22 Sherman Alexie Immersion Group - Meeting 2 - The Toughest Indian in the World Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:30 pm ....devoted to the works of Sherman Alexie. Call Kelly or Tess to sign up for book club. 804-788-1594. Purchase of the book from Fountain Bookstore is required to participate. Come on our and meet us the 4th Monday of each month in the non-smoking back room of Rosie Connelly's. Join at any time. This book group will continue through April. Extra credit...rent Smoke Signals on dvd. more info
02 / 23 Kathleen Grissom Reads and Signs The Kitchen House Start: 6:30 pm End: 7:30 pm Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the plantation tavern they renovated. "The Kitchen House" is her first novel. Please join us in welcoming her to Richmond. Let's give her a warm reception for her notable first effort! more info
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02 / 27 Tim Dorsey Talks and Signs Gator A-Go-Go (Finally!) Start: 2:00 pm End: 3:00 pm We have been waiting a long, long, long, LONG time to get Tim Dorsey. (Doc is especially excited. Come to the event...he actually might faint! Wouldn't that be fun?!?) more info
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03 / 2 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! Start: 10:00 am Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info
03 / 3 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! (all day) Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info
03 / 4 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! (all day) Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info
03 / 5 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! (all day) Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info
03 / 6 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! (all day) Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info
03 / 7 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! (all day) Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info
03 / 8 Don't Be Late for "Mad About Alice" Week at Fountain Bookstore! End: 8:00 pm Start: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:00am End: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 8:00pm Don't be late for this very important date! Join us in celebrating all things mad and magical in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll and those inspired by Alice in Wonderland! A week of activities and specials awaits you as well as our second Movie Date Night with the Fountain Booksellers on Monday, March 8 at the Movieland Bowtie theater! Stay tuned to win free tickets to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland movie. Also, 20% off these titles all week for "Mad About Alice" Week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA more info "Be Our Movie Date" Night With the Fountain Booksellers - Alice In Wonderland Start: 7:20 pm End: 9:20 pm Stay tuned to our Twitter account to win free tickets to the show and join your Fountain Booksellers for a glass of wine and a great night at the movies. Thanks, Bowtie Cinemas! The movie starts at 7:20...arrive early to join your bookseller dates early to socialize. more info
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03 / 11 Fountain Bookstore Bestselling Author Deanna Raybourn! Start: 6:30 pm End: 7:30 pm Ahhh...the power of passionate booksellers.... Deanna moved to Virginia from Texas a few years ago and was looking for bookstore homes in her new digs. Tess read Deanna's books first. She told Kelly to buy one. Since then we have sold hundreds (yes hundreds) out of our tiny little 1000 square foot bookstore. How did this happen? Short of armwrestling every customer even mildly interested, we used every power of bookselling persuasion we have to share our love of her books. The attendance at her first event with us was small, but it sure won't be this time. Deanna's got loads and loads of Virginia fans now. Come join the party as we celebrate one of our favorite author adoption success stories. Deanna: you rock!!! more info
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03 / 16 Architect Andrea Ponsi Gives His Personal Views on Florence, Italy and Signs Florence: A Map of Perceptions Start: 6:30 pm End: 7:30 pm This is the way we dream an architect could speak to us, fully communicating his passion. The book's elegant, concise prose--as well as its balance of the civic with the intensely personal--recalls the Calvino of Marcovaldo and Invisible Cities. The text is accompanied by Ponsi's own spare but evocative watercolors and sketches, which, like his words, seek to behold rather than pin down. This lyrical tribute is as much an ode to the lost art of contemplation as it is to Florence--a city where every moment is different from every other moment. more info
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03 / 18 Award-Winning Author Howard Frank Mosher Discusses Walking to Gatlinburg (with scenes set in Richmond!) Start: 6:30 pm End: 7:30 pm We Love Howard!!! Howard Frank Mosher is the author of nine novels and a travel memoir. Born in the Catskill Mountains in 1942, Mosher has lived in Vermont’s fabled Northeast Kingdom since 1964. He has won many awards for his fiction, including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the American Civil Liberties Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the New England Book Award. Three of his novels, Disappearances, A Stranger in the Kingdom and Where the Rivers Flow North, have been made into acclaimed feature movies by the Vermont independent filmmaker Jay Craven. Mosher and his wife of forty-four years, Phillis, have a grown son and daughter. He is currently completing a Civil War-era novel, Walking to Gatlinburg, due out in 2009, which chronicles the nightmarish odyssey of 17-year-old Morgan Kinneson from northern Vermont to Tennessee during 1864. more info
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03 / 20 Julie Campbell Presents The Horse in Virginia Start: 2:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Julie is a great friend of the Fountain and we've been waiting for this book anxiously! This is the first book to cover the complete history of the horse in the Old Dominion. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout, including numerous historical depictions of the horse by painters, photographers, and even commercial artists. The equine tradition in Virginia is unique and enduring; this book is the celebration it deserves. more info
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03 / 22 Sherman Alexie Immersion Group - Meeting 3 - Ten Little Indians Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:30 pm ....devoted to the works of Sherman Alexie. Call Kelly or Tess to sign up for book club. 804-788-1594. Purchase of the book from Fountain Bookstore is required to participate. Come on our and meet us the 4th Monday of each month in the non-smoking back room of Rosie Connelly's. Join at any time. This book group will continue through April. Extra credit...rent Smoke Signals on dvd. more info