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Tomorrow The Regulator will be joining tens of thousands of independently owned small businesses around the country in celebrating Small Business Saturday with special offerings and treats. Tomorrow also marks the beginning of Shop Independent Durham Week, when we will join more than 40 locally-owned businesses all over town offering special discounts and promotions, through Sunday December 3rd.  
 
For the entire week The Regulator will be featuring dozens of our most present-a-bull books on sale, 20% off. (Look for the red "Holiday Sale" tags throughout the store). And on Small Business Saturday we will also be raffling off four $50.00 gift certificates, while the Durham Chamber of Commerce has plans to give out free coffee and doughnuts in front of the garden space next to the bookshop.  
 
Keep your dough in Durham this holiday season! More than 45% of the money you spend at The Regulator stays in Durham. Pretty much none of the money you spend on amazon stays here. Keep Durham Weird and Wonderful! Shop Local
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Upcoming Events
 
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY
Saturday, November 25, 2017; 10:00 a.m. -- 8:00 p.m.
Celebrate Indies First on "Small Business Saturday" on Nov. 25 at The Regulator Bookshop! Choose from dozens of our best titles on sale at 20% off -- and come by to enter a free raffle for a chance to win one of four $50. (fifty-dollar) gift certificates for fun books and gifts at The Regulator. Indies First on Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting the local businesses that help create jobs, boost the economy, and preserve neighborhoods
 
Plus, The American Booksellers Association is partnering with Penguin Random House for a special giveaway in celebration of Indies First on Small Business Saturday, this year Nov. 25. Between November 15- 26, Twitter and Instagram users who tag a U.S. independent bookstore and use the hashtag #ShopIndiesFirstSweepstakes will be entered to win $1,000 worth of books from Penguin Random House. To tag The Regulator Bookshop, include our Twitter or Instagram handle (@RegulatorBooks or @RegulatorBookshop); write out the store's name, city, and state; or use a store location tag in the post. A random drawing will be held in mid-December to select five grand prize winners, who will each receive $1,000 worth of books. In addition, the independent bookstores named in the winning posts will each receive $1,000 worth of books to be donated to a local nonprofit. All prizes are courtesy of Penguin Random House. See the complete sweepstakes rules here: http://www.bookweb.org/indies-first-sweepstakes-rules. Details about Indies First are available on BookWeb: http://www.bookweb.org/indies-first-2017
 
SHOP INDEPENDENT DURHAM WEEK!
Saturday, November 25 -- Sunday, December 3
The Regulator Bookshop joins with more than 40 local businesses all over town who will be offering special discounts and promotions to help everyone Keep Your Dough in Durham this holiday season! The Regulator will have dozens of our most present-a-bull books on sale, 20% off, and we'll be raffling off a $50.00 gift certificate.  
 
For a complete list of participating businesses, click on this link.
 
And Sustain-a-Bull will be giving away a prize from a local business every day from November 25th-December 24th in the #30DaysofIndieDurham giveaway

To enter, take a picture of yourself shopping at a locally owned Durham business, post it to Instagram using #30DaysofIndieDurham, and include the name of the business where you're shopping in the photo's description (no purchase necessary). From November 25th-December 24th, one lucky winner will be chosen per day from the photos that have been submitted to date. You can enter as many times as you'd like, but you can only win once. 
 
 
BEST CREATIVE NONFICTION OF THE SOUTH
with Michael Chitwood, Randall Kenan & Michael McFee
Wednesday, November 28, 7:00PM
Join us for a special evening at The Regulator with Michael Chitwood and contributors Randall Kenan and Michael McFee in celebration of the new anthology, The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume II: North Carolina, that includes many of the Tar Heel state's beloved writers.
Best Creative Nonfiction of the South serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. This North Carolina volume, second in the series, contains essays that celebrate and document the Tar Heel state's diverse cultures and geography, from the mountains to the sea. The writers included here come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions, and as with most volumes in the series, this one indirectly reflects literary changes within the region over time.
 
Poet and essayist Michael Chitwood explores the Appalachian landscape of his youth and frequently draws on colloquial speech and themes. His many collections of poetry include Salt Works (1992), The Weave Room (1998),  From Whence (2007), and Poor-Mouth Jubilee (2010). LSU Press will publish his ninth book of poetry, Search and Rescue, in 2018. Chitwood is also a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-CH.
 
Randall Kenan is an author of both fiction and non-fiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. Kenan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award and the John Dos Passos Prize. He teaches creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill and was awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2005.
 
Poet and critic Michael McFee has written eleven books of poems (most recently We Were Once Here). Born in Asheville, McFee earned both his BA and MA at the UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of several teaching awards from UNC-Chapel Hill where he teaches in the creative writing program.  
 
MARK FALLON
Wednesday, November 29, 7:00 p.m.
The Regulator welcomes Mark Fallon, author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture. In his more than 30 years as an NCIS special agent and counterintelligence officer, Mark Fallon has investigated some of the most significant terrorist operations in US history. Unjustifiable Means forces the spotlight back on to how America lost its way and exposes those responsible for using torture under the guise of national security -- and those heroes who risked it all to oppose the program.
Mark Fallon has 31 years of government service at high levels in intelligence and security. He now serves as a consultant, author, and speaker.
 
 
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Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/