UPCOMING EVENTS!!!

WES SNYDER
FRIDAY JULY 17
NOON - 2PM

One of the hottest books this summer is from the wildly popular photographer, Wes Snyder. Wes's photos of the Outer Banks capture sunrises, shipwrecks, lighthouses, the Milky Way and more. His online following is vast and fans have always clamored for more. Now there is more and you can take Wes home! This April, Wes published Journey Through the Outer Banks a beautiful collection of his photography in a lovely hardback book that makes a perfect memento of our area. Wes will be signing books Friday, July 17 from noon to 2pm at Downtown Books, 103 Sir Walter Raleigh Street, downtown Manteo. Social distancing protocol will be followed and masks are required. To order a signed copy and have it shipped after the event click here! .  

JAMES CHARLET
FRIDAY JULY 24
NOON - 2pm
More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the combination of mixing currents, treacherous coastline and shifting underwater sandbars spells disaster for even the most seasoned sailor. These are the stories of daring rescues, tragic failures, enduring mysteries, buried treasure, and fascinating legend.
James D. Charlet leads tours, educational programs, and speaking engagements and contributes to local and national media with articles on Outer Banks and nautical history. James taught North Carolina history for 24 years and worked with the Wright Brothers National Memorial. He has been involved with the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site & Museum for the past 21 years and was the Site Manager of the Historic Site for 10 years. To order a signed copy of Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic click here!


KRISTEN HARMEL VIRTUAL EVENT
MONDAY JULY 20 5pm
If you've become a Friends and Fiction follower (that wonderful weekly get-together with some of today's hottest authors) then get excited because our next featured Reader Meet Writer guest is Kristin Harmel! Kristin is the international bestselling author of a dozen novels including The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker's Wife, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. Her highly anticipated novel- The Book Of Lost Friends comes out on July 21 and to celebrate its release, Kristin is going to spend some time with us! To get the link to this Zoom event please email manteoreads@gmail.com
To order The Book of Lost Names , click here !

Eva Traube Abrams, a librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II— an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. Highlighted is a religious text now housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library. It appears to contain some sort of code, though researchers don't know where it came from—or what the code means. But Eva does.

JILL MCCORKLE VIRTUAL EVENT
THURSDAY JULY 23 7pm

Jill McCorkle's first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college, and the New York Times called her "a born novelist." Since then, she has published six novels and four collections of short stories, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories several times, as well as The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books, and her most recent novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller. Her latest release is Hieroglyphics 'a mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried over generations'. Don't miss this very special opportunity to have this Southern favorite right in your very own living room! To get the zoom link, email manteoreads@ gmail.com . To order Hieroglyphics or any of Jill's other books, click here!

Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically— lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they’ve retired to North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries—perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know.



The Order
Signed First Editions!
Daniel Silva's latest Gabriel Allon thriller is here! Gabriel has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the papal apartments the night of the pope’s death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to Gabriel.

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