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Our 4 on 4th series featuring local writers will kick off with a book launch for Winston-Salem Writers’ collection Flying South. For more information, visit bookmarksnc.org.

Join Salem College students we celebrate NaNoWriMo--National Novel Writing Month! Throughout November, Salem College creative writing students and faculty will facilitate virtual workshops to help participants write a 50,000-word manuscript between November 1 and November 30. To join, visit: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/nanowrimo.

Join Salem College students we celebrate NaNoWriMo--National Novel Writing Month! Throughout November, Salem College creative writing students and faculty will facilitate virtual workshops to help participants write a 50,000-word manuscript between November 1 and November 30. To join, visit: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/nanowrimo.

Bookmarks is thrilled to present award-winning author and chef Vivian Howard on virtual tour for her new cookbook, This Will Make It Taste Good: A New Path to Simple Cooking. This is a pay-what-you-can event held on Crowdcast. Attendees can either purchase a copy of This Will Make It Taste Good or make a donation to Bookmarks to attend. Email info@bookmarksnc.org with questions.

Our series celebrating mystery/thriller authors and their books returns this month with a guest from overseas! Stuart Turton is once again making waves with The Devil and the Dark Water, a historical thriller set at sea. This will be a virtual event on Crowdcast. This event is free to attend but requires registration at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stuartturton.

Join us and bestselling author Laura Elliott as she shares her new book, Storm Dog, which highlights the joy and special bonding that "dog-dancing" offers both trainer and dog. We will be joined by Barbara Long, a Canine Freestyle trainer and her dog, Ambrose, for a freestyle performance and some dog training trips. This event is free to attend but requires registration at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/l-m-elliott.

Join Bookmarks for our quarterly book club gathering to learn about new books coming out soon, new releases, and older book club favorites with Sourcebooks! This will be a virtual event on Crowdcast. This event is free to attend but requires registration at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fall-book-club-social.

Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library, in partnership with Bookmarks, presents Counseling Professor Sam Gladding, a prolific author of numerous works (including Becoming a Counselor: The Light, the Bright, and the Serious). Gladding will be speaking on his book The History of Wake Forest University.

Celebrate Veteran's Day with a virtual Storytime with Talitha Vickers and her book, Why My Hero Had to Go, a timeless children’s picture book about courage amid change, inclusion and love. This event will be broadcast via Facebook Live.

Bookmarks and a/perture cinema are proud to present Lit/Flix, a Book & Film Club. Join us to discuss great books and their film adaptations. Our next discussion will be Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kat Moore and the upcoming film. To register, visit: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/lit-flix-radium-girls.

Bookmarks is excited to celebrate Christina Lauren’s new book, In a Holidaze! Join us for a holiday happy hour featuring the bestselling dynamic writing duo, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, in conversation with Renée Ahdieh and Sarah McCoy. This is a pay-what-you-can event held on Crowdcast. Attendees can either purchase a copy of In a Holidaze or make a donation to Bookmarks to attend. Email info@bookmarksnc.org with questions.

Join us to discuss Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heany. All are welcome. Email info@bookmarksnc.org to register.

Bookmarks is thrilled to host Margaret Atwood on virtual tour for her new collection of poetry, Dearly. Atwood will be in discussion with Madeline Miller, author of Circe and winner of the Orange Prize. This event is ticketed and requires a book purchase in order to attend. Our event copies of Dearly are special editions only available to event stops on this tour. To purchase a copy, visit: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/event/MargaretAtwood.

Join us to discuss The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton. Email jamie@bookmarksnc.org to join.

It’s time for an end-of-year round-up with Bookmarks staff! This will feature the Bookmarks team presenting their “best of” books for 2020. This event is free to attend but requires registration at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/insight-2020.

It’s time for an end-of-year round-up with Bookmarks staff! This will feature the Bookmarks team presenting their “best of” books for 2020. This event is free to attend but requires registration at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/insight-2020.

Join us to discuss Like Lovers Do by Tracey Livesay. The author will be joining us for this discussion! Email beth@bookmarksnc.org to register.

Bookmarks is proud to host the Winston-Salem chapter of the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club. Our Well-Read Black Girl Book Club discussions will always be hosted by women of color, but people of all colors and genders who would like to reflect upon the reading and writing of women of color are welcome. This month, we will be discussing Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84535029026?pwd=SUt5SjJ2WldaWEJpMVQydktOeEFVUT09.

Want to try something new, but aren't sure where to start? Many readers are looking for a comfortable book to help them ease into a new genre or new type of reading. Sometimes it is hard to make that choice on your own. Our New Adventures Book Club will help introduce readers to new genres each month by selecting welcoming "first reads" into new genres. This will be a virtual book club led by Bookmarks' Bookseller Cat. This month, we…