Wed: 10am-9pm
Thu, Fri, Sat: 10am-10pm
Sun: 12pm-6pm
Upcoming Events at Rock Point Books (April 2010)
Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson will be here to sign their fifth and newest Body Farm Novel, THE BONE THIEF, April 5th, at 6 pm!!
About THE BONE THIEF:
Bone detective Bill Brockton finds himself confronting evil in a surprising place: amid the hopeful, idealistic worlds of biomedical breakthroughs and organ transplants.
Organ donation is a gesture of selflessness, an act that can truly give the gift of life to the suffering and dying. Currently more than 100,000 people in the United Stares are on waiting lists for organ transplants; tragically, more than 100 of them die every week while waiting (source: OrganDonar.gov). For a few daring and unscrupulous entrepreneurs, selling human organs and tissues on the black market to desperate buyers can be highly lucrative, -- so long as there's a steady supply of "material." THE BONE THIEF: A Body Farm Novel explores this shocking, little-known underworld of modern-day grave-robbing -- and probes the strength of character necessary to take down its ruthless perpetrators.
About the Authors:
Dr. Bill Bass is a world-renowned forensic anthropologist who founded the University of Tennessee's Body Farm -- the world's first and foremost laboratory devoted to the study of human decomposition. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications, and two nonfiction books about the Body Farm, Death's Acre and Beyond the Body Farm, both written with Jon Jefferson.
Jon Jefferson is a journalist, science writer, and documentary filmmaker. Jefferson has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, and National Public Radio, and has written and produced numerous documentaries for the Arts & Entertainment Network and The History Channel... The coauthor of Death's Acre and Beyond the Body Farm, he has also produced two National Geographic documentaries about the Body Farm for broadcast worldwide.
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension.
The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernism and prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams.
Each month's selected title is available at Rock Point Books to participating members at a discount of 10% off of the regular price. If you'd like this month's pick, please pre-order!
On the third Tuesday of each month, the CLBC will review and examine a literary classic.The Classic Literature Book Club is free to join and open to the public. Join anytime. For more information about this book club, please contact Joel Swanson at (423) 432-8579 or e-mail bookclub.classics@gmail.com.