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Venue Details

Barnes & Noble

1035A Emmet Street
Barracks Road Shopping Center
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Phone: (434)984-0461

Nearest Parking

On Site

Accessibility of Location

Handicap accessible restrooms; aisles are rather narrow, but it is possible to navigate through them with a wheelchair; no automatic doors ; curb cuts; drop-off spot in front of building and handicap parking spots nearby.

Events at this Venue

Please note, the program schedule is constantly being updated. Check back often for additions, changes and cancellations.

Free Union Country School Students Read Aloud Tue. March 20th, 6:30 PM Free Union Country School 2nd & 3rd graders read aloud their Reading Rainbow stories.

Appalachia: Roads and Guides to a Region Wed. March 21st, 2:00 PM A discussion with editors Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell (Encyclopedia of Appalachia) Ricky Cox and Grace Edwards (A Handbook to Appalachia) and authors Joe Wilson (A Guide to the Crooked Road), and Anne Mitchell Whisnant (Super-Scenic Motorway). Sponsored by the We the People Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Moderator: Grace Toney Edwards

Featuring: Rudy Abramson Ricky L. Cox Grace Toney Edwards Jean Haskell Anne Mitchell Whisnant Joe Wilson

Build Up to World War II Thu. March 22nd, 4:00 PM With David L. Roll (Louis Johnson and the Arming of America), Werner Gruhl (Imperial Japan's World War Two: 1931-1945), and Lynne Olson (Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England). Moderator: Art Beltrone

Featuring: Werner Gruhl Lynne Olson David L. Roll

This I Believe: A Collection Thu. March 22nd, 8:00 PM A reading from contributors to NPR's "This I Believe" including essayists Betsy Chalmers, Gregory Orr, and Frank X Walker. Hosted by executive producer Dan Gediman. Sponsored by WMRA and The Library of Virginia in celebration of the Virginia Literary Awards. Moderator: Dan Gediman

Featuring: Betsy Chalmers Dan Gediman Gregory Orr Frank X Walker

After Appalachia: Poets Moving the Mountains Fri. March 23rd, 12:00 PM Three lovers of Appalachia--Michael Chitwood (From Whence), Frank X Walker (Black Box), and Michael McFee (Shinemaster)--read from their work and discuss their own regional influences. Hosted by South Atlantic Humanities Center (VFH-UVa-VT). Moderator: Pablo Davis

Featuring: Michael Chitwood Michael McFee Frank X Walker

Disasters in Fact and Fiction Fri. March 23rd, 2:00 PM Authors Katharine Weber (Triangle: A Novel), Stefan Bechtel (Roar of the Heavens), Ken Foster (The Dogs Who Found Me), and Elise Blackwell (The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish) discuss stories surrounding famous fires, storms, and floods. Moderator: Larry Baker

Featuring: Stefan Bechtel Elise Blackwell Ken Foster Katharine Weber

Our Part in the Past: A Poetry Reading Fri. March 23rd, 4:00 PM Places, histories, and our relationship to them with Darnell Arnoult (What Travels with Us), Constance Quarterman Bridges (Lions Don't Eat Us), and David Roderick (Blue Colonial). Moderator: Aaron Baker

Featuring: Darnell Arnoult Constance Quarterman Bridges David Roderick

Novels to Keep You Up at Night: Romance! Suspense! Fri. March 23rd, 6:00 PM Please note: new location, additional participants Best-selling Novelists Kathryn Caskie, Sarah Langan, Cathy Maxwell, Sophia Nash and Kathryn Smith discuss their novels of romance and suspense. Moderator: Cathy Maxwell

Featuring: Kathryn Caskie Sarah Langan Cathy Maxwell Sophia Nash Kathryn Smith

Muggles and Vampires: Fantasy Folklore Fri. March 23rd, 8:00 PM George Beahm (Fact, Fiction and Folklore in Harry Potter's World; Muggles and Magic) and Bruce McClelland (Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead) trace fantastical characters who dominate popular imagination. Moderator: Karen Wikander

Featuring: George Beahm Bruce A. McClelland

Poetry in the Papers Sat. March 24th, 10:00 AM Explore poetry as a historical public force with Jonathan Gross (Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic Love) and James Basker (Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660-1810). Moderator: Robert Vaughan

Featuring: James G. Basker Jonathan Gross

Stanza Break: When Poets Commit Prose Sat. March 24th, 12:00 PM Poets Michael Chitwood (Finishing Touches: Selected Essays and Fiction) and Michael McFee (The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview) weigh in on what drives them to prose and how it's different from writing poetry. Sponsored by Charlottesville Writing Center. Moderator: Heather Burns

Featuring: Michael Chitwood Michael McFee

Comfort Food: Specialty Cookbooks Sat. March 24th, 4:00 PM Sure-fire get-together recipes with Kendra Bailey Morris (White Trash Gatherings), Virginia Lee (An Eyeful of Trifle), Mollie Cox Bryan (Mrs. Rowe's Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley), and Lonnette Parks (Sisler)(The Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook). Moderator: Martha Stafford

Featuring: Mollie Cox Bryan Virginia Lee Kendra Bailey Morris Lonnette Parks (Sisler)

Vietnam: The War and Its Aftermath Sun. March 25th, 3:00 PM Charles Jones (Boys of '67: From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men), Mark Moyar (Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965), and Taylor Baldwin Kiland (Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later) discuss the conduct of the war, and the fallout for soldiers who fought it. Sponsored by the We the People Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Moderator: Art Beltrone

Featuring: Charles V. Jones Taylor Baldwin Kiland Mark Moyar

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