Sarah Addison Allen with Paper Ghosts (Ticketed Event)
Join beloved New York Times bestselling Sarah Addison Allen and Wiley Cash on Thursday, September 3 at 6:00 pm at Bourgie Nights to celebrate the release of Sarah’s long awaited novel Paper Ghosts., part ghost story, part love story and steeped in magical realism, Paper Ghosts will transport you to a place where old secrets echo through the years and love finds a way of bringing us home.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
You will receive your book at the door when you check in for the event on September 3.
Books & Beers at Flytrap Brewing
Join Wiley and Mallory Cash, co-owners of Floodplain Books, for a pop-up book sale where they’ll share some of their favorite campus novels to celebrate the kiddos heading back to school. Their two kids, ages 11 and 10, will also be there to share some of their favorite titles. This free event is perfect for readers of all ages. Sale starts at 5:30 and goes until the books are gone, and after two pop-ups at Flytrap we’ve learned that our books go quick.
Denise Kiernan with Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution (Registration is full!)
Join New York Times bestselling author Denise Kiernan and Wiley Cash to discuss Kiernan’s latest book Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 6:00 p.m. at Bellamy Mansion Museum in downtown Wilmington, NC. Registration is full.
Registration is full!
Kristy Woodson Harvey with Falling for Peachtree Bluff (Ticketed Event)
Join Friends and Fiction’s Kristy Woodson Harvey and Wiley Cash on Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 pm at Seabird to celebrate the release of Kristy’s Falling for Peachtree Bluff with cocktails and autumnal-themed hors d'oeuvres prepared by Beard Award finalist Chef Dean Neff. Your ticket to the event includes a hardcover copy of Falling for Peachtree Bluff , a cozy coastal town where family secrets refuse to be washed away by the tide and close-knit community is everything. As New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey reunites the Murphy crew just in time for pumpkin spice season, “we dare you not to wish you were a member of this family” (E!).
Click here to purchase your ticket, which includes a hardcover copy of Falling for Peachtree Bluff as well as wine and hors d'oeuvres at Seabird prepared by James Beard finalist Chef Dean Neff.
You will receive your book at the door when you check in for the event on October 6.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
An Evening with John Grisham (Ticketed Event)
Floodplain Books presents an evening of stories and conversation with perennial New York Times bestseller John Grisham to celebrate the release of his forthcoming novel The French Illusion on Thursday, October 15 in the Church at the Brooklyn Arts Center.
Tickets go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1.
Each ticket includes a signed hardcover copy of The French Illusion and helps offset the costs of the venue rental.
You will receive your presigned copy of The French Illusion at the door when you check in for the event on October 15.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Event begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Seating is general admission, including the balcony.
Cash bar available.
Due to the number of attendees, John Grisham will not be able to sign books at the event. Pre-signed copies of his previous novels will be available for purchase.
Elizabeth Kostova with Mystery Play
Join #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Elizabeth Kostova for a spooky evening of haunting music and stories to celebrate the release of her new novel Mystery Play, which is the follow-up to her first novel The Historian, the first debut novel to appear at #1 on The New York Times bestsellers list. In Mystery Play the last living member of a family of historians who has been hunted by dark forces associated with Dracula finds himself in peril at the hands of a new threat in this thrilling novel. Don’t miss this chilling, thrilling evening!
This event is free and open to the public.
Nina de Gramont with Peregrine Hill and Malena Mörling with Lumina Station
Join New York Times bestselling novelist Nina de Gramont and acclaimed poet Malena Mörling to celebrate the release of their new books Peregine Hill and Lumina Station. Peregrine Hill, which follows de Gramont’s sensational novelThe Christie Affair, is set in Gilded Age New York and follows a desperate mother and headstrong daughter navigating a world built on men’s appetites and women’s silence. Of Malena Mörling’s poetry, Robert Hass writes, “[she] has the gift of looking at ordinary things with such wonder it can feel like visionary hunger.” Come celebrate an evening of poetry and prose with two of our city’s most talented and celebrated writers.
They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy
Join author Lauren Collins and Dr. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant for a special conversation about the 1898 Race Massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina, that will consider how descendants on both sides of the violence live with its legacy.
Lauren Collins was born in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1980. In They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy, Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, North Carolina, families over 125 years to create a full accounting of the long-term effects of the 1898 white supremacist massacre and coup and its critical role in subverting American democracy. Collins is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “When in French: Love in a Second Language,” which the New York Times named of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She lives in Paris with her family.
Dr. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant serves as the Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Director for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A proud native of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, she wholly and critically grapples with the profound questions that inform our understandings of gender, race, culture, and religious expression. She navigates the academy as a scholar-artist, and actively merges her life as an intellectual, musician and filmmaker, including especially her work as founder of ConjureGirlBlue Productions, a small media company specializing in nonfiction storytelling.
Free and open to the public.
Copies of THEY STOLE A CITY will be available for purchase and Lauren Collins will sign books after the event.
Books & Beers
Join bestselling authors Kevin Maurer, Jason Mott, Randy Blythe, Brendan Slocumb, Shaun Assael, and Wiley Cash for book signing, beers, and conversation. These authors will also be sharing books by some of their favorite writers. Come meet them and peruse new titles for your summer TBR pile!
Free and open to the public.
Books by these authors will be available for purchase, as well as books they’ve hand-selected to share with you.
An Evening with #1 New York Times bestseller Christina Baker Kline (SOLD OUT)
Join #1 New York Times bestseller Christina Baker Kline and Wiley Cash for an evening at Seabird in downtown Wilmington. Ticket includes wine, hors d'oeuvres, and a hardcover copy of Christina’s new novel The Foursome, a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true story: two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam. After purchasing your ticket, if you don’t want to wait until June 2 to get your copy of The Foursome please join Floodplain Books for an evening at Flytrap Brewing in downtown Wilmington at 319 Walnut St. on Tuesday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. That evening you can pick up your pre-purchased copy of The Foursome, meet Wiley and Mallory Cash, enjoy some locally brewed beer and food truck offerings, and shop some of Floodplain’s favorite titles.
June 2 at 6:00 pm at Seabird (1 South Front Street, Wilmington, NC
This is a ticketed event. Ticket includes a hardcover copy of The Foursome, wine, and hors d'oeuvres
Tickets must be purchased online from Floodplain Books and will not be available at the door.
Pop-Up Book Sale
Join Wiley and Mallory Cash, co-owners of Floodplain Books, for a pop-up book sale at Flytrap Brewing on Tuesday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Come enjoy locally brewed beer, food truck offerings, and shop Floodplain’s favorite titles. If you’ve purchased a ticket to our sold out June 2 event with Christina Baker Kline please swing by Flytrap Brewing on May 12 to pick up your pre-paid copy of The Foursome.
Tuesday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Flytrap Brewing
319 Walnut St, Wilmington, NC 28401
This is a free event. No ticket purchase required.