A Cappella hosts events featuring local authors and books of local interest. Outside of the shop we sponsor appearances by nationally renowned authors at venues such as The Carter Center, The Rialto Theater, Seven Stages and The Variety Playhouse. We’re also the official bookseller of the acclaimed Poetry at Tech series.
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Once again Atlanta's Creative Loafing has voted A Cappella Books a "Best Of" pick for 2007. This year we take the title of "Best Place for an Author Reading/Signing." We're thrilled and very proud, to say the least. Thank you Creative Loafing!
The Ballroom Book Bash at the Highland Inn, co-sponsored by The Chattahoochee Review, is a celebration of a newly-released books selected each quarter. At the intersection of literature and fun you will experience live music and adult refreshments in the newly refurbished historic ballroom of The Highland Inn, in Atlanta's Poncey-Highland neighborhood. Whether it's Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting telling humorous tales of sexual love gone wrong or Atlanta's own bestselling author, Karen Abbott (Sin in the Second City) offering up anecdotes from the lives of bygone prostitutes to the tunes of Bernadette Seacrest, The Ballroom Book Bash is always interesting, never dull and full of surprises.
Left: Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh signing books at the very first Ballroom Book Bash in honor of his book, The Bedroom Secrest of the Master Chefs.
Right: Atlanta author Karen Abbott discusses her book, Sin in the Second City at the second Ballroom Book Bash.
May
Thursday, May 15. 7 p.m.
Virginia Willis reads from her latest work, Bon Appetit Y'All: Stories and Recipes from Three Generations of Southern Cooking A Cappella Books
Bon Appetit Y'All: Stories and Recipes from Three Generations of Southern Cooking by Virginia Willis, is a family collection of 200 recipes for great Southern home cooking imbued with contemporary sensibility and classical French technique. Before she attended the prestigious French cooking school La Varenne, Virginia Willis was shelling butterbeans alongside her mother and grandmother in her Georgia family kitchen ever since she could stand on a stool. These divergent influences inform her passionate homage to the cooking of the South.
From simple starters and slaws to generous entrees and desserts, Willis makes this down-home refined and haute cuisine approachable, with recipes like Vidalia Onion Soup with Bacon Flan, Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Mama's Barbecue Sauce, and Hot Vanilla Soufflés with Vanilla Ice Cream.
Brimming with stories, photos, tips and techniques, Bon Appetit, Y'All seamlessly blends Willis’s Southern and French roots into a memorable and thoroughly modern cookbook.
Virginia Willisis a French-trained chef, food writer and television producer. She has worked with Martha Stewart, Bobby Flay and Nathalie Dupree, and her articles have appeared in Country Living, Family Fun, and Edible Atlanta. Visit www.virginiawillis.com for more information.
If you cannot attend the reading but would like to reserve a signed copy of Bon Appetit Y'All, you can do so with this shopping cart.List price: $32.50
Thursday, May 22. 7 p.m.
Author Melissa Delbridge
reads from her latest book, Family Bible
A
Cappella Books
"Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As your daddy got richer, you got to do them in fancier places." Starting with her father, who never met a whitetail buck he couldn't shoot, a whiskey bottle he couldn't empty or a woman he couldn't charm, and her mother, who "invented road rage before 1960," Melissa Delbridge introduces us to the people in her own family bible. Readers will find elements of Southern Gothic and familiar vernacular characters, but Delbridge endows each with her startling and original interpretation. In this disarmingly unguarded and unapologetic memoir, she shows us what really happened in the "stew of religion and sex" that was 1960s Tuscaloosa.
Whether telling of her father's circumspect "hunting trips," her mother's sudden, tempestuous moves across town in the middle of the night, or coming to terms with her own sexuality on the banks of the river, Delbridge is the real star of this entertaining memoir. Crackling with wit, frighteningly smart, both drop-dead funny and wrenchingly sad, Family Bible is a stunning personal history.
If you cannot attend the reading but would like to reserve a signed copy of Family Bible, you can do so with this shopping cart.
Bestselling Author Rick Bragg reads from, discusses and
signs copies of the long awaited finale of his trilogy: The Prince
of Frogtown.
Tickets are FREE with the purchase of The Prince of Frogtown, to
be picked up at the Carter Center on May 27.
If you would like to attend, but do not want to purchase a copy of the book, tickets for the Rick Bragg reading are $10. You may purchase a ticket using the Shopping Cart below.
If you cannot attend the lecture but would like to reserve a SIGNED copy of
The Prince of Frogtown, please use this shopping cart. Signed copies
will not be available until after May 27.
Nashville,
Music CityUSA,
is a city whose entertainment and artistic fortune is built on the bedrock of
songwriters.It has been said in
Nashville over and over
that "It all begins with a song."
Robert Hicks has lived and worked in
Nashville for almost
thirty-five years. As a music publisher, he has run his own company,
launching the careers of some of Nashville's best-loved singer-songwriters and
publishing hits like "Just Call Me Lonesome," "Kisses Don't Lie," "Lipstick
Promises," and "Never Say Die."
He is the author of the New York Times Best-Selling
novel, The Widow of the South.
A Guitar and a Pen is a unique collection of the
literary work of some of the best storytellers in the world: the songwriters
who cut and polish tales down to sparkling three minute gems. A blend of
fiction and nonfiction, humor and poignancy, these tales cover a wide range of
styles and country artists.
This will be a night to remember, full of good stories, good music and good times.
If you cannot attend the reading but would like to reserve a signed copy of A Guitar and a Pen, you can do so with this shopping cart.List price: $23.99
Emory
University, A Cappella Books and the Carter Presidential Library are proud to
present Salman Rushdie for a very special evening lecture at 7:00 p.m. Monday,
July 7th at the Carter Presidential Center. Rushdie will read from and discuss
his new novel The Enchantress of Florence, a vivid, gripping, irreverent,
bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing story by one of the world's
most important living writers.
Tickets
for this very special event can be purchased at A Cappella Books, 484-C Moreland
Ave NE in Little 5 Points,(404) 681-5123.
The
ticket price of $28 includes an autographed first edition of The Enchantress
of Florence. Each purchase admits one to the event.
Salman
Rushdie's lecture will be in the Carter Center's Ivan Allen Pavilion. Doors open
at 6:00 pm.
Tickets may be picked up in advance from A
Cappella Books, or at the event itself at the Carter Center, doors opening at 6
PM on July 7th.The autographed books
will not be available to be picked up before the event, but can be picked up at
the event.
Use the cart below to reserve a ticket (including a signed copy of The Enchantress of Florence).
The Ballroom Book Bash at the Highland Inn
Bon Appetit Y'All: Stories and Recipes from Three Generations of Southern Cooking
Virginia Willis
"Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As your daddy got richer, you got to do them in fancier places." Starting with her father, who never met a whitetail buck he couldn't shoot, a whiskey bottle he couldn't empty or a woman he couldn't charm, and her mother, who "invented road rage before 1960," Melissa Delbridge introduces us to the people in her own family bible. Readers will find elements of Southern Gothic and familiar vernacular characters, but Delbridge endows each with her startling and original interpretation. In this disarmingly unguarded and unapologetic memoir, she shows us what really happened in the "stew of religion and sex" that was 1960s Tuscaloosa. 
Whether telling of her father's circumspect "hunting trips," her mother's sudden, tempestuous moves across town in the middle of the night, or coming to terms with her own sexuality on the banks of the river, Delbridge is the real star of this entertaining memoir. Crackling with wit, frighteningly smart, both drop-dead funny and wrenchingly sad, Family Bible is a stunning personal history.
Nashville,
