Lunch will be catered by Suzanne Scaglione's Catering By Design.
Please choose between:
Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad with Roll, Dessert Bar & Beverage
OR
4 Salad Medley: Shrimp salad, Pasta Salad, Chicken Salad, Fruit, Cookie & Beverage
May 4th, First Friday author is Kathy A. Bradley
The luncheon event is $30 and includes a signed copy of Sea Change. Seating is very limited so make your reservations soon! Payment required with your reservation. Contact Marcia at hattiesbooks@bellsouth.net or 912-554-8677.
Kathy is the author of Breathing and Walking Around Meditations on a Life published by Mercer University Press. Breathing and Walking Around is not a memoir. It is a record of four years’ worth of observations of common people, everyday events, and the natural world made by Kathy Bradley from her home in the coastal plains of South Georgia. A lawyer by training, a storyteller by nature, she shares with precision and layer upon layer of sensory image simple tales that emerge, in the end, as parables. Beginning at Sandhill, the house she built on her family farm, Bradley takes the reader with her as she walks miles of dirt roads with the dogs Lily and Tamar, alert to the details of rural living—the movement of the seasons, the nearness and unpredictability of wildlife, the sights and sounds otherwise drowned out by twenty-first-century living. -- from the Mercer University Press Review
April's First Friday Author, Nancy Raines Day Signs A Is For Alliguitar Musical Alphabeasts
Hattie's Books will feature a children's book at the April First Friday event (April 6th from 5 to 8 p.m.)! Nancy Raines Day, the author of seven children's books lives with her husband on St. Simon's Island. Her first book, The Lion's Whiskers, An Ethiopian Folk Tale was named a New York Times Notable Book. In an interview with the Brunswick News, Nancy said she had always wanted to do an alphabet book. "With this one, I wanted to branch out and incorporate their imaginations." Along with Herb Leonhard illustrations, Day does just that. Come by and pick up a copy of A Is For Alliguitar and Nancy Raines Day will be happy to sign it for you!
March's First Friday Author is Beverly Varnado
“Beverly Varnado spins a wonderful and touching tale, weighted with the folklore and beauty of St. Simons Island. The reader is moved to recall the trials of youth and the profound triumph of discovering great wisdom in our ‘odd’ elders.” - Rusty Whitener, author of A Season of Miracles, Christy Award Finalist
June Hall McCash Is February's First Friday Author
Stop by Hattie's Books on Friday, Feb 3rd between 5 and 8 p.m. to meet June Hall McCash and pick up a signed copy of her latest novel, Plum Orchard. Her debut novel, Almost to Eden, won the 2011 Georgia Author of the year award for first novel. She has also won eight other literary awards for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.from the author's website...My new novel Plum Orchard ... (is) set on Cumberland Island and takes place in the nineteenth century plantation era and continues through the Civil War and its aftermath. The action moves from Cumberland to Groton, Connecticut, and then back to Cumberland, so the reader gets a dual perspective of the war years... I will be in Brunswick, Georgia, at Hattie’s Bookstore for a First Friday signing on February 3, 2012. Hope to see some of you there.
January First Friday Author is Pamela Mueller
Come by Hatties Books on January 6th from 5-8 p.m. and meet Pamela! Water to my Soul, the Story of Eliza Lucas Pinkney
In Pamela's newest historical novel, she shares the dramatic lives and culture of the colonists in pre-American Revolution days through the eyes of Eliza Lucas Pinckney. With extraordinary courage, skill and grit, seventeen year old Eliza Lucas brought wealth to the south shortly before the American Revolution. She was the first colonist to successfully cultivate the indigo plant and produce its blue dye: a veritable money maker for England. Remarkably, she achieved this working within the enormous constraints faced by colonial women, making her mark on the agricultural industry, southern society and the Crown of England.
Come by Hatties Books on December 2nd from 5-8 p.m. and meet Buzz! Check out his action packed best seller Eyewall.
Buzz is a retired meteorologist and he will be signing his debut novel, Eyewall, which one reviewer called a “perfect summer read.” It also has the distinction of being set on St. Simons Island. The book, released in May of this past year, is a tale threaded with action, suspense, danger and romance. It features characters not only in conflict with a devastating storm–a category 5 hurricane–but in many cases with each other.
Two Opportunities to Meet October's First Friday Author - Ann Hite
Ann Hite has generously agreed to two events on Friday, October 7th. The first event will be a discussion of her haunting novel Ghost on Black Mountain from 2:30 until 4 p.m. Later that evening (5 p.m. to 8 p.m) during the Downtown Brunswick's First Friday festivities, she'll be signing copies of the book for anyone who stops by. Marcia has plenty of copies on hand, so stop by, purchase one now and join in the discussion! It's sure to be lively with the author involved!
Meet September's Award Winning First Friday Author - Maggie Toussaint
Currently a freelance reporter, Southern author Maggie Toussaint loves to write fiction. Her romantic suspense titles include House of Lies, No Second Chance, Muddy Waters, and Seeing Red. Her debut release, House of Lies, won Best Romantic Suspense in the 2007 National Readers Choice Awards. Her mysteries include In For A Penny and On the Nickel, with Death, Island Style and Murder in the Buff contracted for release in 2012.
Maggie will be signing books and talking about writing fiction. Meet her at Hattie's Books on Friday, September 2nd, 5 - 8 p.m.
First Friday Author Event, August 5
On Friday, August 5th, Jesse Tullos will be signing his book "The Red Terrors," a true story about the players, coaches and fans of Glynn Academy's football team in 1964 Georgia. It is the story of a young coach, and a talented and determined core group of only 14 players. Come by for some great books and refreshments! 5-8 p.m.First Friday Author Event, July 1
Anne Jones, will be signing her book "Tides of Fear", a mystery which takes place on St Simons Island. Anne is a former GA teacher. Come meet Anne, she will be here from 5-8 PM.
