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Dear Friends of A Novel Experience,
With the successful launch of ANE's new webpage--shop.anovelexperience.net--we now sell eBooks! (Yes, there's NO www in that address.) For our customers, it's "A Brand New Day," as Sting daily reminds us. Our new service supports every eReader except Kindle.* Check out our new online features, including "Staff Picks" (with a biographical odd-body or two tossed in) and a svelte yet extensive search engine. This new online option also allows customers to purchase new hard copy books online, with delivery to home or to the store for pick-up. When you test-drive this new website, please provide us feedback! (By the way, there's an app for that: IndieBound Reader gets you there faster!) "eReader Petting Zoos," classes at the store for those of us interested in learning more about using our reading devices, are currently planned for early spring,. We're working to make the new online service accessible, easy-to-use, and as welcoming as possible, with the assistance of Jonathan, our Webmaster and resident guru. We look forward to acting promptly on your suggestions and comments.
*Amazon's policy restricts Kindle users from downloading eBooks via other services.
As if this weren't enough to whet our appetites for 2012, our friends from NPR's Unchained Tour will return with yet another epiphany of novel storytelling on February 7th at 7 pm. Tickets for the event, The Wandaring Tour's evening at A Novel Experience in downtown Zebulon, GA, are on sale here for $15 and, like last time, they're limited. We look forward to their explanation of "Wandaring." (Did someone get engaged? Are they Lord of the Rings groupies?) So mark your calendars for that Tuesday evening and buy tickets early (because "often" will early have left the building)!
All this said, we remain happily committed to our brick-and-mortar tradition, grateful to be grounded in Zebulon, and shall maintain the same hours as last year: Open Monday through Saturday at 10 am to 7 pm, except Mondays, when we close at 5 pm. Here in a (bullet-filled) nutshell we present January 2012's highlights. Details, dates, and times follow.
- ANE's Gallery features the Southside Photography Club, a newly-minted group of thirty camera-obsessed Griffin-area artists committed to supporting the arts photographic of varietal ilk. Throughout January.
- ANE book clubs remain a terrific opportunity to explore books and subjects that stretch us beyond our tried-and-truly-comfortable- zones, or re-explore ideas that move us! Reading with others fosters conversation and community. Join a book club for laughs, to work out the insight muscle, or to impart a little frisson to those old neural pathways. This is one terrific reason to GET OUT! Details below.
- To the customer who suggested we advertise the title of the next month's book as well, so she would have time to read it: Thank you! (What were we thinking? :) ) Check out the complete 2012 book club choices at shop.anovelexperience.net.
- If you already belong to a book club, consider using our space, and your members will receive a 15% discount on the monthly choice purchased from us.
- Our knitters and crocheters click creatively away each Monday at 10 am. Risk a purling hour with a group whose aim is to keep everyone in stitches. (I heard that groan.)
- The Novel Poets Societymeets every first Friday at 7 pm and, after a holiday hiatus, we'll gather again Friday next (01.06.12) to plan 2012, so come share your ideas!
- Foreign Film night on the second Friday of each month at 7 pm unfailingly offers a feast for eyes and senses. This is a terrific opportunity at no charge for anyone of high school age or older who enjoys and/or wants to learn more about cinema. Join us Friday for the Czech film, Kolya. See a link and further details below.
- THIRD Thursdays at A Novel Experience may mean LIVE GUITAR MUSIC with Ryan and Jessie this year! Watch for Blasts!
In addition to all we've listed, we have the following ideas simmering on our back boiler for later in Spring: a Point/Counterpoint Local Political Evening, and World Book Night on April 23rd, when we plan to join 50,000 other book-lovers and -sellers to give away a million free books (unfortunately, not all of them in Pike County!).
How about your own resolutions? Need help with eating healthy? Exercise? Reading the classic books? Exercising your mind by widening your reading choices? If we don't have your in-print book on site, we can get it --and now, we can deliver it in virtually any format!
Kit Weber plays during Christmas Eve Wassail & Readings
Special thanks to all who shopped with us during the holidays. Your support makes a difference! Many of you announced as you checked out that you'd intentionally shopped with us, shopped locally. Way to support the community! We pledge to remain part of that effort, to continue our own support for other local businesses, to earn your business by placing community and community-building at the heart of our business model, and constantly to seek better ways of enhancing our community's enjoyment and inspiration via books and reading. May your dreams for 2012 come true!
Sincerely,
Karen, Chris, Susan F, Susan C, Brenda, and Jennie
Ryan and Jessie play at ANE during Christmas 2011! |
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Southside Photography Club: The January Show
Reception: Jan 14th 7:00 p.m.
 INTRODUCING A NEW PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP IN OUR AREA! A Novel Experience is pleased to present the exciting launch of a group of fine photographers whose current show at our Gallery demonstrates their intimate familiarity with the feel and spirit of west central Georgia. Their energies recently pooled invest this show with a fresh, lively vision that suggests we should book them for next year as well--now! Join us in welcoming these accomplished photographers as they present Southern Lenscapes for the month of January. And, have fun at the reception with plans for readings, giveaways, raffles and great food. It's always a grand time to kick-start the season! SATURDAY, JANUARY 14TH 7:00 - 8:30 PM
THE SOUTHSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB: LENSCAPES THROUGH THE MONTH OF JANUARY
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UNCHAINED TOUR RETURNS FEB 7TH!
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GET INSPIRED...LAUGH...CELEBRATE COMMUNITY!
Everyone who attended last year's Unchained Tour at A Novel Experience came away with a warm fuzzy feeling about sharing an incredible evening of storytelling and music with friends and family. The tour will return--this time in the SCAD-painted 1975 Bluebird Bus that will tour Georgia's independent bookstores to promote "local" business with the "hottest and hippest literary ticket " in the state. If the bus works, this tour will be one of many throughout the southeast...
Join George Dawes Green, founder of Unchained and the Moth, reconteurs Edgar Oliver, Elna Baker, Joan Juliet Buck, Peter Aguero, and the music of Shovels and Rope with Cathy Ann Hart and Michael Trent. We set up the front of the store, put up the stage, and enjoy. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT 15.00 EACH--Please do not delay--we don't want you to be disappointed! WHEN: TUESDAY, FEB 7 7:30 p.m. WHERE: A Novel Experience WHAT: For one night only, handmade music and extraordinary voices fresh from the backroads of Georgia. 
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Our January Knitted Special
Brenda has created the next item in her collection of appropriately-themed monthly tsotchkes that she will hide during the first week of December. This month, she will write down where she hid it so we don't lose it like the first pumpkin! And, for the lucky shopper who locates the ATHI (and we have several great spots), 20% off their purchase for the day! As soon as we see what Brenda comes up with, we'll post it on our Facebook page! Visit us there to keep up with the latest! |
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January 2012 Calendar
Every Monday in January - The "Knit-a-longs" are here to purl, slip, passover, and to practice at knitting connections. Come at 10 a.m. with your project and/or your questions.
January 5 -THE DROP-IN, NO-GUILT READING GROUP: For January, The English Major by Jim Harrison.
Next month: The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia by Mary Helen Stefaniak. The new, well-traveled schoolteacher in 1938 Threestep, Georgia enlists readings from The Thousand Nights and a Night for a night of death-defying storytelling.
January 6- THE NOVEL POETS SOCIETY: 7:00 P.M.
If you've wondered about reading or writing poetry (or mayhap other genres), have written or wanted to, or simply want to read, laugh, and wonder about words, do join us. In this group, words rule--and sometimes, rhythm! Let's think about planning not only our time, but our goal(s)-individually and as a group--at this first meeting of the year. What shall we resolve for 2012? Shall we get ourselves a text? Shall we concentrate on a particular poetic form each month, explore the poetry of one poet or a few greats, invite short story writing/writers into our fold? Let's use this time to engage even the most radical ideas. As always, please remember to bring copies of your original work or something published by another author that you 'd simply like to share with the group!
January 7: CLASSICS BOOK GROUP is restarting with (as usual, the first Saturday of every month) with THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton. We've had plenty of time to read this one! But we need to decide about the meeting scheduled for the end of the month! January 13 - FOREIGN FILM at 7 p.m. If you've ever wanted to travel (more) or to learn about other cultures or other ways of being in the world; if you love losing yourself in the realm of cinematic magic; if you simply enjoy a good story, and occasionally one that upends traditional constructions of the world--this experience is designed for you! First we view the film (on our lovely new, working screen); then if time permits, and we're so moved, we discuss it. This month's film, Kolya, won Best Foreign Film in 1997, edging out Ridicule (which we enjoyed last year). If you'd like to know more, visit http://www.edwinjahiel.com/kolya.htm See you at the movies! January 14- RECEPTION FOR THE SOUTHSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB: SOUTHSCAPES 7:00 - 8:30 P.M. January 25 - BROWN BAG BOOK GROUP ALERT!! This is one week after our regular third Wednesday! (Chris is in New Orleans gathering new books!) : Curl up with The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons--it's set at the beginning of WWII, at a remote English country estate and follows a young Jewish housemaid from Vienna who grows from a spoiled young girl to a strong woman who fights to save the family she left behind and the one she has come to serve--a good, solid, satisfying story for cold wintery days. Next Month: All Over But the Shouting by Rick Bragg. January 28 - Classics Club again? We'll discuss on the 7th and post updated information on our calendar!
The Formby sibs enjoying Christmas Eve at ANE
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Jessie and a fan!
Our season included some great live music courtesy of guitarists Ryan Cummings and Jessie Brewer--they collaborated on jazzy Christmas tunes. While they were here, we brainstormed on bring more live music to our area--any ideas? Please stop by and share them! Thanks, Ryan and Jessie--we look forward to hosting you at the store in 2012. Sincerely,
Susan F., Chris, Karen, Brenda,
Susan C. and Jennie
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JANUARY IS MYSTERY MONTH AT ANE
 Come in for our Mysteries Special!
Buy One Mystery
Get One of the Same or
Lesser Value
free!
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