THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, August 14, 1994 TAG: 9408120522
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Staff report
LENGTH: Medium: 51 lines
BOOK EVENTS
VP/LS book editor Ann Sjoerdsma will speak about the book review business Thursday, 7 p.m., at Buxton Village Books, Highway 12, in Buxton, N.C. For information, call (919) 995-4240.
Mystery writer Elizabeth Daniels Squire, a resident of Buncombe County, N.C., will read and discuss her fiction Thursday, 7 p.m.; and Margaret Baddour, a founding member of the N.C. Writers Network, will read from her book of poetry, Easy Magic, Saturday, 7 p.m., at Manteo Booksellers in Manteo.
For information, call (919) 473-1221.
NEW RELEASES
The second edition of Virginia Moore's Scottsville on the James, published by Dietz Press, is available at Scottsville Museum, (804) 977-5536. The book is an informal history of southern Albemarle County from the times of Monacan Indian settlements to the 1969 floods. It sells for $19.95. All proceeds will go to the Scottsville Museum.
R & M Publishing Co. of Holly Hill, S.C., this month will publish Richmond resident Peggy Drewery Friend's book, So That His Death Will Have Not Been in Vain, about her son's death in the military. The African-American soldier's death was associated with the sickle cell trait. Friend's book may be ordered from R & M at (706) 738-0360.
Rockbridge Publishing Co. of Berryville, Va., has just published Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington ($30), by Joseph Judge, formerly with National Geographic. The book relates Confederate Gen. Jubal Early's 1864 Northern campaign. To order a copy, call 1-800-473-3943.
The University of South Carolina has announced publication of The Defeat of the German U-Boats: The Battle of the Atlantic, by New York history professor David Syrett. The book is available for $39.95 from the USC Press, 1-800-768-2500.
REVIEWER NEWS
VP/LS book reviewer James E. Person Jr. has edited The Unbought Grace of Life: Essays in Honor of Russell Kirk, recently published by Sherwood Sugden & Co. of Peru, Ill. The book is available from the publisher for $19.95 at (815) 223-2520. by CNB