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Welcome to Pomegranate Books!
We are a progressive, independent bookstore in Wilmington, North Carolina, run by avid readers. Come in and enjoy free Wifi in our cafe.
We carry new & used books, cards & stationery, gifts & audiobooks.
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Books can be purchased anywhere. So why shop at indie bookstores? Because buying a book at your local indie bookstore doesn’t just stimulate your reading, it stimulates your local economy. Shopping local is an investment in your own neighborhood and good karma all around.
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Pomegranate welcomes camden noir, editor of Label 228
 Title of Event: Label 228: a street art project
When: Friday, December 4, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: POMEGRANATE BOOKS
Description: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Art is anywhere, anytime; it just depends on your viewpoint. Subway cars in the 1970s and 1980s became mobile murals in New York City. Not every artist can afford a canvas to create on; some people’s imagination exceeds their financial or physical means. Sometimes the canvas is bigger than ourselves. Look at Banksy or Michelangelo. Sometimes the canvas is really small.
And free. Complimentary of the U.S. Post Service.Label 228 is a gathering of street art executed on priority mail labels (Label 228, in the U.S.P.S. parlance) and displayed in public spaces. It’s a remarkably popular method of exposure featured by graffiti artists worldwide. These labels are free, portable, and quick and easy to exhibit, offering artists the chance to spend more time creating their work than if they were to paint and write directly on walls, vehicles, and public objects.
camden noir launched his Label 228 project by putting out a call to artists, asking them to send him their artwork or anything, for that matter, on priority mail labels. Within six months, he received over 500 labels from artists all over the world. At this point, he has over 1,500 labels from over 600 artists. This is a collection of the best of those labels, in a beautiful, full-color book.
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Memoir by local author Paul Wilkes named one of the Publishers Weekly
Best 100 Books of 2009
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In Due Season: A Catholic Life
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Wilkes, Paul
Praise for In Due Season
"Paul Wilkes is that rarest of people--a deeply spiritual man who is also an absolutely exquisite writer. His absorbing new memoir reveals the wonderful things that can happen when you allow God to lead you along life's often bumpy path--whether or not you know where the journey will lead. This is a beautifully written, frequently haunting, and always fascinating story of seeking and finding, serving and loving, and--ultimately--dying and rising. Highly recommended."
--James Martin, SJ, author, My Life with the Saints
"Paul Wilkes's biography takes us through Paul's life, but through the stages of our own lives as well. As a result, at the end of it we can see how we, too, have become more than we ever thought we could be. Wilkes is a great writer-he has a refreshing style, a direct voice, and a stark and unfurbished honesty, even about himself. "In Due Season" has all the marks of Augustine's Confessions or Merton's Seven Storey Mountain. It gives the rest of us, whatever we've done, wherever we've been, hope. It helps us see the forest of our lives despite the trees."
--Joan Chittister, author, Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir |
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How you can find us, info on member discounts, book group discounts, selling used books, the causes we support, and more...
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Author Birthday |
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Francois-Marie de Voltaire was born today in 1694.
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Quote of the Day |
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"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and
skeptics."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Soviet Heretic
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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