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Events


Book Signing and Meet The Author with Mary Reynolds
Apr
13
10:00 AM10:00

Book Signing and Meet The Author with Mary Reynolds

Meet Mary Reynolds, environmental activist and author of We Are the Ark, at Hills and Hamlets Bookshop during her residency with Art Farm at Serenbe. Copies of We Are the Ark and The Garden Awakening will be available exclusively at Hills and Hamlets.

Reynolds will be at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop from 10am to 11am to chat with visitors and sign books. This will not be a reading or author talk, just an informal meet and greet and book signing. There will be a separate full talk and presentation at 3pm in Gainey Hall. The talk will be free but RSVPs are highly recommended because seating is limited. Please get RSVP/tickets for the 3pm talk HERE.

Learn more about Mary Reynolds and We are the Ark here: https://marymary.ie/

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Peachtree City Library Presents Chad Davidson at Line Creek Brewing
Feb
22
7:00 PM19:00

Peachtree City Library Presents Chad Davidson at Line Creek Brewing

Hills & Hamlets Bookshop will be providing on-site sales for this event!

Peachtree City Library will host Chad Davidson for an author talk and reading at Line Creek Brewing on Thursday February 22nd at 7pm. Chad Davidson is the author of four collections of poems and two memoirs, most recently Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies From The Plague Year (LSU Press, 2024). He directs the School of the Arts at the University of West Georgia and also co-directs Convivio, a summer arts and literary conference in Postignano, Italy.

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Meet The Author & Book Signing With Anita Gail Jones
Feb
18
1:00 PM13:00

Meet The Author & Book Signing With Anita Gail Jones

Please join us Sunday, February 18th from 1pm to 2pm at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop for a drop-in book signing with Anita Gail Jones, author of THE PEACH SEED, a Patience staff pick!

Patience raves about THE PEACH SEED:
GA author Anita Gail Jones’ amazing debut novel follows a family who give a hand-carved peach seed monkey to every generation from their capture in Africa, slavery in America and life as farmers in present day Georgia. She lovingly describes the food, land and music that unify kinfolk, even when younger generations challenge the beliefs of their elders. Her highly original theme & unforgettable characters make this a MUST READ.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart—and a mountain of secrets. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful protest violent.

Before Altovise fled the South, Fletcher carved for her a special peach seed monkey with diamond eyes—a talisman fathers usually gift their sons on their thirteenth birthday.

An indelible portrait of a family, The Peach Seed shows how kin pass down legacies of sorrow, joy, and strength. This debut explores the repercussions of a single choice and how an enduring talisman challenges and holds a family together. It is a parable of how a glimmer of hope as small as a seed can ripple across generations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Anita Gail Jones is a visual artist, professional storyteller and writer, born and raised in Albany, Georgia, living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Permission to Speak: Book Signing with Samara Bay
Oct
7
12:00 PM12:00

Permission to Speak: Book Signing with Samara Bay

Please consider joining us on Saturday October 7th to meet speech & dialect coach Samara Bay, author of the newly released book Permission to Speak: How To Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You. No RSVP is required, simply stop by the bookstore any time between noon and 2pm to meet Samara, chat about her work, and pick up a signed copy of her book!

NOTE: this is an informal signing/meet & greet event only. If you are interested in seeing Samara give a full talk and presentation of her work, consider coming to her talk at the Women’s Network at Serenbe event on Tuesday October 10th, from 5-7pm.

About the Author

Samara Bay is a sought-after speech coach, speaker, and thought leader whose coaching clients include political powerhouses, rising leaders in business, and Hollywood celebrities. She’s the author of the 2023 bestseller Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You and her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, TIME, CBS Sunday Morning, Tamron Hall, Fast Company, Glamour, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Follow her on Instagram @samarabay and join the voice justice movement.

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What Became of Magic Book Launch Party With Paige Crutcher
Sep
29
6:00 PM18:00

What Became of Magic Book Launch Party With Paige Crutcher

Please join us for the launch of Paige Crutcher's novel WHAT BECAME OF MAGIC at Hills and Hamlets Bookshop and the Grange Green. We'll be celebrating on Friday, September 29th with a book signing, special performance by the Serenbe Singers and Grateful to ‘Be, a kid-friendly witchy craft, spell book created just for Serenbe, and more! Complimentary drinks will be available during the event (compostable cups will be provided but feel to bring your own cup too). There will also be food for sale at the Friday night food truck across the street.

RSVPs not required but you can pre-order your copy of What Became of Magic by clicking HERE

 From Paige Crutcher, the author of The Orphan Witch and The Lost Witch, comes a new tale about a witch, a book of magic, and a beguiling and powerful creature whom she must free, even if it puts her life and soul at stake.

Aline Weir, a witch who can talk to ghosts, has kept her talents hidden ever since a disastrous middle school slumber party, choosing to be invisible and use her powers in secret to help lost souls reunite with the keys to send them home. All the while, she finds solace in a bookstore and the three mysterious women who run it… until Aline discovers the book of Mischief, and her powers are enhanced.

Living a solitary life until the age of thirty, Aline’s life takes an unexpected turn when the wrong (or perhaps right) person witnesses her using her powers and she is invited to a town that doesn’t exist on any map. Arriving in Matchstick, Aline learns of a lost magic that desperately needs to be found and only her unique powers can do it. But what she’s not told is that Magic is a person. One that is dangerous and seductive and has been waiting for a witch with a power like hers for centuries.

 

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Home Therapy with Anita Yokota and Ali Harper Wittorf, Book Signing
May
20
2:00 PM14:00

Home Therapy with Anita Yokota and Ali Harper Wittorf, Book Signing

Please join Hills & Hamlets Bookshop on the afternoon of Saturday May 20th for an author meet & greet and book signing with licensed therapist-turned-interior designer, Anita Yokota author of HOME THERAPY, Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and Creating Calm. Joining Anita will be Serenbe resident Ali Harper Wittorf whose stunning interior photography is featured in the book, including the five Serenbe homes captured for the pages.

Stop by the bookstore anytime between 2pm and 4pm to visit with Anita and Ali. Get a signed copy and learn more about how interior design can foster greater happiness in our homes and ourselves as well as increase our own wellbeing. NO TICKETS REQUIRED

Between the Serenbe Farmer’s market in the morning, the wine tasting at The General Store across the street from the bookstore at 4pm, and the Broadway in the Woods Performance with Joshua Henry in the evening, we have your Serenbe Saturday plans all laid out for you!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Licensed therapist turned interior designer Anita Yokota knows that our surroundings are more than just a reflection of our personal style; how our homes are decorated and arranged can have a monumental impact on our quality of life. During her seventeen years as a practicing marriage and family therapist, she noticed that the state of her clients' homes often mirrored their emotional issues, which inspired her to develop the Home Therapy method: her signature system for creating wellness from the inside out by setting up your spaces to nurture your mind, body, and spirit.

Instead of basing decorating decisions on trends and fads, Home Therapy's unique, therapy-informed approach focuses equally on mental health and design while presenting the psychology behind making your home intentional. From choosing the right lighting, furniture, and paint color to building boundaries and forming long-term organizational goals, Anita guides you through creating spaces that bring happiness and balance to the sanctuary we call home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anita Yokota is a licensed marriage and family therapist turned interior designer who emphasizes the importance of incorporating wellness throughout the home. Domino named Anita’s site the Best New Design Blog in 2017 and her work has been featured in MyDomaine, Apartment Therapy, Real Simple, and many others. Anita lives in Southern California with her husband and their three daughters.

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CANCELLED! Love, Nature, Magic: Author Meet & Greet With Maria Rodale
Feb
28
5:00 PM17:00

CANCELLED! Love, Nature, Magic: Author Meet & Greet With Maria Rodale

UPDATE! Maria suffered a small stroke (her words) and will need to reschedule her visit to Serenbe. If you preordered a book we have it available for pickup in the store now, or you can contact us for a refund.

Please join Hills & Hamlets Bookshop and Sustainable Home Goods in welcoming Maria Rodale to Serenbe. Drop in any time from 5pm to 6:30pm on Tuesday February 28th to meet the author, pick up a book, and learn about "recovering CEO" Maria Rodale's remarkable stories of "encounters with the outspoken yet wise spirits of plants and animals among us!"

Please RSVP to help us with a count for drinks, and feel free to reserve a copy of the book while you're at it! Click HERE for ticket info.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Love, Nature, Magic: Shamanic Journeys Into The Heart of My Garden

Join bestselling author, activist, and garden expert Maria Rodale on her shamanic journeys as she reflects on her surprising conversations with the spirits of the familiar plants and animals around us—and the knowledge they share with us.

In Love, Nature, Magic, organic advocate and former CEO of a global health and wellness company Maria Rodale combines her love of nature and gardening with her experience in shamanic journeying, embarking on an epic adventure to learn from plants, animals, and insects—including some of the most misunderstood beings in nature. Maria asks them their purpose and listens as they show and declare what they want us humans to know. From Thistles to Snakes, Poison Ivy to Mosquitoes, these nature beings convey messages that are relevant to every human, showing us how to live in balance and harmony on this Earth.

Through journeys filled with surprises, humor, and foibles, follow Maria’s evolution from being annoyed with to accepting—and even falling in love with—our most difficult neighbors (including human ones). Along the way, she tells her own story of how she learned about shamanic journeying and its near-universal manifestation in traditional cultures worldwide. She describes what her experiences of shamanic journeying are like—simply, honestly, and with a touch of irreverence.

Maria’s journeys include conversations with: Mugwort • Vulture • Bat • Rabbit • Lanternfly • Lightning Bug • Osage Orange • Deer • Paper Wasp • Dandelion • Tick • Groundhog • Milkweed • And more!

Throughout, Rodale shares an essential truth that resonates across her shamanic explorations: We first must heal our own hearts, for only then can we truly love others and begin to heal planet Earth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MARIA RODALE is an explorer in search of the mysteries of the universe. Author, artist, activist, and recovering CEO, she serves on the board of the Rodale Institute and is also a former board co-chair. Throughout her career, she has advocated for the potential of organic regenerative farming to heal the damage wrought by pesticides and industrial agricultural practices. She is the author of Organic Manifesto and Scratch and is a secret children’s book author. She was also featured in the documentary Kiss the Ground. Maria is a mother, grandmother, and crazy gardener who lives in Pennsylvania, right near where she was born.


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Book Signing With Chefs Alice Waters and Matthew Raiford
Dec
10
1:00 PM13:00

Book Signing With Chefs Alice Waters and Matthew Raiford

Meet chefs Alice Waters and Matthew Raiford for a book signing on Saturday, December 10th at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop!

Tickets are required and include:

- 1 paperback copy of Alice Waters' most recent book, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

- 1 hardcover copy of Matthew Raiford's cookbook, Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer

- an opportunity to briefly meet and chat with the authors and get your books signed

There will not be a public talk or presentation, this is only an opportunity to meet the authors and get your books signed and personalized! Reserve your ticket HERE.

Additional copies of both authors' books and other titles by Waters will be available for sale in the bookstore at the event.

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About the authors:

Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. She founded the Edible Schoolyard Project in 1995 — combining her perspectives as a trained Montessori teacher, fervent political activist, gifted chef, and champion of sustainable agriculture. Her vision is grounded in the following key principle: children deserve to be nurtured in body and mind, treated with dignity, and shown that they are valued.

A descendant of the Freshwater Gullah Geechie of Coastal Georgia, Matthew Raiford grew up on land that has sustained his family for seven generations; Gilliard Farms, purchased by his great-great-great-grandfather Jupiter Gilliard in 1874, is now in the hands of this sixth-generation farmer in Brunswick, GA. He, alongside his wife Tia (nee McDonald, AOS ’98) are also owners of Strong Roots 9, a lifestyle brand which is dedicated to creating products and experiences for Americans to reconnect with the nation’s natural heritage, from the perspective of the people whose ancestors helped build it. Matthew is the author of the celebrated cookbook Bress ‘n’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth Generation Farmer.


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Dec
9
6:00 PM18:00

The Lost Witch Book Launch Party with Paige Crutcher

Please join us for the launch of Paige Crutcher's novel The Lost Witch at Hills and Hamlets Bookshop. We'll be celebrating on Friday, December 9th with a book signing, Q&A with the author, special performance by the Serenbe Singers, fortune telling booth, and more! Complimentary light appetizers, desserts and drinks will be available next door at Sustainable Home Goods during the event. There will also be food for sale at the Friday night food truck across the street. You can pre-order your copy at: https://www.hillsandhamletsbookshop.com/shop/preorder-the-lost-witch-by-paige-crutcher-read-description-for-details

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Book Signing and Meet & Greet with Author Christina Chiu
Apr
20
12:30 PM12:30

Book Signing and Meet & Greet with Author Christina Chiu

Please join us for a book signing and casual meet & greet with author, speaker, and shoe designer Christina Chiu. Christina will be at the bookstore signing copies of her novel Beauty. Drop in any time from noon to 2pm on Saturday May 28th.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Amy Wong is an up-and-coming designer in the New York fashion industry; she is young, beautiful, and has it all. But she finds herself at odds with rival designers in a world rife with chauvinism and prejudice.

In her personal life, she struggles with marriage and motherhood, finding that her choices often fall short of her traditional family’s expectations. Derailed again and again, Amy must confront her own limitations to succeed as the designer and person she wants to be.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christina Chiu is the grand-prize winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel, Beauty. She is also author of Troublemaker and Other Saints, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Troublemaker was alternate selection for BOMC and QPB, a nominee for a BOMC First Fiction Award, and winner of the Asian American Literary Award.

Chiu is the recipient of the Robert Simpson Fellowship, the Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Van Lier Fellowship; she won the New Stone Circle Fiction Contest, won second place in the Playboy Fiction Contest, and was nominated for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. She has been a Wiepersdorf Fellow and a Claire Woolrich Scholar.

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Launch Party for The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher [Outdoor Event]
Oct
1
6:30 PM18:30

Launch Party for The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher [Outdoor Event]

Where: The Bridge at Swann Ridge, behind the bookstore and Lofts building

When: Friday October 1st at 6:30pm

Please consider joining us for the official launch party for Paige Crutcher’s new book The Orphan Witch, coming soon from St. Martin’s Griffin publishers. Pick up your copy of the book at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop, along with a free witchy cocktail, and walk a few steps behind the bookstore to the beautiful Bridge at Swann Ridge where you will be treated to a short live reading from the book. Paige will hang out for awhile after the reading to visit, chat, answer questions, and sign books.

Preorder your copy of the book to pick up at the event HERE.

About the Book

Mystical, magical, and wildly original...If Alice Hoffman and Sara Addison Allen had a witchy love child, she would be Paige Crutcher. Do not miss this beautifully realized debut!"--- JT Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of Her Dark Lies on The Orphan Witch.

A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found.

Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she’s around—changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight—and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates. Working odd jobs and always keeping her suitcases half-packed, Persephone is used to moving around, leaving one town for another when curiosity over her eccentric behavior inevitably draws unwanted attention.


After an accidental and very public display of power, Persephone knows it’s time to move on once again. It’s lucky, then, when she receives an email from the one friend she’s managed to keep, inviting her to the elusive Wile Isle. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. However, upon arrival, Persephone quickly discovers that Wile is no ordinary island. In fact, it just might hold the very things she’s been searching for her entire life.


Answers. Family. Home.


And some things she did not want. Like 100-year-old curses and an even older family feud. With the clock running out, love might be the magic that saves them all.

About the Author

Paige Crutcher is the author of THE ORPHAN WITCH. Her work appears in multiple anthologies and online publications, and she is a former Southern Correspondent for Publishers Weekly. She is an artist and yogi, and when not writing, she prefers to spend her time trekking through the forest with her children, hunting for portals to new worlds.

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Serenbe Neighbor Book Launch: Both Sides of the Old Road with Nicholas & Andrew Widener
May
22
12:00 PM12:00

Serenbe Neighbor Book Launch: Both Sides of the Old Road with Nicholas & Andrew Widener

Please stop by Hills & Hamlets Bookshop between noon and 3pm on Saturday May 22nd to help our friend and neighbor Nicholas Widener and his brother Andrew celebrate the launch of their new book, Both Sides of the Old Road. This is a "drop-in" event, and Nicholas and Andrew will be available to sign books, chat, and share more with you about their work.

About the book:

I use photo-genealogy in Both Sides of the Old Road to excavate my familial roots. Combining archival letters, old family photographs, and objects with my own portraits and landscapes, I endeavor to tell the story of my ancestral origins in the Black Belt region of Alabama. My brother, Andrew Widener, is a genealogist at Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Washington, D.C. He has researched, collected, and identified information and oddities about our family for over a decade. Halfway through this odyssey, I began to ride along with him to the Black Belt where the stories he gathered turned into visual imagery.

William Christenberry’s photographic ruminations on place and time have had a lasting impact on me. He was born in the Black Belt, not far from where I shot most of this work. Other great photographers like Walker Evans and Andrew Moore have tread there, too. The work of eminent Southerners like Sally Mann, William Eggleston, Harper Lee, and Jeff Nichols have had an influence on me and my topophilia for the South.

All in all, I seek to situate and understand my place among the generations that came before and the generations yet to come by searching for the ties that bind them together.

Nicholas Widener is the director of film studies and the head cross country coach at Woodward Academy in College Park, GA. He graduated from SCAD with an MFA in photography in 2019. He and his wife Leslie are Serenbe residents.

Andrew Widener is a genealogist at Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Washington, D.C. He has researched his family history for over a decade.

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An Evening With AIR Serenbe Resident Jessica Ingram, New Book Release
Jan
9
6:00 PM18:00

An Evening With AIR Serenbe Resident Jessica Ingram, New Book Release

Join Hills & Hamlets Bookshop in welcoming AIR Serenbe current resident artist Jessica Ingram for an artist talk & book release celebration. Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-air-serenbe-resident-jessica-ingram-new-book-release-tickets-87441163875

About the Book
At first glance, Jessica Ingram’s landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places are interspersed with oral histories from victims’ families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera.
With Road Through Midnight , the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transforms the way we regard both what has happened and what’s happening now—as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.

About the Artist
Jessica Ingram works with multi-media and the archive to explore the ethos of communities, and notions of progress and resistance in American culture. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA from California College of Arts & Crafts in San Francisco. Ingram received the Santa Fe Prize for her work Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, a distinguished fellowship from the Hambidge Center for the Arts, and is a recurring Visiting Artist and Scholar at Columbus State University in Georgia since 2013. Her work has been featured in California Sunday Magazine, The New York Times, Oxford American, Vice and Wired Magazine. Her traveling solo show Road Through Midnight was recently exhibited at the National Civil Rights Museum, Tennessee State Museum, and Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies.
Ingram was included in Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum, traveling to the Speed Museum. Her collaborative projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and installed permanently at Oakland International Airport, Birmingham International Airport, and Oakland Museum of California.

Ingram’s book Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press in 2019 and will be available for sale during the event, or you can reserve a copy through eventbrite beforehand. Complimentary refreshments will be provided during the event courtesy of AIR Serenbe.

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Becoming a Dangerous Woman: An Afternoon With Pat Mitchell Presented by Tena Clark & Michelle LeClair
Dec
15
1:00 PM13:00

Becoming a Dangerous Woman: An Afternoon With Pat Mitchell Presented by Tena Clark & Michelle LeClair

Please join friends of Hills & Hamlets Bookshop Tena Clark and Michelle LeClair in welcoming Pat Mitchell to the community as part of the promotional tour for her newly released book Becoming a Dangerous Woman. Please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-a-dangerous-woman-an-afternoon-with-pat-mitchell-tickets-84774088581

ABOUT THE BOOK

Becoming a Dangerous Woman is an intimate and inspiring memoir and call to action from Pat Mitchell — groundbreaking media icon, global advocate for women's rights, and co-founder and curator of TEDWomen.

THE DANGEROUS WOMAN BENEFIT COLLECTION

We’ve created a benefit collection to increase awareness of and support for the creative design and entrepreneurial enterprises led by women. To offer an opportunity to ‘purchase with purpose’ as the proceeds support the work of organizations profiled in the book.

Dangerous times call for dangerous women.

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Attune by Living Wholly: A Transformational Weekend
Nov
8
to Nov 11

Attune by Living Wholly: A Transformational Weekend

Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is delighted to be the official bookseller for the upcoming Attune weekend in Serenbe! Details about the event, below.

Attune is a transformational weekend full of inspirational keynote speakers, movement classes, healing workshops, immersive experiences, and practical tools to support the journey of awakening. The weekend is filled with opportunities to connect, attune and get inspired by the phenomenal speakers, Nature and human connection.

November 8-11, 2019
The Inn at Serenbe

Tickets for Attune are on sale now. There is an option for all types of wellness-seekers, including single day passes, weekend passes, and all-inclusive packages that include a stay at The Inn at Serenbe. Early bird pricing is available now through March 13. 

See the full schedule, learn more, and purchase tickets here. For more information, contact Jenny Emblom Castro, jenny@livingwholly.co, 310.795.5366.

Confirmed speakers to-date include Elizabeth Gilbert, renowned author of global phenomenon Eat, Pray, Love, Dr. Joe Dispenza, expert in supernatural neuroscience, Ayurvedic nutritionist Sahara Rose, New York Times science journalist Max Lugavere, spiritual guide and healer Shaman Durek,  Facilitator + Teacher on the topic of relationships and intimacy John Wineland, meditation and mindfulness expert Light Watkins, transformative movement teacher,Taryn Toomey, yoga and meditation mentor Caley Alyssa, mindfulness based psychotherapist Lena Franklin and many more world-renowned presenters. The event will also feature live music by soulful duo, Aykanna.

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An Evening With Richard Louv, Book Launch for Our Wild Calling
Nov
7
5:30 PM17:30

An Evening With Richard Louv, Book Launch for Our Wild Calling

Join author Richard Louv and co-hosts Laura Turner Seydel and Steve Nygren for the launch of Louv's new book Our Wild Calling.

Tickets are required. Paid tickets guarantee a seat and a copy of the book. Free tickets may be standing room only. Complimentary refreshments (beer, wine, tea, water) will be provided. Tickets are available HERE.

Over a decade ago, Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods identified the growing generational gap between children and the natural world. That book introduced the term “nature-deficit disorder,” which has entered the language and helped launch an international movement to connect children, their families and communities to nature.

Now, after four years of research, Louv defines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling explores the powerful and mysterious bond between humans and other animals, how it can transform our lives — and how it can save theirs. He makes the case that deepening our connection with other animals, both wild and domestic, can improve our mental, physical and spiritual lives; serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness; and is essential to the preservation of life on Earth.

5:30pm Reception

6pm Author Talk and Q&A

7pm Book Signing

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Talk with John Lanier: Exec Director, Ray C Anderson Foundation
Nov
2
4:00 PM16:00

Talk with John Lanier: Exec Director, Ray C Anderson Foundation

Hills & Hamlets Bookshop will be the bookseller for this talk with John Lanier, Executive Director of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, and co-author of the new edition of Ray Anderson’s now environmental business classic work Mid-Course Correction. For details about the event, and to RSVP, please visit https://serenbe.com/events/talk-with-john-lanier-exec-director-ray-c-anderson-foundation

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Artisinal Small Batch Brewing with Amber Shehan of Pixie's Pocket
Sep
27
6:00 PM18:00

Artisinal Small Batch Brewing with Amber Shehan of Pixie's Pocket

Please join Hills & Hamlets Bookshop as we welcome author Amber Shehan (from the popular website & blog "Pixie's Pocket") as she guides you through the steps it takes to start a small batch of mead or cider, how to know when it is ready to bottle, and the basics of the bottling process. This demonstration is great for anyone interested in learning to brew mead, from beginners to advanced. This is a ticketed event, and each participant will receive one copy of Amber's new book Artisinal Small Batch Brewing, a detailed brewing demonstration, and a tasting of the elderberry rosehip wine or maple cider recipes from the book. Tickets are available HERE

As we brew a one-gallon batch of mead and cider together, Amber will go in-depth into the main ingredients to make a simple brew. We'll also cover yeast nutrients, how to add fruit and herbs to the process, and other things that sound more complex than they are. Don't worry! It's easy. We'll have you brewing in no time!

You are invited to bring an edible flower or aromatic herb from your garden if you want to contribute to the mead or cider - not required, but it can make things fun!

Bio:
Amber Shehan is the founder of PixiesPocket.com and the author of Artisanal Small-Batch Brewing (June 2019). Often called "Pixie," she can be found outdoors in the garden, rose bushes, and honeysuckle vines, foraging and making friends with the bees and spiders. Amber lives in Alexander, NC with her husband and daughter, a cat, a dog, and a mess o'chickens. https://www.pixiespocket.com

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Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens
Sep
21
5:30 PM17:30

Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens

Please join us for an talk and presentation with Staci Catron and Mary Ann Eady, the authors behind the book Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens. This event is free though we request you RSVP with free tickets through our eventbrite page HERE. We also encourage attendees to select the paid ticket option which comes with a copy of Seeking Eden.

Saturday September 21st in Gainey Hall in Selborne’s Grange Hamlet, just across the street from Hills & Hamlets Bookshop.

5pm-5:30pm casual meet & greet with wine/beer/refreshments

5:30pm-6:15pm talk and visual aid presentation

6:15pm-6:30pm Q&A

6:30pm Book signing

About the book:

Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication Garden History of Georgia, 1733–1933. Seeking Eden records each garden’s evolution and history as well as each garden’s current early twenty-first-century appearance, as beautifully documented in photographs. Dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place–era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses, and an urban conservation garden.

Seeking Eden explores the significant impact of the women who envisioned and nurtured many of these special places; the role of professional designers, including J. Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, William C. Pauley, Robert B. Cridland, the Olmsted Brothers, Hubert Bond Owens, and Clermont Lee; and the influence of the garden club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century.

About the authors:

Staci L. Catron is the director of the Cherokee Garden Library, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, and a past president of the Southern Garden History Society.

Mary Ann Eaddy retired from the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources where she worked first as manager of the technical services unit and then as special assistant to the director. She also taught a graduate course in preservation planning in the Heritage Preservation Program at Georgia State University.

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Serenbe Fellows Talk and Book Signing with Juliet Cutler for Among The Maasai
Sep
14
4:00 PM16:00

Serenbe Fellows Talk and Book Signing with Juliet Cutler for Among The Maasai

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Please join Hills & Hamlets Bookshop and Serenbe Fellows for a talk with author and educator Juliet Cutler as we celebrate the release of her new memoir Among the Maasai.

This event is offsite and will be held at the Chattahoochee Hills Charter School at 9670 Rivertown Rd. Chattahoochee Hills, GA 30213.

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The Georgia Book & Paper Fair at the Decatur Book Festival
Aug
31
to Sep 1

The Georgia Book & Paper Fair at the Decatur Book Festival

We will be an exhibiting vendor under our sister store’s name Underground Books. Event details below:

Please consider joining us for the 2019 Georgia Book and Paper Fair during the AJC-Decatur Book Festival! Find us in the Ebster Recreation Center gymnasium (at the corner of Electric Avenue and Trinity in downtown Decatur) on Saturday August 31st from 10am to 6pm and Sunday September 1st from noon to 6pm. Specialist dealers in rare books and paper ephemera will be exhibiting thousands of items for sale.

Hosted by the Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association, we are excited to continue this unique addition to the AJC-Decatur Book Festival. The Georgia Book & Paper Fair is sure to be a source for exciting "finds" for the thousands of book browsing bibliophiles in attendance.

Best of all -- entrance is FREE!

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Women's Voices Book Club
Jul
10
7:00 PM19:00

Women's Voices Book Club

Women’s Voices Book Club Meeting July 10th at 7pm

Book selection: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

Meeting location at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop

Author Kathleen Rooney will be skyped in for an conversation with the book club members.

Contact coordinator Megan Bell at meganpbell@gmail.com if interested in attending.

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