The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American readers, complete with a never-before-published short story Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that Happened” five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family, purples who hope to redden up their progeny’s color-viewing potential with Eddie’s gene stock. Their obnoxious daughter Violet is confident the marriage won’t hamper her style for too long because Eddie is about to go on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and he’s pretty sure to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, Eddie is engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic, unpredictable, and occasionally deadly Jane Grey. Time is running out for Eddie and Jane to figure out how to save themselves. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole—some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens. New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades of Grey series with this wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly satiric adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest to survive—even if it means upending their entire society in the process. Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in […]

Friday Night Concerts + Movies Each Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a live concert or movie on the Phil H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol is allowed to be brought inside the venue. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. May 10 Liquid Pleasure May 17 Dalton Davis May 31 Too Much Sylvia All concerts start at 7 pm (unless otherwise indicated below). Event lawn opens one hour before concert start time. Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312

Get your tools ready for action! ✂️ They’re coming back after such great from y’all. Tired of battling dull blades and ineffective tools? We’re bringing Keen Edge Mobile Sharpening to Pittsboro Feed on Saturday, May 11th, 2024 from 10-2pm! ⏰ Bring your old knives, scissors, gardening tools, and anything else needing a fresh edge. Keen Edge will sharpen them on-site while you shop! ️ Don’t miss this chance to revive your tools and tackle any project with ease. See you there!

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Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 5/15 – Steve Hobbs Trio 5/22 – Dave Quick Jazz 5/29 – Lauren Meehan 6/5 – Combo Platter 6/12 – Tony Galiani Jazz Quartet 6/19 – Lauren Meehan 6/26 – Dave Quick Jazz 7/3 – Steve Hobbs Trio

Join the Chatham Chamber of Commerce for a Meet & Greet event where you can personally welcome Tyler Bryant, our dynamic new President & CEO, to the Chatham community! 🗓️ Date: Thursday, May 16th 🕓 Time: 4:00-6:30 PM 📍 Location: Carolina Brewery & Grill This is your chance to connect, network, and share ideas with our new Chamber CEO as we embark on an exciting new chapter together. Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet the driving force behind the future of our Chamber! Complimentary refreshments will be served.

Black Cake meets The Most Fun We Ever Had in this triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all its forms, following four estranged siblings—April, May, June, and July—whose lives collide in the lead-up to a family wedding, when new clues surface about their long-missing father. From the author of Indie Next Pick The Work Wife. April, May, June, and July Barber don’t have much in common anymore. An upcoming family wedding will place the four siblings in the same room for the first time in years. But shortly before, when April spots their father who went missing while serving overseas a decade ago, their reunion becomes entirely more complicated. While the siblings’ search for the truth about their father forces them back into each other’s lives, it also intensifies their private dramas. April loves her husband, but seeks excitement outside their marriage. May had big dreams for the future, but she’s still stuck living at home. June is eager to marry her girlfriend, so why does she need a drink at every wedding-related event? And then there’s baby brother July, whose unrequited love for his straight roommate has him more confused than ever. Confronting the past together, April, May, June, and July will find not only answers about their father, but new romance, hope, and understanding as they learn to embrace the beauty of their shared history. Alison B. Hart is the author of The Work Wife. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Joyland Magazine, Literary Hub, and The Missouri Review, among others. She is the co-founder of the long-running reading series at Pete's Candy Store and received her MFA from The New School. Raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in North Carolina with her family. Visit her website, alisonbhart.com, or […]

Friday Night Concerts + Movies Each Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a live concert or movie on the Phil H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol is allowed to be brought inside the venue. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. May 10 Liquid Pleasure May 17 Dalton Davis May 31 Too Much Sylvia All concerts start at 7 pm (unless otherwise indicated below). Event lawn opens one hour before concert start time. Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312

Learn how to paint your pet with step-by-step instructions! Staggered start times are 10:30am or 1:30pm, (each time slot is for about 2 hours). Tickets are $55 and cover materials + 1 drink. OR for $75, someone can paint + donate a seat to a Veteran for them to paint. Register now: https://www.hannahgracestudios.online/events Hosted by Hannah Grace Studios

The Shortest Guide to College Admissions Jane S. Gabin packs invaluable advice into a readable, accessible book addressed to the most important person in the college admissions process-the high school student. Parents will benefit from her years of experience and candor, as well. Jane S. Gabin received her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As senior assistant director of admissions at UNC, her duties included directing counselor relations and international admissions. She then moved to New York City, where she worked as a college advisor at private secondary schools, chiefly at the United Nations International School. Currently she runs her own educational advisory service in Chapel Hill, NC.

Featuring poetry readings from the four central region emerging poets and the central region Distinguished Poet Maria Rouphail. This mentoring program links established poets in three regions of North Carolina with emerging poets, enabling them to develop and perfect their lyric craft. Students in middle school, high school, and college, and adults not in school applied to work with a Distinguished Poet during the winter months. 2023-2024's Distinguished Poets are: Melinda Thomsen in the eastern region, Maria Rouphail in the central region, and Mildred Kiconco Barya in the western region. The resulting poems are being presented at group and individual readings like this one at venues across the state. An anthology of these poems entitled Witness: Appalachia to Hatteras will be published by the North Carolina Poetry Society in late 2024. Maria Rouphail, Central Region is Senior Lecturer Emerita from North Carolina State University, where she taught courses in World Literature and served as an academic adviser to the English major. She is Poetry Editor of Main Street Rag. Her third poetry collection, All the Way to China, was a finalist in both the University of Wisconsin Brittingham Poetry and the Blue Light Press competitions. Her earlier collections are Apertures and Second Skin. In 2022, NC Poet Laureate Emeritus, Joseph Bathtanti awarded Rouphail First Place in the NCPS Poet Laureate competition. In 2023, she was awarded in both the Randall Jarrell and the Prime Magazines contests. A six-time Pushcart nominee, she lives in Raleigh.

Join the Pittsboro United Methodist Church this Saturday for a BBQ and fried chicken dinner and entertainment.

We need more cicadas!! Kids’ Sewing Sunday, May 19th at 1pm. Come make a cuddly bug to celebrate this momentous season. Parents come enjoy beautiful downtown PBO while the kids get creative.

Join Pittsboro United Methodist Church to help fight hunger.

In this deliciously tender, steamy romance, a burned-out musician swaps city life for cottage country only to find that slowing down means a racing heart, thanks to the grumpy guy next door… When Willow Moore’s lifelong dream of music stardom goes bust, she’s burned out enough to need drastic change. As in, she’s trading her Brooklyn apartment for two months in the Connecticut countryside. Soon she’s baking bread, spending Saturdays at the farmer’s market, and stopping to smell the roses, but some things in her new #cottagecore life aren’t so pleasant. Like her landlord, former chef Reid Harrell. As grouchy and reserved as Willow is chatting and outgoing, Reid is an annoyingly sexy “keep out” sign. If only Willow was good at staying away. Something about Reid, a sliver of pain poking through that flinty façade, makes her wonder if they’re more alike than she thought. Reid once chased success too, and found it—at a price. Now all he wants is to be left alone to garden, but Willow's not giving up so quick, especially when one of their heated arguments sparks an idea for a song. Her renewed creativity awakens them both, hurling them into a passionate vortex neither expects. As the summer winds down, Willow is forced to confront her needs, wants, and desires, not to mention Reid, the hardest puzzle of all to figure out. Maybe it’s time for the city girl to stop dwelling on dreams dashed and start following her heart—no matter where it might take her… Karen Booth is a Midwestern girl transplanted to the South, raised on ’80s music and way too many readings of Forever… by Judy Blume. Married to her real-life Jake Ryan, she has two amazing kids with epic hair, a very bratty cat and loves getting up before dawn […]

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 5/22 – Dave Quick Jazz 5/29 – Lauren Meehan 6/5 – Combo Platter 6/12 – Tony Galiani Jazz Quartet 6/19 – Lauren Meehan 6/26 – Dave Quick Jazz 7/3 – Steve Hobbs Trio

Join us at The Plant on May 24th, 2024 for another night market event brought to you by Reclamation Vintage and The Plant. Enjoy live music, food, vendors, adult beverages, fairy hair, and so much more!

Friday Night Concerts + Movies Each Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a live concert or movie on the Phil H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol is allowed to be brought inside the venue. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. May 24: Barbie All concerts start at 7 pm (unless otherwise indicated below). Event lawn opens one hour before concert start time. Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312