Michele Merrick, a certified clinical hypnotherapist, will introduce the science behind hypnosis and give the audience some guidelines and tips on how to use self-hypnosis to control stress levels.

Spencer-Fleming's award winner for Best First Novel is now available in this special value edition. When a newborn is abandoned and a young mother is brutally murdered, Clare Fergusson, the new Episcopal priest in Millers Kill, New York, must pick her way through the town's secrets.

Jerry Zolten, musician, associate professor of communications at Penn State Altoona, and music producer for the Fairfield Four (known to most people from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"), will discuss how he has integrated his passion for American roots music into a writing side business that has included books (Great God Amighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music), cd liner notes, magazine and journal articles, radio programs - including Chimpin' the Blues, a syndicated show on public radio with Robert Crumb, and other outlets.