Book Signing: Robert Leleux “The Living End”
The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told with sparkling wit and warmth, The Living [read more]
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Book Signing: Junot Diaz “This Is How You Lose Her”
Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life [read more]
Book Signing: Drew Jubera “Must Win”
Nestled amid cotton, pine and swamps, the Deep South outpost of Valdosta, Georgia has long drawn pilgrims from across the country to the home of the winningest high school football team in America. Christened by [read more]
Book Signing: Lauren Conrad “Starstruck”
Are the stars of The Fame Game ready for their close-ups? Madison Parker has discovered that not all publicity is good publicity. After turning herself in for stealing some bling, the reality star is stuck [read more]
Author Event: Nate Berkus “The Things That Matter”
Decorater/Designer Nate Berkus joins us for a discussion of his book The Things That Matter. His book shares stories from his life, introduces us to people who influenced him and opens up about the remarkable [read more]
Book Signing: Cliff Graubart “The Curious Vision of Sammy Levitt and Other Stories”
Tickets available either online or in person at A Cappella Books, 208 Haralson Ave NE (at the corner of Dekalb Ave) in Inman Park. Individual tickets: $28 (includes a signed copy of The Curious Vision [read more]
Book Signing: Jeffrey Toobin “The Oath”
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider’s account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of [read more]
Book Signing: George Singleton “Stray Decorum”
My dog Tapeworm Johnson needed legitimate veterinary attention. It had been two years since she received annual shots. I read somewhere that an older dog can overdose on all these vaccinations, and I have found—I [read more]
Book Signing: Ray Glier “How the SEC Became Goliath”
Size matters. That’s why the SEC is Goliath…because the Southeastern Conference, top to bottom, has better players, better coaches, better stadiums, better bank accounts, better weather, and what else, bigger players. Six straight years the [read more]
Author Event: Carla Hall “Cooking With Love”
Comfort food never tasted so good! Carla Hall is co-host of ABC’s daily lifestyle series The Chew. Carla first won the hearts of fans nationwide on Bravo’s Top Chef. When she returned for Top Chef [read more]
Book Signing: Peter Criss “Makeup To Breakup”
Legendary founding KISS drummer Peter “Catman” Criss has lived an incredible life in music, from the streets of Brooklyn to the social clubs of New York City to the ultimate heights of rock ’n’ roll [read more]
Author Event: E.L. James “Fifty Shades Trilogy”
Now available as a three-volume paperback boxed set, E L James’s New York Times #1 bestselling trilogy has been hailed by Entertainment Weekly as being “in a class by itself.” Beginning with the GoodReads Choice [read more]
Author Event: Kirk Hammett “Too Much Horror Business”
Not only is Kirk Hammett the lead guitarist for Metallica, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, but he’s also the curator of one of the world’s finest collections of monster-movie [read more]
Book Signing: Rosie Pope “Mommy IQ”
Rosie Pope, pregnancy expert, maternity fashion designer, and star of Bravo’s hit show Pregnant in Heels offers an all-encompassing guide to pregnancy. What’s your Mommy IQ? Every mom-to-be wants a perfect, healthy pregnancy. But as [read more]
J.K. Rowling in conversation with Ann Patchett
“J.K. Rowling will do just one live appearance in the US to promote her new book “The Casual Vacancy.” This will be the “Harry Potter’ author’s first novel aimed at adult readers. Rowling will participate [read more]
Book Signing: Daphene Jones “Our Southern Breeze”
As the fraternal twin of Deborah (Short) Hall (from Same Kind of Different as Me), I knew her like no one else could. And the inspiring story I share in Our Southern Breeze is like [read more]
Meet Uggie! “Uggie: My Story”
Dear Reader: Wow! Bow wow! It’s been a wild ride—wilder even than learning to water-ski or skateboard. I’m so famous now that The New York Times plugged my autobiography. “Uggie will bark all in a [read more]
Author Event: T.I. Harris “Trouble & Triumph”
Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist, music producer, and actor T.I. and his bestselling celebrity collaborator, David Ritz, continue the explosive story of Power and Beauty that began in the street-lit epic Power & Beauty. When his [read more]
Author Event: Brent Weeks “The Blinding Knife”
Meet New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks who will discuss and sign his second book from the ‘Lightbringer’ series. The first book launched in August 2010 with The Black Prism. Gavin Guile is dying. [read more]
Author Event: Lara Parker “Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch”
Dark Shadows’s popular characters, Barnabas Collins and Angelique, were eternally bound by love and hate. Meet actress Lara Parker, Angelique herself, for a discussion and signing. Dark Shadows continues with the full measure of spellbinding [read more]
Author Event: Shirley Sherrod “Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear”
Sherrod sets the record straight on her forced resignation from the Department of Agriculture in 2010 for alleged reverse racist comments she made at an NAACP event. Reading and signing. In the summer of 2010, [read more]
Author Event: Michael Cartwright “Believable Hope: Five Essential Elements to Beat Any Addiction”
In Believable Hope, Michael Cartwright shares his personal struggles, his recovery process, and the approach that has caused dramatic transformation with clients ranging from those living on the street to celebrities and everyone in-between. Join [read more]
Author Event: Michael Ennis “The Malice of Fortune”
Michael Ennis, author of The Duchess of Milan and Byzantium, joins us to discuss and sign his latest historical thriller The Malice of Fortune. Leonardo da Vinci and Niccola Machiavelli team with a courtesan to [read more]
Author Event: Rick Santorum “American Patriots”
The United States of America was founded and established by ordinary citizens just like you and me. In their struggle for independence, these heroic men and women willingly shed their blood, sweat, and tears—often sacrificing [read more]
Author Event: Kathy Reichs “Bones Are Forever”
Kathy Reichs, #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX televison hit Bones, is at her brilliant best in a riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan—a story of infanticide, murder, and [read more]
Author Event: Laura Russell “The Gluten-Free Asian Kitchen”
For the estimated three million Americans suffering from Celiac disease, wheat allergies, and severe gluten sensitivities, Asian food is usually off-limits because its signature ingredients—noodles, soy sauce, and oyster sauce—typically contain wheat. In the Gluten-Free [read more]
Author Event: Andrew Porter “In Between Days”
From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of choices and doubts [read more]
Author Event: Kristen Iversen “Full Body Burden”
In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, as well as nuclear disasters in recent years at nuclear power plants and weapons sites such as Chernobyl in the Ukraine, the Mayak facility in Russia, Rocky [read more]
Author Event: William Gibson “Distrust That Particular Flavor”
Though best known for his fiction, William Gibson is as much in demand for his cutting-edge observations on the world we live in now. Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York [read more]
Author Event: Adam Johnson “The Orphan Master’s Son”
When I arrived at Pyongyang’s Sunan Airport a few years ago, my head was still spinning from a landing on a runway lined with cattle, electric fences and the fuselages of other jets whose landings [read more]
Author Event: Carl Rollyson “Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews”
A biography of the great noir actor who perfected the male mask of steely impassivity Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William [read more]
Author Event: Elizabeth Gregory “Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood”
Over the past three decades, skyrocketing numbers of women have chosen to start their families in their late thirties and early forties. In 2005, ten times as many women had their first child between the [read more]
Author Event: Andrew Porter “In Between Days”
From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of choices and doubts [read more]
Author Event: Shannon Hale “Palace of Stone”
Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare [read more]
Author Event: Deni Y. Béchard “Cures for Hunger”
At once an extraordinary family story and a highly unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man, this singular, deeply affecting memoir, is about Bechard’s quest to uncover his father’s past as a bank [read more]
Author Event: Jessica Shirvington “Entice”
The hotly anticipated follow-up to “Embrace” ramps up the captivating combination of angel mythology, forbidden romance, and intense action. Every day Violet Eden wonders whether she made the right choice. She still doesn’t fully understand [read more]
Author Event: James Dashner “Infinity Ring Book 1: A Mutiny in Time”
Scholastic’s next multi-platform mega-event begins here! History is broken, and three kids must travel back in time to set it right! When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the secret of time [read more]
Author Event: Adam McOmber “The White Forest”
In this hauntingly original debut novel about a young woman whose peculiar abilities help her infiltrate a mysterious secret society, Adam McOmber uses fantastical twists and dark turns to create a fast-paced, unforgettable story. Young [read more]
Book Signing: Regis Philbin “How I Got This Way”
Sure, he’s an excitable guy. Sure, he loves to complain. But Regis Philbin loves life . . . and with the wildly unpredictable one he’s led so far, who wouldn’t? After five decades in show [read more]
Author Event: Andrea Cremer “Rift”
Chronicling the rise of the Keepers, this is the stunning prequel to Andrea Cremer’s internationally bestselling Nightshade trilogy! Sixteen-year-old Ember Morrow is promised to a group called Conatus after one of their healers saves her [read more]