We are pleased to present Tess Gerritsen, a master of medical suspense and bestselling author. Her books are also known for inspiring TV’s Rizzoli & Isles. New is Last to Die. Please come spend your [read more]
How great to welcome back Michael Perry! The acclaimed author returns with Visiting Tom: A Highway and the Road to Roughneck Grace. It’s the tale of Tom Hartwig, an old-timer best known locally for building [read more]
In honor and celebration of Ray Bradbury, the contributing authors of the new book “Shadow Show” join us at our beloved book store for a magical evening of readings, signings, schmoozings and storytelling that no [read more]
Nothing heals the mind and a marriage quite like medical marijuana. Or at least that’s what Frank considers in his book Pot Farm, a memoir about a the time spent caring for a terminally-ill parent [read more]
There’s a reason this book has been flying off our shelves the past few months. This quirky illustrated book takes a look at what life would have been like if Vader had been an active [read more]
Pet owners throughout the Chicago-area will go wild for the unconventional wisdom and practices of veterinarian Barbara Royal, the woman responsible for the health and happiness of Oprah’s beloved pooches. Royal combines contemporary western medicine [read more]
Come join us for Carmen Bugan’s presentation of her debut memoir Burying the Typewriter. Romanian born Bugan writes with warmth and intelligence of growing up during the dramatic Ceausecu regime in a family of political [read more]
Doug Foster, a leading authority on South African politics and associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, presents his poignant exposé on the politics of South Africa after the presidency Nelson Mandela, After [read more]
In 2006 Rabbi Brant Rosen, who serves a Jewish Reconstructionist congregation in Evanston, Illinois, launched a blog called Shalom Rav, in which he explored a broad range of social-justice issues. The focus of his writing-and [read more]
Join best-selling author and actress Jamie Lee Curtis for a reading and signing of her new book, My Brave Year of Firsts: Tries, Sighs, and High Fives. The tenth collaboration between Jamie Lee Curtis and [read more]
Barnes & Noble in downtown Washington, D.C., is pleased to welcome author Rob Miech for a discussion and signing of his book The Last Natural, about break-out baseball star Bryce Harper. Please join us! Before [read more]
Barnes & Noble in downtown Washington, DC welcomes author Craig Unger for a discussion and signing of his new book, Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power. Come join us! The epic 2012 [read more]
When Joseph Smith was assassinated in 1844, Brigham Young (1801-1877), an impoverished craftsman from New York, galvanized Smith’s straggling followers and, like Moses, led them to the promised land of the American West. Turner, a [read more]
In the fifth novel from the author of Layover, an ordinary wedding in Haddonfield, New Jersey, is taken hostage by an uninvited guest wearing a wedding dress and wielding a rifle. Who is she? Is [read more]
It hardly sounds like a fair fight: two writers go up against a powerful corporation. The writers were Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris, the corporation was the Central Pacific Railroad; in 1896 Bierce exposed the [read more]
For the first biography of the late David Foster Wallace, Max had access to the writer’s letters , manuscripts, and audio tapes, as well as the cooperation of his family and friends. The result is [read more]
Hoose’s story of science and survival introduces B95, a very special shorebird: this four-ounce creature has traveled the equivalent of the distance of the moon and halfway back. But as with many other species, B95 [read more]
In his second memoir Auster uses the personal form of a journal yet speaks to and of himself as “you,” a rhetorical strategy that draws readers directly into his experiences. And those experiences are the [read more]
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]
Bestselling author and actor Jamie Lee Curtis joins us with her tenth picture book, which celebrates trying new things for the very first time. Young Frankie learns that trying new things is how we grow [read more]
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]
Kathryn Leigh Scott will be signing copies of “Dark Shadows: Return To Collinwood” Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood presents a look back at four decades of the successful spooky soap opera that made sympathetic vampire [read more]
Carol Miller will be making an appearance to sign copies of “Up All Night” The all-American chronicle of radio legend Carol Miller, from her rise to success in a male dominated world, to the rockstars [read more]
Danica McKellar will be making an appearance to sign copies of “Girls Get Curves” New York Times bestselling author and mathematician Danica McKellar tackles all the angles—and curves—of geometry In her three previous bestselling books [read more]
Wyclef Jean, musician & producer, signing copies of “Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story” Wyclef Jean is one of the most influential voices in hip-hop. He rocketed to fame in the 1990s with the Fugees, whose multiplatinum [read more]
Tim Gunn will be making an appearance to sign copies of “Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible” In the beginning there was the fig leaf… and the toga. Crinolines and ruffs. Chain mailand corsets. What do these [read more]
Several million visitors arrive in Sedona, Arizona, each year, captivated by her remarkable scenery, and majestic sunsets. They are also enticed by a hidden quality-the uplifting healing energy and sacred vibrations of Sedona’s spiritual vortexes. [read more]
The latest novel from this prolific Washington writer focuses on Lucy Painter, a children’s book illustrator and single mother of two. Fed up with New York and the married father of her children, she returns [read more]
In this astute social and cultural critique, the MSNBC political analyst and Salon columnist traces the country’s present divisiveness to the 1970s, when the right wing fomented an “us vs. them” ideology, pitting middle-class white [read more]
A seasoned writer on health and history, Kelly looks back to 1845 and the Irish Potato Famine. Potato blight was at the heart of this catastrophe—or was it? Kelly indicts British policies involving religious dogma, [read more]
You are about to read an extraordinary story. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a [read more]
For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship They say behind every great man is a woman. Behind [read more]
The debut of a stunning new voice in fiction— a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse [read more]
For this Writers on Writers event, Sean Hemingway discusses his grandfather’s work A Farwell to Arms, lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years [read more]
Bestselling author Andrew Gross returns with his lastest, 15 Seconds, which Harlan Coben calls, “A total white-knuckle, stay-up-all-night thrill ride!” Henry Steadman didn’t know what was about to hit him when he pulled up to [read more]
Susan Fales-Hill, author of One Flight Up and Always Wear Joy, presents Imperfect Bliss, a witty take on the changes to courtship and love in the modern era, thanks to the evolution of reality television. [read more]
New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein returns with a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York City’s most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents. In her [read more]
A funny and uplifting debut novel from author Charity Shumway, about stumbling through the early years of adulthood while taking (or not taking) the advice of the women who’ve gone before you. From the Publisher [read more]
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, [read more]
Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum [read more]
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