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]
Literature
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]
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]
Author Event: Emily St. John Mandel “The Lola Quartet”
Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he’s fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It’s early 2009, and the world has gone dark very [read more]
Author Event: Terry Brooks “Wards of Faerie”
Seven years after the conclusion of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks at last revisits one of the most popular eras in the legendary epic fantasy series that [read more]
Author Event: Dav Pilkey “Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers”
Hold on to your underpants! Please come meet popular children’s author Dav Pilkey. His Captain Underpants series is a crack-up kids love. New is Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers, the ninth [read more]
Author Event: Tess Gerritsen “Last to Die”
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]
Author Event: Michael Perry “Visiting Tom”
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]
Author Event: “Shadow Show” with Sam Weller and Mort Castle
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]
Author Event: Matthew Gavin Frank “Pot Farm”
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]
Author Event: Jeffrey Brown “Darth Vader and Son”
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]
Author Event: Barbara Royal “The Royal Treatment: A Natural Approach to Wildly Healthy Pets”
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]
Author Event: Carmen Bugan “Burying the Typewriter”
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]
Author Event: Doug Foster “After Mandela”
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]
Author Event: Rabbi Brant Rosen “Wrestling in the Daylight”
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]
Author Event: Jamie Lee Curtis “My Brave Year of Firsts”
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]
Discussion and Book Signing: Rob Miech “The Last Natural”
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]
Author Event: Craig Unger “Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power”
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]
Author Event: John G. Turner “Brigham Young”
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]
Author Event: Lisa Zeidner “Love Bomb”
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]
Author Event: Dennis Drabelle “The Great American Railroad War”
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]
Author Event: D.T. Max “Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story”
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]
Author Event: Phillip Hoose “Moonbird”
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]
Author Event: Paul Auster “Winter Journal”
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]
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: Jamie Lee Curtis “My Brave Year of Firsts”
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]
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]
Kathryn Leigh Scott, Books Signing “Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood”
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, Book Signing “Up All Night”
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]
Author Event: Danica McKellar “Girls Get Curves”
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, Book Signing “Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story”
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, Book Signing “Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible”
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]
Book Signing: Ilchi Lee “The Call of Sedona”
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]
Author Event: Susan Richards Shreve “You Are The Love Of My Life”
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]
Author Event: Joan Walsh “What’s The Matter With White People?”
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]
Author Event: John Kelly “The Graves Are Walking”
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]