Dec 23, 2013 | Book Store Events
Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including The World Without Us, an international best-seller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Weisman discusses his new book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, a powerful...
Dec 17, 2013 | Book Store Events
A. Scott Berg is the author of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, Goldwyn: A Biography, Kate Remembered, and Lindbergh, for which he received the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Pulitzer Prize respectively. Berg discusses his new book Wilson, the...
Dec 9, 2013 | Book Store Events
Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy (winner of the 1998 National Book Award), and At Weddings and Wakes. McDermott reads from and discusses her new novel Someone, a fully realized portrait of...
Dec 2, 2013 | Book Store Events
Life is Better Rescue joined us in presenting W. Bruce Cameron, the bestselling author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and A Dog’s Purpose, as he discussed his new novel The Dogs of Christmas, a charming and heartwarming holiday tale that...
Nov 25, 2013 | Book Store Events
Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author whose works include Schindler’s List, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, reads from and discusses...
Nov 18, 2013 | Book Store Events
Science writer and essayist Katy Butler discusses her family memoir Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death. When doctors refused to disable her aged, very ill father’s pacemaker, sentencing him to a protracted and agonizing death,...
