4747 West Napoleon Ave, Metairie, LA 7/18/2019 7:00 PM-8:30 PM Four local authors Carolyn Levy, Rene Uzee, Chere Coen and Pam Villagran – talk about their new novels at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event is free of charge and is open to … Author Event! Carolyn Levy, Rene Uzee, Cherie Coen and Pam Villagran
We hope you will join us for a presentation and signing with author Tammy L. Turner featuring DICK WATERMAN: A Life in Blues, her new biography of the renowned manager of Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Buddy Guy, and Bonnie Raitt, who worked with a host of other iconic blues artists. Growing up in an affluent Jewish family … Tammy L. Turner – DICK WATERMAN: A Life in Blues
In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying … Lovejoy Boteler: Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard
Has it really been 50 years since the Miracle Mets won the most unlikely World Series in baseball history? “Every Man” player Ron Swoboda captures the passion and excitement as he rekindles the memories of all baseball fans. Considering their play on the field in their first steps as a franchise in 1962, it remains … Ron Swoboda – HERE’S THE CATCH
7:00 PM-8:30 PM Earl Higgins, author of a new book titled 100 Catholic Things To Do Before You Die,” at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 6, in the Napoleon Room at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event is free of charge and open to the public. According to Higgins, the demands … Author Event! “100 Catholic Things To Do Before You Die” by Earl Higgins
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana’s avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of … Marybeth Lima – Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species
Date: 5/9/2019 Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 8:30 PM Description: Local authors Ingrid Green Adams, Vivian Collins and Hilda Miller will discuss their new books at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 9, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event is free of charge and is open to the public. Ingrid Green Adams, Is … Author Event! Ingrid Green Adams, Vivian Collins and Hilda Miller
Thursday, April 25, 2019 – 6:00pm Octavia Books – 513 Octavia Street – New Orleans, LA 70118 Join us for when Jessie Morgan-Owens presents and signs her new book, GIRL IN BLACK AND WHITE: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement. The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams — a slave girl who looked … Jessie Morgan-Owens – GIRL IN BLACK AND WHITE
April 24th, 6PM-7:30PM Octavia Books 513 Octavia Street (corner of Octavia and Laurel) New Olreans, LA, 70115 Celebrate National Poetry Month with Brad Richard and Elizabeth Gross as they launch their new books. Brad Richard’s collection, Parasite Kingdom, received the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize, selected by editor and poet Leslie McGrat. Elizabeth Gross’s debut collection, this body / that lightning show, … Parasite Kingdom + this body / that lighting show
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM New Orleans JCC, 5342 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans LA, 70115 Please join Octavia Books for a special evening with New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles presenting A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, celebrating the new paperback release. Octavia Books is proud to bring this exciting … Amor Towles – A Gentleman in Moscow
