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
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
Thursday, June 6, 2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 An aging art scholar and a visiting student, haunting echoes of France’s colonialist past, and a delicious navarin of lamb–Bruno is back, and his latest case leads him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond by way of a … Martin Walker: The Body in the Castle Well: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Join us when S. A. Lelchuk comes to read and sign his new novel, SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN. Nikki Griffin isn’t your typical private investigator, or your typical bookseller. In her office above her bookstore’s shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men … S. A. Lelchuk – SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN
Please join us when Chris Perondi – the #1 stunt dog tricks master trainer in the country -comes to Octavia Books to present THE BIG BOOK OF TRICKS FOR THE BEST DOG EVER. Besides shring hisown story, Perondi will bring out cover dog Vinny Valentino to performing tricks from this indispensable, step-by-step guide featuring 118 tricks … Chris Perondi – THE BIG BOOK OF TRICKS FOR THE BEST DOG EVER
In these twenty-three raucous essays Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a $795 Burberry trench coat, witnesses a man fake his own death at a party, avoids a neck lift, and finds a black-tie gown that gives her the confidence of a drag queen. While she may … Helen Ellis in Conversation With Julia Reed: Southern Lady Code: Essays
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – 6:00pm Octavia Books – 513 Octavia Street – New Orleans, LA 70115 Please join us when National Book Award-winning author, musician, conservationist, and now New Orleanian Phil Hoose comes to present and sign his new book, ATTUCKS!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City. The true story of the all-black … Phillip Hoose – ATTUCKS!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
Thursday, April 18, 2019 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 With a unique mix of passionate revelation and quirky humor, River Jordan takes us on a journey through her Southern childhood to her present-day life as a novelist. Her stories run the gamut from dancing disco nights and midnight desert rides … River Jordan: Confessions of a Christian Mystic
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Travel through time with the touch of a hand. Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can perceive the past of any object he touches. A highly skilled psychometric, he uses his talents to … Gwendolyn Womack: The Time Collector
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 – 6:00pm Octavia Books – 513 Octavia Street – New Orleans, LA 70115 Please join us to celebrate the launch of Clive Wilson‘s memoir: TIME OF MY LIFE: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans. Wilson will give a reading and presentation, and sign books. And, there will be jazz — with … Clive Wilson – TIME OF MY LIFE: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
