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,…
Martin Walker: The Body in the Castle Well: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
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…
Marybeth Lima – Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species
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…
Lacy M. Johnson – The Reckonings: Essays
This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer ofThe Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution. In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her…
Allison Levy: House of Secrets: Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
Thursday May 16th 6:00pm-7:30pm 2727 Prytania St, New Orleans, LA 70130 This book tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence…
New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day 2019
Independent bookstores are not just stores—they are community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal…
Helen Ellis in Conversation With Julia Reed: Southern Lady Code: Essays
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…
River Jordan: Confessions of a Christian Mystic
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…
Gwendolyn Womack: The Time Collector
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…
Lydia Fitzpatrick – Lights All Night Long Book Signing
Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. But all is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed by the fate of…