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Lovejoy Boteler: Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard

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

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 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

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 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

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 “instant classic” memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would Lacy M. Johnson – The Reckonings: Essays

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 is a day well spent. 2019 Independent Bookstore Day marks the fifth anniversary of celebrating New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day 2019

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 past of any object he touches. A highly skilled psychometric, he uses his talents to Gwendolyn Womack: The Time Collector