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
Join us offsite at Antenna when we help launch author Daniel Brook‘s new book, THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. In THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents … Daniel Brook – THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR
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
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 – 6:00pm Octavia Books – 513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA 70115 When Jane Trowbridge Bertrand turned 60, she was itching for a challenge. Come meet her when she presents her book, YOU STARTED WHAT AFTER 60? Highpointing Across America. ? ?The three Trowbridge sisters had a tradition of doing something noteworthy … Jane T. Bertrand – YOU STARTED WHAT AFTER 60? Highpointing Across America
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
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
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
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
