Location: Washington, DC, USA

Appointed Bishop of the Richmond diocese by Pope Paul VI, Walter F. Sullivan held the office for twenty-nine years. In her detailed account of Sullivan’s life and work, Theroux evokes a warm and humble man, determined to foster social justice by taking a stand against the death penalty, reaching out to the gay community, and making himself a model of compassion.

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Illustrated books have a special way of enriching children’s experience with the printed page, introducing them to both reading and art. Leonard Marcus, author and editor of many books including Show Me a Story and Minders of make-believe, will moderate a panel about the history and future of picture books. Joining the discussion are Neal Porter, editorial director of Neal Porter Books (an imprint of Roaring Brook Press); authors Mac Barnett, Meg Medina, and Jon Scieszka; and author/illustrators Christopher Myers and Laura Vaccaro Seeger. This panel is designed specifically for parents, librarians, teachers, and aspiring authors and illustrators.

A light reception will follow the event and signing. Prints by picture book artists will be available for purchase.

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Please join us for Story Hour on Monday, February 18 at 10:30 a.m. with resident storyteller Mr. Gabe! Mr. Gabe performs nursery rhymes, folk songs, and modern favorites (such as "Yellow Submarine" and "La Bamba") for children, ages zero to six. In 2010, he was voted “Best Performer for Children” by readers of the Takoma Voice and Silver Spring Voice. He recently released his first CD, entitled Play Date. For information about upcoming performances, bookings, and the CD, visit
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A veteran of some forty years in public office, at both the state and federal levels, Senator Snowe built a reputation as a moderate always ready to work for bipartisan compromise. But with Congress increasingly mired in deadlock and polarization, Snowe, writing out of both frustration with the stalemate and a belief that the system can work, has issued this call for a citizens movement to hold elected officials accountable.

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Sal Mal Lane is an ordinary street where children play, teenagers have crushes, and families squabble and endure. But this is Sri Lanka in the early 1980s, and Freeman’s second novel charts the rising tensions of the Civil War and its profound impact on one neighborhood

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Stephen Hayes - Light on Dark Water
WhenMon, May 20, 7pm – 8pm

Steve Hayes visits us to chat about his debut novel, Light on Dark Water.

Corbett Hale knows the sea is an inscrutable lady-one day calm, the next a fury. But as he sets sail with a crew of three from the bay waters of the Chesapeake, heading to the Bahamas, Corbett cannot know what awaits them as he guides his beloved sloop, Gilead, into the Atlantic. Sailing south, he confronts haunted memories from a time he spent on another water, in another part of the world. Even as the violence of the sea tests his courage and skill as a sailor, he finds himself both drawn back into the turbulence of the Vietnam War and pulled forward into a struggle for survival.

Light on Dark Water tells the story not only of a battle for survival at sea, but of one man's fight with his own sense of incompleteness, anger, and remorse, as he attempts to come to terms with the raw interplay of loss and grace that is the essence of life itself.

A graduate of Dartmouth College and Georgetown University, Hayes grew up sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. He served as a naval officer in Vietnam for two years before beginning a civilian career in public and international affairs. Hayes, now retired, lives in Alexandria, Virginia. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

In the first volume of the first authorized biography of the late British Prime Minister, Moore, a veteran journalist and political columnist, draws on extensive interviews with his subject, her family, and her associates, as well as on letters, diaries, and other documents. The result is a detailed look at Thatcher’s public and personal life, from her childhood to her entry in Parliament in 1959, from her bold challenge to Edward Heath for Tory leadership to her victory over Argentina in the Falklands War, from her difficult position as a woman in a traditionally male role to her remarkable rapport with Ronald Reagan.

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Our next meeting is Tues, May 21 at 7 pm when we discuss Blue Monday by Nicci French.

"Immensely intelligent and poignantly human, Frieda Klein is a psychotherapist and insomniac who spends her nights walking along the ancient rivers that lie beneath modern London, Frieda stars in a dazzling new crime series in which the terrors of the mind spill over into real life. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday is abducted, Frieda cannot ignore the fact that his photograph perfectly matches the boy one of her patients describes from his fantasies. Before long, Frieda finds herself serving as the reluctant sidekick of Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson at the center of a desperate race to find the kidnapper."

Our Mystery/Suspense Book Group meets at 7 pm the THIRD Tuesday of every month. (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Theroux first went to Africa in his twenties as a Peace Corps volunteer. He’s returned many times since, chronicling his expeditions in numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Now, calling it his final visit, Theroux recounts a 2500-mile trip through Southern Africa from Cape Town through Namibia to Angol

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In the sequel to Tuesdays at the Castle, Princess Celie and her brother Rolf continue to discover the secrets of Castle Glower, where rooms trade places and floor plans redesign themselves. This time, the surprises include a mysterious egg and a room filled with weapons. Ages 9 - 11.

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Noah Feldman (Cool War)

Noah Feldman is Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard University and the author of five previous books, most recently Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. A Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, Feldman has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a law degree from Yale, and a doctorate in Islamic thought from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He clerked for Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. In 2003, he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of an interim constitution. He has been a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and is a columnist for Bloomberg View. (added from Random House)… (more)