Garden District Book Shop

John Besh discusses and signs his new book My New Orleans: The Cookbook.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

John Besh discusses and signs his new book My New Orleans: The Cookbook.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

George Rodrigue discusses and signs his book Are You Blue Dog’s Friend.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Walter Isaacson discusses and signs his book American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Santa is coming to the Bookloft for the 1st time. He will be here Sunday December 14th and will host a very special reading of "The Polar Express" at 2:45pm by the fireplace for the kids. You can meet personally with Santa and take pictures. So come all for a perfect afternoon with Santa

Dylan Landis discusses and signs her book Normal People Don’t Live Like This: Novel in Short Stories. Former New Orleanian, Times Picayune medical reporter, and friend to Pia Ehrhardt.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Terry Teachout discusses and signs his book Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. At 5:30PM a solo trumpeter will play, with a reading and discussion beginning at 6:00PM.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Sandra Cordray and Denise Danna discuss and sign their book Nursing in the Storm: Voices From Hurricane Katrina.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Melinda Rainey Thopmson discusses and signs her book I Love You – Now Hush.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

James Nolan discusses and signs his book Perpetual Care: Stories.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

George Rodrigue discusses and signs his book George Rodrigue Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1970-2007.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Rebeca Antoine-editor, Rick Barton, and other contributors discuss and sign their book Voices Rising: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ace Atkins discusses and signs his book Wicked City.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Katie Lee Joel, author and wife of musician – Billy Joel, discusses and signs her book Comfort Table.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Michael Ledet discusses and signs his book Joe Simmer Healthy Slow Cookin'.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Pamela Binnings Ewen discusses and signs her book The Moon in the Mango Tree.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Rick Bragg discusses and signs his book Prince Of Frogtown.

Gilbert King discusses and signs his book Execution of Willie Francis.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ellen discusses and signs her book Dangerous Age.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Marcelle Bienvenu discusses and signs her book Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic And Can You Make A Roux? (Book 2).If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

J. E. Bourgoyne and J. G. Tyburski discusses and sign their book Marietta’s House: a grandmother’s cottage.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

DeLaune Michel discusses and signs her book The Safety of Secrets.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Robert St. John discusses and signs his book New South Grilling: Fresh and Exciting Recipes from the Third Coast.This is a booksigning and a grilling as Robert tempts us with his recipes.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Jonis Agee discusses and signs her book River Wife.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Julia Reed discusses and signs her book House on First Street: My New Orleans Story.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Douglas Preston will give a lecture, slide show, and booksigning for his book

To be sure, some brothers and sisters have relationships that are easy. But oh, some relationships can be fraught. Confusing, too: How can two people share the same parents and turn out to be entirely different?

Marie Brenner's brother, Carl--yin to her yang, red state to her blue state--lived ... (more)in Texas and in the apple country of Washington state, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and (no doubt causing their grandfather Isidor to turn in his grave) attending church, while Marie, a world-class journalist and bestselling author, led a sophisticated life among the "New York libs" her brother loathed.

Riverwalk Books is happy to welcome back Marie Brenner to the Lake Chelan Valley!

Ian McNulty discusses and signs his book Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Jack Pendarvis discusses and signs his book Awesome.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Steven and Rebekah Hren discuss and sign their book Carbon Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit.

John Le Bourgeois discusses and signs his book Art And Forbidden Fruit: Hidden Passion in the Life of William Morris.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Amanda Boyden discusses and signs her Babylon Rolling.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Dominic Massa discusses and signs his book New Orleans Television. Appearing with Dominic will be television personalities Jan & Bob Carr, "Miss Linda" Mintz and Al Shea.

Tom Piazza discusses and signs his book City of Refuge.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Bill Loehfelm discusses and signs his book Fresh Kills.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Safe or sexy? OK - that's a bit of a simplification of the novel, but haven't we always wondered about that decision we didn't make. How would our lives be different? Would it be better or worse? Lionel Shriver has laid out both scenarios and has come up with a fantastic read. As always, ... (more)the group is open to all comers.

Richard Stewart & Michael Ledet discuss and sign their book Joe Simmer’s all American Slow Cookin’.

Scheer, whose profiles of and interviews with U.S. presidents have helped shape journalism history, will be presenting his newest book, THE PORNOGRAPHY OF POWER on Sunday, September 7.

In it, he takes aim at America's defense policy and bloated military budget with a pugnacious and rigorously researched ... (more)polemic, vigorously arguing that war cannot defeat terrorism.

About the Author:
Robert Scheer is currently Editor-in-Chief of Truthdig.com, 2007 Webby Award winner for best political blog.

Between 1964 and 1969, he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. From 1976 to 1993, he served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, writing on diverse topics such as the Soviet Union, arms control, national politics and the military. In 1993 he launched a nationally syndicated column based at the Los Angeles Times, where he was named a contributing editor. That column ran weekly for the next 12 years and is now based at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Scheer can be heard on the political radio program Left, Right and Center on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, CA. He has written seven books, including With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War.
He is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. He has also been a Poynter fellow at Yale, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford.

Event Time is TBA, the time listed is only an estimate. Please check back closer to the signing date.Kathleen Flinn discusses and signs her book Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Kathleen Flinn discusses and signs her book Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Kathleen Flinn discusses and signs her book Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Jack McGwire and Walter Greaves Cowan discuss and sign their book Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

We won the opportunity to host this live webcast of Philip Roth being interviewed by Ben Taylor. Roth will be interviewed for one hour, which includes a segment of answering questions.This interview will be streamed to only stores chosen by the publisher.

DIESEL, A Bookstore is proud to say that former M*A*S*H star, Alan Alda, will be kicking off our event series at the new Brentwood store!! He'll be joining us to share more from his bestselling memoir, THINGS I OVERHEARD WHILE TALKING TO MYSELF, a book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it ... (more)is inclusive. In it, Alda amuses and moves readers with his unique and hilarious meditations on questions great and small. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself is another superb Alan Alda performance, as inspiring and entertaining as the man himself.

2006 honors include his 32nd Emmy nomination and winning his sixth Emmy (!) for his appearance on West Wing (Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series) as well as the National Science Board’s Public Service Award, and his induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He has earned international recognition as an actor, writer and director. In addition to The Aviator, films include Crimes and Misdemeanors, Everyone Says I Love You, Flirting With Disaster, Manhattan Murder Mystery, And The Band Played On, Same Time, Next Year and California Suite, as well as The Seduction of Joe Tynan, which he wrote, and also The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty, A New Life, and Betsy’s Wedding, all of which he wrote and directed.

** Please note that this event will take place in the outdoor courtyard of the new DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood, located at 225 W. 26th St.

For more information, please email events@dieselbookstore.com, or call (310) 456-9961.

Garden District Book Shop host the first group discussion of 2008 One Book, One New Orleans community-wide reading selection, City of Refuge by Tom Piazza. Clic here to read the One Book, One New Orleans misson statement

Dale Curry discusses and signs her book New Orleans Home Cooking.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Dale Curry will discuss and sign her book New Orleans Home Cooking.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Richard Stewart & Michael Ledet discuss and sign their book Joe Simmer’s all American Slow Cookin’.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Brunonia Barry will discuss and sign her book Lace Reader.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ken Wells discusses and signs his book Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Rolf Potts discusses and signs his book Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ken Wells discusses and signs his book Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

October 11
1-3PM
Stacey Meyer discusses and signs her book New Orleans Bites.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Elsa Hahne discusses and signs her book You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ti Adelaide Martin and Tory McPhail discuss and sign their Commander's Wild Side: Bold Flavors for Fresh Ingredients from the Great Outdoors.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Joyce Zonana discusses and signs her book Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exiles Journey.

Bill and Cheryl Jamison discuss and sign their book Around the World in 80 Dinners.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

C. S. Graham (A.K.A. Steven Harris and Candace Proctor) discuss and sign their book Archangel Project.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Sybil Rosen discusses and signs her book Living In The Woods In A Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley..If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Michael Saxer discusses and signs his book Cooking With A Private Chef. Come sample one of the wonderful recipes from the book.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ann B. Morris discusses and signs her book Whitcombe Legacy, Book One: The Vampire Julian.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Irete Lazo discusses and signs her book The Accidental Santera.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Lois Ruby discusses and signs her book Secret of Laurel Oaks.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Lois Ruby discusses and signs her book Secret of Laurel Oaks.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Malibu is excited to welcome legendary surfer and Malibu resident, Laird Hamilton to the store! As one of the most famous big-wave surfers today, Laird is known for his physical and mental toughness when out on the waves, and has achieved worldwide fame for his accomplishments.

He'll ... (more)be joining us to discuss and share from his highly anticipated book, Force of Nature, and open a window into the unique physical regimens, mental strategies, and spiritual beliefs that has allowed him to do what he loves, while being surrounded by family and radiating peak health and fitness.

We'll see you there!

Marcelle Bienvenu & Judy Walker discuss and sign their book Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Wally Lamb discusses and signs his book Hour I First Believed.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Garden District Book Shop, partnering with the Louisiana Children’s Museum – present Laura Numeroff and her book “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake.” This event will be held at the Louisiana Children’s Museum. More information to follow.

Helen Defrance will discuss and sign her book At Home Cafe: Great Food and Fun for Everyone.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Joel Friedman discusses and signs his book Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.In preparing this first full-length biography of Judge Wisdom, Friedman had unrestricted access to Wisdom's voluminous repository ... (more)of personal and professional papers. In addition, he draws on personal interviews with law clerks who served under Judge Wisdom, resulting in a unique, behind-the-scenes account of some of the nation's most important legal decisions: the admission of the first black student to the University of Mississippi, the initiation of contempt proceedings against Mississippi governor Ross Barnett, and the destruction of obstacles that had previously kept black Americans from voting. Friedman also explores Wisdom's political life prior to joining the federal bench, including his pivotal role in resurrecting the Louisiana Republican Party and in securing the Republican presidential nomination for Eisenhower.A compelling account of how a child of privilege from one of America's most socially and racially stratified cities came to serve as the driving force behind the legal effort to end segregation, Champion of Civil Rights offers judicial biography at its best.

Joel Friedman discusses and signs his book Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.In preparing this first full-length biography of Judge Wisdom, Friedman had unrestricted access to Wisdom's voluminous repository ... (more)of personal and professional papers. In addition, he draws on personal interviews with law clerks who served under Judge Wisdom, resulting in a unique, behind-the-scenes account of some of the nation's most important legal decisions: the admission of the first black student to the University of Mississippi, the initiation of contempt proceedings against Mississippi governor Ross Barnett, and the destruction of obstacles that had previously kept black Americans from voting. Friedman also explores Wisdom's political life prior to joining the federal bench, including his pivotal role in resurrecting the Louisiana Republican Party and in securing the Republican presidential nomination for Eisenhower.A compelling account of how a child of privilege from one of America's most socially and racially stratified cities came to serve as the driving force behind the legal effort to end segregation, Champion of Civil Rights offers judicial biography at its best.

Alison Weir discusses and signs her book Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, at the book shop.Garden District Book Shop in partnership with the English Speaking Union (ESU) are sponsoring a dinner at Zea's following the book signing. More details to follow.If ... (more)you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Allison Weir discusses and signs her book Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster, at a dinner in partnership with the English Speaking Union (ESU). Details are forthcoming.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Ages 6 months – 2 years Join Sandra Freisen for a very interactive winter story time with stories, finger plays, and lots of songs. Get suggestions for the just-right books to share with your baby.

Kit Wohl discusses and signs her book New Orleans Classic Gumbos and Soups.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Stephen Rea discusses and signs his book Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Please join DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland for acclaimed author Daniyal Mueenuddin, as he reads and discusses his wonderful new collection of stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Please note that this event starts earlier than normal, at 1 pm. About the Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in ... (more)Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan’s southern Punjab.

Kathryn Stockett discusses and signs her book The Help.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Local author Christina Sunley will host a book launch party for her new book, The Tricking of Freya. A beautifully-written debut novel that deftly weaves together Iceland’s distinctive history, ancient mythology, reverence for language, and passion for genealogy, The Tricking of Freya is a powerful ... (more)exploration of kinship, loss and redemption.About the Author:
Christina Sunley was born in New York City, raised on Long Island, and has lived for the past twenty years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Wesleyan University, got a BFA in Film from New York University, and received her Masters in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She currently works fulltime in the nonprofit sector.Christina grew up hearing stories about her Icelandic relatives and their journey to North America, following the 1875 volcanic eruption that decimated much of Iceland's farmland. To write The Tricking of Freya, she spent several years researching Icelandic history, mythology, and genealogy, including three trips to Iceland and a stint as writer-in-residence at Klaustriđ (The Monastery), a stone farmhouse in a remote area, near where her grandfather had lived.

Orissa Arend discusses and signs her book Showdown in Desire: The Black PanthersTake a Stand in New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

In conjunction with our monthly cookbook club, Susan Tucker with Michael Mizell-Nelson, Sharon Stallworth Nossiter, Patricia Kennedy Livingston, and Karen Trahan Leathem will be signing New Orleans Cuisine. Following the booksigning, the contributors will be addressing the cookbook club in a panel discussion. ... (more)You do not need to be a member of the cookbook club to attend the discussion.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Poppy Tooker discusses and signs her book Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Tim Gautreaux discusses and signs his book The Missing.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Joseph Boyden discusses and signs his book Through Black Spruce.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Joseph Boyden discusses and signs his book Through Black Spruce.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Nevada Barr discusses and signs her book Borderline.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Roulhac Toledano discusses and signs her book Francois Coty: Fragrance, Power, MoneyIf you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

At the height of their career, just off their successful tour with Green Day, Pansy Division dropped by Lambda Rising’s DC bookstore, set up their instruments in our front window, and honored us and our customers with a raucous, rocking free concert. Now founding Pansy Jon Ginoli returns to Lambda ... (more)Rising to meet his fans, sign his new book, and maybe even play a song or two. Join us for this exciting event! The Inside Story of the First Openly Gay Pop-Punk Band Just a few short years ago, the stereotype for gay men involved loving disco and show tunes. Jon Ginoli decided to do something about it. Deflowered is Jon Ginoli’s journey of self-discovery, musical passion, and drive to become the founding member of Pansy Division, the first out and proud queer core punk rock band to hit the semi-big time. Set against the changing decades of music, we follow the band from their inception in San Francisco, to their search for a music label and a permanent drummer to their current status as indie rock icons. We see the highs--touring with Green Day--and the lows--homophobic fans--of striving for acceptance and success in the world of rock. Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs and replete with the requisite tales of sex, drugs, groupies, band fights and label battles, this rollicking memoir is also an impassioned account of staying true to the artistic vision of queer rock'n'roll. Jon Ginoli is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member of Pansy Division, a punk rock band whose cd's include Undressed, Deflowered, Wish I'd Taken Pictures, and more. An Illinois native, he's played both dive bars and arenas, and his favorite color is purple. When not on tour with the band he lives and works in San Francisco.

Judith Kelleher-Schafer discusses and signs her book Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans.>If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Donald Link discusses and signs his book Real Cajun: Rustic Home Cooking from Donald Link's Louisiana.An untamed region teeming with snakes, alligators, and snapping turtles, with sausage and cracklins sold at every gas station, Cajun Country is a world unto itself. The heart of this area—the Acadiana ... (more)region of Louisiana—is a tough land that funnels its spirit into the local cuisine. You can’t find more delicious, rustic, and satisfying country cooking than the dirty rice, spicy sausage, and fresh crawfish that this area is known for. It takes a homegrown guide to show us around the back roads of this particularly unique region, and in Real Cajun, James Beard Award–winning chef Donald Link shares his own rough-and-tumble stories of living, cooking, and eating in Cajun Country.Link takes us on an expedition to the swamps and smokehouses and the music festivals, funerals, and holiday celebrations, but, more important, reveals the fish fries, étouffées, and pots of Granny’s seafood gumbo that always accompany them. The food now famous at Link’s New Orleans–based restaurants, Cochon and Herbsaint, has roots in the family dishes and traditions that he shares in this book.

Stefan Merrill Block discusses and signs his book The Story of Forgetting.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Stefan Merrill Block discusses and signs his book The Story of Forgetting.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Susan Sully presents a slide show and signs her book Southern Cosmopolitan: Redefining Interior Style of the South. The slide show begins at 6:00PM.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Cheryl Wagner discusses and signs her book Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is excited to present another installment of the always enjoyable Poetry Flash series, featuring Carol Moldaw, Julia B. Levine and Ruth L. Schwartz. Join us for a wonderful afternoon!About the Poets:Carol Moldaw's new book, The Widening, calls itself a "lyric novel" and ... (more)is written throughout in numbered, prose poem-size sections. Rikki Ducornet says of it, "In this irresistible evocation of an erotic life, Carol Moldaw's juvenile lead - impetuous, unbridled, unexpectedly funny and self-deceiving - is always wildly interesting. I dearly love this book." Carol Moldaw has published four books of poetry, including The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize. Among her honors are a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer's Residency, a Pushcart Prize, and an NEA Fellowship.
Julia B. Levine's new book is Ditch-tender. Dennis Schmitz calls it "a book of longings and healings. Julia Levine doesn't conjure as much as coax the magic to happen by itself. The poems lift and move us in currents-shifts, insinuations and splendid runs, delicate textures, depths." Among her other honors are a Discovery/The Nation Award for Emerging New Writers and the Pablo Neruda Prize. Her previous books include Practicing for Heaven, winner of the 1998 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and Ask, winner of the 2002 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.Ruth L. Schwartz has published three books of poetry: Edgewater, selected by Jane Hirshfield for the National Poetry Series 2001; Singular Bodies, winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry; Accordion Breathing and Dancing, winner of the 1994 Associated Writing Programs Award. She's also published a book of memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story. She has won over a dozen national literary prizes, including two Nimrod/Pablo Neruda Awards, New Letters Prize in Poetry, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Jane Hirshfield says of Edgewater, "Ruth L. Schwartz writes with consummate passion, precision, and honesty of the raw hungers that give rise to the world she grapples with her twofold, central question: How can we love fully, open-eyed and open-hearted amid all the flaws and beauty, each other and the world? How could we not?

J. M. Redmann discusses and signs her book Death of a Dying Man.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is delighted to present Columbia University Press author and local resident Siddharth Kara to discuss and sign his new book, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. This event is free and all are welcome!About the Book:
Every year, millions of women and ... (more)children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, the female body requires no such "processing" and can be repeatedly consumed. In this first-of-its-kind journey, Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll. Drawing on his background in finance and economics, Kara provides a rare business analysis of sex trafficking, focusing on the local drivers and global macroeconomic trends that gave rise to the industry after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kara supplements his analysis with a riveting account of this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. The author will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the organization Free the Slaves.About the Author:Siddharth Kara is a former investment banker and business executive with an MBA from Columbia University. He set aside his corporate career to pursue anti-slavery research, advocacy, and writing, and, more recently, a law degree. He currently serves on the board of directors of Free the Slaves, an organization dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide. In 2005 he was invited to testify on contemporary slavery to the United States Congressional Human Rights Committee.

Orissa Arend discusses and signs her book Showdown in Desire: The Black PanthersTake a Stand in New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Craig Johnson discusses and signs his book Dark Horse.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Craig Johnson discusses and signs his book Dark Horse.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Craig Johnson discusses and signs his book Dark Horse.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Andrea Boll discusses and signs her book The Parade Goes On Without You.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Neil White discusses and signs his book In the Sanctuary of Outcasts.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Josh Weil discusses and signs his book The New Valley.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Margaret Fenton discusses and signs her book Little Lamb Lost.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Douglas Brinkley discusses and signs his book Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1909.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Dave Eggers discusses and signs his book Zeitoun.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

This is a group for writers of all styles and levels. Hosted by Eric and Tammy, they'll lead you from idea to author signing! Call Tammy here for more information. They meet every Friday evening!

Ned Sublette discusses and signs his book The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Douglas Brinkley discusses and signs his book Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1909.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to present local child psychologist Charlotte Reznick, PhD to the store to discuss and sign her new book, The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety Into Joy and Success, which teaches parents and professionals nine simple tools ... (more)to help children cope and thrive using the positive power of their imagination.

Eileen Julien discusses and signs her book Travels With Mae: Scenes From a New Orleans Girlhood.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Join us with live music and a book discussion on the anniversary of the ball that was tragically cut short by the hurricane that destroyed Isle Derniere. Abby Sellenger discusses and signs his book Island in a Storm.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is totally stoked to host an afternoon with award-winning journalist and surfer Jaimal Yogis as he discusses and signs his memoir, Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea.Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more ... (more)than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.Join us!

Bill Loehfelm discusses and signs his book Bloodroot.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Jason Berry discusses and signs his book Up From the Cradle of Jazz.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Tom Piazza discusses and signs his book City of Refuge.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Amanda Boyden discusses and signs her book Babylon Rolling.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Amanda Boyden discusses and signs her book Babylon Rolling.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Timothy Hallinan discusses and signs his book Breathing Water.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is excited to present local therapists Heather Belle, MFC, and Michelle Fiordaliso, MSW, to discuss and sign their new book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Ex, an eye-opening new guide for dealing with Exes of all kinds.

Marc Matrana discusses and signs his book Lost Plantations of the South.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash, this time with Cheryl Dumesnil and Jenny Browne.
Jenny Browne's most recent book of poems, her third, is The Second Reason; Nick Flynn says of it, "...wild and beautiful and surprising. In this poet's hands the ... (more)seeming mundane is transformed into the nearly sacred, the elemental reveals its inner mysteries, and scraps of overheard language dissolve into song." Her two previous books are At Once and Glass. She is also the editor of Provide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood. She's a former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cheryl Dumesnil's first book of poems, In Praise of Falling, is the winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Michael Waters says of it, "Cheryl Dumesnil passionately and at times irreverently approaches the consequences of desire. . .a debut of extraordinary transparency and generosity." She is the editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall and co-editor of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is pleased to present Malibu resident and author Gary Horn to the store to discuss a new anthology, Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying.

Pat Conroy discusses and signs his book South of Broad.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to have local author Dylan Landis as she discusses and signs Normal People Don't Live Like This. This event is free and all are welcome! Normal People Don't Live Like This will be published Sept. 8 by Persea Books. It is a debut collection of ten linked stories—praised ... (more)by Janet Fitch, Elizabeth Strout and Lisa Glatt— about the hidden lives of a teenager and her mother, and how they struggle to negotiate emotional damage and open themselves to love. The girl, Leah, yearns for belonging and worships the most delinquent girls at school, while her mother, Helen, secretly rents a welfare hotel room that she obsessively decorates. The stories – quirky and darkly humorous -- mostly center on Leah, but they're also about the disturbing, sometimes transformative lives of the girls and women she knows. These stories have appeared in anthologies such as Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House; Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003; Women on the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles; and Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, among others, and in literary magazines such as Tin House, Bomb, the Santa Monica Review and others. All were written while she lived in LA, from 2000 to 2008.

Ned Sublette discusses and signs his book The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

David Magee will present a slide show about his book The Education of Mr. Mayfield. The booksigning will follow. Singer/songwriter/performer Melanie Hammett will appear with him and perform some of her original material, including a song that was inspired by the Mayfield story. You can see more about ... (more)Melanie at her website: Click Here!.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

September 26
1:30-3PM
Johnette Downing discusses and signs her book Why the Crawfish Lives in the Mud.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is excited to present local resident and author Denise Doyen to the store in celebration of her first picture book for kids, Once Upon a Twice, with exquisite illustrations by Barry Moser.
Denise Doyen makes her debut as a children’s author with Once Upon a Twice. Denise ... (more)studied creative writing, poetry, and design at Stanford University, and later studied screenwriting and filmmaking at The American Film Institute. Prior to writing children’s books, Denise worked many years for Disney, directing children’s television programs such as “Welcome to Pooh Corner” and “Dumbo’s Circus.” She also worked as a choreographer for film, television, and commercials in Los Angeles. She lives in Pacific Palisades with her family.

Book Group #1 meets to discuss Ivan Klima's No Saints or Angels. This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Greg Herren discusses and signs his book Murder in the Garden District.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Grace Lin is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen picture books, including THE UGLY VEGETABLES and DIM SUM FOR EVERYONE! Also an author of middle grade fiction, Grace's most recent novel WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON was released with glowing praise garnering 3 starred reviews and was ... (more)the 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Winner. While most of Grace's books are about the Asian-American experience, she believes, "Books erase bias, they make the uncommon everyday, and the mundane exotic. A book makes all cultures universal." See more about Grace and her work at www.gracelin.com.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Malibu is delighted to host an afternoon with psychological horror and suspense writer Richard Christian Matheson as he discusses and signs Dystopia, Created By, and Scars.
Richard Christian Matheson is an acclaimed novelist, short story writer and screenwriter/producer. He has ... (more)written and co-written feature film and television projects for Richard Donner, Ivan Reitman, Joel Silver, Steven Spielberg, Bryan Singer and many others. To date, Matheson has written and sold twelve original, spec feature scripts, considered a record. He has written pilots for comedy and dramatic series for SHOWTIME, FOX, NBC, ABC, TNT, HBO, FOX, SPIKE and CBS and served as head writer and Executive Producer for thirty network comedy and dramatic series. Matheson has had seven feature films produced, including the critically hailed, paranoid satire Three O'Clock High.
Matheson is considered a cutting-edge voice in surreal, psycho-logical horror fiction and master of the short story. His critically lauded fiction has been published in major, award-winning anthologies, including multiple times in Years Best Horror, Years Best Fantasy as well as Penthouse and OMNI magazines.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to present Daniel Silberberg as he discusses and signs Wonderland: The Zen of Alice.
Hang on, for you're heading down the rabbit hole. Daniel Doen Silberberg uses the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland as a jumping-off point for conveying the Zen concept of ... (more)"One Mind." With riffs on everything from Detroit to the Diamond Sutra and Kill Bill to ketchup, this is a funny, thoughtful, irreverent contribution to contemporary American Buddhism. Silberberg is a trained psychologist and musician who has been studying Buddhism for thirty years and leads an international Zen community. With stories from his own life as well as from the larger cultural swirl around him, Silberberg reflects on the differences between how we perceive the world around us and the way it actually is. He offers important ideas on how to live fully and happily in the Wonderland we're all living in.
Daniel Doen Silberberg is a Zen Teacher and founding director of Lost Coin Sangha in the White Plum Lineage that descends from both the Rinzai and Soto schools. Born in Bad Hartzburg, Germany in 1947, his parents soon moved to New York City. Silberberg began formal Zen practice under Abbot Maezumi Roshi and resident teacher, Daido Roshi, at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York. He received a B.A. in English literature, and a Ph. D. in psychology.

Sheila Himmel discusses and signs her book Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorxia.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

The Socrates Cafe, hosted by Rick Branch, meets for thoughtful reflection on the first Wednesday each month. Drop-ins always welcome. Call or stop by for details.

October 8
5:30-7PM
George Hopkins discusses and signs his book Creating Your Architectural Style.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

C. S. Graham (A.K.A. Steven Harris and Candice Harris) discuss and sign their book The Solomon Effect.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Please welcome Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of the books The Hidden Life of Dogs and Tribe of Tiger. Elizabeth will be here to sign and discuss her latest book, The Hidden Life of Deer, a narrative masterpiece and a naturalist's delight.

Angus Lind Discusses and signs his book Prime Angus.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

In conjunction with our monthly cookbook club and One Book One New Orleans, Sara Roahen will be discussing and signing Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table. As an added treat Plum Street Snoballs will be here serving snoballs.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to ... (more)order signed books.

Bring your knitting project and join hostess Patty Poisson for an informal evening of chatting, knitting and tea. Exquisite tea is generously provided by Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline. (www.thecozyteacart.com). Please note that the group is open to all experienced knitters. They ... (more)meet on the 2nd Monday each month.

Ever hear something behind you as make your way down the trail, maybe you're on a haunted trail. Or are you looking for a scare? How about hiking a hauted trail. Maryanne OConnor has them all mapped out in her book "Haunted Hikes of NH".

Dr.Rob Destefano presents a seminar and booksigning for his New York Times Bestselling book Muscle Medicine. The seminar is free to NOTC & NOAC members, non-members may pay $5.00 at the door.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present local author Taije Silverman to the store to celebrate the publication of her first book of poetry, Houses Are Fields.
Taije Silverman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, ... (more)and other journals. The recipient of the 2005–2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she is now Assistant Visiting Professor at Ursinus College, outside of Philadelphia. Her first collection of poems, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009, and selected as the debut book in their Sea Cliff Series. Thrice nominated for the Puschart Prize, she has received the Anais Nin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and her book has just been translated into Italian. Her own translations of Italian poetry are forthcoming in Pleiades.

Robert Hicks discusses and signs his book A Separate Country.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Dr. Fred Ernst discusses and signs his book Truth, Lies, and the O.R.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Barb Johnson discusses and signs her book More of this World Or Maybe Another.
If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Eva Augustin Rumpf discusses and signs her book Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pumped to present former Diesel employee and local high school English teacher Nina LaCour in celebration of her first novel, Hold Still!!
Nina LaCour grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first job was at fourteen in an independent bookstore, and she has since ... (more)worked in two others. She has tutored and taught in various places, from a juvenile hall to a private college. She now teaches English at an independent high school, and lives in Oakland, California.

Peggy Scott LaBorde and John Magill discuss and sign their book Christmas in New Orleans.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

John Besh discusses and signs his new book My New Orleans: The Cookbook.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Anne Rice discusses her book Angel Time, in a live video-conference via Skype. Join us and ask Anne some questions. Signed books will be available.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Charlaine Harris Halloween Event…come and enjoy the fun and booksigning.You can get 2 books at a time signed, but you can get back in line if you want more signed.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Christa Holder Ocker discusses and signs her book auf Wiedersehen.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

John Besh discusses and signs his new book My New Orleans: The Cookbook.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Brandon was selected by the estate of Robert Jordan to finish writing his 'Wheel of Time' epic. The final volume will be split into a trilogy beginning with "The Gathering Storm". We are honored to host Brandon as he signs and talks about his work.

Lizzie Skurnick discusses and signs her book Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Join us in welcoming local author Lorraine Liscio with her new books, "Paris and Her Remarkable Woman". Lorraine is a writer and editor who has taught at Boston College, where she was the Director of Women’s Studies. This book evokes Paris from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century by tracing ... (more)sixteen exceptional women whose lives intersected with Paris in remarkable ways and whose eventual fame depended on the city itself.

C. S. Harris discusses and signs her book What Remains of Heaven.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Carolyn sets the stage for a beautiful love story with her 'letters'. It's the all true accounting of her parents fateful meeting and subsequent life together around the world with stops in Calcutta and the U.S. during WWII. A tribute to the human spirit and the power of family; please join us.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to welcome Mark Weiss to the shop to discuss and sign the anthology of poetry he edited, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally ... (more)large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world - among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar-and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets - both on and off the island - have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

Pat Conroy signs his book South of Broad.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Candacy Taylor signs her book Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Brad Dude discusses and signs his book What Makes You Tick & What Ticks You Off.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present David Swanson as he discusses and signs his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and ... (more)as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.