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Best-selling author Michael Connelly will be reading from and signing copies of his latest release, The Brass Verdict. Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller ... (more)inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.
Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.

Bringing together Michael Connelly's two most popular characters, The Brass Verdictis sure to be his biggest book yet.

Mystery, thriller writer Alan Jacobson will be on hand to read from and sign copies of his latest book, The 7th Victim. With material meticulously researched during seven years of study with the Bureau’s vaunted profiling unit, Alan Jacobson brings refreshing realism and unprecedented accuracy to his ... (more)pages.
The 7th Victim is a page-turner as only Alan Jacobson can write, with a stunning twist of an ending that will satisfy even the most discerning thriller reader.

Meet best-selling author Paul Young as he signs copies of the beloved book, The Shack. This is a special opportunity to meet a truly transformative author. Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered ... (more)is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

Meet environmental activist and author, Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of the Righteous Porkshop. Nicolette is a lawyer, vegetarian and environmental activist who met and married Bill Niman, founder of Niman Ranch. The book focuses on the importance of sourcing locally produced food and sustainable farming ... (more)practices but also traces the unlikely pairing of Nicolette and Bill. Nicolette a thirty-something, urban, East Coast, vegetarian attorney, and Bill Niman, an older, West Coast, cowboy type.

Meet award winning thriller author Barry Eisler as he reads from and signs copies of his new book, Fault Line. This is the story of two brothers, driven apart by old but still-simmering family hurts and by conflicting cultural and life choices, who are forced to put aside their grievances and to confront ... (more)their own painful secrets when one of them becomes a target in an international struggle for control of a powerful new technology.

Meet author Nafisa Haji as she reads from and signs copies of her book, The Writing on My Forehead. An American Muslim of Indo-Pakistani descent, Haji tells the story of Saira Qadar, an intelligent and rebellious young Muslim-American woman who finds herself caught in a struggle between her immigrant ... (more)family’s traditions and her desire for independence. As Saira’s story unfolds, and fate intervenes in the form of unforeseen tragedy, this remarkable novel also tells the story of her family, itself bound to the struggle and violence of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into what is today’s Muslim Pakistan and predominantly Hindu India.

Meet Sacramento area author Franz Wisner as he signs copies of his new book How the World Makes Love And What It Taught a Jilted Groom. How the World Makes Love… is the long-awaited follow-up to Honeymoon with My Brother. His new book, an uproarious, whimsical book that details Franz and Kurt’s attempt ... (more)to return to “normal life” and the realities of being bachelors on the notorious Los Angeles dating scene. Finding the romantic options available to thirty-something, jilted grooms (and their siblings) less-than-stellar, Franz proposes to Kurt that they once again make for the open road, this time traveling to 7 different countries to research how foreign cultures depict and value love.

Meet bestselling author Antoinette May, author of Pilate’s Wife, as she signs copies of her new book, The Sacred Well. With her upcoming novel, THE SACRED WELL, May weaves yet another absorbing tale. This time the fascinating woman is Alma Reed, a San Francisco journalist who fell in love with Felipe ... (more)Carrillo Puerto, the revolutionary governor of Yucatan who was assassinated shortly after their marriage.

Meet bestselling author Andrew Gross, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Blue Zone, the forthcoming The Dark Tide, and co-author of five no. 1 bestsellers with James Patterson.

Meet author Jennifer Woodlief as she reads from and signs copies of her book, A Wall of White. Jennifer Woodlief, a former reporter for Sports Illustrated and a former case officer for the CIA, chronicles the Alpine Meadows tragedy along with an incredible tale of survival in the gripping new book A ... (more)WALL OF WHITE: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche. Telling the tragic tale of those killed along with the incredible rescue of a woman determined to survive, A WALL OF WHITE is a remarkable tale of man versus nature and of the extraordinary heroism displayed by a group of rescuers committed to triumph over extreme odds. Many avalanches are unleashed by skiers or snowboarders who unknowingly—or willingly—venture onto unsafe or unstable snowpack. But on March 31, 1982 a once-in-a-century natural avalanche devastated the Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California, killing seven people. An almost unimaginable combination of events created the most massive and deadliest ski resort avalanche in U.S. history.

Meet author Mai Pham as she discusses and signs copies of her book, Flavors of Asia. Award-winning restauranteur, chef, and author Mai Pham joins the CIA in presenting 125 accessible recipes, from Ammini Ramachandran's Spicy Tuvar Fritters served with Coconut Chutney to Fuchsia Dunlop's Quick Hong Kong ... (more)Noodle Soup with Roast Duck. The chefs' cooking techniques and regional notes appear in feature spreads throughout the book.

Meet bestselling author James Rollins as he reads from and signs copies of his new book for kids, Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow. When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on ... (more)the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance.

Meet author Bhira Backhaus as she reads from and signs copies of her book, Under the Lemon Tree. In the tradition of Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy, Under the Lemon Trees is poised to speak to this same audience in an historically successful market. A stellar debut from an acclaimed writer, this is ... (more)a story about finding love and discovering a true home while navigating traditions, family and faith—part Bend it Like Beckham, part Monsoon Wedding, this is a cultural and romantic tour de force. A beautifully written debut novel of a young Indian woman struggling between embracing her heritage and fitting in as an American.

Meet the literary sensation Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain as he discusses and signs copies of his bestselling book. Narrated in the opinionated and insightful voice of an extraordinary mutt named Enzo, THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN is truly a masterpiece of our time. It is one ... (more)of those rare tales that will leave you both fulfilled and allow you to look at society a little differently long after you are through reading the last page.

For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love—a stunning new novel from Lisa See about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. A novel about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America while bound ... (more)to the old, Shanghai Girls is a fresh, fascinating adventure from beloved and bestselling author Lisa See.