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In conversation with Lissa Muscatine

Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7 p.m.

At Sixth & I

Monday, February 3, 2020 at 7 p.m.

In conversation with Pati Jinich

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 7 p.m.

In Children & Teens

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 7 p.m.

Bestsellers

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America Cover Image

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Cover Image

Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There) Cover Image

Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools Cover Image

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir Cover Image

The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats Cover Image

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope Cover Image

The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma Cover Image

American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power Cover Image

Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere Cover Image

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

Agency Cover Image

A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel Cover Image

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Cover Image

The Dutch House: A Novel Cover Image

Such a Fun Age Cover Image

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Cover Image

The Topeka School: A Novel Cover Image

Long Bright River: A Novel Cover Image

Cleanness Cover Image

Children & Teens Books

Little Bear Dreams Cover Image

Thank You, Omu! Cover Image

We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands Cover Image

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Cover Image

Now You Know How It Works Cover Image

Kitten and the Night Watchman Cover Image

Audiobooks: Start Listening

Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel Cover Image

Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

The Witch Elm: A Novel Cover Image

Music

Next Events

Wed

29

7:00 pm

Emma Copley Eisenberg - The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia — in conversation with Michelle Delgado — at Union Market

Wed

29

7:00 pm

Diane Ravitch - Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools

Thu

30

7:00 pm

Barry Schwabsky - The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting — in conversation with Lynne Cooke — at Union Market

Thu

30

7:00 pm

Kim Ghattas - Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East — in conversation with Lissa Muscatine

Fri

31

7:00 pm

Yuval Levin - A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream

Sat

1

1:00 pm

Tanvi Madan - Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War

Sat

1

3:30 pm

Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

Sat

1

6:00 pm

Karen Sherman - Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere — in conversation with Barbara Klein

Sun

2

1:00 pm

Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross - Becoming Free, Becoming Black — in conversation with Robert L. Tsai — at Union Market

Sun

2

1:00 pm

Boyce Thompson - Designing for Disaster: Domestic Architecture in the Era of Climate Change

Sun

2

3:00 pm

Richard L. Hasen - Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy — in conversation with Pam Fessler

Mon

3

7:00 pm

Jeff Madrick - Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty

Staff Picks

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Bridget Collins has created a world so lush and magical and beguiling. A poor farmer’s son, Emmet Farmer... read more
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Verge is one of the best short story collections I've read in a long time, and as an avid story reader,... read more
/staff-pick/nothing-to-see-here-kevin-wilson

Kevin Wilson’s Nothing to See Here has everything you could possibly want in a book about ten-year-old... read more
/staff-pick/seduction-karina-longworth

My favorite thing about Karina Longworth’s biography of Howard Hughes is that it’s not about Howard... read more
/staff-pick/french-exit-patrick-dewitt

If acerbic aristocrats, dead spouses reincarnated as cats, and impromptu cruises to Paris are of any... read more
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Bob Mankoff, cartoon and humor editor for Esquire, former New Yorker cartoon editor, and author of the... read more

/children-and-teens/book-reviews

When seventeen year old Jo is dismissed from her position at a hat shop in the city she is sent to work... read more
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Based on the childhood experiences of author Grace Lin, The Year of the Rat (Little, Brown, $7.99)... read more
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The Little Rat and the Golden Seed (Shanghai Press, $16.95) by Li Jian is a stunningly illustrated... read more

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