September 2023

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Friday, September 1, 7:00 pm
Ann Beattie — Onlookers — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
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Tuesday, September 5, 7:00 pm
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza — Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap - with Sabriya I. Williams — at Union Market
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, September 5, 7:00 pm
Ciera Burch - Finch House - in conversation with Kwame Alexander - at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, September 6, 6:00 pm
Ben Hatke - Things in the Basement - at Conn Ave in the Children and Teens Department
6:00 pm
 
 
 
Wednesday, September 6, 7:00 pm
SOLD OUT - Painting and Paperbacks with @Prettylittlebookshelf and The Art Room — at Union Market
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, September 6, 7:00 pm
Drew Gilpin Faust — Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury - with Lissa Muscatine — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 7, 7:00 pm
Phyllis L. Fagell - Middle School Superpowers: Raising Resilient Tweens in Turbulent Times - w/ Amy Joyce - At Conn Ave in the Children and Teens Department - A Parenting Series Event
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 7, 7:00 pm
Panel Discussion — They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up - with Justine Barron, Wesley Lowrey, Chuck Modiano, April Goggans and Susan Simpson — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Friday, September 8, 8:00 am
Fall Member Sale
8:00 am
 
 
Friday, September 8, 6:00 pm
Bill Griffith Meet & Greet — Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy - at Union Market
6:00 pm
 
Friday, September 8, 7:00 pm
Marcie Bianco — Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom - with Charlotte Clymer — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, September 9, 8:00 am
Fall Member Sale
8:00 am
 
Saturday, September 9, 5:00 pm
David Keplinger — Ice: Poems — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, September 10, 8:00 am
Fall Member Sale
8:00 am
 
Sunday, September 10, 3:00 pm
Meg Howrey — They're Going to Love You - with Lisa Page — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, September 10, 5:00 pm
Myriam Gurba — Creep: Accusations and Confessions - with Lupita Aquino — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
Monday, September 11, 7:00 pm
Andrew Yang & Stephen Marche — The Last Election - in conversation with Jon Ward — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, September 12, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton - The Enchanted Symphony - A P&P Family Storytime
5:00 pm
 
Tuesday, September 12, 7:00 pm
Nelson Lichtenstein — A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Wednesday, September 13, 7:00 pm
[SOLD OUT]Naomi Klein — Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World - with Ryan Grim — at the GWU Amphitheater
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, September 13, 7:00 pm
Lauren Groff — The Vaster Wilds - with Amber Sparks — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 14, 6:00 pm
Winsome Bingham - The Walk (A Stroll to the Poll) - at Conn Ave in the Children and Teens Deptarment
6:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 14, 7:00 pm
Dr. Bettina Love — Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal - with Tony Keith Jr. — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Saturday, September 16, 3:00 pm
Peter J. Hotez — The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, September 16, 5:00 pm
Christopher Paul Harris — To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care - with Marcus Board Jr. — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
 
Saturday, September 16, 7:00 pm
Zadie Smith — The Fraud - with Dolen Perkins-Valdez — at Sidwell Friends School
7:00 pm
 
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Sunday, September 17, 1:00 pm
Julius Taranto — How I Won a Nobel Prize - with Karen Heller— at Conn Ave
1:00 pm
 
Sunday, September 17, 3:00 pm
Franklin Foer — The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future - in conversation with David Leonhardt — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, September 17, 5:00 pm
Adam Goodheart — The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth - with Wil Haygood — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
Monday, September 18, 7:00 pm
Alejandra Campoverdi — First Gen - with Silvia Foster-Frau — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Monday, September 18, 7:00 pm
Walter Isaacson — Elon Musk - with Michael Duffy — at Sidwell Friends School
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, September 19, 10:30 am
Mika Song - One Smart Cookie - At Conn Ave
10:30 am
 
Tuesday, September 19, 7:00 pm
Richard Osman — The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery - with Daniel Stashower — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, September 20, 10:30 am
Saadia Faruqi - Saving Sunshine - at Conn Ave
10:30 am
 
Wednesday, September 20, 7:00 pm
Myisha Cherry — Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better - with Christine Platt — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Thursday, September 21, 7:00 pm
Kat Calvin — American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist - with Representative Sean Casten — at Union Market
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 21, 7:00 pm
Daniel Baer — The Four Tests: What It Will Take to Keep America Strong and Good - with Lissa Muscatine — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 21, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Anderson Cooper — Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune - with Katherine Howe
8:00 pm
 
Friday, September 22, 5:00 pm
Percy Jackson Pre-Order Party & Fan Event - at Conn Ave in the Children and Teens Department
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
 
Friday, September 22, 7:00 pm
Katherine Spillar, Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin, & Dorothy Roberts — 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Saturday, September 23, 11:00 am
SOLD OUT - Nick Cave Meet & Greet — Faith, Hope and Carnage — at Conn Ave
11:00 am
 
Saturday, September 23, 3:00 pm
Nick McDonell — Quiet Street: On American Privilege — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, September 23, 5:00 pm
Janet Hulstrand — A Long Way from Iowa: From the Heartland to the Heart of France - with Bob Attardi — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, September 24, 1:00 pm
Daniel Mason — North Woods - with Tayla Burney — at Conn Ave
1:00 pm
 
Sunday, September 24, 3:00 pm
Michael G. Long — Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics - with Courtland Cox — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
 
Sunday, September 24, 3:00 pm
Lisa Sun — Gravitas: The 8 Strengths that Redefine Confidence - with Haley M. Jones — at Union Market
3:00 pm
 
Monday, September 25, 7:00 pm
Scott Shane — Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland - with Helene Cooper — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, September 26, 7:00 pm
Cliff Sloan — The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made - with Joan Biskupic — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, September 26, 7:00 pm
Burkhard Bilger — Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets - with Atul Gawande — at MLK Memorial Library
7:00 pm
 
 
Tuesday, September 26, 7:00 pm
Carl Hiaasen — Wrecker — at St. Paul's Lutheran Church
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, September 27, 10:30 am
[SOLD OUT] Carl Hiaasen — Wrecker — at Conn Ave
10:30 am
 
Wednesday, September 27, 5:00 pm
Kim Johnson - Invisible Son - in Partnership with DCPL at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
5:00 pm
 
Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 pm
Angie Kim — Happiness Falls - with Louis Bayard — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 pm
[SOLD OUT]Kerry Washington — Thicker Than Water - with Tony Goldwyn — at GWU Lisner Auditorium
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, September 28, 7:00 pm
Robert P. Jones — The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future - with Wajahat Ali — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Friday, September 29, 10:30 am
Carole Lindstrom - Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior - At Conn Ave
10:30 am
 
Friday, September 29, 7:00 pm
Melissa Lozada-Oliva — Candelaria - with Ariél M. Martinez — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, September 30, 1:00 pm
Michael Vickers — By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy - with Bradley Graham— at Conn Ave
1:00 pm
 
Saturday, September 30, 3:00 pm
Ian Johnson — Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future - with Ishaan Tharoor — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, September 30, 5:00 pm
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman — Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm