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Mo Willems
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!
Thursday,  May 1· 7:00 p.m. presentation · Shorewood

Meet the author of beloved children's books Knuffle Bunny, and Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late, and learn to draw your own Pigeon! In his latest outing, the Pigeon really, really wants a puppy. He'll take good care of it. He promises! He'll play with it, and water it at least once a month! Well... can he have one? Make sure to visit Mo's website. For kids

This event is a Schwartz Signature Reading. The reading is open to the public, but, due to the expected large crowd, the signing portion of the evening will be restricted to those who have purchased their copy of The Pigeon Wants a Puppy from one of our four Milwaukee-area Harry W. Schwartz bookshops. Those who purchase their books with Schwartz will receive a line letter for the event at the time of purchase.

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Ted Kerasote
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Thursday,  May 1· 7:00 p.m. talk · Brookfield

Merle and Ted Kerasote found each other in the Utah desert. Merle was about ten months old and running wild; Ted, forty-one was looking for a pup to keep him company. Merle learned how to live among wildlife and Ted learned about the benefits of letting a dog make his own decisions. Ted shares their journey of love, independence and partnership, and his perspective on creating a healthy relationship with your dog, in Merle's Door.

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Tony Horwitz
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Thursday,  May 1· 7:00 p.m. talk · Mequon

The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes you on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America. Through an irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, Horwitz follows in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America and captures the wonder and drama of first contact. As he traces their legacy, Horwitz sets out on his own epic trek and explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget.

"I took a literary road trip with Tony Horwitz and loved every mile! He reminds us that Early American history isn't just Columbus' discovery followed by the Pilgrims and Indians that most of us remember from our school years. It is fugitive Vikings looking for lands made of wine and Conquistadors searching for cities of gold. In the century between Columbus and the Pilgrims, by Mr. Horwitz's account, hundreds of Europeans, able to board a boat, came to America and explored twenty four future states in search of everything from riches to medicinal cures to God. In his attempts to track down the truth of America's 'missing century' amongst neglected monuments and suburban sprawl, we encounter the most enjoyable part of this entertaining and informative trip."
-Scott Fultz, Mequon

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Connie Fairbanks
Scratch That: Seasonal Menus and Perfect Pairings
Saturday,  May 3 · 2:00 p.m. program · Mequon

Connie Fairbanks helps you entertain with style and ease with her first cookbook, Scratch That. Find out how to take the guesswork out of preparation, how to shop for and use seasonal ingredients, and how to choose the perfect wine for your meal.

The Journal Sentinel has more about Connie Fairbanks and her cookbook.

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Margaret Peterson Haddix
Found
Monday,  May 5 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Brookfield

The author of the bestselling Shadow Children series kicks off a new suspense series with Found. Thirteen-year-old Jonah and his friend Chip, both adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters that warn the boys that they are "one of the missing," and that "they're coming back to get you." With that, they are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. For young adults

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Lee Raffel
I Hate Conflict!
Tuesday,  May 6 · 7:00 p.m. talk · Mequon

Most people hate conflict. Whether it's a minor clash with a friend, a falling out with a family member, or a blowup with the boss, most of us would rather walk on eggshells for a few days-even years-rather than deal with the issue head on. Learn how to use conflicts as an opportunity for positive change, improve your relationships and lower your stress levels from expert Lee Raffel.

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Catherine Friend
The Compassionate Carnivore
Tuesday,  May 6 · 7:00 p.m. talk · Shorewood

Americans are eating more meat than ever before, and in the wake of the largest beef recall in U.S. history, we're likely to think more about where our meat comes from. But what do all the labels, "organic," "sustainable," "grass-fed" and so on really mean? Is it really possible to be humane meat eaters? Catherine Friend offers her perspective as a sustainable farmer and carnivore to show how we can make compassionate food choices, and offers insights into how meat is raised, how we buy it and from whom, and why change is both desirable and possible.

Presented in partnership with Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative.

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Will Leitch
God Save the Fan
Thursday,  May 8 · 7:00 p.m. talk · Brookfield

ESPN thinks its viewers are stupid. The Olympics claw at your inner sap. So says Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin.com whose God Save the Fan is the manifesto for every fan who is suffering from the sense of listless dissatisfaction brought on by the leagues and networks. Arch and unrepentant, Leitch offers a rallying cry for fan empowerment.

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Leif Enger
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Thursday,  May 8 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Mequon

Leif Enger captured your heart with Peace Like a River. Now, he follows up his bestselling novel with So Brave, Young, and Handsome, a story of smooth romanticism and gritty reality that recalls the old West's greatest cowboy stories.

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George Motz
Hamburger America
Saturday,  May 10 · 2:00 p.m. presentation · Shorewood

Presented with Solly's Grille president Glenn Fieber
No other food says "America" like the hamburger, and George Motz has made it his personal mission to preserve our hamburger heritage. He has traveled across the country in search of the best burger joints that have survived the fast-food burger mainstream. Hamburger America features 100 of the best burger stands, diners, and mom and pop favorites, including Milwaukee's own Solly's Grille, home of the famous butter burger.
Buy a book, get a burger.

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John Sandford
Phantom Prey
Saturday,  May 10 · 2:00 p.m. talk· Mequon

In the latest Prey novel, John Sandford sends Lucas Davenport into a dark and disturbing world where a young woman who ran with a rough crowd-Goths-is missing and a series of Jack the Ripper-style murders are sweeping the city. None of the clues are adding up and Lucas is beginning to suspect that something very, very bad is going on.

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Firoozeh Dumas
Laughing Without an Accent
Monday,  May 12 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Shorewood

Firoozeh Dumas's memoir of growing up Iranian-American in Southern California, Funny in Farsi, was a national bestseller. In Laughing Without an Accent, she offers more stories about her hilarious, warm and loving family and their experiences here and abroad. With wit and warmth, her stories illuminate our universal experiences and show how our differences can become our bonds.

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Elizabeth Berg
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
Monday,  May 12 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Brookfield

Elizabeth Berg explores struggles with food and eating, love and relationships, life and aging, and small acts of rebellion along the way in her new story collection featuring eleven new works. Connected by character and theme, the collection explores the difficulty and surprise of changes in women's lives.

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Christine Schutt
All Souls
Tuesday,  May 13 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Mequon

Meet the girls of Siddons, a posh private school in New York City. Alex and Suki Morton have been friends since kindergarten. There's Kitty and Saby, and Marlene, the scholarship girl. And then there's Astra Dell, the dancer with all the hair. Astra Dell, the girl with cancer. As she fights for her life in the hospital, her classmates concern themselves with boys, teachers, exams, recitals, college applications, graduation, and, of course, poor Astra Dell. With acute psychological insight, Christine Schutt brings to life the girls of Siddons: privileged, naïve, subversive and restless.

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Susan Engberg
Above the Houses
Tuesday,  May 13 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Shorewood

The stories in Above the Houses describe dramas ranging from death, divorce, and murder to a torrential Midwestern rainstorm and provide a context for the author's ability to capture subtle human feelings. Author of three previous story collections, Pastorale, A Stay by the River and Sarah's Laughter, Susan Engberg has been awarded many prizes, including three appearances in the annual O. Henry Prize Stories.

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Mary Pearson
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Wednesday,  May 14 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Mequon

Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a yearlong coma and she's still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. She has been told her name, and her parents show her home movies of her life, her memories, but she has no recollection. Is she really the same girl she sees on the screen? Little by little she begins to remember, but with the memories come questions no one wants to answer for her. For young adults

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Wendy Johnson
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
Wednesday,  May 14 · 7:00 p.m. talk · Shorewood

Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in northern California's Marin County is renowned for its pioneering role in California's food revolution, providing choice produce to farmers' markets and to San Francisco's Greens restaurant. Wendy Johnson has been meditating and gardening at Green Gulch for more than thirty years. She has distilled her lifetime of experience into a celebration of inner and outer growth, showing how the garden cultivates the gardener.

 

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Aleksander Hemon
The Lazarus Project
Thursday,  May 15 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Shorewood

Acclaimed author Aleksander Hemon intertwines a haunting historical atmosphere with sharp contemporary storytelling in The Lazarus Project. In 1908, Lazarus, a young Jewish immigrant, attempts to deliver an important letter to Chicago's Chief of Police and is killed-shot by the Chief. In the twenty-first century, Birk, a writer and also a young immigrant, becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. He and his friend, a Sarajevo war photographer, set out to retrace Lazarus's journey from Europe to Chicago where he met his fate.

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Tom Farley Jr.
The Chris Farley Show
Thursday,  May 15 · 7:00 p.m. talk · Downer Ave.

Fans knew Chris Farley as Saturday Night Live's swaggering, motivational speaker, and Tommy Callahan, the underdog hero of Tommy Boy. His family knew him as sensitive and passionate, deeply religious and devoted to bringing laughter to others. But Chris didn't know moderation, either in his boundless generosity or the reckless abandon of his substance abuse. Join Chris's older brother and managing director of The Chris Farley Foundation, Tom Farley Jr. as he remembers a man who lived to make us laugh and who died too soon.

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Marshall I. Goldman
Petrostate
Friday,  May 16 · 7:00 p.m. talk · Shorewood

In the aftermath of the financial collapse of a decade ago it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself so quickly is an economic and political miracle. Marshall Goldman traces the story of oil and gas in Russia-a tale of intrigue, corruption, wealth and power, and explains how the country is using its energy wealth as a lever in world politics.

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Cory Doctorow
Little Brother
Friday,  May 16 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Mequon

Cory Doctorow pits one bright, tech-savvy teenager against the Department of Homeland Security in his latest novel. Marcus, a.k.a. "w1n5t0n" is only seventeen but he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. But his whole world changes when he and his friends skip school and wind up in the wrong place at the wrong time-in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. After being questioned and released-and finding his city a police state-Marcus knows his only option is to take down DHS himself. For young adults

"I am constantly amazed by Cory Doctorow, and his newest (and his first book targeted to young adults, but by no means ONLY for young adults) is no exception. It's all about internet security and hackers and torture and illegal moves by the DHS and political activism and everything that is happening in today's political climate. I absolutely got into the world of the characters and was scared for my life; I couldn't put it down."
-Jordan Gower, Downer Ave.
 

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Augusten Burroughs
A Wolf at the Table
Saturday,  May 17 · 7:00 p.m. reading · Downer Ave.

Augusten Burroughs returns to Schwartz with his most personal and unexpected memoir yet. In A Wolf at the Table, he explores the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son, and a child's longing for unconditional love. Here is the story of Burroughs's relationship with his father told with honesty and insight; a story of the redemptive power of hope.