Politics & Prose supplies books to the following book signing events.
Reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization.
If you can’t attend a talk, but would like to purchase a signed book, call
202-364-1919 or 1-800-722-0790 or click the title links below.
Click here for detailed information about these offsite events.

Thursday, December 10, 2 p.m.

National Geographic Society
1600 M Street, N.W.
PETER H. RAVEN and CATHERINE HERBERT HOWELL
FLORA MIRABILIS (National Geographic, $35)
A collaboration between National Geographic and the Missouri Botanical Garden, Flora Mirabilis offers a fascinating look at how plant explorations and botanical passions have shaped human history and culture. Click here for more information about this FREE event.

Thursday, December 10, 7 p.m.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, N.W.
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
STEVEN KARRAS
THE ENEMY I KNEW (Zenith Press, $28)
Karras's book presents twenty-seven, first-person narratives of German- and Austrian-born Jews who fled the Nazis and, not long after finding safety in the U.S. and Great Britain, were inducted into the Allied Armed Forces to fight the countries of their birth. Questions? Call 202.408.3100. Click here for $6 tickets or to receive two free tickets with purchase of the book.

Wednesday, December 16, 7 p.m.

The White Oak Library
11701 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD
MICHAEL DIRDA
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE (Mariner Books, $15)
Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The Washington Post, will appear at White Oak Library to discuss his latest book and his work as a literary critic. No registration is needed for this free event.

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Our top twelve hardcover FICTION and NON-FICTION bestsellers are always 20% off for P&P members. To see our complete bestseller lists, click on the titles below.

#1 FICTION:  WOLF HALL  by Hilary Mantel

#1 NONFICTION: STONES INTO SCHOOLS by Greg Mortenson

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Click FICTION or NON-FICTION  to browse a complete list of recent paperback releases.

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

 GOING ROUGE: Sarah Palin: American Nightmare  edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed

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The Children and Teens' Department 2009 Favorite Books is available in the store and online. Please pick up a copy in the story to read our recommendations or click here to browse the lists online!

Monday morning storytime is on hiatus during the holiday season and will resume January 11.

For more gift suggestions from the Children and Teens' Department, click here.
ADOPT-A-BOOK FOR HOPE HOUSE

Join Politics & Prose in supporting Hope House, an organization - founded by Carol Fennelly - which connects imprisoned fathers from Washington, D.C. with their children. One of the most popular Hope House programs is The Father to Child Reading Program,which provides children’s books for inmates to audio or video record.   The book and the recording are mailed home to the inmate’s child. For many fathers, these are the first stories they have ever read to their children. So far, Hope House has paired fathers and their children with more than more than 12,000 books and tapes.

Between now and January 1, with each book you buy for Hope House, you’ll get a beautiful card decorated with an illustration by a child and his or her father. For a week in the summer, Hope House brings children to camps near the prisons, as most D.C. prisons are located in Ohio or North Carolina. As an activity, the children and their dads make life size murals of their ideal day together. These cards are photo reproductions of the murals. You can give the card as a gift to let your friends and family know that you are supporting Hope House in their names.

We offer our customers a 20% discount on books purchased either in the store or online for donation to Hope House.  If you order over the web, simply note in the checkout comments field that you wish to donate the book. To learn more about Hope House, visit their website at www.hopehousedc.org. 
Click here to see several of our Adopt-a-Book recommendations. You may also call the Children's Department for more help choosing a book to donate, or give one of your own favorites. Thank you for supporting this worthwhile program.

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Several years ago we featured a wide selection of remainders from Timber Press, the Cadillac of garden books, and now we have a good selection of remaindered books from Taunton Press that publishes the Mercedes of home design and crafts.  These include some how-to books on knitting, woodworking, wood finishing, and sewing, all of which are at least half the cost of their original price. Come and visit the section to see the options!

Thomas Mallon recently spoke here for his new book on letters. If this endangered species of communication interests you, we have two substantial anthologies of the epistolary art. LETTERS OF THE CENTURY: America 1900-1999, edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, is an illustrated collection of more than 400 missives. Some come from celebrities, others from people you haven’t heard of, but each gives voice to a unique time and place. From Mark Twain’s complaint to Western Union to a Vietnam Vet’s poignant note left at the War’s memorial, this anthology makes social and cultural history personal and immediate. Available in hardcover, $6.98. 

Grunwald and Adler have also put together a companion volume, WOMEN’S LETTERS: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present. Again blending a wide range of voices and experiences to tell the longer story of this country’s history, the editors present Rachel Revere’s letter on behalf of her husband, Paul, along with the 1775 chronicles from a Continental Army general’s daughter to a friend about her mission carrying notes to George Washington. Here are letters from Emily Dickinson and Ida B. Wells, Margaret Sanger and Marilyn Monroe, a resident of Love Canal and a fan of American Idol. The surprises equal the treasures.Available in hardcover, $6.98.

Click here to buy these and to see more discounted books.

- Laurie Greer

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Barackin’ Around the Christmas Tree
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