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We had a daylong media frenzy on Tuesday with the release of President George W. Bush’s DECISION POINTS (Crown, $35). Strikingly, no domestic media, ABC, CBS, etc., seemed to think shots of our booksellers opening boxes and shelving the former president’s new memoir would be of interest to their viewers, but the television crews and photographers from Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic and the Ukraine, Brazil, France, and Germany, and Reuters, and the Voice of America were all jostling each other at the front of the store. The shots they had hoped to get - but failed to - were lines of customers waiting to buy the book.

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PRESIDENT CARTER SIGNING - RESCHEDULED

Tuesday, November 30, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
WHITE HOUSE DIARY (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30)
President Jimmy Carter has rescheduled his book signing at Politics & Prose for Tuesday, November 30 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. The signing will take place at the bookstore and is not ticketed; the line will form on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning when the store opens at 9 a.m.

Please note: President Carter will only be signing for one hour so we cannot guarantee that everyone in line will get a book signed. In an effort to get as many people through the line as possible, we will be allowing two (2) books per person to be signed (one of which must be a copy of the new book, White House Diary). We will honor all current pre-purchased signed book orders; however, we can not accept any new orders for signed copies in absentia. Lastly, President Carter will be signing only (no personalizations or dedications) and will not be posing for photographs. We thank you for your understanding and hope to see you on the 30th.

Also, mark your calendars for these two new events:

Monday, November 29, 7 p.m.
NOAH FELDMAN
SCORPIONS: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (Twelve, $30)
They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Feldman's new book tells the story of these four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.

 

 

Thursday, December 9, 7 p.m.
EMMA DONOGHUE
ROOM: A Novel (Little, Brown, $24.99)
Emma Donoghue is a 2010 Man Booker Prize Finalist for her new novel ROOM. She beckons us down dark alleys to a place we would never intentionally go, as she tells this unthinkable story through the irrepressible and naive voice of five-year-old Jack, who has lived his entire life in a single 11 x 11 room. His innocent depiction belies the horrid reality that exists for him and "Ma", his only friend, his teacher, and his protector from "Old Nick", who keeps them both captive in "Room".

Donoghue challenges the reader to relate to this situation in pragmatic and occasionally mundane terms. The magic lies in crafting an intimate story of a mother, a son, and how they cope, support each other, and survive in this confined space. Jack's narrative reveals how much "Room" forces the characters to change, and details the challenging process of individuation and recovery from trauma and deprivation. Donoghue's skillful storytelling reveals her characters' confusion and resilience, and will have you caring and rooting for them as they deal with this life they never chose. - Bill Leggett

 

Part road novel, part Bildsdungsroman, How to Read the Air (Riverhead, $25.95) will transcends all expectations. As Jonas, a first-generation American, watches his career aspirations and marriage disintegrate, he imagines the life his young immigrant parents experienced when they first arrived in the Midwest from Ethiopia, even though he knows only pieces of their past. Working from fragmentary memories of conversations, Jonas retraces his parents' drive to their Nashville honeymoon. He searches for his own identity in his family's false histories and the fairy-tale promises of the American dream. This is a novel about the tenuous threads that connect us and about the role truth and fiction play in our self-understanding. Following an acclaimed and heartbreaking first novel (The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears) isn't easy, but here Dinaw Mengestu soars majestically. - Lacey Dunham

 

The sexy, chic, snag-a-man attitude which Cosmopolitan inaugurated is - like it or not - a cultural force to be reckoned with; Helen Gurley Brown, the woman at Cosmo's helm for more than thirty years is a phenomenon of equal magnitude. In Bad Girls Go Everywhere (Penguin, $16), Jennifer Scanlon convincingly argues that Brown's preternatural talent for connecting with her female readers, her keen business acumen, and her firm belief that a woman should be economically independent place her squarely (if complicatedly) in the feminist camp. By embracing capitalistic conceptions of womanhood (she might as well have created the term "pink purchasing power") while also standing for equal pay, the right to choose, and women's sexual equality, Brown - and by extension thousands of "Cosmo Girls" - resemble today's feminist women more than their Betty Friedan/Gloria Steinem predecessors. This Horatio Alger romp from childhood poverty to publishing maven implicitly asks, is it any wonder that Helen Gurley Brown's brand of feminism has stuck around for the Third Wave? - Lacey Dunham

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FICTION

1. Great House, by Nicole Krauss (W. W. Norton, $24.95)
2. To the End of the Land, by David Grossman (Knopf, $26.95)
3. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28)
4. The Confession, by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95)
5. Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carre (Viking, $27.95)
6. Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon, $30) -- Signed copies still available
7. All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, by Lan Samantha Chang (W. W. Norton, $23.95)
8. Nemesis, by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)
9. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, by David Sedaris, illus. by Ian Falconer (Little, Brown, $21.99)
10. Top of FormHow to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead, $25.95)
11. By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25)
12. Law of Attraction, by Allison Leotta (Touchstone, $25)

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NONFICTION

1. Listen to This, by Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27)
2. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, by Jane Leavy (HarperCollins, $27.99) -- signed copies still available
3. Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown, $29.99)
4. Life, by Keith Richards (Little, Brown, $29.99)
5. Must You Go?, by Antonia Fraser (Nan A. Talese, $28.95)
6. The Mind's Eye, by Oliver Sacks (Knopf , $26.95)
7. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, by Condoleezza Rice (Crown, $27) - - Signed first editions still available
8. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, by Stephen Sondheim (Knopf , $39.95) - - Offsite event November 14
9. Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow (Penguin, $40)
10. Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, by Robert D. Kaplan (Random House, $28)
11. First Family: Abigail and John Adams, by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $27.95)
12. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race, by Jon Stewart (Grand Central, $27.99)
    
    
    

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JUST KIDS, by Patti Smith (Ecco, $16) - A 2010 National Book Award Nominee

EDIBLE STORIES: A Novel in Sixteen Parts, by Mark Kurlansky (Riverhead, $16)

Zadie Smith has always had a penetrating eye and a sharp wit, both of which are as much at work in CHANGING MY MIND: Occasional Essays (Penguin, $16) as they were in her novels, White Teeth and On Beauty. In this volume, we are granted entry to Smith’s inner world, learning what she thinks about writers, the craft of writing, travel, and politics. Showcasing her best essays and criticism, the collection proclaims Smith as a cultural and intellectual powerhouse from whom we can continue to expect great things. - Conor Moran

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Thursday, November 11

Reza Aslan - Tablet and Pen
7 p.m. Under the auspices of Words Without Borders, which "opens doors to international exchange through translation, publication, and promotion of the best international literature," Aslan, author of No God But God, has assembled an anthology of short stories, memoirs, essays, and poems by a wide selection of Middle Eastern writers, ranging from Khalil Gibran to Orhan Pamuk. Much of this work appears in English for the first time.

Friday, November 12

Matthew Locricchio - Teen Cuisine
10:30 a.m. Locricchio is an award-winning cookbook author, and his new collection presents practical recipes for such basics as pancakes and chicken broth, along with more exotic fare like Santa Fe Tofu Scrambler and Black Bean Soup. The appealing photos will inspire teens to try their hands in the kitchen. (Ages 12 and up)

Madhur Jaffrey - At Home with Madhur Jaffrey
7 p.m. In her latest collection of recipes from India and southern Asia, the chef and prolific cookbook-writer simplifies the traditions for today's time-pressed cooks. Jaffrey focuses on streamlined processes and accessible ingredients, but also explains the roles of the different seasonings and sauces, chutneys and dals, making these exotic dishes as familiar as many other comfort foods.

Saturday, November 13

Mary Ann Larkin - That Deep and Steady Hum & Martin Galvin - Sounding the Atlantic
1 p.m. Join us for a reading with wide-ranging themes by two local poets. Larkin, author of five chapbooks and the co-founder of Pond Road Press, mines her own and America's past for poems on family and immigration. Galvin, with four chapbooks to his credit, also looks back to childhood, dramatizing the events, and especially the voices, from his upbringing in an Irish neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Dana Milbank - Tears of a Clown
3:30 p.m. Milbank, prizewinning Washington Post reporter and author of Homo Politicus, here investigates how Glenn Beck evolved from his apparently non-ideological background into a man who rants, raves, and weeps on demand. A self-described "rodeo clown," is Beck in fact just an over-the-top showman, or does he really believe the conspiracy theories he touts and for which millions idolize him?

Mary Frances Berry & Josh Gottheimer - Power in Words
6 p.m. President Obama is an undeniably gifted speaker, and in this collection of some of his major addresses, the authors provide historical context and political analysis, illuminating the rhetoric and the occasions. Berry, a historian and activist, and Gottheimer, a speechwriter for Bill Clinton, have also included commentary from Obama's own staffers, who tell the stories behind the speeches.

Sunday, November 14

Timothy Snyder - Bloodlands
1 p.m. Its title alluding to the territory between Germany and Russia, Snyder's study investigates the dual slaughters perpetrated from 1929 through the end of World War II by Hitler and Stalin. Focusing on victims—Ukrainian peasants, Jews, Poles, and Belarusians shot during the Great Terror—rather than on politics, Snyder, a professor of history at Yale, shows how the combined brutality of these two dictators resulted in a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.

Danielle Evans - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self & Patricia Engel - Vida
5 p.m. These two debut collections of fiction feature striking voices and fresh perspectives on the coming-of age narrative. Engel who, like her narrator Sabina, is the daughter of Colombian immigrants, recounts a young woman's navigation through her parents' expectations, college, and assorted relationships as she moves from childhood in New Jersey to her own life in Miami. In Evans's stories, teenage girls and young women face down a variety of troubles stemming from sexism, racism, and their own misjudgments.

Monday, November 15

Harold McGee - Keys to Good Cooking
7 p.m. In On Food and Cooking, McGee showed his mastery of the science of cooking. In his new book, he turns his extensive knowledge of ingredients, food safety, and even appliances, into immediately useful information. From selecting vegetables to the best methods for preparing and presenting them, from navigating unfamiliar terms in a recipe to spotting flawed instructions, McGee's book is an essential field guide to the kitchen.

Tuesday, November 16

David Wiesner - Art & Max
10:30 a.m. Art and Max are lizards with very different approaches to painting. Art paints realistic portraits, while Max has a more abstract style—one he turns on Art, spray-painting him. Wiesner, winner of three Caldecott Medals, takes readers on a vivid tour of the creative process, demonstrating oil painting, airbrushing, water colors, and pen-and-ink, all while trying to restore Art to his unpainted self. (Ages 7-10)

Chris Chivers - The Gun
7 p.m. Chivers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and former Marine. From this dual perspective he tells the history of modern battlefield weaponry, focusing on the AK-47. Product of a Soviet arms-design contest, it was scorned by the Pentagon but has become the most popular firearm in the world.

John Feinstein - The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game at the Bethesda Library
7 p.m. Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson have press passes to the Army-Navy Football Game at FedEx Field. President Obama will be there and the Secret Service is reviewing every detail. Security will be high, and fans should be on their best behavior—but something unprecedented is about to happen…. (Ages 11-15)

Wednesday, November 17

John Feinstein - The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game at Politics & Prose
10:30 a.m. See above.

Salman Rushdie - Luka and the Fire of Life at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
7 p.m. With the same imagination that has made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This new novel centers on Luka, Haroun's younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom by traveling to the Magic World and stealing the Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest full of unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka's fate, and that of his father, will be decided. Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages. Two admission tickets to this event are free with book purchase from P&P or are $12 each without purchase of the book.

Thursday, November 18

Richard Wolffe - Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House

7 p.m. In his bestselling Renegade, Wolffe, an MSNBC analyst and political journalist, chronicled Obama's presidential campaign.  Here he continues his profile, taking a close look at the Chief Executive's first years in office, a project for which he conducted extensive interviews with the President and his senior staff.

Friday, November 19

Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies

7 p.m. This comprehensive study of cancer offers a clinical profile of the disease as well as a cultural and historical overview of its role in human societies. An assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital, Mukherjee presents his subject from all angles, attentive to science as well as to the individual lives swept up in this modern plague.  

Saturday November 20

Justin Spring - Secret Historian
1 p.m. Samuel Steward (1909-1983) was a professor, writer, and friend of Thornton Wilder, Gertrude Stein, and Alice Toklas. As Phil Sparrow he was a Chicago tattoo artist who worked with Alfred Kinsey. Later, as Phil Andros, he wrote gay porn that was a cut above the usual. Spring, biographer of Fairfield Porter and Paul Cadmus, draws on Steward's extensive diaries and files for a colorful picture of pre-Stonewall gay life.

Dirk Hayhurst - The Bullpen Gospels
3:30 p.m. Now a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, Hayhurst, also the author of Baseball America's "Non-Prospect Diary," paid his dues as a long-time relief pitcher in the minor leagues, a job he describes as "mopping up lost causes." His frank and funny memoir of baseball without the distractions of glamour and wealth cuts to the heart of what the game means to those who love it for itself.

Barnet Schecter - George Washington's America
6 p.m. Schecter, a historian and author of the Battle for New York, mined Yale's Sterling Memorial Library collection of George Washington's maps for this unique and beautiful profile of the first president. Washington drew, collected, and relied on maps throughout his life, and this book reproduces scores of charts and other images for a graphic retelling of the Founder's career.

Sunday November 21

Carla Cohen Memorial Tribute

1 p.m. For 26 years, Carla Cohen, our founder, and co-owner of Politics & Prose, brought her energy and intellect to building and maintaining one of the nation's great bookstores.  Please join us as we pay tribute to her incredible legacy in a memorial reception to which customers, colleagues, family and friends are invited.  As the event approaches, we will continue to post more details on the website.

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Thursday, November 11, 7 p.m.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
STACY SCHIFF
CLEOPATRA: A Life (Little, Brown, $29.99)

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff (Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov); A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America) separates fact from fiction to illuminate Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt and one of the most intriguing women of all time. History remembers Cleopatra as an irresistible seductress, but she was also a canny political strategist, a brilliant manager, and a tough negotiator. We have not seen a more influential woman since—much less one who happened to be the single mother of four children, and by a wide margin the wealthiest person in her world.

Click here to purchase $8 tickets in advance or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($30) through Sixth & I. Tickets will be $10 the day of the event. If you have questions, please call 202.408.3100.

Friday November 12, 7:30 p.m.

Embassy of Austria
3524 International Court, NW
MELISSA MÜLLER
LOST LIVES, LOST ART: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice (Vendome, $40)
Müller, an Austrian journalist and author of the renowned book Anne Frank: The Biography, examines the fate of 15 Jewish collectors and the dispersal of their collections - ranging from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings and antique furniture - through forced sale and/or confiscation. She scrutinizes the continuous attempt of the collectors' heirs to regain some of their patrimony and the often difficult legal problems involving museums and other collectors who insist on claiming that they acquired the art in good faith. Click here to RSVP for this FREE event.

 

Sunday, November 14, 2 p.m.

Music Center at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, MD

Sunday at Strathmore with
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes (Knopf, $39.95)

The Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks hosts and celebrates the great American songwriter, who penned some of the most memorable Broadway classics of the last 50 years, from West Side Story to Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd and more. Winner of eight Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Grammy Awards and many other honors, this witty, literary lion of American theater has stories to tell.

Click here to buy your tickets online or call 301-581-5100. Politics & Prose customers are invited to use discount code 1754 to get 10% off! Please note: this event does not include musical performances.

Monday, November 15, 7 p.m.

University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Ave NW
University Auditorium, Building 46 East
|Metro: Van Ness/UDC

LIVE TELECAST OF CORNEL WEST’S INTERVIEW WITH JAY-Z FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

DECODED (Spiegel & Grau, $35)

"When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to do three important things. The first was to make the case that hip hop lyrics - not just my lyrics, but those of every great MC are poetry if you look at them closely enough. The second was I wanted the book to tell a little bit of the story of my generation, to show the context for the choices we made at a violent and chaotic crossroads in recent history. And the third piece was that I wanted the book to show how hip-hop created a way to take a very specific and powerful experience and turn it into a story that everyone in the world could feel and relate to."- Jay-Z

This is a free event and seating is general admission. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Decoded will be available for purchase at the event and a limited number will be pre-signed. For more information, visit hooksbookevents.com.

Thursday, November 18, 7:30 p.m.

Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 S. Park Ave.
Chevy Chase, MD
MAURINE BEASLEY
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: Transformative First Lady (Univ. of Kansas, $29.95)

Although previous books have dealt with Eleanor Roosevelt, this is the first to focus on her White House years. Ms. Beasley, professor emerita of journalism at the University of Maryland, former education editor for the Kansas City Star, and staff writer for the Washington Post, is a scholar with extensive knowledge of Mrs. Roosevelt's life and times and provides in her book a detailed examination of the innovative first lady that will enlighten those who think they already know her.

Please sign up in advance for this FREE event by calling the Village Center at 301-656-2797. Copies of the book, provided by Politics and Prose Bookstore, will be available for purchase.

Sunday, November 21, 5 p.m.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
AVROM BENDAVID-VAL
THE HEAVENS ARE EMPTY: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod (Pegasus, $25.95)

In the 19th century, most of the five million Jews in the Pale of Settlement lived in shtetls. Brimming with life and tradition, these shtetls existed in the shadow of their town's oppressive anti-Jewish laws. By contrast, Trochenbrod was the only freestanding, fully realized Jewish town in history outside biblical Israel. It began with a few settlers searching for freedom from the Russian Czars' oppressive policies, but over the next 130 years Trochenbrod grew from a little row of houses in a clearing in the forest to a bustling regional market, manufacturing, and service town of over 5,000 Jews.

In 1942, Trochenbrod vanished. Her people were slaughtered, her homes and factories were razed to the ground. Yet the Nazis could not destroy the spirit of Trochenbrod. Bendavid-Val, himself a descendant of Trochenbrod, preserves and fosters the memory of Trochenbrod from the stories of those who survived and the few Ukrainian and Polish people alive today who remember visiting this magical place in their childhoods.

Please RSVP for this FREE event at www.sixthandi.org. If you have questions, please call 202.408.3100.

Monday, November 29, 7:30 p.m.

National Geographic Live
National Geographic Society
1600 M Street, NW
DAN BUETTNER
THRIVE: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way (National Geographic, $26)
For his 2008 bestseller The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner described places around the world where people lead unusually long lives. His new book goes beyond the question of simple longevity to explore quality of life. Buettner identifies "happiness hotspots" around the world and offers surprising insights into what it truly means to "thrive." He will share highlights from his research, including his insights on how to thrive in the hectic environment of Washington, D.C.

Click here to buy $18 tickets (NG Members, $16). Click events-at-a-glance for more Fall 2010 National Geographic Live events.

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CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK
(20% off through 11/17/2010)

"In the city/windows light./How many cats/will dance tonight?" On the fire escape, in the park, and on rooftops, they twist, tap, samba, and tango, because it's CATS' NIGHT OUT (Simon & Schuster, $15.99) on Easy Street. Count the classy felines by twos as music fills the night, the rhythm of Caroline Stutson's text gets the toes tappin', and J. Klassen's illustrations of cats boogying in poodle skirts jazz up your reading time. Ages 2-6 -- Dara La Porte

Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here. 

Please join us for Storytime on Mondays at 10:30 a.m., BearSong, the Guitar Man, is back after several years' hiatus, leading stories, songs, finger plays, and more for children from birth to 4 years old and their caregivers.

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SIGNED FIRST EDITION CHILDREN’S BOOK CLUB

Did you miss out on buying a first edition Harry Potter book when J.K. Rowling was at Politics and Prose in 1999? Would you want a signed first edition, first printing of a new book by Chris Van Allsburg, Peter Sis, or David Wiesner? Now you can sign up to have a first edition, first printing of a newly released children’s or young adult book delivered each month directly to your - or another collector’s – doorstep. You can also save on shipping if you pick your book up at the store.

There is no enrollment fee. The cost of each book ($30 or less, when including shipping) is the only charge, which will be processed every month when the books arrive at Politics & Prose. P&P members will receive 20% off on all selections. If you are not currently a member, we encourage you to register for a membership. You will save in the long run, and also receive all of the other member benefits - discounts on bestsellers, author event books, our notifications of the events by mail and email, the opportunity to participate in our four annual storewide member sales, and other discount promotions.

Our first three selections are:

October: IT’S A BOOK by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook, $12.99)
November: ZEN GHOSTS by Jon Muth (Scholastic, $17.99)
December: ART AND MAX by David Wiesner (Clarion, $17.99)

You may enroll in the program for six or twelve months at a time. And into the coming year, you can be sure that we will continue to select books to cherish for years to come! To this end, for an extra $1.50, you can choose to have us protect your book in an acid-free archival book cover.

Call 202-363-1919 or email Amy Kane at the store for more information, or click here to sign up online for the Politics & Prose Children's Signed First Edition Club.

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