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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.  In the last months of her illness, I chided Carla for abandoning her devoted bookselling community, including me, by dying. I was not only losing a cherished friend, but both a partner and a partnership as well.

This past week I found an article I had written in a P&P newsletter seventeen years ago: "'If marriages are made in heaven, where are partnerships made?'" Our partnership was made through the Washington Post classifieds." (If you want details, you have to read our history.)  In that newsletter, I went on to say about our partnership, "We found we had much more in common than we initially knew: we were both the same age, both had children and master's degrees, and both were trying to find a vocation for the second half of our lives. We also discovered that we were very different, and from the beginning those differences worked to our advantage: we very much complemented each other in our strengths and compensated for each other's weaknesses. I'm frequently called Carla as is Carla called Barbara by members of our staff, except for our manager, Ron Tucker, who addresses us simply as "You guys." 

This Sunday I will be grieving the end of this partnership, but I hope everyone will join me in celebrating Carla's life.  She brought a great deal of joy to those around her and, speaking for myself, she had the tremendous gift of extracting the best in all the people who were lucky enough to be counted among her friends.

At 1 p.m., please join us as we pay tribute to her incredible legacy in a memorial reception to which customers, colleagues, family and friends are invited.  We will host an organized program of brief prepared tributes to Carla's memory. As with our larger author events, we expect a very large crowd and it will be difficult to access several portions of the store. We will not be setting out chairs. Guests should anticipate that this will be a STANDING ROOM ONLY EVENT, and we will only provide a few chairs for those truly in need, so if you require special accommodations, please do plan on arriving early. Parking will be an issue, so please take that into consideration when planning transportation. If you are unable to attend this event, C-SPAN will be recording it, so you will be able to watch the whole memorial program once it is posted in its online digital archive.

Although we will be open for business during the memorial, our upstairs registers will be closed from 1-3 p.m.; so purchases may be brought downstairs to booksellers in the Children's Department.  We will also be running a slide show of photographs, and plan to have display posters with blown-up of newspaper articles, letters from the archives, and a few pictures. After the organized program, please stay as long as you like for reminiscences. From approximately 2:30-4pm, we will be serving light refreshments, buffet-style.  We hope that you will join us.

In conclusion, we would like to acknowledge the very generous support from some of our publishing friends.  Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, W.W. Norton, Perseus, Macmillan, and Random House have all made donations to help defray the costs of this event. 

 

Updated and new event information

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)
Former President Carter kept a diary during his term as Chief Executive, and by the time he left office he had written some 5,000 pages on issues such as energy, the Camp David Accords, and the Iranian hostage crisis, as well as domestic politics. Now he has gathered selections from these journals, adding his current reflections on past events.

Please note: 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. 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 three 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.
OLIVER SACKS
THE MIND'S EYE (Knopf, $26.95) at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
RESCHEDULED DATE AND LOCATION NOW CONFIRMED
Books and tickets are available now at Politics & Prose.
What would it be like suddenly to be unable to read? Or not to be able to recognize your children? Or, like Dr. Sacks, to lose vision to one side? In his latest collection of essays on the frighteningly fragile, amazingly resilient human brain, the neurologist and author most recently of Musicophilia offers case studies of people who have lost certain cognitive abilities yet who nonetheless lead fairly normal lives as their brains find ways to compensate for the damage.Two admission tickets to this event are free with book purchase from P&P or are $8 each without purchase of the book.

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. 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 to survive and support each other in this confined space. Jack's narrative details the challenging process of individuation and recovery from trauma and deprivation. Donoghue's skillful storytelling reveals her characters' confusion and resilience, and she will have you caring and rooting for them as they deal with this life they never chose. - Bill Leggett

 

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DECODED
signed by JAY-Z
(Spiegel & Grau, $35)
Hardcover - November 2010
First editions, first printings
From the author: "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."

REVOLUTION
signed by Jennifer Donnelly
(Delacorte, $18.99)
Hardcover - October 2010
First editions, first printings.
The reviewers are really excited about this great new release for teen readers which is a contender for this year's Newbery and Printz awards.  It offers "sharply articulated, raw emotions and insights into science and art; ambition and love; history's ever-present influence; and music's immediate, astonishing power." (Booklist) "A long strange trip . . . back and forth between present-tense Andi and past-tense Alexandrine, between contemporary Paris and the filthy, terrorized streets of Robespierre's day, and deep into the clammy, bone-filled catacombs that underlie the city." (The Wall Street Journal) And finally, "As in her previous novel for young adults, the award-winning A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly combines impeccable historical research with lively, fully fashioned characters to create an indelible narrative." (Book Page)

Click here to see more of our Signed Books. Also, for only $1.50 additional per book, Politics & Prose now offers an Archival Book Covering Service. Click here to add this item to your order, or add a note in the comments field when you check out online - or tell the cashier over the phone or at the store. These clear acid-free archival book covers will keep your signed, first-edition, and collectible books in perfect condition for years to come!

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We now have single Hanukkah cards on a spinner rack by the front door. The rest of the Hanukkah gifts and boxed cards are by the events table. Notably, if you are looking for an innovative gift, we have a newly released edition of the popular gameAPPLES TO APPLES ($24.95) for Jewish children and families.

We also have a wide variety of other new and modern art jigsaw puzzles and games, as well as the always popular Bananagrams, Appletters, and Pairs in Pears on hand.

Our boxed Christmas cards will be available beginning this week, and individual Christmas cards will begin appearing this weekend.

Our engagement calendars are positioned in the Fiction Room around the Fiction desk, along with many wall calendars from a wide variety of publishers and suppliers. And don't forget that, while we always have address books, thank you cards, boxed note cards, birthday books, and guest books, we are always receiving new selections, which we display in the main stationery display at the back of the store near the travel section.

Finally when thinking of gift ideas, consider our Book-a-Month program and our Signed First Editions Club. Whether for an adult or for a child, our hand-chosen monthly book subscriptions can be enjoyed all year long and will be appreciated for years to come.

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All Politics & Prose Weekly Hardcover Bestsellers are 20% off for Members.
Click here to receive the benefits of Politics & Prose membership.
Click the book titles for more information about these featured books.

FICTION

1. Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak; translated , by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon, $30) -- Signed copies still available
2. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28)
3. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, by David Sedaris, illus. , by Ian Falconer (Little, Brown, $21.99)
4. By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25)
5. The Confession, by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95)
6. Law of Attraction, by Allison Leotta (Touchstone, $25)
7. Great House, by Nicole Krauss (W. W. Norton, $24.95)
8. Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carre (Viking, $27.95)
9. To the End of the Land, by David Grossman (Knopf, $26.95)
10. Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon (McPherson, $24) - National Book Award Finalist
11. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson (Random House, $25)
12. How to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead, $25.95)

Click here for our fiction paperback bestsellers.

 

NONFICTION

1. Decision Points, by George W. Bush (Crown, $35)
2. Life, by Keith Richards (Little, Brown, $29.99)
3. Bob Dylan in America, by Sean Wilentz (Doubleday, $28.95)
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (Crown, $26)
5. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, by Condoleezza Rice (Crown, $27) - - Signed first editions still available
6. Travels in Siberia, by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30)
7. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, by Stephen Sondheim (Knopf , $39.95)
8. First Family: Abigail and John Adams, by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf, $27.95)
9. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, by Jane Leavy (HarperCollins, $27.99) -- signed copies still available
10. Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown, $29.99)
11. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins, $27.99)
12. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices, by Noah Feldman (Twelve, $30) - event on November 29

Click here for our non-fiction paperback bestsellers.

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If you can't attend a talk, but would like to reserve a signed copy or a recorded author talk, click the title links to purchase online. P&P members save 20% on these author event titles.

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: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
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. 

Monday, November 22

Eugene Robinson - Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
7 p.m. The outcome of some 140 years of black American history, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow, the civil rights era, and affirmative action, has been a splintering of black Americans into four distinct groups, Robinson argues. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist cites a small, influential elite; a large mainstream middle class; recent African and Caribbean immigrants; and an impoverished, often hopeless minority.   

Tuesday, November 23

Alan Khazei - Big Citizenship & Bill Shore - The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
7 p.m. Khazei is the co-founder of City Year, an international non-profit organization through which young people mentor, tutor, and lead children. In his inspiring new book he outlines the ways and means of social entrepreneurship. Shore, too, has an ambitious vision for social change. Founder and director of Share Our Strength, in his third book he recounts the work of a group of scientists determined to develop a vaccine for malaria.

Wednesday, November 24 - NO EVENTS

 

Thursday, November 25 - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - Politics & Prose will closed.

Friday, November 26

Laura Krauss Melmed - Eight Winter Nights
10 a.m. Share some Hanukkah treats with author Laura Krauss Melmed, author of I Love You as Much, and Moishe's Miracle, as she signs her newest book. Celebrate Hanukkah with joyful action rhymes, festive poems, and exuberant scenes of family life, from traditional holiday foods to the story of the Maccabees. Illustrator Elisabeth Schlossberg captures the warm sights, sounds, and tastes of this wintertime festival. (Ages 3-7)

Saturday - Sunday, November 27 - 28

NO EVENTS

Monday, November 29

Noah Feldman - Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
7 p.m. 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.

Tuesday, November 30

President Jimmy Carter - White House Diary (Signing Only)
11:30 a.m. Former President Carter kept a diary during his term as Chief Executive, and by the time he left office he had written some 5,000 pages on issues such as energy, the Camp David Accords, and the Iranian hostage crisis, as well as domestic politics. Now he has gathered selections from these journals, adding his current reflections on past events.

Gay Talese - The Silent Season of a Hero
7 p.m. Talese, author of Honor Thy Father, A Writer's Life, and many other books, has been an intermittent sports reporter since high school. This collection of his writing on boxing, baseball, soccer, and other athletic competitions showcases his ability to zero in on the telling moment—as often one of vulnerability as of strength—rather than reveling in the spectacle.

Wednesday, December 1 - LATE OPENING - Store opens at 10 a.m.

Matt Taibbi - Griftopia
7 p.m. Taibbi, author of The Great Derangement, investigated the economic crisis and found that it's also a political one. In his exposé of the grifter class—the heavy hitters of the financial industry and the politicians in their pockets—he tracks the upward mobility of money through the complex machinations that caused a commodities bubble, doomed any meaningful health-care reform, and could have further profound consequences.

Thursday, December 2

David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill - A Rope and a Prayer

7 p.m. Rohde and Mulvihill have written a dual account of the seven months in 2008 that Rohde, a New York Times reporter, was held hostage by the Taliban in Pakistan. While Mulvihill tried to free him using the appropriate diplomatic channels, her husband witnessed the brutality and irrationality of his fundamentalist Muslim captors. This juxtaposition of Taliban and Western world views dramatizes the extreme difficulty of the two sides' ever understanding each other.

Friday - Sunday, December 3 - 5

P&P Storewide Holiday Member Sale

Sunday, December 5

The Washington Chorus - Christmas with the Washington Chorus
4 - 5 p.m. The Washington Chorus will be caroling in front of the store.  The Chorus, now in its 50th year, has a brand new CD, Christmas with the Washington Chorus, its first release with new director Julian Wachner. The Chorus will present A Candlelight Christmas in five concerts at the Kennedy Center and the Music Center at Strathmore beginning December 18. See www.thewashingtonchorus.org.

To see the complete schedule and to purchase any of the above books, click here.

 

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Politics & Prose supplies books to these book signing events. Reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization.

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.

Friday, November 19, 8 – 10 a.m.

Greater Washington Board of Trade Morning Star Series
Ronald Reagan Building
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN
A GLOBAL LIFE: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank (PublicAffairs, $29.95)
As president of the World Bank for a decade, Wolfensohn tackled world poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in a fundamental arena of change. A Global Life is the autobiography of the larger-than-life, visionary financier and humanitarian who led the World Bank through one of its most intense and tumultuous decades in the struggle against global poverty. For more information and to register, visit www.hooksbookevents.com. $150 registration ($75 GWBT Members) includes a copy of the book.

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.

Thursday, December 2, 6:30 p.m.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown

JACQUELINE JULES
THE ZIZ AND THE HANUKKAH MIRACLE (Kar-Ben, $7.95)
Come in your PJs to celebrate the second night of Hanukkah with a story read by the author! Children can have their photo taken with Ziz, the puppet. Enjoy latkes and sufganiyot, play dreidel, sing songs, light the menorah, and eat a light dinner. Program ends at 8 p.m. The cost is $10/person; children under 2 enter for free. Click here to purchase tickets. If you have questions, please call 202.408.3100.

Friday, December 3, 7:30 p.m.

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, S.E.

EDWARD P. JONES - ALL AUNT HAGAR'S CHILDREN (Harper, $14.95)
NAM LE - THE BOAT (Vintage, $15)

Edward P. Jones' first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award. His second collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Jones was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World. A 2004 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, he lives in Washington, DC.

Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. For his first book, The Boat, he received numerous awards, including the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, and was named a U.S. National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Fiction Selection. The Boat has been translated into thirteen languages and its stories widely anthologized. Le is the fiction editor of the Harvard Review. He divides his time between Australia and abroad.

The PEN/Malamud Award and Reading were established by Bernard Malamud's family to honor excellence in the art of the short story.Click here to buy $15 tickets and for more information.

Monday, December 6, 7 p.m.

White Oak Library
11701 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD

THOMAS KAUFMAN
DRINK THE TEA (Minotaur, $24.99)

Emmy-winning director and cameraman Thomas Kaufman will present and sign his private eye mystery novel, which takes place in Washington, DC and provides a riveting tale of the adventures of private eye Willis Gidney. The book won the Private Eye Writers' of America "Best First Private Eye Novel" award. Publishers Weekly called the novel "a taut, compelling tale." Booklist said that the book's dialogue is "clever and often quirky" and that "fans of private eye novels will love this one."

For information about this FREE event, contact please call 240-773-9555.

Wednesday, December 8, 7:30 p.m.

National Geographic Society
1600 M Street, NW

WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD
WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD: Five Decades (National Geographic, $50)
William Albert Allard's photographs display deep empathy for the lives of ordinary people, connecting us to unexplored places and cultures. His distinguished career has taken him around the world, and to some of America's unique communities. The evening celebrates a new National Geographic book, which offers a stunning retrospective of his work. In a special guest appearance, acclaimed country folk musician Terri Allard will perform a tribute to her father.

Co-sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton. Click here to buy $18 tickets (3-part series $48); NG Member: $16 (3-part series: $42).

Friday, December 10, 2 p.m.

Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 S. Park Ave.
Chevy Chase, MD

CAROL ERON RIZZOLI
THE HOUSE AT ROYAL OAK: Starting Over & Rebuilding a Life One Room at a Time (Black Dog & Leventhal, $22.95)
In 2001, Ms. Rizzoli and her husband bought a dilapidated farmhouse in the tiny village of Royal Oak, Maryland, on the edge of the Chesapeake Bay. They spent two years transforming it into a bed and breakfast- a job that took them twice as long and cost three times as much as they had originally estimated. The book tells the amazing story of restoring a house and reinventing themselves at the same time. 

Carol Rizzoli has taught at Boston University, served as book editor for The Washington Post, and was a managing editor of publications for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.  Hugo Rizzoli owned The Bookstall in Potomac for twenty years and then trained as a chef before starting a catering business and bringing his skills to the new B&B venture. 

Please sign up in advance for this FREE event by calling the Village Center at 301-656-2797.

 

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CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK
(20% off through 11/24/2010)

Sunday dinner at Aunt Mabel’s is always a treat. Friends and family gather to enjoy an amazing feast of roast chicken, yams, and mac and cheese. Everyone is thankful for the bounty, but DON’T LET AUNT MABEL BLESS THE TABLE (Blue Apple Books, $16.99) or no one will get to eat. After blessing the food, Aunt Mabel blesses the children and the grown-ups, the schools, the teachers, even the chairs. Vanessa Brantley Newton’s humorous picture book uses rhyme to celebrate the traditions of food and family. This book is the perfect complement to your Thanksgiving feast. Ages 3-8. Heidi Powell

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

For upcoming events and more from the Children and Teens' Department, click here.

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