How to Register Your Book with Us
1. Choose Your Book
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Book Group Discount
Each book your group reads must be registered with us. Registering your book ensures that we will have enough copies available for your group.
Don't forget to ask for your book group discount when you purchase your group's selection for 20% off the title.
It's our way to thank you for purchasing your group's books through us.
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Forthcoming Author Events
At Book Group Night, several of you asked that we list upcoming author events that might be of interest to book groups, so groups could either read the author's newest release or explore his or her older titles prior to attending the event.
Here are a few writers - and their books - we thought might interest our groups.
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Diane Ackerman
One Hundred Names for Love
Sunday, April 10, 5pm
We also recommend:
The Zookeeper's Wife
Ann Packer
Swim Back to Me
Thursday, April 28, 7pm
We also recommend:
Songs Without Words
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Upcoming In-store Book Group Meetings
Travel
April 5, 7:00 pm
Country Driving
by Peter Hessler
Futurist
April 6, 7:30 pm
Shock of Gray
by Ted Fishman
Capital James Joyce
April 7, 7:30 pm
The Divine Comedy: Canto 23
by Dante Alighieri
Women's Biography
April 11, 7:30 pm
Enemies of the People
by Kati Marton
Evening Fiction
April 12, 7:30 pm
Purge
by Sofi Oksanen
NEW!
Lez Read
April 13, 7:30 pm
Girl Meets Boy
by Ali Smith
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
April 14, 7:30 pm
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Spirituality
April 17, 6 pm
Nothing Special: Living Zen
by Charlotte J. Beck
Legacies of American Exceptionalism
April 18, 7:30 pm
Green Grass, Running Water
by Thomas King
Spanish Language/El Grupo de Espanol
April 19, 7:30 pm
Rina de Gatos
by Eduardo Mendoza
Daytime
April 20, 12:30 pm
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Public Affairs
April 25, 7:30 pm
Inside the Kingdom
by Robert Lacey
Poetry
April 26, 7:30 pm
English Victorian Poetry: An Anthologyedited by Paul Negri Graphic Novel April 27, 7:30 pm From Hellby Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell Fascinating History April 28, 7:30 pm Grand Avenues by Scott Berg Classics May 2, 7:30 pm The Nicomachean Ethics, Books 8 & 9 by Aristotle Travel May 3, 7:00 pm The Discovery of France by Graham Robb |
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Howard Jacobson Reading on April 7
Howard Jacobson, author of the 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Finkler Question, will join us for a reading on April 7 at 7pm.
The event will be held at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Chinatown. Tickets are $10 each.
To purchase tickets, you may visit the store, call us (202-364-1919) or buy online through our secure website.
There are no complimentary tickets with the purchase of a book.
The Finkler Question is an unflinching satire about aging and anti-Semitism, exclusion and belonging. Julian Treslove, an unmarried Gentile, is mugged one evening as he departs from a dinner with his two closest friends, both of whom are Jewish. Treslove believes the act of violence was misdirected anti-Semitism in this funny, clever, and moving modern novel.
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New in Paperback, Perfect for Book Groups
 A Visit From the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
Egan experiments with language, with narrative style, with voice. Some of her final chapters explore the way technology may shape language in the very near future. Egan herself may be the goon squad, and she sets her sights on the novel as genre and forces it forward, like her characters, into the future. Missed Jennifer Egan's event in the store? Click here to listen to or download the event.  Something Red
by Jennifer Gilmore
In this family drama set in Washington, DC during the Carter administration, Gilmore intersperses the lives of the four members of the Goldstein household with the politics of the Cold War's waning days. The circuitous plot reaches into the minds of each major character as the encroaching changes of the new decade and the secrets of the past force the family to reexamine each others' lives. Gilmore fully encompasses the motivations and mindset of each family member in this suspenseful family saga.  The Solitude of Prime Numbers
by Paolo Giordano Mattia is haunted by his role in the loss of his sister. Alice cannot shake the effects of a skiing accident. Emotionally and psychologically damaged, the two lead lives of solitude until they are thrust into a tentative friendship in high school. They eventually part only to come together again - solely by chance - years later. Giordano's beautiful, cleanly written novel, expertly translated from the Italian, is an intimate and thoughtful meditation on what it means to be alone and how our lives intersect with others' in unexpected ways.
 Making Toast
by Roger Rosenblatt
In this unsentimental memoir about coming to terms with unexpected loss and the strength it takes to rebuild a family, Rosenblatt crafts a humorous and moving account of his family's life after the loss of his daughter, Amy, at the age of thirty-eight. In the era of explosive memoirs that take the reader on a wild ride, Rosenblatt instead opts for the quieter realm of domestic life as he and his wife move-in with their son-in-law and integrate themselves into the lives of their three grandchildren. Tender and moving, this is a memoir filled with humor and warmth.
 A Mountain of Crumbs
by Elena Gorokhova The universal and political are brought into sharp relief against the personal in this striking memoir about a rebellious teenage girl coming of age in the Soviet Union of the 1960s. As Gorokhova struggles against the restrictions of her homeland - including the possibly subversive act of learning English - her contentious relationship with her overbearing and domineering mother become a metaphor for the authoritarian regime of the Soviet era. The details about Gorokhova's personal life define this stunning memoir that is both comic and anguished. Enter to receive a free copy of A Mountain of Crumbs! E-mail bookgroups@politics-prose.com with "Book Giveaway" in the subject line. We'll randomly select one winner on Wednesday, April 13. We'll notify the winner by e-mail.  Hellhound on His Trail
by Hampton Sides
The story of Martin Luther King's assassination is well-known: on April 4, 1968, he was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis by James Earl Ray. In this thrilling, nonfiction account of the transoceanic manhunt for Ray, Hampton Sides delves into the little known details of Ray's character, the FBI's search for him, and the Civil Rights leader he murdered. Juxtaposed in this fast-paced narrative, King's altruistic, driven persona is placed alongside Ray's hollow, psychopathic character in such a way that the true tragedy of King's assassination is sharply felt. |
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Author Event Audio Recordings
Our extensive archive of audio recordings from our daily author events are perfect for book groups - hook up your iPod or pop in a CD and listen to part or all of an event as a group.
Here are a few past events our staff is especially fond of and which we thought were perfect for groups.
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John McPhee at Politics & Prose
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The Imperfectionsts
by Tom Rachman
(January 7, 2011)
Rachman pleased the crowd with his wry, self-deprecating humor and thoughtful insights into journalism and novel writing (and journalists cum novelists) when he appeared at our store for his witty and satirical novel about ex-pat journalists working on an English-language newspaper in Rome.
Click here to listen to or download the event.
Sag Harbor
by Colson Whitehead
(June 15, 2010)
Whitehead takes readers back to the 1980s in this coming-of-age story filled with nostalgia, angst, and humor. Benji Cooper spends his largely unsupervised summer in Sag Harbor, Long Island learning to fit in with the friends he sees just a few months a year, and figuring out the adult he is becoming. The author's funny and pop-culture laden reading had the crowd in the palm of his hand. Click here to listen to or download the event.
Silk Parachute
by John McPhee
(April 12, 2010)
What can't John McPhee write about? Is there a topic, however seemingly benign, that doesn't turn interesting beneath his engaging examination of topics large and small? The Pulitzer Prize-winning McPhee has earned a large following over the years and his eager fans overwhelmed the event for Silk Parachutes, the "greatest hits" of McPhee's career. The book collects essays from his twenty-seven published works.
Click here to listen to or download the event.
by Frank Deford
(August 19,2010)
Deford's story is set against the backdrop of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where young American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow falls for Horst, the son of a German diplomat. The novel discusses how love and politics can co-exist, and whether love once lost can be regained, or even if it should. Deford's signature voice made this event one to remember.
Forthcoming in paperback on June 28, 2011. Call 202-364-1919 or e-mail to pre-order a copies for your group.
Click here to listen to or download the event.
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