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Thursday, January 12, 10:30 a.m.
Christopher Paul Curtis - The Mighty Miss Malone (Wendy Lamb, $15.99) - CANCELED
In Curtis’s Newbery Award-winning novel Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone. This book is her story. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, and her teachers predict she will do great things. But the Depression hits the Malone family hard, and after Deza’s father leaves to find work, the rest of the family follow, ending up in a Michigan Hooverville. Ages 10-14
This event has been canceled. Christopher Paul Curtis's wife went into labor, and he has had to return to Michigan. The event will be rescheduled at a later date.
Thursday, January 12, 7 p.m.
Jodi Kantor in conversation with David Brooks - The Obamas (Little, Brown, $29.99)
Sixth & I Synagogue
600 I Street NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
A Washington correspondent for The New York Times, Kantor has been covering the Obamas since 2007. Her portrait of the First Family is a detailed look at what residence in the White House has meant for their personal lives, their public roles, their work, and their hopes.
This ticketed event will take place at Sixth & I Synagogue. Books and tickets are still available for purchase at the event. Two tickets come free with each purchase of the book ($29.99) or tickets can be purchased separately for $10. Jodi Kantor will appear in conversation with David Brooks.
Thursday, January 12, 7 p.m.
eBook Information Session
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Friday, January 13, 7 p.m.
John Green - The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, $17.99) - SOLD OUT
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
7400 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland
Metro: Bethesda
Tickets for this event are sold out. Please call the store at 202-364-1919 or 1-800-722-0790 if you need more information about the event. You may still order a book autographed by John Green.
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel about teens dealing with terminal illnesses. It features Green’s first female narrator, 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is battling thyroid cancer, though a new medicine has given her a few more years. When she meets Augustus Waters at Cancer Kid Support Group, her feelings for him make her situation even more heartbreaking. This bold and insightful book by the winner of a Printz Award, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award, takes readers through a gamut of emotions. Ages 14 and up.
Friday, January 13, 7 p.m.
Thomas W. Lippman - Saudi Arabia on the Edge: The Uncertain Future of an American Ally (Potomac, $29.95)
In his sixth book on the Middle East, Lippman, a veteran journalist and former adjunct senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, draws on extensive interviews and first-hand observations of Saudi Arabia to outline the challenges this country—wealthy and young, but politically stagnating and repressed—presents to itself and to U.S. interests in the region.
Saturday, January 14, 1 p.m.
Kenneth Pollack & Daniel Byman - The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East (Brookings Institution, $26.95)
From Egypt to Libya, recent uprisings have changed the face of the Middle East. To understand what has happened, why, and what it may mean for the future, a group of Brookings experts on the region have compiled this analysis of the 2011 events. The series of essays here looks broadly at Mideast issues, including U.S. interests, as well as focusing closely on individual countries.
Saturday, January 14, 6 p.m.
John M. Barry - Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (Viking , $35)
Roger Williams (1603-83) founded the Providence Plantations, established the first Baptist church in the New World, and was instrumental in developing the ideas of freedom of religion and separation of church and state that came to define this country. Barry’s account of Williams’s seminal thought provides a vivid picture of the 17th century—essential background for understanding debates still under way today.
Sunday, January 15, 1 p.m.
Natalie Wexler - The Mother Daughter Show (Fuze, $19.95)
In this antic suburban comedy, mothers of students at an elite private high school unravel when asked to collaborate on the annual musical revue. Wexler gently skewers this rite of passage while giving an honest and heartfelt portrayal of mother-daughter relations at a particularly vulnerable moment for all. Warning: details of this book might ring familiar to anyone with inside knowledge of a certain DC prep school!
Sunday, January 15, 5 p.m.
James G. Hershberg - Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam (Stanford Univ, $39.50)
Part of the Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project, of which Hershberg was a founding director, this investigation of the failed 1966 peace initiative undertaken by Poland on behalf of the North Vietnamese uses previously unavailable documents to show that, by bombing Hanoi when he did, Johnson lost a true opportunity to negotiate an end to the war.
Monday, January 16, 7 p.m.
Sally Bedell Smith - Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch (Random House, $30)
A bestselling biographer of public figures including the Clintons and the Kennedys, Smith draws on extensive research and interviews to portray Elizabeth II as both a monarch and a lively individual with a sense of humor. Crowned when she was twenty-five, the Queen has worked with twelve prime ministers and has weathered various personal storms in her sixty-year reign.
Tuesday, January 17, 7 p.m.
Merle Hoffman - Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room (The Feminist Press at CUNY, $18.95)
A former classical pianist, entrepreneur, and influential feminist, Hoffman has been a key figure in the campaign for women’s right to choose. In 1971, she founded Choices, one of the first ambulatory abortion centers. Her memoir is an inspiring look at the early days of the feminist movement and a call-to-continuing-action in the face of challenges to Roe v. Wade.
Wednesday, January 18, 7 p.m.
Wael Ghonim - Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir - CANCELED (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)
Ghonim, a little-known Egyptian in the fall of 2010, launched a Facebook page to protest the death of one Egyptian man. By January, thousands had taken to the streets and hundreds of thousands joined protests on-line; thus, the Arab Spring was born.
In partnership with GW University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.
This event has been canceled as Wael Ghonim is unable to leave Egypt at this time.
Wednesday, January 18, 7 p.m.
Jonathan Gruber - Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works (Hill and Wang, $13.95)
Teaming up with the comics artist Nathan Schreiber, Dr. Gruber, an MIT economics professor who was instrumental in reforming health care in Massachusetts, gives a clear, concise explanation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Thursday, January 19, 5 p.m.
Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler - The Future of Us (Razorbill, $18.99)
at the Bethesda Library
7400 Arlington Rd.
Bethesda, MD
Two acclaimed authors have joined forces to create a compelling mystery of the future. It starts back in 1996, when Emma gets her first computer. Her neighbor, Josh, brings over a CD-ROM, and when Emma downloads the software, her Facebook page for 2011 appears on the screen—though Facebook did not yet exist. Another miracle of technology, or…… Ages 12 and up.
Thursday, January 19, 7 p.m.
Shalom Auslander - Hope: A Tragedy (Riverhead, $26.95)
In his first novel, the author of the irreverent and very funny memoir, Foreskin’s Lament, turns his sharp wit to questions of history and how to live. Solomon Kugel relocates his family to rural Stockton, New York, a blank slate of a town where he hopes to start afresh, but instead stumbles into a living relic in his attic.
Friday, January 20, 7 p.m.
Thomas Caplan - The Spy Who Jumped off the Screen (Viking, $26.95)
Ty Hunter trades the secret life of a spy for the very visible one of a movie star—only to find he needs both identities to keep nuclear warheads from falling into the wrong hands. This riveting thriller by the author of Line of Chance, Parallelogram, and Grace and Favor offers fast-paced and glitzy suspense.
Saturday, January 21, 1 p.m.
Linda Killian - The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents (St. Martin's, $25.99)
Belying the right-left polarity of bipartisan politics, forty percent of Americans describe themselves as independents. These independents are the country’s largest voting bloc and have determined most elections since World War II. In conversations with independents across the country, Killian, a journalist and senior scholar at the Wilson Center, shows how the two-party system is failing these citizens, and outlines solutions.
Saturday, January 21, 6 p.m.
Stephanie Deutsch - You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South (Northwestern Univ., $24.95)
In 1911 Booker T. Washington met Julius Rosenwald at a Chicago luncheon. The president of Sears, Roebuck, Rosenwald had a fortune and wanted to help educate poor children. Together, he and Washington built some 5,000 schoolhouses in rural African-American communities. Deutsch, a D.C.-based writer and critic, tells the story of this remarkable collaboration and profiles the lives of the two men both before and after their meeting.
Sunday, January 22, 2 p.m.
Lori Stewart - If I Had as Many Grandchildren as you . . . (Palmar, $19.95)
In rollicking rhymes and colorful photographs, Stewart’s Grand Paws, a lion, tells a stumped grandparent all the wonderful ways to spend time with grandchildren. From making sand castles on a beach to singing at the top of their lungs, children and grandparents can discover the world, enjoy each others’ company, and make lasting memories. Ages 3 to 103.
Sunday, January 22, 5 p.m.
Patricia Schultz - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, the Second Edition: Completely Revised and Updated with Over 200 New Entries (Workman, $19.95)
The long-time travel writer and executive producer of the Travel Channel’s 1000 Places reality show, Schultz has compiled a book of dream trips complete with practical, how-to information. From the Great Wall of China to the Lewis and Clark trail, from Robert Stevenson’s home to a special hotel in Venice, this guide tells you what to see and why.
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