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SUMMARY:James L. May reads from his debut novel The Body Outside the Kremlin
DESCRIPTION:Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here\, hundreds of miles from civilization\, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge\, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching\, Tolya Bogomolov\, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence\, hopes an acquaintance he’s been cultivating will lead to a less brutal work assignment\, maybe even a little more bread in his ration. Knowing Gennady Antonov holds a privileged position restoring the monks’ seized collection of icons ought to improve Tolya’s odds of reassignment. But when Antonov’s body is discovered floating frozen in the bay\, their connection turns dangerous. At first the authorities question Tolya\, but then he’s mystified when they assign him to assist the elderly detective investigating the case—but better to find the real killer than have the murder pinned on him. Digging into Antonov’s secrets turns up strange expropriations of the museum’s icons\, rumors of an escape conspiracy among White Army officers\, and an illicit affair with a female prisoner who won’t tell all she knows. To avoid becoming the murderer’s next victim\, Tolya must defy Solovetsky’s unforgiving regime and make ruthless use of his fellow prisoners. Putting his story to paper at last means reckoning the true cost of his survival.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-l-may-reads-from-his-debut-novel-the-body-outside-the-kremlin/
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SUMMARY:Maya C. Popa reads from her debut collection of poems American Faith
DESCRIPTION:“Maya C. Popa’s poems move with a confident\, quick-as-dread sweep toward an alarmingly clear articulation of what it is to be an American ‘under/ duress by a language\, its failure to imagine the present world or next…’ Her lyrics address our huge unknowns\, when ‘The government is cancelled/ but not the body\,’ tides of unsorted information threaten to sink us\, and in the poisoned sea ‘the shame is that the parrotfish/cannot be remade from scratch.’ American Faith marries a richly detailed music to this careening hour.” —Mark Doty\, author of Deep Lane \nMaya Catherine Popa is a Romanian-American poet and author of two chapbooks\, The Bees Have Been Cancelled  and You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave\, published in 2018 (DIAGRAM chapbook series). She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation and the Hippocrates Society\, and her writing has appeared in Poetry\, Kenyon Review\, Poetry London\, and Tin House among others. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly\, and she directs the Creative Writing Program and teaches English literature at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maya-c-popa-reads-from-her-debut-collection-of-poems-american-faith/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T183000
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SUMMARY:Michael Frank launches his debut novel What is Missing
DESCRIPTION:Costanza Ansaldo\, a half-Italian and half-American translator\, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband\, an eminent writer\, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth\, and there she meets\, first\, Andrew Weissman\, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old\, and\, soon afterward\, his father\, Henry Weissman\, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in—as it happens—reproductive medicine.With three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence—of a child\, a parent\, a partner\, or a clear sense of identity—What is Missing offers Costanza\, Andrew\, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York\, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father\, a son\, and—for Costanza—a potential mother.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-frank-launches-his-debut-novel-what-is-missing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T180000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill presents her new book on Jerome Robbins
DESCRIPTION:He was famous for reinventing the Broadway musical\, creating a vernacular American ballet\, pushing the art form to new boundaries where it had never gone before\, integrating dance seamlessly with character\, story and music\, and as Associate Artistic Director\, Ballet Master\, and Co-Artistic Director\, with George Balanchine\, shaping the New York City Ballet with daring and brio for more than five decades through his often startling choreography in ballet’s classical idiom. The titanic choreographer\, revealed in his own words—the closest we will get to a memoir/autobiography—from his never-before-published letters\, journals\, and diaries. Amanda Vaill\, draws on the vast and closely held Robbins’ archives of his writings to give us a sense of hisrange as a thinker and artist\, as well as a revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant. \n  \nAmanda Vaill will be in conversation  \nwith author Molly Haskell
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-presents-her-new-book-on-jerome-robbins/
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SUMMARY:Jim Tilley launches his debut novel Against the Wind
DESCRIPTION:A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished\nseparatist cause and his marriage and family. An accomplished engineer is chronically unable to impress his more accomplished father sufficiently to be named head of the international wind technology company his father founded. The Quebec separatist party’s Minister of Natural Resources\, a divorcée\, finds herself caught between her French-Canadian lover and an unexpected English-Canadian suitor.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jim-tilley-launches-his-debut-novel-against-the-wind/
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SUMMARY:Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist launch their debut novel The Woman in the Park
DESCRIPTION:When Manhattanite Sarah Rock meets a mysterious and handsome stranger in the park\, she is drawn to him. Sarah wants to get away from her daily routine\, her cheating husband and his crazy mistress\, her frequent sessions with her heartless therapist\, and her moody children. But nothing is as it seems. Her life begins to unravel when a woman from the park goes missing and Sarah becomes the prime suspect in the woman’s disappearance. Her lover is nowhere to be found\, her husband is suspicious of her\, and her therapist is talking to the police. \nWith no one to trust\, Sarah must face her inner demons and uncover the truth to prove her innocence. \nA thriller that questions what is real-with its shocking twists\, secrets\, and lies—The Woman in the Park will leave readers breathless.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/teresa-sorkin-and-tullan-holmqvist-launch-their-debut-novel-the-woman-in-the-park/
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Vatner reads from his debut novel Carnegie Hill
DESCRIPTION:At age thirty-three\, Penelope “Pepper” Bradford has no career\, no passion and no children. Her intrusive parents still treat her like a child. Moving into the Chelmsford Arms with her fiancé Rick\, an up-and-coming financier\, and joining the co-op board give her some control over her life—until her parents take a gut dislike to Rick and urge Pepper to call off the wedding. When\, the week before the wedding\, she glimpses a trail of desperate text messages from Rick’s obsessed female client\, Pepper realizes that her parents might be right. She looks to her older neighbors in the building to help decide whether to stay with Rick\, not realizing that their marriages are in crisis\, too. Birdie and George’s bond frays after George is forced into retirement at sixty-two. And Francis alienates Carol\, his wife of fifty years\, and everyone else he knows\, after being diagnosed with an inoperable heart condition. To her surprise\, Pepper’s best model for love may be a clandestine romance between Caleb and Sergei\, a porter and a doorman. \nJonathan Vatner’s Carnegie Hill is a belated-coming-of-age novel about sustaining a marriage—and knowing when to walk away. It chronicles the lives of wealthy New Yorkers and the staff who serve them\, as they suffer together and rebound\, struggle to free themselves from family entanglements\, deceive each other out of love and weakness\, and fumble their way to honesty.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jonathan-vatner-reads-from-his-debut-novel-carnegie-hill/
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SUMMARY:Elyssa Friedland launches her new book The Floating Feldmans
DESCRIPTION:Sink or swim. Or at least that’s what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for her entire family. It’s been over a decade since the Feldman clan has spent more than twenty-four hours under the same roof\, but Annette is determined to celebrate her seventieth birthday the right way. Just this once\, they are going to behave like an actual family. \nToo bad her kids didn’t get the memo. \nBetween the troublesome family secrets\, old sibling rivalries\, and her two teenage grandkids\, Annette’s birthday vacation is looking more and more like the perfect storm. Adrift together on the open seas\, the Feldmans will each face the truths they’ve been ignoring—and learn that the people they once thought most likely to sink them are actually the ones who help them stay afloat.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elyssa-friedland-launches-her-new-book-the-floating-feldmans/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190522T180000
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SUMMARY:Roxana Robinson reads from her new book Dawson's Fall
DESCRIPTION:In Dawson’s Fall\, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents\, we see America at its most fragile\, fraught\, and malleable. Set in 1889\, in Charleston\, South Carolina\, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace\, and spans the life of her tragic hero\, Frank Dawson\, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political\, social\, and moral landscape. \nDawson\, a man of fierce opinions\, came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states’ rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier\, finding a platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children\, he tried to lead a life that adhered to his staunch principles: equal rights\, rule of law\, and nonviolence\, unswayed by the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn’t control the political whims of his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of citizenship\, equality\, justice\, and slavery\, his newspaper rapidly lost readership\, and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor\, which threatened to stain his family’s reputation. In the end\, Dawson—a man in many ways representative of the country at this time—was felled by the very violence he vehemently opposed.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/roxana-robinson-reads-from-her-new-book-dawsons-fall/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T180000
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SUMMARY:Eugene Linden reads from his debut novel Deep Past
DESCRIPTION:A routine dig in Kazakhstan takes a radical turn for thirty-two-year-old anthropologist Claire Knowland when a stranger turns up at the site with a bizarre find from a remote section of the desolate Kazakh Steppe. Her initial skepticism of this mysterious discovery gives way to a realization that the find will shake the very foundations of our understanding of evolution and intelligence. Corrupt politics of Kazakhstan force Claire to take reckless chances with the discovery.  Among the allies she gathers in her fight to save herself and bring the discovery to light is Sergei Anachev\, a brilliant but enigmatic Russian geologist who becomes her unlikely protector even as he deals with his own unknown crisis. Ultimately\, Claire finds herself fighting not just for the discovery and her academic reputation\, but for her very life as great power conflict engulfs the unstable region and an unscrupulous oligarch attempts to take advantage of the chaos. Drawing on Eugene Linden’s celebrated non-fiction investigations into what makes humans different from other species\, this international thriller mixes fact and the fantastical\, the realities of academic politics\, and high stakes geopolitics—engaging the reader every step of the way.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/eugene-linden-reads-from-his-debut-novel-deep-past/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T180000
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SUMMARY:Sande Boritz Berger reads from her new book Split-Level
DESCRIPTION:In Split-Level\, set as the nation recoils from Nixon\, Alex Pearl is about to commit the first major transgression of her life. But why shouldn’t she remain an officially contented\, soon-to-turn-thirty wife? She’s got a lovely home in an upscale Jersey suburb\, two precocious daughters\, and a charming husband\, Donny. But Alex can no longer deny she craves more—some infusion of passion into the cul-de-sac world she inhabits. \nAfter she receives a phone call from her babysitter’s mother reporting that Donny took the teen for a midnight ride\, promising he’d teach her how to drive\, Alex insists they attend Marriage Mountain\, the quintessential 1970s “healing couples sanctuary.” Donny accedes—but soon becomes obsessed with the manifesto A Different Proposition and its vision of how multiple couples can live together in spouse-swapping bliss. At first Alex scoffs\, but soon she gives Donny much more than he bargained for. After he targets the perfect couple to collude in his fantasy\, Alex discovers her desire for love escalating to new heights—along with a willingness to risk everything. Split-Level evokes a pivotal moment in the story of American matrimony\, a time when it seemed as if an open marriage might open hearts as wel
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sande-boritz-berger-reads-from-her-new-book-split-level/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T193000
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SUMMARY:Kate White launches her new Bailey Weggins Mystery Such a Perfect Wife
DESCRIPTION:On a sunny morning in late September\, Shannon Blaine sets off for a jog along the rural roads near her home in Lake George\, New York.  It’s her usual a.m. routine\, her “me time” after dropping the kids off at school…except on this day she never returns. Is her husband lying when he says he has no clue where she is? Could Shannon have split on her own\, overwhelmed by the pressures of her life? Or is she the victim of a sexual predator who had been prowling the area and snatched her before she knew what was happening.True crime writer Bailey Weggins\, on assignment for the website Crime Beat\, heads north from New York City to report on the mysterious disappearance. An anonymous tip soon leads Bailey to a grisly\, bone-chilling discovery. Every town has its secrets\, Bailey reminds herself\, and nothing is ever as perfect as it seems. She keeps digging for answers until—when it’s almost too late—she unearths the terrifying truth. \n\n\n  \nKate White will be in discussion with forensic medicine expert Barbara Butcher on    “How to Commit the Perfect Murder”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-white-reads-from-her-new-bailey-weggins-mystery/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190423T193000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Rose launches her new book D-Day Girls
DESCRIPTION:In D-Day Girls\, Sarah Rose draws on recently de­classified files\, diaries\, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. There’s Andrée Borrel\, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom\, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac\, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE’s unflap­pable “queen.” Together\, they destroyed train lines\, ambushed Nazis\, plotted prison breaks\, and gathered crucial intelligence—laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.\nRigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit\, D-Day Girls is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courage—and the energy of politically animated women—can accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sarah-rose-launches-her-new-book-d-day-girls/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T193000
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SUMMARY:Susannah Marren in conversation with Jamie Brenner about Susannah's new book A Palm Beach Wife
DESCRIPTION:For readers of Elin Hilderbrand\, Susannah Marren’s A Palm Beach Wife is a delicious and irresistible novel set among the high society galas and gossip of Palm Beach. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmid the glamour and galas and parties of Palm Beach\, Faith knows that image often counts as much if not more than reality. She glides effortlessly among the highest of the high society so perfectly that you would never suspect she wasn’t born to this. But it wasn’t always so; though she hides it well\, Faith has fought hard for the wonderful life she has\, for her loving\, successful husband\, for her daughter’s future. \nIn this town of secrets and gossip and rumors\, Faith has kept a desperate grip on everything she holds so dear\, built from so little. And yet even she—the only one who knows just how far she has to fall—never suspects from which direction\, or how many directions all at once\, betrayal will come.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susannah-marren-in-conversation-with-jamie-brenner-about-susannahs-new-book-a-palm-beach-wife/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T193000
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SUMMARY:Mary Norris in conversation with Benjamin Dreyer about her new book Greek to Me
DESCRIPTION:In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me\, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me\, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression\, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek.Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way\, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece\, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon\, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite\, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words\, Greek gods\, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men—Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own. \nBenjamin Dreyer is the author of Dreyer’s English.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/mary-norris-reads-from-her-new-book-greek-to-me/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T180000
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SUMMARY:Terese Svoboda reads from her new book of short stories Great American Desert
DESCRIPTION:“Great American Desert is a devious and extraordinary new collection of stories from one of our best writers\, Terese Svoboda. A kaleidoscopic tour through the Plains that spans decades and beautifully fuses the tonal worlds of comedy\, horror\, history\, and myth. Svoboda is sexy\, funny\, frighteningly intelligent\, and sublimely attuned to the hum of ancient water running underneath our thirsty world.”                           —Karen Russell \n“Terese Svoboda has brought a poet’s lyrical intensity and factual density to prose fiction and writes like no one else.” \n—Tom McGuane \n  \nTerese Svoboda will be introduced by author Kurt Andersen.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/terese-svoboda-reads-from-her-new-book-of-short-stories-great-american-desert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T193000
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman reads from her new book Good Riddance
DESCRIPTION:The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results.  Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’68 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one—not always charitably—and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. \nIn a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries—not to mention her own family’s—take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elinor-lipman-reads-from-her-new-book-good-riddance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T180000
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SUMMARY:Victoria Shorr reads from her new book Midnight
DESCRIPTION:Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling\, Midnight crafts intimate\, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen\, Mary Shelley\, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. \nMidnight is a study in the courage of three women—Jane Austen\, Mary Shelley\, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802\, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines\, ideas\, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. \nWhen sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley\, she scoffs at the cost—life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe\, reading and writing\, but Midnight finds her alone\, eight years later\, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore\, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat. \nJoan of Arc\, imprisoned in chains\, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave\, daughter of God\, her saints had whispered\, you will be saved—and she believes it\, until she is taken to be burned at the stake. Midnight is the story of Joan’s final days\, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-shorr-reads-from-her-new-book-midnight/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190304T193000
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SUMMARY:Victoria Lee reads from her debut YA book The Fever King
DESCRIPTION:In the former United States\, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed\, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. \nThe son of undocumented immigrants\, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change\, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic\, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel\, dangerous\, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear. \nCaught between his purpose and his heart\, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-lee-reads-from-her-debut-ya-book-the-fever-king/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20181102T160603Z
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SUMMARY:PLEASE NOTE: VENUE CHANGE Lindsay Stern reads from her debut novel
DESCRIPTION:VENUE CHANGE \nDue to size considerations this event will now be held at The Ukrainian Institute of America which is located at 2 East 79th Street \n\n\n\n\nIvan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests\, but also his closest relationships. His wife\, Prue\, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics\, she is bold and vibrant\, full of life and feeling. Thus far\, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately\, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with the arrival of the college’s dashing but insufferable new writer-in-residence\, whose novel Prue always seems to be reading?\nInto this delicate moment barrels Ivan’s unstable father-in-law\, Frank\, in town to hear Prue deliver a lecture on birdsong that is set to cement her tenure application. But the talk doesn’t go as planned\, unleashing a series of crises that force Ivan to finally confront the problems in his marriage\, and to begin to fight – at last – for what he holds dear. \nA dazzlingly insightful and entertaining novel about the limitations of language\, the fragility of love\, and the ways we misunderstand each other and ourselves\, The Study of Animal Languages marks the debut of a brilliant new voice in fiction.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lindsay-stern-reads-from-her-debut-novel-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20181102T173933Z
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SUMMARY:A.F. Brady reads from her new book Once a Liar
DESCRIPTION:Peter Caine\, a cutthroat Manhattan defense attorney\, worked ruthlessly to become the best at his job. On the surface\, he is charming and handsome\, but inside he is cold and heartless. He fights without remorse to acquit murderers\, pedophiles and rapists. \nWhen Charlie Doyle\, the daughter of the Manhattan DA—and Peter’s former lover—is murdered\, Peter’s world is quickly sent into a tailspin. He becomes the prime suspect as the DA\, a professional enemy of Peter’s\, embarks on a witch hunt to avenge his daughter’s death\, stopping at nothing to ensure Peter is found guilty of the murder. \nIn the challenge of his career and his life\, Peter races against the clock to prove his innocence. As the evidence mounts against him\, he’s forced to begin unraveling his own dark web of lies and confront the sins of his past. But the truth of who killed Charlie Doyle is more twisted and sinister than anyone could have imagined…
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/a-f-brady-reads-from-her-new-book-once-a-liar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20181102T155642Z
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UID:1425-1547575200-1547580600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro reads from her new book Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dani-shapiro-reads-from-her-new-book-inheritance/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20181102T155742Z
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UID:1428-1547056800-1547062200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Paul Batista reads from his new book The Warriors
DESCRIPTION:Legendary defense attorney Raquel Rematti represents a presidential candidate—and former First Lady of an ISIS-assassinated President—Senator Angelina Baldesteri in the most watched and explosive trial of the 21st Century. The Senator\, a Democrat\, sees it as a vendetta show trial orchestrated by the current Republican U.S. President\, his Republican Attorney General\, and an ambitious Republican United States Attorney in Manhattan. At the trial\, a year before the election\, the Senator faces charges of election fraud\, tax evasion\, and money laundering; each of which could deem her unfit for office and all but remove her from the Presidential race. \nAs the dramatic trial unfolds\, Raquel steadily realizes that the Senator’s is hidden trail of lies which she has fought hard to keep from the light of day including a series of complicated and illicit connections. As Raquel’s complex\, conflicted relationship with her client begins to gradually endanger herself\, she must decide whether to face the recurrent dangers or allow her life and the lives of those she loves to be threatened.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paul-batista-reads-from-his-new-book-the-warriors/
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190108T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20181102T154537Z
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UID:1422-1546970400-1546975800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen launch their new novel An Anonymous Girl
DESCRIPTION:The next novel of psychological suspense and obsession from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us \n\n\n\nWhen Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields\, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions\, collect her money\, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act\, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she’s thinking…and what she’s hiding. \nAs Jess’s paranoia grows\, it becomes clear that she can no longer trust what in her life is real\, and what is one of Dr. Shields’ manipulative experiments. Caught in a web of deceit and jealousy\, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly. \nFrom the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us comes an electrifying new novel about doubt\, passion\, and just how much you can trust someone.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/greer-hendricks-and-sarah-pekkanen-launch-their-new-novel-an-anonymous-girl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20180827T195036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T143137Z
UID:1405-1542304800-1542310200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Dr. Jeremy Mack launches his debut Phantoms of the Hotel Meurice
DESCRIPTION:This book is about the denial in contemporary France of the period of German occupation and\, in particular\, about French disavowal of participation in the final solution. Using then and now pictures of places where terrible and momentous events occurred and of significant actors in the history of the time\, it functions as a guidebook to the events that took place and as a guide to understanding how such atrocities could have happened in an eminently civilized nation.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/dr-jeremy-mack-launches-his-debut-phantoms-of-the-hotel-meurice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20180827T193903Z
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SUMMARY:Elena Mannes launches her new book Soul Dog
DESCRIPTION:Looking for companionship after a near-fatal car crash\, Elena Mannes\, an award-winning television journalist and producer\, decided to get her first dog. But what she found with her dog Brio shook the foundations of her physical and spiritual worlds\, sending her on a quest to discover the nature of his spiritual origins and to contemplate and seek out the possibility of interspecies communication–even after death. \nSoon after bringing her puppy home\, Mannes realized that the master-companion relationship would not be possible with Brio\, who quickly showed that he had a mind–and a spirit–of his own. A healer Mannes visited immediately focused on Brio\, exclaiming that he was an old soul. Mannes’s growing curiosity about the intelligence\, emotions\, and consciousness of Brio and other dogs led her to contact an animal psychic in California who described\, with amazing accuracy\, Brio’s favorite walks and the author’s apartment from the dog’s point of view. Motivated by her experience\, Mannes produced a filmed segment with Diane Sawyer featuring the same psychic\, who described Sawyer’s country house and her dog’s favorite spots in the yard. Mannes’s skeptical journalist background compelled her to investigate further. She delved into the world of animal communicators\, psychics\, and scientists studying animal intelligence\, including Rupert Sheldrake\, to find answers to her multiplying questions: Do animals have thoughts and feelings? Consciousness? Souls? Is interspecies communication possible? Can animals reincarnate?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elena-mannes-launches-her-new-book-soul-dog/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20180924T174113Z
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UID:1413-1541095200-1541100600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein present their new book I Think\, Therefore I Draw
DESCRIPTION:With just a few pen strokes and a poignantly sharp caption\, cartoons have the power to inspire\, seduce\, outrage\, and amuse. Some of today’s best cartoonists are also some of our keenest observers\, and a great cartoon can provide\, in addition to humor and well-needed levity\, acute psychological and sociological insights. In I Think\, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons\, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein\, authors of the wildly fun international bestseller\, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…\, have culled dozens of cartoons\, from magazines like The New Yorker and Punch\, that shine a light on mankind’s perennial conundrums—such as “Is there a cosmic scheme?”; “Is there really a difference between girls and boys?”; and “What if your right is my wrong?”. Accompanied by wonderfully witty annotations that explain how these cartoons are profoundly useful in helping us make our way through life\, I Think\, Therefore I Draw is a Philosophy 101 course that will make readers think and laugh.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/thomas-cathcart-daniel-klein-present-their-new-book-i-think-therefore-i-draw/
LOCATION:The Corner Bookstore\, 1313 Madison Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20180816T183557Z
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Martin launches her new book Untrue
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday Martin’s newest work of non-fiction\, Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women\, Lust\, and Adultery is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free cuts through the junk science and regressive cultural narratives that have shaped our beliefs about female infidelity for centuries\, revealing a truth both liberating and disconcerting: women are no more “naturally monogamous” than men; nor are their libidos shrinking violets. Far from it. \nOffering insights from thirty experts as well as real women from all walks of life who refuse monogamy\, Untrue also analyzes cultural shifts from plow agriculture to polyamory; introduces readers to two important “hidden figures” of American sex research; and takes readers on an immersive\, fascinating journey—from the bonobo enclosure at the San Diego Zoo to an exclusive all-female sex party in Manhattan where most of the revelers identify as heterosexual. Untrue asserts that monogamy is a tighter fit for the fairer sex; that females of many species evolved to be “promiscuous”; and that female sexual autonomy may be the most meaningful metric of gender equality. Rich with game-changing data and polemical writing\, it promises to take us far out of our comfort zone\, and may change the way you think about women and sex forever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/wednesday-martin-launches-her-new-book-untrue/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180912T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20180627T161514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180627T161609Z
UID:1377-1536775200-1536780600@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Patrizia Chen's new book Goong-Goong
DESCRIPTION:Marrying into a Chinese family\, Patrizia was fascinated and puzzled by the myriad of photographs of old Shanghai; the elegant weddings\, exclusive club-like settings\, sumptuous homes\, banquets\, and expensive cars. Inquisitive\, she fielded questions\, began to collect information\, and discovered that she had married into an extraordinarily influential and important Chinese family. Yet… no one knew about the stories. Only her father-in-law\, shipping magnate C.Y. Chen (or Goong-Goong\, as she always respectfully referred to him) was the key to unlocking the family history. \nThough rebuffed at first; in the years to come\, the one prickly relationship between inquisitive Patrizia and reserved Goong-Goong warmed to become one of profound joy and deep meaning. Patrizia knew that she had to write the story of this remarkable man and the family that took her in with open arms; about exotic traditions; about fascinating people\, places\, anecdotes and stories–the stuff of novels–that proved to be real once she began to study the history of the Chen family and the meeting of East and West. Chen shows how families may change but can still preserve their traditions. \nGoong-Goong is a unique book\, which represents a fascinating cultural bridge between two civilizations and spanning two centuries.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-patrizia-chens-new-book-goong-goong/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180911T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180911T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T035919
CREATED:20180816T182526Z
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UID:1387-1536688800-1536694200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Kate Walbert reads from her new novel His Favorites
DESCRIPTION:Set in the 1970s\, His Favorites is the story of Jo\, a teenaged girl who\, after a catastrophic and scandalous accident\, is sent away to a boarding school. There\, she encounters Master Aikens\, a charismatic English teacher who encourages her to apply to his sought-after Modern Lit class. Intrigued\, Jo agrees. The consequences for Jo are disastrous\, immediate and lifelong. His Favorites beautifully shows how the institution closes ranks and protects Aikens when Jo brings his crimes to light\, and the very steep price she must pay for being among his favorites. \nThe silencing of Jo and the underlying complicity of the culture in which she finds herself are all-too familiar and universal. As she recalls the details of the past many years later\, she negotiates varying angles of perception\, memory\, revision\, and the limits of language to try to claim and fully voice her history. The result is a devastating\, propulsive\, unforgettable work of fiction\, impossible to put down.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-walbert-reads-from-her-new-novel-his-favorites/
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