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SUMMARY:Beth Gutcheon reads from her latest Death at Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing\, More Than You Know\, and Gossip comes the first entry in a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators—a shrewd novel of manners with a dark heart of murder at its center\, set in small-town New England. Indulging their pleasure in travel and new experiences\, recently retired private school head Maggie Detweiler and her old friend\, socialite Hope Babbin\, are heading to Maine. The trip—to attend a week-long master cooking class at the picturesque Victorian-era Oquossoc Mountain Inn—is an experiment to test their compatibility for future expeditions. Hope and Maggie have barely finished their first aperitifs when the inn’s tranquility is shattered by the arrival of Alexander and Lisa Antippas and Lisa’s actress sister\, Glory. Imperious and rude\, these Hollywood one-percenters quickly turn the inn upside-down with their demanding behavior\, igniting a flurry of speculation and gossip among staff and guests alike. \nBut the disruption soon turns deadly. After a suspicious late-night fire is brought under control\, Alex’s charred body is found in the ashes. Enter the town’s deputy sheriff\, Buster Babbin\, Hope’s long-estranged son and Maggie’s former student. A man who’s finally found his footing in life\, Buster needs a win. But he’s quickly pushed aside by the “big boys\,” senior law enforcement and high-powered state’s attorneys who swoop in to make a quick arrest.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/beth-gutcheon-reads-from-her-latest-death-at-breakfast/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160511T183000
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SUMMARY:Burt Weissbourd reads from his latest Minos
DESCRIPTION:Minos\, the third work in the Corey Logan Trilogy\, derives from the mythical king of Crete who every lunar year condemns seven Athenian youths and seven maidens to be eaten by the ferocious Minotaur. Minos begins at the Olympic Academy\, where Billy’s friend Sara has just carved a magic circle in the hardwood bathroom floor with an ancient double-edged dagger. She twirls inside her circle calling on the Oracle of Apollo to help her find a modern-day Theseus\, the reincarnation of Athens’ “hero of all heroes” who slew the Minotaur. Lost in her magical dance\, she knocks over a candle\, sets fire to the curtains\, and is suspended from school. She is sent to Abe for treatment. Abe discovers that Sara has patched together an entire mythological universe and language with which she tries to make him see that lives are at stake. It is not easy to convince the authorities. But Corey knows that young people are indeed being murdered\, and soon Sara’s dire warnings begin to make sense. But who is the modern-day descendant of Minos? The key is inside Sara’s head.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/burt-weissbourd-reads-from-his-latest-minos/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160505T193000
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SUMMARY:Ben Lindbergh reads from his debut The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
DESCRIPTION:It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster\, set the lineup\, and decide on strategies — with real players\, in a real ballpark\, in a real playoff race. That’s what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California\, the Sonoma Stompers\, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you’ve ever read. We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team\, following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try: it has to work. We meet colorful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first openly gay player in professional baseball. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ben-lindbergh-reads-from-his-debut-the-only-rule-is-it-has-to-work/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160504T193000
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SUMMARY:Betsy Lerner launches her new book The Bridge Ladies
DESCRIPTION:After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother’s “don’t ask\, don’t tell” generation\, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home\, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery\, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. Tentatively at first\, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother’s Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies\, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy\, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had. \nBetsy Lerner will be in conversation with Julie Klam\, author of You Had Me at Woof.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/betsy-lerner-launches-her-new-book-the-bridge-ladies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160503T193000
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SUMMARY:Please celebrate the launch of Jay Greenfield's debut Max's Diamonds
DESCRIPTION:A stunning decades-spanning debut novel\, about a man forced to confront his moral culpability\, the legacy of impossible loss\, and the claims of his Jewish identity. \nPaul Hartman\, coming of age in postwar Rockaway\, grows up haunted by the specter of his cousin Max\, an Auschwitz survivor\, and Max’s mysterious cache of diamonds\, which fund Paul’s Harvard Law education and even sparkle in his fiancée’s engagement ring. When a stranger from his past confronts him with an impossible demand\, one that could destroy his law career\, his marriage and his sense of self\, Paul must make choices that will change his fate forever.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-celebrate-the-launch-of-jay-greenfields-debut-maxs-diamonds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160502T193000
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SUMMARY:Lorraine Boissoneault reads from her debut The Last Voyageurs
DESCRIPTION:In 1976\, America’s bicentennial\, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle’s voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River\, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s. Together they set off on an eight-month\, 3\,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North America. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence\, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes\, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest during one of the coldest winters of the 20th century. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lorraine-boissoneault-reads-from-her-debut-the-last-voyageurs/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160426T193000
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SUMMARY:Ariel Winter reads from his latest Barren Cove
DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee–and former Corner Bookstore bookseller–Ariel S. Winter explores the secret legacy of an enigmatic family in this thrillingly atmospheric novel with a compelling and unexpected twist. \nSapien is a relic of a bygone age\, searching for meaning in a world where his outdated allegiances to a time long past have left him isolated and hopeless. Seeking peace and quiet\, he retires to a beach house at Barren Cove\, a stately Victorian manor even more antiquated than he.  He becomes increasingly fascinated with the family whose lives are entwined with the home—angry and rebellious Clark; flamboyant Kent; fragile\, beautiful Mary; and most of all\, Beachstone\, the mysterious man whose history may hold all the answers Sapien has been searching for. As Sapien unlocks their secret loves and betrayals\, the dangerous past of Barren Cove will indelibly change him…and who he is fated to become.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ariel-winter-reads-from-his-latest-barren-cove/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T193000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Hammer reads from The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
DESCRIPTION:To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda\, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. In the 1980s\, a young adventurer and collector for a government library\, Abdel Kader Haidara\, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River\, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara\, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu\, later became one of the world’s greatest and most brazen smugglers. In 2012\, thousands of Al Qaeda militants from northwest Africa seized control of most of Mali\, including Timbuktu. They imposed Sharia law\, chopped off the hands of accused thieves\, stoned to death unmarried couples\, and threatened to destroy the great manuscripts. As the militants tightened their control over Timbuktu\, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350\,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. Over the past twenty years\, journalist Joshua Hammer visited Timbuktu numerous times and is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Haidara’s heroic and ultimately successful effort to outwit Al Qaeda and preserve Mali’s—and the world’s—literary patrimony. Hammer explores the city’s manuscript heritage and offers never-before-reported details about the militants’ march into northwest Africa. But above all\, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu is an inspiring account of the victory of art and literature over extremism.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joshua-hammer-reads-from-the-bad-ass-librarians-of-timbuktu/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T180000
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SUMMARY:Paul Vidich reads from his debut novel An Honorable Man
DESCRIPTION:A debut espionage novel in the style of Alan Furst and John le Carré\, An Honorable Man is a chilling Cold War spy thriller set in 1950s Washington\, D.C. Washington D.C.\, 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism\, with all its fear and demagoguery\, is raging in the nation’s capital\, and Joseph Stalin’s death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union. The CIA\, meanwhile\, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets\, compromising missions around the globe. Undercover agents have been assassinated\, and anti-Communist plots are being cut short in ruthlessly efficient fashion. The CIA director knows any news of the traitor\, whose code name is Protocol\, would be a national embarrassment and compromise the entire agency. George Mueller seems to be the perfect man to help find the mole: Yale-educated; extensive experience running missions in Eastern Europe; an operative so dedicated to his job that it left his marriage in tatters. The Director trusts him. Mueller\, though\, has secrets of his own\, and as he digs deeper into the case\, making contact with a Soviet agent\, suspicion begins to fall on him as well. Until Protocol is found\, no one can be trusted\, and everyone is at risk. \nPaul Vidich will be in conversation with Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paul-vidich-reads-from-his-debut-novel-an-honorable-man/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160413T180000
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SUMMARY:Brenda Janowitz reads from her new book The Dinner Party
DESCRIPTION:This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes\, there will be a quick service and then a festive meal afterwards\, but this night is different from all other nights. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City. The Rothschilds are the stuff of legends. They control banks\, own vineyards in Napa\, diamond mines in Africa\, and even an organic farm somewhere in the Midwest that produces the most popular Romaine lettuce consumed in this country. And now\, Sylvia Gold’s daughter is dating one of them. When Sylvia finds out that her youngest of three is going to bring her new boyfriend to the Seder\, she’s giddy. When she finds out that his parents are coming\, too\, she darn near faints. Making a good impression is all she thinks about. Well\, almost. She still has to consider her other daughter\, Sarah\, who’ll be coming with her less than appropriate beau and his overly dramatic Italian mother. But the drama won’t stop there. Because despite the food and the wine\, despite the new linen and the fresh flowers\, the holidays are about family. Long forgotten memories come to the surface. Old grievances play out. And Sylvia Gold has to learn how to let her family go.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brenda-janowitz-reads-from-her-new-book-the-dinner-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T180000
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SUMMARY:Christine Reilly launches her debut novel Sunday's on the Phone to Monday
DESCRIPTION:The Middlesteins meets The Virgin Suicides in this arresting family love story about the eccentric yet tight-knit Simone family\, coping with tragedy during 90’s New York\, struggling to reconnect with each other and heal. Claudio and Mathilde Simone\, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other\, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York\, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters as best they can: Natasha\, an overachieving prodigy; sensitive Lucy\, with her debilitating heart condition; and Carly\, adopted from China and quietly fixated on her true origins. With prose that is as keen and illuminating as it is whimsical and luminous\, debut novelist Christine Reilly tells the unusual love story of this family. Poignant and humane\, Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday is a deft exploration of the tender ties that bind families together\, even as they threaten to tear them apart.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christine-reilly-launches-her-debut-novel-sundays-on-the-phone-to-monday/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160406T193000
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SUMMARY:Please join us for the launch of Lilac Girls with author Martha Hall Kelly
DESCRIPTION:New York socialite Caroline Ferriday\, posted at the French consulate in Paris\, finds her world is forever changed when Hitler’s army sets its sights on France. Kasia Kuzmerick\, a Polish teenager\, sees her carefree youth disappear as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance.  Herta  Oberheuser\,  a young German doctor\, answers an ad for a government medical position and finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück\, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-us-for-the-launch-of-lilac-girls-with-author-martha-hall-kelly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T193000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Feldman reads from her new book Terrible Virtue
DESCRIPTION:The daughter of a hard-drinking\, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children\, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be different. Trained as a nurse\, she fought for social justice beside labor organizers\, anarchists\, socialists\, and other progressives\, eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against puritanical\, patriarchal lawmakers\, send her to prison again and again\, force her to flee to England\, and ultimately change the lives of women across the country and around the world. This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic\, generous and ruthless\, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a competitive\, self-centered woman who championed all women\, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s\, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands\, three children\, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-new-book-terrible-virtue/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160315T193000
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SUMMARY:Jane Mendelsohn reads from her new book Burning Down the House
DESCRIPTION:“It begins with a child . . .” So opens Jane Mendelsohn’s powerful new novel. Or really with two children\, two girls. One\, from the Caucasus\, sold into the sex trade; the other\, the adopted daughter—his beloved sister’s orphaned child—of Steve\, patriarch of the Zane family. In cinematic\, dazzlingly described scenes—from lavish weddings to the transglobal underworld; from London\, Rome and New York to Laos and Istanbul—we meet all the Zanes\, their staff\, and their friends. In precise yet lush prose\, Mendelsohn captures the emotional worlds of these characters with visceral immediacy\, and transforms their private stories into a larger drama about the forces of globalization\, human trafficking\, and sexual violence\, finding inextricable connections between the personal and the political.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/jane-mendelsohn-reads-from-her-new-book-burning-down-the-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160229T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160229T193000
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her latest Alpabetique
DESCRIPTION:Alphabetique: 26 Characteristic Fictions is unique\, but nevertheless fits perfectly with Molly Peacock’s extraordinary body of work\, drawing on the same wellsprings of creativity and artistry as her poetry\, her memoir Paradise\, Piece by Piece\, and her bestselling work of biography (and so much more)\, The Paper Garden. These charming\, incisive\, sensual stories of love\, yearning\, and self-discovery are complimented by Kara Kosaka’s layered\, jewel-bright collages.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-latest-alpabetique/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160216T193000
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SUMMARY:Susan Jacoby reads from her latest Strange Gods
DESCRIPTION:In this original and riveting exploration\, Susan Jacoby argues that conversion—especially in the free American “religious marketplace”—is too often viewed only within the conventional and simplistic narrative of personal reinvention and divine grace. Instead\, the author places conversions within a secular social context that has\, at various times\, included the force of a unified church and state\, desire for upward economic mobility\, and interreligious marriage—the latter as critical in the early Christian era as in the United States today\, where half of Americans have switched faiths at least once in their adult lives. The sometimes tragic\, sometimes inspiring story is shaped by the competing absolute truth claims of Catholicism\, Protestantism\, and Islam and their impact on Jews—the only monotheistic believers with an older historical stake. Moving through time\, continents\, and cultures—dealing with the often-ignored forced conversion of American slaves to Christianity as well as with the better-known story of the Spanish Inquisition and the persecution of both atheists and Christians in modern Islamic theocracies—the story also includes conversions to authoritarian secular ideologies\, notably Stalinist Communism\, that resemble traditional\, unquestioning faith. Finally\, the author examines true religious choice—a product of the Enlightenment pioneered by the U.S. Constitution. This history is punctuated by portraits of individual converts\, including the Catholic Church father Augustine of Hippo; the German Jewish convert to Catholicism Edith Stein\, murdered at Auschwitz and canonized by the church; boxing champion Muhammad Ali\, who scandalized white Americans in the 1960s by becoming a Muslim\, and even politicians such as George W. Bush and former British prime minister Tony Blair. In a forthright conclusion to this enthralling history\, Strange Gods takes on the question of why the freedom to choose a religion—or to reject religion altogether—is a fundamental human rights issue that remains a breeding ground for violence in areas of the world that never experienced an Enlightenment.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susan-jacoby-reads-from-her-latest-strange-gods/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160203T193000
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SUMMARY:Maureen Sherry reads from her debut adult novel Opening Belle
DESCRIPTION:A whip-smart and funny novel told by a former Wall Street insider who reveals what it’s like for a working woman to balance love\, ambition\, and family in a world of glamorous excess\, outrageous risk-taking\, and jaw-dropping sexism. In 2008\, Isabelle—a self-made\, thirty-something Wall Street star—appears to have it all: an Upper West Side apartment\, three healthy children\, a handsome husband\, and a high-powered job. But her reality is something else. Her trading desk work environment resembles a 1980s frat party\, her husband feels employment is beneath him\, and the bulk of childcare and homecare still falls in Belle’s already full lap. Enter Henry\, the former college fiancé she never quite got over; now a hedge fund mogul. He becomes her largest client\, and Belle gets to see the life she might have had with him. While Henry campaigns to win Belle back\, the sexually harassed women in her office take action to improve their working conditions\, and recruit a wary Belle into a secret “glass ceiling club” whose goal is to mellow the cowboy banking culture and get equal pay for their work. All along\, Belle can sense the financial markets heading toward their soon-to-be historic crash and that something has to give—and when it does\, everything is going to change: her marriage\, her career\, her world\, and her need to keep her colleagues’ hands to themselves. \nFrom Maureen Sherry\, a prize winning writer\, a former Managing Director on Wall Street (who never signed a nondisclosure agreement when she left)\, Opening Belle takes readers into the adrenaline-fueled chaos of a Wall Street trading desk\, the lavish parties\, the lunch-time rendezvous\, and ultimately into the heart of a woman who finds it easier to cook up millions at work than dinner at home.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maureen-sherry-reads-from-her-debut-adult-novel-opening-belle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160119T193000
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SUMMARY:Karen White\, Beatriz Williams\, and Lauren Willig read from The Forgotten Room
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling authors Karen White\, Beatriz Williams\, and Lauren Willig present a masterful collaboration—a rich\, multigenerational novel of love and loss that spans half a century…. \n1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side\, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel’s portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate?  And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?  In their pursuit of answers\, they find themselves drawn into the turbulent stories of Gilded Age Olive Van Alen\, driven from riches to rags\, who hired out as a servant in the very house her father designed\, and Jazz Age Lucy Young\, who came from Brooklyn to Manhattan in pursuit of the father she had never known.  But are Kate and Cooper ready for the secrets that will be revealed in the Forgotten Room?  The Forgotten Room\, set in alternating time periods\, is a sumptuous feast of a novel brought to vivid life by three brilliant storytellers.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/karen-white-beatriz-williams-and-lauren-willig-read-from-the-forgotten-room/
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SUMMARY:Bill Keenan reads from his debut Odd Man Rush
DESCRIPTION:In his hilarious\, gritty\, and touching debut\, Bill Keenan—a hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHL—tells of how he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption in the strange world of European minor-league professional hockey. Keenan’s hockey obsession begins as a five-year-old on Lasker Rink in New York’s Central Park—“love at first stride\,” as he calls it. He then becomes the youngest\, and skinniest\, player on the New York Bobcats\, a Junior B hockey team. Later\, after his hockey career at Harvard doesn’t end as planned—with a fat NHL contract—Keenan decides to play in the minor leagues in Europe\, where the glamour of professional sports is decidedly lacking. Part fish-out-of-water travelogue\, part coming-of-age memoir\, Odd Man Rush will capture the interest of not just hockey fans\, but also fans of good writing. Throughout\, Keenan’s deep affection for the game shines through\, even as he describes fans who steal players’ clothes from the locker room or toss empty beer cans onto the rink after games. Abusive fans\, cold showers\, long bus rides—nothing diminishes his love for the sport. “Because that’s the way it works with me and hockey. Even when it’s horrible\, it’s wonderful.”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/bill-keenan-reads-from-his-debut-odd-man-rush/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T193124
CREATED:20151201T161506Z
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SUMMARY:Judy Batalion discusses her debut memoir White Walls
DESCRIPTION:Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans\, old papers and magazines\, swivel chairs\, tea bags\, clocks\, cameras\, printers\, VHS tapes\, ballpoint pens…obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had\, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity—one made of order\, regimen\, and clean white walls. Until\, one day\, she found herself enmeshed in life’s biggest chaos: motherhood. Confronted with the daunting task of raising a daughter after her own dysfunctional childhood\, Judy reflected on not only her own upbringing but the lives of her mother and grandmother\, Jewish Polish immigrants who had escaped the Holocaust. What she discovered astonished her. The women in her family\, despite their differences\, were even more closely connected than she ever knew—from her grandmother Zelda to her daughter of the same name. And\, despite the hardships of her own mother-daughter relationship\, it was that bond that was slowly healing her old wounds. Told with heartbreaking honesty and humor\, this is Judy’s poignant account of her trials negotiating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that mothers and daughters make on each other’s lives. \nJudy will be in discussion with Amy Klein. Amy Klein wrote the fertility diary column for the New York Times. She’s working on a memoir of her own about her four-year journey to have a baby. \nA wine & cheese reception will follow the reading.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/judy-batalion-discusses-her-debut-memoir-white-walls/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T193124
CREATED:20151026T201449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151026T201821Z
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SUMMARY:Roger Angell reads from his latest This Old Man
DESCRIPTION:Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters)\, Angell won the 2015 American Society of Magazine Editors’ Best Essay award for “This Old Man\,” which forms a centerpiece for this book. This deeply personal account is a survey of the limitations and discoveries of great age\, with abundant life\, poignant loss\, jokes\, retrieved moments\, and fresh love\, set down in an informal and moving fashion. A flood of readers from different generations have discovered and shared this classic piece. Angell’s fluid prose and native curiosity make him an amiable and compelling companion on the page. The book gathers essays\, letters\, light verse\, book reviews\, Talk of the Town stories\, farewells\, haikus\, Profiles\, Christmas greetings\, late thoughts on the costs of war. Whether it’s a Fourth of July in rural Maine\, a beloved British author at work\, Derek Jeter’s departure\, the final game of the 2014 World Series\, an all-dog opera\, editorial exchanges with John Updike\, or a letter to a son\, what links the pieces is the author’s perceptions and humor\, his utter absence of self-pity\, and his appreciation of friends and colleagues—writers\, ballplayers\, editors\, artists—encountered over the course of a full and generous life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/roger-angell-reads-from-his-latest-this-old-man/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151117T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T193124
CREATED:20151015T162029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T182159Z
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SUMMARY:Please join editor Andrew Blauner and contributors Samuel G. Freedman\, Charles McGrath\, and Daniel Menaker as we celebrate the publication of The Good Book
DESCRIPTION:In The Good Book\, thirty-two of today’s most prominent writers share never-before-published pieces about passages in the Bible that are most meaningful to them. \nThe Good Book\, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik\, collects new pieces by writers from many different faiths and ethnicities including literary fiction writers (Colm Tóibín\, Edwidge Danticat\, Tobias Wolff\, Rick Moody); bestselling nonfiction writers (A.J. Jacobs\, Ian Frazier\, Thomas Lynch); notable figures in the media (Charles McGrath\, Cokie Roberts\, Steven V. Roberts); and social activists (Al Sharpton\, Kerry Kennedy). While these contributors are not primarily known as religious thinkers\, they write intelligently and movingly about specific passages in the Bible that inform the way they live\, think about past experiences\, and see society today. Some pieces are close readings of specific passages\, some are anecdotes from everyday life\, and all will inspire\, provoke\, or illuminate. \nAddressing some of the best-known and best-loved characters and stories from Genesis to Revelation\, The Good Book will be a beautiful\, enlightening gift for secular readers and readers of faith as well as a collection of interest to reading groups\, readers of creative nonfiction and personal essays\, and fans of each of the individual contributors.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/please-join-editor-andrew-blauner-and-contributors-samuel-freedman-charles-mcgrath-and-daniel-menaker-as-we-celebrate-the-publication-of-the-good-book/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151111T193000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Vinciguerra reads from his debut Cast of Characters
DESCRIPTION:The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.\nFrom its birth in 1925 to the present day\, The New Yorker has been the country’s most prestigious\, entertaining\, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters\, Thomas Vinciguerra revisits the early years of that creative cauldron. At the heart of the narrative is the largely forgotten life of Wolcott Gibbs\, the magazine’s theater critic and all-around wit\, author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. Around him swirled a legendary roster of names\, E. B. and Katharine White\, James Thurber\, Charles Addams\, Peter Arno\, and John O’Hara among them. Their stories—along with those of equally colorful but overlooked figures like managing editor St. Clair McKelway\, head fact-checker Frederick Packard\, and the flamboyant film reviewer John Mosher—are told here. Drawing on extensive interviews\, multiple manuscript collections\, and myriad secondary sources\, Cast of Characters may be the most revealing book yet about the unique personalities who built what founding editor Harold Ross called not a magazine but a “movement.”
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/thomas-vinciguerra-reads-from-his-debut-cast-of-characters/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151103T193000
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CREATED:20150721T154148Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Molesky reads from his debut This Gulf of Fire
DESCRIPTION:On All Saints Day of 1755\, the tremors from a magnitude 9.0 earthquake swept furiously from its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean toward the Iberian Peninsula. Nowhere was it felt more than in Lisbon\, then the thriving capital of a great global empire. In a few minutes most of Lisbon was destroyed—but that was only the beginning. A tsunami swept away most of the ruined coast along the Tagus River and carried untold souls out to sea. When fire broke out across the city\, the surviving Lisboetas were subject to a firestorm reaching temperatures over 1\,832ºF. Drawing on a wealth of new sources\, on modern science (geology did not exist then)\, and on a sophisticated grasp of Portuguese history\, Molesky gives us the definitive account of the destruction\, of history’s first international relief effort\, and of the effects these events had on the optimistic spirit of the Enlightenment.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/mark-molesky-reads-from-his-debut-this-gulf-of-fire/
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SUMMARY:Susan Cheever reads from her latest Drinking in America: Our Secret History
DESCRIPTION:In Drinking in America\, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor\, taking a long\, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation’s history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Seen through the lens of alcoholism\, American history takes on a vibrancy and a tragedy missing from many earlier accounts. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks\, drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history–the illegal Mayflower landing at Cape Cod\, the enslavement of African Americans\, the McCarthy witch hunts\, and the Kennedy assassination\, to name only a few-alcohol has acted as a catalyst. Some nations drink more than we do\, some drink less\, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world as America was in the 1830s only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation\, Drinking in America unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation’s tumultuous affair with alcohol.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/susan-cheever-reads-from-her-latest-drinking-in-america-our-secret-history/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151014T193000
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UID:755-1444845600-1444851000@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Robert Pennoyer reads from his memoir As It Was
DESCRIPTION:“Robert M. Pennoyer was born into a storied family – his maternal grandfather was the legendary J. P. Morgan. His irresistible memoir traces his sheltered childhood on the Gold Coast of Long Island; an adolescence overshadowed by the gathering clouds of World War II; and a young adulthood that survived one of the decisive engagements of the Pacific Theater – Iwo Jima. The author gives us as well a heartwarming account of a romance that blossomed into a lifelong matrimonial partnership and a close family life\, tested nonetheless by crisis. And he chronicles a distinguished career\, the early part of which was spent in the service of President Eisenhower and the latter part in private law practice and pro bono work.” \n— Scott Horton\, author of Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare (2015)\, contributing editor\,Harper’s Magazine.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/robert-pennoyer-reads-from-his-memoir-as-it-was/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151013T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151013T193000
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CREATED:20150721T153532Z
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SUMMARY:Judith Hannan reads from her latest The Write Prescription
DESCRIPTION:A hands-on\, hearts-on guide to writing about illness. Using intimate prompts and personal stories\, Judith Hannan takes the reader and emerging-writer on a journey through what it means to reckon with illness. Having gone through her daughter’s cancer diagnosis and treatments\, Hannan is an experienced\, thoughtful\, and caring guide for anyone wanting to find a way through the labyrinth of the illness experience.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/judith-hannan-reads-from-her-latest-the-write-prescription/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151006T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T193000
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CREATED:20150721T153001Z
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UID:747-1444154400-1444159800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:David Jaher reads from his debut The Witch of Lime Street
DESCRIPTION:The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour\, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world\, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic. A desperate search for reunion with dead loved ones precipitated a tidal wave of self-proclaimed psychics—and\, as reputable media sought stories on occult phenomena\, mediums became celebrities. \nAgainst this backdrop\, in 1924\, the pretty wife of a distinguished Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism\, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street\, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was none other than Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\, who believed so thoroughly in Margery’s powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest\, sponsored by Scientific American and offering a large cash prize to the first medium declared authentic by its impressive five-man investigative committee.  Admired for both her exceptional charm and her dazzling effects\, Margery was the best hope for the psychic practice to be empirically verified.  Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince…the acclaimed escape artist\, Harry Houdini.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-jaher-reads-from-his-debut-the-witch-of-lime-street/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150929T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150929T193000
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CREATED:20150721T152502Z
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SUMMARY:Frederick A.O. Schwarz reads from his latest book Democracy in the Dark
DESCRIPTION:From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering\, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book\, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.\, who was chief counsel to the U.S. Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: how much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary\, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/frederick-a-o-schwarz-reads-from-his-latest-book-democracy-in-the-dark/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150916T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T193124
CREATED:20150609T153752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T154105Z
UID:736-1442426400-1442431800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Lily Tuck reads from her new novel The Double Life of Liliane
DESCRIPTION:Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist\, story writer\, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane\, Tuck writes what may well be her crowning achievement to date. \nAs the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful\, artistically talented mother who resides in New York\, Liliane’s life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination\, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn\, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer\, and pieces together their vivid histories\, through both World Wars and across continents. ? \nWhat unfolds is an astonishing and riveting metanarrative: an exploration of self\, humanity\, and family in the manner of W.G. Sebald and Karl Ove Knausgaard. Told with Tuck’s inimitable elegance and peppered with documents\, photos\, and a rich and varied array of characters\, The Double Life of Liliane is an intimate and poignant coming of age portrait of the writer as a young woman.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lily-tuck-reads-from-her-new-novel-the-double-life-of-liliane/
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