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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of Older and Wiser with author Dag Ahlander
DESCRIPTION:Older and Wiser! is the inspiring new sequel to Older and Happier! \, Dag Sebastian Ahlander’s joyful guide to turning retirement into a time of self-exploration. For many men\, the years after sixty-five become the best of their lives—and with good reason. The office is left behind\, the children have grown up\, and you’re healthy\, alert\, and free to do what you want. Still\, as with any big life change\, you may be looking for some words of advice and hope. Older and Wiser! reflects on the big things in life and the little ones\, and contains practical suggestions as well as reflections on aging from the world’s greatest philosophers\, writers\, and thinkers. With thoughts like “You’re too old to die young\,” “You’ve retired from your job\, not from life\,” and “Be careful when you spend more time at the pharmacy than at the wine store\,” Mr. Ahlander guides older gentlemen along the golden years of retirement. Baby boomers are again defining a new age group\, just as they once invented the modern understanding of the teenager. Now\, they’re proving to the world that old age will have to wait. This is your time now—to accomplish what you’ve always dreamed of\, to do the things you like best. Live as you want to be remembered\, and enjoy the journey.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/nyc-launch-of-older-and-wiser-with-author-dag-ahlander/
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SUMMARY:Geralyn Lucas discusses her new book Then Came Life with Delia Ephron
DESCRIPTION:  \nOne mastectomy\, two C-sections\, three pant’s sizes\, and lots of red lipstick later\, Geralyn Lucas is dealing with the same issues as other women her age. Her miracle babies have grown into a typical tween with a fierce eye-roll for her mom’s failings and a tornado of a little boy who won’t play by his preschool’s rules. Her storybook romance with her husband has spiraled into couples therapy and her perfect-if-demanding corporate job as a TV producer has abandoned her for L.A. When she looks in the mirror at her hard-won wrinkles\, all she wants is . . . Botox.  Celebrating her sweet sixteen cancerversary she’s thankful for her second chance and ready to be daring—but can she survive life’s new ups and downs with the same courage she’s always had? With an infectiously hilarious voice and a true sense of empowerment\, Geralyn harnesses her fighting spirit to live life loudly and lustily\, and to grab on to all the moments that might never have happened. Knowing she can only pedal forward\, she mines every day for boldness\, joy\, and gratitude\, and eventually falls in love with life again. Then Came Life is not just for cancer survivors; it’s for life survivors—a call to rediscover the resilience and optimism it takes to reinvent yourself at any age.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/geralyn-lucas-discusses-her-new-book-then-came-life-with-delia-ephron/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of Landslide with author Jonathan Darman
DESCRIPTION:In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction\, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics\, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan\, and shows how\, from 1963 to 1966\, these two men—the same age\, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever. The liberal and the conservative. The deal-making arm twister and the cool communicator. The Texas rancher and the Hollywood star. Opposites in politics and style\, Johnson and Reagan shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America\, a story in which he could be the hero. In the tumultuous days after the Kennedy assassination\, Johnson and Reagan each\, in turn\, seized the chance to offer the country a new vision for the future. Bringing to life their vivid personalities and the anxious mood of America in a radically transformative time\, Darman shows how\, in promising the impossible\, Johnson and Reagan jointly dismantled the long American tradition of consensus politics and ushered in a new era of fracture. History comes to life in Darman’s vivid\, fly-on-the wall storytelling. Even as Johnson publicly revels in his triumphs\, we see him grow obsessed with dark forces he believes are out to destroy him\, while his wife\, Lady Bird\, urges her husband to put aside his paranoia and see the world as it really is. And as the war in Vietnam threatens to overtake his presidency\, we witness Johnson desperately struggling to compensate with ever more extravagant promises for his Great Society. On the other side of the country\, Ronald Reagan\, a fading actor years removed from his Hollywood glory\, gradually turns toward a new career in California politics. We watch him delivering speeches to crowds who are desperate for a new leader. And we see him wielding his well-honed instinct for timing\, waiting for Johnson’s majestic promises to prove empty before he steps back into the spotlight\, on his long journey toward the presidency. From Johnson’s election in 1964\, the greatest popular-vote landslide in American history\, to the pivotal 1966 midterms\, when Reagan burst forth onto the national stage\, Landslide brings alive a country transformed—by riots\, protests\, the rise of television\, the shattering of consensus—and the two towering personalities whose choices in those moments would reverberate through the country for decades to come. 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/nyc-launch-of-landslide-with-author-jonathan-darman/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Sande Boritz Berger reads from her debut The Sweetness
DESCRIPTION:Vilna\, 1941. When her family is forced from their ghetto by the invading Nazis\, Rosha Kaninsky\, a curious child\, asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of lemons and water. “Something to remind me of the sweetness\,” the wise woman tells her. Brooklyn\, 1941. Rosha’s cousin\, Miran Kane\, a gifted teen with dreams of escaping to Hollywood to become a designer\, finds her plans abruptly thwarted when her father–traumatized by the fate of his Vilna relatives–becomes intent on safeguarding those he loves from a brutal world. Meanwhile\, unbeknownst to her American family\, Rosha is alive\, saved when her father thrusts her into the arms of a Polish Catholic candle maker. Inspired by true events\, The Sweetness is a tale of heartbreak and hope at a most tragic time in history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sande-boritz-berger-reads-from-her-debut-the-sweetness/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Deborah Halber discusses her debut The Skeleton Crew
DESCRIPTION:Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room…The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement—and one another—at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today\, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder\, suicide\, and accident victims\, separated from their names\, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. \nIt’s DIY CSI. \nThe web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal scorecards of dead bodies. The Skeleton Crew delves into the macabre underside of the Internet\, the fleeting nature of identity\, and how even the most ordinary citizen with a laptop and a knack for puzzles can reinvent herself as a web sleuth. \n\nJoin author Deborah Halber and former NYPD detective Joe Giacalone http://joegiacalone.net/ at a conversation about how amateur sleuths using the Internet are solving cold cases involving unidentified remains at the official NYC launch of THE SKELETON CREW: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/deborah-halber-reads-from-her-debut-the-skeleton-crew/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Chris Beha reads from his latest Arts and Entertainments
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously witty\, and ultimately tender\, novel about the absurdity of fame and the complexity of love sure to appeal to fans of Maria Semple and Jess Walter. \nA sharp-edged satire with heart\, Arts & Entertainments is the story of Handsome Eddie Hartley who\, at thirty-three\, has forgone dreams of an acting career for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys’ prep school. But when Eddie and his wife\, Susan\, discover they cannot have children\, it is one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt\, his wife’s mounting unhappiness\, and his own deepening sense of failure\, Eddie is confronted with an alluring solution when an old friend-turned-web-impresario suggests Eddie sell a sex tape he made with an ex-girlfriend\, now a wildly popular television star. Overcoming his initial moral qualms\, Eddie figures that in an era when any publicity is good publicity\, the tape won’t cause any harm—a decision that will have disastrous consequences and propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved. A hilariously biting and incisive take-down of our culture’s monstrous obsession with fame\, Arts & Entertainments is also a poignant and humane portrait of a young man’s belated coming-of-age\, the complications of love\, and the surprising ways in which the most meaningful lives often turn out to be the ones we least expected to lead.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/chris-beha-reads-from-his-latest-arts-and-entertainments/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Dorson reads from his debut Octopus Summer
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URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/malcolm-dorson-reads-from-his-debut-octopus-summer/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Moses reads from her debut The Appetites of Girls
DESCRIPTION:Self-doubting Ruth is coddled by her immigrant mother\, who uses food to soothe and control. Defiant Francesca believes her heavy frame shames her Park Avenue society mother and\, to provoke her\, consumes everything in sight. Lonely Opal longs to be included in her glamorous mother’s dinner dates—until a disturbing encounter forever changes her desires. Finally\, Setsu\, a promising violinist\, staves off conflict with her jealous brother by allowing him to take the choicest morsels from her plate—and from her future. College brings the four young women together as suitemates\, where their stories and appetites collide. Here they make a pact to maintain their friendships into adulthood\, but each must first find strength and her own way in the world.\n \nPamela Moses received a B.A. in comparative literature from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Georgetown University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two young children. The Appetites of Girls is her first novel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/pamela-moses-reads-from-her-debut-the-appetites-of-girls/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Kate White reads from Eyes on You
DESCRIPTION:From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a riveting psychological suspense in which a media star must battle a malevolent enemy who may be disturbingly close to her. After losing her on-air job two years ago\, television host Robin Trainer has fought her way back and now she’s hotter than ever. With her new show climbing in the ratings and her first book a bestseller\, she’s being dubbed a media double threat. But suddenly\, things begin to go wrong. Small incidents at first: a nasty note left in her purse; her photo shredded. But the obnoxious quickly becomes threatening when the foundation the makeup artist uses burns Robin’s face. It wasn’t an accident—someone had deliberately doctored with the product. An adversary with a dark agenda wants to hurt Robin\, and the clues point to someone she works with every day. While she frantically tries to put the pieces together and unmask this hidden foe\, it becomes terrifyingly clear that the person responsible isn’t going to stop until Robin loses everything that matters to her . . . including her life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-white-reads-from-eyes-on-you/
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SUMMARY:Ari Goldman reads from The Late Starters Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:If you thought a fiddler on a roof was in a precarious position\, imagine what happens when a middle-aged professor with a bad back takes up the cello. Ari Goldman hasn’t played in twenty-five years\, but he’s decided to give the cello one last chance. First he secures a seat in his eleven-year-old son’s youth orchestra\, and then he’s ready for the big time: the Late Starters Orchestra of New York City—a bona fide amateur string orchestra for beginning or recently returning adult players. \nWe accompany Goldman to LSO rehearsals (their motto is “If you think you can play\, you can”) and sit in on his son’s Suzuki lessons (where we find out that children do indeed learn differently from adults). And we wonder whether Goldman will be good enough to perform at his next birthday party. Coming to the rescue is the ghost of Goldman’s very first cello teacher\, Mr. J\, who continues to inspire and guide him—about music and more—through this enchanting midlife journey.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ari-goldman-reads-from-the-late-starters-orchestra/
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Papa is a Poet with Natalie Bober
DESCRIPTION:When Robert Frost was a child\, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead\, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write “poetry that talked\,” and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time\, though\, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley\, Robert Frost’s oldest daughter\, this is the story of how a lover of language found his voice.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-papa-is-a-poet-with-natalie-bober/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Caela Carter reads from her latest My Best Friend\, Maybe
DESCRIPTION:Right before they started high school\, Colette’s best friend\, Sadie\, dumped her. Three years later\, Colette is still lonely. She tries to be perfect for everyone left in her life: her parents\, her younger brothers\, her church youth group\, even her boyfriend\, Mark. But Colette is restless. And she misses Sadie.  Then Sadie tells Colette that she needs her old friend to join her on a family vacation to the Greek Islands\, one that leaves in only a few days\, and Colette is shocked to hear their old magic word: need. And she finds herself agreeing. Colette tries to relax and enjoy her Grecian surroundings but it’s not easy to go on vacation with the person who hurt you most in the world. When the reason for the trip finally surfaces\, Colette finds out this is not just a fun vacation. Sadie has kept an enormous secret from Colette for years . . . forever. It’s a summer full of surprises\, but that just might be what Colette needs.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caela-carter-reads-from-her-latest-my-best-friend-maybe/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140610T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of The Mother Court with James D. Zirin
DESCRIPTION:This is the first book to chronicle the history of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York\, the most influential District court in the United States\, from the perspective of a practicing attorney who has argued many cases before some of its most esteemed judges. \nIt gives first-hand insight into the evolution of our justice system—where it has been\, where it is now and where it is going. It provides an anatomy of what a trial is all about in an American courtroom\, featuring the most famous trials of the period in the greatest court in the nation. It gives the reader a taste of what the storied judges of the period— Weinfeld\, Murphy\, Mansfield\, Tyler\, Motley and Palmieri\, to name a few—were all about\, how they thought\, how they judged\, and why they were the worthy keepers of our sacred right to justice\, as well as the historical traditions of the Court. \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-the-mother-court-with-james-d-zirin/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Joanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year
DESCRIPTION:At 23\, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet\, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent of J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush\, wood-paneled agency\, where Dictaphones and typewriters still prevail and old-time agents doze at their desks in the late afternoon\, and at night she goes home to the tiny\, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty\, surrounded by titanic personalities\, and struggling to trust her own artistic talent\, Joanna is tasked with responding to Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the deeply candid letters from his fans\, she finds herself abandoning the agency’s form letter and writing her own responses. Over the course of the year\, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger’s\, on her own dangerous and wonderful terms. \nJoanna Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright\, hungry young woman moving through a heady and much-longed for world\, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness\, the idea of a life with life itself. My Salinger Year is a graceful\, deeply moving literary fairytale and the coming-of-age story of a talented young writer.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joanna-rakoff-reads-from-my-salinger-year/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Lauren Willig reads from her latest That Summer
DESCRIPTION:2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt\, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six\, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting\, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe\, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open… \n1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man\, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter\, Evie\, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur’s collection of medieval artifacts\, including Gavin Thorne\, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait\, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion. \nFrom modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement\, Lauren Willig’s That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house\, a hidden love affair\, and one woman’s search for the truth about her past—and herself.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-willig-reads-from-her-latest-that-summer/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Michael Craven reads from his latest novel The Detective & the Pipe Girl
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nIn the vein of Harlan Coben\, Robert B. Parker\, and Carl Hiaasen comes a richly atmospheric\, wildly original\, and fast-paced mystery introducing the unforgettable P.I. John Darvelle—set against the magnetic allure of Los Angeles. Private detective John Darvelle is a man of specific tastes—simple design\, smart women\, cheap American beer. He’s a man of specific opinions—drive a car nobody can remember\, avoid brunch at all costs\, and don’t live in Brentwood. And he adheres to his own professional code\, an indelible blend of loyalty\, fierce commitment\, and performance under pressure. He also plays a lot of Ping-Pong. Arthur Vonz is one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles\, a filmmaker among the ranks of Spielberg\, Coppola\, and Kubrick. He hires Darvelle to find a young woman named Suzanne Neal\, an incandescent beauty who just might be hiding something. What starts as an easy assignment soon has Darvelle plunging deep into the hidden world of Hollywood’s elite. A twisting\, turning journey puts him face-to-face with the LAPD\, a ruthless underground crime operation\, and a cold-blooded killer. It’s the case of a lifetime . . . that could end his life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/michael-craven-reads-from-his-latest-novel-the-detective-the-pipe-girl/
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SUMMARY:Meryl Gordon reads from The Phantom of Fifth Avenue
DESCRIPTION:Born in 1906\, Huguette Clark grew up in her family’s 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark\, was a copper magnate\, the second richest man in American\, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name\, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances\, Huguette began to withdraw from society–first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham\, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park\, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious\, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded\, copper cage?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/meryl-gordon-reads-from-the-phantom-of-fifth-avenue/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Marni Fechter reads from her debut Royal Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:When bleeding heart Melody Frank blows the whistle on her boss\, she gets fired from her social services job\, and no one else in the field will touch her. Enter the fabulous Charles Ribbon\, premier party producer for New York’s rich and famous. Charles’s assistant is out of commission\, and he wants Melody to start working for him at Royal Entertainment right away. Melody accepts the offer\, and she is suddenly propelled from working with disabled children from low-income families to planning parties for New York’s wealthiest elite. She soon proves that she has a talent for saving the day in this new world—but can she save herself? \n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/marni-fechter-reads-from-her-debut-royal-entertainment/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140513T200000
DTSTAMP:20140205T160402Z
CREATED:20140205T160402Z
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SUMMARY:Burt Weissbourd reads from his latest In Velvet
DESCRIPTION:The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management\, and Rachel\, a bear biologist\, is discovering some very startling animal behavior—grizzlies denning in June\, swans at their wintering grounds in summer\, what appear to be Irish Elk\, an extinct species\, with huge palmated antlers. There are also horrific mutations in the young—elk calves with no front legs\, earless bear cubs\, and eaglets without wings. What has gone wrong? Why is this area closed? Who’s covering up these animal abnormalities in the Park? \nA non-stop thriller set in some of North America’s wildest country\, In Velvet takes you deep into the hearts of a hard case local detective and a Chicago cop as they take on a corrupt sheriff\, a pathalogical poacher\, and a lethal black ops manager to solve this ghastly mystery and restore the natural order in Yellowstone National Park.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/burt-weissbourd-reads-from-his-latest-in-velvet/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140512T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T193437Z
CREATED:20140226T193437Z
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SUMMARY:Ava Chin reads from her debut Eating Wildly
DESCRIPTION:In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City\, Ava Chin finds sustenance…and so much more. Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods\, and it’s all about eating better\, healthier\, and more sustainably\, no matter where you live. Time named foraging the “latest obsession of haute cuisine.” And while foraging may be the latest foodie trend\, the quest to connect with food and nature is timeless and universal. Ava Chin\, aka the “Urban Forager\,” is an experienced master of the quest. Raised in Queens\, New York\, by a single mother and loving grandparents\, Chin takes off on an emotional journey to make sense of her family ties and romantic failures when her beloved grandmother dies. She retreats into the urban wilds\, where parks and backyards provide not only rare and delicious edible plants\, but a wellspring of wisdom. As the seasons turn\, Chin begins to view her life with new “foraging eyes\,” experiencing the world as a place of plenty and variety\, where every element—from flora to fauna to fungi—is interconnected and interdependent. Her experiences in nature put her on a path to self-discovery\, leading to reconciliation with her family and finding true love. \nDivided into chapters devoted to a variety of edible/medicinal plants\, with recipes and culinary information\, Eating Wildly will stir your emotions and enliven your taste buds—a moving memoir about the importance of family\, relationships\, and food
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ava-chin-reads-from-her-debut-eating-wildly/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T200000
DTSTAMP:20140318T152537Z
CREATED:20140120T181512Z
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SUMMARY:Ellen Feldman reads from her latest The Unwitting
DESCRIPTION:In CIA parlance\, those who knew were “witting.” Everyone else was among the “unwitting.”  \nOn a bright November day in 1963\, President Kennedy is shot. That same day\, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband\, the influential young editor of a literary magazine. As the nation mourns its public loss\, Nell has her private grief to reckon with\, as well as a revelation about Charlie that turns her understanding of her marriage on its head\, along with the world she thought she knew. With the Cold War looming ominously over the lives of American citizens in a battle of the Free World against the Communist powers\, the blurry lines between what is true\, what is good\, and what is right tangle with issues of loyalty and love. As the truths Nell discovers about her beloved husband upend the narrative of her life\, she must question her own allegiance: to her career as a journalist\, to her country\, but most of all to the people she loves. Set in the literary Manhattan of the 1950s\, at a journal much like the Paris Review\, The Unwitting evokes a bygone era of burgeoning sexual awareness and intrigue and an exuberance of ideas that had the power to change the world. Resonant\, illuminating\, and utterly absorbing\, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell\, the secrets we keep\, and the power of love in the face of both.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-latest-the-unwitting/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140505T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T193204Z
CREATED:20140226T193054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140226T193204Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Bill Doyle's new early reader Invasion of the Junkyard Hog
DESCRIPTION:Following Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie and Stampede of the Supermarket Slugs is Bill Doyle’s third tale of monsters and magic.\nMr. Cigam has a new job for Keats and Henry—a job working for his mixed-up stepsisters\, Lillian and Beatrice. The sisters have lost a magical compass at the Tophat Junkyard\, and ever since then\, they’ve lost their sense of direction as well. Now they need pleh! (That’s help spelled backward.) But for Keats and Henry\, finding the compass isn’t going to be easy. Something else is searching for it\, too—a magic-sniffing junkyard hog with wings\, long sharp tusks\, and an appetite for destruction!
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-bill-doyles-new-early-reader-invasion-of-the-junkyard-hog/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140430T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140430T200000
DTSTAMP:20140328T172545Z
CREATED:20140205T160023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140328T172545Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Wendy Aronsson's debut Refeathering the Empty Nest
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: This event was moved from April 16 to April 30. \nMany parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully and artfully. They read the latest child development and parenting books\, configure their schedules to accommodate the social and educational lives of their children\, and focus like lasers on their childrens’ well-being. Many have made an enormous emotional and financial investment in raising their children. But children grow up\, they move out\, they create their own lives and their own homes. The role of the parent changes\, diminishes\, and evolves. \n\nThe life phase that begins in preparation for an “empty nest” and continues until parents re-feather the nest has no official name\, yet it represents a profound shift from the rigors of daily parenting to a period of self-reflection and reorientation. Here\, Wendy Aronsson centers on that experience\, capturing the realities of the emotions and life changes that come on gradually\, and sometimes proceed in fits and starts. \nRefeathering the Empty Nest is for any parent preparing for the departure from of home of their youngest child. It is for those who wish to move forward productively\, both in their new parenting role and in their roles as spouse\, employee\, friend\, neighbor\, and self. Using real stories throughout\, Aronsson shows how people have managed these changes\, how they’ve reignited the passion in their marriages or moved on from bad matches\, how they’ve rediscovered old interests and talents\, and how they’ve reinvented their relationships with their children as well. These stories provide hope and guidance to anyone whose nest is about to empty as well as those whose nests already are.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-wendy-aronssons-debut-refeathering-the-empty-nest/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140422T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140422T200000
DTSTAMP:20140205T155423Z
CREATED:20140205T155423Z
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UID:537-1398189600-1398196800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill reads from her latest Hotel Florida
DESCRIPTION:Madrid\, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call “the decisive thing of the century”—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway\, his career stalled\, his marriage sour\, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn\, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience\, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro\, idealistic young photographers based in Paris\, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea\, chief of Madrid’s loyalist foreign press office\, and Ilsa Kulcsar\, his Austrian deputy\, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised cause—a struggle that places both of them in peril. \nHotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. As Hemingway put it\, “You could learn as much at the Hotel Florida in those years as you could anywhere in the world.” From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries\, official documents\, and recovered reels of film\, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is\, finally\, a story about truth: finding it out\, telling it\, and living it—whatever the cost.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/amanda-vaill-reads-from-her-latest-hotel-florida/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140421T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20140421T200000
DTSTAMP:20140303T165306Z
CREATED:20140303T165244Z
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UID:557-1398103200-1398110400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Leah Hager Cohen reads from her latest novel No Book But the World
DESCRIPTION:As children\, Ava and her brother Fred were raised in a “free” environment. Their parents\, progressive educators and followers of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau\, believed children developed best without formal instruction or societal contraints. This\, despite the fact that Fred was a child who clearly might have benefited from some kind of intervention. When the book opens\, Ava\, 32\, has learned that her brother\, 30\, is being held in a county jail in upstate New York\, alleged to have abducted a young boy and taken him into the woods. After several days’ search\, the boy is found dead. Fred has always been different. If he’d ever been clinically evaluated\, he might well have been given a diagnosis on the autism spectrum\, but his parents didn’t believe in labeling or pathologizing human behavior\, and never took him to a specialist. Now Ava feels impelled to try to piece together the story of what actually happened between the boy and Fred\, convinced that she\, and she alone\, will be able to explain her brother in a way that allows the rest of the world to regard him with sympathy. \nNo Book but the World is about fathoming the unfathomable. It asks what obligation we have to reach out to someone who is difficult to love\, or to try to understand the motivations behind another’s actions\, and what means we have for doing so. It asks whether freedom is always desirable. And it challenges the idea that facts are our best tools for comprehending one another\, proposing our emotions and imaginations might take us further.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/leah-hager-cohen-reads-from-her-latest-novel-no-book-but-the-world/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140409T193000
DTSTAMP:20140403T161248Z
CREATED:20140205T154530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140403T161248Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of Tori Corn's latest children's picture book Dixie Wants an Allergy
DESCRIPTION:It’s Dixie’s first day of school\, and some of her classmates are sharing details about their various allergies. Bridget tells of her wheat allergy and how she gets to order a special meal from restaurants. Dixie thinks that must be a really special meal! And Charlie had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance once due to his dairy allergy. Dixie thinks that must have been thrilling! Even Hannah gets to wear a fashionable bracelet due to her peanut allergy. Dixie races home and begins to eagerly search for the slightest sign of an allergy. After many failed attempts\, Dixie discovers that she is allergic to something after all. But is getting what you wish for actually as exciting as it once appeared? \nDixie Wants an Allergy provides a comical and engaging approach for children who are beginning to learn about and who are coping with allergies—and who also have trouble finding what makes them unique. Corn’s playful text and Cote’s inviting illustrations encourage children to accept those with differences while learning that wanting what others have is not always a good idea. \nPlease note that illustrator Nancy Cote will be raffling off an original piece of art from the book\,matted  and framed!  \nFor every purchased copy of Dixie\, the customer can have their name entered in a raffle which will be drawn at the end of the night. 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-tori-corns-latest-childrens-picture-book-dixie-wants-an-allergy/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140408T200000
DTSTAMP:20140120T181152Z
CREATED:20140120T181152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140120T181152Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Hirsch discusses his latest A Poet's Glossary
DESCRIPTION:A major addition to the literature of poetry\, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms\, devices\, groups\, movements\, isms\, aesthetics\, rhetorical terms\, and folklore—a book that all readers\, writers\, teachers\, and students of poetry will return to over and over. \nHirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world\, returning with an inclusive\, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America\, from small formal elements to large mysteries\, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary\, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. \nKnowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm\, authority\, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved\, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/edward-hirsch-discusses-his-latest-a-poets-glossary/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T204411Z
CREATED:20140226T192713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140226T204411Z
UID:545-1396548000-1396555200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:James McMullan reads from Leaving China
DESCRIPTION:James McMullan was born in Tsingtao\, North China\, in 1934\, the grandson of missionaries who settled there. As a little boy\, Jim took for granted a privileged life of household servants\, rickshaw rides\, and picnics on the shore—until World War II erupted and life changed drastically. Jim’s father\, a British citizen fluent in several Chinese dialects\, joined the Allied forces. For the next several years\, Jim and his mother moved from one place to another—Shanghai\, San Francisco\, Vancouver\, Darjeeling—first escaping Japanese occupation then trying to find security\, with no clear destination except the unpredictable end of the war. For Jim\, those ever-changing years took on the quality of a dream\, sometimes a nightmare\, a feeling that persists in the stunning full-page\, full-color paintings that along with their accompanying text tell the story of Leaving China.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/james-mcmullan-reads-from-leaving-china/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140401T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20140401T200000
DTSTAMP:20140314T135531Z
CREATED:20140314T135531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140314T135531Z
UID:560-1396375200-1396382400@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Todd Purdum reads from his debut An Idea Whose Time Has Come
DESCRIPTION:  \nA top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, the law that created modern America\, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage \n  \nIt was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins\, freedom rides\, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door—when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment\, education\, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because\, as one influential senator put it\, it was “an idea whose time has come.” In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail\, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson\, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen\, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed\, in just over a year\, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law\, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/todd-purdum-reads-from-his-debut-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140328T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20140328T200000
DTSTAMP:20140226T203045Z
CREATED:20140226T203045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140226T203045Z
UID:553-1396029600-1396036800@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Walter Kirn reads from his latest Blood Will Out
DESCRIPTION:In the summer of 1998\, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on a peculiar\, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller\, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish\, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor\, child kidnapper\, and brutal murderer.\nKirn’s one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend\, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman\, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why\, as a writer of fiction\, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes\, Kirn learns\, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/walter-kirn-reads-from-his-latest-blood-will-out/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Readings
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