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SUMMARY:Adam Van Doren presents In the Founders Footsteps
DESCRIPTION:A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America’s founding. Obscure\, well-known\, off-the-beaten path\, and on busy city streets\, here are taverns\, meeting houses\, battlefields\, forts\, monuments\, homes which all combine to define our country–the places where daring people forged a revolution. There is always something new to be found in America’s past that also brings greater clarity to our present and the future we choose to make as a nation. Author-artist Adam Van Doren traveled from Maine to Georgia in that spirit. There are thirty-seven landmarks included\, with fifteen additional locations noted in brief.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/adam-van-doren-presents-in-the-founders-footsteps/
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SUMMARY:Mark Goldsmith launches his book From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island
DESCRIPTION:Mark Goldsmith enjoyed a 35-year career in the cosmetic business\, managing household name brands during Madison Avenue’s Mad Men heyday. Looking for new challenges in retirement\, Goldsmith took his wife’s suggestion to volunteer for the Principal for a Day program\, specifically asking to be sent to the toughest New York City school available–which turned out to be Horizon Academy at the city’s infamous Rikers Island jail. Goldsmith instantly connected with the men of Rikers\, leveraging the skills he’d honed in decades of corporate experience and his strong desire to help. This passion ultimately led to the creation of his not-for-profit organization Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO)\, which has helped thousands of young men pursue their goals for their education\, employment\, and emotional well-being to create a new life for themselves beyond the criminal justice system.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/mark-goldsmith-launches-his-book-from-madison-avenue-to-rikers-island/
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SUMMARY:Paul Batista reads from his new thriller Accusation
DESCRIPTION:World renowned\, revered actor Aaron Julian is awakened at two a.m. by his agent who informs him that he has been accused of sexual harassment. Young actresses will break the story on prime-time TV that morning—with their lawyer\, the attorney who led the charge in the priests’ sexual abuse cases. \nAaron and his celebrity pop-singer wife\, Veda\, vehemently deny the charges\, and hire powerful defense lawyer Raquel Rematti. But when the plaintiffs’ lawyer is murdered in Central Park\, the stakes skyrocket and the conspiracies spiral out of control. \nDespite revelation after revelation\, Aaron continues to proclaim his innocence. And in his defense\, Rematti uses every tool in the legal system to produce courtroom drama that is unparalleled.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/paul-batista-reads-from-his-new-thriller-accusation/
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SUMMARY:Victoria Shorr reads from her new book Mid-Air
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Shorr’s remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family\, ambition\, class\, and status. \nIn “Great Uncle Edward\,” a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three\, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attended both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of a storied past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy. “Cleveland Auto Wrecking” introduces Sam White\, an immigrant from eastern Europe. He cannot read but has a gift for math and an instinct for the value of junk. We follow his clan through the Depression to the postwar boom in the West\, where their fortunes soar\, creating new tests of loyalty. \nTaken together\, these two novellas might be the reverse images of the American dream in the twentieth century. They ask to what degree\, in the face of such powerful forces as love\, death\, and social constraints\, do any of us have control over our own lives.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/victoria-shorr-reads-from-her-new-book-mid-air/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T180000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Belfer reads from her new novel Ashton Hall
DESCRIPTION:When a close relative falls ill\, Hannah Larson and her young son\, Nicky\, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall\, a historic manor house outside Cambridge\, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child\, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City\, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. \nSoon after their arrival\, ever-curious Nicky finds the skeletal remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor\, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers\, Nicky close by her side. Working from clues in centuries-old ledgers showing what the woman’s household spent on everything from music to medicine; lists of books checked out of the library; and the troubling personal papers of the long-departed family\, Hannah begins to recreate the Ashton Hall of the Elizabethan era in all its color and conflict. As the multilayered secrets of her own life begin to unravel\, Hannah comes to realize that Ashton Hall’s women before her had lives not so different from her own\, and she confronts what mothers throughout history have had to do to secure their independence and protect their children.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/lauren-belfer-reads-from-her-new-novel-ashton-hall/
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SUMMARY:David Koepp launches his new book Aurora
DESCRIPTION:In Aurora\, Illinois\, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split\, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. \nThen the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly\, all problems are local\, very local\, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood. \nAcross the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother\, Thom. A fantastically wealthy\, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO\, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security. \nBut the complicated history between the siblings is far from over\, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckonings—which not everyone will survive… \nAurora is suspenseful storytelling—both large scale and small—at its finest.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/david-koepp-launches-his-new-book-aurora/
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SUMMARY:Caitlin Macy reads from her new story collection A Blind Corner
DESCRIPTION:In an era of “hot takes” and easy generalizations\, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of “niceness”. In Macy’s world\, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient\, social-media-driven narratives that would sort us into neat boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us. \nTime and again\, whether at home or in the age-old role of Americans abroad\, Macy’s women see their good intentions turn awry. A woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife\, attempting to be a good host to a friend’s strange ex-boyfriend\, finds herself in a compromised situation. And\, in the title story\, a newlywed fancies herself a Euro-sophisticate until an accident reminds her just how truly foreign she really is.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caitlin-macy-reads-from-her-new-story-collection-a-blind-corner/
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SUMMARY:Debbie Babitt reads from her new novel First Victim
DESCRIPTION:The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence. From the bench at Manhattan Supreme\, she has seen the most hardened killers pass through her courtroom. But there’s something about this trial—a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman—that affects her as no other case ever has. Her chaotic\, stressful home life only adds to her mounting feelings of panic and fear. She’s also harboring a secret that if exposed could have far-reaching ramifications both personally and professionally. And now\, unbeknownst to Alice\, her daughter has begun a search for her biological father. \nAs the trial progresses\, Alice’s life starts to unravel. Nightmares she suffered as a girl return with a vengeance. Phantom sightings torment her. Is she being paranoid? Or are the specters real? Almost at the breaking point\, she begins to doubt her own sanity. Then she makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a collision course with her past and a terror-filled night in the woods in Upstate New York. Confronted with the unspeakable\, she must face a decades-buried truth as she fights for her survival against a cunning adversary that forces her to question everything she ever believed about herself . . . and tests her limits as a woman\, a judge\, and a mother.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/debbie-babitt-reads-from-her-new-novel-first-victim/
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SUMMARY:Andrew Bomback reads from his debut Long Days\, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting
DESCRIPTION:When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent\, and so rife with the possibility of failure? \nIn Long Days\, Short Years\, Andrew Bomback—physician\, writer\, and father of three young children—looks at why it can be so much fun to be a parent but\, at the same time\, so frustrating and difficult to parent. It’s not a “how to” book (although Bomback has read plenty of these) but a “how come” book\, investigating the emergence of an immersive\, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive (and often not very enjoyable) sport. \nDrawing on parenting books\, mommy blogs\, and historical accounts of parental duties as well as novels\, films\, podcasts\, television shows\, and his own experiences as a parent\, Bomback charts the cultural history of parenting as a skill to be mastered\, from the laid-back Dr. Spock’s 1950s childcare bible—in some years outsold only by the actual Bible—to the more rigid training schedules of Babywise. Along the way\, he considers the high costs of commercialized parenting (from the babymoon on)\, the pressure on mothers to have it all (and do it all)\, scripted parenting as laid out in How to Talk So Kids Will Listen\, parenting during a pandemic\, and much more.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/andrew-bomback-reads-from-his-debut-long-days-short-years-a-cultural-history-of-modern-parenting/
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SUMMARY:Brian McDonald reads from his new book Five Floors Up
DESCRIPTION:Seen through the eyes of four generations of a firefighter family\, Five Floors Up the story of the modern New York City Fire Department. From the days just after the horse-drawn firetruck\, to the devastation of the 1970s when the Bronx was Burning\, to the unspeakable tragedy of 9/11\, to the culture-busting department of today\, a Feehan has worn the shoulder patch of the FDNY. The tale shines the spotlight on the career of William M. Feehan. “Chief” Feehan is the only person to have held every rank in the FDNY including New York City’s 28th Fire Commissioner. He died in the September 11\, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. But Five Floors Up is at root an intimate look at a firefighter clan\, the selflessness and bravery of not only those who face the flames\, but the family members who stand by their sides. Alternately humorous and harrowing\, rich with anecdotes and meticulously researched and reported\, Five Floors Up takes us inside a world few truly understand\, documenting an era that is quickly passing us by.\n 
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/brian-mcdonald-reads-from-his-new-book-five-floors-up/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T180000
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SUMMARY:Melissa Dassori & Caroline Gertler celebrate the publication of their new middle grade novels
DESCRIPTION:What if you could write your dreams into reality with the stroke of a pen?\nSixth grade is off to a difficult start for Josephine Rose Silver. Her best friend\, Violet\, returns from camp with a new best friend; her parents refuse to grant her more independence; and her homeroom teacher\, Ms. Kline\, is full of secrets. When Ms. Kline unveils a collection of old Gothamite magazines and tells her students to build their writing skills by crafting short stories inspired by the iconic covers\, J.R. discovers a peculiar power: The stories she writes come true. Soon J.R. is getting a cell phone\, scoring game-winning goals\, and triggering school cancellations. But it’s not long before she realizes that each new story creates as many conflicts as it does solutions. And when J.R. tries to write about her fallout with Violet\, all of her problems converge.\nWith a pinch of magic\, mystery\, art history\, and language arts woven into a journey of growth and self-confidence\, this promising debut is a heartfelt and satisfying tribute to the power of words. \n \nNolie’s sister\, Linden\, may be only fourteen months older than she is\, but suddenly that feels longer than it ever has before. Linden is growing up. She cuts short their Cousins Week at Grandma’s beach cottage to focus on excelling in her ballet auditions\, and she throws away the seashell necklace Grandma gave each of them—though Nolie secretly saves it. Even Nolie’s best friend\, Jessa\, is suddenly trying to act older and cooler\, and she wants Nolie to be someone different\, too.\n\nWith everything and everyone changing around her\, Nolie starts to feel adrift. Should she be changing\, too? Who does she want to be? One impulsive decision leads to another and another . . . until Nolie has a secret collection of things that don’t belong to her. Now\, Nolie must face the fact that she may have ended up on the wrong path so she can start to find her way back.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/melissa-dassori-caroline-gertler-celebrate-the-publication-of-their-new-middle-grade-novels/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Medwed reads from Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Of Prison
DESCRIPTION:Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. \nIn Barred\, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system’s stringent procedural rules are largely to blame for the ongoing punishment of the innocent. Those rules guarantee criminal defendants just one opportunity to appeal their convictions directly to a higher court. Afterward\, the wrongfully convicted can pursue only a few narrow remedies. Even when there is strong evidence of a miscarriage of justice\, rigid guidelines\, bias\, and deference toward lower courts all too often prevent exoneration. \nOffering clear explanations of legal procedures alongside heart-wrenching stories of their devastating impact\, Barred exposes how the system is stacked against the innocent and makes a powerful call for change.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/daniel-medwed-reads-from-his-debut-barred-why-the-innocent-cant-get-of-prison/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
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SUMMARY:William Miller reads from his book Steel City
DESCRIPTION:*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS AND WILL HAPPEN OFFSITE AT WETHERBY-PEMBRIDGE SCHOOL 7 EAST 96th STREET* \nRSVP to: events@chneighbors.org \nSteel City is the story of the 1890’s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel\, food processing and electricity\, and the leaders of those industries – Carnegie\, Frick\, Heinz and Westinghouse -are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere Jamie Dalton\, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer\, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business\, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century\, the Johnstown Flood\, confirms his choice to be a journalist\, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburgh’s business titans\, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era\, he is exposed to a very different world\, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately\, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nation’s largest industry: steel.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/william-miller-reads-from-his-book-steel-city/
LOCATION:Wetherby-Pembrisge\, 7 East 96th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10128
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SUMMARY:Sabeeha Rehman reads from her new book It's Not What You Think
DESCRIPTION:It’s Not What You Think is a wry\, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insular patriarchal society\, what is so attractive to expatriates living there\, and what was contradictory or confining about it for a naturalized American who is a woman and a Muslim. A hospital executive in New Jersey\, Sabeeha relocated with her oncologist husband to Riyadh\, the most conservative city in the country\, intending to remain two years. They ended up staying for six. Her book takes the reader on a journey of discovery that mirrors her own.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/sabeeha-rehman-reads-from-her-new-book-its-not-what-you-think/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T173000
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Weill and Amy Hest launch their new children's books
DESCRIPTION:Best friends Billy and Rose\, an industrious sheep and a laid-back pig\, sometimes see things differently. When they play catch\, Rose insists that Billy throws too high\, and he counters that she throws too low. While Rose thinks washing clothes is the world’s biggest chore\, Billy contends that playing the cello holds that distinction. Still\, these endearing friends always find a way to work things out: What if Billy plays a cello serenade for Rose while she does her laundry? After all\, what they really want is to be together. These four sweet stories by beloved children’s author Amy Hest are filled with gentle wit and enhanced by Kady MacDonald Denton’s delightfully expressive illustrations. \n \nYoung readers will enjoy this fun and vibrant bilingual introduction to different forms of transportation. This installment in author Cynthia Weill’s acclaimed Mexican Folk Art series is a colorful adventure in English and Spanish\, illustrated with handmade painted sculptures. You’re invited on a trip to a special place and there are many ways to get there. You could take a bike\, a bus\, or even a boat! Featuring beautiful artwork handmade by local artisans in Oaxaca\, Mexico\, Vámonos will spark a lifelong love of languages and libraries in young readers. Grab your favorite person to read with and let’s go!
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/cynthia-weill-and-amy-hest-launch-their-new-childrens-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221025T180000
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SUMMARY:Christin Brecher launches her new book Photo Finished
DESCRIPTION:While some people escape into books or music\, Liv Spyers escapes through her camera’s lens\, which inspires her to jump into things she might otherwise have no business tackling—like moving to New York City. Hustling to make her dreams come true as a portrait photographer\, she runs a pocket-sized studio below her grandparents’ West Village brownstone and key shop\, where she also lives and works part-time. All of which still has her down to the end of her savings as the holidays approach. Everything changes in a flash\, however\, when elite events photographer\, Regina Montague\, invites Liv to shoot with her at New York City’s most exclusive socialite event of the year—the Holiday Debutante Ball! Liv snaps at the opportunity\, convinced that a job with Regina will launch her career. But when her fabulous new gig ends with the murder of billionaire Charlie Archibald\, her dream job may never develop with Regina framed for murder. Once Liv begins to focus on her photos from the ball\, she’s convinced they reveal Charlie Archibald’s real killer. Now\, between cracking the world of high society—and the attentions of a handsome stranger—Liv must hustle once again to expose the killer…before she gets cropped from the picture!
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/christin-brecher-launches-her-new-book-photo-finished/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T193000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Coleman launches her debut If I Were A Tiger
DESCRIPTION:Meet Tim Bone. He has a big imagination\, and when it roams wild\, he’s afraid of a lot of things. He’s scared of the moon and the wailing typhoon\, and he won’t wear his sneakers because he fears hidden creatures. Tim’s nervous at home\, at school\, and at play! \nFed up with being frightened\, Tim comes up with a bold solution: He’s going to become a tiger so he can be fiercer than his fears! There’s just one problem: If he’s a tiger\, he can’t be Tim. Could there be a better solution? What if Tim puts his trust in God—who made both boys and tigers—instead? \nIf I Were a Tiger invites kids of all ages to live in the comforting truth that no one has to carry their fears alone\, and offers the reminder that God is only a prayer away.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/caroline-coleman-launches-her-debut-if-i-were-a-tiger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T193000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of I Love (ish) New York with author Ali Solomon
DESCRIPTION:There is no city quite like New York City\, for better or worse. I Love(ish) New York is a hilarious relatable collection of essays\, illustrations\, and cartoons about the always interesting\, sometimes frustrating\, and endlessly entertaining quirks of living in the Big Apple. \nDespite the notorious six-floor walk-ups and unrequited love found in all the wrong dive bars\, the city’s unique charm and irresistible allure keeps millions of residents—and starry-eyed millions more on their way—walking fast and talking faster. New Yorker magazine contributor Ali Solomon offers an absurdist’s eye and a satirist’s pen\, crafting a love letter to the greatest (or great-ish?) city in the world. I Love(ish) New York is the perfect gift for anyone who lives\, left\, loved\, or dreamed of living in New York City.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-i-love-ish-new-york-with-author-ali-solomon/
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SUMMARY:Kate Manning reads from her new book Gilded Mountain
DESCRIPTION:In a voice full of questions and sly humor\, Sylvie recounts the story of leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in the local manor house for the Padgetts\, owners of the marble mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her\, fascinated by her employer\, the charming “Countess” Inge\, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper\, the bookish heir to the family fortune. When she learns that a European King will soon arrive for a hunting party\, her fairy-tale ideas of glamour and romance take a dark turn\, as she realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants\, the Gradys\, descendants of formerly enslaved people have long known this to be true—and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie. \nDrawn from true stories of Colorado history\, Gilded Mountain is an unforgettable saga of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants; a novel about resilience in the midst of hardship\, and a story infused with longing—for family and equality\, beauty and joy.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kate-manning-reads-from-her-new-book-gilded-mountain/
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SUMMARY:Molly Peacock reads from her new book A Friend Sails in on a Poem
DESCRIPTION:For the last forty-five years\, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they have written–an unparalleled friendship in poetry. Here Peacock collects her most important essays on poetic form and traces the development of her formalist aesthetic across their lifelong back-and-forth.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/molly-peacock-reads-from-her-new-book-a-friend-sails-in-on-a-poem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T180000
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SUMMARY:Maya Popa reads from her new collection of poems Wound is the Origin of Wonder
DESCRIPTION:“This book is an astonishment. In ravishing\, formally exploratory poems\, Maya C. Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel\, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure: ‘It’s plain we didn’t see / the future coming\,’ she announces. Searching for a spring that brings renewal\, lamenting ‘snow / that vanishes with touch\,’ her poems register a unique combination of imperilment and possibility\, with imagistic precision one can’t forget: ‘A faint hiss—that is / your own life now\, hurrying / from one light to another.’ Wound Is the Origin of Wonder reflects to us our own historical moment with unusual clarity\, even as its lyric exploration of psychic and social landscapes stand outside of time. This is a book I will return to.” —Meghan O’Rourke
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/maya-popa-reads-from-her-new-collection-of-poems-wound-is-the-origin-of-wonder/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T180000
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SUMMARY:Suzette Sheft celebrates the publication of her debut Running for Shelter
DESCRIPTION:Running for Shelter is written by Inge’s 15-year-old granddaughter\, Suzatte Sheft. The gripping\, true story offers a window through which young adult readers can witness the challenges of growing up during the Holocaust. As this important chapter of history fades from living memory\, Inge’s tale offers hope to a new generation who must also cultivate courage and determination in the face of personal and political challenges.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/suzette-sheft-celebrates-the-publication-of-her-debut-running-for-shelter/
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230103T193000
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SUMMARY:Willie Mae Brown reads from her debut My Selma
DESCRIPTION:As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma\, Alabama\, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family’s home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories. In one\, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to offer summer babysitting services to a glamorous single white mother—a secret she keeps from her parents that unravels with shocking results. In another\, Willie Mae reluctantly joins her mother at a church rally\, and is forever changed after hearing Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a defiant speech in spite of a court injunction. Infused with the vernacular of her Southern upbringing\, My Selma captures the voice and vision of a fascinating young person—perspicacious\, impetuous\, resourceful\, and even mystical in her ways of seeing the world around her—who gifts us with a loving portrayal of her hometown while also delivering a no-holds-barred indictment of the time and place.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/willie-mae-brown-reads-from-her-debut-my-selma/
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman reads from her latest novel Ms. Demeanor
DESCRIPTION:Ms. Demeanor\nA Novel \nElinor Lipman \nHardcover \nList Price: 27.99*\n* Individual store prices may vary.\n\nJane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm—or was\, until a prudish neighbor\, binoculars poised\, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building.  Police are summoned\, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless\, trapped at home\, life looks bleak. Yes\, her twin sister provides support and advice\, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane isn’t the only resident wearing an ankle monitor\, she strikes up a friendship with fellow white-collar felon Perry Salisbury. As she tries to adapt to life within her apartment walls\, she discovers she hasn’t heard the end of that tattletale neighbor—whose past isn’t as decorous as her 9-1-1 snitching would suggest. Why are police knocking on Jane’s door again? Can her house arrest have a silver lining? Can two wrongs make a right? In the hands of “an inspired alchemist who converts serious subject into humor” (New York Times Book Review)—yes\, delightfully.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/elinor-lipman-reads-from-her-latest-ms-demeanor/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T193000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of The Fifth Hero with Bill Doyle
DESCRIPTION:The Calamity Corporation is determined to end life on Earth as we know it. The company has built hotels that orbit Earth and small cities on the moon and has plans to move the human population to Mars. The sinister corporation is determined to ruin Earth so that people have no choice but to leave it. \nNot so fast! Four kids who secretly possess the powers of land\, air\, sea\, and creatures are about to change the course of history. These kids may not be the likeliest of heroes\, but they are determined to stop Calamity Corporation from destroying Earth. And they have a secret weapon: a fifth hero. YOU! \nThroughout the book\, there are three chances for you to help change the course of the story alongside our fearless team. Choose incorrectly and it’s game over. But choose wisely and you might save the planet!
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-the-fifth-hero-with-bill-doyle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the publication of The Museum of Lost Teeth with author Elyssa Friedland
DESCRIPTION:Toothy lives in Liam’s mouth next to his best friend Fang. He’s a good tooth—sparkly and strong\, and he loves doing the floss. \nOne day\, Toothy notices that he is loose and panics! Where will he go after he leaves his comfy spot next to Fang? After a crunchy apple seals the deal\, Toothy is tucked under Liam’s pillow. When the Tooth Fairy appears\, she takes Toothy to the Museum of Lost Teeth. It’s a more incredible place than Toothy could have ever imagined. It’s filled with new friends and fun activities like Tooth or Dare! Toothy finds a new home on the Firsts Floor\, where first baby teeth are proudly displayed. \nIn the tradition of School’s First Day of School\, The Museum of Lost Teeth answers the question “Where do all the lost teeth go?” in this unexpected and hilarious picture book.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/celebrate-the-publication-of-the-museum-of-lost-teeth-with-author-elyssa-friedland/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T180000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Turtel reads from his new book The Family Morfawitz
DESCRIPTION:From acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel\, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel\, comes The Family Morfawitz\, a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. \nWhen Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York\, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus–at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice–ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past–she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition knows no limits\, and nothing will stand in the way of their realization of the American ideals of wealth and beauty\, even if it means abandoning their son\, Hezekial. \nDecades later\, through machinations worthy of his parents\, Hezekial becomes entrusted as the family’s chronicler. As he sits with his aging father\, transcribing a litany of Zev’s sins–from serving as a kapo at Gusen\, to betraying the friends who helped him\, to his blood-bound commitment to Hadassah despite numerous affairs and illegitimate children–the younger Morfawitz is faced with a choice: whitewash a lifetime of cruelty\, indifference\, and lust\, or repay his mother at last.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/daniel-turtel-reads-from-his-new-book-the-family-morfawitz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T180000
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UID:8980-1678816800-1678822200@cornerbookstorenyc.com
SUMMARY:Leigh McMullan Abramson launches her debut novel A Likely Story
DESCRIPTION:Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother\, Claire\, and New York Times bestselling author father\, Ward\, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle\, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with magic and love. \nNow an adult\, all Isabelle wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother\, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Her anxiety only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was all based on an elaborate lie. \nWry\, wise\, and propulsive\, A Likely Story is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight from a man who has cheated his way to the top. The characters seem eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly\, who is the author?
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/leigh-mcmullan-abramson-launches-her-debut-novel-a-likely-story/
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SUMMARY:Joanne Lipman discusses her new book NEXT!
DESCRIPTION:The profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives\, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot\, while leaders scrambled to rethink their roles. There has been an unprecedented global reset. But in truth\, almost everyone goes through this kind of reappraisal at least once in their life—and probably more often than that. Whatever the catalyst\, it prompts in us the urgent need to pivot\, to ask the question: \nWhat’s next—and how do I get there? \nIn Next!\, bestselling author and journalist Joanne Lipman distills hundreds of personal interviews along with the latest scientific research to answer just this question. Through irresistible storytelling\, she takes us inside successful career reinventions (ad executive to bestselling novelist; stay-at-home mom to CEO) and astonishing business transformations (wait until you hear what Play-Doh and Viagra have in common). From the laboratories of neuroscientists to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies\, to the frontlines of the social justice movement\, Lipman explores how and why these transformations succeed. \nJoanne Lipman will be in discussion with former Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/joanne-lipman-discusses-her-new-book-next/
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SUMMARY:Peter D. Kramer reads from his new book Death of the Great Man
DESCRIPTION:When Peter D. Kramer wrote about his work with psychiatric patients in books like Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?\, Joyce Carol Oates said\, “To read his prose on virtually any subject is to be provoked\, enthralled\, illuminated.” When Kramer switched to fiction\, Publishers Weekly wrote\, “The depth\, quality\, and ambition of Kramer’s prose will surprise those expecting a superficial crossover effort.” \nIn his new novel\, Death of the Great Man\, Kramer uses those literary skills to introduce readers to an unforgettable character\, Henry Farber\, a well-meaning psychiatrist forced into hiding when the nation’s chief executive—a narcissistic autocrat in his disastrous second term—is found dead on the consulting room couch. From an isolated bungalow\, Farber sets out to clear his name while offering an intimate view of a flawed populist leader. What begins as comic mystery and political satire matures into a moving journey of self-exploration and a commentary on the fate of truth-telling in an era when lying has become a norm in public life.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/peter-d-kramer-reads-from-his-new-book-death-of-the-great-man/
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