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FALL 2016
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by John Grisham


Release date: October 25, 2016

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BOOK SIGNINGS THIS WEEK
Unless otherwise indicated, author events usually begin with an informal reception at 5 pm, followed by the author's presentation at 5:30, with book signing both before and after the reading/talk. 
 
5 pm, Wednesday, August 17th - Off Square

(University Press of MS, hd. 35.00)



Born in the Mississippi Delta as part of the elite planter class, Eastland served in the Senate from 1943 until his retirement in 1978.  For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called the Second Reconstruction. And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron Henry. 
Big Jim Eastland  provides the life story of this complex, savvy, 
and  unpredictable powerhouse.

Annis is the author of  Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis, and, with Senator William H. Frist, the coauthor of  Tennessee Senators, 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change . He is currently chairman of the History and Political Science Department at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College.
 
5 pm, Thursday, August 18th - Off Square

Jay McInerney with 
(Knopf, hd. 27.95)


Russell and Corrine Calloway now find Brightness Falls (1992) and The Good Life (2006) in their rear view mirror as they teeter on the shifty precipice bridging youth and not-ready-to-be old age. Russell is an independent publisher of considerable literary but meager financial stature; Corrine manages the food bank, trying to do good in the world while they both bring up the twins. A man from Corrine's circa 9/11 past reappears, and, once again, Jay McInerney defines a Manhattan generation. Please join us to welcome back to Square Books the "scabrously scintillating stylist" (The Guardian) and our friend. - RH

To read/hear an interview with the author on 
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5 pm, Friday, August 19th - Off Square

Jacqueline Woodson with 

(photo by Juna F. Nagle)


The 2014 winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Drawing on her past, shared with us in her memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, Woodson transports the reader to Another Brooklyn. The Brooklyn of the 1970s, before hipsters and gentrification, when revolution and desperation was in the air. Four adolescent girls ban together in their friendship to protect each other from an unsympathetic world. Together they are beautiful and strong and nothing can touch them. But they can't stay together forever and as they seek their way out, the spell protecting them is broken. This deceptively slim volume contains a powerful story. As a poet, Ms. Woodson has crafted Another Brooklyn so that each word and sentience is weighted and balanced so as to convey the wilderness 
that is girlhood.  - LR

An Afternoon with Kate DiCamillo
Two-time Newbery Medalist and author of 



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Tuesday 8/23
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Thursday 9/22
Monday 9/26
Tuesday 9/27




  







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