November 4, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
New York, NY, 10079

From KGB Bar:

Doulgas Light has published fiction in such literary magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review and Failbetter, and in the anthologies O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003. His work was selected as a Finalist for the 2002 James Jones First Novel Fellowship and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Additionally, he was a founding editor of the literary journal Epiphany. He reads from his novel East Street Bliss.

Judith Jaeger is is a writer and editor in Central Massachusetts, where she also teaches undergraduate fiction and creative writing. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. She is currently working on her second novel. She reads from her novel The Secret Thief.

Richard Manichello is an award-winning director and writer of stage, film and television spanning twenty-five years. His production experience has taken him around the globe for projects ranging from CBS Reports to 60 Minutes. His illustrious and varied career has spilled over in many writing and production credits, including Olympic Glory, 1998, My Sergei, 1996, Top Cops, and America’s Most Wanted. He reads from his novel The Couloir.

Doug Buchs rejected a free Ivy League education in favor of the classroom of Life. His experiences of riding a horse across America, “cowboying” in Aspen, felling timber in Wyoming, working the “kill floor” in Denver, hauling freight, running heavy equipment in Alaska and crossing the country in handcuffs lent rich background to his poignant first novel. Mr. Buchs lives in Hamilton, Mass. He reads from his novel The Mescalero Project.

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November 5, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
New York, NY, 10079

Best American Voices 2006
Ryan Effgen – “The Inappropriate Behavior of Our Alleged Loved Ones”
Ellen Litmnan – “About Kamyshinskiy”
Caimeen Garrett – “The Temperate Family”
Dan Pope – “Karaoke Night”

November 9, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway
(at 12th St.)
New York, NY. 10003-4805

From Strand:
A brilliant, haunting novel about one of the most terrible tragedies in early twentieth-century America, Triangle forces us to consider how we tell our stories, how we hear them and how history is forged from unverifiable truths.

November 15, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway
(at 12th St.)
New York, NY. 10003-4805
Francine Prose will read from her latest book, Reading Like A Writer; A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them.

November 3, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers Park Slope
267 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

From the Publisher

In Destined for Destiny, George W. Bush offers readers an intimate, plainspoken, and often readable look at the character-shaping achievements that led to his inevitable rise to the office of President of the United States.Written from the heart, not from the brain, this definitive autobiography takes readers on a journey through the 43rd President’s life, including his hardscrabble beginnings as the child of West Texas oil millionaires, the remarkable academic performance that earned him entry into the finest East Coast schools, and his proud service to the country as an occasional member of the National Guard sometime around 1972 or 1973.

He proudly recounts his years as a successful oil-business failure and the owner of a baseball team. He even dares to dream the ultimate dream: to become Commissioner of Baseball.

The great man we meet here displays his mother’s steely resolve and vindictive temper, his father’s keen mastery of language, and his own unique gift of deciding.

His gripping life story deepens when a faith in God hits him one day “like a bottle of Jack on an empty stomach,” and he has an encounter with the Prince of Peace that sets George W. Bush on a path to become the greatest War President in history.

To help craft this lasting account of his life and leadership, George W. Bush turned to two writers who have earned not only his trust but his deep friendship: Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of The Onion and coauthor of the #1 bestseller Our Dumb Century, and Peter Hilleren, former producer for public radio and some of the nation’s finest public-access cable-television stations. Dikkers and Hilleren call on their finely honed journalism expertise every week to write and record the President’s weekly radio address on WeeklyRadioAddress.com. Their work on such stirring addresses as “June Terror Update” and “The Pope Is Dead” made them the ideal choice to meet the challenge of chronicling the visionary mark left on history by its shining light, President George W. Bush.

November 3, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers 82nd & Broadway
82nd & Broadway
2289 Broadway
New York, NY 10024

From the Publisher

At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments after delivering her child. Growing up, each remained ignorant of the other’s existence. In Beijing, Tan enjoyed the best schools, the finest clothes, and the prettiest girls. Shento was raised on the mountainside by an old healer and his wife until their deaths landed him in an orphanage, where he was always hungry, alone, and frightened. Though on divergent roads, each brother is driven by a passionate desire-one to glorify his father, the other to seek revenge against him.
Separated by distance and opportunity, Tan and Shento follow the paths that lie before them, while unknowingly falling in love with the same woman and moving toward the explosive moment when their fates finally merge.
Brothers, by bestselling memoirist Da Chen, is a sprawling, dynamic family saga, complete with assassinations, love affairs, narrowly missed opportunities, and the ineluctable fulfillment of destiny.

November 3, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers Union Square
Union Square
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003

From the Publisher

Since the publication of Angela’s Ashes nearly a decade ago, Frank McCourt has become one of literature’s superstars. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Booksellers Association ABBY Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. More than four million copies of Angela’s Ashes are now in print; its sequel, ‘Tis, has sold more than two million in America; and the books have been published in more than twenty countries and languages.In Teacher Man Frank turns his attention to the subject that he most often talks about in his lectures-teaching: why it’s so important, why it’s so undervalued. He describes his own coming of age-as a teacher, a storyteller, and, ultimately, a writer. He is alternately humble and mischievous, downtrodden and rebellious. He instinctively identifies with the underdog; his sympathies lie more with students than administrators. It takes him almost fifteen years to find his voice in the classroom, but what’s clear in the thrilling pages of Teacher Man is that from the beginning he seizes and holds his students’ attention by telling them memorable stories. And then it takes him another fifteen years to find his voice on the page.

With all the wit, charm, irreverence, and poignancy that made Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis so universally beloved, Frank McCourt tells his most exhilarating story yet-how he became a writer.

November 2, 2006 / 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
396 Ave of the Americas at 8th Stre
New York, NY 10011

From the Publisher

Doria is a fifteen-year-old Muslim French girl living in the infamous Paradise projects of suburban Paris and suffering all the usual problems: an overworked mother, an absent father, an inability to understand boys. She endures a parade of social workers with names like Madame Thingamajig and Monsieur Whosawhatsit. She is blindsided by her first kiss-stolen by a geeky boy with fat lips. Because she’s surrounded by drugs, crime, and racism, you’d expect hers to be a tale of endless tragedy. But Doria isn’t the complaining type. She’ll make the best of her mektoub, or “destiny,” reminding us that no matter our troubles, we all have parts to play in our fate. Take the Arab phrase kif-kif-”same-old, same-old”-and turn it into a French phrase, kiffe kiffe: Things are getting better all the time.

Disarmingly funny and fresh, Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow is a hopeful, wise, and intimate portrait of Arab immigrant life.

November 2, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers 82nd & Broadway
82nd & Broadway
2289 Broadway
New York, NY 10024

From the Publisher

She did not write him, or e-mail, or call. She thought about him often, as Lawrence no doubt had thought about her, but more than forty years had passed and the spilled milk was long since evaporated and water far under the bridge. There was nothing to say to him, nothing to ask, and no way to begin. Hiya, remember me?

The year is 1962. Lawrence is a senior at Harvard when he meets Hermia, a wild-spirited junior at Radcliffe. Their affair is swift and passionate, but neither is ready for marriage. Lawrence, just graduated, is restless and eager to see the world. Casually, a bit carelessly, they part company.

In later years, unknown to each other, they struggle through rising careers, breaking marriages, and dealing with prodigal children. Then, more than four decades later, they accidentally meet again on a Mediterranean cruise. With a love deeper, richer, yet more bittersweet than before, their romance will come full circle.

For Hermia, their reunion becomes a test of trust, as she wonders if Lawrence can again be the man she imagined when they were young. For Lawrence, it is a question of Hermia’s painstakingly cultivated privacy, which he fears he may be unable to penetrate. For both, it will be their unexpected chance to awaken, together, from a lifetime of sleepwalking.

Moving back and forth in time and between the separate narratives of Hermia and Lawrence, SPRING AND FALL is an unforgettably poignant novel about the enduring power of first love, from one of our most acclaimed and essential authors.

November 2, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers Astor Place
Astor Place
4 Astor Place
New York, NY 10003

Publishers WeeklyAt the start of Chang’s promising debut, NYPD detective Jack Yu must cope with his father’s recent death and investigate the rape of a grade-school girl on the fringes of Chinatown, where he grew up and has just been stationed. Meanwhile, would-be gangster Johnny Wong is carrying on with Mona, the gorgeous mistress of his employer, Uncle Four, head of the local branch of the Hip Ching tong and a powerful underworld figure in both New York and Hong Kong. As Yu digs deeper into his case, suspecting that an illegal Chinese immigrant may be the serial rapist he is seeking, he finds evidence of a connection between the rapist and the local gangsters. Though Chang builds less suspense than more seasoned police procedural authors, he presents a fascinating look at New York’s Chinese-American urban community and its subcultures. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.