Interabang Books will host author and journalist Jim Schutze in-store on Tuesday, September 17th with his new book, Pontiac.

Description

In the inner sanctum of an elite 1960's boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider.

One New England boys' boarding school, a bastion of the WASP aristocracy, has been holding out stubbornly against pressure to diversify. Grudgingly, St. Philip's School in New Hampshire opens its doors to its first scholarship student: young Woodrow Skaggs from Pontiac, Michigan, the tough, rough-edged son of an autoworker.

Things do not go smoothly--the world portrayed in Pontiac may be shockingly inappropriate to the readers of today. The attitudes of the St. Philip's students toward gender and sex cruelly predict the treatment girls will receive twenty years later when many of these schools become coeducational. And yet in their awkward, often violent attempts to figure each other out, the boys of St. Philip's also provide a window to better, more tolerant times ahead.

Told through memories, vignettes, letters, and compelling conversation, Pontiac sees journalist and author Jim Schutze bring a keen and empathetic eye to the evolutions of culture in the twentieth century.

Interabang Books will host author Christina Wilcox in-store on Wednesday, September 18th with her book, Take Care of Your Friends: An Enneagram Guide to Interpersonal Relationships.

Description

Popular writer and artist Christina Wilcox uses her experience to teach others how to utilize the Enneagram to look outward, rather than inward. Learn to connect and support those from every position on the Enneagram, with Take Care of Your Friends: An Enneagram Guide to Interpersonal Relationships.

The Enneagram is usually marketed as a tool for self-discovery, but it is so much more than that. The language the Enneagram offers us can restore friendships, marriages, and more. It gives us a way to explain ourselves to those we want to be understood by. Removing the communal, relational aspect of the Enneagram is how the true magic of the Enneagram is lost.

Christina Wilcox’s playful yet informative guide will help her readers find ways to comfort their loved ones through the struggles of life in relation to the Enneagram. There is no linear road to recovery for anyone, but the Enneagram may give us a guiding light as we navigate through the things we rarely have a map for.
This book will include:

• Enneagram “profiles” for each type

• Tips on how to connect, develop friendships, and support others based on each Enneagram type

• Eye-catching illustrations to illuminate examples of her tips throughout the process

Don’t Be Strangers is hosting a reading circle in Addison!

Bring any book and read with others at Astoria Caffe & Wine Bar.

The Lyceum Series is a free monthly workshop series presented by The Writer's Garret, offering writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. In September, The Garret welcomes Anthony Gabriel, who will lead Assessing & Accessing The Abstract, a poetry workshop focused on the big ideas of that are often behind the specifics in poems.

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Books Burgers & More Spokenword Showcase!

Last year the poets brought the heat and delivered powerful displays of passion. Join us for a powerful filled with literary delights at the St. Jude Event Center.

2625 South Cooper Street, Arlington, TX 76015

Doors Open 11am

Showcase happens between 12pm-2pm

Come check out the authors and dive into a world of books, while you devour delicious burgers, and enjoy more fun activities. Its all about the words at BOOKS BURGERS AND MORE! Vendors Don't miss out on this exciting event!

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📚 **Author Event Alert!** 📚

Join us at Whose Books on Thursday, September 21st at 6 PM for an evening with acclaimed author Jim Schutze as he presents his novel, Pontiac.

About the book: In the elite halls of St. Philip's School in 1960, 13-year-old Woodrow Scaggs, the son of an autoworker, becomes the first scholarship student in this famously exclusive boys' boarding school. Dive into a story where boys, despite their class differences, forge lifelong bonds amidst the challenges of their lost-boys culture. About the Author Jim Schutze, a seasoned journalist known for his candid commentary on local politics in Dallas, brings his rich storytelling to life in this captivating tale.

His previous work, The Accommodation, has been widely recognized for its powerful exploration of race relations in Dallas.

📍 Where: Whose Books, 512 W. Davis Dallas, Texas 🗓️ When: Saturday, September 21st, 6 PM Don't miss this chance to meet the author and explore the deep, compelling world of Pontiac.

Sign up on our website or Eventbrite a free RSVP. See you there!

Interabang Books will host author Mike Cobern in-store on Tuesday, September 24th with his book, Wards of the League: The Untold Story of the First NFL Team in Dallas.

Wards of the League is a long-lost tale from pro football's buried past. Very few people even know that the 1952 Dallas Texans ever existed and played in the National Football League. Before the Dallas Cowboys became America's Team, these Texans were nobody's team. The NFL's first venture into the football-crazed hotbed known as the Lone Star State began with enthusiasm but ended in a doomed collapse before the season was even over. The Texans' rapid rise and fall are chronicled in this book for the first time. The story of the failed team in a place that now boasts of having the most valuable sports franchise in the world today is truly a tale of being in the right place but at the wrong time.

Anyone who has explored the creative process understands the value of feedback. Exposing our “works in progress” to the critique of our peers takes courage but also a commitment to producing the best art we can create. Feedback can take our creative endeavors from average to excellent. Art House Dallas wants to provide an encouraging environment within a small group setting to explore your strengths and potential areas of growth as an artist.

Registration details are provided below. Please plan on reading submitted works before coming to Feedback for Scriptwriters. In order to be prepared, work from each writer in your assigned group will be sent to you beforehand.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, September 24
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
Location: Wayward Coffee Co. | 1318 W Davis St, Dallas, TX 75208

REQUIRED: Registering for this event assumes your commitment to reading four writings of five pages or less prior to the event (no more than 20 pages total). They will be emailed to you before Feedback for Writers. Once registered, please send a copy of your piece to info@arthousedallas.com one week prior to the gathering, at the latest.

We are also looking for actors who want to cold read scripts at the event. If you are interested, please email our programs manager.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, join the North Oak Cliff Library for Christine Sugg's author talk. Their recently released graphic novel Ay Mija is a neighborhood favorite. Come out and join us. The Q&A will begin at 6:45 pm and Christine will sign your copy at 7 pm. Whose Books will be selling copies of Ay Mija on-site.

Interabang Books will host author Christopher Brown in-store on Wednesday, September 25th with his book, A Natural History of Empty Lots.

genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.

A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect. 

During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris—was an unlikely site for a home. Brown had become fascinated with these empty lots around Austin, so-called “ruined” spaces once used for agriculture and industry awaiting their redevelopment. He discovered them to be teeming with natural activity, and embarked on a twenty-year project to live in and document such spaces. There, in our most damaged landscapes, he witnessed the remarkable resilience of wild nature, and how we can heal ourselves by healing the Earth. 

Beautifully written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots offers a new lens on human disruption and nature, offering a sense of hope among the edgelands. 

Join us for a captivating book launch with Christopher Brown, author of “A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places.” This genre-bending work combines naturalism, memoir, and a social manifesto for rewilding cities, selves, and society. Brown explores the resilience of nature in seemingly “ruined landscapes” and shares his twenty-year journey documenting and living among these liminal spaces. Discover the magic in the wild, even at the edges where pavement ends, and be inspired by Brown’s insights into human disruption and natural wonders.

Lushly written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown is a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. Through his keen examination of abandoned industrial sites, empty lots, and deserted agricultural land, Brown discovers that even in these so-called “ruined landscapes” nature’s resilience shines. Inspired by its unfailing persistence to return, Brown shows us how easy it can be to bring the wilds back to these damaged places and why it is critical that we do.

Over the course of twenty years, Brown documented these liminal spaces, explored them with his son, and even built his home in Austin, Texas on a brownfield site bisected by oil pipelines. Infused with Brown’s deep love of nature and a constant sense of awe, A Natural History of Empty Lots combines field notes from Brown’s travels with his personal story as he traverses the nexus of the city and the wilds.

“A Natural History of Empty Lots is the best and most interesting book I’ve ever read about the spaces we often overlook. Christopher Brown comes to these places with a deep curiosity and understanding of both human and nonhuman history. An instant classic.” –Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author

Meet international bestselling author Raven Kennedy at your Flagship HPB on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. Raven will discuss and sign her new book, Goldfinch. Tickets include a copy of the book.

- Readers can bring ONE (1) additional book from home to get signed in addition to Goldfinch.

- Raven is only personalizing (name only) ONE book, and then signing ONE additional book.

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About Goldfinch

The seductive and thrilling dark fantasy romance series comes to an end in this powerful finale.

One king caged my body.

Another has caged my mind.

War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that’s not the only battle being waged.

There’s a fight inside me, and it’s one I’m determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out.

Yet they’ve forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound.

Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will always find each other.

In any life.

The fae king is trying to destroy me. My heritage. My memory. But what he hasn’t realized is this: gold bends, but stone breaks.

And a Goldfinch does not fall.

It flies.

About Raven Kennedy
Raven Kennedy is a California girl born and raised, whose love for books pushed her into creating her own worlds. The Plated Prisoner series, a dark fantasy romance, has already sold in over a dozen countries and is a #1 international bestseller with over 2 million copies sold to date. It was inspired by the myth of King Midas and a woman’s journey with finding her own strength. Her debut series was a romcom fantasy about a cupid looking for love of her own. She has since gone on to write in a range of genres. Whether she makes you laugh or cry, or whether the series is about a cupid or a gold-touched woman living in King Midas's gilded castle, she hopes to create characters that readers can root for. The Plated Prisoner series is being adapted for series by Peter Guber's Mandalay Television.

Interabang Books will host author Shayna Barksdale in-store on Friday, September 27th with her book, Pink Chaos: Navigating the Mother-Daughter Relationship with Your Tween.

Description

An honest guide to cultivate connection and confidence with your tween

Growing up today can feel like chaos. Everyone expects the teen years to be tough, but what about the years before? Pink Chaos is a guide for moms who are navigating the stormy waters of parenting daughters aged 9 to 12.

Having a strong mother/daughter relationship can help prevent serious mental health issues—including suicide, disordered eating, and self-harm—as girls move from tweens to teens. Shayna Feldman Barksdale shows how now is the time to put a foundation in place to support daughters to prevent mental health struggles in later years.
Kids are living in a world that’s totally foreign to their parents—Barksdale calls it “Girl World”— a place full of pressures and anxieties around school, parents, relationships, friends, social media, and global events as well as wonderful things moms probably couldn’t have even imagined (like greater representation around gender, body size, abilities, and more). Girl World is a lot, and tweens desperately want to receive attention, validation, and support from their moms.

With practical tools in each chapter, Pink Chaos teaches you how to validate your child’s feelings, show up with empathy, and engage in active listening that can benefit both moms and daughters. Including simple conversation scripts in girl-approved language, Pink Chaos is a vibrant, easy-to-digest book that moms can turn to again and again as they navigate life with their tween daughters.

Interabang Books will host author Addison Brae in-store on Saturday, September 28th with her book, Off Edge.

Description

Do you know what it's like to win an Olympic gold, then have it stripped away? I do.

Gold is every figure skater's life dream. At fifteen, I experience the thrill of wearing the medal for a few minutes until judges accused me of being too young to be eligible. That's when I realized my father's ultimate lie could cost more than my title.

During our daring escape from Russia, I pressured my coach to tell the truth about my adoption. But the quad combination and two world titles aren't enough to keep the scandal from erasing my career and identity. Disgraced, disqualified, and devastated, I can't face a rink, fans, or daily life. My controlling dad's betrayal lights a fire to break free from his bad decisions. My best friend and a journalist who will tell my story step in to stop the downward spiral and help me uncover my past.

The story of Docia's fierce determination to discover her true identity, unerase her career, and find the passion to skate again will engage teen readers, figure skating fans, and anyone who's ever experienced betrayal from someone close.

Interabang Books will host author Ben Macintyre in-store on Saturday, September 28th with his book, The Siege.

Description

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor.

“[Ben Macintyre is] John le Carré’s nonfiction counterpart.”—The New York Times

As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. 

Policeman Trevor Lock was supposed to have gone to the theater that night. Instead, he found himself overpowered and whisked into the embassy. The terrorists never noticed the gun hidden in his jacket. The drama that ensued would force him to find reserves of courage he didn’t know he had. The gunmen themselves were hardly one-dimensional—all Arabs, some highly educated, who hoped to force Britain to take their side in their independence battle against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran.

As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain’s special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission. Inside, Lock and his fellow hostages used all the cunning they possessed to outwit and outflank their captors. Finally, on the sixth day, after the terrorists executed the embassy press attaché and dumped his body on the front doorstep, the SAS raid began, sparking a deadly high-stakes climax.

A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.

Cake and Prose is a unique literary event celebrating genre fiction, local talent, and cake.

The ingredients are simple: Three stories. An author shares three stories — read by three different actors. These stories could be any genre. They could be short stories or excerpts of a longer work. Three songs. A musical performance by a guest artist adds another layer to this night of entertainment. Themes can emerge between the stories and songs. One cake.

During the intermission, there is cake. Really good cake from a local bakery. Mix together and enjoy!

In September, come hear the work of Kate Khavari, author of A Botanist’s Guide To Society & Secrets – a Saffron Everleigh mystery, performed by Katelyn Barr, Jenn Emerson, and Jacob Trevino, with musical guest Joe Rogers.

Interabang Books will host author Adrienne Brodeur in-store on Sunday, September 29th to discuss her book, Little Monsters.

Description

A National Bestseller!

“Juicy…simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.” —The Washington Post * “So alluring…I raced happily through the pages.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Compulsively readable.” —Vogue * “An absolutely captivating read.” —Elin Hilderbrand

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets.

Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings’ lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.

As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he’s determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family—Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit.

Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a “smart, page-flipping novel…[with] shades of Succession” (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.

Interabang Books will host author Jedediah Berry in-store on Monday, September 30th with his book, The Naming Song.

Description

A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro.

“The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of language, and breathes that magic onto every page.” —Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author

There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing

When the words went away, the world changed.

All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named—Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names—could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown.

For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. But after a series of monstrous attacks on the named, she is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary future—for the words she carries will reshape the world.

The Naming Song is a book of deep secrets and marvelous discoveries, strange adventures and dangerous truths. It's the story of a world locked in a battle over meaning. Most of all, it's the perfect fantasy for anyone who's ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world.

Interabang Books will host author Harry Hunsicker in-store on Wednesday, October 2nd with his book, The Life and Death of Rose Doucette.

Description

Dallas PI Dylan Fisher thought he was done with his ex-wife—but now he’s solving her murder

Dallas private investigator Dylan Fisher hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rose, in three years—which is why he’s surprised when she asks him to meet her at a hotel. Rose Doucette is a homicide detective, and she wants Dylan’s help with a murder investigation that she’s been asked to step back from but can’t seem to let go.

They review the details of the case and part ways—but as Rose is leaving the parking lot, Dylan sees a suspicious car begin to follow her. Feeling uneasy, he tails the car and tries to warn Rose, but he’s too late—the driver of the car shoots her, killing her instantly, before speeding away.

The police are determined to pin the murder on Dylan, so he’s left with no choice but to find the killer himself. Teaming up with Rose’s widower, a defense attorney named Tito, the pair dive into Rose’s past to figure out who could’ve wanted to kill the woman they both loved—and what they were trying to hide.

Meet New York Times bestselling authors Sara Raasch and Beth Revis at the Dallas Flagship HPB on Wednesday, October 2, at 7 p.m. They will discuss and sign their new book The Fate of Magic, the breathtaking sequel to Night of the Witch which culminates with a sweeping romance and an epic battle to determine the fate of magic…and the world.

The author will discuss his book, Sipsworth; audience Q and A as well as a book signing

Interabang Books will host authors Leslie Lutz and Helen Dent in-store on Thursday, October 3rd for their new books, Lutz's Sweetest Darkness and Dent's The Burning Tree.

Description for Sweetest Darkness

A teenage psychic is drawn deep into the honeycomb of an abandoned hotel—and into a cat-and-mouse game with a predatory entity—in this riveting new supernatural horror novel.

"SO SCARY, IT GIVES DARKNESS A BAD NAME! When I finished the last page, I realized I was still shivering."—R.L. STINE, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street

Everyone in Gypsum, Texas knows the Hotel Alvarado changes at night—especially Quinn. A teenage clairvoyant, he’s been having dreams about it… dreams that call him to its dark, abandoned halls. The hotel is a monument to the town’s more prosperous past, when celebrities flocked to the mineral spas and films were shot in the desert. The Great Depression killed all of that, it killed the Alvarado, and frankly it killed Gypsum, too. Now, when the sun goes down, things no longer living stir deep within its creaking depths.

But the dreams are relentless. When Quinn braves the hotel’s darkness with his best friend June and unrequited love Selena, looking for answers, he gets only one: ghosts aren’t the scariest thing lurking inside the Alvarado (although they’re there, cold and restless and angry). 

No. He’s been called by something worse: a predatory, inhuman entity that threatens to wipe Gypsum off the map, along with everyone in it. And wrongly—accidentally—he’s let it out. It takes the shape of a handsome young man. It walks. It talks. It laughs. It can even make you laugh. But its appetite for death can never be sated. Quinn has always had the power to see the future… can he find the power to change it?

Interabang Books will host author Jessica Pishko in-store on Friday, October 4th with her book, The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.

Description

Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize

A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book

A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics.

The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people’s lives, the office of sheriffs remains a gravely under-examined institution. Locally elected, largely unaccountable, and difficult to remove, the country’s over three thousand sheriffs, mostly white men, wield immense power—making arrests, running county jails, enforcing evictions and immigration laws—with a quarter of all U.S. law enforcement officers reporting to them. In recent years there’s been a revival of “constitutional sheriffs,” who assert that their authority supersedes that of legislatures, courts, and even the president. They’ve protested federal mask and vaccine mandates and gun regulations, railed against police reforms, and, ultimately, declared themselves election police, with many endorsing the “Big Lie” of a stolen presidential election. They are embraced by far-right militia groups, white nationalists, the Claremont Institute, and former president Donald Trump, who sees them as allies in mass deportation and border policing.

How did a group of law enforcement officers decide that they were “above the law?” What are the stakes for local and national politics, and for America as a multi-racial democracy? 
 
Blending investigative reporting, historical research, and political analysis, author Jessica Pishko takes us to the roots of why sheriffs have become a flashpoint in the current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, and rural resentment, and uncovers how sheriffs have effectively evaded accountability since the nation’s founding.

A must-read for fans of Michelle Alexander, Gilbert King, Elizabeth Hinton, and Kathleen Belew.

What to Expect at the 'Turn The Page: Grow from Pain to Purpose' Book Event

Join us for an inspiring and fun-filled event where we celebrate the release of 'Turn The Page: Grow from Pain to Purpose.' Here’s what you can look forward to:

✨ Crafting Session: Unleash your creativity! We’ll have a special crafting session where you can design your own personalized book cover. If you'd like your name on the book we’ll be crafting together, please email me in advance so we can make it extra special.

📸 Photo Opportunities: Capture the moment with a picture taken with the author, Wajeehah Al-Uqdah. A great keepsake from a memorable event!

🎁 Door Giveaways: Exciting door prizes await! Don’t miss out on the chance to win some amazing goodies.

And so much more!

We can't wait to celebrate this journey from pain to purpose with you. See you there!

Join us on Wednesday, October 9th at 7:00 PM as Shaun Hamill discusses his newest book, The Dissonance with fellow author Chris Panatier (The Redemption of Morgan Bright, 2024).

About The Dissonance:

In high school, they were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, mastering the secret system of magic known as the Dissonance—a dark art fueled by alienation, anger, and pain. But twenty years ago, something shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, trapped in mundane lives. Now, terrifying signs and a mysterious Facebook invite are pulling them back to Clegg, Texas.

Don’t miss this spine-tingling evening of magic, mystery, and conversation. Stick around for the book signing and to meet these great local authors. 🖋️

Whose Books, 7:00 PM, free rsvp on our website and Eventbrite.

Interabang Books will host author Kim Sanders in-store on Thursday, October 10th with his book, Hermit of Paradise.

DESCRIPTION

A Fight for Lost Innocence
Detective Auby Midnight is retired. Or so he imagines. Jaded and transformed by a long career of witnessing degeneracy, tragedy, and true evil, he reflects on the place that first nurtured him: Paradise Cove, Lake Texoma, and the rich, endearing memories of mischief, adventure, and friendship that shaped his childhood. That is, until the day a violent feud brought irrevocable trauma for his best friend, Sunny.

Now Sunny implores the wearied Auby to right the wrongs of the past and return to the case that has haunted him and his childhood friends for years. Older, wiser, and far more experienced, they set out to defeat the evil that stole their innocence and restore the magic of Paradise Cove.
Inspired by the author's own life events as a sixth-generation Texan and a former member of the Dallas Police Department with decades of experience under his belt, Hermit of Paradise explores meaning, morality, and the fight to stay human in the face of a grim and complicated world.

Calling all DFW Swifties!

Join A Little Overbooked book club and Patchouli Joe’s Books & Indulgences to celebrate the release of TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE: FASHION THROUGH THE ERAS by Sarah Chapelle.

We encourage you to wear a Taylor-inspired outfit for the festivities: - Book club-style discussion about all things Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras - Making friendship bracelets (materials provided) - Celebrating with music from all the Eras - Goodies - Possible other surprises (no, Taylor will not be joining us)

Non-alcoholic refreshments will be provided, but you are also welcome to BYOB!

Tickets for the event are $10 per person, or you can receive a complimentary ticket by pre-ordering the book from Patchouli Joe's.

Interabang Books will host author Matt Eicheldinger in-store on Thursday, October 17th with his book, Sticky Notes: Memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments.

Description

From popular personality and storyteller Matt Eicheldinger, a collection of 100 true, uplifting short stories that capture the meaning behind everyday encounters, and the small lessons woven in-between.

Every story is important. Every single one. 

When middle school teacher Matt Eicheldinger had a student who wouldn’t speak at all, he decided to leave her a sticky note on her desk everyday, each one with a funny cartoon or encouraging messages. Years later, she returned to share she had saved every sticky note he had left to encourage her, leaving Eicheldinger to wonder what other extraordinary moments he missed from seemingly ordinary interactions. 

Luckily, he had a way to revisit them all. For the past fifteen years, Eicheldinger has written down moments like this from his classroom, capturing literally hundreds of daily interactions between himself, students, and families.

Sticky Notesoffers readers a chance to experience one hundred of these stories that capture friendship, grief, joy, and so much more. Although each story can stand on its own, Eicheldinger offers a new perspective that will help you understand what he has grown to learn over the years: there is always a greater message within the story, we just need to be ready to see it.  

Barnes & Noble: Live Reading & Book Signing
With Author, R.C. Bramhall

Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters With The Bizarre, Paranormal And The Unexplained

Some battlefields – such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all documented in one place for the first time in this engaging and informative collection - are not easily explained and remain a mystery to be pondered, becoming modern canon in the centuries-long history of strange and unusual war stories.

Join Half Price Books for a meet and greet event with bestselling author Ruby Dixon. Ruby will sign her new book, Bull Moon Rising. Tickets, which include a copy of the book, must be pre-purchased through Eventbrite for this event.

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About Bull Moon Rising

In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman determined to save her family joins forces with an unlikely partner—a minotaur—in this steamy romantasy by USA Today bestselling author Ruby Dixon.

As a Holder’s daughter, Aspeth Honori knows the importance of magical artifacts . . . which is why it’s a disaster that her father has gambled all theirs away. Now that her family is in danger of losing their hold—and their heads—if anyone finds out the truth, Aspeth decides to do something about it. She’ll join the Royal Artifactual Guild and the adventurers who explore ancient underground ruins to retrieve the coveted arcane items.

It’s a great plan—with one big problem. The guild won’t let her train because she’s a woman. Aspeth needs a chaperone of some kind. The best way to get around this problem? Marry someone who will let her become an apprentice. Who better than a surly guild member who requires a favor of his own? He’s a minotaur (it’s fine) who is her teacher (also fine) . . . and he’s about to go into rut (which is where it gets tricky). He also has no idea she’s a noble (oops), and he’ll want nothing to do with her if he discovers her real identity.

Now Aspeth just has to pass the guild tests, thwart a fortune hunter, and save her hold—oh, and survive a rut with her monstrous, horned husband, whom she might be falling in love with.

It’s time to dig deep. Literally.

About Ruby Dixon

Ruby Dixon loves to write outlandishly fun romance. Right now she's obsessed with monster heroes. She's also dabbled in bikers, bears, and aliens have her heart. You know her from the TikTok sensation Ice Planet Barbarians. She requires coffee to function and will show you pictures of her cats at a moment's notice -- you have been warned.

Join Barnes & Noble - Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, TX on Friday, October 25th at 6PM CT, as we welcome New York Times bestselling authors Lisa McMann & Matt McMann for a discussion & signing to celebrate the release of their new books, Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos & Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome.

Lisa McMann & Matt McMann will be in conversation with author Josh Funk, best known for Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast picture book series.

ABOUT Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos:

The Forgotten Five and their friends are reeling in the aftermath of the raid on Magdalia Palacio's campaign rally—an attack masterminded by her corrupt opponent President Fuerte and his henchmen. Birdie is in the hospital with a head injury, and under arrest for stealing a police horse in her attempt to evade capture. Separated from her friends—and not even allowed to see her mother—how can Birdie escape when she is utterly alone?

Then the Librarian is taken captive in the heavily guarded palace dungeon after Fuerte discovers she's been acting as a double agent. What will they do without their trusted mentor?

Luckily, the five have been honing their supernatural abilities, and it's Brix who takes the lead, forging an unlikely alliance and putting together a plan. Does the group have what it takes to rescue their friends and even the odds in the president's all-out war against Estero's supernaturals?

About Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome:

When their school wins a state science competition, Rowan, Tinker, and Amari earn a dream trip to Earth Two, a biodome research lab deep in the desert, which is sealed off from the outside world. What could be cooler?

But soon, strange things begin to happen. In the dome’s swamp ecosystem, the kids discover a creature unknown to science—though the adults don’t believe them. Then a scientist is mysteriously attacked and Earth Two’s security and life-support systems fail, trapping everyone inside.

As oxygen runs low, a terrifying monster emerges from the shadows and begins to hunt. Now the kids must find a way to escape . . . before the biodome becomes their tomb.

TICKET INFORMATION

It is not necessary to purchase a separate ticket for each author, as we will have books from both authors available for sale in the store. To participate in the event, you will only need to acquire a single ticket.

The ticket options are:

DISCUSSION Admission - $ 20.56(Admission to the discussion + one copy Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos.

• Admission to the event space and signing line with Lisa McMann & Matt McMann.

• **Please note: Seating is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The purchase of a ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the reading and signing. Later admissions will be granted a standing view from behind the seated audience; some views may be more limited or obstructed than others.

DISCUSSION Admission - $ 19.47(Admission to the discussion + one copy or Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome.

• Admission to the event space and signing line with Lisa McMann & Matt McMann.

• **Please note: Seating is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The purchase of a ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the reading and signing. Later admissions will be granted a standing view from behind the seated audience; some views may be more limited or obstructed than others.

SIGNING LINE ONLY Admission - $20.56 (SIGNING LINE ONLY Admission + one copy of Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**

• One copy of Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos.

• Admission to the SIGNING LINE ONLY with Lisa McMann & Matt McMann.

• **Please note: Signing Line begins after the Discussion ends.**

SIGNING LINE ONLY Admission - $19.47 (SIGNING LINE ONLY Admission + one copy of Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**

• One copy of Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome

• Admission to the SIGNING LINE ONLY with Lisa McMann & Matt McMann.

• **Please note: Signing Line begins after the Discussion ends.**

DISCUSSION RSVP-NO BOOK-FREE (Admission to the event space)

-One seat in the event space, but NO ADMISSION to the signing line.

NO ADMITTANCE, Held Book ONLY - $20.56(one copy of either Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**

• One signed (signature only) copy of Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos held for you.

• This ticket is only for those who would like a signed copy of Forgotten Five #5: Operation Chaos held for them. This ticket DOES NOT gain admittance to the in-person event at B&N Stonebriar in Frisco, TX.

• Books will be available for pick up AFTER the event. They will be held for 7 days after the event. (Saturday November 2nd end of day)

NO ADMITTANCE, Held Book ONLY - $19.47(one copy of Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome. + tax): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**

• One signed (signature only) copy of Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome held for you.

• This ticket is only for those who would like a signed copy of Monsterious #5: Trapped in Horror Dome held for them. This ticket DOES NOT gain admittance to the in-person event at B&N Stonebriar in Frisco, TX.

• Books will be available for pick up AFTER the event. They will be held for 7 days after the event. (Saturday November 2nd end of day)

Tulisoma—a Swahili word that means “we read”—is a community-based festival promoting literacy and the arts in the South Dallas/Fair Park area. With numerous authors and illustrators participating, the family-fun event features author presentations and readings, writing workshops, book signings, panel discussions, children’s story time, kids activities and more throughout the day. Workshops will focus on how to get published, book bans and Black literary history.

Interabang Books will host author Timothy Snyder in-store on Saturday, October 26th with his book, On Freedom. This is a ticketed event, including access and a signed book.

Description

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1New York TimesbestsellerOn Tyranny

“Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined. On Freedom offers fresh insight into essential aspects of human existence—the values and obligations inherent in every individual’s life.”—Ai Weiwei

Timothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His bookOn Tyrannyhas inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for.

Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedomfromas freedomto—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.

On Freedomtakes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace.

Interabang Books will host author Sophie Hudson in-store on Monday, November 4th with her book, A Fine Sight to See.

Description

With relatable stories and disarming grace, popular podcaster and author Sophie Hudson cuts through the confusing, differing stances on Christian women in leadership and offers a resource that empowers women to embrace their roles as leaders. Drawing from the book of Exodus, and using her trademark humor, Sophie skillfully helps you

- identify the leadership traits you already possess
- serve with boldness inside and outside the church
- lead faithfully and consistently

This is your invitation to embrace leadership with confidence and to find joy in understanding how God sees you. Prepare to be inspired, encouraged, and equipped to embrace the truth that you are uniquely made to lead.