Upcoming Events
November 2025
MOMENTS THAT SHAPE A LIFE: NEW FICTION
Larry Baker’s Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody is the intimate “memoir” of Emily Sterling, who is dying of breast cancer and determined to keep talking. Remembering her eccentric childhood, a turbulent decade-long love affair, and her late bloom as a novelist, Emily reflects on the women who shaped her life – her mother, friends, rivals, and heirs. In Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler‘s Twice Around a Marriage, Amanda and Howard, an early-septuagenarian couple married for 22 years,…
BONE VALLEY: THE FIGHT TO FREE AN INNOCENT MAN – NONFICTION
In Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida, Gilbert King investigates one of America’s most haunting wrongful convictions. In 1987, Leo Schofield was sentenced to life for his wife’s murder, despite flawed evidence and a sloppy investigation. Decades later, King uncovered the case’s corruption and errors, revealing not only chilling injustice but also a powerful story of grace and redemption. Schofield will join King in conversation about the book and case.…
DEFIANCE & DETERMINATION: TRUE-LIFE TALES – NONFICTION/NO FICCIÓN
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children tells the stunning tale of the kidnapping of hundreds of pregnant women by Argentina’s military junta in 1976. A group of fierce, grief-stricken grandmothers known as the “Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo” rose up against these crimes, defying terror to find their missing loved ones. In Miriam Lewin’s Iosi, the Remorseful Spy,…
THE CULT OF WELLNESS – NONFICTION
Ellen Huet’s Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult traces how OneTaste’s promise to change the world through orgasmic meditation spiraled into what former members describe as a cult of abuse and coercion. Drawing on years of reporting, Huet delivers an account of wellness gone wrong, recounting the sexual, emotional, and financial turmoil OneTaste caused for so many. A deeply researched exploration of the multibillion-dollar wellness industry, Amy Larocca’s How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic,…
ON THE WRITINGS OF ANN ALEJANDRO – NONFICTION
Ann Alejandro died in 2019 at the age of 64, unpublished. Her chosen form was the letter, and her audience was her family and close friends, among them Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik. In I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas, they organized thousands of Alejandro’s letters into chapters addressing faith, motherhood, land, snakes, pain, and love. Buy I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde,…
TRUE CRIME: KILLERS IN PLAIN SIGHT – NONFICTION
In Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys, investigative journalist Lise Olsen brings to life the teens who in the early 1970s were hunted by a killer hiding in plain sight, and the work of forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick. Many victims were never identified, and some remained undiscovered until Derrick, decades later, would give them their names and restore their dignity. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers is a gripping investigation into the lives of infamous serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond,…
WITNESS TO EROSION: GABI MARTÍNEZ ON ONE YEAR ON THE EBRO DELTA – NONFICTION/NO FICCIÓN
The Last House Before the Sea: One Year on the Ebro Delta, del escritor español de naturaleza y viajes Gabi Martínez, contempla el paso de las estaciones, las marismas, las aves marinas y un horizonte implacable, pero no todo está bien. Azotada por el implacable cambio climático y la subida del nivel del mar, esta región se ve cada día más amenazada. Spanish nature and travel writer Gabi Martínez‘s The Last House Before the Sea: One Year on the Ebro Delta contemplates the passing of the seasons,…
ON THE CASE: THREE GRIPPING CRIME NOVELS
In James Grippando’s Grave Danger: A Jack Swyteck Novel, Jack’s new client fled from Iran to Miami with her daughter and is accused of kidnapping by her husband. To stop him from taking the girl, Jack must build an international case – but everything isn’t what it seems. As secrets, politics, and pressure from Jack’s wife, Andie, threaten the case and their marriage, they both must navigate a web of deceit. In Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay: A Novel,…
LIVES FORGED BY LOSS, LOVE & HISTORY – NONFICTION
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History is Rich Benjamin’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather’s Haitian presidency, the secrecy that shrouded his family’s resulting wound, and his efforts to know his mother despite her painful past. Benjamin describes the emotional pain of his childhood and explores the turmoil that shaped his family, bringing a powerful story to light. In Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, Peter Godwin longs for his childhood in Zimbabwe,…
STARDOM, SEXUALITY & DISSOCIATION: THREE MEMOIRS
Chloe Caldwell’s Trying: A Memoir is one woman’s story told through selective journaling: her struggle with infertility, the dissolution of her marriage – and an eventual reawakening to her long-buried desires and queer identity. Throughout, Caldwell kept writing, making sense of her new reality in real time. She captures the continuous process of becoming and the mysterious ways that writing informs that process. As a child, Atash Yaghmaian endured terrors at home and outside, as Iran was on fire.…