Essie Chambers discusses Swift River

Jane L. Rosen SEVEN SUMMER WEEKENDS

L.S. Stratton celebrates DO WHAT GODMOTHER SAYS

Cory Leadbeater, THE UPTOWN LOCAL

Annabel Monaghan discusses & signs SUMMER ROMANCE with Laura Belgray

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Rachel Khong discusses REAL AMERICANS, our #bnbookclub May Book Club Selection!

Ivy Pochoda celebrates SING HER DOWN with Danielle Trussoni #BNMiddayMystery

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Colin Walsh celebrates KALA #BNMiddayMystery

Liz Nugent celebrates STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND #BNMiddayMystery

Join us at 6PM, ET, on Tuesday, June 18th for a conversation between Cory Leadbeater and Lynn Steger Strong in celebration of the publication&nbsp;The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir. Cory Leadbeater&nbsp;received his MFA in fiction from Columbia in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Jacob P. Waletzky Fellowship. Before that, he attended Trinity College, where he was the recipient of the Fred Pfeil Memorial Prize in Creative Writing, the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, and the Ruel Crompton Tuttle Prize in Scholarship. He lives in New Jersey with his family.Lynn Steger Strong&nbsp;is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, Flight, and the forthcoming The Float Test. She teaches writing at Columbia and Princeton Universities.&nbsp;

The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

Summer Romance

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst

Join us for a joint conversation between authors L.S. Stratton and Margot Douaihy on Thursday, June 13th at 7PM, ET, in celebration of Stratton's new book,&nbsp;Do What Godmother Says. L.S. Stratton&nbsp;is an NAACP Image Award-nominated author and former crime newspaper reporter who has written more than a dozen books under different pen names in just about every genre from thrillers to romance to historical fiction. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband, their daughter, and their tuxedo cat.Margot Douaihy, PhD, is the author of the hardboiled mysteries Blessed Water (2024) and Scorched Grace (2023), both published with Gillian Flynn Books. Scorched Grace was a USA Today National Bestseller, an Indie Next pick, named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, The Guardian, Barnes &amp; Noble, and CrimeReads, and the winner of the Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction for best debut mystery. Margot is an assistant professor with Emerson College, and she serves as a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press "Elements in Crime Narratives Series.&rdquo; She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Queer Crime Writers, and the Radius of Arab American Writers.

Do What Godmother Says

Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery

Join us from 6-7PM on May 21st for Suri Chan's launch of her debut poetry collection,&nbsp;But I Don't Feel Empowered. <h2 class="text--center mb-s" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px;margin-top:0px;line-height:1.3;font-size:1.875rem;font-family:Poynter, Georgia, serif;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;text-align:center;color:#21282d;background-color:#ffffff;margin-bottom:1.5rem !important;">About the Author</h2><div class="row" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px;display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;margin-right:-15px;margin-left:-15px;color:#21282d;font-family:Lato, sans-serif;font-size:13.8097px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="expandable-section col-lg-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px;position:relative;width:728.6px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;flex:0 0 100%;max-width:100%;overflow:hidden;height:302px;column-width:53.75rem;"><div class="text--medium " style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.88235;">Suri Chan &ndash; known for the popular Instagram account @poemsbysuri &ndash; is a prize-winning poet. She speaks to women, the queer Asian community, and anyone with big feelings. Her work is inspired by her ancestors &ndash; the ones who created food that tasted like home with the herbs of their new land. Their ingredients were simple: nuts, shredded veggies, sweet sauce. But the resulting meal was always grand. Suri likes to think she does the same with everyday words.&nbsp;</div></div></div>

Suri Chan Book Launch: But I Don't Feel Empowered

But I Don't Feel Empowered

We are so excited to welcome author Essie Chambers to the Upper East Side Barnes &amp; Noble on Tuesday, June 4th at 6PM, ET, to celebrate the launch of Swift River. Joining Essie in conversation is author Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun and Patsy. &nbsp;

Swift River

Here Comes the Sun

Join us at 6PM ET on Thursday, June 6th for a discussion and signing of Seven Summer Weekends&nbsp;with celebrated local author, Jane L. Rosen. <p style="color:#424242;font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-bottom:12pt;background-color:white !important;">A woman inherits a beach house and all the rotating weekend guests who come through it over seven summer weekends, while locking heads with the irritable (and irritating) man next door, in this sparkling new escape from Jane L. Rosen.<p style="color:#424242;font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:white !important;">When&nbsp;a&nbsp;workplace disaster upends Addison Irwin&rsquo;s decade-long career at a posh Manhattan advertising agency, things look bleak for the thirty-three year old mid-western transplant. But a surprising inheritance, from an arty aunt she barely remembers&mdash;a house on Fire Island, complete with an artist&rsquo;s studio&mdash;changes the trajectory of her life in every way possible. Between the revolving door of visitors over seven summer weekends and the up and down relationship with her brooding neighbor, Addison is left to decide the who, what, when and where&rsquo;s of her future.<p style="color:#424242;font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:white !important;"><p style="color:#424242;font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:white !important;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<p style="color:#424242;font-family:'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web (West European)', 'Segoe UI', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;margin-bottom:0px;">Jane L. Rosen&nbsp;is an author and screenwriter whose&nbsp;critically acclaimed first novel,&nbsp;Nine Women, One Dress, has been translated into ten languages.&nbsp;She&nbsp;lives in New York City and on Fire Island with her husband and three daughters.&nbsp;

Seven Summer Weekends

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