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EDMUND WHITE TO READ FROM HIS NEW BOOK

Edmund White, the novelist, critic and memoirist who has been called a literary giant of the gay world, will speak about his new novel, “Our Young Man,” at 6 p.m. on May 16 at Books & Books @ the Studios, 533 Eaton St.

“Our Young Man” tells the story of Guy, a handsome French man who becomes a top fashion model in New York City just as AIDS is beginning its deadly assault on the exuberant gay tribes of Greenwich Village and Fire Island. Although Guy is terrified of the disease, he is inexorably drawn to the thrill and romance of being the gay community’s darling.

Kirkus Reviews praised “Our Young Man” as “a playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio 54… [It] captures a time of whispers,elaborate codes, and not inconsiderable danger.”
White is the author of many other novels, including “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room Is Empty.” He got an inside look at the world of fashion during his 10 years working at Vogue magazine. He now teaches at Princeton University.
In his memoir, “City Boy,” White remembered living in New York in the 1970s, when the city was grungy, dangerous and bankrupt. But for a young gay man, it was also “the only free port on the entire continent.” Only in New York, White wrote, “could we could walk hand in hand with a member of the same sex.”

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In the Unlikely Event — Judy Blume

NOW IN PAPERBACK!

In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.

FRANK DEFORD TO READ FROM HIS NEW AT BOOKS & BOOKS @ THE STUDIOS

Frank Deford, the long-time voice of sports on NPR’s Morning Edition and the man once called “the Sinatra of sportswriters,” will speak about his new book, “I’d Know That Voice Anywhere,” at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 6, at Books & Books @ The Studios, 533 Eaton St.

In his more than 50 years writing about sports, starting at Sports Illustrated in 1962, Deford has covered everything from sex scandals to steroids, gamblers to cheaters, roller derbies to soccer moms. His new book is a collection of the best of his NPR commentaries: How was Babe Ruth like Winnie the Pooh? Why is football like Venice? How are the Olympics like the movie “Groundhog Day”? He even channels Shakespeare covering a Super Bowl.

In addition to his sports coverage, which has earned him the Sportswriter of the Year award six times, Deford has written nine novels. Billie Jean King calls Deford “one of the greatest writers of our time”; the writer Nicholas Dawidoff calls Deford “The Secretary of Sport in the nation’s Cabinet of Letters…an unmatched interpreter of games and the people who play them.”

STUART WOODS TO SPEAK AT BOOKS & BOOKS @ THE STUDIOS

Stuart Woods, the best-selling author of more than 60 novels, will talk about his new thriller, Family Jewels, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at Books & Books @ The Studios, 533 Eaton St.

Family Jewels brings back Woods’s most popular hero, Stone Barrington, a handsome former New York City police detective who now practices law. In Family Jewels, a wealthy divorcee hires Barrington to protect her from her ex-husband. But the job soon becomes far more complicated–and deadly–than a simple marital spat. Publishers Weekly called Family Jewels a “glossy, modern take on the classic detective story” with “tony trappings, colorful characters and a magnificent McGuffin.”

Woods began writing mysteries more than three decades ago, winning an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1981 for his first novel, Chiefs. He is a pilot (he owns a Cessna Citation M2) and an avid sailor.

Woods has written 37 Stone Barrington thrillers, and in a 2014 interview, he was asked how he manages to keep each one fresh.

“I have a fevered imagination and a rich fantasy life,” he said, “which helps with the sex scenes.”

Cold Barrel Zero — Matthew Quirk

A CODE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. A BLACK OPS TEAM THAT WENT TOO FAR.

John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns to the United States to get back to his wife and daughter and take revenge on his accusers with a series of devastating attacks.

Only one man can stop him: Thomas Byrne. He once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget his past, until he is called upon by a high-ranking government official to help capture the man he once called a friend.

Hayes and Byrne were once as close as brothers, but with the fate of the nation hanging in the balance and nothing as it seems, both men must decide whom to trust–and whom to betray. In a final, explosive battle for justice, they face off along a rifle’s cold barrel.

Cold Barrel Zero brings together the blistering pace of Lee Child, the nonstop action of Brad Thor, and the richly drawn characters and moral stakes of Daniel Silva. An experienced reporter armed with deep behind-the-scenes research into America’s Special Operations Forces, Quirk takes the military thriller to a new level of suspense.

Journey to Munich — Jacqueline Winspear

A Maisie Dobbs Novel
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).

MONEY Master the Game 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom — Tony Robbins

In his first book in two decades, Anthony Robbins turns to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure financial freedom for ourselves and for our families. “If there were a Pulitzer Prize for investment books, this one would win, hands down” (Forbes.com).

Tony Robbins is one of the most revered writers and thinkers of our time. People from all over the world—from the disadvantaged to the well-heeled, from twenty-somethings to retirees—credit him for giving them the inspiration and the tools for transforming their lives. From diet and fitness, to business and leadership, to relationships and self-respect, Tony Robbins’s books have changed people in profound and lasting ways. Now, for the first time, he has assembled an invaluable “distillation of just about every good personal finance idea of the last forty years” (The New York Times).