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A Virtual Event with Lucy Burdette

July 17, 2020
by Emily Berg

Books & Books @ the Studios presents…
An Evening with Lucy Burdette
and Deborah Crombie discussing The Key Lime Crime.

Tuesday, August 18th, 6 PM

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Join us for an online event with Lucy Burdette, author of the bestselling Key West Food Critic Mystery series. Burdette will be speak with author Deborah Crombie (A Bitter Feast) [click here to purchase] about her latest book in the series The Key Lime Crime, out 8/11.

With her intimidating new mother-in-law bearing down on the island and a fierce rivalry between Key lime pie bakers to referee, food critic Hayley Snow is feeling anything but festive…

It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s and Key West is bursting at the seams with holiday events and hordes of tourists. Adding to the chaos, Key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his Key Lime pie extravaganza and contest. Hayley Snow can’t escape the madness because her bosses at Key Zest magazine have assigned her to cover the event. Every pie purveyor in Key West is determined to claim the Key lime spotlight—and win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City.
Another recipe for disaster—Hayley’s hubby, police detective Nathan Bransford, announces that his mother will be making a surprise visit. Newlywed Hayley must play the dutiful daughter-in-law, so she and her pal Miss Gloria offer to escort his mom on the iconic Conch Train Tour of the island’s holiday lights. But it’s not all glittering palm trees and fantastic flamingos–the unlikely trio finds a real body stashed in one of the elaborate displays. And the victim is no stranger: Hayley recognizes the controversial new pastry chef from Au Citron Vert, a frontrunner in Sloan’s contest.

Hayley must not only decipher who’s removed the chef from the contest kitchen, she’s also got to handle a too-curious mother-in-law who seems to be cooking up trouble of her own.

About the Authors:
Clinical psychologist Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) is the author of 18 mysteries, including THE KEY LIME CRIME (Crooked Lane Books,) the latest in the Key West series featuring food critic Hayley Snow. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She’s a past president of Sisters in Crime and the current president of the Friends of the Key West Library.

Deborah Crombie is a native Texan who has lived in both England and Scotland. She lives in McKinney, Texas, sharing a house that is more than one hundred years old with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherds.

 

Reader Meet Writer – Virtual Event with Daniel Nayeri

July 13, 2020
by Emily Berg

Let us deliver authors to your living room.

Daniel Nayeri – Everything Sad is True [order here]
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd at 7PM EDT

The next author in the Reader Meet Writer series is Daniel Nayeri. Nayeri is the author of several books for young readers, including Straw House, Wood House, Brick House Blow: Four Novellas.

Nayeri will be talking with us THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd at 7PM EDT about his new book as well as answering your questions.

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much.

But Khosrou’s stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan.

Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). It is Daniel’s.

Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Edmond, Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is a former professional pastry chef, and if he’s not writing or baking, he’s likely playing board games, or riding motorcycles. He lives with his family in New Jersey.

To attend please RSVP here

You can also RSVP by emailing booksandbooks@tskw.org with the subject line “RSVP for DANIEL NAYERI”

Attendance is limited.

If you elect to attend, we will email you on Thursday morning (9/3) with the link to attend this virtual event, plus the link to purchase books.  If you purchase the book through our website we will automatically send you the login information you need to join the event. If you ordered by phone please RSVP above.  

Happy Reading!

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

June 23, 2020
by George Cooper

Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by: New York Magazine, Time Magazine, Town & Country, Marie Claire, Refinery 29, PopSugar, the Today Show, and more

From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods.

While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body.” But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one.

Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one.

A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher.

A Virtual Evening with Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM

June 21, 2020
by Robin Wood

Books & Books presents…
“AN EVENING WITH CURTIS SITTENFELD”
discussing Rodham: A Novel
Moderated by: JIA TOLENTINO

Friday, June 26 at 7PM

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New York Times bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld brings her incredible talent to bear as she taps into the very unknowable mind and heart of a very well-known person in her new novel, RODHAM. In RODHAM, Sittenfeld tells a story of instant attraction and betrayal, taps into what it feels like to be a powerful woman in a country that hasn’t fully accepted powerful women, and offers a richly imagined alternate history.

CURTIS SITTENFELD is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, and Eligible, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. She is the 2020 guest editor for the Best American Short Stories. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The Atlantic, Time, and New York Magazine’s The Cut, and has been broadcast on public radio’s This American Life. A native of Cincinnati, she currently lives with her family in Minneapolis.

Reader Meet Writer – Virtual Event with SILAS HOUSE

June 11, 2020
by Emily Berg

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Silas House – CLAY’S QUILT [pre-order here]
THURSDAY JULY 9th at 7PM EDT

The next author in the Reader Meet Writer series is Silas House.  You may have read House’s earlier work: THE SOUTHERNMOST, CLAY’S QUILT and others.

House will be talking with us THURSDAY JULY 9th at 7PM EDT about the re-release of his first three books, CLAY’S QUILT, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES and THE COAL TATTOO as well as answering your questions.  Silas is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.

Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels. His work frequently appears in The New York Times and Salon.  He is  former commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered”.  His writing has appeared recently in Time, The Atlantic, Ecotone, The Advocate, Garden and Gun, and Oxford American, as well as in anthologies such as Best Food Writing, 2015 and New Stories From the South, The Year’s Best: 2004.  House serves on the fiction faculty at the Spalding School of Creative Writing and as the NEH Chair at Berea College.

He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the recipient of three honorary doctorates, and is the winner of the Nautilus Award, an EB White Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, the Lee Smith Award, and many other honors.

To attend please RSVP here

You can also RSVP by emailing booksandbooks@tskw.org with the subject line “RSVP for SILAS HOUSE”

Attendance is limited.

If you elect to attend, we will email you on Thursday morning (7/9) with the link to attend this virtual event, plus the link to purchase books.  If you purchase the book through our website we will automatically send you the login information you need to join the event. If you ordered by phone please RSVP above.  

Happy Reading!

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

June 3, 2020
by George Cooper

In this brilliant new novel—her first for adults since Summer Sisters—Judy Blume takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she herself grew up. Here she imagines and weaves together a vivid portrait of three generations of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed during one winter. At the center of an extraordinary cast of characters are fifteen-year-old Miri Ammerman and her spirited single mother, Rusty. Their warm and resonant stories are set against the backdrop of a real-life tragedy that struck the town when a series of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving the community reeling. Gripping, authentic, and unforgettable, In the Unlikely Event has all the hallmarks of this renowned author’s deft narrative magic.

Reader Meet Writer – Virtual event with KRISTEN ARNETT

May 6, 2020
by Emily Berg

Let us deliver authors to your living room.

Kristen Arnett – MOSTLY DEAD THINGS [order here]
FRIDAY MAY 15th at 3PM EDT

The next author in the Reader Meet Writer series is Kristen Arnett. You may have read Arnett’s other works in The New York Times, North American Review, The Normal School, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Guernica, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, Bennington Review, The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere

Kristen Arnett will be talking with us FRIDAY MAY 15th at 3PM EDT about her bestselling book MOSTLY DEAD THINGS and answering your questions.  Kristen is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.

Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction and essay writer. She won the 2017 Coil Book Award for her debut short fiction collection, Felt in the Jaw, and was awarded Ninth Letter’s 2015 Literary Award in Fiction. Her debut novel, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS , is now available in paperback from Tin House. She lives in Florida. Follow her on Twitter @Kristen_Arnett.

To attend please RSVP here

You can also RSVP by emailing booksandbooks@tskw.org with the subject line “RSVP for KRISTEN ARNETT”

Attendance is limited.

If you elect to attend, we will email you on the morning of the event (5/15) with the link to attend this virtual event, plus the link to purchase books.  If you purchase the book through our website we will automatically send you the login information you need to join the event. If you ordered by phone please RSVP above.  

Happy Reading!

Reader Meet Writer – Virtual Event with MARY KAY ANDREWS

May 6, 2020
by Emily Berg

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Mary Kay Andrews – HELLO, SUMMER [order here]
TUESDAY MAY 12th at 5PM EDT

The next author in the Reader Meet Writer series is Mary Kay Andrews.  You may have read Andrew’s earlier works: THE WEEKENDERS, BEACH TOWN, LADIES’ NIGHT, SUMMER RENTAL, DEEP DISH and others.

Mary Kay Andrew will be talking with us TUESDAY MAY 12th at 5PM EDT about her newest book HELLO, SUMMER and answering your questions.  Mary Kay is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she received a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia and was a newspaper reporter for 14 years. The last ten years of her career were spent as a features reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

She is married to her high school sweetheart, Tom Trocheck, with whom she has a 40-year (and counting) collaboration yielding two grown children, two adorable grandchildren and countless memorable kitchen experiences.

To attend please RSVP here

You can also RSVP by emailing booksandbooks@tskw.org with the subject line “RSVP for MARY KAY ANDREWS”

Attendance is limited.

If you elect to attend, we will email you on Tuesday morning (5/12) with the link to attend this virtual event, plus the link to purchase books.  If you purchase the book through our website we will automatically send you the login information you need to join the event. If you ordered by phone please RSVP above.  

Happy Reading!

Make Mother’s Day (EVEN MORE) Special

April 28, 2020
by Emily Berg

Whether you can be with your mom on Mother’s Day or not it’s still the perfect time to let her know you love and appreciate her. Now through May 10th purchase a $25 dollar gift certificate for Mom and get 15% off all in-stock books in the same order. 

Purchase online or by calling the store any day, 10am to 3pm. (Qualifying online orders will be discounted during processing.)

Orders placed with free media mail shipping must be placed by 3pm on Friday 5/1 for guaranteed delivery before Mother’s Day, Sunday 5/10. 

 

Need some help picking out books for Mom? Fill out the form below and our booksellers will be happy to send you 2-3 suggestions as soon as possible.

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Reader Meet Writer – Virtual Event with LEE SMITH

April 20, 2020
by Emily Berg

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LEE SMITH – BLUE MARLIN [order here]
TOMORROW – TUESDAY APRIL 21st at 4PM EDT

The next author in the Okra Picks series is Lee Smith.  You may have read Smith’s earlier works: Dimestore: A Writer’s Life, The Last Girls, Fair and Tender Ladies, among others.

Lee Smith will be talking with us TUESDAY APRIL 21st at 4PM EDT  about her newest book Blue Marlin and answering your questions.  Lee is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.

Store Founder Judy Blume calls Blue Marlin “absolutely enchanting.” The book follows Jenny, an adventurous thirteen-year-old, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father’s illicit affair.

To attend please RSVP here

You can also RSVP by emailing booksandbooks@tskw.org with the subject line “RSVP for Lee Smith”

Attendance is limited.

If you elect to attend, we will email you on Tuesday (the day of the event) morning with the link to attend this virtual event, plus the link to purchase books.  If you have already purchased the book through our website we will automatically send you the login information you need to join the event. If you ordered by phone please RSVP above.  

Happy Reading!