Nathaniel Rich in conversation with To Be Announced (TBA): King Zeno Tuesday, January 9th 6-7:30PM New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge--and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves. New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nations. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans's faded mercantile glory. The war is ending and a prosperous new age dawns. But everything is thrown into chaos by a series of murders committed by an ax-wielding maniac with a peculiar taste in music. In New Orleans, a city built on swamp, nothing stays buried long. This book is available in hardcover ($28.00). Nathaniel Rich in conversation with TBA, discussing King Zeno. Nathaniel will sign books following the discussion. If you are unable to attend, you must call the book shop to order signed books. Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm Event address: Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130

Diane Sanfilippo, The 21-Day Sugar Detox Tuesday, January 9 at 7:00pm We’re excited to welcome Diane Sanfilippo and to learn how to live a healthier 2018! The 21-Day Sugar Detox Daily Guide takes you day-by- day through Diane Sanfilippo’s popular 21-Day Sugar Detox (21DSD) program. This engaging and colorful book was created to give you new insights on how to succeed based on feedback that Diane has received over seven years of running the program. You’ll learn what to expect each day of the Detox, from how your body might be responding to how you might be feeling mentally. Inside you’ll find: • Meal prep tips and tricks to make cooking easier • Motivational moments to keep you going • Journal space to track your experience and progress • More than 50 mouthwatering recipes that won’t leave you feeling deprived • Recommended products and brands to make your 21DSD easier • … and so much more! Beginning one week before your 21-Day Sugar Detox and wrapping up one week after, you’ll be guided completely through the process of stripping sugar, sweet foods, and “bad carbs” out of your life. You’ll learn how best to prepare yourself for the program and ease into the change, as well as how to ease out and incorporate what you’ve learned while on the program into your everyday life thereafter. Since 2010, the 21-Day Sugar Detox has helped hundreds of thousands of people bust sugar and carb cravings through the original book, cookbook, online program, website

Release Party: Grandma & Me by Mary Ann Drummond and Beatrice Tauber Prior 7:00pm – 8:00pm

North Carolina-native and author of The Education of Dixie Dupree, Donna Everhart continues to explore themes of family, coming-of-age, and Southern culture, this time set against the backdrop of 1940s Appalachia. The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom. Join us Tuesday, January 9 at 7pm as we journey to the Carolina mountains.

Launch Party! MARTHA BOONE The Big Free Tuesday, January 9, 2018 7:00-8:30 p.m. Bookmiser Roswell

Author event with Emily Ley, author of A Simplified Life Do you long to simplify the demands on your time, energy, and resources? Have complicated responsibilities, overwhelming to-do lists, and endless clutter left you feeling overwhelmed? Busy wife, mom, entrepreneur, and bestselling author Emily Ley knows how you feel. With a growing family, increased work demands, and more, she understands the struggle it is to keep the plates spinning. In A Simplified Life, you’ll find Emily’s strategies, systems, and methods for permanently clearing the clutter, organizing your priorities, and living intentionally in 10 key areas—from your home and meal planning, to style and finances, parenting, faith life, and more. Emily will show you how to truly make the most of your days with realistic, achievable, and tactical tools. Walk alongside Emily through each page of the book, working through her simple strategies toward your own goals as you simplify and make space for what matters most. Emily Ley is a boutique lifestyle brand that embodies the inviting personal style and traditional sensibilities of its Founder and Creative Director, Emily Ley. The brand inspires women of all ages to build joy and simplicity into their lives through intentional choices, purposeful plans and playful experiences. The collection, built on the pillars of simple design, classic style, fresh colors and playful details, features organizational tools, office necessities, stationery and family-centric gifts. Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 6:30pm

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History The remarkable Kopp sisters are back! In Amy Stewart's third installment of their true-life tale, one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs finds herself defending her inmates against accusations of so-called morality crimes, while life gets complicated at home. Join us for a lively evening of storytelling and rambunctious women's history - and book signing. The best-selling author of GIRL WAIT WITH GUN and LADY COP MAKES TROUBLE continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters. Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, certainly doesn’t belong behind bars. And sixteen year old runaway Minnie Davis, with few prospects and fewer friends, shouldn’t be publicly shamed and packed off to a state run reformatory. But such were the laws—and morals—of 1916 Constance uses her authority as deputy sheriff, and occasionally exceeds it, to investigate and defend these women when no one else will. But it's her sister Fleurette who puts Constance's beliefs to the test and forces her to reckon with her own ideas of how a young woman should and shouldn't behave. Against the backdrop of World War I, and drawn once again from the true story of the Kopp sisters, Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions is a spirited, page turning story that will delight fans of historical fiction and lighthearted detective fiction alike. Amy Stewart is the New York Times best-selling author of nine booksHer popular nonfiction titles include The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential. She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer. They own an independent bookstore called Eureka Books, which is so independent that it lives in California while they live in Oregon. Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 6:00pm Event address: Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115

Francine Klagsbrun - LIONESS: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel Please join us at the New Orleans JCC when author Francine Klangsbrun presents and signs LIONESS, her new biograpy of Golda Meir. The definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel’s founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life. A series of public service jobs brought her to the attention of David Ben-Gurion, and her political career took off. Fund-raising in America in 1948, secretly meeting in Amman with King Abdullah right before Israel’s declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1948 as Israel’s first representative to the USSR, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister in the 1950s and 1960s, Golda brought fiery oratory, plainspoken appeals, and shrewd deal-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life—the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its inhabitants. As prime minister, Golda negotiated arms agreements with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordan’s King Hussein in the unsuccessful pursuit of a land-for-peace agreement with Israel’s neighbors. But her time in office ended in tragedy, when Israel was caught off guard by Egypt and Syria’s surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973. Analyzing newly available documents from Israeli government archives, Francine Klagsbrun looks into whether Golda could have prevented that war and whether in its darkest days she contemplated using nuclear force. Resigning in the war’s aftermath, she spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Klagsbrun’s superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel’s founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages. FRANCINE KLAGSBRUN is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Fourth Commandment: Remember the Sabbath Day and Married People: Staying Together in the Age of Divorce. She was the editor of the best-selling Free to Be…You and Me and is a regular columnist for The Jewish Week, a contributing editor to Lilith, and on the editorial board of Hadassah magazine. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Ms. Magazine. She lives in New York City. Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 7:00pm

Discussion Bound Book Club at Malaprop's Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 12:00pm Event address: 55 Haywood Street Asheville, NC 28801

Reading Between the Wines Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:00 PM 7:00 PM A Readers Social where you bring the wine and we provide the cheese and we all chat about and recommend books we have recently read.

OE BOOK CLUB Man's Search For Meaning Tuesday , January 9 | 6:30 pm

Adult Daytime Book Club: January This month we're reading stories 3 and 4 in "Different Season" by Stephen King. Event Type: Adult Book Clubs Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Dot Journaling Workshop with Clara Boza Join our very own bookseller Clara Boza for a fun and informative Dot Journaling workshop. Event date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm Event address: 55 Haywood Street Asheville, NC 28801

Winter Write In Tuesday, January 9 from 6 – 8:30 p.m. Bookmarks, 634 W. Fourth Street #110 Open writing time is available for all writers in our conference room. Come write your masterpiece with us!

Robert Crais - The Wanted Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, are back in their 18th adventure from masterful suspense writer, Robert Crais. Along with their friend, Jon Stone, the three men are after hired killers trailing the teenage son of their client. When it turns out the son is a thief and possibly a killer, the men must decide if finding him is worth their lives. The duo take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. He joins us to share the newest addition to the series. “Robert Crais takes the most popular characters from previous novels and shakes them up in an intense and thrilling mystery. Crais delivers a master class in writing with this latest novel.”

Sandra Worsham, Going to Wings Wednesday, January 10, 7pm "A palpable and invigorating book, mapping one woman’s lifelong efforts to discover her own sexual identity through Christianity and friendship.” Kirkus Review “Sandra Worsham’s humor, clear-eyed honesty stitch this amazing quilt of meaning and experience together in a wonderful way.” Jill McCorkle, author of Life after Life and Going Away Shoes Going to Wings: A debut memoir charts conflicts of sexuality and faith and the longing for companionship. The book opens in 1975 with Worsham rereading a letter she wrote to her mother confessing to a romantic relationship with another woman: “Mama, I have been in touch with Ellen again.” Dealing with an unfulfilling marriage to her husband, Harvill, the author experienced a sexual and psychic revelation when she started a surreptitious affair with another female teacher at her high school. But to her husband and mother, “I was a sick person with something disgusting, something like leprosy, something with sores that eat away at your body, something that eats you from the inside out.” Once their relationship was discovered, Worsham was threatened with institutionalization and forced to break it off. She divorced Harvill and began pursuing platonic friendships with other women. One was with an older woman who offered copies of Proust’s books and shared exotic tales from abroad, helping to expand Worsham’s worldview beyond her conservative Georgia town. But after her friend self-destructed (due to alcoholism), Worsham turned to her church choir and teaching life to guide her. Later, another woman, named Teeny, provided a meaningful platonic bond, one that made Worsham realize that her sexual orientation need not solely define her. Given the two friends’ closeness, many townsfolk suspected that they were lovers. Eventually, after enjoying several nonsexual bonds with other women, Worsham came out, finding solidarity in a lesbian group that met at a local restaurant called Wings. The memoir proves to be a rich and insightful account into the struggles that many members of the LGBT community face in navigating the heavy emotional terrain of faith, loneliness, and self-acceptance (“I thought that I, not other people, should be the one to decide my own sexual orientation,” Worsham writes). This is mostly owed to the way the author so deeply mines her own emotional history while simultaneously weaving religious references—such as “the Telling” for when she outs herself to her mother, as though the experience is a kind of biblical parable—to signal the many momentous rites of passage LGBT community members experience in their own journeys of self-discovery. Vividly interrogating these themes, this lesbian-specific memoir is a very welcome addition to the genre. Sandra Worsham’s stories have been published in Memphis Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Ascent, and Chattahoochee Review, among others. She won First in Fiction in the Red Hen Press competition, and her story “Pinnacle” was published in the 2008 Los Angeles Review. Two of her stories were Finalists at Glimmer Train. After she retired from teaching writing to high school students for thirty years, her book on teaching writing, Essential Ingredients: Recipes for Teaching Writing, was published by ASCD in 2001. She was Georgia’s 1982 Teacher of the Year and a 1992 Milken Award Winner. In 2000, she was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. In June, 2006, she received her MFA in Fiction from Bennington College. She lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, with her spouse and their two dogs. "The struggle of the gay Christian's complicated effort to reconcile sexuality and faith is often overlooked by church leaders and more secular gays. But it is a complex, and deeply engaging journey. I was deeply moved by Sandra's book, engaged by her voice, her mind, her heart. I think many will find their very human story here in the hands of a wise and compelling woman." --George Hodgman, author of Bettyville “Sandra Worsham is the Mary Karr of Milledgeville, Georgia. This time the ‘Liars’ Club’ has extended its boundaries. The personal stakes break the reader’s heart as the lies, judgements, and deprivations whirl between Sandra, her family, her friends, her community, and her church. Yet this page-turning memoir of her quest for wholeness isn’t mired in despair. Despite the decades that she held her “vile” secret of homosexuality, she kept loving those who thwarted her coming of age. This page-turner oozes with Worsham’s grace and grit.” --Amy Lou Jenkins, author Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting “A terrific book of straight talk about a woman discovering her lesbian identity and holding to her faithfulness in God, as she lives in a world that makes those identities difficult to combine. Worsham writes in a way that captures the reader from the beginning page. She inspires us with her unflinching look at the hard task of living the truth, and the courage she shows in the face of loss.” --Elizabeth Cox, author of A Question of Mercy and Night Talk “Sandra Worsham has written a candid and memorable narrative of her life in Flannery O’Connor’s home town of Milledgeville, Georgia: coming out as a lesbian, converting to Catholicism, and finding a life partner. Her struggles with family, church, and self constitute a compelling story that will resonate with many readers, especially those confronting issues of sexual identity and faith.” Sarah Gordon, author of Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination, A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, and Distances "In Going to Wings, Sandra Worsham combines a southern raconteur's charm and candor with a social anthropologist's objective awareness to tell the story of a woman's second coming-of-age as a lesbian in a deeply conservative southern town. The result is a memoir both engaging and socially significant." --Peter Selgin, author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The Inventors, a memoir. "Sandra Worsham loves women and she loves Catholicism. The result of loving both is a dramatic struggle well worth following.” --Bruce Gentry, Professor of English, Georgia College & State University, Editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review, and author of Flannery O’Connor’s Religion of the Grotesque

Garden District Book Shop Book Club Join us for the discussion the second Wednesday of every month. New Members are always welcome. Purchase book in-store for a 20% discount. Wednesday, January 10th Event date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:15pm Event address: Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130

Women's Voices Book Club: The Underground Railroad The Women's Voices Book Club continues with a discussion of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. Space is limited to 12 readers. Please sign up at Hills & Hamlets! Event date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 7:00pm to 8:15pm Event address: 10625 Serenbe Lane Chatahoochee Hills, GA 30268

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. The Women’s National Book Association of South Florida Monthly Meeting Johanna Neuman interviewed by Andrea Baron on Neuman’s new book Gilded Suffragists. $24.95. Refreshments served. Free for WNBA members, $10 for non-members.