Sunday, October 17, 5 p.m. Thursday, October 7, 7 p.m. 17 Wednesday, October 27, 7 p.m. 7 Wray Herbert Oct 10 Oct 10 Maxine Kumin Joseph J. Ellis 27 On Second Thought Oct 10 The Roots Of Things First Family (Crown, $25) (Northwestern Univ. Press, $22.95) (Knopf, $27.95) You’re facing a decision. Do you carefully weigh the pros Where I Live From the award-winning author of F and cons or just follow your gut reaction? Combining ounding Brothers (W.W. Norton, $29.95) and , this portrait of John and Abigail the latest research on cognitive functions with anecdotes American Sphinx In her long, distinguished career, Kumin Adams is also an insightful history of the republic’s early and psychological studies, Herbert offers a fascinating has written 16 books of poetry, won the years. Frequently separated as John attended the Conti- tour of the mind and a helpful guide for knowing when Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly Prizes, and the Frost Medal, and served as Poetry nental Congresses in Philadelphia and later served as minister to the court to trust reason over instinct. Consultant to the Library of Congress. She’s also found time to write in France, the couple exchanged an extensive correspondence, and Ellis has novels, essays, and children’s books, as well as run a horse farm in New mined this trove for telling details of the events of the day. Monday, October 18, 7 p.m. Hampshire. Her two most recent collections of essays and poems continue 18Oct 10 her rich engagement with nature, family, and language. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Nicole Krauss Thursday, October 28, 7 p.m. 28Oct 10 Alan Riding Great House Friday, October 8, 7 p.m. 8 And The Show Went On Oct 10 (W.W. Norton, $24.95) Seth Stern (Knopf, $28.95) Like the heirloom desk at its center, this novel is intricate- Justice Brennan The arts thrived in Nazi-occupied Paris. Between ly and sturdily composed of niches and compartments, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $35) June 1940 and the war’s end, some 200 French films secret drawers and histories, each of them telling its own Co-written with Stephen Wermiel, who conducted were made; theatres, nightclubs, and opera houses story and contributing to a larger one. From an American novelist to a poet extensive interviews with Brennan over the course of six stayed open; writers from Céline to Camus and Sartre in Pinochet’s Chile, from a woman dying in London to an antiques dealer in years and was given access to the Justice’s court and per- continued to publish. Was this a victory for French culture, or a dangerous Jerusalem, Krauss weaves a powerful narrative of epic sweep. This is a ticketed sonal papers, this chronicle of Brennan’s life and career abdication of moral leadership by those in a position to influence the larger event. Two admission tickets are free with book purchase from P&P or are $10 reveals the strategizing behind major court cases, the working relationship society? Riding’s fascinating study raises important questions. between Brennan and Chief Justice Earl Warren, and much more. each without purchase of the book. Friday, October 29, 7 p.m. Monday, October 18, 7 p.m. Saturday, October 9, 1 p.m. Lan Samantha Chang 29Oct 10 Steven Rattner 18Oct 10 Oct9 10 Diane Rehm All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost Overhaul Life With Maxie (W.W. Norton, $23.95) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27) (Gibbs Smith, $12.99) In her third work of fiction, Chang, director of the Iowa As a former New York Times financial reporter and In her heartwarming book of stories and photos, Writers’ Workshop, tells the life of a contemporary erstwhile executive at Morgan Stanley and other Wall the renowned NPR host celebrates her best friend, the poet, from MFA workshops to the Pulitzer Prize. This Street firms, Rattner had the expertise to lead the Obama long-haired Chihuahua, Maxie, and discusses the positive also considers the relationships between administration’s efforts to restructure the auto industry kunstleroman impact a dog can have on a person’s life. academia and art and between older professors and and, now, to tell the full story of the crisis and how it was managed. young, eager students, and tries to find the line between dedication and Saturday, October 9, 6 p.m. cutthroat ambition. 9 Wednesday, October 20, 7 p.m. Ron Chernow Oct 10 20 Washington Oct 10 Jane Leavy The Last Boy Saturday, October 30, 1 p.m. (Penguin Press, $40) 30 Douglas R. Egerton (HarperCollins, $27.99) Oct 10 The National Book Award-winning biographer of J.P Year Of Meteors Leavy grew up near Yankee Stadium, and in 1983 as a sports Morgan, Alexander Hamilton, and others here gives a (Bloomsbury, $29) reporter for The Washington Post her dream came true: an rich, full account of the first president, delving into his Egerton, author of , brings his interview with Mickey Mantle. By then “the Mick” was Death of Liberty private life as well as chronicling his public accomplish- skills as both historian and political journalist to this more tragic hero than golden boy, and Leavy’s portrait of his ments. Chernow undercuts the standard view of Washington as dispassion- study of Lincoln’s route to the White House. A dark rise, fall, and legend is also the story of a particular period in America. ate and laconic, finding evidence that he was also fiercely opinionated. horse candidate who wasn’t his own party’s first choice, Lincoln won the 1860 election thanks to a combination Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. Sunday, October 10, 5 p.m. of factors, primarily the Democratic Party’s split over slavery. Judith Viorst Friendship Heights Village Community Center 21Oct 10 10Oct 10 Unexpectedly Eighty Chris Kimball Fannie’s Last Supper Saturday, October 30, 6 p.m. (Free Press, $17) Allison Leotta 30 (Hyperion, $25.99) Oct 10 What’s in store for the rising octogenarian? In her Law Of Attraction Chris Kimball is back with his own cookbook that reex- latest look at a dreaded decade, the witty versifier finds (Touchstone, $25) amines and updates the great American Victorian cooking plenty to look forward to. There are great-grandchildren, In her first novel, Leotta, a federal sex-crimes prosecutor of Fannie Farmer, including an extravagant 12-course third helpings of dessert, and memory loss to help you and Harvard Law School graduate, writes about what she Christmas dinner. Please call 301-656-2797 to sign up. forgive and forget. And after the cataract surgery, you’ll see things in a knows. Her protagonist is Anna Curtis, a young assistant whole new light. U.S. Attorney representing a victim of domestic violence. Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. Edwidge Danticat When her client recants and is later murdered, Anna find Monday, October 11, 7 p.m. 21Oct 10 her professional and personal lives dangerously tangled. Andrew Burstein Nancy Isenberg Create Dangerously & 11Oct 10 Madison And Jefferson (Princeton Univ., $19.95) (Random House, $35) Taking her title from an essay by Camus, the award- This dual biography from a pair of esteemed his- winning Haitian-American writer (Brother, I’m Dying) Children and Teens’ Department torians offers a revisionist view of the third and fourth combines memoir and cultural criticism to look at the presidents. Giving Madison top billing, the authors ar- lives and work of immigrants from countries in crisis. She Tuesday, October 5, 10:30 a.m. gue that he played a larger role than Jefferson did at key focuses on renowned figures, like Jean-Michel Basquiat, and on her own 5 relatives—victims of AIDS and political violence. Fred Bowen Oct 10 points in the formation of the country’s political system. Throwing Heat (Peachtree Press, $5.95) Tuesday, October 12, 7 p.m. Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. 21Oct 10 Last year Jack’s pitches were the fastest in his league. But 12Oct 10 Michele Norris Sixth & I Historic Synagogue this year he’s in a different league and he isn’t striking out The Grace Of Silence V.S. Naipaul batters the way he was. Can Jack learn more control and (Pantheon, $24.95) The Masque Of Africa some new pitches? Bowen has a regular feature in The This memoir by the co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered (Knopf, $26.95) Washington Post “KidsPost.” (Ages 9-11) delves into both family and national history to paint a vivid From Uganda to Ghana and Nigeria, around the Ivory picture of the lasting effects of racism. Norris weaves memo- Coast and Gabon, and on to South Africa, the Nobel Thursday, October 7, 10:30 a.m. ries of her Minneapolis childhood with events she learned laureate’s latest work of travel and culture looks at the role 7 of belief throughout the African continent. Considering native faiths based Oct 10 Brian Floca of only later, chief among which was a 1946 incident in Ballet For Martha which a white Alabama policeman shot her father, who had just been honor- in animism as well as religions introduced from other areas of the world, (Flash Point, $17.99) ably discharged from the Navy. Naipaul has synthesized a wide range of history, practices, and peoples to tell one more portion of the larger story of human civilization. This is a Martha Graham’s dream ballet was realized when she teamed up with the composer Aaron Copland and the sculptor Isamu Wednesday, October 13, 7 p.m. ticketed event. Two admission tickets are free with book purchase from P&P or Noguchi to create . With his lovely watercolor images, Ari Berman 13 are $12 each without purchase of the book. Appalachian Spring Oct 10 Floca, a 2010 Sibert Award winner, brings to life the story of the making of Herding Donkeys this American classic. (Ages 7-10) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26) Friday, October 22, 7 p.m. 22 Berman’s lively account of the rise of the Demo- Dinaw Mengestu Oct 10 How To Read The Air Sunday, October 10, 4 p.m. 10 cratic party from its 2004 low point starts with Howard Jennifer Allision Oct 10 Dean, then shows how the Obama campaign built on (Riverhead, $25.95) Awarded the Guardian First Book Prize for The Beauti- Gilda Joyce : The Dead Dean’s ideas, especially his fifty-state strategy. A tribute Drop to grassroots activism, the book demonstrates the crucial role of organizers ful Things That Heaven Bears, his novel of newly arrived (Puffin, $7.99) with fresh ideas. Ari Berman will be in conversation with Howard Dean. Africans in D.C., Mengestu here expands on themes of family and belonging. Attempting to forge a future by discovering—or & Caroline Hickey Thursday, October 14, 7 p.m. inventing—a past, Jonas, the adult son of Ethiopian immigrants, retraces 14 his parents’ journey to and around America. Isabelle’s Boyfriend Oct 10 Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (Roaring Brook, $8.99) David Grossman Join us for a mother-daughter chat with the authors (to be held downstairs To The End Of The Land Saturday, October 23, 1 p.m. Robert Shogan in the Remainder Room). Allison and Hickey will discuss teen reading, (Knopf, $26.95) 23Oct 10 writing for teens, and their own recent books. When we last saw Allison’s Evoking the ever-present intrusion of war into the daily Prelude To Catastrophe heroine, Gilda Joyce had landed a summer internship at the International life of Israelis, Grossman’s novel tells the story of Ora, a (Ivan R. Dee, $27.95) Spy Museum and suspected Russian spies were in D.C. Ghosts from the woman whose son, about to leave the army, instead goes In his latest historical analysis, the author of Backlash and Cold War helped her uncover clues. Hickey’s hilarious novel is about two to the front. To endure the anxiety, Ora leaves home with an old friend, No Sense of Decency examines what actions, if any, American girls interested in the same boy, with ensuing complications. Mothers an artist turned recluse after a brutal POW experience. Together the two Jews in FDR’s administration took as the Nazi’s implement- and their daughters are invited for light refreshments, and an informal recall old times and slowly reaffirm the values that give their lives meaning. ed the Final Solution. Concentrating on a few figures close to Roosevelt, discussion of young-adult themes such as friendship, rivalry, and other age- This is a ticketed event. Two admission tickets are free with book purchase Shogan looks for explanations to American Jewry’s seeming indifference to appropriate issues. (Suggested ages 10-14) from P&P or are $10 each without purchase of the book. the plight of Jews in Europe. For information on tickets and admission charge, please contact the store. Enrollment is limited. Friday, October 15, 3 - 4:30 p.m. Saturday, October 23, 3:30 p.m. 23 Condoleezza Rice 15Oct 10 Matt Stewart Oct 10 Thursday, October 14, 10:30 a.m. Extraordinary, Ordinary People The French Revolution 14 (Soft Skull, $15.95) Oct 10 Tami Lewis Brown (Crown, $27) Soar, Elinor Rice’s memoir charts her trajectory from a childhood in segre- The product of 3,700 tweets, Stewart’s fast-paced, satirical (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99) gated Birmingham to her academic success and on to her role novel is set in San Francisco and focuses on Esmerelda Van In 1928 Elinor Smith was 17 and the youngest U.S. on the world stage as Secretary of State. At every phase of her Twinkle, former pastry chef, and her family. Her husband licensed pilot. After male flyers and newspapermen diverse career, she had the love and support of her family, and disappears, but her sons Marat and Robespierre grow up to ridiculed her, she decided to show them up by flying this book is a moving tribute from a devoted daughter to her parents. find success in the criminal underworld and politics, respectively. under four New York City bridges. She accomplished this feat on October 21, 1928. Ms. Brown is a local author, librarian, and Friday, October 15, 7 p.m. Saturday, October 23, 6 p.m. pilot. James Zogby 23Oct 10 Phil Trupp 15Oct 10 Arab Voices Ruthless Tuesday, October 19, 10:30 a.m. and 7 (Palgrave Macmillan, $25) (John Wiley, $27.95) p.m. 19 Based on a poll conducted throughout the Trupp’s first-hand account of auction-rate securities Oct 10 combines his experience as an investor with his investigative Peter Sís Middle East by Zogby International, this book covers a Madlenka Soccer Star wide range of topics. Participants were questioned about skills as a reporter. One of many investors advised in 2008 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux $16.99) their views on American foreign policy, the Israel-Pales- to put money in “cash equivalents” that brokers knew would In his third book about Madlenka, who lives on a tine peace process, and even on their favorite TV shows. The results give fail, Trupp exposes a $336 billion scam, tells the stories of other victims, and block with children from all over the map, Sís, a three- Western readers a direct look at often-misunderstood societies. shows how these investors can band together to reclaim their assets. time Caldecott Honor Illustrator, depicts a lively little girl who wants to play soccer with everyone she meets. The artist’s bright, fresh colors tell a story of Saturday, October 16, 1 p.m. Sunday, October 24, 5 p.m. Judy Pasternak 24 friendship based in a sport the whole world understands. (Ages 4-7) Joyce Hinnefeld 16 Oct 10 Stranger Here Below Oct 10 Yellow Dirt Thursday, October 21, 10:30 a.m. (Unbridled Books, $24.95) (Free Press, $26) 21 Expanding on her prize-winning Los Angeles Times Oct 10 Leslie Margolis Hinnefeld’s first novel, In Hovering Flight, was a P&P Girl’s Best Friend favorite. In her second, this accomplished storyteller looks back series, Pasternak tells the story of Monument No. 2, an (Bloomsbury, $14.99) to 1961 and chronicles the lives of three women who meet at extensive uranium deposit discovered in the early 1940s on Maggie loves walking dogs after school—it makes up for Berea College in Kentucky. Amazing Grace and Mary Eliza- the Navajo reservation. Mined heavily through the Cold the woes of middle school and having a twin brother. beth have grown up in straitened circumstances and they find a mentor in Sister War and after, with few safety measures in place, the area has suffered severe But then she notices that dogs are disappearing, and as Georgia, a Shaker who believes in discipline, simplicity, and love. environmental damage; the adverse health effects of radioactive soil and water continue. she delves into the mystery, it looks like the boy she has a crush on could be involved. (Ages 10-12) Saturday, October 16, 6 p.m. 16 Bruce Duffy Monday, October 25, 7 p.m. Oct 10 25Oct 10 Monday, October 25, 10:30 a.m. The World As I Found It Myla Goldberg The False Friend Jacqueline Woodson 25 (New York Review Books, $19.95) Locomotion Oct 10 First published in 1987, and now reissued by New (Doubleday, $25.95) (Puffin, $7.99) York Review Classics, Duffy’s acclaimed novel is a fiction- The third novel from the author of Bee Season is a compel- Woodson’s writing has won numerous awards, and now alized life of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgen- ling story of friendship, betrayal, and memory. Best friends, her beloved novel has been adapted for the stage and is stein. The narrative traces the thinker’s development from ten-year-old Celia and Djuna also fight a lot. When Djuna scheduled to be performed at the Kennedy Center. The his upbringing in a wealthy but tragic Viennese family, to his academic disappears during a hike in the woods, Celia claims the girl story focuses on Lonnie Collins Motion, whose parents stardom in Cambridge and his complicated relationships with colleagues, was forced into a stranger’s car. Twenty years later, Celia admits she lied. But died when he was seven. At age 12 he’s living in a foster home, sees his especially G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. no one believes her new story. What really happened that day? sister for only an hour a week, and is learning to write poetry in order to make sense of his feelings and his world. (Ages 10-12). Sunday, October 17, 1 p.m. Tuesday, October 26, 7 p.m. Curtis Wilkie Marty Tolchin & Susan Tolchin 17 26Oct 10 Oct 10 Saturday, October 30, 10:30 a.m. Pinstripe Patronage The Fall Of The House Of Zeus (Harmony, $25.99) 30 Karen Duncan (Paradigm, $24.95) Oct 10 The Good Fun! Book The Tolchins’ eighth book on American politics Dickie Scruggs, bother-in-law of Trent Lott and (Blue Marlin Publications, $15.95) focuses on today’s high-stakes political- patronage deals, hero of the film The Insider, enjoyed a spectacular career Duncan’s book provides guidelines for twelve months which often involve billion-dollar contracts and outsource as a tort lawyer, successfully prosecuting Big Tobacco and of community-service parties--projects geared to assist many services the government used to be responsible for. the asbestos industry. His fall was equally stupendous. elementary-school children in helping animals, the The authors contend that this system of favors for support is running Wilkie chronicles Scruggs’s high-flying days and the political maneuvering environment, and the wider locale. A former teacher, amok, especially where it affects foreign policy. that eventually led to his conviction for conspiring to bribe a judge. Duncan is married to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

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Friday, October 1, 7 p.m. Saturday, October 2, 6 p.m. Monday, October 4, 7 p.m. Oct1 10 Harold Ford, Jr. Keith Jeffery Oct2 10 Mark Feldstein Oct4 10 The Secret History Of MI6 Poisoning The Press More Davids Than Goliaths (Penguin Press, $39.95) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) (Random House, $25.99) The world’s first spy agency, Britain’s MI6 was formed just In their long, public, and very dirty fight, Richard Nixon Ford was 26 when he won a seat in Congress, before the First World War. For this authorized history and the columnist Jack Anderson set the stage for the where he served for ten years. He gained national atten- of the organization, Jeffery, professor of British history at contentious relationship between government and the tion with the keynote address at the 2000 Democratic Queen’s University, Belfast, was granted access to hitherto press that Feldstein—a George Washington University convention and with a heartbreakingly close defeat secret archives. His very colorful history starts with the professor of media and public affairs—sees continuing today. in the race for Tennessee Senator in 2006. In his political memoir Ford chaotic early days and traces the development of classic spy-master techniques. passes along the lessons of his experiences, especially his belief that “lead- This event is co-sponsored with Washington, D.C.’s International Spy Mu- Sunday, October 3, 1 p.m. 3 ership in government can solve, inspire, and heal.” seum. More information at www.spymuseum.org. Mark Ozer Oct 10 Massachusetts Avenue In The Gilded Age 5 Tuesday, October 5, 7 p.m. Saturday, October 2, 1 p.m. (History Press, $19.99) Oct 10 Steven Johnson 2 Matthew Zapruder The latest tour of D.C. from the city’s resident historian Where Good Ideas Come From Oct 10 Come On All You Ghosts runs from Union Station to Dupont Circle, traverses (Riverhead, $26.95) (Copper Canyon, $16) elegant Embassy Row and takes in the imposing National Following popular books on singular breakthroughs, This award-winning poet’s third collection uses Cathedral. In addition to expert commentary on the Avenue’s architec- such as The Invention of Air and Mind Wide Open, vivid imagery, startling jump cuts, and other energetic ture, Ozer fleshes out the lives of the socialites, celebrities, politicians, and Johnson, a Wired contributing editor, here looks at the techniques to update the classic genres of love poem, others who lived and visited there. phenomenon of the eureka moment in general. Using neurobiology and elegy, and ode. The powerful title work combines ele- history, he explores the cultural and psychological factors at work in in- ments of each of these modes as Zapruder salutes his Sunday, October 3, 5 p.m. novation, and identifies seven key principles of inventiveness. late father, literary heroes, and other mentors. Oct3 10 Thanassis Cambanis Wednesday, October 6, 7 p.m. A Privilege To Die Oct6 10 Saturday, October 2, 3:30 p.m. (Free Press, $27) Mary Catherine Bateson Scott Simon 2 Made up of middle-class professionals as well as Composing A Further Life Baby, We Were Meant For Each Other Oct 10 the unemployed, the Party of God is at once a standing (Knopf, $25.95) (Random House, $22) army, a political party, and a theological movement. In Bateson’s sequel to her 1991 Composing a Life is a rich and The host of NPR’s Weekend Edition is also the his thorough, detailed presentation of Hezbollah, the inspiring picture of “Adulthood II,” the years after work and father of two adopted daughters. How he, his wife, and veteran Middle East correspondent cuts to the heart of child-rearing when people can apply their experience and these little girls became a family is one story here; con- this complex and uncompromising organization by following the activi- wisdom to new projects. Extensive interviews with a boatyard worker turned sidering all the things “family” can mean, Simon sought ties of a few of its members silversmith, a former dean involved in community building, and Jane Fonda, out other adoptive parents and adds their diverse range of experiences among others, show how aging can be “an improvisational art form.” and observations to his own.

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