April 2012 Monday, April 9, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. Apr.9 12 17 Benjamin Busch Apr. 12 Stuart E. Eizenstat 26Apr. 12 Guy Delisle Dust to Dust The Future of the Jews Jerusalem (Ecco, $26.99) (Rowman & Littlefield, $35) (Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95) Busch served two tours in Iraq as a U.S. Marine From U.S. Ambassador to the European Union to Author and artist of Burma Chronicles Corps infantry officer and his wartime experiences Deputy Secretary of the Treasury to and Pyongyang, Delisle continues to stretch the are at the heart of this memoir. What gives them Chairman of The Jewish People’s Policy Institute, boundaries of graphic narrative with this account meaning, however, are his accounts of his earlier Eizenstat has been at the forefront of world of a year his family spent in Israel. While his wife years, from his childhood adventures in rural New events. In his new book he analyzes current global worked with Doctors without Borders, Delisle York to his training in North Carolina, California, trends in geo-political thinking, technology, and talked to young Israelis and Palestinians, observed and Ukraine. Busch, son of the writer Frederick Busch, is also an actor, demographics with an eye to how they will affect Israel and Israeli-U.S. checkpoints, and witnessed the bloody Gaza War. photographer, and film director. relations. Friday, April 27, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, 7 p.m. Michael J. Sandel 27 18 Apr. 12 Linda Greenhouse 10Apr. 12 Sadakat Kadri Apr. 12 What Money Can’t Buy The U.S. Supreme Court Heaven on Earth (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27) (Oxford Univ., $11.95) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28) How far can market values go? How far Having covered the Supreme Court for some thirty This history of Islamic law by the London-based should they go? Should students be paid for good years as a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times criminal and human rights lawyer and author of grades? Is money fair compensation for subjects reporter, Greenhouse knows the institution inside The Trial, delves back through centuries of thought who risk their health in drug studies? Sandel, the and out. This primer covers the court’s history, and reinterpretation throughout the Muslim world Harvard government professor whose popular course outlines major decisions, describes its role in the to present the Shari’a as an ongoing intellectual on justice led to the influential book on the same overall workings of government, and details how achievement. topic, seeks to define the proper role of markets in a democratic society. cases get to the court, what the Chief Justice does, and much more. Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 28, 1 p.m. 19Apr. 12 28 Wednesday, April 11, 4:30 p.m. Ross Douthat Apr. 12 Paul French

11Apr. 12 Blaine Harden and Shin Donghyuk Bad Religion Midnight in Peking Escape from Camp 14 (Free Press, $26) (Penguin Press, $26) (Viking, $26.95) What’s the opposite of Christianity? In his Peking, 1937. With the Japanese invasion Little news comes out of North Korea and provocative social critique, the New York Times imminent, two detectives are racing to find out who even fewer people. Harden, an experienced foreign columnist and author of Privilege argues that killed Pamela Werner. The theories range from a correspondent and author of A River Lost, tells the Christianity is most threatened not by atheism but Japanese soldier to a madman to the fox spirits. In remarkable story of Shin Donghyuk, a man who by heresy. Once the moral center of mainstream this recreation of pre-war China, French, a historian survived not only the brutality of a political prison America, Christianity, in Douthat’s view, has been and Shanghai-based business advisor and analyst, camp, but a daring escape from it. trivialized by pop culture, political appropriation, and other trends. richly evokes a momentous historical moment.

Wednesday, April 11, 7 p.m. Friday, April 20, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 28, 5 p.m. Arielle Eckstut David Henry Sterry 11Apr. 12 Ben Anderson Michael Duffy Nancy Gibbs 28Apr. 12 and 20Apr. 12 and Pitchapalooza! No Worse Enemy The Presidents Club The Essential Guide to Getting your (Oneworld, $24.95) (Simon & Schuster, $32.50) Book Published In this boots-on-the-ground view of Co-authors of The Preacher and the Presidents, the (Workman, $15.95) the conflict in Afghanistan, the London–based authors examine the question of whether there is Described as “American Idol for books (only without journalist and documentary filmmaker details life for former presidents outside the White House. Simon),” this workshop/contest is designed to help the string of IED explosions and sniper fire he Combining history, psychology, and politics, Duffy writers sell their books to publishers. Participating experienced during the periods over the last five and Gibbs look at what presidents have done after authors get one minute to make their pitch, then receive a detailed years when he was embedded with the U.S. Marines completing their terms, how they have related to each critique from Eckstut and Sterry, co-founders of The Book Doctors, and and British forces in Helmand Province. other, and what they still can offer the country. guest panelists. To sign up, purchase of the book is required. Saturday, April 21, 1 p.m. Saturday, April 28, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m. 21Apr. 12 Edward Luce Sixth & I Synagogue 28Apr. 12 12Apr. 12 Richard Zacks Time to Start Thinking Rachel Maddow Island of Vice (Atlantic Monthly, $26) Drift (Doubleday, $27.95) Like a British Tocqueville touring today’s (Crown, $25) Appointed police commissioner of New York City America, Luce, The Financial Times Washington The host ofThe Rachel Maddow Show examines in 1895, the young Theodore Roosevelt vowed commentator, offers fresh insight into this recent American history from the Vietnam War to to clean up a metropolis teeming with gambling, country’s political and economic woes. Drawing the struggle in Afghanistan. With scathing wit and prostitution, and police corruption. Zacks, author on a wide range of interviews with politicians, humor, she finds that the nation has ceased to be of The Pirate Hunter, paints vivid scenes of Gilded lobbyists, new graduates, and the unemployed, Luce has eschewed directed by core values and has instead drifted into Age mischief and shows Roosevelt doing battle with Tammany Hall. As abstractions to fashion a comprehensive picture of how lives are actually conflicts that are as costly to our own society as they are to those we’re his mission succeeded, however, TR became less popular. being lived. fighting.This event is SOLD OUT.

Friday, April 13, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 21, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 29, 3 p.m. Dale Carpenter 13Apr. 12 Philip E. Auerswald Jane Shore 21Apr. 12 29Apr. 12 Flagrant Conduct The Coming Prosperity That Said (W.W. Norton, $29.95) (Oxford Univ., $29.95) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22) This narrative history of Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Auerswald, coeditor and cofounder of Since 1977 when Eye Level, won the Supreme Court decision that invalidated America’s Innovations and a public policy professor at George Juniper Prize, followed by the Lamont Poetry sodomy laws, vividly brings to life the people Mason, argues that globalism means opportunity Prize in 1986 for her second collection, Minute involved in both sides of the case. A professor of and progress, not inequality and fear. He illustrates Hand, and on to the accomplished work of civil rights and civil liberties law at the University his thesis with examples of entrepreneurs from all Music Minus One, Happy Family, and A Yes-or- of Minnesota Law School, Carpenter places this over the world, including the man who founded No Answer, Shore has deftly chronicled family landmark case within the larger framework of the persecution of gays Afghanistan’s first mobile phone company and the woman who started life—telling stories and exploring emotions, with and lesbians in the U.S .Carpenter will be in conversation with Andrew the world’s first not-for-profit pharmaceutical concern. wit and a fine-honed lyricism in the vein of Elizabeth Bishop. Her new Sullivan, the Dish blogger. book contains work from each of her earlier collections along with new Saturday, April 21, 6 p.m. poems. Saturday, April 14, 1 p.m. Michael Lind 21Apr. 12

14Apr. 12 Tim Wendel Land of Promise Sunday, April 29, 5 p.m. Summer of ’68 (HarperCollins, $29.99) Sixth & I Synagogue 29Apr. 12 (Da Capo, $25) Once again, “it’s the economy,” and Lind’s history Madeleine Albright America’s pastime was as caught up in the turmoil of America’s economic growth helps put the recent Prague Winter of 1968 as everything else in the country was. In downturn into perspective. The author ofThe Next (HarperCollins, $29.99) his account of that year’s World Series, Wendel, American Nation and Hamilton’s Republic, Lind looks Albright’s family history is inescapably a history of founding editor of USA Today Baseball Weekly and at the roots of our past prosperity and suggests how Europe during the Second World War. In this memoir author of nine books, puts the ball games into the they can be nurtured for the future. of her early years, the former secretary of state and wider social context, vividly conveying what it meant U.S. ambassador to the United Nations looks back to Detroit—the scene of riots the previous year—to root for the Tigers Sunday, April 22, 1 p.m. to the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, then traces against the defending champions, the St. Louis Cardinals. 22Apr. 12 Lucette Lagnado her family’s responses to war and the Holocaust, The Arrogant Years examining the options available at the time and reflecting on difficult Saturday, April 14, 3:30 14 (Ecco, $14.99) decisions made. This is a ticketed event. One general admission ticket is $15. David Corn Apr. 12 Join us for the paperback release of Lagnado’s One book and one ticket is $32. One book and two tickets, $40. Showdown second memoir. Having introduced readers to (Wm. Morrow, $26.99) her father in The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Monday, April 30, 7 p.m. Alice Kessler-Harris Drawing on extensive interviews with White House here she focuses on her mother. But the story of 30Apr. 12 and congressional insiders, the veteran political her mother’s privileged life in Cairo leads Lagnado A Difficult Woman journalist and commentator details the political, to observe other models for women’s lives as she (Bloomsbury, $30) economic, and foreign policy challenges Obama has struggles to position herself between her family’s past and her own Memorably called a liar by Mary faced since the 2010 midterm elections. Corn argues future. McCarthy, Lillian Hellman was also a that Obama has proven himself a leader willing to groundbreaking playwright and activist; but what take risks and make tough choices in order to gain long-term goals. Sunday, April 22, 5 p.m. made her so “difficult”? Reassessing the life and Gary Krist 22Apr. 12 times of this feisty and independent public figure, Saturday, April 14, 6 p.m. City of Scoundrels Kessler-Harris, a professor of American history 14Apr. 12 Simon Johnson (Crown, $26) at Columbia, specializing in issues of labor and White House Burning Nearly 100 years ago, city planners were poised to gender, depicts a woman who resisted being pigeon-holed. (Pantheon, $26.95) make Chicago “the Metropolis of the world.” Then As they did in 13 Bankers, Johnson, MIT professor a series of disasters nearly turned the dream to a and former IMF chief economist, and co-author nightmare. In his fast-paced narrative history of the Children and Teens’ Department James Kwak, fellow at Harvard Law School, take momentous events of 1919, Kris, novelist, journalist, on thorny economic problems and offer compelling and author of The White Cascade, recounts that summer’s riot, transit analyses. Here they trace the history of America and strike, blimp crash, and child murder. national debt, looking back to the Founding Fathers’ arguments about Tuesday, April 3, 10:30 a.m. taxation, showing how the strength of the dollar has made borrowing Monday, April 23 Carl Hiaasen Apr.3 12 easy, and outlining future consequences of continuing high national 23Apr. 12 World Book Night Chomp debt. Tonight, all over the country, volunteers will be distributing (Knopf, $16.99) books free of charge. They’ll be handing out any of thirty When a frozen iguana gives Mr. Cray a concussion, Sunday, April 15, Noon different titles, donated by publishers, in a wide range of community he and his son Wahoo worry about how to make Timothy Snyder 15Apr. 12 locations. The goal of this event, which debuted in the U.K in 2011 ends meet. Then reality-show star Derek Badger Thinking the Twentieth Century and continues there this year, is to celebrate books and reading by offers Mr. Cray a job—but can Wahoo and his dad, (Penguin Press, $36) passing out a million books. For more information, see http://www. an animal wrangler, survive Derek’s overwhelming History is more than a series of events, us.worldbooknight.org. ego? Ages 10 and up. and in his final book, the late Tony Judt discussed pivotal ideas of the twentieth century. In a series of Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m. 12 Thursday, April 12, 10:30 a.m. conversations with his friend and fellow-historian Loung Ung 24Apr. 12 Apr. 12 Norton Juster Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, Judt covers Lulu in the Sky Phantom Tollbooth topics including the role of the intellectual in public (Harper Perennial, $15.99) 50th Anniversary Edition life, the task of the historian, and the case for social democracy. In First They Killed my Father and Lucky Child Ung (Knopf, $24) related her family’s horrific experiences under the To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this beloved Sunday, April 15, 5 p.m. Khmer Rouge and her subsequent life as a refugee. classic, two new editions have been released. The 15Apr. 12 Rachel S. Cox Her third memoir recounts her struggle with traumatic Anniversary Edition includes new essays by authors Into Dust and Fire memories, her healing trip back to Cambodia, her such as Suzanne Collins and Mo Willems as well (New American Library, $26.95) marriage, and her activism; Ung is a national spokesperson for the as reprinting Maurice Sendak’s 35th-anniversary Before Pearl Harbor drew the U.S. officially into Campaign for a Landmine Free World. tribute. The Annotated version includes notes and World War II, a few Americans joined the conflict interviews with Juster by Leonard Marcus. Ages 8-11. on their own. Cox, contributing writer for CQ Wednesday, April 25, 7 p.m. Researcher, recounts the lives and experiences of 25Apr. 12 Eric Alterman Friday, April 13, 10:30 a.m. five New England men who went to fight with the The Cause Neela Vaswani 13Apr. 12 British in the spring of 1941. (Viking, $29.95) Same Sun Here With co-author Kevin Mattson, Alterman, Nation (Candlewick, $15.99) Monday, April 16, 7 p.m. media columnist and author of What Liberal Meena is an Indian immigrant living in New York Christopher Moore 16Apr. 12 Media?, traces post-war liberal ideals through City; River is from Kentucky. Yet their seemingly Sacré Bleu multiple segments of American society. Focusing distinct worlds present few obstacles to their pen- (Wm. Morrow, $26.99) on politicians as well as activists, intellectuals, pal friendship, and the two discuss everything from The latest novel by the reliably funny and visionaries, and outspoken members of the grandmothers to environmentalism. 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Sunday, April 29, 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 2, 7 p.m. Monday, April 16, 7 p.m. Madeleine Albright Carl Hiaasen Joyce Carol Oates Christopher Moore

Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 15, Noon Saturday, April 28, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 10:30 a.m. Jacqueline Winspear Timothy Snyder Rachel Maddow Norton Juster Sunday April 1, 1 p.m. 3 Tuesday, April 3, 7 p.m. Josh Meyer Apr.1 12 Apr. 12 Craig Timberg Book Groups The Hunt for KSM Tinderbox P & P book groups meet monthly, and are free and open to the public. (Little, Brown, $27.99) (Penguin Press, $29.95) Book group titles are 20% off for attendees. Read the book and join us! With co-author Terry McDermott, Meyer, With co-author Daniel Halperin, an epidemiologist and • Capital James Joyce Club (1st Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) former chief terrorism reporter for the Los medical anthropologist at UNC, Chapel Hill, Timberg, 4/5: Ulysses, (Chapter 3) by Joyce Angeles Times Washington Post , draws on sources ranging from former Johannesburg bureau chief, uses • Classics (1st Monday, 7:30 p.m.) former jihadis to relatives of Khalid Sheikh recent scientific evidence to show that colonialism has played 4/2: Helenika (Part 1), by Xenophon, & trans. by Hagen Mohammed to recount in detail how the U.S. a pivotal role in unleashing AIDS. By building in previously • Daytime (3rd Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.) tracked and captured the man who planned untouched jungles and altering traditional practices, Westerners left humans 4/18: Child of All Nations, by Pramoedya the 9/11 attacks. vulnerable to newly surfacing viruses. • Evening Fiction (2nd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) 4/10: The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway Sunday, April 1, 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 7 p.m. • Fascinating History (4th Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) Apr.4 12 Apr.1 12 Glen Finland Lionel Shriver 4/26: Age of Wonder, by Holmes Next Stop The New Republic • Futurist (1st Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) (Amy Einhorn, $25.95) (HarperCollins, $26.99) 4/4: Exceptional People, by Goldin A journalist, writing teacher, and former TV A rookie journalist at age 37, the former corporate lawyer, • Graphic Novel (4th Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) news reporter, Finland is also the mother of an former fat kid Edgar Kellogg takes the only job he can get: 4/26: Jerusalem, by Delesle (meeting on Thursday, April only) autistic son. Her memoir is a moving account stringer in the rebellious Portuguese province of Barba. His • Lez Read (2nd Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) of a family caring for a child with special predecessor has disappeared—just when bombings by the local 4/11: Taking My Life, by Rule • Memoirs of Africa (Swarthmore) needs, of preparing him for the world—and separatist group stop. Connection? Shriver’s ninth novel takes (3rd Monday 7:30) 4/16: Country of My Skull, by Krog then letting him go. a satiric look at the mutual dependence between journalists and terrorists. • Poetry (4th Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) 4/24: The Dance Most of All, by Gilbert Monday, April 2, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. • Public Affairs (4th Monday, 7:30 p.m.) Joyce Carol Oates 2 Apr.5 12 Jacqueline Winspear Apr. 12 4/23: The Healing of America, by Reid Mudwoman Elegy for Eddie • Science Fiction & Fantasy (2nd Thurs., 6:30 p.m.) (Ecco, $25.99) $26.99 (HarperCollins, $25.99) 4/12: Fantasy (6:30 p.m.): The Magicians, by Grossman In her latest novel, Oates showcases The ninth volume in the award-winning Maisie Dobbs series Science Fiction (7:30 p.m.): Everything Matters, by Currie her flair for deftly plotted, psychological is set in London in 1933. Starting with the suspicious death • Spanish Language (3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) drama. Meredith Neukirchen is president of a Covent Garden fruit and vegetable vendor—who once 4/17: El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer, by Vazquez of an Ivy League university, but her single- worked with Maisie’s father—the case escalates to involve • Spirituality (3rd Sunday, 6 p.m.) minded devotion to her career is an illusion. figures of national and international stature such as Winston 4/15: Sunflower: On the Possiblities of Forgiveness, by Wiesenthal When she returns to a town near where she Churchill. • Teen (4th Sunday, 3:30 p.m.) grew up, she encounters an abandoned girl and has to face the 4/22: TBD secrets of her own past. • Travel (1st Tuesday, 7 p.m.) 4/3: Last Places--A Journey North, by Millman • Veterans Book Group (3rd Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) Cover Photo Credits: Jacqueline Winspear - Stephanie Mohan, Joyce Carol Oates- Star Black, 4/19: TBD Rachel Maddow - MSNBC, Madeleine Albright -Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, • Women’s Biography (2nd Monday, 7:30 p.m.) Carl Hiaasen -Tim Chapman 4/9: Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter, by Fraser

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 1 p.m. 2 7 p.m. 3 10:30 a.m. 4 7 p.m. 5 7 p.m. 6 7 Josh Meyer Joyce Carol Oates Carl Hiaasen Lionel Shriver Jacqueline Winspear The Hunt for KSM Mudwoman Chomp The New Republic Elegy for Eddie

5 p.m. 7 p.m. Glen Finland Craig Timberg Next Stop Tinderbox Passover 8 9 7 p.m. 10 7 p.m. 11 4:30 p.m. 12 10:30 a.m. 13 10:30 a.m. 14 1 p.m. Benjamin Busch Linda Greenhouse Blaine Harden and Norton Juster Neela Vaswani Tim Wendel Dust to Dust The U.S. Supreme Court Shin Donghyuk Phantom Tollbooth Same Sun Here Summer of ’68 Escape from Camp 14 th 50 Anniversary Edition 3:30 7 p.m. 7 p.m. David Corn Arielle Eckstut and 7 p.m. Dale Carpenter Showdown David Henry Sterry Richard Zacks Pitchapalooza! Flagrant Conduct 6 p.m. Island of Vice Simon Johnson Easter White House Burning 15 Noon 16 7 p.m. 17 7 p.m. 18 7 p.m. 19 7 p.m. 20 7 p.m. 21 1 p.m. Timothy Snyder Christopher Moore Stuart E. Eizenstat Sadakat Kadri Ross Douthat Ben Anderson Edward Luce Time to Start Thinking Thinking the Twentieth Century Sacré Bleu The Future of the Jews Heaven on Earth Bad Religion No Worse Enemy 3:30 p.m. 5 p.m. Philip E. Auerswald Rachel S. Cox The Coming Prosperity Into Dust and Fire 6 p.m. Michael Lind Land of Promise

22 1 p.m. 23 24 7 p.m. 25 7 p.m. 26 7 p.m. 27 7 p.m. 28 1 p.m. Lucette Lagnado Loung Ung Eric Alterman Michael J. Sandel Paul French Ron Rash Midnight in Peking The Arrogant Years Lulu in the Sky The Cause The Cove What Money Can’t Buy 5 p.m. Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs 5 p.m. 7:30 p.m. The Presidents Club Gary Krist Guy Delisle 6 p.m. SOLD OUT City of Scoundrels Jerusalem Sixth & I Synagogue Rachel Maddow World Book Night Drift 29 3 p.m. 30 7 p.m. Jane Shore Alice Kessler-Harris That Said A Difficult Woman April 2012 5 p.m. Sixth & I Synagogue 20% off P&P Hardcover Bestsellers and all Madeleine Albright Prague Winter Event Titles for Members throughout April