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Carrie Barron And Alton Barron - The Creativity Cure
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
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Emily Jeanne Miller - Brand New Human Being
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

Miller’s debut novel follows Logan Pyle as he flees from his lukewarm marriage and lapsed graduate studies. Taking his four-year-old son with him, Logan drives out to the rural area where his late father lived and, taken in by his widowed stepmother, begins to understand his life and what his family means to him.

25
Alex Stone - Fooling Houdini
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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26
James Mann - The Obamians
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Mann’s Rise of the Vulcans was a definitive account of the Bush administration’s inner circle; his new book is a similarly comprehensive look at President Obama’s team of foreign-policy advisors. Mann outlines the challenges the group faces in framing and implementing a new global role for the U.S. and discusses the group’s own internal and generational conflicts.

27
David Maraniss - Barack Obama: The Story
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Washington Post associate editor, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author of acclaimed biographies of Clinton, Clemente, and Lombardi, Maraniss employs a wide lens to capture President Obama. Starting in Kenya and Kansas before Obama’s birth, Maraniss traces the influences the future president absorbed in Hawaii, Indonesia, New York, and Chicago, influences which shaped his developing political career.

28
Matthew Quirk - The 500
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

This debut thriller by the former Atlantic journalist features Mike Ford, a young lawyer who grew up among small-time con men. Determined to live another kind of life, he worked hard and landed a position with a prestigious Washington, D.C. consulting firm-only to find himself back among liars and cheats, but with the stakes dangerously higher.

29
Amanda Padoan (with Chhiring Dorje Sherpa) - Buried In The Sky
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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30
Nichole Bernier - The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
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