Upcoming Events

September 9, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 9, 2010 - 8:00pm
Small Press Expo 2010
In conjunction with the Small Press Expo (September 11-12 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center), we’re delighted to host two artists who excel at contemplating the minutiae of everyday life and making it hilarious. Thompson’s strip is focused on a loveable family in a suburban development, while Knight’s is told through the eyes of a city dweller.
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780740791529
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 06/01/2010

By Keith Knight, Jeff Chang (Foreword by)
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780446548663
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grand Central Publishing, 06/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 10, 2010 - 8:00pm
September 10, 2010 - 9:00pm
Co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, Sturm has set this beautifully crafted historical fiction in the Eastern European countryside of the 1900s. His day in the life of Mendleman, a carpet peddler, uses spare narrative and finely-honed images to achieve a powerful emotional resonance.

Market Day (Hardcover)

$21.95
ISBN-13: 9781897299975
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Drawn and Quarterly, 03/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 10, 2010 - 9:00am
September 12, 2010 - 11:59pm

Friday, September 10 at 9 a.m. - Sunday, September 12 at 8 p.m.

All weekend long, Politics & Prose members receive discounts on nearly everything currently in stock. Most books are 20% off, most CDs and DVDs are 15% off. If you are not yet a member, it's a great time to sign up and take advantage of these and other discount opportunities. 

The same discount terms will also be applied to shopping completed online when members purchase items currently on our shelves between Friday, September 10, 12:01 a.m. and Sunday, September 12, 11:59 p.m.!

 

No events are scheduled on Saturday and Sunday.

Please note: For online orders, selecting "Pay in Store" will obtain the member discount only if the purchase is completed by close of business on Sunday, September 12.

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 13, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 13, 2010 - 8:00pm
In his third novel the wildly inventive Shteyngart shows why The New Yorker selected him as one of its twenty young writers to watch. An old fashioned love story set in an information-binging, tech-heavy future, the story is at once keen social satire, comedy, and tender billet-doux to the unchanging vulnerability of the human heart.
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400066407
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House, 07/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 14, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 14, 2010 - 8:00pm
Gruen continues the fictional exploration of human-animal connections begun in Water for Elephants with this story about the language capabilities of bonobos. When a bombing halts work at the Great Ape Language Lab, the animals are sold and become stars of a reality show. Meanwhile, Isabel, a research scientist, teams up with a tabloid reporter to discover more about what happened.

Ape House (Hardcover)

$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780385523219
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Spiegel & Grau, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 15, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 15, 2010 - 8:00pm
Griswold, an investigative journalist and fellow at the New America Foundation, spent seven years traveling between the equator and the line of latitude 700 miles north of it that marks the tenth parallel. This region is home to half the world’s Muslims, 60% of its Christians, and as such is a center of religious conflict, as well as a battleground over natural resources.
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780374273187
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 16, 2010 - 10:30am
September 16, 2010 - 5:30pm
10:30 a.m.  - event
4:30 p.m.  - signing only
A Caldecott-Honor illustrator, Smith has produced a fable about old and new technology. The gorilla happily reads a book, but the tech-sophisticated jackass doesn’t understand how it works without a mouse or batteries. He takes a look, and soon is won over by the story and the sheer joy of reading print on paper. (Ages 4-7)

It's a Book (Hardcover)

$12.99
ISBN-13: 9781596436060
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Roaring Brook Press, 08/01/2010

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Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 16, 2010 - 7:00pm
The struggle to learn Mandarin proved key to unlocking many aspects of Chinese culture and behavior that had eluded Fallows when she began her three-year sojourn in Shanghai and Beijing. Interspersing anecdotes with lessons on tones, Fallows’s book is rich in the insights afforded by ordinary occurrences and encounters. Want to know today’s China? Place an order at a Beijing Taco Bell.
$22.00
ISBN-13: 9780802779137
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Walker & Company, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 18, 2010 - 1:00pm
September 18, 2010 - 2:00pm
Two decades ago Brazil carried a heavy national debt and still felt the repression of a military dictatorship. Today, it’s the world’s eighth-largest economy, enjoys democracy, and anticipates the wealth of newly discovered oil reserves. Rohter, for many years The New York Times bureau chief in Rio, has watched Brazil’s amazing transformation as it has happened.
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780230618879
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 18, 2010 - 3:30pm
September 18, 2010 - 4:30pm
Readers know Niffenegger from The Time Traveler’s Wife, but her involvement with books is visual as well as literary. A professor at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, she has produced two “novels-in-pictures,” and now a graphic novel. First serialized in The Guardian, this is the story of Alexandra, a reader who becomes a librarian in order to find the elusive night bookmobile containing everything she has ever read.
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780810996175
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harry N. Abrams, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 18, 2010 - 6:00pm
September 18, 2010 - 7:00pm
Drawing on her own experience as a political prisoner in Pakistan, Gauhar has created a compelling voice for the American narrator of her second novel. Captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and confined in a mental asylum, the unnamed U.S. Army medical technician describes his fellow inmates, making of their stories a rich and powerful account of the effects of war, desperation, and greed on this besieged nation.  
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781936070602
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Akashic Books, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 19, 2010 - 1:00pm
September 19, 2010 - 2:00pm

Between 1915 and 1970, some six million black Americans left the South and headed north and west. To make sense of this massive migration, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wilkerson focuses on three individuals: a Mississippi sharecropper turned Chicago entrepreneur, a civil rights activist who relocated from Florida to Harlem, and a Louisiana doctor who became Ray Charles’s personal physician.

This event is co-sponsored by Fall for the Book, a literary festival organized by George Mason University and the city of Fairfax, VA.More information at www.fallforthebook.org

$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780679444329
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 19, 2010 - 5:00pm
September 19, 2010 - 6:00pm
The latest novel from our good friend and neighbor, Howard Norman, is a letter from a father to the daughter he hasn’t seen in decades. Wyatt begins with the loss of his own parents when he was 17. Sent to live with his aunt and uncle, he fell in love with his adopted cousin, who was involved with a German student—a complicated relationship as World War II was under way. 
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780618735433
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 20, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 20, 2010 - 8:00pm

Traister’s coverage of the 2008 election for Salon focused on the women involved, and her book recounts the roles not only of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Obama, but of the women in the media, such as Katie Couric, and entertainers like Tina Fey. While the U.S. has yet to elect a woman president, Traister believes the 2008 campaigns revived unfinished discussions of gender as well as race.

$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781439150283
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Free Press, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 21, 2010 - 10:30am
September 21, 2010 - 11:30am
When school starts, Ida brings her imaginary friend Dotty to class. Other students also start the year with imaginary friends, but gradually leave them behind as the year progresses. A compassionate teacher sees that Dotty continues to be an important part of Ida’s life, and offers her gentle encouragement. (Ages  4-7)

Dotty (Hardcover)

By Erica S. Perl, Julia Denos (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780810989627
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harry N. Abrams, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 21, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 21, 2010 - 8:00pm
The distinctive pink ribbon that stands for Susan G. Komen for the Cure got its start when Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan, that she would do all she could to fight breast cancer. This moving memoir recounts the sisters’ lives, the very different outcomes of each of their bouts with cancer, and Brinker’s success with SGK.
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780307718129
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Crown Archetype, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 22, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 22, 2010 - 8:00pm
In his analysis of the current financial crisis, Reich, Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, and former Secretary of Labor, argues that the problems lie in the tremendous income disparity that concentrates wealth at the top and forces the middle class to go into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. He compares today’s situation with that of 1928, and foresees more cycles of great booms and deep busts.
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307592811
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Knopf, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 23, 2010 - 3:00pm
September 23, 2010 - 4:30pm

 

We are as excited as you to read the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy. But the publisher is keeping the plot top secret, and we haven’t seen a single word. The speculations are endless: Who are members of the Underground? What happened to District 12? Where have the Underground taken Katniss Everdeen? When will District 13 emerge and is it Washington, D.C.?  (Ages 12 and up)

 

Suzanne Collins signing

DATE: Thursday, September 23, 2010
TIME: 3 - 4:30 p.m.

We are excited to host Suzanne Collins and look forward to having you join us.

This is a ticketed event. One free ticket will be distributed when any HUNGER GAMES trilogy title is purchased from Politics & Prose. Each participant must have a Politics & Prose event ticket and may get ONE book signed. 

Hunger GamesTHE PUBLISHER STIPULATES THAT:

Because Suzanne Collins suffers from hand strain, she will be “signing” books with a special stamp custom made for Mockingjay events.

-Ms. Collins will sign ONE book per person.

-Ms. Collins will not personalize books.

-Fans must be present in line to get a book signed.  Ms. Collins will not sign books left at the store.

FOR THIS EVENT, PLEASE ALSO NOTE:

-This event is a signing only.

-Ms. Collins will sign ONE book per person. 

-Books must be purchased at Politics and Prose. 

-Each person must have a Politics and Prose event ticket in order to get a book signed.  Tickets will be given at the time of book purchase.

-Books can be purchased on or after the release date, 8/24/10.  Books may be pre-ordered online or in the store. Be sure to keep the event ticket!

-The signing line will form on a first come basis. 

- Fans must be in line by 4:30.  P&P will make every attempt to make sure every book is signed, but Ms. Collins will leave promptly at her designated departure time.  P&P cannot guarantee that everyone in line will get his or her book signed.

-Photographs ARE permitted.

Mockingjay (Hardcover)

$14.39
ISBN-13: 9780439023511
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scholastic Press, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20008

September 23, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 23, 2010 - 8:00pm
The latest collection of humorous essays from the author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable revels in the power of negative thinking. Firmly on the side of those determined to keep their expectations low so as never to be disappointed, Rakoff is a droll and unsentimental cultural critic.

Half Empty (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780385525244
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Doubleday, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 24, 2010 - 10:30am
September 24, 2010 - 11:30am
The school basement is the secret headquarters for a group of unpopular fifth graders determined to get some respect. They resort to high-tech means to teach the popular kids not to underestimate the power of a nerd. Then they meet a villain so nerdy he’s a mama’s boy, and the humor goes over the top. (Ages 9-12)
By Michael Buckley, Ethen Beavers (Illustrator)
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780810989863
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harry N. Abrams, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 24, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 24, 2010 - 8:00pm
Nine years after his National Book Award-winning The Corrections, Franzen chronicles the ups and downs--mainly the downs--of the Berglunds. Patty, once a promising basketball player, is now a depressed suburban wife and mother, battling neighbors and her own demons. Her husband talks green but does business with the coal industry, while their old friend Richard has descended from would-be rock stardom to building decks.

Freedom (Hardcover)

$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780374158460
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 25, 2010 - 1:00pm
September 25, 2010 - 2:00pm
Reuss’s fifth novel explores the quintessential Washington industry of intelligence and covert operations. His characters are cartographers and defense analysts. They do work they can’t tell anyone about, not even their families, who eventually have to sort out a confused legacy of silence and secrets.
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781609530006
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Unbridled Books, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 25, 2010 - 3:30pm
September 25, 2010 - 4:30pm
Paris ReviewThe Paris Review was founded in Paris in 1953 and from the first issue—in which William Styron announced the journal’s intention to publish all kinds of writers, “so long as they’re good”—The Paris Review has maintained a balance between open-mindedness and authority, able to take chances on fresh talent while also publishing the best work of established authors. In April 2010, writer, former FSG editor, and P&P friend Lorin Stein succeeded Philip Gourevitch as editor of the publication. He will present the new Fall issue, available on September 15.
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Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 25, 2010 - 6:00pm
September 25, 2010 - 7:00pm
Since his magisterial The Making of the Atomic Bomb in 1986, Rhodes has written extensively about the peril of nuclear weapons, arguing ever more strongly against nuclear deterrence. His fourth book on the topic examines post-Cold War events, including U.S.-Russia nonproliferation agreements, development of nuclear capabilities by India and Pakistan, and North Korea’s nuclear activities.
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780307267542
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf, 08/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 26, 2010 - 11:00am
September 26, 2010 - 12:00pm
From the remarkable duo that brought us The Phantom Toll Booth some 49 years ago, this new book features a horrible, terrible ogre. He deploys big words to keep control over his kingdom, crushing his subjects and never being polite--until one day a maiden teaches him a lesson he never forgets. The collaborators blend witty text and perfect illustrations for a humorous tale with a happy ending. (Ages 4-8)

The Odious Ogre (Hardcover)

By Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780545162029
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Michael di Capua Books, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 26, 2010 - 1:00pm
September 26, 2010 - 2:00pm
The latest novel from the visionary author of Spook Country and Pattern Recognition centers on the seemingly unstoppable Hubertus Bigend, a global marketing magnate whose offers no one can refuse. Or can they? A Defense Department contract for combat clothing somehow runs amok, unleashing a gang of drug dealers not even Bigend wants to tangle with.

Zero History (Hardcover)

$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780399156823
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Putnam Adult, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 26, 2010 - 5:00pm
September 26, 2010 - 6:00pm
Broadening the view of communities ravaged by industrial and chemical pollution that he opened with Diamond, his study of a Louisiana town, Lerner here covers a dozen areas, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, letting the residents tell their stories of illness, of health traded for jobs, of lapses in regulatory oversight, and of how they have fought back.
 
By Steve Lerner, Phil Brown (Foreword by)
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780262014403
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: MIT Press (MA), 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 27, 2010 - 10:30am
September 27, 2010 - 11:30am
Monday, September 27, 10:30 a.m.
Mem Fox
Let’s Count Goats
(Beach Lane Books, $16.99)
Fox’s silly sense of humor helps young children count the goats as well as notice the differences between them. Her energetic herd is made up of over-goats and under-goats, teaching opposites along with numbers; some goats are lost, some goats are found, and some goats have professions that require opposable thumbs. (Ages 3-6)

Let's Count Goats! (Hardcover)

By Mem Fox, Jan Thomas (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781442405981
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Beach Lane Books, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 27, 2010 - 7:00pm
September 27, 2010 - 8:00pm
A granddaughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and niece of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Fatima Bhutto, Karachi-based columnist for the Daily Beast, New Statesman, and other publications, has written a memoir of her family that is also a story of the emergence of modern Pakistan. She was 14 when her father Murtaza was killed in 1996.
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9781568586328
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Nation Books, 09/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

September 28, 2010 - 10:30am
September 28, 2010 - 11:30am
At Independence Hall, I.Q. and Angela discovered that Angela’s mother, Malak, was still alive, as a double agent in a terrorist cell.  Now they are at the White House for their parents’ concert, but also to prevent, or foil, another terrorist attack.  Can they communicate with Malak?  Can they save not only her, but also the president and his family?

The White House (Paperback)

$8.95
ISBN-13: 9781585364565
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Sleeping Bear Press, 06/01/2010

Location: 
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008

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