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At The Wharf

Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7 p.m.

At Connecticut Ave.

Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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Monday, January 28, 2019 at 7 p.m.

At The Wharf

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 and 7 p.m.

Bestsellers

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How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations Cover Image

Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 Cover Image

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Cover Image

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married Cover Image

Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street Cover Image

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The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times Cover Image

There There: A novel Cover Image

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Washington Black: A novel Cover Image

My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel Cover Image

Where the Crawdads Sing Cover Image

Late in the Day: A Novel Cover Image

Warlight: A novel Cover Image

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

Children & Teens Books

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Thank You, Omu! Cover Image

We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands Cover Image

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Cover Image

Now You Know How It Works Cover Image

Kitten and the Night Watchman Cover Image

Audiobooks: Start Listening

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Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

The Witch Elm: A Novel Cover Image

Music

Next Events

Wed

23

7:00 pm

Jason Rezaian - Prisoner — at GW Betts Theatre

Wed

23

7:00 pm

Jon Ward - Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party

Thu

24

7:00 pm

Eric Dinerstein - A Circle of Elephants — in Children and Teens

Thu

24

7:00 pm

Sally Wen Mao - Oculus: Poems — in conversation with Shaheen Qureshi — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Thu

24

7:00 pm

Douglas Rushkoff - Team Human — in conversation with Cal Newport

Fri

25

7:00 pm

Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Sat

26

1:00 pm

Sean McFate - The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

Sat

26

3:30 pm

Alex Dehgan - The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation

Sat

26

6:00 pm

Joel Simon - We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom — in conversation with Indira Lakshmanan, executive editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Sat

26

8:00 pm

Nerds! Trivia Night

Sun

27

1:00 pm

Sean Wilentz - No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding

Sun

27

3:00 pm

Robert Mnookin - The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World

Staff Picks

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Olivia Laing’s amazing first novel, Crudo (W.W. Norton, $21) drives at a furious pace. This is key: the... read more
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Told from the perspectives of prisoners, victims, and staff, The Mars Room (Scribner, $27) Rachel... read more
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Using the trees that figure so prominently in his tremendous novel as models for its structure, Richard... read more
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Drawing the title from Gertrude Stein’s often misunderstood remark about Oakland, “there’s no there... read more
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Laura van den Berg’s The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26) is a marvel. The haunting story of... read more
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Favored by many to win this year’s Man Booker, Washington Black (Knopf, $26.95), the third novel by... read more

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Crispus Attucks High School was a symbol of segregation in 1950s Indianapolis. But when their... read more
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Witness momentous events through the eyes of a 9-year-old in Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop (... read more
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So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom (Roaring Brook, $18.99) chronicles the... read more

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