Saturday Storytime @ B&N Columbia

Author Signing: Michael Ortman

Author Signing: Monique Dawkins

Author Signing: Sarah Myer

Patti Callahan Henry discusses THE SECRET BOOK OF FLORA LEA our May Book Club Selection- #BNBookclub

Pari Thomson celebrates GREENWILD - a debut that's The Secret Garden meets A Wrinkle in Time - with A.F. Steadman!

Ali Hazelwood celebrates LOVE, THEORETICALLY with Adriana Herrera & Sarah MacLean

Hayley Scrivenor celebrates DIRT CREEK #BNMiddayMystery

Ruth Ware celebrates ZERO DAYS with Lee Child #BNMiddayMystery

Victoria Selman celebrates TRULY, DARKLY, DEEPLY with Jeffery Deaver #BNMiddayMystery

Luis Alberto Urrea discusses GOOD NIGHT, IRENE our June Book Club Selection- #BNBookclub

Doctor Monique Dawkins brings us a brand new book: "You Know Best: 10 Rules to Elevate Your Leadership Power" Learn all the different rules to raise that leadership power to new heights and build some influence fitting that of a leader!&nbsp;Come meet Dr. Dawkins on June 25th from 1:00pm - 3:00pm&nbsp;and get yourself a signed copy of this awesome leadership tool!Description from barnesandnoble.com:Want the behind the scenes scoop on how to intentionally build influence and increase your leadership power?&nbsp;Get ready for a fresh and innovative leadership rulebook with a twist.&nbsp;You Know Best&nbsp;cuts through the ambiguity, subtle nuances and happenstance that often complicates your ability to build organic and impactful relationships with leaders in the workplace.Learn 'The Unspoken Rules,' 'The Dirty Rules,' 'The Rules of Thumb,' and 'The Ultimate Rule' in an interactive reading experience that teaches you how to navigate implicit power dynamics that are commonplace in complex, fast- paced organizations. You have power. Learn how to use it to your advantage in an authentic and purposeful way. Elevate your leadership power by using reflective practice in this step-by-step guide that includes practical skills to develop your own roadmap to success in the workplace.This read packages "self-help" in an invigorating and interactive experience. Useful leadership&nbsp;rules&nbsp;and&nbsp;skills&nbsp;are shared in a concise format that allow for easy and practical application. You get to determine how to apply these principles by utilizing reflective prompts shared in the book. You are in the driver's seat and will feel empowered by the end of this read.&nbsp;You Know Best&nbsp;encourages you to reflect on your current and past experiences to gain confidence in your ability to manage up, sideways and diagonally as a leader on your own terms.

You Know Best: 10 Rules to Elevate Your Leadership Power

Michael Ortman brings us a tale Fifty years in the making. Opening Day 50-for-50 shows the dedication and love someone can have for the sport of baseball, by going to the opening games fifty years in a row! Never missing even one! Dads and baseball enjoyers everywhere say this is a must read for fans!Come meet Michael on June 3rd from 1:00PM - 3:00PM and get yourself a signed edition of "Opening Day 50-for-50"! Just in time for Fathers Day too!Description from barnesandnoble.com:Opening Day is the biggest regular season baseball game of the year. Michael Ortman never missed it, not once, for 50 years. Opening Day: 50-for-50 is a baseball tribute like no other-a well-researched work of love representing a half-century of great stories and historical context linked to each of those 50 days. This emotional journey connects three cities, six stadiums, five home teams, and four generations while overcoming life events, baseball's labor unrest, and the 33-year absence of a hometown team.Along the way, Ortman encountered five U.S. Presidents and more than 50 future Hall of Fame players, coaches, and broadcasters: from Reagan to Obama, Robinson to Scherzer, Weaver to Torre, Caray to Kalas and hundreds more.Michael Ortman didn't let go of his childhood passion for baseball while spending most of the past 40 years as a senior executive in sports, marketing, and television. A gifted storyteller, he graduated from Notre Dame where he spent less time in college classes than in college sports media circles. He and his wife Kate then assembled their winning team, not through trades, free agency, or the draft, but by birth, adoption, and marriage. Their roster now boasts 18 children, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren.

Opening Day: 50-For-50

Hailing from White Hall, Maryland, Sarah Myer brings us her Graphic Memoir: "Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story" An instant hit with our Booksellers. Sarah recants her tale through life, growing up different and feeling well... Monstrous. This graphic novel will tug at your heart strings.Join us June 30th at 4pm as we welcome Sarah for a Signing of her Graphic Memoir! We are very excited to have her!Description from barnesandnoble.com:A poignant young adult graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl who uses fandom and art-making to overcome racist bullying. Perfect for fans of&nbsp;American Born Chinese&nbsp;and&nbsp;Almost American Girl! Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments&mdash;but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an obsession. Though drawing and cosplay offer her an escape, she still struggles to connect with others. And in high school, the bullies are louder and meaner. Sarah's bubbling rage is threatening to burst.

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story

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