Sloane Crosley signing Cult Classic

Brit Bennett celebrates ADVENTURES WITH CLAUDIE with Connie Porter

Melanie Hope Greenberg reading and signing Mermaids On Parade

E.L. Shen signing The Queens of New York

Laura Belgray in conversation with Marie Forleo for Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst

Arts & crafts with Yuval Zommer for THE BIG BOOK OF NATURE ART

Ryan La Sala celebrates the release of THE HONEYS in paperback!

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

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Please join us here at Barnes &amp; Noble Atlantic Ave in welcoming Sloane Crosley to sign her paperback release of Cult Classic !Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful,&nbsp;Cult Classic&nbsp;is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR at the&nbsp;Washington Post, the&nbsp;BBC,&nbsp;Esquire,&nbsp;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar, and more! One night in New York City&rsquo;s Chinatown, a woman is at a reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into an ex-boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger. The recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but with the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome. Memories of the past swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie as Lola is forced to decide if she will surrender herself to the conspiring of one very contemporary cult. Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale? With her gimlet eye, Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts page-turner and poignant portrayal of alienation.

Cult Classic: A Novel

Please join us here at Barnes &amp; Noble Atlantic for a very special story time with Melanie Hope Greenberg reading Mermaids On Parade !!The Mermaid Parade, a summer solstice ritual to open the beach season at Coney Island, started in 1983 as the revival of an older festival. Greenberg paints detailed&mdash;and accurate&mdash;layouts of the neighborhood, complete with shops, arcades, the F train to Coney Island, Astroland, and diverse people decked out in their sea-creature finery. She lavishes each joyful spread with upbeat colors and patterns. Skies echo the changing blue tints of the ocean. The minimal story line&mdash;a young girl narrates as she marches in the parade with her parents&mdash;functions like a tour guide, calling attention to the sights. The wealth of detail turns the pages into a Where's Waldo game: adults and children might challenge each other to locate the three main characters in an amusement-park panorama, or to count the number of pirates dancing on the Boardwalk. This is a fine way to keep the warm sun, sand, and celebration around all year.

Mermaids On Parade

The Honeys

Please join us in welcoming E.L. Shen here at Barnes &amp; Noble Atlantic Ave signing copies of The Queens of New York !!From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian American girls, their unbreakable bond, and one life-changing summer, perfect for fans of&nbsp;The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

The Queens of New York: A Novel

Join us here at Barnes &amp; Noble Atlantic Avenue in welcoming Brit Bennett author of Adventures with Claudie and Connie Porter author of Addy: A Heart Full of Hope for a special Q&amp;A style discussion and signing. Giveaway alert! We will be raffling off a Claudie and an Addy doll. Please purchase a book on the day of the event at the Atlantic Avenue location for a raffle ticket.Special Introduction from author Brit BennettBefore I became a writer, I loved to play.I loved to read, too, which is true of most writers. In fact, if you ask any writer how she first fell in love with stories, she will probably point you to a book she read when she was young. There were plenty of books I read obsessively as a girl. Books that I checked out by the armload from the public library and carried along on road trips, reading until I felt carsick. I loved the Hardy Boys, and the Dear America series, and illustrated classics like Oliver Twist. I fell eagerly into lives so different from mine, characters who existed in countries I&rsquo;d never visited or historical eras long before my own. These books transformed me into a reader who would later become a writer. But before I even sat in front of a computer to type, I&rsquo;d already started telling stories each time I played with my dolls.Even now, years later, I still remember all the dolls I begged for each Christmas. Baby-All-Gone, and Polly Pocket, and a bucketful of Barbies that my sister and I would play with during long summer afternoons. But we were obsessed with American Girl dolls. We shared an Addy Walker doll and passed the books back and forth. We pored over the catalogue, circling dresses and accessories we hoped for. The doll itself was beautiful, but what really entranced me was Addy&rsquo;s story. In the first book, she escapes from a plantation with her mother after her family is spilt apart. The rest of the series follows Addy exploring her tentative freedom, as she hopes that her family will reunite someday. The Addy books were emotional and sometimes hard to read. But I also fell in love with Addy&rsquo;s courageous spirit, as well as all the other characters who help her along the way.The Addy series not only made me interested in American history but they also made me want to tell my own stories. I later received a custom doll, which I wanted mostly because she arrived with a blank book. I spent an entire summer planning the story I wanted to write about my doll Amber taking a road trip, like the ones I took each year with my own family. I played the American Girl Premier computer game, which allowed you to create plays starring all the characters. And later, I even played Addy at a production held at my public library. Through all of these experiences, I learned that as much as I loved reading, I also loved creating stories of my own. I wanted to tell the types of stories that enchanted me, stories about big characters confronting big challenges with grit and grace.Writing a new historical character for American Girl has been a childhood dream come true. When I was young, I always loved learning about the Harlem Renaissance and the writers, painters, and musicians who flourished through their depictions of black life. So I began to imagine Claudie Wells, a child caught up right in the center of this moment of black artistic joy. She worries that, unlike her friends and neighbors, she doesn&rsquo;t have a special talent to share with the world. But she begins to find her way as a storyteller as she uncovers her family&rsquo;s history and better understands why Harlem has become home to so many black people searching for freedom. When I began to write, I knew that I wanted to honor the work of Connie Porter, the trailblazing author of the Addy series. She took on the challenge of writing a story about a girl, around my same age then, who had survived the horrors of slavery. She taught generations of children about the brutality of slavery, as well as the strength and bravery of a family make itself whole again. She made me want to tell stories too. A while ago, when I first considered writing this book, I had the chance to talk to Connie Porter on the phone. It was thrilling to speak to a writer who wrote books that I loved so much when I was little. Did she know, I wanted to ask, how important her books were to generations of girls? But before we hung up, Ms. Porter said, &ldquo;Maybe one day, thirty years from now, a girl who read your book will call to tell you she&rsquo;s a writer now.&rdquo;And you know what? I hope to hear from you then.Connie Porter<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">Connie Porter is the author of the Addy books for American Girl.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">Some writers tell you that even when they were children, they knew they wanted to be writers. But I did not always want to write. It wasn&rsquo;t until high school that I thought of writing. In tenth grade, my parents gave me a typewriter for Christmas, and I started writing poetry. Until then, I had not thought much about what I wanted to do when I grew up.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">I liked science a lot, and I still do. If I were not a writer, I would like to be an oceanographer or a marine biologist. It may not seem that writing and science have much in common, but one thing you must do in both is observe. And both require a kind of silence. You remain a student your whole life, always watching and listening, always curious. A marine biologist might observe dolphins, whales, and sea lions. As a writer I watch people and&mdash;most important&mdash;I listen.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">Addy learns by listening, too, especially in Meet Addy. She listens as Momma and Papa talk about escaping to freedom and learns that they are planning to get the family to Philadelphia. She uses her listening skills to try to help Sam and Poppa escape the slave traders. I never did anything as brave or heroic as that, but by listening I did learn about the world around me.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">I was the second youngest of nine children, and I think because of that I learned to listen. My parents and older brother and sisters always had stories to tell, and I loved to listen to them. I didn&rsquo;t only listen to what they said, but also how they said it. I learned that listening is as important a skill as writing is.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">When I was in high school, a real poet came to visit my school. I attended his special classes for students interested in writing. It was the first time I had met someone who was doing something I wanted to do.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">When I went to college I still knew I wanted to be a writer, but I was afraid to admit it to myself. It was not a very practical thing to want to do&mdash;like being an oceanographer or marine biologist was. But I stuck with my love of writing.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">I feel about writing the way I feel about all the arts. Artist do what they do&mdash;paint, write, sing dance&mdash;because it is something they have to do. It is freeing, and it is part of their souls. It also brings joy and freedom to others. I&rsquo;m glad I have chosen to be a writer.<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">I think that my writing does something very important. It gives a voice to people who might otherwise be voiceless. More than one hundred years after girls like Addy lived, I can have Addy speak to you and give her and my other characters voices. I hope that as you read these stories you will sit in silence and listen to what they have to tell you.

Adventures with Claudie

Addy: A Heart Full of Hope

Please join us here at Barnes &amp; Noble Atlantic Ave in welcoming Laura Belgray in conversation with Marie Forleo for&nbsp;Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst. Event will contain a conversation between the authors, an audience Q&amp;A and end with a signing of&nbsp;Tough Titties.From award-winning TV writer Laura Belgray, a hilarious collection of full-body-cringe, watch-through-your-fingers life lessons her own husband calls &ldquo;loser&nbsp;Sex and the City.&rdquo;Tough Titties&nbsp;is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It&rsquo;ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever&rsquo;s nearby to say, &ldquo;Lemme read you one more part!&rdquo; Which is annoying, but tough titties.Books will be readily available for purchase at our register area day of the event.&nbsp;

Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst

Please join us at Barnes &amp; Noble Atlantic Ave for a special arts &amp; crafts storytime and signing with author of The Big Book of Nature Art , Yuval Zommer !Featuring twenty-two easy craft projects using natural and recycled materials,&nbsp;The Big Book of Nature Art&nbsp;is a fun and eco-friendly way for young children to connect creatively with nature.From best-selling author Yuval Zommer,&nbsp;The Big Book of Nature Art&nbsp;is packed with easy art activities inspired by nature. Drawing on Zommer&rsquo;s years of experience running art workshops for children,&nbsp;The Big Book of Nature Art&nbsp;includes his tips for stress-free ways to get creative with kids and fun facts about the natural world.

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