Author Signing with Barbara J. Taylor

B&N Monthly Book Club - Real Americans

Silvia Moreno-Garcia celebrates SILVER NITRATE #BNMiddayMystery

Ann Napolitano discusses WITHIN ARM'S REACH, our Monthly Fiction Pick for May!

Rachel Khong discusses REAL AMERICANS, our #bnbookclub May Book Club Selection!

Ivy Pochoda celebrates SING HER DOWN with Danielle Trussoni #BNMiddayMystery

Craig DiLouie and Paul Tremblay discuss HOW TO MAKE A HORROR MOVIE AND SURVIVE and HORROR MOVIE with Gabino Iglesias #BNMIddayMystery

Colin Walsh celebrates KALA #BNMiddayMystery

Join us to discuss our April Book Club selection, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy&rsquo;s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.

B&N Monthly Book Club - I Cheerfully Refuse

I Cheerfully Refuse (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)

We're thrilled to welcome Nescopeck native Rebecca Grasley to the store! After the wild success of her pie shop The Pie Hole in LA, she's decided to share the pie gospel with her cookbook Pie is Messy. Beginner friendly, warm, and non-intimidating but creative enough for more advanced bakers, Pie is Messy takes readers from the basics of making crust to preparing contemporary hits from The Pie Hole. Each chapter covers a different category of pie and is broken down into two sections: Old School Pies and New School Pies. The structure of each chapter allows you to learn the basics through classic recipes, and then see how they can be adapted and updated with more contemporary flavors and techniques. Becky also shares stories from life creating pie recipes at The Pie Hole and from generations of her pie-loving family. In addition, she offers tutorials for all possible crust variations, tips and tricks for gussying up your pie&rsquo;s presentation, and making substitutions for vegan or gluten-free options.&nbsp; This is a cookbook at the top of every home baker's wishlist, so make sure to get your signed copy - while they last!

Author Signing with Rebecca Grasley

Pie is Messy: Recipes from The Pie Hole: A Baking Book

We're thrilled to welcome Scranton native Barbara J. Taylor back to the store! She'll be with us to celebrate the completion of her Scranton trilogy:&nbsp;Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night,&nbsp;All Waiting is Long,&nbsp;andRain Breaks No Bones.Fifty-year-old Violet has had a good life. The love of an honest man. The joys of motherhood. Yet, even in 1955, her heart still aches over the death of her big sister more than four decades earlier. Maybe if she were here now, Violet would know what to do about the secret she's been keeping from her daughter Daisy. Daisy has a secret of her own. When she first moved back home to Scranton, she wasn't ready to give up her dreams of performing in Atlantic City. Then she met Johnny, a man who needs music as much as she does. Her first real chance at love. If only they can find the courage to buck small-town thinking when it comes to interracial dating. Small-town thinking - Zethray had seen her fair share of it. That's why she advertised a room to rent in&nbsp;The Negro Motorist Green Book. Give folks a safe place to stay away from home. That's how Johnny ended up at her door. Now he's sweet on some young woman. Not that he told Zethray, but she knows. The dead like to talk, and she listens.Barbara will be treating us to a reading from&nbsp;Rain Breaks No Bones, and we'll have all three books in the trilogy ready for her autograph. Don't miss your chance to time travel to 1913, 1930, and 1955 Scranton!

Rain Breaks No Bones: A Novel

Join us to discuss our April Book Club selection, Real Americans by Rachel Khong. Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao&rsquo;s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance&mdash;a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home.

Real Americans (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)

We're excited to welcome local author Mary Anne Abdo to the store! She'll be with us signing copies of her book of poetry, Fractured Lollipop. A collection that invites readers to have conversations about mental health struggles, it offers honest insight into the ramifications of trauma, loss, stress, and mental illness. Abdo mixes in glimmers of healing and hope against the struggles of life, and includes resources for contacting mental health lifelines. Don't miss your chance for an autographed copy!

Author Signing with Mary Anne Abdo

Fractured Lollipop: Poems of Brokenness, Healing and Hope

We're back with another multi-author romance event, and just in time for Mother's Day! From sweet to extra spicy, there's something for every type of romance reader. The following authors will be joining us for this afternoon of /swoons - Tara Conrad, Aleatha Romig, Willow Winters, Beck Grey, CB Noy, Elle Backenstoe, Eve Black, K Iwancio, and JL Stray. Don't miss your chance to snag autographed copies of these top sellers and award winners, and make sure you get a book or two for Mom, too!

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