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If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books. *August 21st
Tom Piazza -
City of Refuge *August 23rd
Bill Loehfelm -
Fresh Kills *September 6th
Richard Stewart & Michael Ledet -
Joe Simmer's all American SLOW Cookin'
Please select Read More! for complete list of events and details.Title of Event: Tom Piazza/City of Refuge
When: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:30 PM
Location: Garden District Book Shop
Description: Tom Piazza discusses and signs his book City of Refuge.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.
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Books we loved reading. Order your signed 1st edition of Swan Peak by James Lee Burke today! Orders for signed copies you must be submitted by phone - 504.895.2266 or email - gdkrewe@aol.com.
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Come on in and check out all the local authors and their books. We will highlight a local author monthly, by listing them on our home page.
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Perpetual Care and Other Stories
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Nolan, James
This collection of short stories, which was awarded the 2007 Jefferson Press prize for Best New Voice in Fiction, explores the milieu of what post-Katrina New Orleans residents have come to call "the isle of denial"--a resilient and intact sliver of civilization surrounded by a sea of devastation. Evoking the comic grotesque legacy of Flannery O'Connor and John Kennedy Toole, these pieces inhabit a variety of piquant souls, including a Creole spinster, a transvestite plumber, a gambler who makes prosthetic eyes, a food critic who winds up with a mouthful of his best friend's ashes, and a grief-stricken young woman who sneaks a clock radio into her boyfriend's casket. They share a common trait of perverse denial in the face of historic or private defeat. Each story provides a window into aspects of the city and its' captivating neighborhoods while tendering startling revelations on elemental themes of death, sex, and restoration. |
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Garden District Book Shop resides inside the historic property called the Rink located in New Orleans' beautiful Garden District.We carry hundreds of signed first editions and limited editions by nationally and regionally acclaimed authors. We also have a large collection of regional titles- new and used; design, art and gardening books; fiction and non-fiction; and children's books.
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Books our customers love. We think you will love them as well.
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
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Reed, Julia
Julia Reed went to New Orleans in 1991 to cover the reelection of former (and currently incarcerated) governor Edwin Edwards. Seduced by the city's sauntering pace, its rich flavors and exotic atmosphere, she was never entirely able to leave again. After almost fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, she got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck.
With her house as the center of her own personal storm as well as the ever-evolving stage set for her new life as an upstanding citizen, Reed traces the fates of all who enter to wine, dine (at her table for twenty-four), tear down walls, install fixtures, throw fits and generally leave their mark on the house on First Street.Rich with sumptuous details and with the author's trademark humor well in the fore, "The House on First Street" is the chronicle of a remarkable and often hilarious homecoming, as well as a thoroughly original tribute to our country'smost original city. |
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Our book group meets at the book shop, the second Wednesday of every month at 6:00PM. New members are always welcome.September 10th -
Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje October 8th -
Testament of Gideon Mack
by James Robertson November 12th -
Consequences
by Penelope Lively December 10th -
Peony in Love
by Lisa See Please select Read More! full details and book ordering.
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Divisadero
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Ondaatje, Michael
From the celebrated author of "The English Patient" and "Anil's Ghost" comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. "Divisadero" takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past. |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Curse of the Spellmans
by
Lutz, Lisa
This second entry in the nonstop, frenzied, comedic world of Isabel Spellman, P.I., is both more convoluted and funny than The Spellman Files. This time, Izzy finds herself confounded by nearly everyone in her life and, of course, unable to leave anyone alone until she gets to the bottom of the many mysteries surrounding her--including her weirder-than-usual family.--Terry Gilman, Mysterious Galaxy Books (San Diego, CA) |
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