Attend RJ Julia Booksellers' events and find yourself lost in a literary world of magic. You will meet Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists, notable dignitaries with inspiring memoirs, and debut authors with the hottest books. Please join us!
Board-certified occupational therapist, leadership advisor, and mental skills coach to CEOs and professional athletes, Coach Dar shares her proven methods for bouncing back from adversity in business and in life. Read more. | Signed copies.
Tuesday, May 16 at 7:00pm
Mary Beth Keane, The Half Moon
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, comes a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who must navigate the complexities of marriage, family, and longing. With a deft eye and generous spirit, Keane explores the disappointments and unexpected consolations of midlife, the many forms forgiveness can take, the complicated intimacy of small-town living, and what it means to be a family. Read more. | Signed copies.
RJ Julia Booksellers' President Lori Fazio recommends, The Half Moon
MARY BETH KEANE attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society.
Get ready to kick off beach season with some epic beach read recommendations from booksellers Sharon, Judi, and Becky. Hear about bookseller favorites while sipping on a complimentary themed beverage. Comediscover your next beach read! Read more.
“Visually enchanting, offering glimpses into the passion, play, banality,
and trauma of childhood.” — Booklist
TODD BREWSTER is a veteran journalist and historian who has worked as an editor for Time and Life and as a senior producer for ABC News. He is the co-author, with Peter Jennings, of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Century, which spent nearly a year on the bestseller list, the author of the acclaimed Lincoln’s Gamble, and coauthor, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Seen and Unseen:Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice.
LIV CONSTANTINE is the pen name of sisters Lynne Constantine and Valerie Constantine. Lynne and Valerie are national and international bestselling authors with over one million copies sold worldwide. Their books have been translated into twenty-eight languages, published in thirty-three countries, optioned for development in both television and film, and praised by USA Today, The Sunday Times, People, and Good Morning America, among many others.
KATE WHITE, former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, is the New York Times bestselling author of the standalone psychological thrillers The Second Husband, The Fiancée, and The Secrets You Keep, among others, as well as eight Bailey Weggins mysteries. White is also the author of several popular career books for women, including I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, and the editor of The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook.
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it. In telling their stories, Shapiro exposes the hackers’ toolkits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: Why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? Read more. | Signed copies.
The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. Read more.
