Michele Scott offers A Toast to Murder with her new Nikki Sands Wine Lovers’ mystery\, and MG offers a toast to Michele when she joins Peter May on Monday\, April 12\, at 7\:00 PM. The Malveaux Estates winery manager\, and her fiancé\, Derek Malveaux\, have set their wedding date. But as the big day draws near\, a variety of disasters strike\, at first limited to family and fashion\, but eventually turning fatal! Michele also has two new non-genre books\, the sweeping family border epic\, El Patron\, and her Napa Valley novel celebrating women’s friendships and wine\, Happy Hour.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/peter-may-signs-freeze-frame-and-more URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/peter-may-signs-freeze-frame-and-more SUMMARY:Peter May signs FREEZE FRAME and more DESCRIPTION:Scottish author and former British television writer Peter May is fascinated by and knowledgeable about a number of places and topics\, and mixes his knowledge with imagination to create a bevy of different series and protagonists. In the year since Peter last visited\, he has produced three new novels. First\, there’s Freeze Frame\, the new Enzo Macleod mystery\, in which the Scots forensics expert finds himself challenged to solve a cold case on a tiny island off of France.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100414T020000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-april-13 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-april-13 SUMMARY:New Books On Sale April 13 DESCRIPTION:New Books On Sale April 13.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100414T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100414T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/john-barnes-signs-directive-51 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/john-barnes-signs-directive-51 SUMMARY:John Barnes signs DIRECTIVE 51 DESCRIPTION: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100415T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100415T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dan-wells-signs-i-am-not-serial-killer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dan-wells-signs-i-am-not-serial-killer SUMMARY:Dan Wells signs I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER DESCRIPTION:According to debut author Dan Wells\, I am Not a Serial Killer is “about a teenage sociopath who follows strict rules to keep himself from hurting anyone\, until one day a real killer comes to town and he has to break all of his rules to stop him. It’s being marketed as both YA horror and as an adult psychological thriller. It has a strong focus on psychology and morality\, as the hero tries to do what’s right when his own darker nature rages at him to do evil.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T020000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/cj-box-signs-nowhere-run URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/cj-box-signs-nowhere-run SUMMARY:C.J. Box signs NOWHERE TO RUN DESCRIPTION:MG offers a reason to look forward to Thursday\, April 15\, when we enjoy a 7\:00 PM visit with Wyoming suspense author C.J. Box. Chuck has won nearly every possible mystery award\, and written a couple of well-received stand-alone thrillers as well as his Joe Pickett series.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100417T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100417T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/raymond-e-feist-signs-gates-darkness URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/raymond-e-feist-signs-gates-darkness SUMMARY:Raymond E. Feist signs AT THE GATES OF DARKNESS DESCRIPTION:Spend a fantastic evening at MG on Friday\, April 16\, at 7\:00 PM\, when local author and international bestseller Raymond Feist signs and discusses his second book of the Demonwar Saga. A decade after the end of the Darkwar Saga\, Midkemia faced a new danger thought buried in myth and antiquity in Rides a Dread Legion. Now the inhabitants of Midkemia\, including Master Pug\, who has lost loved ones to prophecy\, stand At the Gates of Darkness\, besieged by a lost race of elves\, the taredhel\, and their demonic pursuers.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100417T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100417T220000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/naomi-hirahara-signs-blood-hina URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/naomi-hirahara-signs-blood-hina SUMMARY:Naomi Hirahara signs BLOOD HINA DESCRIPTION:Edgar award-winning author Naomi Hirahara joins fellow Southern CA mystery author D.P. Lyle on Saturday\, April 17\, at 2\:00 PM. In Blood Hina\, gardener and sleuth Mas Arai is initially committed to serving as best man at his best friend’s wedding. But when his friend’s fiancee’s antique Japanese doll display is taken\, and the groom-to-be is the main suspect\, Mas steps in to clear his name\, discovering in the process a world of heartbreaking memories\, deception\, and murder.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100417T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100417T223000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dr-dp-lyle-signs-stress-fracture URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/dr-dp-lyle-signs-stress-fracture SUMMARY:Dr. D.P. Lyle signs STRESS FRACTURE DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 17\, at 2\:00 PM\, we suggest customers visit our mystery event as part of our e-Free Day Celebration. Dr. D.P. Lyle writes both forensic fiction and award-winning forensic non-fiction\, including the always popular Forensics for Dummies. Stress Fracture introduces forensic expert Dub Walker\, who is called in to help catch a serial killer when the killer’s latest victim is Dub’s friend\, Sheriff Mike Savage. The series of savage murders is perpetrated by a killer that is at once careful\, calculating\, and organized as well as brutal\, impulsive\, and disorganized.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100418T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100418T213000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/one-book-one-san-diego-discussion URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/one-book-one-san-diego-discussion SUMMARY:OUTCASTS UNITED -- One Book\, One San Diego Discussion DESCRIPTION:San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders notes\:
”This is the fourth year of the One Book\, One San Diego program. I support this initiative because it brings together our community and encourages residents to join others in the shared experience of reading the same book. The program encourages residents to participate in related events throughout the year\, discuss the ideas raised by one book and examine how these ideas connect with our daily lives.
New Books On Sale April 20!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100423T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100423T010000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/larry-karp-signs-ragtime-fool URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/larry-karp-signs-ragtime-fool SUMMARY:Larry Karp signs THE RAGTIME FOOL DESCRIPTION:In his Killer Books review\, Bill Farley of Seattle Mystery Bookstore says\: “In [The Ragtime Fool]\, the concluding volume of Larry Karp’s ragtime trilogy\, it’s 1951. Scott Joplin (The King of Ragtime) is long dead\, but ragtime music is making a comeback. Brun Campbell (The Ragtime Kid) is now an old man\, still obsessed with Joplin’s music. A ceremony is being planned in Sedalia\, MO\, where Joplin got his start\, but the plans are far too humble\, in Campbell’s estimation.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100423T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100423T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-signs-mapping-love-and-death URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-signs-mapping-love-and-death SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear signs THE MAPPING OF LOVE AND DEATH DESCRIPTION:Inquiry agent Maisie Dobbs has won bookseller and librarian accolades and genre awards and nominations since she debuted in 2003 in Jacqueline Winspear’s mystery of the same title. Now in The Mapping of Love and Death.\, her seventh outing\, Maisie is hired in 1932 to seek the mysterious missing lover of a young California man who was first reported missing in action in the European theatre in 1916.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/john-green-and-david-levithan-celebrate-will-grayson-will-grayson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/john-green-and-david-levithan-celebrate-will-grayson-will-grayson SUMMARY:John Green and David Levithan celebrate WILL GRAYSON\, WILL GRAYSON DESCRIPTION:See our Community Event page for more information.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/jennifer-lee-carrell-signs-haunt-me-still URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/jennifer-lee-carrell-signs-haunt-me-still SUMMARY:Jennifer Lee Carrell signs HAUNT ME STILL DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 23\, at 7\:00 PM\, Mysterious Galaxy invites readers to help celebrate the 446th birthday of Wm. Shakespeare with Jennifer Lee Carrell and Haunt Me Still.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100424T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100426T000000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/los-angeles-times-festival-books URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/los-angeles-times-festival-books SUMMARY:Los Angeles Times Festival of Books DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 24\, and Sunday\, April 25\, Mysterious Galaxy will be hosting dozens of authors in our booth on the grounds of the UCLA Main Campus as part of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. We will be in the same location of Zone F\, Dickson Court North\, Booth #614.
The most up to date information on Booth #614 is now available in the pdf at the bottom of the page.
NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher\, introduced in Alafair Burke’s Dead Connection\, returns in 212. Ellie and her partner investigate the murder of a New York University student\, following her reports of a cyberstalker posting threatening messages to an on-line gossip website.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100427T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100428T020000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/new-books-april-27 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/new-books-april-27 SUMMARY:New Book Tuesday - April 27 DESCRIPTION:New books on sale Tuesday\, April 27!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100428T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100428T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/rachel-caine-signs-kiss-death URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/rachel-caine-signs-kiss-death SUMMARY:Rachel Caine signs KISS OF DEATH DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join the party on Tuesday\, April 27\, at 7\:00 PM\, when MG celebrates the launch of Kiss of Death\, the new Morganville Vampires novel\, and Rachel Caine’s birthday. Kiss of Death chronicles the “road trip from Hell\,” as vampire musician Michael Glass attempts to cross over to a larger audience in the human world\, with all the attendant problems.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100429T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100429T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/ed-lin-signs-snakes-cant-run URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/ed-lin-signs-snakes-cant-run SUMMARY:Ed Lin signs SNAKES CAN'T RUN DESCRIPTION:Award –winning author Ed Lin first took readers to the streets of New York City’s Chinatown seen through the eyes of Chinese-American detective Robert Chow the in the mid-1970’s in This is a Bust. Chow\, a Vietnam veteran and alcoholic\, is working reluctantly undercover as a Con Ed worker for the NYPD\, when the murder of two Chinese men gets him reassigned to look into the actions of a ring of snakeheads – human smugglers.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100502T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100502T223000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/ken-kuhlken-signs-biggest-liar-los-angeles URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/ken-kuhlken-signs-biggest-liar-los-angeles SUMMARY:Ken Kuhlken signs THE BIGGEST LIAR IN LOS ANGELES DESCRIPTION:The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles is the newest entry in Ken Kuhlken’s Tom Hickey California Century series. It is set in 1926\, nearly two decides before The Loud Adios\, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Best First PI Novel Award. Tom is working as a musician and a meat deliveryman when he receives word of a lynching in Los Angeles\, near the Angelus Temple of infamous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson – a lynching which has not been reported by the police\, or the town’s established media.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100504T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100504T170000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-may-4 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/new-books-sale-may-4 SUMMARY:New Books on Sale May 4 DESCRIPTION:New books on sale Tuesday\, May 4th.
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Charlaine!!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100509T000000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/mysterious-galaxys-17th-birthday-bash URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/mysterious-galaxys-17th-birthday-bash SUMMARY:Mysterious Galaxy's 17th Birthday Bash DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, May 8\, 1993\, a new store opened in Clairemont Square\, dedicated to the staff’s passion for books of “Martians\, Murder\, Magic and Mayhem.”
Today\, that passion continues.
We invite you to join us on Saturday\, May 8\, for our annual all day celebration\, featuring some fantastic spotlight authors\, special bargains\, and\, of course\, cake!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T190000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-janni-lee-simner URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-janni-lee-simner SUMMARY:Spotlight on Janni Lee Simner DESCRIPTION:Janni Lee Simner\, author of last year’s post-apocalyptic fairy tale\, Bones of Faerie\, joins Beth in the spotlight at 11\:00 AM. Janni’s new novel\, Thief Eyes\, is a contemporary fantasy based on the Icelandic sagas\, Njal’s Saga in particular. A teen from Arizonea\, in Iceland to try to find her own answers about the abrupt disappearance of her mother and the secrets her father seems to be keeping about the circumstances is suddenly part of a centuries long family story.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T190000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-beth-fantaskey URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-beth-fantaskey SUMMARY:Spotlight on Beth Fantaskey DESCRIPTION:Last year’s debut\, Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side\, was a staff favorite (see Terry’s review below). MG is thrilled to kick off festivities at our 17th Birthday Bash with Beth Fantaskey and Jekel Loves Hyde (especially with its fantastic purple and green cover!). High school students Jill Jekel and Tristan Hyde are the subject of jokes about their names before they decide to collaborate on a chemistry experiment recreating the famous Robert Lewis Stevenson story.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T200000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/keith-thomson-signs-once-spy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/keith-thomson-signs-once-spy SUMMARY:Spotlight on Keith Thomson DESCRIPTION:Huffington Post contributor Keith Thomson has been a screenwriter\, a semi-pro baseball player in France\, and an editorial cartoonist for Newsday. His debut thriller\, Once a Spy\, finds gambler Charlie Clark and his father Drummond\, who he thought was a retired appliance salesman\, on the run when it turns out that Drummond was actually a legendary spy. Now various agencies including the CIA are concerned that Drummond\, who suffers from Alzheimer’s\, will spill classified intel.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T200000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-emily-st-john-mandel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-emily-st-john-mandel SUMMARY:Spotlight on Emily St. John Mandel DESCRIPTION:At noon\, Emily St. John Mandel offers readers a twist on crime novels with The Singer’s Gun. Anton Walker is trying to enjoy a mundane\, non-remarkable\, and above all\, non-criminal life as a middle manager. Unfortunately his past as a forger and his family heritage of criminal activities seems destined to pursue him\, mostly at the instigation of his cousin\, Aria\, who is trying to coerce him into one more big score.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T210000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-michael-gruber URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-michael-gruber SUMMARY:Spotlight on Michael Gruber DESCRIPTION:Best-selling thriller author Michael Gruber steps into the spotlight at 1\:00 PM with The Good Son. In The Good Son\, Michael uses the tale of a mother dedicated to the cause of peace\, and a son trained in the art of war\, to examine how culture influences our view of reality\, especially in people raised in two cultures\; how melodrama arises from unexamined assumptions of cultures\, and the consequences of cultural imperialism.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T172501Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T210000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-charlaine-harris URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/spotlight-charlaine-harris SUMMARY:Spotlight on Charlaine Harris DESCRIPTION:
At 2\:00 PM\, Charlaine Harris continues her tradition of appearing at
MG’s Birthday Bash\, celebrating her 10th Sookie Stackhouse novel\, Dead
in the Family. Following the deadly casualties of the Faery War in
Dead and Gone\, Sookie is trying to recover and heal from her hurt and
anger. But her chance to pursue a relationship with Eric Northman is in
jeopardy from his new ruler\; the Weres and other shifters are in
political turmoil\; and a Fae trapped in the human world is holding a
deadly grudge against Sookie. In addition to her collection of short
New Books On Sale Tuesday May 11
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