New Books On Sale April 6.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100411T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100411T223000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/orange-county-noir-event URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/orange-county-noir-event SUMMARY:ORANGE COUNTY NOIR event with contributor Patricia McFall DESCRIPTION:Join Denise Hamilton and Patricia McFall for an afternoon of Southern California noir on Sunday\, April 11\, at 2\:00 PM. Denise\, the award-winning author of the Eve Diamond Series\, compiled the original Los Angeles Noir anthology a few years ago\, and now she and a bevy of great writers have returned to the birthplace of noir. Los Angeles Noir 2 contributors include contemporary authors like Naomi Hirahara (meet Naomi at MG on April 17) and James Ellroy\, as well as those who are no longer w8ith us\, like Ross Macdonald\, Joseph Hansen and Leigh Brackett.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100413T030000Z UID:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/michele-scott-signs-toast-murder URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.mystgalaxy.com/event/michele-scott-signs-toast-murder SUMMARY:Michele Scott signs A TOAST TO MURDER DESCRIPTION: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.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z 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:20120522T181810Z 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:20120522T181810Z 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:20120522T181810Z 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.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z 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.
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”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!
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z 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.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z 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.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T181810Z 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.
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Charlaine!!
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