Events
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Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
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.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
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.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
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!
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
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.
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
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.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
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.
Start: 2:00 pm
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
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