Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 | at 4:30PM CST
CELEBRATE WITH BOBBY RUSH FOR OUR FIRST IN-PERSON EVENT! 
Bobby Rush signs his new memoir, I AIN'T STUDDIN' YA!  Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real guitar... Read More...
Saturday, August 7th, 2021 | at 2:00PM CST
Signing event with Steve Robertson 
Steve Robertson signs his new book, BLOOMS OF OLEANDER! Blooms of Oleander is a collection of poems and one emotional short story that have had a dramatic impact on the author. Tales of loves lost and found as well as lessons learned along the way are included on each page in excruciating and inspirational detail. As noted throughout the work, what the heart wants can often be hazardous to one's health mentally, physically and spiritually... Read More...
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 | at 5:00PM CST
Signing + Cooking Demonstration with Sheree Rose Kelley 
Sheree Rose Kelley signs her new cookbook, SERVIN' UP SUMMER! + Cooking Demonstration Precious memories of summertime in the South always begin with the smell of sweetbay magnolias. As I step into the early morning breeze, I remember the aroma of fresh cut grass, the sight of bees working each tiny bloom and hummingbirds zooming hither and yonder, the smell of lavender and mint from the herb garden, and blackberry bushes loaded with luscious fruit and the perfume of muscadine grapes... Read More...
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 | at 5:30PM CST
Virtual Event with James Lee Burke and Ace Atkins 
James Lee Burke and Ace Atkins discuss Burke's new book, ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter... Read More...
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 | at 12PM CST
Virtual Event with Peter Heller and James McLaughlin 
Peter Heller and James McLaughlin discuss Heller's new book, THE GUIDE, on Facebook Live | Join us here: Lemuria Bookstore The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet... Read More...
Thursday, September 9th, 2021 | at 5:00PM
In-person event with Karen Brown 
Karen Brown discusses her new book, A YEAR LONG HONEYMOON! “Looking back, I am astonished at the extent of our travels. Don was working full-time as a surgical technician in the largest military hospital in Europe ... We lived ‘on the economy’ in a small apartment ... After rent, utilities, groceries, incidentals, and gasoline, there wasn’t much left at the end of the month. But we tried to put aside a little money for travel.”... Read More...
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 | at 5:00PM
In-person event with Chris McLaughlin 
Chris McLaughlin and Pat Hall discuss Chris's new book, MISSISSIPPI BARKING! On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like many others in America and around the world, Chris McLaughlin watched the tragedy of Katrina unfold on a television screen from the comfort of her living room on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. In the devastation afterwards, almost 2,000 people and an estimated 250,000 animals had perished... Read More...
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 | at 5:00PM
In-person event with Daniel de Vise 
Daniel de Vise discusses his new book, KING OF THE BLUES! King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation... Read More...
Thursday, November 4th, 2021 | at 5:00PM
In-person event with David Magee 
David Magee discusses his new book, DEAR WILLIAM! Award-winning columnist and author David Magee addresses his poignant story to all those who will benefit from better understanding substance misuse so that his hard-earned wisdom can save others from the fate of his late son, William. This is more than just another addiction story. It’s about a father making... Read More... |
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