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Film Screening: Out of the Book: David Halberstam

Out of the Book Premier Event David Halberstam’s The Coldest Winter

Event Date: Nov 11, 2007 6:30 PM

Dominic Carter: No Momma's Boy

Tired of keeping his life-long secrets, author Dominic Carter, described by some as the best of New York’s political television reporters, shares his remarkable, gut-wrenching story of abuse at the hands of his mother in No Momma’s Boy.

Event Date: Aug 01, 2007 7:00 PM

A Leaky Tent Is A Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding A Place in the Natural World ”

With editor Bonnie Tsui and contributors Liesl Schwabe, Hugh Ryan, Tim Heffernan, Lilith Wood, and Andrea Walker.

Event Date: Aug 08, 2007 7:00 PM

Roland Haas: Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin

A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas’s descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of this extraordinary life. It is an eye-opening look at the dark, but many would argue necessary, side of intelligence work—and one that readers won’t soon forget.

Event Date: Aug 20, 2007 7:00 PM

Mary Gordon, author of “Circling My Mother

A rich and bittersweet memoir about Gordon's relationship with her mother. In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter.

Event Date: Aug 27, 2007 7:00 PM

The Great Expectations School

A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle by Daniel Brown, Dan Brown

Event Date: Aug 22, 2007 7:00 PM

Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life

For American tennis star James Blake, 2004 was 12 months of unremitting nightmare. While practicing in Rome for the Masters, the Yonkers-born player ran full speed into a net post, breaking his neck. Two months later, his father, the inspiration of his life, died of stomach cancer.

Event Date: Jul 10, 2007 12:00 PM

Amy Cohen: the Late Bloomer's Revolution: A Memoir

Amy Cohen always imagined that by age thirty she would be juggling a thriving career, a devoted English husband, and two adorable children who had shag haircuts and a room in their loft where they could play the drums. But at thirty-five, as she struggled to come to terms with the loss of her adored mother, she found herself "between jobs" (she'd been fired), "between boyfriends" (she'd been dumped), and "between apartments." She didn't know how to cook. She didn't even know how to ride a bicycle.

Event Date: Jul 10, 2007 7:00 PM

Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today

From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully.

Event Date: Jul 16, 2007 7:00 PM

Heart Full of Soul: An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way

For the longest time, during some rough boyhood years in Alabama and the grind of performing on the road, the odds against me were discouraging. But there was always a voice inside telling me it was going to get better. Mom and Dad certainly started out with good intentions, but early on, as their marriage went south and I went in whatever direction was necessary to avoid the fallout, I realized my life was going to be up to me.

Event Date: Jul 17, 2007 7:00 PM

Authors A.M. Homes and Daniel Mendelsohn on Memoir

A conversation about memoirs with these best-selling authors. A.M. Homes most recently wrote “The Mistress's Daughter.” Daniel is the author of “Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.” Followed by Q&A and signing.

Event Date: Jun 14, 2007 7:00 PM

Jane Green, Second Chance

Hosted by: Molly Jong-Fast, Girl [Maladjusted]: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood

Event Date: May 20, 2007 12:30 PM

Barnes & Noble Booksellers-Author Event-Hope's Boy: A Memoir by Andrew Bridge, Harvard Law

Barnes & Noble Booksellers- Author Event- From a disastrous decade in foster care to Harvard Law School and beyond: this is the profoundly moving memoir of one boy who beat the system.

Event Date: Feb 13, 2008 7:00 PM

From Dachau to D-Day: a Memoir by Werner Kleeman, Holocaust Survivor - Lecture & Book signing

The personal memoir of a German Jew who left Nazi Germany, became an American citizen and returned to Europe to participate in the Normandy Landing. Werner Kleeman is an octogenarian living in New York CIty. He escaped Nazi Germany and became an American citizen, later returning to Europe to fight in WWII.

Event Date: May 07, 2008 7:00 PM

Author Event at BnN: Robert Stone's "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties," a memior- NYT Bestseller

A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade, the sixties, in the words of the man who experienced it all...

Event Date: May 08, 2008 7:00 PM

Author Event at BnN: Barbara Walters' "Audition: A Memoir"

An American journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News as the first female evening news anchor.

Event Date: May 06, 2008 12:30 PM

Author Event at BnN: William Shatner "Up Till Now: The Autobiography"

Embarking on a full-scale autobiography, he begins with his Montreal childhood doing children's theater, then covers comedies with the Canadian National Repertory Theatre, lead roles with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and live TV in New York City in 1956: "I became one of the busiest actors in the city." Shatner's sincerity, honesty and heightened sense of humor all come across at warp speed in this entertaining memoir.

Event Date: May 14, 2008 7:00 PM

Author Event at BnN: Honor Moore's "The Bishop's Daughter" A Memoir

"An unsparing portrait of a glamorous but elusive father and his daughter's search for the truth about his secret life."—Sylvia Nasar; Honor Moore is the author of three poetry collections and of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent. She lives in New York City and teaches at the New School and Columbia University.

Event Date: May 19, 2008 7:00 PM