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Valorie Hart & Sara Essex - BOHEMIAN SOUL: The Vanishing Interiors of New Orleans

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Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Please join us with designer/author Valorie Hart and photographer Sara Essex to celebrate the launch of their new book BOHEMIAN SOUL: The Vanishing Interiors of New Orleans.


A celebration of the unique decorative style of New Orleans, featuring the resplendent rooms of seventeen decadent residences rich with patina, family heirlooms, and history.

Keith O'Brien - CHARLIE HUSTLE: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

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Monday, April 8, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

“As much as many fans of the game want to forget this sordid tale, Keith O'Brien reminds us of its centrality to the story of our National Pastime. It's a dazzling, soaring accomplishment, a counterpoint to the tragic fall of one of the game's greatest, brought on entirely by his own hubris, arrogance andinsolent disregard for baseball's stern code.”—Ken Burns
 

Ned Randolph - MUDDY THINKING IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA - in conversation with Rebecca Snedeker

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us for a presentation and signing with New Orleans-based writer Ned Randolph featuring his new book book on environmental history and justice in south Louisiana: MUDDY THINKING IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA A Call for Reclamation. He will appear in conversation with Rebecca Snedeker, co-author of UNFATHOMABLE CITY.

Sheila Sundar - HABITATIONS in conversation with Maurice carlos Ruffin

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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Please join us for a special evening with author Sheila Sundar celebrating the launch HABITATIONS, her debut novel. She will appear in conversation with author Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of the recently release novel, THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS.


A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more in this “delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor” (Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting).

Randy Fertel - WINGING IT

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Join us for a presentation and book signing with Randy Fertel (The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak and A Taste of Chaos) featuring his new book, WINGING IT: Improv's Power & Peril in the Time of Trump.

“At the farmers market, I'm responding to color, and smell, and I'm following my intuition. In my kitchen when I'm imagining how things will lead from here, I'm improvising. In his artful and authoritative new book Winging It, Randy Fertel explores how improvisation shapes and enlivens our wider world. Yield to your impulses, act spontaneously, and get this book — it's a revelation.”
Alice Waters, Founder of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard

Esteban the Green Crayon Storytime

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Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Come meet Esteban the Green Crayon, star of the bestselling CRAYONS series, when he visits Octavia Books in person celebrating Earth Day with a special storytime reading of the new book THE CRAYONS LOVE OUR PLANET, plus photo opportunities, fun activities, and prizes. Hope to see you there!

Brittany Williams - SAINT-SEDUCING GOLD

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us for a book launch party with New Orleans author Brittany N. Williams celebrating the kick off of her national author tour for her new YA novel: SAINT-SEDUCING GOLD.


Saint-Seducing Gold is the second book in Brittany N. Williams’s stunning YA historical fantasy trilogy—the Forge & Fracture Saga—that New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray called “nothing short of spectacular”.
 
There’s danger in the court of James I. Magical metal-worker Joan Sands must reforge the Pact between humanity and the Fae to stop the looming war. As violence erupts across London and the murderous spymaster Robert Cecil closes in, the Fae queen Titanea coerces Joan into joining the royal court while holding her godfather prisoner in the infamous Tower of London. Now Joan will have to survive deadly machinations both magical and mortal all while balancing the magnetic pull of her two loves—Rose and Nick—before the world as she knows it is destroyed forever.

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