“Nevada Barr writes with a cool steady hand about the violence of nature and the cruelty of man.”

Please join us for a reading and signing featuring Nevada Barr and her just released novel, THE ROPE.  We welcome Nevada back for her fifth consecutive book at Octavia Books.  One of the most engaging authors we know, you definitely won't want to miss hearing/seeing her presentation

Throughout Nevada Barr’s best-selling series, park ranger Anna Pigeon has crossed America facing down the vicious predators, animal and human, that haunt the country’s wild places. The shocking origins of Anna’s fearsome resilience come to light in THE ROPE, a stunning look back at the circumstances that forged one of the most remarkable protagonists in modern crime fiction.

THE ROPE opens in Utah’s Glen Canyon in 1995—at the bottom of a dry natural well, where newly-minted park worker Anna, recovering from a traumatic loss in New York City, wakes up with no memory of how she got there. Someone, it soon becomes clear, trapped her in the hole, and someone is playing terrible games with her. If Anna’s going to survive, she’ll need to find skills and courage that she never knew she had. Because even if she can escape, still more danger is hiding in the arid landscape of the park.

A novelist, actor, and painter, New York Times best-selling author Nevada Barr has put her own experience as a National Park Service Ranger to repeated good use. She Lives with her husband in New Orleans, where she can sometime be found at Octavia Books.

Please join us for a reading & signing with New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson featuring her stunning new novel A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY.

This book is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past--and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.

Joshilyn Jackson lives in Georgia with her husband, their two children, and way too many feckless animals. She is the author of five novel including Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Backseat Saints. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages, won the Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s novel of the year, twice been a #1 Book Sense Pick, and been shortlisted for the Townsend prize. A former actor, Jackson reads the audio versions of her novels; her work in this field has been nominated for the Audie Award, was selected by AudioFile Magazine for their best of the year list, and garnered a Listen Up Award from Publisher’s Weekly. She is hard at work on a new novel titled SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE STORY, expected in 2014.

Please join us for story time and a booksigning with Cornell Landry (GOODNIGHT NOLA) featuring his just release children's picture books, HAPPY MARDI GRAS.