Events
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Octavia Books is proud to again partner with the Jewish Community Center of New Orleans for the 11th Annual "People of the Book" festival. Please check out the great line-up of author events and the hundreds of books we will be featuring on-site at the Uptown JCC.
Authors from around the nation visit the New Orleans JCC to read from
their work and talk about their ideas. The annual “People of the Book”
Festival is the centerpiece of this effort featuring Jewish authors and
authors of books with Jewish content.
Comic Relief
Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
present “You Say Tomato, I say Shut Up!”
In the true tradition of great Jewish comedy, actors, comedians, writers and real life married couples,
Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn have written a memoir about marriage - “You Say Tomato, I say Shut
Up!” Married for 13 years, Annabelle Gurwitch, former host of “Dinner and A Movie” on TBS, and
husband, Jeff Kahn, former writer and Emmy winner for the Fox comedy, “The Ben Stiller Show,“
believe that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and
Pinot Noir. For anyone married, been married or contemplating marriage, don’t miss this great event.
Date/Day: Tuesday, November 16
Time:
7:30 PM
Fee: $5 donation suggested, Booksignings to follow presentation
Nursery School Nosh
A Book browsing event for preschoolers and their parents –
featuring storytelling with the PJ Library featured books, and a Nosh.
Kids will have the opportunity to browse with their parents, have a Nosh
and listen to storytelling
and music.
Date/Day: Wednesday, November 17
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
Fee: Free
Booklover's Luncheon
Jeffrey Zaslow presents "The Girls from Ames"
This year’s popular Booklover’s Luncheon, features best selling
writer and author, Jeffrey Zaslow, the “Moving On” columnist for The
Wall Street Journal. In“The Girls from Ames”, he chronicles the lives
and friendship of eleven special girls—now women from the small town of
Ames, Iowa. He describes how the other “girls” help their Jewish friend
with her Bat Mitzvah, how they have been there for each other through
good and bad, and continue to this day. Like his other NY Times
best-selling book, “The
Last Lecture”, written with Randy Pausch, Jeffrey has a gift for
bringing stories to life and getting to the
heart and soul of someone’s story. A heartwarming insight into the
powerful bonds of enduring female
friendships.
Date/Day: Thursday, November 18
Time:
12:00 Noon
Fee: $30 with reservation by Thursday, Novemer 11 |
$35 after November 11 | $20 book Presentation only
booksignings to follow presentation - Register Now!
Books 'n Brunch
Joan Nathan presents "Quiches, Kugels and Couscous"
The 2010 Book Festival ends on a high note with the world-famous, bestselling cookbook author, Joan
Nathan, author of ten cookbooks including the award winning, “Jewish Cooking in America”. In her
latest cookbook, “Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous”, Joan writes about her summer in France learning
all about Jewish French cooking and telilng stories about the people she meets. She discovers what is
traditional Jewish cooking, and that the revered dishes are still respected, but tweaked with French
finesse. See how the integration of Sephardic cuisine by North African Jewish communities after World
War II has permanently changed Jewish French cuisine forever. Not just a cookbook author, Joan is a
storyteller. Don’t miss this great opportunity to meet one of the great Jewish cooking gems.
Brunch will consist of recipes from “Quiche, Kugels, and Couscous” prepared by a local chef, Brack May.
Date/Day: Sunday, November 21
Time:
10:00 AM
Fee: $15 with reservation before November 14 |
$20 after November 14 | $10 Book Presentation only
booksignings to follow presentation - Register Now!
While attending the events, please patronize the JCC Bookstore, featuring an extensive
selection of the latest and best in Jewish literature for children, young adults, and adults.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon and 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (5:00 PM on Fridays), and before and after all events.
Date: Sunday, November 14 - Sunday, November 21
Location: Grant Board Room
Octavia Books will be donating a significant portion of all sales to the JCC for the continuation of this great program.
Start: 6:00 pm
Please join us for a special evening with acclaimed author Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award, for a reading and booksigning featuring her new novel, THE WIDOWER'S TALE.
In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling
is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old
movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted,
however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take
over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children,
parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made
in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. No longer can
he remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or, to his
shock, the precarious joy of falling in love.
One relationship
Percy treasures is the bond with his oldest grandchild, Robert, a premed
student at Harvard. Robert has long assumed he will follow in the
footsteps of his mother, a prominent physician, but he begins to
question his ambitions when confronted by a charismatic roommate who
preaches—and begins to practice—an extreme form of ecological activism,
targeting Boston’s most affluent suburbs.
Meanwhile, two other
men become fatefully involved with Percy and Robert: Ira, a gay teacher
at the preschool, and Celestino, a Guatemalan gardener who works for
Percy’s neighbor, each one striving to overcome a sense of personal
exile. Choices made by all four men, as well as by the women around
them, collide forcefully on one lovely spring evening, upending
everyone’s lives, but none more radically than Percy’s.
With
equal parts affection and satire, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale
about the loyalties, rivalries, and secrets of a very particular family.
Yet again, she plumbs the human heart brilliantly, dramatically, and
movingly.
Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; and I See You Everywhere,
winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award. She
has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, and her
personal essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in
Massachusetts with her family.
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