Join us for a Sunday afternoon presentation and signing with historian and author Bonnie J. Morris featuring THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION: The Struggle for Women's Liberation.

THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION offers an overview of women’s struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century.

In powerfully lyrical prose, Morgan Babst evokes the shattered lives strewn in the wake of the levee collapses that left New Orleans in ruins. It’s a story still difficult to believe--even by those of us who lived through it.”
—John Biguenet, author of The Rising Water Trilogy

Join us for a special evening with author C. Morgan Babst  in conversation with author Anne Gisleson (THE FUTILITARIANS) celebrating the launch of the paperback edition of her New Orleans-based novel, THE FLOATING WORLD.

In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city.

Join us for an after school reading and signing with Newberry Honor-wiinning author Kathryn Lasky featuring her middle-grade readers BEARS OF THE ICE series - THE QUEST OF THE CUBS (Book 1)  and its just released sequel, THE DEN OF THE FOREST FOREVER.

Two cubs. One incredible arctic adventure

Join us offsite at Antenna when RM220 presents author Ken Foster and photographer Traer Scott featuring stories and photographs from their new book CITY OF DOGS.

A beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photos and stories that maps the relationship between canine New Yorkers and their human counterparts.

New York is a city of five boroughs, more than 250 distinct neighborhoods, 8.5 million people, and more than 600,000 dogs, who are as much a part of the social fabric as the people who follow them on the other end of the leash. City of Dogs maps this relationship with incredible four-color photos highlighting the scene.

Please join us for an presentation and signing with English professor, writer, and musician Florence Dore featuring here recent book, NOVEL SOUNDS: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll.

NOVEL SOUNDS shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature.

A special evening with bestselling author Ann Lamott featuring her new book, ALMOST EVERYTHING: Notes on Hope, presented by the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church Mabel Palmer Lectures in partnership with the School for Contemplative Living. This is a ticketed event at the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church at the corner of St. Charles and Broadway. Ticket purchase (required) includes a signed copy ALMOST EVERYTHING.

To purchase your ticket(s), please click here now - while supplies last.

Octavia Books will also have other Ann Lamott titles available at the event.

Please join us when Sybil Morial returns to Octavia Books for a presentation and signing celebrating the paperback release of her memoir, WITNESS TO CHANGE: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment.

Join Octavia Books for a Sunday afternoon presentation and booksigning with author Brian Kilmeade featuring his book, ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRACLE OF NEW ORLEANS: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny - in conversation with local historian and author Ronald Drez.

Octavia Books is presenting this program at the Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Avenue, Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 1:00PM. (Doors open at 12:30PM. The program will start promptly at 1:00PM. Please arrive early.

You must purchase a ticket here from Octavia Books to attend.

• Each general ticket admits one and will be exchanged for one copy of the new paperback edition of Brian Kilmeade's ANDREW JACKSON AND THE MIRIACLE OF NEW ORLEANS.

Please join us for a presentation, reading, and booksigning with Folwell Dunbar celebrating the launch of HE FALLS WELL: A Memoir of Survival.

We claim Folwell Dunbar in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans as our latest great muse. His writing is part Twain with a dash of Thoreau and pinch of Welty — in her more humorous moments. These vignettes are suffused with cynicism, laughter, and flying roaches, among other things, and speak to the glorious lives we lead in this great City.”
—David Rae Morris, Photographer/Filmmaker