Please join us for a presentation and signing with Shane Bauer featuring his new book, AMERICAN PRISON: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment. The book expands upon Shane’s groundbreaking cover story for Mother Jones, for which he went undercover as a corrections officer at a Louisiana private prison for four months, and interweaves the shameful history of for-profit prisons, beginning with their origins in the 19^th century, their rise in the 1980s with creation of the world’s first private prison company, and bringing us to present day, when President Obama’s Justice Department announced they would be phased out, followed by the Trump administration indicating it will expand their use.

Join us at the Uptown JCC when Martin Fletcher presents his new novel, THE PROMISED LAND, a sweeping saga of two brothers and the woman they love, a devastating love triangle set to the founding of the State of Israel. It is at once the gripping tale of a struggling family and a struggling nation.

The story begins when fourteen-year-old Peter is sent west to America to escape the growing horror of Nazi Germany. But his younger brother Arie and their entire family are sent east to the death camps. Only Arie survives.

Come join us to celebrate the launch of  painter-author-illustrator Alex Beard's new picture book, THE LYING KING.

Can warthogs fly? Do tigers eat broccoli?

For answers, follow along as Warthog lies his way to the throne in this timeless, yet most timely, Tale from the Watering Hole. Will the Truth catch up with the king? Find out as Alex Beard's whimsical animals come to life to illuminate real world truths for children of all ages.

Alex Beard is an artist and author. His studio is on Magazine Street, not far from Octavia Books; and he lives in the Garden District in The Pink Elephant with his wife and two children, two dogs, a cat, three turtles, a hedgehog, and a pair of finches.