THE CATCH ME IF YOU CAN—Jessica Nabongo book launch celebration

Event date:

Saturday, July 2, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Event address:

Four Seasons New Orleans - 2 Canal Street - New Orleans, LA 70130

Join independent New Orleans bookstore Octavia Books at Four Seasons Hotel with travel expert and photographer Jessica Nabongo to celebrate the launch of her new book, THE CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World. Jessica will share the stories of her adventures and the insights to inspire your next trip. A book signing will follow! To attend, please purchase your ticket now!

Each ticket admits one and will be exchanged for one copy of THE CATCH ME IF YOU CAN to be signed by Jessica Nabongo during the program.

Octavia Books Bestseller List

Check out our Octavia Books bestsellers for the 6 weeks ended June 6, 2022 (including pre-orders):

The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Paperback)

By Claudia Gray

$17.00

ISBN: 9780593313817

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Vintage - May 3rd, 2022

A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham—one of literature’s most notorious villains—meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen’s leading literary characters.

Family Album: Stories (Paperback)

By Gabriela Alemán, Dick Cluster (Translator), Mary Ellen Fieweger (Translator)

$15.95

ISBN: 9780872868823

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: City Lights Books - May 17th, 2022

Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alem n's rollicking follow-up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells.

Sea of Tranquility: A novel (Hardcover)

By Emily St. John Mandel

$25.00

ISBN: 9780593321447

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Knopf - April 5th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life Cover Image

A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life (Paperback)

By Marcia DeSanctis

$18.99

ISBN: 9781609522063

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Travelers' Tales - May 3rd, 2022

Vogue's Best Books of 2022
Restless to leave, eager to return: this memoir in essays captures the unrelenting pull between the past and the present, between traveling the world and staying home.

Wingwalkers: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Taylor Brown

$27.99

ISBN: 9781250274595

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: St. Martin's Press - April 19th, 2022

A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel Cover Image

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel (Paperback)

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

$17.00

ISBN: 9781501161933

Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 Days

Published: Washington Square Press - May 29th, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“If you’re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read.” —Bustle

From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six—an entrancing and &ldq

Where the Crawdads Sing (Paperback)

By Delia Owens

$18.00

ISBN: 9780735219106

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - March 30th, 2021

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 12 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.”

Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #3): From the Creator of Dog Man Cover Image

Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #3): From the Creator of Dog Man (Hardcover)

By Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)

$12.99

ISBN: 9781338801941

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Graphix - April 12th, 2022

The Cat Kid Comic Club is deep in discovery in the newest graphic novel in the hilarious and heartwarming worldwide bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man.
The comic club is going in all different directions! Naomi, Melvin, and siblings are each trying to find their purpose.

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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) (Paperback)

By Sarah M. Broom

$17.00

ISBN: 9780802149039

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Grove Press - June 30th, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

Zoo Krewe (Hardcover)

By Kelly Murtagh, Samantha Aldana (Illustrator)

$15.99

ISBN: 9781455626311

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Pelican Publishing Company - October 11th, 2021

Take a magical journey through the New Orleans Mardi Gras as the littlest fans learn their ABCs with the help of some animal friends Crawfish creates a costume, Duck dives for doubloons, and many more creatures enjoy the season as part of this fantastical Carnival krewe.

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Alligators Don't Like Flowers (Hardcover)

By Shannon Kelley Atwater

$19.99

ISBN: 9781455626779

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Pelican Publishing Company - May 9th, 2022

Angelo the alligator was different in every way. With eyes bright blue and skin snow white, he
loved to watch the butterflies and fireflies. One day he came upon a marsh filled with flowers
and wove some into a crown. What happens when he wears his beautiful new crown?
Artist and illustrator Shannon Kelley Atwater shares a sweet story of friendship and

Book Lovers (Paperback)

By Emily Henry

$17.00

ISBN: 9780593334836

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Berkley - May 3rd, 2022

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.

Happy-Go-Lucky (Hardcover)

By David Sedaris

$29.00

ISBN: 9780316392457

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 31st, 2022

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things.

The Paris Apartment: A Novel Cover Image

The Paris Apartment: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lucy Foley

$28.99

ISBN: 9780063003057

Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 Days

Published: William Morrow - February 22nd, 2022

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"As you patiently await season two of Only Murders in the Building, cozy up with Lucy Foley’s latest whodunnit." -- Parade
"Exceedingly clever." -- Booklist

The Candy House: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Egan

$28.00

ISBN: 9781476716763

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Scribner - April 5th, 2022

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Oprah Daily, Glamour, USA TODAY, Parade, Bustle, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, BuzzFeed, and Vulture

“A compelling read tha

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil Cover Image

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil (Hardcover)

By Tina Brown

$35.00

ISBN: 9780593138090

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Crown - April 26th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises

New Orleans Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the Big Easy (Cocktail Recipes, New Orleans History, Travel Cocktails) (City Cocktails) (Hardcover)

By Sarah Baird

$19.95

ISBN: 9781604336436

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Cider Mill Press - February 7th, 2017

N'awlins. Crescent City. The Big Easy. New Orleans is full of culture and at the heart of this culture…cocktails!

Immerse yourself in the magic and mystery of the city with this fun and elegant new guide to the best bars and cocktails of New Orleans.

Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn (Hardcover)

By Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

$18.99

ISBN: 9781419750939

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Harry N. Abrams - March 8th, 2022

From the bestselling superstar duo Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham, creators of Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn, comes another positively delightful kitty and unicorn story that celebrates the magic of friendship—and the beauty of imperfection
Unicorn is perfect.
Everybody thinks so.
He yearns to look the way everyone thinks he should.

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What the Sleepy Animals Do at the Audubon Zoo (Hardcover)

By Grace Millsaps, Ryan Murphy, John Clark IV (Illustrator), Alyson Kilday (Illustrator)

$18.95

ISBN: 9780988760318

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: The Sleepy Animals, LLC - May 1st, 2014

Rhinos rock out. Alligators stroll under limbo polls. Elephants pound the piano. Pelicans cater.

Ever wonder why the animals at the zoo are always so sleepy? When Renee asks her father why the zoo animals are snoozing all day, he dreams up an elaborate answer.

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) Cover Image

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) (Paperback)

By John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (Foreword by)

$16.00

ISBN: 9780802130204

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Grove Press - January 21st, 1994

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review

Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou Cover Image

Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou (Hardcover)

By Melissa M. Martin

$35.00

ISBN: 9781579658472

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Artisan - April 21st, 2020

Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in U.S.

Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Anthony Doerr

$30.00

ISBN: 9781982168438

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Scribner - September 28th, 2021

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Wash

The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire Cover Image

The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire (Hardcover)

By Tom Sancton

$28.00

ISBN: 9780593183809

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Dutton - April 5th, 2022

A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque and 1970s high-fashion Paris.

The Paris Library: A Novel (Paperback)

By Janet Skeslien Charles

$17.99

ISBN: 9781982134204

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Atria Books - March 1st, 2022

An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller—based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II—The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times

Above New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City Cover Image

Above New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City (Hardcover)

By Richard Campanella

$59.95

ISBN: 9780807176061

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: LSU Press - September 15th, 2021

The first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. Overhead scenes cover the entire metropolis, from the French Quarter to Uptown, from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, from Westwego to New Orleans East, and from Gentilly to Gretna.

Troubled Memory, Second Edition: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana Cover Image

Troubled Memory, Second Edition: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana (Paperback)

By Lawrence N. Powell

$27.95

ISBN: 9781469651866

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Published: University of North Carolina Press - February 1st, 2019

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance Cover Image

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance (Paperback)

By Jennifer Armstrong

$12.99

ISBN: 9780375810497

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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers - September 12th, 2000

The extraordinary true story behind Ernest Shackleton's harrowing expedition to Antarctica on the Endurance—the ill-fated ship that became trapped in ice and sank to the ocean floor. Defying the odds, the crew made it back alive, bringing with them the astounding collection of photographs included in this critically acclaimed, timeless book.

Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (Vintage Departures) Cover Image

Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (Vintage Departures) (Paperback)

By Mike Tidwell

$18.00

ISBN: 9780375725173

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Published: Vintage - March 9th, 2004

The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes it unlike any other place in the world.