Events

Kim Eisler will be reading from and signing his book Masters Of The Game on September 22, at 6PM at Prince Books.

About The Book:

Veteran legal issues reporter Kim Eisler takes us behind the scenes into mega law firm Williams & Connolly, guiding us on a journey through the many storied cases that have served to shape current policies in public and private sector alike

For the past twenty years, author and journalist Kim Eisler has covered the law firm of Williams & Connolly, first at American Lawyer Magazine, then for Legal Times and since 1993 as National Editor of Washingtonian Magazine. More than any other writer, Kim has unprecedented and unusual contacts and relationships with the partners, as well as a background knowledge and familiarity with the firm’s history and personnel over the past two decades.

In Masters of the Game, Eisler sets out to demonstrate how the disciples of Edward Bennett Williams went beyond anyone’s expectations and came to occupy key roles in American culture and business. In the last ten years of his life, Williams, the founder of Williams and Connolly, often said he was building not just a law firm but a monument. Masters of the Game is not only about a law firm, but about how the philosophy and practices of this particular law firm have spread out beyond Washington to dominate business, finance, sports and the American psyche itself through its influence with past, present and future political, corporate and media figures.

On September 23th at 7:00 pm, Jon Pineda will be in store to celebrate the release of his new memoir, Sleep In Me.

About The Book:

 Against the backdrop of his teenage sister’s car accident—in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends—Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica’s sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy. A prize-winning poet’s account of the irreparable damage and the new understanding that tragedy brings to his Filipino American family, Pineda’s book is a remarkable story maneuvering between childhood memories of his sister cheerleading and moments of monitoring her in a coma and changing her adult diapers. Pineda adeptly navigates between these moments of idyllic youth and heartbreaking sadness. Vivid and lyrical, his story is an exploration of what it means to live deeply with tragedy and of the impact such a story can have on a boy’s journey to manhood.

 About The Author: 

Jon Pineda teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Queens University of Charlotte and is the author of two books of poetry, The Translator’s Diary and Birthmark. 

Reviews For Sleep In Me: 

“Sleep in Me is a sharp portrait of place, culture, and growing up male and confused in weird America while at the same time being a tender elegy for those lost. Written with the intimacy and immediacy of a diary and the attention to language and sound of a prose poem, this is a superlative and heartfelt memoir by an excellent new writer.”—Greg Bottoms, author of Fight Scenes and Angelhead: My Brother’s Descent into Madness

“Faced with the loss of a beloved sister, Jon Pineda articulates the currents and depths of tragedy unavailable to outsiders. . . . At the spiritual heart of the book is the drive to discern grievance from real grief. By the end of this tender and honest memoir, a boy’s desire to find and prove himself has strengthened and grown into a man’s thoughtful and freely chosen decision to live bravely, intent on facing forces that threaten to overwhelm and silence him.”—Lia Purpura, author of Increase and On Looking: Essays 

“Sleep in Me is the rare memoir that takes nothing for granted. . . . [Pineda’s] concentrated, vivid scenes move along the edges of silence and speech, shadowing a young man’s physical prowess and his sister’s broken body, a far-flung family and inborn dislocation, variously furious, tender, devastated, and gallant.”—Robert Polito, author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

On Tuesday September 28th, 2010 at 6pm there will be a signing with a trio of talented authors.  Joining us at Prince Books will be, Carolyn J. Lawes, Julie Goodson-Lawes (who write under the pen name Hailey Lind) and Sophie Littlefield.  

Hailey Lind is the pseudonym for two sisters; one an artist and the other a historian. Together they write the Art Lover’s Mystery Series.

One-half of Hailey, Carolyn J. Lawes, is an Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University, where she specializes in women’s history.  Besides writing mystery novels with her sister, she has published numerous academic articles and reviews along with one major book, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. She has won both college and university teaching awards and was voted “Favorite Professor” in 1996. She speaks French with a distinct American accent and leaves the art to her sister.

The other half of Hailey, Julie Goodson-Lawes, is a San Francisco Bay Area muralist and portrait painter with her own faux finishing and design business. She is a nationally best-selling author of paranormal mysteries under her other pseudonym, Juliet Blackwell. She has published several non-fiction articles on immigration as well as one book-length translation and has lived in Mexico, Spain, Italy, the Philippines, and France.

They will be promoting their latest book Arsenic and Old Paint, by Hailey Lind (4th in series).

Also at Prince book on this date will be Sophie Littlefield

She will be promoting her first novel (A Bad Day For Sorry, St. Martin’s Minotaur) features a rural Missouri housewife-turned-vigilante. It was nominated for the 2010 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel, as well as the Anthony, Macavity and Barry Awards for Best First Novel. It won the Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Mystery of 2009 by RT BookReviews Magazine, and appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle and IMBA bestseller lists. Her young adult novel, Banished, will be released by Delacorte in October 2010. Her post-apocalyptic suspense series for Harlequin Luna will debut in March 2011. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in a variety of publications. Sophie lives in Northern California with her family.