Wednesday, September 17Books will be available and purchase and signing.
Monday, September 15Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Tuesday, September 9Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Monday, September 8th Burton Bernstein, former New Yorker staff writer and author of Leonard Bernstein: American Original, How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World During his New York Philharmonic Years, 1943–1976, and his co-author, Barbara Haws, the historian and archivist of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, will discuss this new book, which examines Bernstein’s landmark achievements and activities, placing them in the broader cultural context of New York City from 1943 to 1976.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Carnegie Hall's website on Fall 2008 Bernstein Festival.
Monday, August 4Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
Sunday, August 3Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Furthur author information.
Monday, July 28Author Andre Dubus III , National Book Award finalist for House of Sand and Fog, will discuss his new novel, The Garden of Last Days. Set in Florida in early September 2001, the story brings together four characters who, for reasons of wounded pride, ambition, desperation, or fear, delude themselves into thinking that the path they have chosen is the only possible path.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Promotional video for The Garden of Last Days.
Tuesday, July 15Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
Thursday, July 10Westport author Winston E. Allen will discuss Don’t Get Mad, Get Rich—Become Financially Independent. Using a no-nonsense approach, this upbeat and inspirational book shows how to achieve greater financial success by anticipating and navigating the cyclical economic downturns and developing a wealth building mentality.
Books will be available and purchase and signing.
Tuesday, July 8Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, July 2 Just days before what would have been, based on Armstrong’s account of being born on July 4th, Louis Armstrong’s 108th birthday, Staples high school graduate Todd Bryant Weeks, will talk the jazz great. Weeks worked as a lecturer, archivist, and tour guide at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He is the author of the recently published biography Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page.
Wednesday, June 25Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East is a brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Authors Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac tell this character-driven story of how the modern Middle East came to be through the colorful lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Monday, June 16Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Article by author.
Wednesday, June 11 NYT article from 1997 about the book
Furthur book information.
Tuesday, June 10Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.
Monday, June 9Books available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
About Pete Fornatale's radio program.
Thursday, June 5Janis Abrahms Spring, Westport author of How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To, will discuss a radical approach and an empowering model to healing intimate wounds and forgiveness. Her third book, an inspirational memoir on caring for an aging parent, will be published in late spring 2009.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Wednesday, June 4Westport author A. E. Hotchner traveled with Ernest Hemingway for 14 years and collected a lifetime's worth of Hemingway's experiences, anecdotes, and observations about everything imaginable, from war to women, hunting to Hollywood, life to death. His new book, The Good Life According to Hemingway, which includes over 150 rare black and white photos from Hotchner’s personal collection, is an exuberant, fully illustrated celebration of Hemingway’s remarkable genius and the wild adventures of his life.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
More information about A.E. Hotchner.
Book review.
Wednesday, May 21In this biography, The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story, which is based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Brooke Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, author Frances Kiernan gives us back the woman so loved and admired, whose hands-on approach would inspire future philanthropists.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Wednesday, May 14With a mix of sex, violence, and humor, longtime Westport resident and
hairdresser Nicholas Mancini takes a look behind the scenes of this little-explored industry in his novel, A Hairdresser’s Revenge.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
Book Review.
Tuesday, May 13Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Synopses and reviews.
Wednesday, May 7Pamela Paul discusses her book, Parenting, Inc.: How We Are Sold on $800 Strollers, Fetal Education, Baby Sign Language, Sleeping Coaches, Toddler Couture, and Diaper Wipe Warmers—and What It Means for Our Children, an investigative look at how today’s parents are faced with an endless parade of gadgets, educational opportunities, toys, gear, and expert services deemed necessities to raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted baby.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.
Tuesday, May 6Author Deirdre Imus will discuss her new book, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series , a parent-friendly, practical guide to raising a healthy child in our increasingly toxic environment.
Co-sponsored with Westport-Weston Cooperative Nursery School.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.
Thursday, May 1Author Gene Wilder will be interviewed by NPR's Alison Freeland about his second book, The Woman Who Wouldn't.
Registration is now closed.
However, we invite you to attend the book signing afterwards, which will begin at approximately 8:30 pm in the large reading room at the Library. No registration is necessary to attend the book signing.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Monday, April 28In Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, Susan Nagel tells the remarkable story of the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Using handwriting samples, DNA testing, and an undiscovered cache of Bourbon family letters, she draws a vivid portrait of an astonishing woman.
Co-sponsored by the Y’s Women.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Wednesday, April 16Last Call at Elaine's: A Journey from One Side of the Bar to the Other is Brian McDonald's colorful and sensitively drawn memoir of drinking, serving, writing, and finding his way out from behind the bar of a well-known and beloved restaurant known for its famous literary and luminary clientele.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, April 9Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, incorporates her lyrical writing style with the original diary thoughts of a young woman, Florence Howitt. The result is a Depression-era Manhattan fairytale. The diary was found in a dumpster, and the book's author traced the owner to Westport, where she now lives. Both Lily Koppel and Florence Howitt, the subject of the book, will discuss the book and answer questions.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Tuesday, March 25Bill Evans, a meteorologist for New York's WABC-TV, and novelist Mariana Jameson pit a posse of diverse weatherfolk against Simone, a storm of unheard-of magnitude that's headed straight for Manhattan in the slow-building thriller, Category 7. As it turns out, Simone isn't a natural phenomenon but the product of semimad scientist Carter Thompson. Evans is the five-time Emmy Award-winning, nationally-renowned senior meteorologist for WABC.
WestportREADS is sponsored by Jerry A. Tishman.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Thursday, February 28Wendy Walker’s Four Wives is a study of domestic discontent in which four women face the most difficult, heartbreaking challenge of their lives, reconciling their innermost desires with the lives that each has chosen.
Sunday, February 24Debby Applegate, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, the definitive tale of this captivating, mercurial, and sometimes infuriating figure.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, February 20With wisdom and humor, punctuated with outrage over injustice, Tracy Sugarman’s artistry and prose provide insights into our American psyche in Drawing Conclusions: An Artist Discovers His America.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Friday, February 15High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in An Age of Greed, by Michael Kodas, is a shocking expose of the dark underside of Everest with people all but murdered in the cutthroat race to get to the top.
Books available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, February 13In Stealing Lincoln’s Body, Thomas J.Craughwell relates the bizarre grave robbery of Lincoln’s embalmed body by counterfeiters hoping to bargain for a pardon.
Books available for purchase and signing.
Monday, February 11Lawrence Goldstone, author of The Anatomy of Deception, discusses his forensic thriller, set in 1889, Philadelphia, where a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer. “Compelling….[A] top-notch historical page-turner."-Publishers Weekly.
Books available for purchase and signing.
Friday, February 8Family life in Catholic India is explored through nine interconnected tales in What You Call Winter: Stories, the debut work of beguiling fiction by Nalini Jones.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Tuesday, February 5In Virtue, Valor, and Vanity, Eric Burns brings the Founding Fathers down off their pedestals to reveal flesh-and-blood men—vain and modest, sensitive and stubborn, brilliant and ambitious.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, January 30Set in the small Colombian mountain village of Mariquita, Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men, is Colombian-born author James Canon's literary debut. After their men are kidnapped by Communist guerillas, the women learn how to survive and create a peaceful new community. The Washington Post calls the book "A rollicking and often shocking tale that Canon tells with charm and bite."
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Reviews
Wednesday, January 23Author Lee Vance, a retired general partner of Goldman Sachs Group, has written a lightning-fast thriller that unfurls in the worlds of high finance and fine art as it follows one man determined to avenge his wife's death. Restitution has been described as whip-smart and fiercely exciting from first page to last.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Reviews
Tuesday, January 15Jordan M. Wright has written a richly illustrated history of American presidential elections told through campaign memorabilia, from Washington to Bush...the story of how presidents and their losing rivals have wooed voters since America was founded. Campaigning for President has been described as "a stunning book, a wonderful way for people to learn about democracy and how the political process works."
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Tuesday, January 8A pioneer of the happiness movement, Alexandra Stoddard, author of Happiness for Two: 75 Secrets for Finding More Joy Together, will explain how couples can pursue personal happiness together. Stoddard is a lifestyle philosopher whose books and lectures have inspired millions. This event is co-sponsored with the Westport Young Woman's League.
Meeting begins at 7:00 pm.
Author at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday, December 12