October 2022

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Saturday, October 1, 3:00 pm
Shanterra Mcbride & Rosalind Wiseman — Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism - with Lena Derhally — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 1, 5:00 pm
Robert J. Lieber — Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 2, 3:00 pm
The Washington Writers' Publishing House — Suzanne Feldman and Anthony Moll — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 2, 5:30 pm
Kwame Alexander - Door of No Return - at Conn Ave
5:30 pm
 
 
Sunday, October 2, 7:30 pm
[NEW DATE OCT. 8] Pete Souza — The West Wing and Beyond: What I Saw Inside the Presidency — at Sixth & I
7:30 pm
 
Monday, October 3, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Kamila Shamsie — Best of Friends - with Meg Wolitzer
6:00 pm
 
Monday, October 3, 7:00 pm
Geoffrey Berman — Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department - with Jan Crawford — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Wednesday, October 5, 7:00 pm
Yiyun Li — The Book of Goose: A Novel - with Maud Casey — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 6, 2:00 pm
P&P Live! Alan Gratz - Two Degrees
2:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 6, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Ambassador Andrew Young & Paula Young Shelton - Just Like Jesse Owens
6:00 pm
 
 
Thursday, October 6, 7:00 pm
J.M. Hirsch — Pour Me Another: 250 Ways to Find Your Favorite Drink - at Union Market
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 6, 7:00 pm
Thomas E. Ricks — Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 7, 7:00 pm
Maggie Haberman — Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America - with Kaitlan Collins —at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 8, 1:00 pm
Major Garrett and David Becker — The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of The Big Lie - with Susan Page - at Conn Ave
1:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 8, 3:00 pm
[POSTPONED] Allison Gilbert — Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman - with Kitty Kelley - at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 8, 5:00 pm
Jim Towey — To Love and be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa - with Mary Hasson — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 9, 3:00 pm
Ruth M. Glenn — Everything I Never Dreamed: My Life Surviving and Standing Up to Domestic Violence - with Rosie Hidalgo — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 9, 5:00 pm
Adam Hochschild — American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis - at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
Monday, October 10, 7:00 pm
Brenna Maloney — Buzzkill: A Wild Wander Through the Weird and Threatened World of Bugs - at Conn Ave in the Children & Teens Dept
7:00 pm
 
Monday, October 10, 7:00 pm
David Marchick — The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America's Presidential Transitions - with Nancy Cook — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 11, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus, & Julie Robine - Muhammad Najem, War Reporter
6:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 11, 7:00 pm
Becca Andrews — No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right - with Renee Bracey Sherman — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 12, 10:00 am
P&P Live! Shaelyn McDaniel — Hello, Opportunity: The Story of Our Friend On Mars
10:00 am
 
Wednesday, October 12, 7:00 pm
Ruha Benjamin — Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want - with Clint Smith — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 12, 7:30 pm
Achut Deng - Don't Look Back - with Amna Nawaz in the Children & Teens Dept at Conn Ave.
7:30 pm
 
Thursday, October 13, 7:00 pm
Michael Cohen — Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 13, 7:00 pm
Maulik Pancholy - Nikhil Out Loud - with Jonathan Capehart at Conn Ave in the Children & Teens Dept.
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 14, 7:00 pm
Cody Keenan — Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America - with Jen Psaki —at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 14, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Marcie Rendon — Sinister Graves - with Angeline Boulley
8:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 15, 3:00 pm
Maggie O'Farrell — The Marriage Portrait - with Ron Charles — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 15, 5:00 pm
Natasha Lance Rogoff — Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia - with Susan Glasser — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 16, 3:00 pm
Mahnaz Afkhami — The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement - with Azar Nafisi — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 16, 5:00 pm
Kristina R. Gaddy — Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History - at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
Monday, October 17, 7:00 pm
Michael Fanone — Hold The Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul - with Eric Swalwell — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 18, 7:00 pm
Rana Foroohar — Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World - with Sarah Bloom Raskin— at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 18, 7:00 pm
Hena Khan - Zara's Rules for Finding Hidden Treasure - in partnership with Takoma Park, MD Library at Takoma Park Community Center
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 18, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Amber Tamblyn — Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition - with Samantha Irby, Amy Poehler, and Bonnie Tamblyn
8:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 pm
Robert Draper — Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind - at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
 
Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 pm
Orhan Pamuk — Nights of Plague with Angie Kim — at Sixth & I
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 20, 7:00 pm
Femi Fadugba - Upper World - at Conn Ave in the Children & Teens Dept
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 21, 10:30 am
John Gallagher - Max Meow #4: Taco Time Machine - at Conn Ave
10:30 am
 
Friday, October 21, 7:00 pm
Margaret Sullivan — Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life - with Elahe Izadi — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 22, 1:00 pm
Rachel Bade & Karoun Demirjian — Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump - with Kasie Hunt — at Conn Ave
1:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 22, 3:00 pm
Linda Pastan — Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems - at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 22, 5:00 pm
Dani Shapiro — Signal Fires: A Novel - with Jacki Lyden - at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 23, 3:00 pm
Anna Badkhen — Bright Unbearable Reality — at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 23, 5:00 pm
Emily Tamkin — Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
Monday, October 24, 7:00 pm
Nicholas Dawidoff — The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City - with Kevin Young — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 pm
Timothy Shenk — Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 26, 7:00 pm
Emily Flitter — The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America - with Kimberly Latrice Jones - at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 26, 7:00 pm
Andrew Maraniss - Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team - at Conn Ave in the Children & Teens dept - with David Maraniss
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 27, 7:00 pm
Jon Meacham — And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle - with Clint Smith — at Sixth & I
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 27, 7:00 pm
Nomi Prins — Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever - at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 27, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Andrea L. Rogers - Man Made Monsters - With Nick Thomas
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 28, 7:00 pm
Jemele Hill — Uphill: A Memoir - with Tiffany D. Cross - at Conn Ave
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 29, 1:00 pm
John A. Lawrence — Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi's Speakership, 2005-2010 — at Conn Ave
1:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 29, 3:00 pm
Christian Gregory — The Essential Dick Gregory - at Conn Ave
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 29, 5:00 pm
Bárbara Mujica — Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood - with Domnica Radulescu— at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 30, 3:00 pm
Andrew Meier — Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of American Dynasty
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 30, 5:00 pm
Joanna Margaret — The Bequest - with Melissa Scholes Young — at Conn Ave
5:00 pm
 
Monday, October 31, 7:00 pm
Greg Melville — Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries - with AJ Orlikoff — at Conn Ave
7:00 pm