Book signing and reading: Laurent Binet

Brazos Bookstore

11.23.13

Join for a conversation with French award-winning author Laurent Binet at Brazos Bookstore. Along with Robert Cremins, professor at the University of Houston's Honors College, Binet will d

Books in Conversation series: Amy Tan's The Valley of Amazement

Asia Society Texas Center

12.16.13

The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shroude

Books in Conversation series: Dipak Basu in Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Asia Society Texas Center

12.08.13

Mission to Teach, released in May 2013, is the memoir of a courageous young woman who took on American science education reform against deeply established practices. She suffered several tragedies

Books in Conversation: Jung Chang in Conversation with Anne Chao

Asia Society Texas Center

11.17.13

Internationally known for the bestselling Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang has returned with her first book in eight years. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern

41st Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair film screening: Etgar Keret: What Animal Are You?

11.03.13

Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels and scriptwriting for film and television. What Animal Are You? appears in his collection Suddenly, a Knock on the Door.

41st Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair Closing Night: The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom

11.18.13

From internationally renowned award-winning author, screenwriter, playwright and nationally syndicated columnist Mitch Albom, comes an allegory about the power of belief, certain to touch your soul

41st Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair Date Night: Dan Gets a Minivan by Dan Zevin

14 Pews

11.16.13

Humorist Dan Zevin's coming-of-middle-age tale provides comic relief about the hilarious journey from couple-hood to family-hood and about a regular guy taking his first tentative, sometimes sc

41st Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair: Omer Avital Quintet concert

11.16.13

Of Yemenite and Moroccan descent, Omer Avital grew up surrounded by the diverse musical and cultural landscape of his native Israel. He moved to New York in 1992, becoming an internationally recogn

41st Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair: How to be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

11.04.13

Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress we often feel uncertain about how to cope. Letty Cottin Pogrebin has distilled the stories of v

41st Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair: The Bohemian Love Diaries by Slash Coleman

11.04.13

Infused with southern charm, this irresistibly weird and wonderful story chronicles Slash Coleman's upbringing in a warped but warm-hearted household of eccentric artists. Obsessions with Evel