Events

Celebrate the power of Independent and Small in this post-Thanksgiving shopping tradition.

Indies First, held on Small Business Saturday, brings together authors, readers, and publishers in support of independent bookstores. Authors and local celebrities volunteer at events across the country, and publishers offer special terms on books and exclusives. Indies First is a day dedicated to supporting the local businesses that help communities thrive.

Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway's tradition.

Launch party for his terrific new novel The Dakota Winters, an evocative and wildly absorbing story about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination.

"Deft, funny, touching, and sharply observed, a marvel of tone, and a skillful evocation of a dark passage in the history of New York City, when all the fearful ironies of the world we live in now first came stalking into view."--Michael Chabon

returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to read from her new novel, Late in the Day.

"Perceptive, finely wrought....Hadley is a writer of the first order, and this novel gives her the opportunity to explore, with profound incisiveness and depth, the inevitable changes inherent to long-lasting marriages."-- Publishers Weekly

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Late in the Day by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website.

discussing Stone's new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, "a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane."--Ann Packer

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller.

presents What your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life.

"Short enough for a busy parent to actually read and use; utterly reliable and authoritative but never pedantic; wise, kind, and teeming with the chirping voices of children who have ADHD; this cornucopia of a book will feed you over and over again. Wonderfully written, infused with positive energy and solid information. All parents of children who have ADHD should buy it."--Edward Hallowell, MD, bestselling author of Delivered from Distraction

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website.

presents her new novel On the Come Up. Stay tuned for details!

returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love.

"Identity is frail business, and in her searing story, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything, from her lineage, to her father, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful."--Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name

To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website.

reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.