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If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books. *March 20th
Elizabeth Helman Minchilli-
Italian Rustic *March 23rd
Oliver A. Houck-
Taking Back Eden *March 27th
Michael Lewis-
The Big Short
Please select Read More! for complete list of events and details.Title of Event: Oliver A. Houck/Taking Back Eden
When: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:00 PM
Location: Garden District Book Shop
Description: Oliver A. Houck discusses and signs his book Taking Back Eden.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.
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Saturday - April 17,
3:30PM Garden District Book Shop's Cookbook Club
welcomes: Tom Fitzmorris Cookbook Club Book: Hungry Town: A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything.
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Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town: A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything
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Fitzmorris, Tom
Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than thirty-five years he's written a weekly restaurant review, but he's best known for a long-running, daily radio talk show devoted to New Orleans restaurants and cooking.
In "Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town," Fitzmorris movingly describes the disappearance of New Orleans's food culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its triumphant comeback--an essential element in the city's recovery. He leads up to it with a recent history of New Orleans dining before the hurricane, from the Creole craze of the 1980s to the opening of restaurants by big-name chefs like Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse. Fitzmorris's coverage of the heroic return of the city's chefs after Katrina highlights the importance of local cooking traditions to a community. The book includes recipes for some of the dishes mentioned in the story, and numerous sidebars informed by Fitzmorris's long career writing about this delicious city.
"New Orleanians are passionate about a lot of things, especially food Nobody understands this better than Tom Fitzmorris. In "Hungry Town," Tom gives readers insight into this amazing and one-of-a-kind city, and shows how food and the restaurant industry helped the city to survive and thrive after Katrina."
-- EMERIL LAGASSE, chef, restaurateur, and TV host
"No city restaurant critic in U.S. history has written more, eaten more, or knows more of their cuisine than Tom Fitzmorris."
-- JAMES CARVILLE, political commentator, New Orleanian, and food enthusiast
"A delicious read, part autobiographical, with wonderful recipes and a comprehensive restaurant history. This is a great tribute to the indomitable spirit of the New Orleans restaurant community, which brought our city back from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. "Hungry Town" is a must for both New Orleanians and lovers of New Orleans food."
-- ANNE GOOCH, Galatoire's Restaurant and New Orleans Wine and Food Experience co-founder
"This book is a must-have for any New Orleanian or anyone traveling to New Orleans. It's full of the juicy tidbits that you can't find anywhere else. His prose will leave you salivating after every chapter. What a delicious read "
-- JOHN BESH, Besh Restaurant Group chef/owner
"From his cat-bird seat, Tom Fitzmorris shares with us the family feuds, delicious tidbits, and vicious bites that comprise the New Orleans food scene of the late twentieth century. Hungry Town is the Tom-tell-all we've all been waiting for "
-- POPPY TOOKER, Slow Food New Orleans founder and food activist |
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Join us, at the Louisiana Children's Museum to welcome Mo Willems!
- February 12th at 12PM - Presenting Mo Willems and his books including I Am Going!. This event will be held at the Louisiana Children’s Museum. More information to follow.
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Garden District Book Shop resides inside the historic property called the Rink at the corner of Washington Avenue and Prytania Street, in New Orleans' beautiful Garden District.We carry a large collection of regional titles - new and used; design, art and gardening books; fiction and non-fiction; children's; and signed first editions and limited editions by many regionally and nationally acclaimed authors.
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Signed Copies Available
 Books our customers love. We think you will love them as well.
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South of Broad
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Conroy, Pat
Signed copies now available - call or email to order. The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship. |
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Our book group meets at the book shop, the second Wednesday of every month at 6:00PM. New members are always welcome.April 14th- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
May 12th- Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
June 9th- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
July 14th- Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Please select Read More! full details and book ordering.
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Still Alice
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Genova, Lisa
"Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, "Still Alice" captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind... Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind," "Ordinary People" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog" "in the Night-time," Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction. |
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir
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White, Neil
Mississippi wheeler-dealer Neil White, after years of snowballing financial deals and deceptions, finds himself assigned to a year in a Federal correction facility in Carville, Louisiana, home to the last people in the continental U.S. with Hansen's Disease -- better known as leprosy. From the unlikely combination of inmates and patients, White struggles to discover new values and to understand a little-known world.--Carolyn Chesser, Bayou Book Company (Niceville, FL) |
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