Author Talk/Booksinging with Heather McElhatton

Heather McElhatton’s addictive new choose-your-own-ending novel for adults, you can find out exactly what you’d do. Would you buy a mansion? Save an endangered species? Have a debauched weekend on Sex Island?

A follow-up to her bestselling debut, PRETTY LITTLE MISTAKES, MILLION LITTLE MISTAKES lets you indulge all your strange dreams and dark desires, taking you from the lap of luxury to the pits of despair depending on which road you travel. One beginning leads to over 50 different endings, which will surprise, shock, and delight readers as they hunt for happiness.

Woven into this wildly funny and unpredictable book is the deeper question, can money buy happiness? Twenty-two million dollars can buy a lot, but can it buy a happy ending? Will your fortune be lost in a Ponzi scheme? Will your luxury cruise be hijacked by South Seas pirates? Will your wildest fantasy bring you to new heights of pleasure or just to an STD clinic? Is your destiny to become a philanthropist, a pharmaceutical tycoon, a happy home maker or burlesque stripper?

About the Author: Heather McElhatton (MACKLE-hatton) is a writer and independent producer for Public Radio International. Her commentaries and stories have been heard nationally on This American Life, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money and The Savvy Traveler. She also produced the radio literary series Talking Volumes. Besides ongoing reporting and radio commentary, Heather appeared on Ira Glass’s very first episode of the television version of This American Life. Her debut novel was a choose-your-own-ending book for adults called Pretty Little Mistakes.

Tuesday, Sept. 7 @ 7:00pm, 28th St.

Are you living the life you imagined? Is there anything you’d have done differently if you could? Those are the questions asked in Kristina Riggle’s unforgettable new novel.

In high school, Cami and Anna were as close as they could be...now, years later, both have returned to their hometown to face the people they had once left behind. Anna must confront her mother, still distraught over the abandonment of her husband, and come to terms with choices she had made years before. While Cami returns home to stay with her alcoholic father, she uncovers a secret he sought to keep which could change her life and salvage her future. They reconnect with their classmate, Amy, who can’t understand why achieving the thin body and handsome man of her dreams hasn’t given her the happily-ever-after she desired. This is a novel that digs deep and touches the heart of the issues so many women face-the quest for perfection, the hope of love, the value of family and importance of always striving for your dream.

Kristina Riggle lives and writes in West Michigan. Her debut novel, Real Life & Liars, was praised by Publishers Weekly for its “humorous and humane storytelling” and by Booklist as “a moving and accomplished first novel.”

She is also a freelance journalist writing primarily for The Grand Rapids Press, and co-editor for fiction at Literary Mama. Kristina was a full-time newspaper reporter for seven years before turning her attention to creative writing and freelancing. As well as writing, she enjoys reading, yoga, dabbling in (very) amateur musical theatre, and spending lots of time with her husband, two kids and dog.

MSU Professor Michael Nelson presents Moral Ground

Join us for an exciting event that will explore an original approach to the climate change crisis which represents a call-to-action based on moral and spiritual premises. Moral Ground presents diverse viewpoints by writers from every walk of life, encompassing an engaging discussion with specific suggestions for personal action and a positive, hopeful, and forward-looking perspective on a divisive issue. With a forward written by Desmond Tutu, Moral Ground appeals to the sense of ethical values and moral responsibility that every human has to take care of the planet, for other species, for ourselves, and for future generations. Editor Michael Nelson, a professor of environmental ethics at Michigan State University – along with a number of his colleagues – will read from the book’s essays, written by over 80 visionaries, including the Dalai Lama, Thomas L. Friedman, John Paul II, Barbara Kingsolver and Barack Obama.

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 7:00pm, Eastwood

Booksigning* with Chef Duff Goldman at Schuler Books Downtown!

PLEASE NOTE:  Details about the Duff Goldman event will be posted as they are made available to us by his publicity team...

Author Talk & Signing with Michigan Mystery Author Harry Dolan!

Join us for a talk and signing with Harry Dolan, Michigan author of Bad Things Happen, now available in paperback! Critics from the New York Times to the Chicago Tribune to Publishers Weekly raved about this stunning debut that is as unpredictable as it is fresh and literary.

Set in the hallowed and often treacherous halls of ‘Gray Streets,’ a crime magazine, Bad Things Happen offers no end of suspects for the series of murders that follow. Could it be one of the many talented writers, all of whom are experts on death and covering it up? The secretarial assistant who’s too smart and conniving for her own good? The cunning wife of the publisher, with whom David Loogan is having an affair? The petty thief whom Loogan believes to be dead but who turns up at Loogan’s house in the middle of the night? The retired cop who shows up out of nowhere with detailed information on Loogan’s past? No one is innocent, and no one is safe in this pulse-pounding mystery that blows the genre apart with great skill and nuance.

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 7:00pm, Eastwood

Book Signing with Denise Rowe

Author and speaker Denise Rowe loves to use symbolism and the creative arts to inspire and help people heal inwardly. As a licensed mental health practitioner, she believes in casting truth in childlike terms in order to reach the deep places of the heart. Dragonfly Denny: the Pursuit of Destiny is exquisitely illustrated from cover to cover in pen and ink and watercolor by award-winning artist Violet Freeland. This metaphor story poem is about daring to dream big, finding a faith that fosters inner healing, courageously risking the unfamiliar, and persevering to own one’s destiny. Because we never outgrow our need to dream, Dragonfly Denny is a tale of inspiration for all ages.

Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:00pm, Okemos

Girls' Night OUt presents award-winning author Emma Donoghue!

The Girls’ Night Out author series is honored to launch the tour for one of the most buzzed-about books of the season when Emma Donoghue comes to our Lansing store to promote her riveting new novel Room! The book has already been selected as a #1 IndieNext pick for September and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. At night Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case Old Nick comes. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she’s been held for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for her son. But Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation – and she knows Room cannot contain either indefinitely…

Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

If you don’t attend another book event this year, this is the night to be present! As always we’ll have goodies and our grab bag book giveaway to enjoy as well.

Mon, 09/20/2010 - 7:00pm, Eastwood

Talk & Signing with Michigan Mystery Author D.E. Johnson!

Join us in celebrating the release of The Detroit Electric Scheme, the debut mystery from Kalamazoo author D.E. Johnson. The book is a fast-paced, detail-filled ride through early-1900s Detroit, involving murder, blackmail, organized crime, the development of a wonderful friendship, and the inside story on early electric automobiles. Populated with fascinating characters, both real and fictional, from a then-flourishing Detroit, the book brings The Dodge brothers and Edsel Ford to life as they interact with denizens of the sordid underbelly of the Motor City, such as Vito Adamo, Detroit’s first Mob boss, and Big Boy, the bouncer at a saloon so notorious the newspapers called it “The Bucket of Blood.” This expertly plotted debut delivers with great research, wonderfully flawed yet likable characters, and a shattering climax.

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 6:00pm, 28th St.

Thu, 09/23/2010 - 7:00pm, Eastwood

Book Signing with J.R. Armstrong

Set in the 1960s and '70s, Owe It to the Wind is a story of love and betrayal. It begins with the high school romance between Michael, an underprivileged all-star athlete, and Meg, an only child in an upper-middle-class home. Determined to flee an abusive parent, Michael abruptly departs their small hometown in Michigan immediately after graduation to play football for the University of Southern California. Before he leaves though, the young lovers make a pact to meet in five years. Neither realizes the consequences of this decision or how it will forever shape their futures. 

Sat, 09/25/2010 - 2:00pm, Okemos

Girls' Night Out Encore with NYT-bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson!

Girls’ Night Out presents an encore August event: MaryJanice Davidson, New York Times-bestselling author of The Undead Series and the creator of paranormal women’s fiction, is back with a brand new series that is witty, sexy and delightfully over the top -- think Davidson with a dash of Jennifer Crusie and Janet Evanovich.

In the rollicking new novel Me, Myself and Why, the sweet and innocent twist of girl-next-door, Cadence Jones, is not your typical woman and certainly not your typical FBI agent. But it’s her special “talent” which makes Cadence such a valuable cop. That talent? She’s certifiably insane.

Multiple Personality Disorder, that is.In fact, everyone in her super secret, super specialized branch of the FBI has some sort of mental illness that gives them a unique perspective on the crimes they solve. For Cadence, that’s her other selves – Shiro, who fears nothing and can catch the importance in tiny details, and Adrienne, who loves to fight – and hurt – when it counts. No one wants to meet Adrienne.

Cadence’s talent never comes in more handy than when she and her sociopathic partner, George (who would just as soon kill you as find your murderer), are tagged to bring down the Threefer Killer. You won’t want to miss this exciting author event, complete with goodies and our grab-bag giveaway!

 Tue, 09/28/2010 - 7:00pm, Eastwood

Grand Premier of the Spartan Wine Society, presenting The History of Michigan Wines!

Join us for the Grand Premier of the Spartan Wine Society, a new Michigan State University group for wine enthusiasts and professionals. Schuler and SWS are coming together to present a talk and signing for The History of Michigan Wines: 150 Years of Winemaking along the Great Lakes by Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Kegerreis. The co-authors’ previous title, From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries, is Michigan’s premier wine book and the winner of a 2008 Michigan Notable Book Award. With their second book they present the first complete documentation of the history of Michigan's dynamic wine industry. Expect some of the biggest names in Michigan wine gathered to kickoff a great new Spartan Wine tradition!

Wed, 09/29/2010 - 6:00pm, Eastwood

Book Signing with Best Selling Mystery Author John Sandford!

Virgil Flowers, the protégé of Lucas Davenport (the star of John Sandford’s New York Times #1 bestselling Prey series) returns to the spotlight in Bad Blood.

Bad Blood opens on a late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota. A farmer brings in a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator – and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he’s sure he’s dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the “accident.” Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down…and the next day the boy’s found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn’t so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncovers a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy – a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he’s seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it…and in figuring out what to do next.

John Sandford is a pseudonym for John Camp, a former police reporter and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist whose varied passions include archaeology, art, photography, hunting and fishing.

Wed, 09/29/2010 - 7:00pm, Okemos