One Book, One New Orleans

Barnes & Noble in Metairie is holding a fundraiser for One Book, One New Orleans from Wednesday, October 1st through Sunday, October 5th. 

From October 1st - 5th at Barnes & Noble in Metairie, Barnes & Noble will donate to One Book a percentage of the sales of City of Refuge in which this flyer is presented or One Book, One New Orleans is mentioned at checkout. 

This fundraiser is being held in conjunction with Tom Piazza’s appearance at the store at 3pm on October 5th for a reading and book signing of City of Refuge.

Annie’s Home: A Community Art Project for Children

At locations around Greater New Orleans, children decorate pint-sized milk cartons to create houses, which will be placed together to form a giant New Orleans neighborhood! Children may make an extra house to keep for themselves, of course!

10/3 - Big Top’s Friday Night Music Camp; 5-7pm
1638 Clio Street, New Orleans; 569-2700

10/18 - Jeff. Parish East Bank Regional Library; 10 am
4747 W. Napoleon Ave, Metairie; 838-1190

10/18 - Blue Cypress Books, 2pm
8126 Oak St, New Orleans; 352-0096

11/1 - Jeff. Parish West Bank Regional Library, 10:30 am
2571 Manhattan Blvd, Harvey; 364-2660

11/29 - Arts Market of N.O.; Palmer Park; 10:30 am - 4pm
Children’s Tent, beginning with the N.O. Hornets Bookmobile at 10:30 am, then Annie’s Home!

The following is a list of scheduled discussion groups this fall.  Each group has a 15 seat limit.  Use our online form to sign up or sign up in the corresponding store/library.  

Fall events will be announced as they are confirmed.  To receive the latest updates, sign up for our email list! (along the right sidebar)

9/18 - Garden District Book Shop; 6pm
2727 Prytania St.; 895-2266; Garden District

9/25 - deVille Books; 6pm
134 Carondelet Street; 525-1846; CBD

10/4 - Afro-American Book Stop; 1pm
7056 Read Blvd.; 243-2436; N.O. East

10/11 - Barnes & Noble, Metairie; 12pm
3721 Veterans Blvd.; 455-4929

10/11 - Barnes & Noble, West Bank; 12pm
1601B West Bank Expwy.; 263-1146

10/14 - Barnes & Noble, Mandeville; 7pm
3414 Hwy. 190 (sign up in store only)

10/25 - Community Book Center; 3pm
2523 Bayou Road; 948-7323; 7th Ward

10/28 - Octavia Books; 6pm
513 Octavia St.; 899-7323; Uptown

10/29 - N.O. Pub. Library, Mid-City; 6pm
330 N. Carrollton Ave., 483-7750

Read about Tom Piazza and City of Refuge in Susan Larson’s August 17th Times-Picayune article.

http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/08/city_of_refuge_tom_piazza.html

Also read Susan Larson’s beautifully written synopsis of City of Refuge.  

http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/08/a_city_of_refuge_is_a_tale_of.html

City of Refuge will also be the October selection for the new Times-Picayune Online Book Club, which will be available at www.nola.com/books when it goes live!

What happens when you ask Greater New Orleans residents to suggest a book for everyone else to read?

We were happy to receive so many suggestions from the community, as this is your project.

Click here for the books suggested and the publisher’s description of each book!