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Get Your Lit On: The Harry Potter Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Jackie Collins presents Drop Dead Beautiful 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Howard Frank Mosher presents On Kingdom Mountain 7pm @ Vroman's
Dana Bedford Hilmer and contributors present Blindsided by a Diaper 7pm @ Dutton's
Tuesday
Sisters in Crime Los Angeles present LAndmarked for Murder 6:30pm @ Los Feliz Public Library
Fayla Reiss presents Knitovation 6:30pm @ Encino-Tarzana Public Library
Amy Cohen presents The Late Bloomer's Revolution 7pm @ Book Soup
Floyd Landis presents Positively False 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Brian "Head" Welch presents Save Me From Myself 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Susan Ronald presents The Pirate Queen 7pm @ Vroman's
Megan Crane presents Frenemies 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Howard Frank Mosher presents On Kingdom Mountain 7:30pm @ Village Books
Stacey Grenrock Woods presents I, California: The Occasional History of a Child Actress/Tap Dancer/Record Store Clerk/Thai Waitress/Playboy Reject/Nightclub Booker 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Wednesday
Floyd Landis presents & signs Positively False 7pm @ Borders, Pasadena
Brian "Head" Welch presents Save Me From Myself 7pm @ Book Soup
Lian Dolan presents Over the Hill & Between the Sheets 7pm @ Vroman's
Shant Kenderian presents 1001 Nights in Iraq 7pm @ Glendale Public Library
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Thursday
Pamela Des Barres presents Let's Spend the Night Together 7pm @ Book Soup (read the LAist interview)
Kim Addonizio presents My Dreams Out in the Street 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Friday
Nicholas Kulish presents Last One In 7pm @ Book Soup
Jerry Stahl presents Love Without: Stories 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Harry Potter Event 10pm @ Vroman's
Harry Potter Event 10pm @ Skylight Books
Harry Potter Event 10:30pm @ Village Books
Harry Potter Event 11pm @ Dutton's
Saturday
Harry Potter Event 9am @ Vroman's
Harry Potter Event 10:30am @ Village Books
Michael J. Diamond presents My Father Before Me 2pm @ Metropolis Books
Brian Wiprud presents Tailed 2pm @ Book'em Mysteries
J.B.B. Winner presents In Strand Prophecy 3pm @ Borders, Pasadena
Katherine Center presents The Bright Side of Disaster 3:30pm @ Dutton's
Willy Vlautin presents The Motel Life 4pm @ Vroman's
Todd Oldham presents Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life 5pm @ Book Soup
Dr. Moneim Fadali presents The Purpose of Life: Is to live it and Here is how 5pm @ Skylight Books
Harry Potter Event Midnight @ Book Soup
Sunday
Maia Danziger signs Relax & Write 2pm @ Dutton's
Michael Robotham presents The Night Ferry 3pm @ Book'em Mysteries
Ridley Pearson discusses and signs Killer Weekend 4pm @ Vroman's
Amy Gerstler and Aimee Bender read their work 8:30pm @ Family
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