Callie Miller

Monday Gordy Slack presents The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Kimberlee Auerbach presents The Devil, The Lovers and Me: My Life in Tarot 7pm @ Book Soup Gregg Hurwitz presents The Crime Writer 7pm @ Borders, Century City Kirk Douglas presents Let's Face It 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino Wednesday Laurie Viera Rigler presents Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict 7pm @ Vroman's Helen Gilbert presents Okay Girls,...

Monday James Rollins presents The Judas Strain 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Jonathan Selwood presents Pinball Theory of the Apocalypse 7pm @ Book Soup Patricia Bunin and contributors sign The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the Sweater 7pm @ Dutton's Wednesday Kristin Gore presents Sammy's House 7pm @ Vroman's Gustavo Arellano & Sam Quinones present Ask a Mexian & Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream 7pm @ Book Soup Thursday Vincent Bugliosi presents Reclaiming History 7pm...

It was supposed to be a big deal. The signs have been up for months. Big, fancy Target on Colorado Blvd to open on July 29th. We got word that the "soft launch" of this super-new, super-big, super-special Target would take place this week. What's so special about this three-story Target? An excellent question. So we checked it out during prime evening shopping hours and could not believe that it was empty, empty, empty....

Monday Mike Carey presents The Devil You Know 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Doug Stumpf presents Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy 7pm @ Book Soup Joy Horowitz presents Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School 7pm @ Central Library Michael Tucker signs Living a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy 7pm @ Dutton's Jerry Stahl presents Love Without 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach Thomas...

Harry Potter is a touchy subject these days. The books have been around for so long, that kids who once loved Harry Potter are growing increasingly embarassed by that fact and now distance themselves from the teen magician. Still older kids -- like, say, ADULTS -- have followed every book with a frenzy and will no doubt join in this week's madness as Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows hits stores all over LA....

The beauty of living in Los Angeles is that no matter where you are going or what you are doing, you will stumble across something unexpected, something new, something you had no idea was happening but find yourself participating in once you've discovered it. Impromptu-style. With complete strangers. A lucky accident that presents itself while you are busy conducting your everyday life. Case in point: because we buy independent, we made our way to...

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...

There are good bookstores and there are great bookstores. If you're a booklover, any store that contains books makes the cut. If you're selling books and you give us a chair, we're there. If you stock a few harder-to-find books, pipe in great music, and hire staff that loves books as much as we do, we're there a lot more often. Toss in excellent author events, pour some wine, and you've got us for...

Monday If you haven't managed to rest-up after your July 4th blow-out, you get one more day. But that's it! Tuesday Emily White presents You Will Make Money in Your Sleep 7pm @ Book Soup Patricia Schultz signs 1000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die 7pm @ Dutton's Stephen L. Carter presents New England White 7pm @ EsoWon Books John Amaechi signs Man in the Middle 7:30pm @ Barnes...

Monday Lisa See discusses and signs Peony In Love 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Get ready for the big Holiday. Or, you know, read a book. Wednesday Celebrate the big Holiday. Read a book in the shade. Thursday Chris Nichols presents The Leisure Architecture of Wayne McAllister 7pm @ Vroman's Zenon Neumark presents Hiding in the Open 7:30pm @ Village Books Friday Recovery from the big Holiday if yesterday wasn't enough. Lay around. Relax. Read...