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Mon, 8/24/2026
7:00pm

Virginia Eubanks — A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir -with Jason Resendez — at Conn Ave

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Tue, 8/25/2026
7:00pm

James Loeffler — Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America - with James Loeffler — at Conn Ave

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Tue, 8/25/2026
7:00pm

Annie Lowrey — The Time Tax - with Ezra Klein — at Sixth & I

600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Wed, 8/26/2026
7:00pm

Skye Perryman — Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy - with Eugene Daniels — at Conn Ave

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Wed, 8/26/2026
7:00pm

Joby Warrick — The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist — at The Wharf

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Teen Takeover on August 27th at 5pm on Conneticut Avenue

Thu, 8/27/2026
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Teen Takeover - with Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers (MoCAT) - at Conn Ave

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Thu, 8/27/2026
7:00pm

Nadia Hashimi — City of Widows - with Liza Mundy — at Conn Ave

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Thu, 8/27/2026
7:00pm

Tony Fletcher — Pow!: When UK Punk Went Pop, 1980-84 - with Seth Lorinczi — at Union Market

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Fri, 8/28/2026
7:00pm

K.S. Shay — Portrait of a Witch Undone - with Ioanna Papari Kosiori — at Union Market

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Fri, 8/28/2026
7:00pm

Stuart E. Eizenstat — The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World - with Ambassador Carla A. Hills — at Conn Ave

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Mon, 8/31/2026
7:00pm

Hiram L. Smith — Wassup, My Nigga: The Hidden History of a Controversial Word — at Conn Ave

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Tue, 9/1/2026
7:00pm

David Conrad-Pérez — Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity - with Heather Boushey — at Conn Ave

In Store - Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW

Wed, 9/2/2026
7:00pm

Paul Richter — The Distance Between Our Names: The Untold History of America's War on Japanese Immigrants -with Kathryn Tolbert — at conn ave

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Thu, 9/3/2026
7:00pm

The Hour: Poetry Open Mic — Created and hosted by poet María Fernanda — at Union Market

In Store - Politics and Prose at Union Market (1324 4th Street NE)

Thu, 9/3/2026
7:00pm

Ian Rosenberg — Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody: The True Story of Lies and Libel in Dominion V. Fox - with Eriq Gardner — at Conn Ave

In Store - Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW

Thu, 9/3/2026
7:00pm

Sarah Longwell — How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time - with Kara Swisher — at Sixth & I

600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
United States

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A Tender Age: A Novel

Sunrise: A Novel

The Wild Beneath

Under the Falls: A Novel

Kitten: A Novel

Take What You Can: A Novel

The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn

Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

Crocodilopolis: A Novel

Big Little Truths: A Novel (Big Little series)

Life of M: A Novel

Awake Awake: A Novel

Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire

The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World

How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University

Biological War: A Scenario

What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity

The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders

Mother Mary Comes to Me

A Tender Age: A Novel

Whistler: A Novel

Cool Machine: A Novel (The Harlem Trilogy #3)

Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

The Things We Never Say: A Novel

The Calamity Club

It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories

The Correspondent: A Novel

John of John (Oprah's Book Club)

The Pool Is Cool

Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish

The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: Deluxe Edition

For the Greatest Good

Medicine Wheels

Midsummer Sisters (A Graphic Novel)

When Night Comes Calling

How to Be a Dissident

Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID

The Reservation: A Novel

Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It: A Novel

The Disappearers: A Novel

Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

Country People: A Novel

Whidbey: A Novel

Famesick: A Memoir

Frog: And Other Essays

For the Love of the Grind: A Memoir

Last Day of a Prior Life: A Novel

Our Life in the Forest

Crocodilopolis: A Novel

Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries

Fruit Fly: A Novel

All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir

Jacques Pépin Complete Techniques 50th Anniversary Edition: A Culinary Master Class from the Legendary Teacher—Over 600 Techniques, 1,000 Photographs, 160 Recipes

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