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*LOW TICKET ALERT* St. Louis County Library and the Left Bank Books Foundation present #1 Bestselling Novelist Jodi Picoult, author of “By Any Other Name." INDIVIDUAL TOUHILL TICKET $40, admits ONE and includes one pre-signed copy of “By Any Other Name."

Keynote speakers for the Aestheticizing Politics / Politicizing Aesthetics: The St. Louis Symposium on Radicalism in U.S. Arts symposium will be at Left Bank Books. Doors open at 6 p.m. on Friday, with poetry readings from Jacqui Germain and Mona Kareem on Saturday.

Debut author and star of Netflix's Emmy-nominated show Shadow and Bone, Calahan Skogman is in-store now signing copies of his book and preparing for his book talk.

We recognized that we had the wrong day of the week in our previous post! Eeek! Today, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, the Left Bank Books Foundation and Left Bank Books welcome Calahan Skogman, the debut author and star of Netflix's Emmy-nominated show Shadow and Bone!

If you're bored this week, you can't blame us. We have events every day of the week. Come check out an author event or book club-- whatever meets your literary needs.

A Left Bank Books favorite and New York Times bestselling author, Sarah Kendzior brings us The Last American Road Trip. In Kendzior's latest offering, we're allowed into the author's more personal side with a dose of political history. Scan the QR code to read more and preorder.

Here are some selections we have in store for our cat lovers today. Do you have a funny cat story? Share it with us in the comments, and the funniest or most endearing story will win a small prize. You can pick it up in-store tomorrow as early as 1 p.m.

It's International Cat Day! According to icatcare.org, an estimated 600 million cats are owned and unowned worldwide. If you've been to the store, Orleans is walking around, lying down, or sleeping in the window between 2-4:30ish p.m. It's really his bookstore.

It's Primary Election Week in St. Louis, and local elections impact us directly. Find your polling location and read about the candidates on vote411.org. Balance the week's energy by attending an author talk or participating in an LBB Book Club!

Thank you to Bret Anthony Johnston, Author of We Burn Daylight, for stopping in today to sign copies of his book. Tomorrow, Bret will be in conversation with Novelist John Dalton at the Clark Family Branch Library. Doors open at 6 p.m. and talk at 7 p.m.

We appreciate our customers so much! Thank you, David @doomed_looms, for the beautiful arrangement!

Join the Left Bank Books Foundation tomorrow at 6 p.m. as we welcome Chloe O. Davis back to St. Louis to celebrate her new book, The Queens' English: The Young Readers' Lgbtqia+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases.

Join the Left Bank Books Foundation and Left Bank Books today at 6 p.m. as we celebrate Minsoo Kang, author, and professor at the history department of the University of Missouri at St. Louis, to celebrate his new book The Melancholy of Untold History at Left Bank Books.

All Friends at the Editor ($100-level) or Publisher ($500-level) levels enjoy 20% off from Friday, July 12, through Sunday, July 14, both in-store and online. This is one way we’d like to THANK YOU for supporting Left Bank Books and the Left Bank Books Foundation.

We invite you to share a slice of cake with us and a memory or a few. The cake will be cut at 1 p.m.

Celebrate with us from 12 pm—6 pm outside the store on the McPherson side. We'll have a cart set up with extra-discounted items on sale. Then, at 1 pm, we will cut our birthday cake and share it with everyone! The store is open during regular hours.

Tonight, join the Left Bank Books Foundation as we welcome best-selling author sensation Chuck Tingle! This ticketed event includes one copy of Bury Your Gays. It is 21+ and takes place at The Heavy Anchor. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event starts at 7 p.m.

Join us as we welcome best-selling author sensation, Chuck Tingle! This heart-pounding new novel is "brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary" (Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep). Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event starts at 7 p.m. Age 21+

Join us as we celebrate her new highly anticipated book, Bear. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls it "Beautiful and haunting . . . this is brilliant." An Oprah Daily, CNN, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year.

Friends' Sale Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2024 All Friends at the Editor ($100-level) or Publisher ($500-level) levels enjoy 20% off in-store and online. Sidewalk Sale & Cake Party Saturday, July 13 2024 Celebrate from 12 pm—6 pm 1 pm, birthday cake cutting.