Events

Marcus and Eddie are the stars of Long Island City High School's basketball team. Marcus is black and Eddie is white, but they got past all that "racial crap" and have been best friends for years. Then one cold night, something goes wrong. Told in their two voices, Black and White is the gripping story of two boys who make a bad mistake. It's also a heartbreaking look at the realities of the urban criminial justice system. Black and White is the featured book for ReadMOre, an initiative of the St. Louis Public Library. Teens can pick up free copies of Black and White at library branches before the event.  Paul Volponi is a writer, journalist and teacher. For six years he taught incarcerated teens on Rikers Island to read and write, and for six years taught teens in drug day-treatment centers, influencing many of his novels. Volponi's other books, including his newest, Rikers High, will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books before and at the event.

CIA agent Jon Wells returns, in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from #1 New York Times best-selling writer Alex Berenson. Early one morning, a former CIA agent is shot to death in the street. That night, an army vet is gunned down in his doorway. The next day, John Wells gets a phone call. Come to Langley. Now. The two victims were part of an eleven-member interrogation team that operated out of a secret base in Poland called the Midnight House. Now Wells must find out who is killing them. As a reporter for The New York Times, Alex Berenson has covered topics ranging from the occupation of Iraq to the flooding of New Orleans to the financial crimes of Bernie Madoff. His previous novels include The Faithful Spy, winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for best first novel, and The Ghost War.