Events

This weekend, members of our Friends of Left Bank Books Literary Society enjoy 25% off store-wide, at both stores! If you're not already a member of the Friends program, consider this: if you were to buy $140 or more worth of books this weekend--Christmas in July, anyone?--you could essentially sign up as a Friend for free (or less than free!) since the 25% discount would cancel out the $35 cost of joining at the Reader level. Then for the rest of the year you could enjoy the luxuriant benefits of Friends membership--access to our other annual sale in December, invitations to private receptions with exciting authors, as well as our unabated admiration. Ask a bookseller for more details!(Unfortunately the sale discount won't combine with other discounts--highest discount trumps!--and can't be applied to special orders or periodicals.)

Join us for a book signing with Venus Williams, a professional tennis player with three Olympic Gold medals, 20 Grand Slam titles, and numerous other championship wins. We will be celebrating her new book, Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession. Purchase Come to Win from Left Bank Books to meet Venus Williams and have her book signed.

Please observe the following guidelines to help the event run smoothly:

• Venus will not pose for pictures, but pictures can be taken from the line.
• No memorabilia will be signed.
• Only books purchased from Left Bank Books will be signed. There is no limit on the number of books per person.
• Venus will only sign her name, no personalizations.
• This is a book signing only; there will not be a talk.

Parking information:

• Our free lot on the corner of 10th & Olive (limited capacity, will likely fill up early)
• Ninth Street Garage: entrance on Olive, to your left, between 10th St and 9th St
• SLCCH Garage: entrance on 10th St, to your left, between Washington and Locust
• STL Parking Lot at Tucker & St. Charles
• More parking options can be found at www.downtownstl.org

A polar bear tries to go green. In Hollywood. With Leonardo DiCaprio. In an outrageous tale that includes equally outrageous full-color illustrations. Sounds like a party to us! Join us with T Cooper (Lipschitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes; A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing) and Alex Petrowsky (St. Louis artist, recent winner of the Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award) as they present their wacky and edgy graphic novel, The Beaufort Diaries. Mad Art Gallery will have a cash bar at this event.

Click here to check out the animated trailer!