Featured 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.

River Styx at Duff's presents contemporary writers Benjamin Percy (author of Refresh, Refresh) and Mitchell L. H. Douglas (author of Cooling Board).

What the Eldredge bestsellers Wild at Heart did for men, and Captivating did for women, Love & War will do for married couples everywhere. John and Stasi Eldredge have contributed the quintessential works on Christian spirtuality through the experience of men and the experience of women and now they turn their focus to the incredible dynamic between those two forces. Walking alongside John and Stasi Eldredge, every couple can discover how their individual journeys are growing into a story of meaning much greater than they could do or be on their own.

 Tickets are only $15 per person and are available from Ransomed Heart Ministries. All proceeds from ticket sales go to support the work of Ransomed Heart Ministries.

Doors will open at 5:30, and the event will begin at 7:00. Copies of Love & War for signing will be available at Grace Church from Left Bank Books staff.

St. Louis author Susan McBride tells the story of three women who aren't about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation in The Cougar Club. Kat, who loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in compromising position with his comupter, believes that aging gracefully isn't about giving up; it's about living life with your engine on overdrive. Kat, along with Carla, and Elise--the unofficial Cougar Club--quickly learn three things about survival of the fittest in today's youth obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you're never too old to follow your heart.