TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup October 6

Bookish events in Texas for the week of October 6 - 12, 2014:

Special Events:
Love Libros, El Paso, September 15 - October 15

In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez, Confederate Reunion Grounds - Mexia, September 27 - November 30

Books in the Basin, Midland & Odessa, October 10 - 11

Houston Poetry Festival 2014, October 10 - 12

Monday, October 6:

Austin
BookPeople, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats speaking and signing his debut novel, Wolf in White Van, 7PM

Dallas
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Celebration of Reading fundraiser, 6:30PM

Houston
B&N - River Oaks, Book Signing - 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff, 7PM

Brazos Bookstore, James Ellroy - PERFIDIA, 7PM

Tuesday, October 7:

Austin
BookPeople, Pastor and Acclaimed Author Rev. Joseph Ellwanger speaking & signing Strength for the Struggle, 7PM

Bookwoman, Lisa Lenard-Cook Reading & Signing her novel Dissonance, 7PM

Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Whip In - Austin, One Page Salon 1st Birthday Party with Owen Egerton, Susan Somers-Willett, Brenner Brenner, Rick Diamond, Michael L Roberts, Francois Pointeau, Andrew Rosas, and Jodi Egerton, 7PM

Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, James Ellroy to Sign Perfidia, 7PM

Hockaday School, Lawrence Wright: "Thirteen Days in September", 7PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, Rick Baty - HORNS BY THE BULL, 7PM

Houston Baptist University (HBU), a dramatic reading of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters and commentary with Dr. Louis MARKOS and Dr. Dominic A. AQUILA, 7PM

Irving

Irving Public Library - Valley Ranch Library, meet Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham, the 2014 Big Read Intermediate selection, 7PM

San Antonio

B&N, San Pedro, Sun Poets' Society Open Mic Poetry, 7PM

Gemini Ink, Earth Talks, 6:30PM

Southtown 101, Puro Poetry Slam!, 9:30PM

Webster
B&N - Baybrook, Annex Security Team Members of the: 13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, 7PM

Wednesday, October 8:

Austin
BookPeople, New York Times-bestselling Austin Author S.C. Gwynne speaking & signing Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson, 7PM

Malvern Books, Harvey Pekar’s 75th Birthday Party, 7PM

Dallas

Cucina Neighborhood Italian, Donna Arp Weitzman will be signing her book Cinderella Has Cellulite and Other Musings From a Last Wife, 5PM

SMU, Vejas Liulevicius (The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present) will speak as part of the Stanton Sharp Lectures and Symposia

The Wild Detectives, WordSpace Off World Sci Fi Readers Club Presents a reading and signing of Darin Bradley's Chimpanzee, 7PM

Fort Worth

B&N - Hulen Center, Meet Author Jodi Thomas, 5PM

B&N - Hulen Center, Annex Security Team Members of the: 13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, 7PM

Irving
Irving Public Library - Central Library, Fierce Reads Tour: Fall 2014, 7PM

San Antonio

B&N - La Cantera, Carmen Tafolla will read from and sign This River Here Poems of San Antonio, 7PM

The Twig Book Shop, Authors Sarah Bird & Jan Jarboe Russell, in Conversation - Presented by the San Antonio Book Festival, 6PM

Thursday, October 9:
Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Poetry Open Mic, 7:30PM

BookPeople, Bestselling Author & Star of The Office B.J Novak speaking & signing The Book with No Pictures, 6:30PM

Bookwoman, Second Thursday Open Mic Featuring Janice Campbell & Toni Heringer, 7PM

Dallas
B&N - Lincoln Park, Annex Security Team members Mark “Oz” Geist, Kris “Tanto” Paronto and John “Tig” Tiegen will discuss 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, 7:30PM

Forty Five Ten, Jay Jeffers will sign Jay Jeffers: Collected Cool, 6PM

Heard Craig Hall, Kathleen Kent will discuss The Outcasts, 12PM

Klyde Warren Park, Ideas in Bloom: The Dallas Morning News on Books, 12:15PM

El Paso
UTEP, a conversation with Pat Mora, 2PM

Houston

Brazos Bookstore, René Steinke - FRIENDSWOOD, 7PM

Houston Community College - West Loop South, American Root Reading Series Presents: Amaud Jamaul Johnson, 9AM

Katy Budget Books, MAYA BANKS and JACI BURTON EVENT AND VIRTUAL SIGNING, 6PM

Wortham Theater Center - Cullen Theater, An Evening With Actor Rob Lowe: Stories I Only Tell My Friends, 7PM

Round Rock

B&N - La Frontera, Tony Abbott: The Copernicus Legacy The Serpent's Curse, 7PM

Southlake
B&N - Come Meet Author Jodi Thomas, 10:30AM

Friday, October 10:
Austin
BookPeople, Songwriter, Author, & Indie Legend STEPHIN MERRITT in conversation with AUSTIN KLEON about Merritt's new book, 101 Two-Letter Words, 7PM

Malvern Books, Malvern Books’ Anniversary Weekend: Readings From UT Austin’s MFA Students, 7PM

El Paso

Cafe Mayapan, Paso del Rio Grande del Norte: A Night of Chicana Literature, 6:30PM

Frisco
B&N - Stonebriar Mall, Olivia Beattie will sign Paradise Syndicate, 7PM

Houston
B&N - River Oaks, George Arnold signs Kremlin Kerfuffle Koshki of the CIA, 4PM

Brazos Bookstore, Margaret Furse - THE HAWKINS RANCH IN TEXAS, 7PM

Discovery Green, Orbit Poetry Slam, 6PM

Writespace, Eve's Requiem Book Launch and Reading, 8PM

Plano

B&N - Preston/Park, Mitchell Zuckoff: 13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, 7:30PM

San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, RANSOM ISLAND, A NEW TEXAS GULF COAST MYSTERY BY MILES ARCENEAUX, 6PM

Saturday, October 11:
Austin

Malvern Books, Malvern Books’ Anniversary Weekend: An Evening with Tony Morris, W. Joe Hoppe, Kurt Heinzelman & Richard Sober, 7PM

El Paso

B&N - Fountains at Farrah, Cousin Vinny Author Signing, 2PM

Galveston
Galveston Bookship, Darcie Malphrus-Schlegel and Natalie Malphrus will sign Galveston: Beyond the Beach Insiders’ Guide and Tips to Island Favorites, 3PM

Garland
B&N - Firewheel Mall, Signing With Kim Harrison and 20 Romance Authors - The Witch with No Name (Hollows Series #13), 2PM

Houston
B&N - River Oaks, George Arnold signs Kremlin Kerfuffle Koshki of the CIA, 10AM

B&N - River Oaks, Robin Ganzert PhD and CEO of American Humane Association - Animal Stars Behind the Scenes with Your Favorite Animal Actors, 2PM

Murder By the Book, Dean "Miranda" James will sign and discuss the first book in his new Southern Sisters series, Bless Her Dead Little Heart and Annie Knox (aka Wendy Lyn Watson) will sign and discuss Groomed for Murder, 4:30PM

River Oaks Bookstore, Lin Wilder reads and signs The Fragrance Shed By a Violet, 4PM

Kountze

Big Thicket National Preserve Visitor Center, Big Thicket Association will celebrate its 50th Anniversary with book signings!

McAllen

B&N - Palms Crossing, The Bullynator by E. Fanjon, 3PM

Plano

B&N - Creekwalk Village, Meet the Author of Unleash the Power of Diversity Multi Cultural Competence for Business Results, 2PM

San Antonio

The Twig Book Shop, Winifred Barnum-Newman: Gumwrappers and Goggles, 11AM

The Twig Book Shop, Dos Gatos Press presents the Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 with poets reading from some of the "103 poems as original as Texas!", 3PM

South Padre Island

Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, Literary Mercado, 1PM

Sunday, October 12:

Austin
B&N - Arboretum, Meet and Greet Book Signing With Beth Ann Stifflemire: Waiting Hearts, 2PM

BookPeople, Creator & Star of Girls LENA DUNHAM talking about her new book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned", 6PM at Central Presbyterian Church [SOLD OUT]

Malvern Books, Malvern Books’ Anniversary Weekend: An Afternoon with TOPSY, Dr. Fred McGhee & Richard Bailey, 2PM