In The New York Times, Janet Maslin indicates “Second Life” can refer either to author Steve Hamilton or to his latest book, The Second Life of Nick Mason.

Hamilton will be here at The Poisoned Pen on Thursday, May 26th at 7 PM. If you can’t make it, you can order a signed copy. https://bit.ly/1XxbOYR

In the meantime, you might want to read Maslin’s article about the award-winning author. nyti.ms/1sva5YC

Patrick Millikin recently hosted Alex Grecian and Dan Fesperman at The Poisoned Pen. Grecian is on book tour for Lost and Gone Forever.

A couple days ago, we linked to a NYTimes article about Dan Fesperman’s The Letter Writer.

Would you like to see photos from the event?

This time, we can invite you to the event, via Livestream. Here’s the link so you can feel as if you were there for the interview. https://livestream.com/poisonedpen/events/5229358

And, of course, we have autographed books if you would like to buy one. Here’s where you can order Lost and Gone Forever. https://bit.ly/1WGpUaW

You can order The Letter Writer here. https://bit.ly/1rYOzeo

Check it out!

The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection is part of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. There’s a brief summary of the collection here – https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/211.html

Illustrated books are the central theme of the collection that contains “books from the last six centuries and manuscripts from the three preceding”.

Below is one of the illustrated books in the collection.

The second photo is the Kelmscott Chaucer, considered one of the beautiful books ever created.

Both books are part of the Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress.

I have fun pictures to share of Nevada Barr’s appearance at The Poisoned Pen. She’s on book tour for Boar Island. What’s even more fun, though, is the Livestream event. You’ll really want to check it out. https://livestream.com/poisonedpen/events/5229347

It these pictures are any indication, it was a fun event.

Of course, you can order a signed copy from The Poisoned Pen. https://bit.ly/22g4Mbo

Our copies come with a “Welcome to Boar Island” postcard with scenes of the site in Acadia National Park, the site of this Anna Pigeon novel.

Dan Fesperman, author of The Letter Writer, will be here at The Poisoned Pen on Thursday, May 19 at 7 PM. He’s joined by Alex Grecian, author of Lost and Gone Forever. Did you see Marilyn Stasio’s review of The Letter Writer in The New York Times Book Review on April 29? She calls the novel “dynamic”, and says, “Fesperman’s prose is almost photographic, creating vignettes saturated with color and humming with life.”

You can read the entire review here. https://nyti.ms/1sgicrh

If you can’t be here Thursday night, you can still order a signed copy.

https://bit.ly/1rNZ5VK

The Poisoned Pen had a special midnight launch for Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s new book, Beyond the Ice Limit. The fourth Gideon Crew book was released today.

So, our Livestream event actually was timed to coincide with release date. You can watch Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston and Barbara Peters talk about it.

https://livestream.com/poisonedpen/events/5279206

If you would like to order the book, you can do it right here. https://bit.ly/1ODihja

IMPORTANT: Every copy of BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT purchased from the Poisoned Pen bookstore site automatically comes with a free, 5″ x 7″ color photograph of the authors, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, which they have personally autographed. The authors are signing these photographs instead of signing the books themselves. Global shipping is available.  

I just returned from Book Expo America, the largest annual book trade show in the U.S. I’m sharing a few photos from BEA, but, for you, the books and authors are teasers. The authors are there to talk about their forthcoming books, so you’ll have to wait to read them. But, you’ll be able to get the books through The Poisoned Pen.

Remember when Robyn Carr was here a few weeks ago? Her novel, The Life She Wants, comes out in September. Her publisher had a banner for it at the show.

Justin Cronin was there, signing copies of The City of Mirrors, book three of The Passage Trilogy. It’s due out soon, if you would like to order copies. https://bit.ly/25aGvc3

Michael Harvey’s books have been set in Chicago. Now, with Brighton, he’s moving the setting to Boston. That’s me (Lesa) in the photo with Michael. I met him years ago at The Poisoned Pen.

And, Louise Penny. Louise was one of the four speakers at the Adult Authors’ Breakfast. She brought the audience to tears. Her new Armand Gamache mystery, A Great Reckoning, is due out August 30th.

Watch for these books in a few months. We hope you’ll think of The Poisoned Pen when it’s time to pick up your copies.

Today, we have some beautiful pictures to share. These are from Winterthur, the Dupont Estate in Delaware’s Brandywine Valley. It’s the Enchanted Garden. It might be fun to share the photos with the children in your life, and talk about this enchanted world. Pictures are courtesy of Barbara Peters.

We hope you enjoyed the enchanting tour of Winterthur’s gardens.

Ace Atkins is the current author of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels. He recently appeared at The Poisoned Pen to discuss the latest book in the series, Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn.

The audience turned out to hear Atkins talk about writing about the beloved character, Spenser.

Ace Atkins and bookstore owner Barbara Peters discussed the books, and fielded questions from the audience.

One man who came for the signing seems particularly happy to get Ace Atkins’ signature.

If you’d like a signed copy as well, they’re available through the website –https://bit.ly/1snVRIX

Elevengedden is coming June 1, a multi-author SciFi event hosted by Kevin Hearne. Here are the details. https://bit.ly/1TDjXFq

So, if you’re excited about that event, you may be interested in the 2015 Nebula Awards, presented today in Chicago. Here are the winners.

Novel:

Winner: Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

Novella:

Winner: Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)

Novelette:

Winner: “˜”˜Our Lady of the Open Road”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 6/15)

Short Story:

Winner: “˜”˜Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road, Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:

Winner: Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)

C. J. Cherryh is the 32nd Damon Knight Grand Master.

Congratulations to all the winners!