BookCourt

12/31/2016

Our last day selling books on Court Street. What began 35 years ago truly surpassed all expectation. We will miss you, dearest readers. Thank you, thank you. ❤

12/30/2016

10/22/2016

There's still time to stop by cozy BookCourt on this rainy afternoon to hear award-winning novelist, Nikki Grimes, talk about Garvey's Choice! http://www.bookcourt.com/events/nikki-grimes

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes, winner of the Coretta Scott King award and the 2016 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, will be discussing Garvey's Choice, her new middle-reader novel.

09/05/2016

Check out the photos from the Sirius Black photo booth, taken the night of our midnight release party!

08/11/2016

On your lunch break? Settle in for a little while with some summer tunes from the Starry Mountain Sweetheart Band.

Band member Adam O'Fallon Price celebrates the release of his debut novel The Grand Tour tonight. Join Adam and the band tonight at 7pm.

“As shrewd as it is hilarious, The Grand Tour offers the reader something to wince and laugh at in nearly every sculpted sentence. This is a triumphant debut, rich in pointed, poignant truths about books, America and men.” —Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

http://www.bookcourt.com/events/adam-ofallon-price-j-robert-lennon

https://starrymountainband.bandcamp.com/

12 track album

08/07/2016

We're so thrilled to host the release of Jacqueline Woodson as she reads from her first novel for adults in over twenty years!

Another Brooklyn, her new novel, is a story set in the 1970s, following a woman and her young girls. Full of hope and a constant threat of danger, Woodson's Brooklyn is a different, more volatile place than it is today.

“Another Brooklyn is a sort of fever dream, containing both the hard truths of life and the gentle beauty of memory. The story of a young girl trying to find herself in the midst of so many conflicting influences and desires swallowed me whole. Jacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice. I loved this book.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times Bestselling Author

https://www.facebook.com/events/268298833538259/

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed…

08/01/2016

Check us out in today's The New York Times! Thank you everyone who came out to celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

From Brooklyn to Seattle, fans of the book and film series turned out at midnight on Sunday for the release of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two.”

07/04/2016

Happy Fourth of July! Have a safe and fun celebration tonight. We'll be closing at 9pm.