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Historic Austin Restaurants:
Capital Cuisine Through the Generations (American Palate)
by Melanie Haupt
The History Press
$19.99 List Price
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Tuesday, December 10
6:00pm
Historic Austin Restaurants: Capital Cuisine through the Generations
Austin has staked its claim as the seat of innovative culinary movements, and its food culture mirrors the transformations taking place across the city. Join Melanie Haupt for a meet-&-greet signing to learn more about Austin's iconic restaurants.
Barnes & Noble
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10000 Research Boulevard, Austin, TX 78759-5854
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Baby It's Cold Outside (When I Fall in Love)
by Susan May Warren
Summerside Press
$12.99 List Price
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Tuesday, December 10
7:00pm
The Book Club of the Church at Canyon Creek
The Book Club of the Church at Canyon Creek is a group that meets the second Tuesday of every month in our Barnes & Noble Cafe. They will be reading selections from fiction, non-fiction, mystery, biography and history.
Barnes & Noble
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14010 N Highway 183, Austin, TX 78717-5903
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upcoming events

Wednesday, June 19
7:00pm
NEAL STEPHENSON:Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
EVENT & TICKET GUIDELINES The speaking portion of this event is free & open to the public. Tickets are required to join the signing line. Tickets are only available with the purchase of a copy of FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL from BookPeople. Books & tickets are now available to pre-order. Purchasing a …
EVENT & TICKET GUIDELINES

The speaking portion of this event is free & open to the public.

Tickets are required to join the signing line.

Tickets are only available with the purchase of a copy of FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL from BookPeople.

Books & tickets are now available to pre-order. Purchasing a book online automatically assigns you a ticket for the signing. There is no separate "ticket" item to add to your cart.

Tickets are lettered. The line for the signing will form according to ticket letter after the author speaks.

No posed photos.

Keep checking this page for further guidelines as the event date approaches.

ABOUT FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL

In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.

One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.

In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.

But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . .

Fall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.

ABOUT NEAL STEPHENSON

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . .Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Book People Inc
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603 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78703
800-853-9757
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