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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

'Twilight' Author to Visit Politics & Prose

Stephenie Meyer's only DC stop on her nation-wide tour will be at the famed Chevy Chase, DC, independent bookstore Politics & Prose.

Twilight author Stephenie Meyer will visit Chevy Chase's famed independent bookstore Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC) from noon to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21. She'll be joined by two actors from The Host (the film adaptation based on her novel of the same name): Max Irons (son of Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons) and Jake Abel (I am Number Four, The Lovely Bones). "It’s part of our mission as [Washington, DC's] largest independent bookstore to bring in a wide range of authors. Stephenie is hugely popular and we’re excited to welcome her and her fans," Politics & Prose events coordinator Sarah Baline said. "Politicians and pundits are one thing, but it’s not every day Hollywood actors hang out in our store," …

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Shaun Courtney

11:22 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013

Also, sadly, many of Georgetown's bookshops have closed, so Politics & Prose seems like less of a trek to see your favorite author. -S   more ›

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Top Books of 2010 From the Montgomery County Public Libraries

Take a look through the top titles for adults, teens and children from the year.

As we look back on 2010, we here at Patch thought it would be fun to take a look at some of the popular books from the year. We've already looked at snow and rain totals for the year for Montgomery County and top ridership days for the Metro, but we wanted to look to the written word with this installment of our "looking back" impromptu series. But instead of looking at a national list, we wanted to stick closer to home. So we turned to Paula Lewis, collection development specialist with Montgomery County Public Libraries, to see what the hottest books were locally this year. Lewis and Annette Klause, also a collection development specialist, were gracious enough to look through the library's records to try to parse out what books were …

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