After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a […]
The engineer known as the "space mechanic" speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of […]
Storytime Safari with Mr. Steve with storytime, crafts, and games! Visiting a BOOK A TRIP event at Vroman's is so easy that it will seem like a vacation! (You should plan to attend at least one event before BOOK A TRIP ends.) Mr. Steve will lead the safari through approximately ten picture books! A wide […]
Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met and fell in love while scuba diving in Vietnam. Ville then left his native Finland to join Kristen in Oregon and together they embarked on a life-changing two-year cycling adventure covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina. Despite never having cycled further than around the block, […]
What if you found yourself in the middle of a war armed only with lipstick and a sense of humor? Abandoned as a child in Los Angeles in 1931, dust bowl refugee Sally Brady convinces a Hollywood movie star to adopt her, and grows up to be an effervescent gossip columnist secretly satirizing Europe's upper […]
There is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at ease with […]
Tara Ison, in conversation with David Ulin, discusses At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. When Danielle Marton's father is […]
This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White--veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity--when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind. A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her […]
Nathan Masters, in conversation with David Kipen, discusses Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scan Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public […]
Vroman’s Local Author Day featuring Barbara Hanky-Rogers, Laurie Markvart, and Kenneth R. Strange Jr. Barbara Hanky-Rogers presents It’s a No Grainer Cookbook It’s a No Grainer Cookbook takes the guesswork out of replacing grains and wheat flour with over 180 appetizing recipes for any occasion. Inside, you’ll find breakfast items that will tickle your tastebuds like the […]
A tale of unlikely heroes and myths is made real in this debut graphic novel series about a "bad" demon trying to find her place in the underworld. But she'll have to save it first! Meesh is a bad demon. "Bad" in that she always sees the good in those around her--which isn't how a […]
Liam Callanan, in conversation with Marisa Silver, discusses When in Rome. Meet Claire: fifty-two, desperate to do something new and get a fresh start. Enter the chance to go to Rome: Home to a struggling convent facing a precipitous end, the city beckons Claire, who's long had a complicated relationship with religion, including a "missed […]
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