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MARCH 2025

It’s a busy March at Book Carnival…

We have five events for you this month — something for everyone! Mark your calendars for your favorites…

REMINDER about the Cal State Fullerton’s A DAY OF AUTHORS: This is their 32nd annual event and you can read more about it under Conventions, below. I’m going and would love to see some customers there as well… check it out!

https://adayofauthors.com/a-day-of-authors-2022-registration/

Our Saturday Sleuths Book Club is on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 9:30 A.M.! Feel free to join us and bring a friend!

–Anne

Remember, it’s always fun at The Carnival!

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BOOK NEWS

These books will be in shortly after their release date and all will be signed, unless noted below. In some cases, quantity will be limited – please preorder!

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by DEAN KOONTZ, due May 20, 2025
Despite rumors you may have heard, we will have signed copies of MICHAEL CONNELLY’S new book NIGHTSHADE, due May 20, 2025

COLLECTIBLES:

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If you are looking for something to finish your collection or a special gift, give us a call or email at annesbookends@gmail.com

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Book Carnival In-Person Event
March 8, 2:00 P.M.
Cristina LePort
CHANGE OF HEART

In the bustling heart of New York City, a young medical student’s life is tragically cut short, though her heart continues to beat, holding the promise of life for another. Detective Kirk Miner is called to the scene and quickly uncovers a chilling conspiracy involving organ donations and high-stakes crime. As the investigation unfolds, Miner realizes the case is far more complex and dangerous than it initially seemed.

Enter FBI Agent Jack Mulville, who steps in to supervise Special Agent Charlotte Bloom as they join forces with Miner. Together, they unravel a web of corruption, revealing that Amy Winter’s death is connected to a ruthless organ trafficking ring. Amy Winter, a promising pre-med student, is found dead under mysterious circumstances. Her death triggers an investigation that pulls Miner, Mulville, and Bloom into a labyrinth of deceit and desperation. As they dig deeper, they discover that Amy’s heart is not just a donor’s gift but a coveted prize in a deadly game controlled by criminals willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

Book Carnival In-Person Event
March 9, 2:00 P.M.
Rick Jackson and Matthew McGough in Conversation with Author Miles Corwin
BLACK TUNNEL WHITE MAGIC
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Detective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and a key inspiration in the development of Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he could never let go.

In June 1990, Ronald Baker, a straight-A UCLA student, was found repeatedly stabbed to death in a tunnel near Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers once lived. Shortly thereafter, Detective Rick Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia, were assigned the case. Yet the facts made no sense. Who would have a motive to kill Ron Baker in such a grisly manner? Was the proximity to the Manson ranch related to the murder? And what about the pentagram pendant Ron wore around his neck?

Saturday, March 15, 9:30 A.M.

For our next Saturday Sleuths Book Club meeting, we will be discussing

HEADCASES by JOHN McMAHON

This is an in-person book club. Tell your friends, or — better yet — bring a friend with you!

Book Carnival In-Person Event
March 15, 2:00 P.M.
Caitlin Rother
BODY PARTS

On a chilly November afternoon in 1998, a tearful 36-year-old man walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department in Eureka, California and confessed to something horrible. “I hurt some people,” he said. Inside his pocket was the ghastly proof of his statement. But there was more to Wayne Adam Ford than the trail of mangled victims he left behind. More, even than the twisted predator inside, which drove him to increasingly perverse sexual appetites.

Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Caitlin Rothers draws on previously sealed tentimony, interviews with the key players in the case and the killer’s shocking confession to explore the demons that drove a damaged man to his unspeakable crimes.

Book Carnival In-Person Event
March 16, 2:00 P.M.
Garrett M. Brown
TIN SEA, a Memoir Gone Rogue

Garrett is a theatre, film, and television actor who also writes and paints – all with equal enthusiasm and talent.

TIN SEA is a hybrid memoir/novel – hence the title, or down a mythical rabbit hole, perhaps. Just out of college and determined to become a visual artitist, the young Garry Brown is invited to join his best friend selling dictionaries door to door in Tennessee. A picaresque tale, it is a misadventure that finds its curiously mysterious way.

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