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Books on Call NYC, Inc., New York, NY (2026)

09/10/2026

In the days leading up to the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, where on Sunday, September 27, we'll be handling book sales all day at the Moot Courtroom in the Law School, 250 Joralemon, we'll be sharing the authors and books that will be on hand. (All titles subject to change).

Today our featured author is Tom Junod, and his book "In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man." (Doubleday Books).

"In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man" is an intensely emotional detective story powered by a series of cascading revelations. The book is a triumph of bravura writing; it is a tale of a son reckoning with the consequences of his father's life, and in the end, the story of the son's redemption.

Tom will be appearing at the noon "Secrets, Lies, and Memory" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there.

09/09/2026

Tonight the Leo Baeck Institute (www.facebook.com/lbi.newyork) welcomes author Yair Mintzker (www.facebook.com/yair.mintzker) tonight for an exploration of his newest book, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (published www.facebook.com/PrincetonUniversityPress).

Copies will be available beginning at 6:30pm.

"A breathtaking work of historical research and personal insight that makes an old legend come alive." -Kirkus Reviews

09/09/2026

Author Stuart Schrader will be discussing his book, "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves" (published www.facebook.com/BasicBooks) with the Institute for Public Knowledge (www.facebook.com/nyuipk).

Copies will be available for purchase beginning at 5:30pm.

"This is an urgent book--deeply researched and boldly argued."-- Walter Johnson, author of "The Broken Heart of America"

09/09/2026

In the days leading up to the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, where on Sunday, September 27, we'll be handling book sales all day at the Moot Courtroom in the Law School, 250 Joralemon, we'll be sharing the authors and books that will be on hand. (All titles subject to change).

Today, Joseph Osmundson, the author of "Spawning Season: An Experiment in Q***r Parenthood," published by Bloomsbury https://www.facebook.com/BloomsburyUSA

Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the q***r scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a le***an couple he had known since college came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them?

Soon everything was falling into place. But when the two partners communicated their need for a child to reflect their own racial backgrounds, Joe's whiteness exposed fault lines in their parenting journey. Spawning Season is a genre-bending memoir that treats the scientific as integral to the personal and that builds an entire species of the grief we carry in our bodies.

Joseph will be appearing at the 2pm "Nature from the Margins" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there.

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09/08/2026

"The Common Good Economy: How to Make Capitalism Work for Us All" (published www.facebook.com/BasicBooks) will be the center of a riveting discussion with author Mariana Mazzucato (www.facebook.com/mariana.mazzucato.3) tonight at the New School.

Copies will be available for purchase beginning at 7pm.

09/08/2026

Join us this evening for an event at the NYU Bobst Library with the extraordinary Marion Nestle for her latest book, "Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America's Favorite Breakfast Food" (published www.facebook.com/ucpress), co-authored with Lisa Sutherland.

Copies will be available for purchase starting at 6pm.

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09/08/2026

In the days leading up to the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, where on Sunday, September 27, we'll be handling book sales all day at the Moot Courtroom in the Law School, 250 Joralemon, we'll be sharing the authors and books that will be on hand. (All titles subject to change).

Another double today; both these authors appearing on a riveting panel at the Fest.

Mechele Dickerson's "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream," published by University of California Press, breaks down the changes in education, labor, housing, and consumer-credit policy that have steadily eroded the economic stability of lower- and middle-income Americans--especially people of color and those without college degrees. Clear and compelling, the book lays out a bold path to meaningfully rebuild the middle class and expand opportunity for everyday Americans.

Hélène Landemore's "Politics Without Politicians" (Thesis Books), asks and answers a radical question: What if we didn't need politicians at all? What if everyday people--under the right conditions--could govern much better?With disarming clarity and a deep sense of urgency, Landemore argues that electoral politics is broken but democracy isn't. We've just been doing it wrong. Drawing on ancient Athenian practices and contemporary citizens' assemblies, Landemore champions an alternative approach that is alive, working, and growing around the world: civic lotteries that select everyday people to govern--not as career politicians but as temporary stewards of the common good.

Mechele and Hélène will be appearing at the 11am "Bold Paths to Reform" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there.

09/07/2026

In the days leading up to the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, where on Sunday, September 27, we'll be handling book sales all day at the Moot Courtroom in the Law School, 250 Joralemon, we'll be sharing the authors and books that will be on hand. (All titles subject to change).

On this Labor Day, we appropriately are featuring Derrick Palmer, and "Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century," published by Auwa Books.

On April 1, 2022, the Amazon warehouse known as JFK8, in Staten Island, notched an improbable victory when its workers voted to become the company's first unionized facility. Miraculously, a completely self-taught and worker-led union had defeated one of the most powerful corporations on the planet. In the aftermath, two of the founders of the Amazon Labor Union, Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, began traveling across the country to help workers at Amazon and other corporations form their own unions. Unsurprisingly, nearly everyone they met had the same question: How did they do it?

In "Handbook for the Revolution," Derrick Palmer, who continues to work at JFK8, provides the answer in the form of a how-to guide to organizing in today's workplace while providing gripping, never before-told anecdotes from the ALU's fight and its plans for the future. Practical, philosophical, and full of personality, Palmer's manual-cum-manifesto is an accessible step-by-step playbook for the often contentious and complex process of unionization, and a powerful call for equality--and greater understanding--through worker solidarity.

Full of hard-won lessons and personal experience, and written in the context of mass consolidation, fluctuating labor laws, and an ever widening wealth gap, Handbook for the Revolution is an invaluable resource for the modern labor movement, a thrilling chronicle of persistence, and an inspiring push for change in the workplace--and beyond.

Derrick will be appearing at the 1pm "The Anti-Equality Era" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there.

09/06/2026

In the days leading up to the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, where on Sunday, September 27, we'll be handling book sales all day at the Moot Courtroom in the Law School, 250 Joralemon, we'll be sharing the authors and books that will be on hand. (All titles subject to change).

Today, a two-fer.

With several other authors we'll feature soon, these two are appearing on the same panel during the Festival.

Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" (HarperCollins) cuts through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy, where to be "free" means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn't about the man. It's about the machine that made him--and the world he's making next.

Kim Phillips-Fein's "Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America," published by W. W. Norton & Company, traces an argument about inequality through six vivid archetypes. She discusses the natural aristocrats, such as John Adams, who feared the tumult of too much democracy; the social Darwinists, led by Yale professor William Graham Sumner, who blamed the poor for their own miseries; those who preached a gospel of production, including Henry Ford, who wanted an industrial hierarchy in which the "best" people ruled over compliant inferiors; utilitarian racists who advocated for eugenics and a racial hierarchy; meritocrats like Harvard psychologist Richard Hernstein who described an economic caste system based on "intelligence" in his co-authored book, The Bell Curve; and most recently, technocrats who seem to see themselves as superior because they are closest to the machines destined to outstrip and supplant fallible flesh-and-blood humanity.

Kim, Ben, and Quinn will be appearing at the 1pm "The Anti-Equality Era" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there.

09/05/2026

In the days leading up to the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, where on Sunday, September 27, we'll be handling book sales all day at the Moot Courtroom in the Law School, 250 Joralemon, we'll be sharing the authors and books that will be on hand. (All titles subject to change).

On this early Saturday morning, today's featured book is Renee Bracey Sherman & Regina Mahone's "Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve," from Amistad Books.

Liberating Abortion will take you back to the basics of s*x education, detailing the traditions of abortion over centuries while examining how society makes us feel about our experiences. You'll find rigorous research, never-before-heard stories, and eye-opening interviews with more than fifty people of color who've had abortions, including activists, actresses, television writers, politicians, and two Black members of Jane, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe.With poignant storytelling and precise analysis, Liberating Abortion will change how you think about abortion forever.

Renee and Regina will be appearing at the 3pm "250 Years in Search of a More Perfect Union" program and signing books afterwards. Join us there.

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