Independent Bookstore in Washington DC Also Serves Gourmet Food and Drinks

Located at 418 7th Street Olssons’s Books and Records store has a great selection of books. The bookstore frequently invites authors and has a cozy coffee shop to sit back and relax. Olssons is smaller than the mammoth bookstore so you don’t feel snowed under.

February Authors:

– Thursday, February 8, 7 p.m. Linda Fairstein. The bestselling author reads and signs her new Alex Cooper novel, Bad Blood.

– Monday, February 12, 7 p.m. Divine Chocolate U.S. Launch: Presentation and Chocolate Sampling. — Comfort Kumeah, a Kuapa Kokoo farmer, and Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine Chocolate, discuss the U.S. launch of Divine Chocolate, a Fair Trade chocolate company owned in part by the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana.  Divine Chocolate bars are on sale at Olsson’s.   

– Tuesday, February 13, 7 p.m. Jim Newton.  Award-winning journalist Jim Newton presents his masterful new biography, Justice for All:  Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.

– Thursday, February 15, 7 p.m. Stephanie Menciner. A journalist, Stephanie Menciner presents her new book, Blocking the Courthouse Door:  How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right To Sue.

– Friday, February 16, 7 p.m. Ed Humes.  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Humes presents his new book, The Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul, an in-depth examination of the contentious evolution vs. intelligent design debate in American public schools.

– Thursday, February 22 7 p.m. Jonathan Raban. Jonathan Raban reads and signs Surveillance: A Novel, set in the not-too-distant future, when national identity cards are mandatory and America has become thoroughly obsessed with intelligence-gathering.

– Wednesday, February 28, 7 p.m. Roland Mesnier. Former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier presents his new book, All the Presidents’ Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House, a behind-the-scenes insight into the characters, tastes, and obsessions of the five presidents and first ladies he served. 

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