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Red Balloon will be closed early on Wednesday, March 20 at 5:30pm to set up for an event.

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Red Balloon Bookshop works with many organizations, authors, and illustrators in our community to provide and sell books for their events. If you are looking for a bookselling partner for your lecture, conference, party, etc., please consider working with us!

For more information, contact our Community Sales Coordinator angela@redballoonbookshop.com or call us at 651-224-8320. We look forward to adding to the success of your event!

Upcoming Offsite & Virtual Events:

Club Book in-person event with Tommy Orange | Monday, March 18 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Prior Lake Library

Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. His long-awaited sequel to Pulitzer Prize finalist There There, titled Wandering Stars, debuts in February. It traces the living legacy of Native persecution through three generations of a fractured but resilient family.   

Click HERE to purchase Wandering Stars

 

Club Book virtual event with John Scalzi | Tuesday, March 19 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Online

Science fiction superstar John Scalzi is the author behind the New York Times bestselling Old Man’s War series, the award-winning Interdependency trilogy, and beloved standalones like Redshirts and The Kaiju Preservation Society. His latest, Starter Villain, is a tongue-in-cheek subversion of classic supervillain tropes.

Click HERE to purchase Starter Villain

 

Club Book virtual event with Nita Prose | Monday, April 8 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Online

Nita Prose is the author behind the #1 New York Times bestselling mystery The Maid and its much-anticipated sequel The Mystery Guest. Her heroine, the titular maid Molly Gray, is neurodivergent. Readers and critics alike praise her as a refreshing and relatable take on the “amateur sleuth.”

Click HERE to purchase The Mystery Guest

 

Club Book virtual event with Cristina Henríquez | Tuesday, April 17 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Online

Cristina Henríquez is best known as the author behind the modern classic The Book of Unknown Americans. Her latest, The Great Divide, centers around the decades-long construction of the Panama Canal and the unsung workers who made this herculean feat of engineering possible.

Click HERE to purchase The Great Divide

 

Club Book virtual event with Kiley Reid | Thursday, April 18 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Online

Kiley Reid burst onto the literary scene in 2020 with Such a Fun Age, a fast-paced social satire about privilege in America. Her sardonic sophomore work, Come and Get It, debuts in January 2024 and is gaining rave reviews as a “blistering send-up of academia.”

Click HERE to purchase Come and Get It

 

Club Book in-person event with Alice Winn | Thursday, April 25 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Highland Park Library

Alice Winn is the pen behind one of 2023’s most talked about literary debuts. In Memoriam is an “impossible to put down” story of forbidden first love set against the cataclysmic backdrop of World War I. Winn’s international bestseller will be rereleased in paperback in March 2024.

Click HERE to purchase the paperback edition of In Memoriam

 

Club Book virtual event with Melanie Benjamin | Wednesday, May 1 (7:00 - 8:00pm) | Online

Melanie Benjamin is the historical fiction novelist behind such literary blockbusters as The Aviator’s Wife, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, and The Children’s Blizzard. Her latest, California Golden, turns the spotlight to Malibu in the 1960s – and the formative but factious genesis of California surf culture.

Click HERE to purchase California Golden