Join Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington at Book Soup for a discussion and signing of "Brandan Kearney’s Official On Cinema at the Cinema Reader: Volume One: 2010-2018." This book is a deluxe, hardbound, episode-by-episode guide to every aspect of the On Cinema Universe, from the flagship show to all the incarnations of the hit spin-off action series, Decker. Incisive commentary and analysis of the show made famous by its incisive commentary and analysis. Includes rare On Cinema, Decker, and Dekkar…

Come out to the Last Bookstore for an evening with Dorinne Kondo and "Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity." This book theorizes and performs the ways the arts can remake worlds, from theater worlds to inner, psychic worlds to worldmaking visions for social transformation.

Join Aya De Leon at Skylight Books for a discussion and signing of "Side Chick Nation" with special guests. This book is a gripping feminist heist fiction about turning the tables on the disaster capitalists in the jaws of climate apocalypse.

Charlotte Laws will be signing her hilarious new memoir, "Undercover Debutante: The Search for my Birth Parents and a Bald Husband." Charlotte’s biological mother will also be present at the signing. Undercover Debutante details Charlotte’s outlandish young adult years in Los Angeles and how she (an adopted child) tracked down her birth family. The book recently won a Publisher’s Weekly award and is touted by Kirkus Review as “one hilarious, witty joy ride after another.” Charlotte is a cable news…

Senator Jeff Merkley visits Vroman's Bookstore on Aug. 24 at 12:30 p.m. to present and sign his new book, "America Is Better Than This: Trump's War Against Migrant Families." Come hear the Senator discuss immigration policy and resisting the administration's anti-immigrant agenda.

Visit Barnes & Noble in Burbank to listen to Virginia Lanier discuss her autobiographical account of tragedy in "She Didn't Know that She Was Loved."

Visit Barnes & Noble in Studio City to hear Tracy McCubbin talk about decluttering and how her book, "Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever Need," can help simplify your life.

Come out to Book Soup for an evening with Adam Chandler and "Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom." This book explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry's largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger than life image of America.

Come see Chris Rush about "The Light Years" at Skylight Books. Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade.

Téa Obreht will discuss "Inland" at Chevalier's Books. In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him,…

If you enjoy poetry, check out Olivia Gatwood and "Life of the Party: Poems" at Book Soup. This book is a dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice.

Vroman's Local Author Day presents... Jefferson Travis Croushore presents and signs "The Eve Project (Book One)." Amina Warsuma presents and signs "Amber Stone Agent Zero." Austyn Wells presents and signs "Soul Conversations."