Great Stories Reside Here

Outwords Books is delighted to announce an appearance with best-selling novelist Andrew Grey on Wednesday, August at 7pm. Andrew Grey will read from and sign copies of Survive  and Conquer.

 Newton DeSantis was on the ground when the towers collapsed on 9/11. Though he still carries the scars on his body and his heart, he's determined to ease some of the world's suffering. Now a social worker and father to two children with special needs, he's doing his best. But when one of his cases needs a good lawyer, Newton turns to Chase for help. Family law attorney Chase Matthews is a rising star, and he's in high demand. Still, Newton is very persuasive, and Chase takes his case pro bono. Everything about the other man appeals to Chase, but he's determined to keep the relationship professional-even though, after meeting Newton's kids, he wants to be a part of their lives. Chase's job doesn't always allow him to pick his clients, though, and a case that could make him partner will put him on the opposite side of the courtroom from Newton-along with everything he believes in and the future they could build together. 

Outwords Books is delighted to welcome back David S. Pederson, author of the popular  Detective Heath Barrington Mystery series. David will reading from and sign copies of the latest book in the series, Death Takes a Bow.

Alan Keyes takes a break from his police duties to scratch his acting itch in a local stage production. But when the leading man is murdered during the opening night performance, his partner Detective Heath Barrington is thrust into the limelight to find the killer. Alan soon learns the theater has a deadly past and ghostly forebodings, including a telegram that seems to have come from the beyond.

Among the large cast of suspects is Oliver Crane, the director whose finances depend on the success of this play, Jazz Monroe, Milwaukee's sweetheart with a secret, and the handsome actor Henry Hawthorne, who has designs on Alan. When Alan seems to return Henry's attentions, Heath must put his jealousy and insecurities aside to determine what's real, what's illusion, and who's acting and who's telling the truth before death takes a bow.

This is a free event and everyone is welcome. Please arrive early, seating is limited.

A change of pace for the Men's Book Club in September as the group tackles  James Polchin's Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall.

Published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured. Polchin shows, with masterful insight, how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by activists to help shape the burgeoning gay rights movement in the years leading up to Stonewall. 

The summer romance continues in September when the Lesbian Reading Group at Outwords Books discusses Camille Perri's When Katie met Cassidy.

Katie Daniels, a twenty-eight-year-old Kentucky transplant with a strong set of traditional values, has just been dumped by her fiancé when she finds herself seated across a negotiating table from native New Yorker Cassidy Price, a sexy, self-assured woman wearing a man's suit. While at first Katie doesn't know what to think, a chance meeting later that night leads them both to the Metropolis, a dimly lit lesbian dive bar that serves as Cassidy's second home.

The night offers straight-laced Katie a glimpse into a wild yet fiercely tight-knit community, one in which barrooms may as well be bedrooms, and loyal friends fill in the spaces absent families leave behind. And in Katie, Cassidy finds a chance to open her heart in new ways. Soon their undeniable chemistry will push each woman to confront what she thinks she deserves--and what it is she truly wants.