Join former congressman, author, and bookseller Steve Israel on Wednesday August 19 at 6:30 pm at Scarsdale Library as he discusses his thriller novel The Einstein Conspiracy and his experiences as an independent bookseller.

New York Harbor, 1933. A passenger liner approaches Lower Manhattan and America awaits it with excitement. Renowned physicist Albert Einstein, whose genius and fame are nearly matched by his stubbornness, has fled the Nazi regime to take refuge in the United States. With the past attempts on his life now an ocean away, Einstein will teach America's best and brightest at Princeton while continuing to voice his passionate resistance against Hitler. Two FBI agents are pulled off a mob case to pursue a lead that Hitler is sending a Nazi operative to abduct the scientist and are plunged into the upside-down world of fascism festering in America. Based on actual events, The Einstein Conspiracy is a gripping historical thriller, rich with haunting reminders of a moment in American history when the line between foreign enemy and domestic threat was perilously thin.

Copies of The Einstein Conspiracy will be available for sale courtesy of Bronx River Books and for signing by the author. Light refreshments will be served.

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About the author

After serving 16 years as a representative of Long Island, Steve Israel turned the page from a career in politics to open Theodore's Books in Oyster Bay, New York, a bookstore dedicated to being a warm and friendly place to browse and buy books where the only screaming, lobbying, and finger-pointing is in support of a book you love. In addition to writing two satires of Washington politics and the historical thriller The Einstein Conspiracy, Steve is a professor of practice at Cornell University's Institute of Politics and Global Affairs in New York City.

On Tuesday September 15 at 7 pm, join local author Barbara Josselsohn in conversation with Marcia Bradley for a discussion of her new magical realism novel perfect for fans of The Lost Bookshop, The Glass House and The Keeper of Lost Things.

It was a shop full of wonder: sheets of colorful paper, pots of ink on every surface, and spools of ribbon suspended on gleaming brass hooks. But it was even more magical when it was filled with people. Rumor was that the owner, Tilly, could send letters to long-lost loved ones if you penned them on the long wooden desk…Everyone on the island would go there, not just to buy writing supplies, but to write these letters. To the people they’d not been able to say goodbye to, to the people they wished would come home. The Paper House was a place for grieving, for remembering, for forgiving. And now, years later, as Kayla reopens the beautiful front door, and feels the memories of her Great Aunt Tilly come flooding back, it has the chance to become a place for someone who lost everything to finally find herself again. If only Kayla can find the courage to face the ghosts of the past…

Copies of The Paper House will be available for sale courtesy of Bronx River Books and for signing by the author during the event.

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