Kristin Hannah

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 8:00pm
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An Evening with
Kristin Hannah
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A special event for the release of the 10th anniversary
limited edition of her novel,
The Nightingale
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Robert Frost Auditorium
4401 Elenda St, 
Culver City, CA 90230

(Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 8:00pm
TICKETS: 
$55  
General Admission  + signed book (The Nightingale*)
$80 Two General Admission tickets + one signed book (The Nightingale*)
$90 General Admission + TWO signed books
(The Nightingale and The Women)
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*Tickets include a signed limited 10th Anniversary Edition with foil and embossing, gorgeous designed edges, a ribbon bookmark, exclusive four color endpapers, and a decorative, gold foil stamp on the front case.  This special edition hardcover jacket will be revealed in October.  
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VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (click here)
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 3pm PT/6pm ET
TICKETS:
$50 Virtual Admission + signed anniversary edition of The Nightingale (includes shipping to US addresses only).
Includes access to watch the event on February 23, 2025, at 3pm PT/6pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days. Books ship a week after the virtual event.
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With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale was New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and is soon to be a major motion picture.
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Kristin Hannah, former lawyer turned writer, is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including The Women, The Nightingale, The Great Alone, and The Four Winds.
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The Nightingale
tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France―a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
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Kristin Hanna’s most recent novel is The Women  — the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm’s way to help others — women whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has all too often been forgotten. The Women is a profoundly emotional, richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose extraordinary idealism and courage under fire define a generation.
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In The Women, like in The Nightingale and The Four Winds, Hannah exposes an important but largely unknown historical story: there were women serving in Vietnam. This novel shows us the Vietnam war up close and personal, through a woman’s eyes; what it was like to serve in a combat hospital and how it was to come home to an angry, bitter and divided America. What it was like to have your story forgotten.
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It is about the unremembered women in an unpopular war. About women finding their voices and being sustained by friendships made on the battlefield. About the birth of a new culture and the music, ideas, fashion, and freedom that came with it, a story told about the price of patriotism and war through the hearts, minds, sacrifices and courage of the women who were there. 

Naomi Watts

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, February 3, 2025, 8pm
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An Evening with
Naomi Watts
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discussing her book,
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause

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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(Free Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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PURCHASE IN PERSON TICKETS
Monday, February 3, 2025, 8pm
$50  General Admission + signed book
$75 Two General Admission tickets + one signed book

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PURCHASE VIRTUAL TICKETS (US Orders Only)
Monday, February 10, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on December 10 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.
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A frank, funny and informative guide to menopause and aging by beloved actress Naomi Watts, one of the leading voices in menopause awareness.
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Naomi Watts is a renowned actor and producer. She has Academy Award nominations for her performances in 21 Grams and The Impossible, and is also known for starring in critically acclaimed projects such as Mulholland Drive, King Kong, and, more recently, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. She is the founder and chief creative officer of Stripes, a company dedicated to raising menopause awareness and providing women with education, community, and solutions for a holistic approach to menopause.
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At thirty-six, Naomi Watts had just completed filming King Kong and was trying to start a family when she was told that she was on the brink of menopause. It is estimated that seventy-five million women in the United States are currently dealing with menopause symptoms (dry itchy skin, raging hormones, night sweats), and yet the very word “menopause” continues to be associated with stigma and confusion. With so little information, many women feel unprepared, ashamed, and deeply alone when the time comes.
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This is the book Naomi Watts wishes she had when she first started experiencing symptoms. Like sitting down over coffee and having an intimate chat with your girlfriend, Dare I Say It blends funny and poignant stories from Naomi and her friends with advice from doctors, hormone experts, and nutritionists to take the secrecy and shame out of menopause and aging. Answering questions such as: What’s hormone therapy and should I be on it? Will I ever sleep again? Will I get myself back? What happened to my libido? Do I need eighteen serums for my aging skin? Whose body is this anyway? Who am I now? Naomi Watts shares the most up-to-date research on how to manage menopause symptoms and tackle the physical and emotional challenges we encounter as we age.
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Irreverent, bold, and reassuring, Dare I Say It is the companion every woman needs to embrace the best version of herself as she moves into what can be the most powerful and satisfying period of her life.
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Eric Idle

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 8:00pm
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An Evening with
Eric Idle
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discussing his book,
The Spamalot Diaries
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Robert Frost Auditorium
4401 Elenda St, 
Culver City, CA 90230

(Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 8:00pm
TICKETS: 
$50  
General Admission  + signed book
>> Book available for pick up at the event on Jan 28, 2025
$75 Two General Admission tickets + one signed book
>> Book available for pick up at the event on Jan 28, 2025

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VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (click here)
Sunday, February 2, 2025, 3pm PT/6pm ET
TICKETS:
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only).
Includes access to watch the event on February 2, 2025 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days after it airs. Books ship a week after the virtual event.
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From comedy legend Eric Idle, the fascinating inside story of bringing Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot.
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Eric Idle
is a comedian, actor, author, and singer-songwriter who found immediate fame on television with the sketch-comedy show Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Following its success, the group began making films that include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Pythons Life of Brian, and Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life. Eric wrote, directed, and created The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, the world’s first-ever mockumentary, as well as the Tony Award–winning musical Spamalot. His memoir, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life was a New York Times bestseller.  
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Watch videos of Eric Idle’s three previous appearances at Live Talks Los Angeles — interviewing John Cleese and Alan Zweibel; and interviewed by Bob Saget.
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“Idle provides a rollicking account of the making of his Broadway musical Spamalot. . . . [and] an irresistible and unfiltered ode to the art of live theater. Fans will love this tantalizing glimpse behind the curtain.”Publishers Weekly
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Long before Spamalot was the toast of Broadway and the winner of three Tony awards, it was an idea threatening to fizzle out before it could find its way into existence. In The Spamalot Diaries, Eric Idle shares original journal entries and raw email exchanges that reveal the sometimes bumpy, always entertaining path to the show’s unforgettable run. 
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Financial anxieties, collaborative disputes that tested decades-long friendships, endless rewriting and a broken ankle were just some of the challenges. Idle chronicles every minor mishap and triumph along the way, as well as the creative tension that drove the show to new heights. An unforgettable look behind the curtain of a beloved musical and inside the wickedly entertaining mind of one of our most treasured comic performers. 

Photo credit: Lily Idle

Cher with Jacqueline Stewart (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event
Monday, December 9, 2024, 8pm

 

An Evening with
Cher

discussing her book,
Cher: The Memoir, Part One 

 

This event was taped with an audience on December 2, 2024

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VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS, (US ORDERS ONLY) click here

Monday, December 9, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET

TICKETS:
$60  Virtual Admission + book* (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on December 9 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

*Books are not signed.
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After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail.
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Cher’s
remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. She is a tireless activist and philanthropist.  
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As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. 
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With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century. 
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Cher: The Memoir, Part One
follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono—and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart. Her memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar. 
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Cher: The Memoir, Part Two
will follow in 2025. 

Jacqueline Stewart is host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.  A 2021 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship recipient, Stewart is an award-winning film historian, author and archivist dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in cinema.  From 2022-24, Stewart served as Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.  Author and editor of numerous publications, Stewart co-curated the five-disc set Pioneers of African American Cinema for Kino Lorber and serves as chair of the National Film Preservation Board.  Stewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project, a community-centered archival program at the University of Chicago that will celebrate its 20th year in 2025.

Peggy Noonan

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Thursday, December 5, 2024, 8pm
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An Evening with
Peggy Noonan
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discussing her book,
A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(Free Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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THIS EVENT IS BEING RESCHEDULED.  
TICKET HOLDERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED.  

NEW DATE TO BE POSTED SOON.
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Thursday, December 5, 2024, 8pm
TICKETS: 
$50  
General Admission + signed book
$75 Two General Admission tickets + one signed book

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET
TICKETS:
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only).
Includes access to watch the event on December 10 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.
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From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.
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Peggy Noonan
is a Pulitzer-Prize winning opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, Declarations, has run since 2000. She is the author of ten books on American history and culture, including the political classic What I Saw at the Revolution. She was a special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan.
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“The only predictable thing about Noonan’s column is its unpredictability.”―Tim Russert
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For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her Wall Street Journal column, and this new collection of her essential recent work demonstrates the erudition, wisdom and wit that have made her one of America’s most admired writers.
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She calls balls and strikes on current politicians and honors great figures such as Bob Dylan, Billy Graham, Tom Wolfe, and the heroes of 9/11. She writes with clear-eyed urgency about the internal and external dangers facing our republic. She sometimes writes with indignation, but above all she writes with love—and an enduring faith that America can be its best self, that its ideals are worth protecting. .
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Since her time as Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, and her subsequent first book, What I Saw at the Revolution, her column has cemented her position as a moral compass for Americans who value character, love of country, and civility. The book is a celebration of what America has been, is, and can be.

 

Riley Keough with Taylor Jenkins Reid (Virtual Event)

Join us for a virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, November 25, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET
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Riley Keough
in conversation with Taylor Jenkins Reid
discussing the memoir she finished
on behalf of her mother,
Lisa Marie Presley
From Here to the Great Unknown
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This event was taped with an audience on November 18, 2024
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VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (click here)
Monday, November 25, 2024, 6pm PT/9pm ET
TICKETS (US Orders Only):
$50 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only.)
Includes access to watch the event on November 25 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days after.
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Born to an American icon and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.
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Riley Keough
is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award-nominated actress. She is known for her work in Daisy Jones & the Six, Zola, and more. She also co-directed War Pony (2022), which won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at Cannes, and cofounded the production company Felix Culpa with Gina Gammell. She is the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and sole trustee of Graceland. 
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Lisa Marie Presley was a singer and songwriter who was born in Memphis and raised at Graceland, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She released three studio albums throughout her music career—To Whom It May Concern, Now What, and Storm & Grace, the first of which was certified gold. Lisa Marie passed away in January 2023.
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Join actor and producer Riley Keough for a one-of-a-kind conversation as she pays tribute to her mother Lisa Marie Presley’s incredible memory. Joined by a special guest, Keough will dive into a legendary tale of celebrity, family ties, the highs and lows of fame, love, grief, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. 
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Elvis Presley’s only child spent years recording countless hours of riveting, raw, and breathtakingly vulnerable tape for her memoir. After Lisa Marie died in 2023, her daughter Riley dedicated herself to completing the unfinished work. In From Here to the Great Unknown, Riley’s voice joins with her mother’s to tell a breathtaking story.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Carrie Soto Is BackMalibu RisingDaisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter.