Come be Doctor Dolittle for a day and make your very own physician's lap-book, charting voyages and heroic exploits across Africa and the British Isles!

We will be celebrating the honorable Hugh Lofting's birthday, author of the magnificent doctor who speaks to animals in their own tongue.

U of M faculty psychiatrist Dr. Monica Starkman discusses the psychological impact of infertility and pregnancy loss, with examples from her research and clinical work. She will also discuss the writing and themes of her new novel The End of Miracles as well as themes of other novels that touch on infertility.

Dr. Starkman has a particular interest in conditions that are related to child-bearing. She has done extensive research about conditions resulting from infertility, such as false pregnancy and did the very first study of the psychological reactions to the use of the fetal monitor during labor. She has also been an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The End of Miracles was an International Book Awards 2016 finalist for literary fiction and delves deeply into the relationship of a couple facing infertility, and the grief and psychological upheavals of a late miscarriage.

This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.

The Draplin Design Company got a book deal! The call up to the big leagues!

Go behind the scenes with the DDC and the harrowing account of making their first book, "Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything," released in May 2016.

From the contracts to the scheming, from the pagination to the design, from the tears to the nightmares, Aaron James Draplin will tell you what it’s like to cram your whole half-wit design career into 256 pages and live to tell the story about it. He'll pack in stories from the run-up, release, and surreal fallout, as well as updates to other tricky ventures DDC has been up to. The entire presentation is dipped in Pantone Orange 021!

Aaron James Draplin is a graphic designer and the founder of the Draplin Design Company, based in Portland, Oregon. His clients include Nike, Burton Snowboards, Esquire, Red Wing, Field Notes, Ford Motor Company and the Obama Administration. Originally from Michigan, Aaron is making a whirlwind mini-tour of Toledo, Detroit, and Ann Arbor in early October and AADL is excited to be one of those stops!

So, leave work for an early lunch and then spend some time at AADL for this peek behind the curtain of how DDC's book came to be. This event will include a book signing and books will be for sale.

Find out more about unique Ann Arbor history as author Dave Bardallis discusses his book Ann Arbor Beer: A Hoppy History of Tree Town Brewing. This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.

From the establishment of the first commercial brewery in 1838 through a century of German immigration down to today's local craft brew boom, the amber liquid looms large in Tree Town's quirky past and present.

Find out how beer helped a former University of Michigan professor win a Nobel Prize. Discover the Ann Arbor doctor whose nationally bestselling home remedy book featured ale recipes. Learn which Michigan football legend pounded brewskis as part of his training regimen.

Covering the exploits of famous poets, performers, and prohibitionists, local author David Bardallis pops the cap off the big beer history of this little college town and leads readers to the best beer you can drink in Ann Arbor today.

This event is cosponsored by Washtenaw County Historical Society.

The Ann Arbor District Library is proud to join with Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Book Shop to present an evening with mystery author Linda Castillo as she discusses her new mystery Among The Wicked. The event includes a booksigning and books will be for sale.

Linda Castillo is the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Burkholder novels, including Sworn to Silence which was recently was adapted into a Lifetime Original Movie titled "An Amish Murder" starring Neve Campbell as Kate Burkholder.

Originally from Ohio where her Amish thrillers are set, Linda penned her first novel at the age of thirteen. She's published thirty books for three New York publishing houses and won numerous industry awards, including a nomination by the International Thriller Writers for Best Hardcover, the Golden Heart, the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence, and a nomination for the prestigious Rita.

In this newest page-turner in the series, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. She travels to New York where she's briefed and assumes her new identity as a lone widow seeking a new life.

Kate infiltrates the community and goes deep under cover. In the coming days, she unearths a world built on secrets, a series of shocking crimes, and herself, alone... trapped in a fight for her life.

Take a bloody step back in time as Tom Carr discusses the most notorious murders in Michigan for the last few centuries and his new book Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders 1700s to Present.

This new 160-page fully illustrated book is a collection of some of the most infamous murders of the last three centuries. Within its pages, readers will find some of the worst and most vicious people ever to walk on the Wolverine State’s sandy soil. Still others are seemingly ordinary people who gave way to bloody passion or insanity.

Award-winning journalist Tom Carr puts 50 fascinating accounts of these killings in a historical and social perspective, describing the politics and social agendas of the time. He takes readers to the crime scene and describes what stands there now and shows how motivation to murder has changed surprisingly little over time, although forensics, punishment, and investigations changed a great deal.

This event includes a book signing and books will be on sale.

Did you know that Preston Tucker, one of the country’s first major forces in the automobile industry, was from Ypsilanti?

Join us as author Steve Lehto discusses his new book, Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow, which tackles the story of Tucker's amazing rise and tragic fall, relying on a huge trove of documents that has been used by no other writer to date. This event, presented by Martin Bandyke of Ann Arbor's 107one, includes a booksigning and books will be for sale.

Preston Tucker, salesman extraordinaire from Ypsilanti, Michigan, built race cars before World War II, and had designed prototypes for the military during it. Gathering a group of brilliant automotive designers, engineers, and promoters, he announced the creation of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up.
Tucker's car would include ingenious advances in design and engineering that other car companies could not match. It would be more attractive and aerodynamic—and safer—than any other car on the road.

But as the public eagerly awaited Tucker's car of tomorrow, powerful forces in Washington were trying to bring him down. Headlines accused him a perpetrating a hoax and claimed that his cars weren't real and his factory was a sham….and a superior product was not enough to keep Tucker's dream afloat.

"Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow" is the first comprehensive, authoritative account of Tucker's magnificent car and his battles with the government. Lehto finally answers the question automobile aficionados have wondered about for decades: exactly how and why was the production of such an innovative car killed?

Kate DiCamillo is one of America’s most beloved storytellers. She was the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and is a two-time Newbery Medalist. She will visit the Ann Arbor District Library to discuss her newest book, Raymie Nightingale.

Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two days ago with a dental hygienist, will see Raymie's picture in the paper and (maybe) come home. To win, not only does Raymie have to do good deeds and learn how to twirl a baton; she also has to contend with the wispy, frequently fainting Louisiana Elefante, who has a show-business background, and the fiery, stubborn Beverly Tapinski, who’s determined to sabotage the contest. But as the competition approaches, loneliness, loss, and unanswerable questions draw the three girls into an unlikely friendship — and challenge each of them to come to the rescue in unexpected ways.

Kate is the author of many books for young readers, and her books have been awarded the Newbery Medal (The Tale of Despereaux, 2004), the Newbery Honor (Because of Winn-Dixie, 2001), the Boston Globe Horn Book Award (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, 2006), and several others.

This program will include a book signing, and books will be for sale courtesy of Nicola's Books.

Join us for a special mystery-lovers evening as historical mystery writers Maureen Jennings and Nancy Herriman discuss their work and the history/mystery genre. This event, cosponsored by Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookstore, includes a book signing and books will be for sale. Note: mystery writer Tasha Alexander, also scheduled to present, is unfortunately unable to attend this event.

Born in England, Maureen Jennings emigrated to Canada as a teenager. The first acclaimed Detective Murdoch mystery was published in 1997. Six more followed, all to enthusiastic reviews.

In 2003, Shaftesbury Films adapted three of the novels into movies of the week, and four years later the Murdoch Mysteries TV series was created. It is now shown around the world.

The Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series, set in World War II-era England, got off to a spectacular start with 2011’s Season of Darkness, followed by Beware This Boyin 2012.

Her newest book, "Dead Ground in Between," is the haunting fourth novel in the DI Tom Tyler series. Set in Britain during the darkest days of World War II, this is a must-read especially for those interested in wartime dramas.

Nancy Herriman abandoned a career in Engineering to chase around two small children and take up the pen. She hasn't looked back. A multi-published author, she is also a former winner of the Romance Writers of America's Daphne du Maurier award for Best Unpublished Mystery/Romantic Suspense.

In his new book, Lost Car Companies of Detroit, author Alan Naldrett explores the many tales of automakers who ultimately failed - but helped to shape the auto industry and automobile designs of today.

Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler.

But, many of those lost to history have colorful stories worth telling:
• J.J. Cole forgot to put brakes in his new auto, so on the first test run, he had to drive it in circles until it ran out of gas.
• Brothers John and Horace Dodge often trashed saloons during wild evenings but used their great personal wealth to pay for the damage the next day (if they could remember where they had been).
• David D. Buick went from being the founder of his own leading auto company to working the information desk at the Detroit Board of Trade.

Join us as author Alan Naldrett highlights many colorful tales of automakers gone wrong. This event, held on the evening before the Main Street Area Association’s Rolling Sculpture Car Show, will include a book signing and books will be for sale.

Alan Naldrett divides his time between being a librarian, lecturer, and author, having written and co-written three local history books and a Michigan history book as well as a number of history columns. He is a life member of the Chesterfield Historical Society and the New Baltimore Historical Society, and a past vice-chairman of the Macomb County Historical Commission.